Chapter 102: Give me your eyes, okay?

Chapter 102: Give Me Your Eyes, OK

Just run away, Saul doesn’t care about an old lunatic.

He just felt that the old lunatic had some secrets, and wondered if they were related to the Sound Grinding Fruit.

He walked back to the front of Ada’s house.

Every time Ada left, he would lock Penny in the house for the rest of the day.

Eat, drink, and sleep in there.

Saul walked up to the door of the room and the lock clicked open automatically, the falling lock falling right into Saul’s palm.

Seemingly hearing the sound, the door to the cabinet on the wooden bed was pushed open from the inside.

Saul stepped into the room and saw Penny climbing out of it.

“Brother Saul!” Penny crawled out and sat on the edge of the bed with her legs skimmed, raising a big smile.

Saul put away the playful smile he had maintained outside and sat beside Penny with an expressionless face.

“How did you know it was me, are your eyes really blind?”

A kettle of water and a couple of green loaves of bread lay on the wooden bed.

Not a single bite of this food had been touched.

The little girl’s lips were white and cracked again, but she held back from eating or drinking.

She no longer wanted to address her physical needs in her room.

“I really can’t see. I did hear Brother Saul’s footsteps.”

“You seem to be familiar with me.” Thor looked at her sideways, “You were only three years old when we parted, weren’t you?”

Penny unconsciously tugged at the corner of her coat, which was already full of woolen threads.

“Yes. But Ada has always been able to dream about Brother Saul.”

Dreams? Nightmare butterflies?
Saul’s face paled, and his silver eyes began to look seriously into Penny’s.

Those pair of eyes were beautiful no matter what angle they were from.

However, if it was an ordinary person, I’m afraid that while finding them beautiful, they would also find them somewhat terrifying.

“You can see your brother’s dreams? All the time?”

This time it was Penny’s turn to be surprised, she turned her head, her eyes met Saul’s face, and froze for a while before eating and laughing, “Ada doesn’t even believe in Penny, brother Saul you are so nice.”

“Ada often dreams of the day he ran away from the village. He was carrying me on his back and would occasionally look back at you trapped in the flames behind him. Your voice begging for help was all over his ears.”

“He always dreams about it.”

“Me begging for help?” Saul blinked slowly, suddenly realizing the reason Ada had taken him in.

“It was Brother Saul’s voice. I heard it the day you arrived.” Penny pursed her lips and smiled, amused.

Saul was fourteen this year, and probably hadn’t changed his voice yet because he used to be malnourished.

Saul had never heard of the Nightmare Butterfly, and when he heard Penny say that she could see other people’s dreams, he immediately became interested, and even threw away the matter of the Sound Grinding Fruit.

“Are you able to see in your dreams?”

“Uh-huh, can see. In my dreams, I’m Ada.”

So that was it, no wonder Penny didn’t call Ada brother. At the age she started dreaming, I’m afraid she was already confused about whether she was Penny or Ada.

Ada said that Penny was blind when she fled the village at the age of three, so Penny had probably been sharing dreams with Ada since she was three.

This could easily cause cognitive dissonance for Penny.

But there’s something even scarier ……

Saul asked, “Penny, have you ever entered anyone else’s dreams besides Ada’s? Did you know those experiences were dreams?”

Penny tilts her head, “At first I only saw Ada’s dreams, then I was able to enter the dreams of people nearby. Like the old madman’s dreams, he always saw the village being destroyed by barbarians. And Uncle Jayce’s dreams, he always dreamed his daughter was dead and cut into pieces. And Aunt Joan’s dream, she always dreamed of killing her husband, first by beheading him, the body to be separated, then slowly hidden in a vegetable basket and thrown out.”

As for the second question, Penny didn’t answer it and seemed to have forgotten it.

“Did you know it was a dream?” Saul asked again.

Penny then remembered, “I didn’t know at first, but then I kept dreaming and dreaming, so I knew it was a dream.”

“Was it scary?”

Penny smiled through her teeth, “I’m not scared. Ada said that there’s no need to be afraid of dreaming, it’s fine when you wake up.”

Saul stared at the little girl, speechless for a moment.

Although Penny could converse with him smoothly, and there was still the innocence of a little girl, it could be heard that her perception of the world was already somewhat confused in the interweaving of dreams and reality.

There was no emotional fluctuation when she spoke of the remembered dreams that were painful for those involved.

There was a kind of calmness that was used to seeing life and death.

And she was truly used to seeing life and death.

“Penny,” Saul finally spoke, “you can see other people’s nightmares, mostly because of your eyes. If there’s a chance to take out your eyes …… would you be willing?”

The room was quiet for a moment. In the middle of the day, Penny shielded her eyes with the palms of her two skinny hands.

“No!”

Saul stood up and Penny heard him move and looked up while covering her eyes.

“No!” Penny repeated again, adamant.

Saul’s hand pressed against the back of Penny’s hand, and black tentacles burrowed out from the back of his neck and slowly encircled the little girl’s arm, pulling it away from the girl at Saul’s command and leaving her to Saul’s mercy.

“You’ll turn into a puppy if you rob a child.” Penny threatened Saul.

Saul slowly withdrew his hand, and the little algae followed suit with some regret as it withdrew its tentacles.

“That’s a dangerous pair of eyes for you. I wish you had changed your mind sooner.”

Penny heard Saul’s footsteps moving toward the door, then the sound of another raised step across the threshold.

As if forgetting that Saul had just tried to rob her, she hastily dropped her hands and leaned on the wooden bed, asking a little anxiously, “Where are you going, Brother Saul?”

“Out looking for work.”

Then came the sound of the gate closing and locking.

Penny sat frozen in place, wondering if Brother Saul was angry. The emotion in his voice was harder to discern than Ada’s.

Penny touched her eyes.

She just thought that if there were only two holes left here, then she wouldn’t look good, would she?
It didn’t take long for Penny to start getting bored again.

If brother Saul could play with her a little more later, then it would be fine if her eyes turned into black holes.

Her hand touched the water bottle on the side, and she obviously felt thirsty, but she didn’t want to drink, only beeped and pushed the water bottle farther away.

I don’t know how long it took, but someone knocked on the window frame outside.

“Little Penny~” came Uncle Jaycee’s voice.

Penny skillfully climbed back into the cupboard, her face pressed against the window, “Ada won’t let me ignore you.”

“Don’t listen to your stupid brother.”

“Well, Penny thinks Ada is stupid too.”

……

Saul wanders around the town of Mill Sail again, and basically figures out the relationship between the “holy fruit”, and the “adoptive mother”.

The sound grinding fruit is probably similar to the companion flower of the wizard’s tower in that they both like to feed on the scent of the dead, except that it’s probably the fresh maidenly flavor that the sound grinding fruit likes.

He couldn’t help but recall a certain schoolmate named Peggy, who had temporarily used a piece of fresh thigh skin to create a mask to confuse the Evil Spirit Officer in order to lure the Evil Spirit to him in the first place.

Could it be that grinding sound fruits had the same taste as evil spirits?
Slipping in between, Saul sneaked back into the vicinity of the clearing where the Sound Grinding Fruit was planted, where the strongest guards in the town were still gathered, but there was no sign of the young girl who had been captured in the morning.

Doesn’t the process of nourishing the Sound Grinding Fruit need to take place in the Sound Grinding Fruit fields?
But he quickly noticed that the door to the three-story tower, which had been sealed tight last night, had been opened a small crack.

The small tower was a mixed wood and stone structure that looked old and shaky, but the next moment it felt indestructible and would stand there forever.

There were no guards around the tower.

The half-open door looked as if it was inviting someone to enter.

Saul glanced at the diary from the heart.

The diary doesn’t bother him.

Instead, Algae ran out and pressed against his face.

“Is there a spirit body there?”

Algae waved her tentacles back and forth.

Sol touched the tips of the little algae’s tentacles to get it back.

Algae, always more obedient than Diary, shrank away in a flash.

Saul waited until it was almost dark before returning to the small courtyard where Ada was.

Just as soon as he got close, he heard a shocking noise coming from the courtyard, as well as Ada’s shouts of extreme anger.

“I told you to stay away from her!!!”

Saul walked through the gate and saw the yard in a state of disarray.

A few of the ropes hanging in the yard had fallen down and clothes and shoes were spilled all over the place.

Some of the miscellaneous items that were originally placed in the yard were also knocked over.

A woman peeped behind the window, noticing Saul’s line of sight, and her figure immediately disappeared.

In the center of the messy yard was Ada, who was red in the face and breathing heavily, and Jaycee, who had fallen to the ground and was still hooking her mouth in a playful smile.

And the door of Ada’s house was open, the lock hanging on the door was bent and broken, half on the ground, half hanging loosely on the door.

Second shift.

(End of chapter)