Chapter 229 Ai Lei's Fear

"Player Super Justice ()"

"...So, as you can see."

The conversation between Longjing Tea and Celicia rang from the side.

Alley looked down at the coffee in the ceramic cup.

She was not quite used to it. She carefully squeezed the beautifully and delicately patterned spoon, stirred the coffee like the Longjing tea beside her, and watched the snow white sugar cube melt quietly in it.

She recognized it as the United Kingdom's "Alpine wine", a specialty from Alpine Island. Without the need for conversion synthesis, it can be used to create a natural energy mixture that can resist the intrusion of drowsiness and prevent yourself from entering nightmares.

In the Kingdom of Noah, some old nobles would take it in very small amounts—of course, it was only used as a brain-boosting drug, and no one would have the luxury of taking it as a drink. Of course, it is unknown whether it has any effect on the brain...

The output of alpine fruit is scarce, only one island produces it, but it has to be supplied to many countries. It is even more expensive than an equivalent volume of silver.

Islay knew it because Amos had been given a small box when he painted the Viscountess Roseburg. She also counted, there were eighteen in total...but she was not willing to eat it at all.

In the month that Amos' mental state just became bad, Alley carefully fried the box of alpine beans, ground them, mixed them with sugar, mint and pepper, and gave them all to Amos. drink up.

I don't know if the medicine is working or not, but Amos's spirit has indeed improved a lot in those two weeks. But unfortunately, there are too few alpine fruits in her hand...

Thinking of her adoptive father, Alley lost her mind again.

What kind of emotion is that...

miss? is hate? is love? Is it worship? Is it fear?

...she couldn't tell.

But that experience really made her unforgettable.

At least... the time when her mother Clara died and Amos hadn't fallen into the evil way was indeed the happiest time for Ellie.

Amos loves himself with all his heart, even quitting his job and taking good care of himself. I am afraid that I will grieve and lose my life because of my mother's death.

...but actually, Elle doesn't.

She had seen her mother use herself to threaten and blackmail Joseph, and she knew how limited her "love" was for her. She is just a tool she uses to extort more "love" from her biological father.

She has also seen how Joseph ruthlessly abandoned himself and his mother, and even used an edict to immobilize them... She was also full of disappointment with her biological father.

It was after reading the occult books that Joseph gave her that Clara became a "Spider Whisperer".

After she believed in Black Widow, she made bottle after bottle of poison with toads, bats, and mice... and tested the poison with the neighbor's dog and wild cat. She even murdered Amos's own sister -- on the one hand, perhaps out of jealousy, on the other hand, because she feared that people too close to Amos might kill or purchase cursed materials while she was out. When he entered her study, he discovered her secret.

Amos is obedient and never goes where she doesn't let him go...but not so for others.

So when Amos didn't notice at all, his sister "died" unexpectedly. Clara comforted Amos while threatening Ellie not to tell the truth.

Afterwards, she exhumed and completely destroyed the body of Amos' sister - to hide her peeling off a small piece of skin as evidence of a sacrifice to Black Widow.

Alley has witnessed all this, and she is terrified of her own mother.

It was a truly vicious woman—she had little love, only fear, for her mother.

For Ellie, who was still a girl, her father's love and mother's love... were given to her by Amos. Although Amos was famous back then, he was not as demonic as he was later. Their family's life was relatively rich, but not so rich.

For the most part, Amos has little work. Especially when Ellie was very young,

It's all about him accompanying Elle...

And Elle's mother is still practicing apprentice-level spells and going to other places to purify nightmares. But she really didn't have the talent as a wizard... Later, she was alone in the study, reading books thicker than Elle's arm, studying spooky and terrifying rituals in the basement.

When her mother was at home, Elle was always a little scared—she never dared to go to her mother's study alone, let alone the basement. The mother was only taken to the basement when she needed a ritual assistant.

Whenever she saw the bottle of poison and the corpses of various animals that had been poisoned, she worried that she would turn into a corpse one day... and Amos didn't even know that she was killed.

Clara's death did not so much hurt her.

Rather... it made her feel at ease a lot.

Don't worry that you will be poisoned suddenly one day, and you can enjoy the love of Amos alone.

And in this nightmare.

As soon as Ellie woke up, she saw the young Amos.

He's still a painter—and quite well-known, and he's very busy. He didn't communicate with Ellie too much... Of course, if there was too much communication, Ellie might be a little uncomfortable.

In that case, she might think of Amos sacrificing her to the Skeleton, and her past of watching Amos die hundreds of times over and over again in nightmares.

This level of just "meeting each other" is just right.

But Amos told her...her mother would be home tonight. Ask her to go back early tonight.

... Ellie doesn't want to go back.

She didn't want to see that woman.

Although she is now an angel, she still has a sense of fear for her...

That was when she woke up in the middle of the night, and if she had visions of her mother standing in front of the bed, she would still be able to frighten Ellie's back to the point of sweating.

- I hope she never comes back.

But to say... Is Ellie still attached to her?

Impossible to be completely absent.

Especially after being immobilized by Joseph, her mother grabbed her hand and left silently... At least at that moment, her mother was the whole world in the terrified Elle's heart.

And while her mother was studying rituals and spells, when Ellie tried her best to make her laugh, and when she saw her mother showing a relaxed smile, the happiness that was born in her heart was not false.

So it wasn't pure hatred and fear.

Of course...

This kind of fear hidden in the deepest part of her heart, even her own, unknown fear, she naturally would not mention it to others.

She hopes to see Amos again, but she doesn't want to see him again; she doesn't want to forget her mother completely, but she doesn't even want to remember her name...

She hopes to live this day quietly in this "future world"; she doesn't want time to come to tomorrow.

If it comes tomorrow...I will see my mother again.

Alley thought, and clenched her coffee cup.