Chapter 29
The magic of "Soul Summoning" can only summon the soul, but cannot heal the body.
Even if it could, the healing effect would not last after the magic ritual was completed.
However, the bloody hole on the throat of the girl named "Ina" did disappear.
Right under Miel's nose, at a speed visible to the naked eye.
I can't understand it and can't find any explanation.
Miel looked at the girl who sat up from the coffin and called him brother. She looked very similar to him, and he did not feel any familiarity, but only felt creepy.
He put his hand around Czulola's neck and gently pulled his wolf-tail hair, asking for help from him - what should I do?
Czulola squinted her eyes and looked at Ina.
Noticing his gaze, Ina looked up and met his gaze, then asked innocently, "Is this my brother's slave?"
"No." Cthulora uttered a syllable decisively and quickly.
Maybe it was Miel's illusion, he always felt that Inai was deliberately provoking Lola?
Realizing that Lola didn't know what to do with this girl, Miel was forced to speak: "Your name is Inai? No last name?"
"Yes, my name is Ina! It's a name Ina chose herself. It's very nice, isn't it?" The silver-haired elf girl smiled proudly and answered without a trace of hesitation. "As for my last name, Ina, of course it's the same as my brother's!"
"Do you have any memories of the past?"
"No." He answered without hesitation.
Miel: “…”
Who can communicate so fluently without any memory?
No uneasiness, no hesitation, just like her existence should be.
Incomprehensible, no explanation could be found - the girl's origins were a mystery.
However, the girl didn't show any aggression towards anyone, so Miel decided not to investigate her true identity for the time being. He said calmly, "Your name is Ina Akunila, and you're my sister from the same father and mother. Yes, we don't have a father or a mother anymore. From now on, I will take good care of you."
Miel felt responsible for Inai's appearance—out of selfishness, he hadn't stopped the ritual, which should have been stopped, leading to this situation. Since that was the case, he decided to make amends in this way.
"Okay." Ina smiled happily, stood up from the coffin and stepped out.
She was only as tall as Miel's shoulders.
Cthulola, who was a full head taller than Miel, was like an insurmountable mountain to her.
She looked up at Miel, who was still held horizontally in Czulola's arms, and said in her still childish voice, "Inai will also protect her brother."
…
Miel asked Lola to take him out of the basement, and Lola did so.
Leon's face showed "disapproval" throughout, but he didn't say much.
He paid more attention to the girl whose origins were mysterious: "Where did you acquire your language ability?"
"I don't know."
"Do you know any languages?" Leon asked in Elvish.
"I'm a high elf, of course I can speak Elvish!" Inai responded in Elvish.
"What about this language?" Leon uttered seven syllables in a strange language that Miel could not understand.
"No." Ina responded with three syllables in the same strange language.
Leon: “…”
"What is your purpose in approaching my agent?" Lyon switched back to the common language.
"What agent? Ina doesn't know!" Ina also switched back to the common language.
Miel…had no idea what the two people behind him were saying, and didn’t really want to understand.
He decided to learn from Lola and set only one goal at a time.
Now, his target is not Ina. He has no grudge against Ina, and even if she is an Old One, it has nothing to do with him.
Miel's target now is - his mother, Mifeel's room.
He let Lola lower him back to the ground.
He strode towards the room he had never entered before.
The two places Burrows didn't want him to go were the basement where the operating room was hidden and his mother's room.
He originally thought that the reason Bross didn't let him go was because he missed his deceased wife and didn't want anyone to touch Miffel's belongings.
But after reading Bross's memories, Miel felt that things were not that simple.
Mifeel's room was on the third floor, and Miye quickly arrived in front of her room.
What appeared in Miel's sight was a strange door, different from any other door in the Acunaira mansion.
It has a strange arched structure, and its edges fit perfectly with the door frame to form a smooth arc without any visible edges or corners. The surface is covered with a layer of grayish-white unknown substance, filling all possible gaps and being out of tune with the red walls on both sides.
The door had no handle and obviously could not be opened in the usual way.
Miel's eyes swept along the door, finally landing on a distorted five-pointed star painted right above it.
It was indeed a five-pointed star, but none of its sides were straight. All the sides were curved at a certain angle, yet harmoniously connected to form three interlaced surfaces.
No, more than that—every two non-adjacent corners can extend into a curved surface. How many surfaces are there in such a simple symbol? It's dizzying if you look at it for a while.
Finally, the sight unconsciously focused on the center of the symbol, where it looked like an eye was peering, or as if a fire was burning.
The surrounding air seemed to be attracted by the fire, making Miel feel as if he was having difficulty breathing.
Until Lola came up with a hand and covered his eyes, blocking his view of the mark.
Miel's vision fell into darkness.
Lola's calm voice came to my ears: "There is also a 'Do Not Disturb' sign here."
As soon as he finished speaking, he was refuted by Leon: "You call this 'Do Not Disturb'? Ha, what an elegant way of saying it."
"So what is it to you? Another me," Lola asked him.
Leon: "This is the dirtiest oath, almost like 'someone shit here'."
Lola: “…That’s a really rude thing to say.”
Leon: "Although it is a vow, it is a pollution to me."
Lola: "That's also a vow."
Leon: "Tsk, why do I have such a rigid tentacle?"
Lola: "How could I have such a rude self?"
Miel: “…”
Miel: My beloved God of Sleep, Lord of R'lyeh, the great Cthulhu, seemed to have performed a schizophrenic showdown in my ears just now.
At this moment, Inai said excitedly: "Brother, this vase is connected to the shelf!"
Miel took Lola's hand and looked at her. Before he could say anything, he saw her turning the empty vase on the shelf by the wall with both hands.
There was a sound of metallic friction, and the arched door opened and slid upward along the curved track. What appeared in Miyer's vision was a strange room.
The entire room resembled the interior of a giant cocoon. Ceiling, floor, and walls blended seamlessly into one, with no clearly defined boundaries. Every surface was polished into a smooth spherical arc.
All the furniture was made into strange shapes. The bed was like a raised sand dune with a smooth groove sunken inward on the dune, which was just big enough to accommodate a humanoid creature.
The tables and chairs also extend directly from the walls and floors, without any drawers or other structures that can be opened and closed.
In short, there is no angle in the entire room that is less than or equal to 120 degrees.
Miel: “…”
Lola: “…”
Leon: “…”
"Miel, my agent." Leon said sadly, "Did your mother provoke a dog?"
Dog - This word comes from the mouth of the Old Ones, specifically referring to the "Hound of Tindalos".
This is a terrifying creature with titles such as "The Dog of Time and Space" and "The Unstoppable Stalker".
Although they are called "dogs", their actual appearance is very different from that of dogs, and "hunting" is their core characteristic.
Once targeted by this terrifying creature, you will be hunted to death.
No matter which time and space the target escapes to, this group of undead creatures can appear near the target through an angle of less than or equal to 120 degrees.
This room was clearly built to keep out the Hounds of Tindalos.
The owner of this room is Miel's mother, Mife.
Did Miffel provoke the Hound of Tindalos?
"It seems so." Miel responded to Leon's words, his expression was not very surprised, as if he had expected it.
Lola looked down at the top of his head and asked tentatively, "The hounds of Tindalos are mainly responsible for maintaining the order of time and space, and will target those who disrupt time and space. Has your mother traveled through time and space?"
"Yes, to save me." Miel responded, "I said, my mother saved me from being buried in the snow in some way. This 'some way' is to travel through time and space."
——He also obtained this information from Bross's memory.
That's why he wanted to confirm.
"Bros never told me how my mother died." Miel lowered his silver eyelashes. "Bros thinks I killed my mother. Perhaps he meant that my mother traveled through time and space to save me, was targeted by the Hound of Tindalos, and thus lost her life."
"A reasonable guess," Lola commented.
"So, Bross hated me. He thought that if I had never been born in the first place, Miphiel would not have died... But, he could see Miphiel through my face, my facial features, my blue eyes, white hair, and even my name. That's why he didn't kill me."
Miel now understood that all the tenderness Bross showed him was not false, but the object of his tenderness was not him, but his mother Mife.
So, although she would speak to him with a gentle expression and tone, she didn't really care about his life or death.
If he disappears, we won't look for him. If he gets in the way, we'll just kill him.
It turns out that from the moment I lost my mother, I became penniless.
Why does he exist?
What is the meaning of his existence?
Is his life really valuable?
What should he do next?
Miel stood in front of his mother's room and lost all his strength in an instant.
Like a kite with a broken string, or a burnt-out candle.
In the end, the only thing that supported him was...
“Lola, let’s go somewhere else, find a normal room, and I will fulfill the agreement between us.”
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