So fast.

Pedestrians ran quickly from both sides, the neon lights were pulled into light strips, and the wind blew over them. Liz leaned on Ash's shoulders like a little girl hugging a doll.

The speed is so fast, it feels like falling.

Liz didn't really think about anything, she just realized that she had to find a chance to be alone with Ash, so she ordered Ash to take her away. But when Ash picked her up, she didn't think about anything anymore, her mood was like a pop of soda, bubbling with joy - a child who likes to rely on adults, even if he gets into trouble, he seems to be full of confidence.

When she stopped, she heard Ash say, "Two servings...Oh, okay, Liz, take them!"

Liz turned around and found that they had run to an ice cream shop. The waiter had already prepared a plain cone and a milk plain + cantaloupe + chocolate + vanilla + pineapple cone for them. She carefully took the super double cone and only ate the chocolate ice cream ball.

"Do you want to walk by yourself?" Ash took the original flavor cone and said, "To be honest, you are not that light..."

"No, I'm tired after walking in Funland all day!"

"Oh well."

Liz felt sweet in her heart as she ate the chocolate ball, but soon she felt depressed again - Ash was so nice to her because he was going to send her away.

If she had made such a request at other times, Ash would not have refused, at most he would have summoned a substitute to hug her.

Ash didn't walk far and came to a nearby underground river. There were many ordinary people walking around, and these people were not disguised. They might be locals who had lived here since childhood. They might only see the sky a few times a year, but it didn't matter. Not everyone needs to live in the light.

Ash and Liz sat on a bench, eating ice cream cones facing the underground river. Although the river in the underground city sounds like a sewer, this underground river not only has no peculiar smell, but also no fishy smell. The breeze is so refreshing that it seems to massage your nose. Although there is no night sky, the fluorescent bacteria on the ceiling are enough to serve as a substitute. The fluorescent light in the river flows continuously, and the ripples reflect this gradually quiet underground city, as if everyone's dreams are flowing in it.

Liz was waiting for Ash to speak, but Ash was in a daze and didn't say anything, so she found it difficult to speak.

However, they already had a relationship where they were comfortable together even without any topics to talk about. Although Ash had this kind of relationship with everyone, Liz felt so natural only when she was with Ash. So Liz also squatted on the bench with her legs crossed, looking down at the hand mirror.

Her sisters have been urging her for a long time.

Black Butler: "How about acting like a spoiled child? Shuu seems like someone who is easy to please..."

White Queen: "He is naive but not stupid. Acting like a spoiled child may make him agree with us on other matters, but it will never shake his decision on key matters."

Black Butler: "If the force is strong enough, maybe there will be a miracle. Let me try..."

White Queen: "Not to mention you, even if I go, it won't work. Besides, acting like a spoiled child is a weak act of trying to please others, just like ice cream... ah, my vanilla is melting... Under normal circumstances, ice cream can certainly melt his heart, but when facing danger, his first reaction is to protect the ice cream! The more we act like a spoiled child and show weakness, the more he won't let us stay!"

Red Death: "Then be tough, let me do it, I'll grab him by the collar and say 'If you dare to leave me, I will hate you forever'."

White Queen: "Isn't this still acting like a spoiled brat?!"

Diya: "It's impossible for us to capture Ash. Why don't we change our thinking and try to attack Panji? Panji definitely doesn't want to watch An Nan take risks. As long as we can convince him to go back before the last day, Ash and An Nan will have to accept this result no matter how unwilling they are..."

White Queen: "But Xiao Xiu will be angry, right?"

Red Death: "Yeah, yeah."

Black Butler: "And Annan can also ask us to stay in the underground city. We can't participate in the operation either."

Diya: “Woo…”

While the sisters were discussing and eating ice cream cones, Liz finally couldn't help but ask her own question: "Why do we have to follow the action? It's so dangerous, shouldn't we find a way to get Dad not to participate?"

The discussion came to an abrupt end. After a brief silence, Diya responded, "Come to think of it, we never told you, little witch, why we want to participate in the weaving festival and why we want to make wishes."

"Because those are stories from before you were 'born'."

…

A long time ago, there were two babies. They saw each other the first second they opened their eyes in the petri dish, and they didn't need any time to cultivate feelings. They would cry if they left each other, but would be quiet as long as they held each other's hands. Their every frown and smile were exactly the same, and they had the same appearance. They were as close as the last two little monsters in the extinction genocide.

There were many children like them, but most of them had no chance to be born because they were already so good that they didn't need any backup. At the age of three, they remembered each other's names: Lisdiya and Niconalu.

On a quiet afternoon, they were chasing and playing in the garden as usual, and then the palace maid came to tell them that they would be taken to new rooms, so they parted in a daze, as crisply as a piece of white paper being torn apart.

We never met again.

Lysdia was imprisoned in a high tower on a small island in the middle of the lake, and Niconalu was imprisoned in the most secret basement of the palace.

She had cried, resisted, and lost her temper, but the maid who took care of Lisdiya was her grandmother who loved her the most, so no matter what happened, Lisdiya would be obedient and eat and sleep. In addition, she was a kind and well-behaved child by nature. When the maid told her that Princess Nina was doing well, she would not doubt it. She would just try to look into the garden in the distance to see if there was any trace of Nina when she stood in front of the window.

Perhaps it was because the monotonous days passed quickly, or perhaps it was the power of miracles, Lisdiya quickly grew into a graceful princess, but to her, parting with Nina seemed like it was just yesterday.

It was not until she hid outside the door and heard the conversation between the maid and the emperor, and until she stayed up at night and learned the truth of the sainthood through her grandmother's mumbling, that the 'mask' magic spirit was born in her heart. She completely bid farewell to the past and became a virtual realm magician.

After meeting the bronze dragon in the Continent of Time, she even accepted the trial of the bronze dragon just for the chance to escape from the tower.

…

Liz: "Why is Sister Nina imprisoned in the basement? It sounds so pitiful... But Sister Diya, you are also so pitiful being imprisoned in the tower. Fortunately, I met my father when I was born."

Diya: "Because the Armored Sainthood is related to two lists. One is naturally the "Gospel List", and the other is the "List of the Undestined" that you heard a few days ago."

"The Isu royal family's armor-wearing and sanctification is actually to obtain the gods with the power of the list."

When I introduced her to the Sword Princess, Diya's description of becoming a saint in armor was not wrong, but she concealed the most important details. After all, this was not only her secret, but also her bitter hatred that she could not express.

"As long as you can become the first on the Gospel List, you will be qualified to control the God's 'Gospel', and even become the incarnation of the Gospel. Although you cannot fully exert the power of the 'Gospel', it is enough to control mortals and turn the situation around. Therefore, all dynasties that rebel against the First Gospel will be defeated, and the dynasties supported by the First Gospel will continue."

"The way to become the number one on the Gospel Ranking, besides personality, the most important thing is appearance: all the Queens of Issu look exactly like us. We didn't know why before, but after seeing the incarnation of the First Gospel on the Continent of Time, I realized that this might be a loophole in the Gospel Ranking - the closer you look to the First Gospel, the easier it is to be chosen as the number one Gospel."

"But this alone is not enough, because a mortal body cannot control the spirit of a god..."

The White Queen suddenly said, "Let me tell you what's next."

"No, only I can say it." Diya: "It must be said by me, because this is my...original sin."

"A mortal body cannot control a god's spirit. The spirit corrodes the soul of the incarnation every minute and every second. Therefore, the lifespan of the First Gospel in the past was often only ten years. This is also the reason why many dynasties eventually collapsed. Forty years is enough for a dynasty to decline. If you want to establish an eternal kingdom, you must ensure that the First Gospel can be in power for at least fifty years, covering the interval between two weaving ceremonies."

"Then our ancestors came up with a very brilliant idea."

"Since the life span is not enough, why not find a way to add it? Not just the life span, but also all other destinies."

Liz also recalled the characteristics of "The List of the Undestined" at this time: "So Sister Nina was imprisoned so that she could be listed on the List of the Undestined and her lifespan and everything would be transferred to us?"

Diya: “That’s right.”

Liz: "But 1+1 only equals 2. If we can only live 10 years after we take control of the god's 'Gospel', even if we add sister Nina, we can only live 20 years!"