Night World Players

Chapter 53 It's dangerous to be around me

Xiltina couldn't help but pause.

The words ringing in my ears seem so familiar.

The last time I heard it was in the Deep Blue Harbor Hotel, during that long, sleepless night.

Hiltina turned slightly sideways.

Then, I saw the familiar thin figure beside the steel passage.

He was wearing a pitch-black windbreaker, with a holster for a heavy-duty revolver hanging from his waist. On his collar were two emblems, one with a dark iron-colored silver moon, and the other with an eye pattern pierced by a straight line.

This appearance was exactly the same as when the two of them were being chased by the Iron Cross wave in Deep Blue Harbor and were fleeing.

Dark eyes met light brown ones.

Their eyes met in mid-air.

Without any words, Hiltina understood why Rast came.

"According to the regulations, as a newcomer in the protected stage, the first-level Night Traveler does not need to undertake high-risk tasks such as the Raiders of the Disaster Reverberation."

"As one of the twelve seats at the round table and the commander-in-chief of the Red Frost Territory Disaster Reverberation Strategy Team, I can completely revoke your permission to enter the Disaster Reverberation according to the regulations of the academy."

Hiltina looked directly into Last's eyes and said, "If you came here to repay the debt of 1,600 gold cors that I mentioned, then there is no need for that."

"It was just a joke I made at the time."

She looked at the starry school badge on Last's chest and said, "Now that you've enrolled, you should know how important conquering the night world is to Starry University."

“If it weren’t for you, then ‘Echoes of the Night: Deep Blue Harbor’ would never have been cleared so easily. We don’t know how many more lives would have been sacrificed and how much would have been paid in the historical echoes of Deep Blue Harbor…”

"Just this alone is something that cannot be replaced no matter how many Cole gold coins you pay."

"Not only do you not owe me anything, but it is me and the academy that owe you."

"Whether I asked Dean Yin to take care of you or used the privileges of the Twelve Seats of the Round Table to help you enroll, these are just a small amount of compensation and are not enough to fully repay you."

……

"I know."

Listening to Hiltina's serious words, Rust nodded.

"But, just like when you were in the port area of Deep Blue Harbor, you chose to come back to save me, even though you had ruined my original plan in order to uphold the principles of the "Forest Ranger" in your heart."

"I came here not just to repay your favor or debt."

"I also have reasons to rely on the Night World to become stronger, and even to find out the truth about the Night World. As far as I know, compared to the historical dungeons under normal circumstances, the Echoes of Disaster are dangerous, but they also have many secrets that would not be revealed under normal circumstances."

Rast walked up to Hiltina.

Then, he whispered in her ear, in a voice that only Hiltina could hear: "I can smell the scent of my kind in you."

"Bound by the ideals left by the deceased, and struggling for that ideal that others see as vain and unrealistic, I will be trapped all my life... I will not turn back even if I drown."

"You are not the only one like this."

He smiled: "Since we are of the same kind, we should sympathize with each other, support each other, and rely on each other for warmth, right?"

Hiltina's light brown eyes narrowed slightly, staring blankly at the young man in front of her.

Hiltina originally thought that after leaving Deep Blue Harbor, leaving the realm of his nearly omniscience and coming to the world she was familiar with...Last would gradually shed the mysterious veil and become someone she could see clearly.

But now it seems——

It seemed that I had never really understood Rast, or understood his heart.

As if unwilling to continue looking into those dark eyes, Hiltina's gaze moved slightly.

Then, he discovered a ferret that was carefully hiding itself behind Rast's neck. "Dean Silver."

Hiltina's light brown eyes were fixed straight on the ferret on Rast's shoulder.

"Don't look at me, this guy forced me to come here."

"He said if I didn't help he would put a gun to Rodri's head and let him steal the high-speed train key and drive it to Chi Shuang to claim it. There was nothing I could do."

Dean Yin sighed helplessly and jumped off Last's shoulder.

"Actually, if you think about it carefully, it would be a bit reckless for you to go to the Echo of the Disaster alone, Little Tina."

"I believe in your ability, but the reverberations of this disaster may involve the rules of time and space. These problems cannot be solved by pure violence, and they are precisely the areas you are least good at."

A glimmer of silver moonlight flashed in its blood-red eyes: "It may not be a bad thing if he follows you."

Looking at the fading silver moonlight, Hiltina nodded thoughtfully.

"I understand."

……

The metal passage connecting the entrance to the night world is nearly a kilometer long.

They didn't speak any more along the way, just moved forward in silence, and the monotonous metal barriers around them kept changing.

Until the space at the end of the passage came into view.

In the very center of the space was an illusory door that Last had seen before, shrouded in the gauze-like night and emitting a water-like glow.

This is the entrance to the night world.

The two men and the beast stopped in front of the illusory door that looked like waves of water.

"I'll explain it to the academy for you."

"I don't care about what happens between you two. I just know that you both owe me now."

Dean Yin snorted twice.

It turned around, and its originally light movements became slightly heavier.

"Fantastic Beasts are very stingy. They must recover the cost of the things they invest in, so..."

"Come back alive."

The next moment, Dean Yin disappeared along with a slight spatial fluctuation, as if he was unwilling to stay and face the scene of parting.

Hiltina counted the consumable items she brought with her.

"It's dangerous to be around me, right?"

She didn't look at Rast beside her, but just lifted a strand of chestnut hair that fell from her forehead: "Many people say that those who team up with me will be buried with me because of my paranoia."

"If you are scared, it's not too late to regret it now."

"I should be the one saying this to you." Rast smiled.

He took a step forward and stepped into the illusory door at the same time as Hiltina.

Followed by.

Everything around, whether it is the swaying lights or the flowing breeze, is frozen in an instant.

All that remained was the increasingly dense night——

It gently wrapped up the figures of Hiltina and Rast.

(End of this chapter)