Shut up, brave man! I don't want to atone for my sins to you!

Charles was stunned.

He immediately realized that the reason why Lacie had such a violent reaction was probably because he said the wrong thing - or in other words, the stupid witch misunderstood what he meant.

He felt a little amused.

But now is not the time to laugh at Lacille, although it would be a nice experience to reveal the truth, tease Lacille for being a fool, and enjoy her shy and annoyed expression...

In the end, the brave man chose to open his arms gently and hug the witch lightly.

"Be good, don't be afraid," he patted Laci's back to comfort her, "I didn't mean that. I'm fine."

After being comforted by Charles, the tears that Lacie had been trying to hold back in her eyes suddenly flowed down.

“Good…good Bull Demon…” She buried her whole face in Charles’ chest and asked dully, “If you are really okay…why, why did you say…you might die…”

Charles felt a little embarrassed when he heard this, and he touched Lacier's head with some heartache, and explained in a low voice:

"Actually, that's not what I meant. I wanted to say..."

He paused and told Rachel:

"I have a feeling that neither the growing conflict between mortals and mages nor those slender ghosts running out of the ruins of the former civilization will be the biggest problems we will face in the future."

“They may just be a prelude.”

"After them, Pangaea may face an even greater crisis—a crisis that may be enough to destroy all countries and races in Pangaea."

Lacier was stunned, stopped sobbing, and looked up at him blankly from his arms:

"what do you mean……"

"Well," before Lacie finished speaking, Charles nodded to confirm her guess, "It's just like the crisis encountered by the previous civilization."

"But..." Lacie retorted subconsciously, "It was those tall and thin ghosts who destroyed the previous civilization..."

"No!" Charles shook his head. "If it's just the Slender Ghost, it's unlikely that it will destroy the previous civilization quietly."

As he spoke, he gently stroked the broken limited wishing machine that Lacie wore as a pendant around her neck.

"Don't forget, Longin Tyr relied on this limited wishing machine to contain those slender ghosts. In fact, if it weren't for the rash excavation of the remains of the former civilization, I even think that those slender ghosts would not be able to break through the 'prison' set up for them by the former civilization."

Upon hearing this, Lacier opened her eyes wide and asked subconsciously:

"You mean, it wasn't those tall and thin figures who destroyed the previous civilization?"

"To be precise, it should not be just those tall and thin ghosts," Ciel corrected her, "I suspect that there is more than one culprit who caused the destruction of the previous civilization."

"Ah? Then do you have any evidence?"

"Not yet," Charles shook his head. "This is just my guess. If I have to say it..."

He raised his hand, gently tapped the center of Lacier's brow, then smiled and said:

“——This is my intuition.”

Lacelle didn't care about intuition or not.

She hummed vaguely, then asked again:

"Then why did you say something weird like you might die in the future - what does this have to do with the demise of the previous civilization?"

Charles was silent for a moment after hearing this.

After a while, he lowered his head, stared into Lacier's eyes, and said seriously:

"If the crisis that led to the destruction of the previous civilization returns, then there is no doubt that our civilization will also be destroyed, right?"

"Everyone will die then. No one will be exempted, including me, the hero, and you, the witch."

"So, I want to hurry up and finish all the things I need to do before the end of the world - get married, go on a honeymoon, have children..."

The hero suddenly grabbed the witch's hand.

Then he told her:

"We may not have much time left, and I just want to spend this limited time... with you."

"I've already regretted it once, so this time, I will never let go of your hand again."

[To be continued]

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25. Want to tell

"Is this a confession?"

Rachel, who was held in Charles's arms, couldn't help but think:

"This must be a confession! Except for not saying I love you directly, what's the difference between this and a confession!"

But she didn't know how to respond.

Maybe she should be tough, like she usually is, and go through the process. She can't let Charles think that she is a fool who can be manipulated by just a few sweet words.

Although she... does look a bit like her.

When she was hugged by Charles, when he confessed his love to her, when he bullied her in bed, she would indeed feel dizzy, and then lose all ability to think, and even start to think, isn't this not bad?

He put aside the little male dignity that was left and had long been in name only, and embraced his new identity...

—She will become Charles’ wife.

No, maybe in the eyes of others, she already is.

For example, Old Deng is obviously very satisfied with Charles, and she is already looking forward to having grandchildren!

But Rachel herself, she didn’t… she didn’t have any opinions, she always had a lot of opinions, okay? !

She didn't want to marry Chardon...

"Tsk——"

The witch suddenly clicked her tongue in dissatisfaction, bit her lip, and buried her face deeply in the hero's chest, like an ostrich that didn't want to face reality.

In fact, she also knew that ostriches would not bury their heads in the sand and wait for death. On the contrary, when facing an enemy, ostriches would use their strong and powerful feet to fight back fiercely.

So she is worse than an ostrich.

After all, apart from verbal protests, she had hardly ever resisted Charles.

After realizing this belatedly, Lacie's face turned red and her eyes were almost red.

"Oh my god, could it be that I have already...been aborted?"

The more she thought about it, the more she felt that this guess was not unreasonable. When she first came to Pangaea, she wanted all the men who tried to get close to her to crawl away. But now, she was so greedy for the warmth that Charles brought her, just like a plant that longed for the sun and kept growing upwards.

very scary.

Lacey suddenly felt horrible.

But just like before, she was unwilling to admit that there was something wrong with her performance this time. She was even like the born evil imp with beautiful contact lenses. She felt that there must be nothing wrong with her. If so, the only thing wrong could be this world.

Rachel decided to deny this world.

She wants to create a world where she is still a macho man!

Then the witch lady raised her head suddenly.

When Charles saw her raise her head, he thought that she was finally ready to respond to him, so he smiled and looked at her.

Then, he felt his shoulders being patted twice.

"Brother," the witch said to him seriously, "can you turn off your forbidden magic for a while?"

"..."

Charles didn't understand what Lacielle was trying to do, but he still obediently adjusted the forbidden spell to its lowest power.

"Okay," he said.

So the magic here was allowed to function normally again.

Laceier drew out her wand.

Ciel saw her swallow tremblingly, pointing her wand at him, and drawing circles in front of him with the tip of the wand.

A small but subtle spell was cast upon him.

At the same time, the witch muttered:

"You are a beautiful girl, you are a beautiful girl, you are a beautiful girl..."

"……what?"

Charles was stunned.

He didn't react at first, but soon he understood what Lacier was doing:

Hypnosis spell.

She used a hypnotic spell on him.

But why? Why did Lacele hypnotize him and make him think he was a beautiful girl?

Ciel felt that there must be some reason behind this.

However, he did not take advantage of the situation and pretend to be hypnotized. Instead, he reached out and grabbed the wand in the stupid witch's hand.

The forbidden spell took effect again, and the influence of the hypnosis spell was instantly eliminated.

The stupid witch said "Huh?" and was stunned. She looked at him in disbelief and then at the wand in her hand.

"Why doesn't the hypnosis spell... work?" she asked.

Then she quickly realized what was going on, and stared at Charles with her beautiful blue eyes, and asked angrily:

"Why don't you just turn off the forbidden spell?"

Charles did not answer Lacie, but first used his strength which was several levels higher than hers to easily pull the wand out of her hand.

"I will take this away for now," he announced to Rachel, "and I will return it to you later."

Lacie became anxious and reached out to try to snatch the wand back, but Charles' reaction was much faster than hers, and he raised the wand high before she could touch it.

In this case, if Lacie wanted to take back the wand, she couldn't reach it even by standing on tiptoe, and she would probably have to jump up.

But she really had no strength left.

Last night's tossing and turning was really intense. Maybe it was because the maid costume was really to Charles' liking, so he was particularly brave, causing Lacie to beg for mercy non-stop and almost break down. In the end, she called her husband so many times that her voice became hoarse that Charles reluctantly let her go.

Now that I think about it, maybe calling Ciel hubby at that time wasn't a sign of surrender or begging for mercy, it might even be the opposite -

What's the difference between that and cheering for Ciel?!

No wonder every time she called out to Charles, she felt like she was injected with chicken blood, and she wished she could be resurrected with full health and mana on the spot!

Damn it, brave man!

The witch thought with gritted teeth and simply stopped trying to snatch the wand back. Anyway, with Charles' height and arm length, as long as he raised the wand high, she would not be able to touch the wand even if she jumped with her legs still weak.

There is nothing difficult in the world, just give up.

Lacey knew this well.

So she snorted, and then plotted loudly:

"It's fine if you don't want to give it to me. Anyway, it's up to me to see if I'll pay attention to you later! You asked for this, you stupid hero!"

This time, Charles did not take her threat seriously, but asked first:

"Why did you use hypnosis on me?"

"..." Upon hearing this, Lacier looked away guiltily, raised her hand, and gently bit her fingertips, "Well..."

She was trying to pull out the classic rhetoric to fool Charles.

As the saying goes, those who understand will understand, and those who don’t understand will be useless if you explain it…

But before she could open her mouth, Ciel threw the wand in his hand aside expressionlessly, freeing his hands to hug her waist:

"I suggest you think carefully about whether or not to answer honestly."

Lacey thought, huh?! Why are you threatening me? You are so arrogant and unreasonable. If I don't answer honestly, what can you do to me...