The Amber Sword

“Mr. Brando, look here. ”

Magdalene's voice came from the side. Brando moved the flame in his hand in that direction, and the light seemed to have a shape in the dark, in a pale and narrow space, reflecting a giant door that was twisted upside down, and its alloy material was easily torn apart like paper.

When Brando saw the fresh claw marks on that door, he knew it was either Frofa or Arkentou who had passed by here not long ago, unless there were third-party horses here, which meant that they had found the right place.

“Look at the ground.” The phoenix fire pointed to the bloodstains on the ground and said that the bloodstains, which had dried up completely, sparkled in the pale light, like gold.

“It's dragon blood!” Aloz was in a hurry and one of the arrow steps wanted to rush behind the door. But Brando grabbed her shoulder, pulled out the sword Odyphus, and walked in first.

It was not long before Arkentu and Frofa and others had clashed in the underground lobby behind the twisted alloy gates, and Brando entered the empty lobby, raising the flame in his hand and allowing the pale light to extend in all directions - just a glance at the layout here, he understood that his travelers had entered the core area of the laboratory.

His eyes fell first on the metal incubators leaning against the wall and then on Magdalene behind him. When she saw the scene, the nun shouted, her face turned pale and the whole person swayed backwards. If Brando hadn't taken her hand in time, Her Royal Highness Princess Antoboro would have fallen to the ground.

“Miss Magdalene, what do you remember?” Brando whispered.

“I...” Magdall's lips shivered slightly: “I... I think I've been here. ”

“You're actually scared, scared that what your grandfather said was true," Brando let go of her hand: “You don't believe what Andrea told you, you still wish you were a Sister of Antoboro, that's all, you want to go back to those days, right? ”

“I...” Magdalene's face was a little pale, she put her hands on her chest, and she lowered her head sadly: “I'm scared, I'm really scared, Mr. Brando, I live inside me. I'm so scared. If I remember everything from the past, I'll lose everything...”

She suddenly whispered and sobbed: “WOW, Mr. Brando, I... I feel so selfish, ‘she’ gives me life, but I'm so afraid of that 'she’...”

The sudden crying of a young girl in the darkness stopped everyone, even Aloz, who was most anxious for his partner, and had to stop and look at the nun princess.

No one has ever seen this quiet, gentle princess cry so hysterically on a weekday.

So much so that both Lotus and Phoenix Fire were somewhat overwhelmed by this sudden state of affairs.

Brando also looked at her, at the lady, and he couldn't help but think of what Marshal Branch had entrusted to him.

After all, Magdalene's grandfather, though famous for nothing, was the only one among all who saw the confusion and escape in his‘ granddaughter ''s heart.

Perhaps he had already seen that it was better for her to face the fact than for the secret to remain in her heart forever. It may have been a little cruel, but at least there could have been one chance for her to break the knot forever.

Because perhaps no one in the world will ever know what the princess saw the last time she went to the Silver Plains.

Instead of side-blocking around for answers, why not come back to the world?

Andrea's proposal, too, makes no sense.

Brandomer walked past and reached out and grabbed Princess Magdalene's arm and took her hand off her face. “‘She’ gave you life to replace ‘she’ in her unfinished business, perhaps not to make you so weak, Miss Magdal--”

Magdalene looked up somewhat overwhelmed and looked at him with pear blossoms.

Brando looked into her eyes as clear as the sea water, and he said softly, "Don't be afraid, Miss Magdalene, you are you, you are yourself, you will stick to your ideals, your beliefs and your feelings as always, which is why it seems so real. ”

“We will say that you are a good friend of Princess Griffin, a nun of Antobulo, granddaughter of Marshal Blanc, Magdal Antobulo López. ”

“But does it matter? ”

“Because wherever you come from, whoever you are, at this moment, you stand side by side with us, facing danger and the future together. The symbols and meanings that our names and identities represent may not depend on who it is, what it is, but who we are and what it means to others. ”

“Others?”

Brando nodded, and that's why he said, "So -- all of us trusted friends, Miss Magdall, have you regained your courage now? ”

Magdalene blinked slowly, her eyes as bright and beautiful as crystals, and she looked at others somewhat bewildered. Not far from here, Lotus held up the glasses that were about to fall off her nose and hurried up her fist to say, “Miss Magdalene, Mr. Brando is right, you are the best, have you forgotten the previous battle! ”

“In fact, most of all, it is most fascinating.” Housch added that he looked at Prime Minister Jin Jin and was kicked by Aloz.

Magdalene relieved herself lightly.

She looked at the row of metal cultivation tanks on the wall —— twelve in all -- and the cold ice was so familiar to her, but at this moment, she would never feel that suffocating fear again.

“This is where I was born...” she thought, “It's good to live in this world. It's a good thing. ”

Magdalene looked up quietly and suddenly felt somewhat panicked when she saw that Brando's eyes still fell on her.

Brando had no such complex thoughts in mind, and he asked, "You remember this place entirely, Miss Magdalene? ”

“Ah?” Magdall responded hastily: "Yes, Mr. Brando, the moment I entered here… I had a lot of memories in my head. ”

“What scares you? ”

Magdalene frowned and pressed her forehead: “I... I remember going to a similar place and I saw something..."

“What is it? ”

“I don't know, I feel confused and scared, I think... maybe ‘she’ influenced me...”

“You came here once, again after you were born, where you found your own incubator and managed to remove a nameplate from it.” Brando replied: “On that adventure, you saw something that hurt you badly, and you went ’dead' shortly after you returned to Antoboro, and then it was a familiar history. ”

“So, what exactly is there that threatens you, that you've been to, is not this stagnation?” Brando suddenly asked with some mercy, "Miss Magdalene, have you remembered the process in between? ”

“No... I didn't,” Magdalene said with a fine sweat bead on her forehead. She had just become a little more calm and restarted some instability. She replied nervously: "I... I don't know, for a moment, I seem to remember something...”

“What is it? ”

Brando saw Magdalene's face get a little pale again, her eyes widened, her pupils slightly enlarged due to anxiety.

Everyone else had entered the lobby, but Sisters Ling and Lotus were still around Brando. The little girl saw the scene a little incomprehensible. She opened her mouth and seemed to want to say something, but was stopped by a phoenix fire.

“Phoenix fire, Mr. Brando he...”

The phoenix looked at Lotus and shook her head gently.

“Trust the teacher. ”

Princess Magdalene squeezed her fist, and at this moment Mr. Brando became a little nasty in her eyes. She obviously didn't want to recall all of this. The memories hidden in her heart, like an invisible hand, grabbed her heart and made her feel suffocated as if she was dying the next moment.

The heart pounded so hard.

“You didn't see a black tower.” But it was at this moment that Brando suddenly asked.

It was as if a thunder had struck the nun, stubbornly widening her mouth.

As if with Brando's words, countless memories were flowing into her mind like a trickling stream, and those vague, unrememorable things all became clearer all at once.

But Brando did not heed the reaction of His Highness, but went on to say: “You see a beam of light, that light prophesies to you such a future, the whole world is in darkness, a round of giant moons hanging over the sky of the whole world, no light, no life, everything is like death...”

“You see the back of the world, where there is a supreme power, there are many people, dressed in purple and gold robes, who pass by you. ”

“You see a round of sunset, and countless meteors are falling from the sky. ”

“You see a tall tower falling between the clouds, flaming bears burning, only a little bright blue light shining in the clouds. ”

“You see the twilight that descends upon the whole world, as if the Day of Vaughn's death in the prophecy were in sight. ”

Brando's voice softened.

“Am I right? ”

……