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

But she forgot that everything related to the dead pastor lady was the most important thing to Charles, and might even be more important than his own life - so before Lacie could finish the second half of her sentence, Charles suddenly turned from behind her to the front of her and locked her in the wheelchair.

The brave man's arms were strong and powerful, and now together with the armrests on both sides of the wheelchair formed an indestructible cage. He was so close that Lacie could almost smell the unique smell of sweat and wood on him.

His iron-gray, deep eyes were fixed on Lacier's face, as if he wanted to see an answer from her face.

But there was no answer on Rachel's face, only a strange, crimson tint.

“Too close…”

As she thought about this, she shrank back imperceptibly and subconsciously pressed her legs together. Perhaps because she was too guilty to look Charles in the eye again, her eyes quickly wandered away.

"I……"

Her voice became dry, which surprised even her.

However, Charles seemed to be completely unaware of her abnormality.

He still trapped Rachel in the wheelchair and still stared into her eyes.

Laceel was almost blushing.

She cursed Charles in her heart for being a man without moral integrity. He came so close to her, almost hugging her in his arms. Wasn't he afraid that his lover would die with regret in his grave?

Oh, it turns out that the lover that Charles died with regret for was herself.

That's fine.

Laceier felt more and more guilty, but this guilty feeling turned into something strange in the end—

I can't stand it anymore! I'm going to explode with him!

Miss Witch stood up again. She was even angry and wanted to loudly scold Charles for his lack of manly ethics so that he would be more reserved and keep a distance from her.

But before she could say anything, Charles suddenly let her go.

Just like getting beaten can gain courage points, Lacie was pressed step by step by Ciel, and her courage points were almost full. But just when she was about to transform into a Super Saiyan and launch a deliberate punch at Ciel with only a little health left, Ciel suddenly chopped her down with a sword, silencing her.

Without even a sound, the witch died suddenly.

So all the words that were supposed to be used to reprimand Charles were stuck in his trachea.

"...Ga?"

In the end, she only uttered this strange cry.

And Charles had returned to her side, pushing the wheelchair and continuing to take her away from Lentiheim.

However, Miss Witch still heard him ask:

"You mean, if I want to see Lacie again, I need to complete something... or what conditions must be met, right?"

Lacey, who had just been resurrected, was stunned when she heard this, and answered subconsciously:

"Yes... that's right. Although that... that's not a true resurrection, but it allows her to meet you temporarily, but it also requires certain materials and rituals. But you just wait, it won't be long before I can truly resurrect Miss Pastor!"

She said this with such certainty that no one could detect the slightest hint of guilt in her words.

Charles made a soft "hmm" sound as a response - it was obvious that he no longer believed in Lacie as much as he did at the beginning.

But just as Rachel had imagined before, as long as she "resurrected" the priest, everything would be fine.

At that time, no matter whether Charles is willing to believe it or not, he can only choose to believe it!

In this way, the two people, each with their own ulterior motives, slowly came to the border between Lentiheim and the outside world, near the entrance and exit that was obscured by illusions and cognitive interference spells.

The short but eventful journey to Lentiheim seemed to be coming to an end. However, compared to the elves who were no longer confused after the coming-of-age ceremony and even found their future goals, the witch and the hero seemed to be at a loss as to where to go next.

The crisis seemed to be resolved, but it also seemed not to be completely resolved.

Rachel thought about the whole incident and felt like she had forgotten something very important, so she turned to ask Charles:

"Hey! How do you think... the mistress was contaminated?"

[To be continued]

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2/3

Perhaps out of revenge for Charles's unsportsmanlike sneak attack, Lacele did not call out Charles' name.

She yelled, "Hey!"

Of course Charles knew that Lacele was calling him.

After all, there shouldn't be a third person here besides him and Lacie.

But perhaps it was because the entire Lentiheim had revealed a sense of weirdness, and Charles had a strange idea -

If he didn't respond to Rachel, but someone else, or something else, jumped out and responded to Rachel...

He couldn't explain why he suddenly had such an idea, but he didn't know whether to say it was lucky or unfortunate. In short, at the border between Lentiheim and the outside world, apart from the two of them, there was no third person who could respond to Rachel.

After a brief and careful consideration, Charles gave an excellent answer:

"I do not know."

Laceier sighed and said:

"Yes, why am I asking you? You don't even know what the Elves' Mistress is, so how can you possibly know what has contaminated Her..."

This is what is called the limitation of cognition.

For a native like Charles who was born in the Pangaea, the existence of the Matron is simply unimaginable.

It is a cyber god made up of programs, 0s and 1s, and huge integrated circuits.

And what could be capable of contaminating such a cyber god?

Although Lacier thought she had a rich imagination, when faced with the mistress of the elves and the culprit who caused her to go crazy, she actually felt that her imagination was somewhat lacking.

If the essence of the Mistress is a shipborne host that possesses certain legal characteristics by coincidence, then could the thing that contaminated the Mistress be a virus with similar characteristics to her?

But can cyber gods really be infected by magic viruses?

There were too few useful information and clues, just like when they faced the thick fog that covered the entire Lentiheim, Lacie didn't even know where to start.

So she could only sigh again.

And Charles seemed to understand why she was worried:

"Are you... afraid that the tragedy that happened in Lentiheim will happen again somewhere else?"

Upon hearing this, Lacier raised her head and looked at Charles with a serious expression:

"That's right. First of all, we have no way of confirming that the Matron is the only shipboard host that made an emergency landing or crashed on the Pan-Continent. Secondly, even if the Matron is the only shipboard host on the Pan-Continent, He who possesses the characteristics of the Yoliusi by some coincidence can be called a god in a sense."

"If even a god like this is polluted, what about other things below the gods?"

"Whether it's me, you, or the old... Lord of the White Tower, I'm afraid it will be difficult to resist the spread of pollution."

Having said this, she turned her head back and added in a low voice:

"——Don't forget, Ciel, even your forbidden spell can't remove those pollutions."

Of course, there may be other reasons.

For example, the one who was contaminated happened to be the mistress of the elves, and the mistress of the elves was a creature of the rational side, so it was natural that the forbidden spell of Charles would be ineffective against her.

But when Charles heard this, he lowered his head unconsciously and looked at the holy sword hanging at his waist, which represented his identity as a hero.

Laciel said that his forbidden magic could not remove the pollution from the mistress, which was indeed true, because all he could do at the time was to use the most primitive brute force to cut open the flesh and blood of the mad mother.

But the Holy Sword is different.

He remembered clearly that when he was surrounded by the mad mother's flesh and blood, the holy sword suddenly lit up and easily deprived the life of the contaminated and deformed flesh and blood around him.

That might be the real forbidden spell.

But for some reason, Charles did not tell Laciel this important information. He just nodded and agreed with Laciel's conclusion that forbidden magic could not eliminate pollution.

And Rachel added:

"After a while, I will go to the White Tower in person and ask the Lord of the White Tower, who is also my teacher. I want to ask her if she knows about this matter and whether there are other things that have been contaminated outside of Lentiheim. Also, besides the mistress of the elves, are there any traces of other civilizations left on the Pangaea?"

I hope these questions can shut up Lao Deng and stop him from making blind guesses about her and Charles' relationship.

After all, she had promised Lao Deng that after resolving the contract issue in a while, she would go to the White Tower to see Lao Deng.

The thought of this gave Lacey a headache.

Although she had long guessed that Lao Deng would know about what happened between her and Charles sooner or later, she still believed in the spirit of "delaying it for a day, maybe it will be resolved if we delay it for a while", and she didn't want Lao Deng to use this as an excuse to fast-forward to urging her to get married.

Lacele decided to wait until Charles was completely fooled before going back to see Lao Deng.

At that time, she, who was upright and had nothing to fear, could probably stand in front of Lao Deng with a clear conscience and loudly scold her for being disrespectful to the elderly.

But before that, she might have to rely on her own strength to investigate the truth of the mistress' infection.

Thinking of this, Lacie was suddenly stunned.

——She remembered something very important.

Half of the Matron's body is made up of various plants, while the other half, the most core part, is the wreckage of a starship.

But why is it wreckage?

She almost ignored this rather important question.

If the starship crashed, or made an emergency landing on Pangaea, how did it end up in this predicament? What kind of dangers and accidents did it encounter in the starry sky?

Was it a war? Or a quarrel among the crew? Or was it...

Lacie suddenly had a very scary idea, and at the same time when this idea came into her mind, she couldn't help but shiver.

What if the pollution doesn’t come from Pangaea, but from the stars?

What if the reason for the crash of the starship that the mistress was on was related to the strange pollution?

What if, after the starship crashed, the pollution brought from the depths of the starry sky to the Pangaea spread quietly without anyone noticing?

She could almost imagine the whole scene.

One day, a starship sailing in deep space was suddenly invaded by unknown creatures. Soon after, the crew members went crazy one after another. They kept uttering deliriums that were difficult for ordinary people to understand. They stepped out of the cabin one after another and died painfully in the vacuum.

However, the onboard host of this starship had not yet been contaminated. It controlled the starship, which no longer had any living people, and made an emergency landing on a desolate planet where a mature civilization had not yet been born.

In order to return to its homeland, or decide to spread the fire of civilization, it created elves and established the city-state of Lentiheim.

But even it itself didn't know that when it had just made an emergency landing on Pangaea and the hatch was opened, something quietly leaked out of the hatch and came to this planet with it.

——That was a strange thing it brought from the depths of the starry sky.

Perhaps from the moment it decided to make an emergency landing on this strange planet, it has become less simple and pure.

Something influenced its judgment, like a parasite on a snail, and that thing prompted it to make all subsequent arrangements.

Thinking of this, Lacie took a deep breath and decided not to scare herself anymore.

It was identified as watching a horror movie.

Without sufficient evidence and intelligence to support them, these ideas can all be regarded as useless subjective speculation.

It is true that the Madam exists, the wreckage of the starship exists, and the strange pollution undoubtedly exists.

But this does not mean that anything followed the Mistress to Pangaea, nor does it mean that the pollution will spread throughout Pangaea.

The Mistress came to this planet more than three thousand years ago. If She really brought something indescribable from the depths of the starry sky, then the current Pan-Continent would have become a hotbed for the evil gods to breed offspring.

What's more, both she and Charles had faced off against the mad mistress head-on, and even penetrated deep into her core, being buried deep in her filthy and deformed flesh and blood, but even so, they had not been contaminated.

It can be seen that the pollution on the Mistress will not spread outward, otherwise, the elves who have the closest relationship with the Mistress should have already turned into dirty and deformed flesh and blood.

Of course, there may be another possibility——

Perhaps the elves had already turned into something indescribable, but in her and Charles's cognition, they still maintained their original appearance.

Thinking of this, Lacie sighed.