novelonline Chapter 2858 Happiness and Extra Memories
Chapter 2858 Happiness and Extra Memories
Chapter 2858 Happiness and Extra Memories
Somehow, Xia De found this scene quite funny. After all, they were fighting a dangerous thing not long ago, but now they were frowning because of the bitterness of the tea.
But watching everyone chewing tea leaves together and listening to the sound of the campfire in front of him, the last trace of chill was dispelled. For some reason, he had a strange sense of security. However, this sense of security was not enough to free Xia De from the bitterness and let him feel the so-called "happiness".
"So what is happiness?"
Xia De chewed and touched Mia while recalling:
"Having breakfast at home with little Mia on a sunny morning? It was indeed a blessing, but it didn't seem enough;
On a snowy winter night, hugging Luvia in bed, covered with a quilt, reading a story together? It's warm, but it doesn't seem enough;
When I woke up in the morning, I saw the ladies washing or reading newspapers, and Tifa said "good morning" to me? Speaking of which, I haven't had the opportunity to say a few words to Tifa recently, I'm really too busy;
Or is it the gift they prepared for my birthday this year? No, no, now is not the time to think about that. "
"She" beside my ear chuckled.
This recollection had no effect. Instead, Xia De felt the skin inside his mouth tighten due to dryness as he chewed the tea leaves.
Perhaps other people had the same trouble. Iluna puffed her cheeks and frowned as she chewed the tea leaves as if she was taking medicine; the Gray Wolf girl chewed extremely hard, as if the tea leaves had turned into hard-to-swallow uncooked beef; Miss Metz, who wore glasses, was not so exaggerated in her movements, but she obviously had not found the trick either.
But Miss Wilder's own progress was quite smooth, because Shad had already sensed traces of the spell in her.
The green dragon girl chewed the tea leaves happily, and even secretly looked at Shade while chewing, but Shade didn't notice this because he was concentrating on meditation. In order to choose the best tea leaves, the dragon maids often chewed the tea leaves to distinguish the quality of each batch of tea leaves. She was more accepting of the bitter taste of tea leaves than others.
"It's really bitter. So, is tea considered food?"
Shad then remembered that his [Toy Maker] spirit rune was also associated with the magic of "candy making", which allowed Shad to transform things he thought were food into candies he had tasted.
Thinking of this, Xia De had a new idea. When the teeth separated from each other the next time he chewed, the tea leaves would have been turned into candy.
However, if this magic is not carefully controlled, the candy "made" will transform into his favorite flavor at the moment according to Shade's mental state. In the bitterness in his mouth and the depression caused by the environment, the taste of the tea leaves turned into a light sweetness that outsiders had almost forgotten after his teeth closed the next time.
It's not the high-end chocolate from my hometown, nor is it the high-end pastry made by Tifa herself.
A memory that had been dormant in my mind for a long time came back to my mind. It was a summer afternoon when a stranger, who was just a child, bent down to pick a red flower from a potted plant celebrating a festival on the street, and then put it in his mouth to suck the nectar.
At that time, he did not understand the hardship of life, the suffering of the future, or the troubles that were bound to come. He only remembered that amid the sound of traffic, the taste of nectar was indeed sweet. Although it was not as sweet as real candy, it still surged in his memory at this moment, reminding the stranger of the happiness of that moment.
He understood why the "happiness" he had just thought of could not trigger the magic, because those "happiness" would happen again. Only the faint sweetness of childhood could never be found again even if he returned to his childhood or even to his hometown.
After all, he already knows what life is all about.
[Outsider, you have acquired the magic of "Tea Extraction", which allows you to recover some of your spirit by chewing tea leaves. This corresponds to the "Toy Maker" spirit rune.]
"Her" voice was light and gentle in his ear. The successful achievement of the magic did not make Shad excited. He continued to slowly savor the faint sweetness, trying to grasp the surging and faded memories.
Miss Wilde somehow sensed Shad's success, and as "she" whispered a reminder in her ear, she looked at Shad and congratulated him with a gesture.
Iluna had been distracted by the bitterness of the tea leaves, and now that she saw that Shade had succeeded, she wanted to congratulate him quietly. But perhaps because of the continuous chewing, she made a mistake in her haste. She opened her mouth and froze for a moment, then she spoke to the green dragon witch in a low voice, embarrassed:
"Can you give me some more tea?"
"Yes, but the amount of tea will not make learning any less difficult."
The dragon maid reminded her, and Iluna pursed her lips:
"Um sorry, I accidentally swallowed the tea leaves."
"Cough cough!"
Hearing this, the gray wolf girl on the other side of Iluna didn't adjust her breathing rhythm and also made obvious swallowing movements, and even choked. Seeing that Iluna and Miss Wilder were attracted by her cough, she swung her wolf tail behind her and hid, then blushed and said in a low voice with embarrassment:
"I want some more tea, too."
Fortunately, Miss Metz, the only one left, was in a stable mood. She just chewed tea leaves and looked at these people. When she recalled the happy scene just now, she somehow thought of a lot of things that she clearly didn't know.
That was her early memory, she seemed to have lived in a huge college, but she had no idea that she had such an experience.
The 40 minutes seemed ample, but because of the outing, it was over in a blink of an eye. Before the time was up, except for Xia De who used a trick to learn the power, the other three girls just felt that the dry tea leaves were really bitter.
However, they have more time to stay here than Xia De, so what limits their learning is not the time, but the total amount of tea that Xia De brings.
Fortunately, by this calculation, the "courses" of the gray wolf girl Miss Bister and the green dragon witch Miss Wilde should be completed. Iluna's course can be carried out during Shad's absence, and she is still very confident about this.
The last one left is Miss Metz who wears glasses. Next time, as long as everyone completes her course, they can listen to the teachings of God, and then return to their starting points safely with their respective gains. In this way, although this time adventure requires diving and fighting, it is actually not very complicated.
Before Shad was about to leave, he did not forget to remind Metz to write a new list of required materials. At this time, Iluna and Miss Bister were still chewing tea leaves. The latter even turned into a small gray wolf and curled up on the mat in order to better "feel happiness", while Mia lay on Shad's legs and looked at her curiously.
In a small corner of the stranger's heart, he actually hoped that Mia could learn something from Miss Bister.
The green dragon girl, who had tied her apron again, stood by the fire and brewed new black tea. She seemed to be in a really good mood. Miss Metz, who took the paper and pen from Shade, turned her head and spit out the tea leaves before saying:
"I had originally thought about what I needed, but when I was chewing the tea leaves just now, I recalled some things from the past."
Speaking of this companion, Shade almost knew the origins and stories of the gray wolf and the green dragon, but he and Miss Metz had hardly exchanged a few words:
"That's a weird statement. You've had amnesia before, right?"
Xia De asked curiously. The human witch with glasses hesitated for a moment before shaking her head:
"At least I don't know that I have lost my memory. My memory of my life experience is very complete. It's just that I suddenly remembered that I lived in a large college for a long time. But I have no idea which stage of my life that belongs to."
Shade immediately looked at Miss Wilder, and the dragon maid who was wagging her tail and making tea immediately denied it:
"No, these teas don't have hallucinogenic effects!"
"It has nothing to do with tea leaves. I feel that those are not hallucinations. They are very real memories."
Miss Metz shook her head vigorously, and then began to write on the papers:
"There are many scenes in those memories that I learned. I found that the content in the memories overlaps with the content in this book, The Blessing of Books. So I adjusted the original teaching content. In this way, you may be able to learn more useful knowledge."
Iluna quietly spit out the tea leaves and said:
"But are those memories really okay? My job is to investigate and handle abnormal events. When strange memories suddenly appear, and when they contain knowledge, there are usually no good results."
So the gray wolf on the cushion quietly spit out the tea leaves. The werewolf's sense of taste is similar to that of humans, but more sensitive. She couldn't stand the bitter taste of these specially processed tea leaves.
"Ms. Metz, what college do you remember your college life in?"
As he spoke, he changed back from his gray wolf form to his human form, which made the cat's big amber eyes brighter.
"Sorry, that memory isn't particularly complete."
She hurriedly wrote a few more lines on the notebook that Xia De handed to her, and then handed the notebook to Xia De:
"After those memories appeared, they gradually became clearer like a spring. I need time to sort them out, but I am sure that those memories are not some kind of mental pollution."
Xia De nodded with some concern, and signaled with his eyes to the strongest Gray Wolf Witch here to pay attention to Miss Metz's situation.
After finishing all this, this time has come to an end.
(End of this chapter)