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

It was as if she existed naturally and was not a magical creation.

At the same time, Rachel suddenly had a very strange feeling——

She felt someone touching her face.

[To be continued]

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9. Right or Wrong

Rachel did not forge the body of the minister lady.

However, after the coffin lid was opened, they both saw the pastor lady lying in the coffin.

What a hell!

Obviously, there is no such thing as a pastor lady in this world, or in other words, there is no witch either.

Both were just code names, identities, and they could not exist independently from their owner. Just like a game account, the witch was the main account, and the priest was the secondary account, but no matter which account it was, the ownership was in the hands of Lacier.

The problem now is that when Laciel was playing the game with her main account, she found that the small account in her friend list also came online.

What's happening here?

Rachel didn't understand, she was just shocked.

Could it be that...she is cheating?

How is this possible? Although she did intend to use cheats to bring the secondary account back to life, she hadn't done it yet.

And there seems to be something even weirder—

As Lacie thought about this, her eyes moved to the face of the pastor lady in the coffin.

Just now, when Charles touched the pastor lady's cheek, she also felt the feeling of being touched on her cheek, very clearly, as if... as if her senses were connected to the pastor lady's senses, and she could literally empathize with the pastor lady.

That's weird, isn't it?

Why is this happening?

Moreover, if the priest in the coffin really exists and has independent consciousness and thinking, then what is she who holds the memories of the brave team over the past three years?

Lacie thought to herself, oh no, has her buddy become a substitute?

So she calmly clenched her wand and turned to look at Charles.

Charles had his head down at this moment, and from her angle she could only see his profile, but to her surprise, Charles' face was also full of confusion and doubt.

It was as if...it was as if he hadn't guessed that the pastor lady he had been thinking about would appear in the coffin.

Lacey understood something instantly.

So that's it, she thought, it turned out that Charles had almost guessed that she was the priest in disguise, so as soon as they returned to the Forest Sea, Charles couldn't wait to open the coffin.

He wanted to use this to expose her disguise!

But he made a mistake, because neither he nor Rachel expected that after opening the coffin, the body of the pastor lady was actually lying inside.

He had even tried it with forbidden spells, but it was not some magical creation, nor was it an elaborate illusion or cognitive interference.

That was the pastor lady's body that he could touch and was so real.

——That's why Ciel had that expression.

Lacee quickly figured out the whole story. After that, she suddenly stopped being nervous and no longer worried that Charles would settle accounts with her.

She straightened herself up again.

When she was facing Charles just now, she wanted to beg for mercy, saying "I was wrong, I'm sorry, please forgive me"; but now she has regained her confidence, raised her head and chest, and wanted to ask Charles: "Speak! What did I do wrong? What did I do wrong?"

Open the champagne when it’s available, that’s her life motto!

No matter what the pastor lady in the coffin is or why she shares senses with her, just open the champagne first.

So she quickly withdrew her gaze from the coffin, and then sighed in a mysterious manner:

"Hey, I've already told you that if you rashly open the coffin, it might cause the magic power inside to become unbalanced. I know you're worried about your wife, but I've also clearly told you that your wife is lying safely in the coffin and will be fine. But why don't you want to believe me?"

After saying this, she deliberately shook her head, revealing a very hurt expression, in order to stimulate Charles' conscience to the greatest extent and make him blame himself.

She knew Charles very well.

If Charles found that he had misunderstood her, and she exaggerated the situation and showed a sad expression, Charles would immediately feel a heavy sense of guilt, and the sadder she appeared, the heavier the self-condemnation Charles suffered.

She had often used this trick against Charles before, so she was very familiar with it and knew it well.

After she finished speaking, she began to secretly observe Charles' face out of the corner of her eye, trying to catch a glimpse of an apologetic expression on it.

But what she didn't expect was that this trick that had always worked seemed to not be as effective as she had imagined.

There was no obvious guilt or self-blame on Charles' face. On the contrary, he just stood there in a daze, as if he hadn't figured out what was going on.

But isn't the fact obvious?

Lacey raised her eyebrows and thought.

At least judging from the results, it was clear that she, the witch, had little to do with the priest sleeping in the coffin—even if she could transform into the appearance of a priest and even if she could cast healing spells.

But there are too many people on the Pan-Continent who have mastered the spells of disguise, changing clothes and healing. Are all these people female pastors?

how is this possible.

So whether Charles was willing to believe it or not, she had cleared herself of suspicion.

She even felt a little gloating.

She deserved it. When she tried to keep Charles, he swore that she could never be a priest.

Well, since Charles thinks so, then she will definitely be willing to obey Charles. Today she will make Charles' wish come true and let Charles understand that she is indeed not a priest.

She is a witch and will only be a witch.

This way, Charles should be satisfied, right?

This is called the cycle of fortune!

For some people, it's time to pay the price for making her look so embarrassed!

Today she wants Charles to know what it means to repay a hundredfold or a thousandfold!

So Lacie said again:

"...Luckily, you opened the coffin this time without disrupting the magic balance, and your wife is safe and sound. But speaking of it, why did you have to open the coffin? And you were so anxious, was there any reason? Or did you really miss your wife that much?"

After she said this, she was satisfied to see Charles' eyes flicker and his expression change slightly.

After a brief silence, Charles vaguely and lightly said "hmm", and it was unclear which question he was answering.

But obviously, he had probably faced the reality and realized that the priest was not a witch in disguise.

They are most likely different individuals that exist independently.

So Lacie saw Charles lowering his head and looking at the girl in the coffin. After a brief trance, the hero returned to the state he was in at the beginning of this journey when he met her as a witch.

Affection and sadness are like a tree that is about to wither and die. But now is different from the past. After the end of the journey and before the start of the next stage of the journey, new buds and branches have grown on the tree.

Clearly, he was about to be reborn.

The nourishment that gave him a new life was Rachel's promise.

——She will help him resurrect the Reverend Lady.

Then the witch noticed that the hero's expression became firm again.

"This guy finally figured it out? It's not easy. Oh, if only he could recognize the truth earlier, then I wouldn't have to waste my breath."

She thought so happily.

The brave man suddenly raised his head and looked at the witch, then he whispered:

"Sorry...Master."

"Ah?" Rachel pretended to be surprised and asked, "Why are you suddenly apologizing to me?"

Charles replied:

"Because I misunderstood you."

"Misunderstanding?" Lacier asked knowingly, "What do you mean? What did you misunderstand about me?"

"I thought... you were Rachel." Charles' voice was a little embarrassed. "I thought... you were pretending to be Rachel."

Then, he shook his head slightly as if trying to get rid of some idea from his mind, and then said:

"Maybe it's because you look too much like Rachel. In order to persuade me not to die, you even turned into Rachel. You even know the same healing spells as her. You..."

He paused, then said with a hint of bitterness:

"——I almost mistook you for her before."

When Lacie heard this, she thought to herself, "Of course you would think I'm a pastor, because we've been the same person since the beginning. What's more, I'm deliberately trying to create a misleading impression for you."

So that’s right.

Then Charles added:

"But now... I won't do that anymore."

Lacier, who was still in the inertia of thinking and feeling proud, suddenly had a subtle feeling after hearing what was said.

Right, right…?

She thought hesitantly and asked subconsciously:

"What do you mean?"

"I won't mistake you two again," she heard Charles tell her seriously, "From now on, you are you, and Lace is Lace. I know it all. She is not someone you pretend to be. You are two different people."

Lacey heaved a sigh of relief when she heard that.

So that's it. She thought it was something else.

Oh, yes, yes, that’s right.

"So," Charles continued, "I'm going to take her away with me."

Lacie, who was nodding, suddenly opened her eyes wide.

What is right? No!

She said hastily:

"Huh? What do you mean? Why did you take her away? Don't you want me to help you revive her?"

Charles stared at her face for a while, and finally asked in a low voice:

"But can you...really help me revive Lacie?"

Lacele immediately wanted to pat her chest and assure Charles, but as soon as she opened her mouth, she swallowed the words back before they even came out of her mouth.

she……

It seemed that she really couldn't guarantee that she could help Charles resurrect the priest.

The first was the technical difficulty. Although the body of a priestess appeared inexplicably, she still couldn't figure out how to stuff her memories of the past three years into this body without being affected by Charles' forbidden spell.

She had no way of proving to Ciel that she could revive the priest.

Originally, she was planning to come up with a perfect plan to fool Charles, but plans could not keep up with changes. As soon as she returned to the Sea of ​​Forest, Charles opened the coffin, and the inexplicable appearance of the priest forced her directly to a fork in the road -

Should I tell the truth and wait for Charles' reckoning?

Or would he admit his own incompetence and watch Charles take the priest away, and the journey end there?

She couldn't have them all, nor could she choose none.

Is it right or wrong?

Miss Witch almost fainted.

[To be continued]

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