Growth's Baptism

"Don't you think this is ridiculous?"

Hai Na opened his eyes wide and asked.

"... What's ridiculous?"

Sherlock was even stunned for a moment before finally realizing what Hai Na was referring to. "Oh, I understand. It's okay."

"Objectively speaking," Iver helped, "I mean, judging from the objective conditions of Avalon and Star Antimony, this development is not completely impossible."

"But in the future I encountered, Avalon was already in chaos! The rotten Dark Magic seeped into the earth, food could no longer grow, the famine had lasted for several years, and Round Table Hall had completely degenerated and turned into a joke, Bureau of Supervision was turned into ruins. The corpses of animals and plants were corrupted by the power of shadow and stood up again. The souls could not enter Dream Realm reincarnation but were imprisoned by the magic on the ground. Those shadow wandering spirits were at least Third Level, attacking everyone indiscriminately..."

Hai Na Even the speaking speed has obviously become faster.

He is just like a madman who has discovered the truth about the future, desperately and lonely telling a future that no one will believe...

"Don't be anxious, please don't be anxious first."

Iver helplessly reached out and held down the increasingly excited Hai Na: "It's not that we don't believe it..."

... The only problem is that she is actually the last one to know about the things Hai Na said.

If Iver does not awaken the memory of Previous Life and does nothing, this is what Avalon will look like in the future. And Sherlock has so much information from investigations and secret information about so many important people. With his intelligence, he must have guessed this future - this is also the reason why he had a bad attitude towards Isabel in the first place.

He may not know as detailed as Hai Na, but he must have guessed Avalon's future direction. In the original game, he didn't have much reaction to this matter; and when Iver vaguely mentioned this matter to him at the bishop's house before, he just said yes and ended the topic.

Sherlock's loyalty to Her Majesty the Queen made him ready to die exhausted. That is not loyalty to Avalon, nor is it loyalty to the Avalon royal family, it is just loyalty to Her Majesty the Queen alone.

As for Lily, she doesn't care about those things at all. Moreover, she is a person who has personally experienced "how far Round Table Hall has fallen" - her biological father is a minister of the Round Table Hall, he is a spy who colluded with Stibnite Person, and he was just killed by Iver and Lily.

——Speaking of which, Hai Na really doesn't know about this.

Because the death of Minister Drost is actually top secret in Avalon - he must be "alive" to make sense. In this way, they can continuously pull out various "confessions" from the void, keeping those people in a state of fear. Maintaining such political pressure will make it easier for those people to reveal their flaws.

"You might as well talk about it first," Iver said warmly, "In that 'future', what have you experienced and what have you foreseen? In other words, what is the specific content of the ceremony you participated in this time?"

"... That's pretty long."

Hai Na calmed down a little, and rubbed his temples with some distress. "The memory is almost blurry now... But this dream was particularly long, very, very long - it might have been more than a month, or it might have been two or three months."

"Can it be this long?"

Iver was a little surprised.

"Yes," Hai Na nodded, with fear still in his eyes, "In that future, I am a supervisor of Bureau of Supervision... But in that future, people no longer believe in supervisors. My task is very simple... it is to 'protect civilians', but it is such a simple task..."

She said, her words choked.

Iver sat quietly next to her, waiting for her to calm down slowly. And Lily came over and hugged her gently, whispering something comforting in her ear.

But Hai Na is a strong knight after all. She did not cry in Lily's arms, but took less than ten seconds to adjust.

"At the beginning, there were twenty-eight civilians I found. I remember the appearance of each of them. They were very distrustful and full of hostility towards me. It took me a long, long time to make them trust me... It was only after I was exhausted in a battle with those monsters that they slowly began to believe me. It was also at that time that I realized what was happening in that world..."

Iver noticed that Hai Na subconsciously referred to the fragments in the dream as "another world".

Iver like this reaction very much. This means that she subconsciously treats the fabricated pseudo-souls not as afterimages or ghosts, but as real people.

Although strictly speaking, this is somewhat naive and stupid.

But just as Iver likes the puppy Little Cat, he also likes this kind of friend who can trust from the heart - even if he doesn't have much contact with Hai Na.

"I don't know what the other people's mission is, but I have experienced a betrayal."

Hai Na said this, gritting his teeth. "I remember that person - his code name was 'Cake Maker'. When I heard this code name, I thought he was a good person, otherwise I wouldn't use such a soft and sweet thing as a code name... But just after I trusted him and introduced him to the gathering place as a teammate... those civilians began to disappear.

"When the tenth person disappeared, I finally discovered that he was preparing the ritual materials. He laughed at me for trusting him so easily, ritually cut the tenth man into pieces in front of me, and attacked me. It was a girl's mother, and she had just prepared porridge for me that morning. I also thought about escaping to Iris with my daughter to study music...

"It wasn't until then...that I truly realized what New Moon Ritual meant.

"I'm angry, but there's no use being angry. There is no way I can defeat a ritualist who has been prepared for it - and that's while protecting those people. In the end, I was protected by those people before I left... And when I fled to a safe place in embarrassment, only six of the twenty-eight people were left.

"-I will always remember their names."

Hai Na said seriously.

Her words were sincere and fiery, and her clenched fists contained real anger.

"If I could meet him in reality... I would definitely teach him a lesson."

"What exactly will the lesson be?"

Iver suddenly interrupted and asked.

Hai Na was silent for a while and said seriously, "I will kill him."

This girl who used to threaten people, the most she could say was "I'm going to arrest you"... finally used her clear will to seriously say that she wanted to kill someone without being hot-headed.

Iver smiled with satisfaction and nodded slightly.

Being able to grow in a dream is much better than waking up after losing something in reality.

"Very good."

He said calmly, "You have indeed grown. Okay, I will help you with this."

"... What?" Hai Na didn't respond.

"I'll help you find him, and then let you kill him."

Iver sat on the edge of the bed and murmured softly with a smile, "This will be your baptism, and it also indicates that you will eventually mature. Most people rarely have the opportunity to use the person who made them awaken as a sacrifice, but the nature is different after all. The person who really makes you angry should be terminated by your own hands. This is the meaning of power."

Sherlock on the side always feels that Iver at this moment is like a devil that confuses people's hearts.

His expression became extremely subtle. But in the end, Iver was not stopped.

Forget it, let him do as he likes...