"Knock, knock, knock."
Jared rose hastily to his feet, and he looked around in surprise, and could not help but break out in a cold sweat.
Is there a knock at the door?
This is too unrealistic, looking around, the whole castle is full of broken walls, want to walk in at all with little effort, so why knock on the door? And more let Jared surprised is, until the knocking sound before, Jared completely did not realize that there is someone at the door. This makes him can not help but tighten his nerves, at the same time carefully towards the castle door, the thick wood and steel door in the centuries of years has been corroded, but at least there is a little bit of the role of the door - this wooden door actually managed to survive until now has not been corroded off, really weird.
"Knock ... knock ... knock."
The knocking on the door was not slow, but normal, as if it were a house call. But the fact that such a normal thing could happen in such an abnormal situation was an anomaly in itself. At the same time, the other two woke up. Perhaps due to the physical and mental fatigue of the past few days, even when Tawana got up, she still looked like she hadn't woken up yet.
"There's a knock on the door ... Who's here?"
"... hoo, any customers?"
Kylie stretched and came from the next room. But the two of them were stunned when they noticed Jared's gesture, and then they stared at the door with serious and nervous expressions. They realized that they were not in a warm and cozy home, but in the Forest of the Undead, a forbidden place where no one but them could be! Then who was it that knocked on the door?
"I'll go check it out, Caroline, protect them."
(Got it.)
Caroline stood in front of Tawana and Kylie, watching Jared with a serious expression, but the umbrella in her hand did not change into a thin sword. After all, in such a situation, what is actually appearing is still unknown, and can not act arbitrarily. Jared walked to the door, took a few deep breaths of fresh air, and after making sure he was in the best condition possible, he reached out and pulled on the iron ring of the door, slowly pulling it open.
Though he was prepared for a moment's sword attack, or a bombardment of magic, Jaredella was surprised to find nothing when he opened the door and looked out. He immediately looked back in Caroline's direction and realized that the three of them were still safe, and that Caroline's weapon hadn't been altered, so it was clear that they hadn't been attacked.
So who was it that knocked on the door?
"Pfft."
With a soft thud, Jared felt a warm, soft body lean into his arms, and with a subconscious jolt, he looked downward while preparing to deploy his rune armament - and then he froze in place.
It's a girl.
Her long white-blonde hair fell to the ground like a cape, wrapping around her small body, and her slender eyebrows and delicate features looked like a beautiful doll. More importantly, the girl's eyes were closed tightly, apparently sleeping against Jared's body.
"... Kula?!"
The person who was definitely not supposed to be here made even Jared cry out in surprise, and at that moment Caroline rushed forward, and her eyes widened in surprise when she saw Kura.
(Isn't this Kura? What's she doing here?)
"How should I know? She couldn't have been sleepwalking in her sleep."
(Sleepwalking here?)
"You know I'm just saying that off the top of my head."
"Ohhhhhhh??"
With a strange tone of voice, Kura's eyes snapped open, and she just leaned back in Jared's arms, raising her head, looking very surprised. But her tone of voice lacked the usual inflection, and she looked as if she was indifferent to whatever was happening.
"Ohhhhhhhh ... What a shock for Kura ... It's actually really Sister Caroline and Brother Jared ... "
"..."
Really?
Jared was quick to detect the uncertain anomaly in Kura's words.
(Kula? Why are you here?)
Kura frowned in some confusion at Caroline's question.
"Oooh meow ... Caroline sister is saying what is it ... still not ... meow ah?"
Here, she suddenly raised her head as if she had remembered something, then took two steps backward and stood still before clutching the doll in her hand, gazing at the four of them half-asleep, half-awake. At the sight of the girl, Tawana was curious and puzzled. But she didn't ask any questions. Only Kylie was startled at the sight of her, but no one noticed her.
"Oh yeah? These two are ...?"
Kura turned her body and looked at the two young girls next to her.
"My, my name is Tawana ..."
"Greetings, Your Highness."
Kylie suddenly half-kneeled and gave Kura a solemn wizard's salute.
"Academy magician Kylie Vito greets you, I didn't expect to see one of the five legendary Great Chanting Ambassadors, 'The Spectral Berukeling' Lord, please forgive me for my rudeness just now."
"Oooh meow ... how about that kind of thing yo ..."
The look on Kula's face was one that went in one ear and out the other. But the others couldn't have been more oblivious.
"Hey? Sister Kelly ... what did you just say ... ..."
Tawana looked at Kura in surprise, unable to say half a word, but it was Kelly who frowned and snapped.
"This is Her Highness Berukolin, one of the Empire's five great Chanting Ambassadors! As a seeker of the Spirit of Magic, how could you not have heard of her?!"
Of course Tawana could not have never heard of them, in fact, there was no one in the entire continent who studied magic who didn't know about the San Marino Empire's five arias, which were equivalent to the trump cards like nuclear weapons. In the rumor, the five great arias have strange movements, except for one of them who stayed in the academy due to his position as the head of the academy, the other four have almost never been seen by anyone. The only thing that is known about them is their "magic names", which are almost like code names.
Blackened Shalom.
Euphemia of the Heavens.
Iganol of Hurgan.
The emerald green Fitrina.
The shadowy Belluccoline.
Kylie, as the daughter of the Imperial Minister of Magic, had seen them at the royal ball, though she was far away and had not had the chance to talk to the Grand Chanting Ambassadors. But those five figures, who looked and acted differently from the rest of the world, made a deep impression on people. That's why Kylie recognized Kura as soon as she saw her.
"Kula is so famous ..."
"How rude!"
Kelly disgruntledly interrupted Jared's self-talk.
"How dare you call Berukolin-sama by her name ... Don't you know ..."
"Brother Jared and Sister Caroline are friends of Kula's yo ..."
Kura was still hugging the doll, her eyes half-closed, but for some reason she seemed unhappy.
"It's okay when Kula says it's okay yo ... Kula already gave them all the names yo ..."
"... Yes, it is I who have been rude, Your Highness."
Kelly bowed her head and said nothing, but inwardly she was amazed. Who are these two people? Why would Aria-sama use her real name, which is almost equal to her own life,...?
"So, Kula what are you doing here?"
Sensing that things had deviated from the original direction of travel, Jared hastened to ask.
"..."
(Kula?)
"Phew ..."
Sleeping!
"Wake the fuck up!"
Jared smacked Kura on the head, which caused her to open her eyes in surprise from her sleep and make that strange "ooh-ooh" sound once again.
"Ohhhhhhhh ... Kura almost fell asleep ..."
"That's you already asleep ."
Jared stared at the girl in front of him, unable to make the connection between her and the weapon of mass indiscriminate destruction that he had imagined in his mind. But there was one question he hadn't yet answered. Kura said she was looking for them, so she knew she was here. But why her? Why did she find her? On this land?
"Why did you come here? Why are you the one who came to us? Kula?"
"This is a secret yo... Kura can't tell yo... but Kura promises, you will definitely know yo... "
Kura's words were ambiguous, but incredibly unobtrusive, perhaps due to her lazy, unassuming attitude at all times.
（So, Kula, how are you going to get us back?)
Caroline raises another, more important question.
"Kura is going to use 'Jump'... uh, to teleport you guys, brother and sister, to the moment on the day the teleportation failed, yo? It's a must, right?"
At these words, all four of them took a breath of cold air at the same time.
Teleport back in time?
Can such a thing really be done?
(But, Kura. Why do you have to teleport back in time?)
"It's a very important thing yo!"
Kura's eyes suddenly opened fully, looking quite serious.
"You must go back to that time and start again! Kula's orders, yo!"
"... Belukorin-sama ... me ..."
"Huh?"
"No, it's nothing. ..."
Tawana seemed to want to say something, but in the end she couldn't. Jared, on the other hand, stared at Kura for a long time before smiling slightly.
"I know who asked you to come to us."
His words startled everyone in the room, how could Jared possibly know? But Jared didn't pay any attention to the other people's astonished gazes, but continued to look at the half-asleep Kula who didn't know whether he was listening or not.
"It's us, isn't it, who want you to come to us."
He pointed to himself, and to Caroline.
"What are you talking about ... is ridiculous ...! Aren't you guys right here?"
Kelly tilted her head a little in surprise and stared at Jared.
"Yes, we're here, but that's just us now."
"What exactly does this ... mean? Brother Jared?"
Tawana didn't understand, but Caroline nodded as if she'd come to a realization.
"I've always wondered how you found us in these woods. No, that seems strange, because you didn't find us, you came to us. That's obviously a very strange thing to say. After all, I don't remember our relationship being good enough to bother you with a personal trip - we haven't known each other for very long, and you just said 'I can't believe it's ...'. That means you thought you'd run into us here, but you didn't think you'd actually run into us. Why did you do that? The reason you insisted on teleporting us back to the past is because we're already outside now."
"The more I ... hear, the more confused I get."
Tavana had no idea what Jared was talking about, and Jared just shrugged his shoulders, seemingly not trying to explain.
But Kula smiled faintly.
"It's just like Jared's brother said, it seems that I can't hide it from you. ..."
The Jared she's talking about is not the one standing right here.
"In that case, Kula said yo?"
Kula looked at Jared and said slowly.
"That's what it says, and Kula doesn't know what it means. 'Give up that boring idea and resign yourself to your fate.' Those are the words Jared's brother asked me to bring to Jared's brother?"
"Is that all ... has to offer?"
"And 'When we get back, there might be some trouble, so take care of it.' Huh?"
"I know."
Jared nodded, committing the two quotes from his own gifting to memory.
"So, can you please start?"
"Uh-huh."
Kura said, setting the doll aside and then walking away from Jared and the others with a waddle and a three-step wobble. Caroline watched her intently, while Tawana and Kelly looked uneasy. The conversation between Kura and Jared had seemed to make perfect sense to Jared, but not to them.
"This is Kura's secret technique that can only be used once every hundred years? Remember to be grateful to Kura, okay?"
Kula said, holding out her hands.
And then, the chanting begins.
The lazy voice suddenly transformed into a raging river, Kura's voice just echoed in the empty hall, and a beautiful and incomparable song began to sound, and then the four of them were surrounded by shimmering dark, dark-colored lights. They shivered and swirled like sonic waves, condensing enormous amounts of magical energy. Both Kylie and Tawana were mesmerized by this wonderful sight. It was beyond the realm of mere magic, it was a miraculous enchantment.
Grand Chanting.
Kura's song was like a river of time, fast and slow, and the light around the crowd was also flickering, then Kura frowned and stopped singing. She gazed at the magic aura that had already taken shape, and suddenly thought of something and waved her hand at Jared.
"Brother Jared, come here a minute?"
"Huh?"
Confused, Jared followed Kura's words and walked to the edge of the magical circle of light, to Kura's face.
And then, Kula lands a hard, hard kick to Jared's calf.
"You ..."
"This is a punishment for Jared's brother, yo? Who told you to be so rough with Kura!"
What the hell did I do at this point?
Jared did not ask this sentence out of the mouth, because Kura has already re-backward, her fingers repeatedly make complex gestures, and then from it slowly emerged beautiful and colorful light, she stretched out her right hand, to Jared and others a finger, the magic aura immediately shrinks, and then completely surrounded them, and then the light flashed through ...
The stench of Sulphur Juan filled their surroundings in an instant, and Jared opened his eyes to the shattered portal at his feet, while Ms. Williams, wearing gold-rimmed glasses, stared at them in disbelief. Several large, black figures turned back to the group and swept them with gazes of madness and death.
"So it is."
Jared looked at the demon in front of him with surprise, as if it were a tame kitten.
"Is that what you call 'trouble'?"
He said easily, while stretching his backhand and summoning his black twin blades .