It was Ciel’s notebook and pen.
She quickly walked over, bent down to pick up the notebook and pen, walked before Ciel, and quickly opened it.
There should be sothing useful recorded in the notebook...
But when Avena fully opened the notebook, she was completely stunned.
Written on it were so square characters she couldn’t understand at all, different from any foreign language she had learned... This seed like a rather ancient language.
But from the elegant handwriting, Avena could accurately recognize this was Ciel’s notes—after all, she had been corresponding with Ciel these past few days.
Avena placed the notebook and pen aside. Ignoring the dust on the ground, she knelt directly before Ciel, reached out, and took her hands.
Wait... Ciel...
A faint light flickered in Avena’s dark purple pupils. Avena held her breath, focusing all her attention on Ciel’s soulless eyes.
...
This is... what?
Ciel looked at the patches of silver-white light before her, lost in thought.
Did I co out of the Other Side?
But where is this place?
System space?
Before Ciel’s eyes, silver-white fras continued to pop up.
Inside these fras, where system text used to display for communication, were now filled with characters unfamiliar to Ciel.
She tentatively turned her head, only to find such fras piled up everywhere. No matter where she looked, there were heaps of system fras.
“Really bugged?”
Ciel tentatively spoke, but heard no reply—at this mont, she couldn’t even open the system interface. This was the first ti Ciel encountered this situation.
Unsure how long this situation lasted, the fras finally stopped increasing.
Slowly, the system interfaces stacked before Ciel dissipated block by block. After a long ti, Ciel finally saw sothing other than the system interfaces.
Before her was a tiny gear.
It floated in the vast expanse of silver-white space, just quietly revolving.
Only then did Ciel realize the system fras didn’t disappear into thin air but were absorbed into that gear.
Only after all the fras were absorbed did the gear gradually stop revolving.
A new system interface appeared before Ciel.
【Nice view?】
Unsure why, Ciel seed to sense the system’s resentnt from this sentence.
“Did you malfunction?” Ciel asked sowhat curiously.
【...】
【Sigh...】
For so reason, after sending a series of ellipses, the system finally sent a sighing tone word.
“Why sigh?”
【Just thinking about having to do these things again makes feel bad】
“What did you do?”
【Helped you seal away all the knowledge and will within the “Uniqueness”】
“Seal away... then it’s useless, right?”
【So, do you want to seal them away, or do you want to go crazy yourself?】
【Haha, managed to make a pun out of that too, pinned ^^】
Seeing the familiar annoying system expression, Ciel finally relaxed slightly.
Looks like the system didn’t bug out, still fine.
【Next ti you don’t have to swallow it, just stuff it in the stopwatch】
【Oops, oh no~ I can’t hold on much longer~ Can’t continue shielding you from contamination ^_^】
As the system’s last communication interface disappeared, the silver light before Ciel rapidly dissipated.
This was definitely intentional by the system—
Only this thought flashed through Ciel’s mind before she quickly tensed her spirit, preparing to face the possible “contamination” or “whispers.”
But what Ciel didn’t expect was that the ntal impact she imagined didn’t arrive.
Feeling the recovery of control over her body, Ciel slowly opened her eyes.
Opening her eyes, she saw her mangled right hand.
All the skin from the palm to the arm of her right hand had been torn open. In so places, only the skin connected so flesh. Even the muscles themselves had started turning sowhat purple.
In the crevices between skin and muscle, so tentacles still writhed, as if they were inherently part of her hand, already fused with her flesh.
Looking along her palm, she saw another pair of fair hands, currently tightly gripping her own hands.
Continuing to look up, Avena, wearing glasses and kneeling before her, appeared in Ciel’s vision.
Avena was currently holding Ciel’s hands, eyes tightly shut. Her face showed slight pain, her forehead covered in fine sweat.
Is Avena bearing this for ?
This would greatly impact Avena’s spirit... And Ciel had to know the extent of her own spiritual contamination without Avena’s help.
“Avena...” Ciel spoke, calling Avena’s na.
Avena, hearing Ciel’s words at this mont, abruptly opened her eyes. Her dark purple pupils trembled slightly, seemingly still shaken from seeing sothing.
Ciel slowly withdrew her hands from Avena’s grasp, but Avena’s hands seed to exert so force, not wanting Ciel’s hands to leave.
However, Avena’s strength was still too weak compared to Ciel’s. Ciel’s current physical strength, enhanced by 【Dexterity】, wasn’t sothing a non-combat path Avena could contend with.
“It’s alright now, Avena.” After withdrawing her hands, Ciel looked at the sowhat shaken Avena, reached out her left hand, slowly put it around her shoulder, embraced her, and said, “It’s over.”
After leaving the influence of Avena’s ability, Ciel’s vision began to show slight double images and hallucinations. The originally dark factory seed shrouded in mist again.
The warm yellow light emitted by the liquid in the light tube dispersed part of the darkness, but in the faint mist-shrouded darkness untouched by the light, sothing seed to be rustling and whispering, luring Ciel closer.
“Ci... Ciel... I... I saw...” Avena’s chin rested on Ciel’s shoulder, stamring, “Why you too...”
Avena’s sowhat chaotic spirit clearly hadn’t completely stabilized yet. Ciel didn’t speak, just gently patted Avena’s back with her left palm.
Under Ciel’s gentle touch, Avena’s rapidly beating heart finally slowed down gradually, her body no longer trembling.
At this mont, Avena seed to realize their current posture was slightly ambiguous, but after hesitating for a mont, Avena still slowly reached out her hands and hugged Ciel’s back.
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