"No wonder, I just remember that I don't have that many sisters. It turns out that I have a split personality..."
After Ash briefly explained the origin of the witch sisters, the little witch quickly accepted the fact: "When I grow up, I can actually split into sisters to play with me. I'm so awesome!"
"Yeah, witches are amazing!" Ash agreed and tried to slip away, but was stopped by the little witch: "Wait, I want to know more about the person I'll like when I grow up."
"Don't bother. You'll remember me when you regain your memory."
"It's different, it's different!" The little witch shook her head repeatedly: "If you lost your memory, and then I appeared in front of you and told you that I was the princess you would protect for the rest of your life, wouldn't you want to know more about me?"
Putting herself in her shoes, what the little witch said does make sense, but now is not the time to chat slowly. Ash thought for a moment and said, "I can only answer three of your questions at most. After that, you must finish the painting quickly."
"Okay." The little witch said, "First question, when you first met me, did I have four personalities?"
"Yes, they are the Secret Princess, the White Queen, the Black Butler, and the Red Death."
"Second question, what do I like about you?"
"In fact, I have asked you this question before, but you didn't answer me." Ash paused and said, "I just spent many adventures and companionship with you... Perhaps, your liking for me is just the liking for a playmate."
The little witch nodded, she turned her head to look at the whiteboard, and suddenly said: "It seems that I have a hard life when I grow up."
Ash was startled.
"How lonely does a person have to be to split out another personality to accompany himself?" The little witch said: "I must have been very miserable and helpless, just like a princess caught by a dragon, that's why she became so desperate."
"Then, you shine into my world like light and protect me like a knight, so I like you." The little witch stretched out four fingers: "I am divided into four sisters, so my vision must be four times higher! Don't worry, when I grow up, I will definitely like you seriously, and it will be four times more serious!"
Ash never expected that he would be comforted by the little witch: "I'm not worried either!"
"Okay, okay, don't be embarrassed." The little witch patted his shoulder in a condescending manner. "By the way, I saw a little girl in the painting. Have we given birth to a child? Speaking of which, what should we do to give birth to a child?"
Ash quickly denied it: "No, we don't live together!"
Little Witch: "Then the painting I saw is actually my inner wish?"
Ash recalled his painting of everyone going on a camping trip together and nodded slightly: "It could also be an imagination of happiness."
"Happiness..." the little witch murmured softly, and suddenly said: "When I read fairy tale picture books, it often ends with the princess and the knight living happily together. I was very curious at that time, what happened after they lived together?"
"Then I turned back to the beginning and saw that the bad king was lustful and greedy, and the bad queen was evil and jealous, and I realized that a book can be read twice."
She touched the whiteboard. "If we live together like in the painting, will we be happy forever? Or will we become bad kings and queens in the future?"
This question is so profound that Ash estimates that only his mother can answer it. Even his brother and sister-in-law who have been married for several years may not be able to answer it.
However, the little witch didn't need his answer. She put pen to paper on the whiteboard and began to draw: "But no matter what, I am lucky to have someone I like and a life to look forward to when I grow up."
Cunning and smart, calm and passionate, mature and profound, pessimistic inside but positive in thinking... Ash discovered that the little witch was very different from the four witch sisters. No matter whether it was the Secret Princess, the White Queen, the Black Butler, or the Red Death, none of them could be completely matched with the little witch, but they all had the shadow of the little witch vaguely.
It was just like...the witch had a sister that Ash had never seen before.
"One last question..."
Ash said, "I just answered more than three of your questions, didn't I?"
The little witch looked at him: "I ask three questions each, and I am one of the four sisters, so I should have twelve questions, but I just want to ask you one more question now..."
Ash surrendered: "What else do you want to ask?"
The little witch pointed at the little sword girl and the little Weisser.
"Don't we all like you?"
Ash was silent for a few seconds, then squeezed out a few words from the corner of his mouth: "Not all."
The little witch understood, "It turns out that fairy tales are all lies. There are actually male veelas in this world..."
Stop talking, stop talking. If you keep talking I can already hear Igula’s laughter.
Ash quickly ran to little Weisser. When she saw him coming, she hid in the corner with her head in her hands, trembling with her back to him.
Although this child was also very strange, she was much better than Sword Princess Witch. Ash used his advanced experience in getting along with his nephew and squatted beside her and asked, "Do you like painting?"
"……like."
"Then why don't you go paint? Just copy it."
“…How terrifying.”
"Hmm? Is what you want to draw scary?" Ash was a little surprised: "What are you going to draw?"
"I, I," little Weisser was not very good at talking. She talked for a long time but could not say anything. When Yaxiu asked her a few more questions, her nose felt sore and her eyes were misty. She cried out, "Weiounay, Weiiounay, come here quickly..."
There are two options here. One is to whip her until she spins like a top, so that the child will be obedient. Ash has used this on his nephew and it works very well. The other is to chat with her and slowly comfort her.
Obviously, the latter is the only option here. After all, blocking memories is only temporary. If Weisser knows that she was beaten by Ash after she regains her memories, her bond level may even drop. And to be fair, Youlan Weisser has been working diligently since she joined the team and has never caused any trouble to Ash, so Ash is willing to give her more patience.
So he asked, "Who is Vione?"
Little Weisser sniffed: "Violet is Violet."
"Is she nice to you?"
"Um."
"So you want to go back and see her, right?" Ash said earnestly, "As long as you finish the painting, you can go back and see her, okay?"
Little Weisser sucked back the snot bubble and turned to look at Ash: "Really?"
But she quickly shook her head: "You must be lying to me. They lied to me the same way last time, and there was no prop to make Vione get better."
Ash asked, "How did they lie to you last time? What happened to Vione?"
"Viounay, Viounay is not feeling well and has been lying in bed. She promised me that she would take me to buy clothes. I wanted her to get better, so I asked many people. Then they told me that if I went to a place at dusk, I would find the props that would make Viounay better."
Ash frowned slightly: "Is Vione sick? Isn't there a healer to help her?"
Little Weisser shook her head: "Me too, I also looked for my sister who helped me with the pain, but she said there was nothing she could do. Ordinary people would feel uncomfortable at this age. Only magicians can live longer."
The life span limit of ordinary people? Genetic disease? Environmental pollution? ... Ash asked: "Then what? Did you go find the props?"
Little Weisser nodded: "I went to that place at dusk and searched for a long time. It was dark, but I still didn't find anything. Then I was lost for a long, long time. I saw many things, and I saw something very scary... wuwu..."
As she spoke, she seemed to recall those terrible experiences and cried herself. Ash helped wipe her tears and asked, "And then you left?"
She took a deep breath, choked her trachea and coughed twice, then nodded and said, "It took me a long time to walk out, and then I ran back to find Wei Ounay. Wei Ounay found out that I was missing, and when she saw me come back, she asked me where I had been. She was very angry when she found out that I was still out at night, and spanked me hard..."
"She told me that she was going to die and would no longer be around, and that I had to take care of myself from now on."
Little Weisser looked at Ash and asked with tears in her eyes, "Where do people go when they die?"
Why are the questions these kids asked more profound than the last... Ash said, "They should be going to heaven to enjoy happiness, right?"
Little Weisser shook her head: "Impossible, only the most powerful people can go to heaven. Wei Ouna is not a magician, she can't go to heaven."
If she doesn't go to heaven, then she can only go to hell. But looking at the pitiful little Weisser, Ash couldn't say "Weiona will go to hell to suffer".
He hesitated for a while, and suddenly thought of another option: "You know the virtual world, right? The virtual world is very big, and it is also the destination of everyone. When people die, they will return to the virtual world."
But little Weisser was still not satisfied and asked, "What does that person do in the virtual world after he dies? Can people return to reality from the virtual world? Can Wei Ounay come back to see me occasionally? Can you write to me?"
Looking at the expectant eyes of little Weisser, Ash almost subconsciously said a lie: "When people die, they will obtain eternal happiness in the virtual world, so they can't return to reality."
At this moment, he saw a look of surprise in little Weisser's eyes, and even the tears in her eyes began to sparkle.
"Really?!"
"real."
"That's great! That's great!" Little Weisser jumped up happily while hugging Ash. "So it's true. Vione didn't lie to me!"
"What?" Ash was stunned, "Violet didn't lie to you?"
"I also asked Vione where people go after they die, and she told you exactly the same thing!" Little Weisser said happily, "I thought she was lying to me again!"