After Crossing Through Ten Worlds, I Failed To Run Away - Chapter 44
Let him attack Herinos? Raiders of the male protagonist in the novel?
Hearing the suggestion made by the system “Future”, Ji Ning’s heart couldn’t help but resist subconsciously.
Although he did not have any love experience, he never imagined that he would fall in love with a man, and now he still wants to actively pursue a man, which makes him really unacceptable.
His silence did not cause any change of tone in the future, the cold artificial intelligence just continued: [Then, please correct the plot in time, if Herinos cannot get acquainted with Flora smoothly , you will be soul-killed. Wish you all the best. 】
After cutting off contact with the future, Ning fell silent, thinking in her heart how to save the plot and avoid going down the road of attacking the male protagonist. said.
“I can promise to dance with you, but not now. I’m Miss Flora’s bodyguard, I have to keep her safe, please let me go.”
“You said you kept looking at her just because you wanted to make sure she didn’t make a mistake?”
Said, “So it is.”
Jining didn’t know what he was thinking, so he took his hand and pushed him away, and said coldly, “Can you let me go?”
“Sorry, I was ill-considered, and I apologize for my rudeness.”
“
Jining did not speak, turned and walked out of the bush labyrinth. Of course, he also hoped that Herinos could follow him, so that he could find an opportunity for him and Flora to get acquainted, so as not to affect the subsequent plot.
The two of them returned to the venue of the night banquet, and Ji Ning saw Flora in the middle of the dance floor.
The music played by the band was light and melodious, Flora was still dancing with the strange young man, the two of them cooperated tacitly and their movements were almost perfect, so that everyone else stood aside , appreciating the dance they both danced attentively.
This made Ji Ning, who wanted to attack her, feel a little uneasy. She vigilantly observed who this strange man was, but suddenly found that under the bright lights of the dance floor, this strange man looked a little strange. familiar.
“Now we’re back.”
Herinos had put on his mask again, not showing his true face in front of others, he stood beside Ji Ning, lightly held his wrist, and said with a smile.
“Since you have confirmed that this lady is all right, why don’t you fulfill your promise to me now?”
Jining glanced at him, then looked at Flora on the dance floor, thinking about what excuse to use to let the two of them know each other, but heard Herinos ask Him: “I don’t know your name yet.”
At this moment, a scream suddenly came from the crowd, followed by a strong smell of blood, everyone screamed in horror and ran away, suddenly revealing a large area space.
The hideous face was covered in blood, and he gasped for breath, licking the blood from his mouth, rolling his throat, and swallowing all the blood he inhaled.
It was the mad vampire who attacked the humans.
As a vampire hunter, it is naturally Ji Ning’s duty to eliminate such low-level vampires. He rushed over and swung the silver blade.
When the vampire saw Ji Ning’s face, he seemed to recognize that he was the famous blood hunter. A variant of this kind, so that Ji Ning failed to kill him on the spot, only stabbed him in the arm.
“Help me watch her.”
Jining turned around and hurriedly said a word to Herinos, and followed the vampire away.
This is also because he knows the details of Herinos, and he knows very well that this blood prince also hates low-level vampires and will not attack humans casually, so he can rest assured that he will take care of Flora, otherwise He wouldn’t hand Flora to a stranger casually, and it would also allow them to get to know each other by the way.
Herinos was slightly startled, as if he was a little surprised by Ji Ning’s trust in him, but soon he smiled and walked obediently to the frightened Flora. Chat with her.
In a few minutes, Ji Ning got rid of the mutant vampire and returned to the banquet of the night. The guests of the banquet were almost gone, and only a few people remained here. , including Herinos and Flora, and the strange man who danced with Flora.
“Are you all right?”
Flora saw Ji Ning come back with blood on her body. Although she believed in Ji Ning’s skills, she couldn’t help but feel worried for him and asked him with concern.
“It’s fine.”
Jining shook off the blood on both blades, put away the weapon, and said, “It’s been dealt with.”
Flora smiled: “That’s good, you are still so good.”
“This is my duty.” In order to maintain her character, Ji Ning remained indifferent even in the face of her compliments, and nodded slightly to Herinos, saying, ” Thank you for taking care of her.”
“Actually, I didn’t do anything, just chat with Miss Flora.”
Herinos smiled: “So you are Ji Ning, the famous blood race hunter, I am honored to know you.”
The blood clan takes pride in knowing a blood hunter. This is so false.
As for his unusual name, no one finds it strange, because such a name belongs to the style of the residents of the East Continent. After the residents of the East Continent immigrated to the West Continent, they became Very common.
Seeing that Herinos had already met Flora, Ji Ning communicated with the future and confirmed that he did not need to attack Herinos. He finally felt relieved and noticed that it was too late. , I want to take Flora back.
“See you next time then.”
The banquet ended in a hurry, and there was no music playing. Herinos did not force Ji Ning to stay, but smiled: “Don’t forget your promise to me.”
“Then we are destined to meet again, Mr. Dan,” the girl called Herinos’ pseudonym, paused again, and looked at the young man who was dancing with her, her eyes stained a little Shy, “And Mr. Eric.”
Eric? Isn’t that the prince’s name?
Jining was stunned for a while, then looked at the man wearing the mask, and after a careful identification, it turned out to be the second male Prince Eric. Ji Ning had met him once before, it was the prince Go to the Blood Hunting Association and let him be Flora’s bodyguard.
How did he come…
As for why the prince came to the night banquet, Ji Ning had no idea. After recognizing the prince, he saluted the prince, but he didn’t call him the prince. After all, the prince was in disguise. Come, maybe just don’t want to expose yourself.
The prince smiled politely at him, said goodbye to the heroine Flora, and left, and the girl looked at him leaving, a little ecstatic, and seemed a little reluctant to part, Ji Ning saw it in her eyes , could not help but have a bad premonition.
Isn’t Flora already very fond of the prince?
His expression was not quite right. Herinos noticed it, and whispered in his ear: “Actually, you don’t only regard Miss Flora as an employer, do you? Do you like it? she?”
It’s not that he likes Flora, but he has to make Flora fall in love with him…
Jining said silently in her heart, she was still cold to Herinos, and she was going to **** Flora back to the mansion.
“Wait for me to find you.”
The blood prince said to him with a smile.
In the days that followed, Herinos, as he said before, often visited Flora’s mansion to visit Ji Ning.
Jining didn’t want to attack Herinos, nor was he interested in meeting him. He always stayed far away, but Herinos seemed to see through his mind, every time he would Find Flora first and ask her to call Ji Ning out.
Ji Ning had to listen to her request, so under the smiling eyes of the other two, Ji Ning would sit in front of them with a cold face and arms folded, watching the other two chat .
“Mr. Dan really likes Ji Ning.”
The girl held a delicate teacup and said with a smile that her relationship with Herinos quickly became familiar in a short period of time, but according to Ji Ning’s observation, this does not seem to contain The love between men and women is in it, and she just treats Herinos as a charming friend of the opposite sex.
“He is a very interesting person.” Herinos also smiled, not denying, “I am indeed very interested in him.”
The girl agreed with his opinion, and chatted with Herinos about Ji Ning’s interesting story with great interest. .
He can feel it, Flora also likes him very much, but it is also not a relationship between men and women, she completely treats him as a younger brother…
Only in front of the prince can the girl show a different side. Although Ji Ning has made all kinds of efforts, she cannot stop the plot from deviating from the original direction.
Although he has not warned him again in the future, because until now, all the plots are similar to the original, but what made Ji Ning anxious is that he found that Flora’s affection for the prince became more and more obvious. This made him feel that his strategy mission was likely to fail.
Is he really going to attack Herinos?
“What’s wrong?”
Noticing that Ji Ning was looking at him, the blood prince smiled with a gentle expression, raised his hand and stroked Ji Ning’s hair.
…No, even if he doesn’t hate Herinos, he doesn’t want to attack a man.
Jining patted Herinos’ hand blankly, and went to think about how to win Flora’s heart from the prince.
The plot progressed smoothly all the way, but one day suddenly ushered in a major turning point.
The Blood Hunting Association was suddenly attacked by the extreme vampires without warning. The vice president was sucked dry of blood and died, and his blood was also used by the extreme vampires to write provocative words on the wall The text, to the effect that he is not the last member of the association to die, all blood hunters will die tragically, and one day, all human beings will become slaves raised by the blood race.
The conflict between the association and the blood clan was very sharp, and the death of the vice president became the final fuse, causing the conflict between the two sides to break out in an all-round way and starting a life-and-death struggle.
As the top hunter of the association, Ning naturally has to be on the front line of the war at all times. This is also to carry out the plot in the original book, so that he doesn’t even have time to talk to Flora .
He sent his sister to a safe place and asked Flora to take care of him, while he was busy hunting low-level vampires and extreme vampires, but knowing that Flora would become the vampire queen in the future, He deliberately avoided some friendly blood clans, lest he would have no room to maneuver in front of Flora in the future, and he would never die with her.
Because of Ji Ning’s outstanding hunting record, it attracted the attention of many blood clans, and he was included in the object of high attention, and on this day, Herinos finally found him took him.
“You can’t go on like this.”
Herinos looked very serious and said: “If you continue to hunt blood, your situation will become very dangerous, and they will definitely try to kill you.”
“I know.” Ning said lightly, “But this is my responsibility.”
He has read the original book, he knows what kind of danger he will face, and he also knows that he will be surrounded and killed by many extreme blood races soon, and he will escape with serious injuries, but he cannot change the plot, only can choose to proceed.
“…” Herinos was silent for a while, then sighed and said, “But I can’t leave you alone.”
Just as he finished speaking, Ji Ning suddenly felt a pain in the back of his neck, and it was Herinos who moved his hand and knocked him unconscious.
When he woke up again, he found himself in an unfamiliar bedroom. The decoration in the room was mainly dark tones, which looked gorgeous and weird, and his clothes were also changed. Become comfortable pajamas, all weapons removed.
Herenos took him away?
Jining was in disbelief. He lifted the quilt and wanted to get out of bed, but suddenly found a chain on his wrist, which was connected to the wall and could not be freed at all.
He fell down, his complexion was pale, his eyes were dark red, deep and cold, only when he looked at Ji Ning, a soft color appeared.
“Awake?” he asked, “feeling okay?”
At this time, Ji Ning was not very experienced, so he was stunned for a few seconds before he realized that he should have been surprised and angry, so he looked at Herinos coldly, his voice suppressed Out of anger, he questioned him.
“You are a vampire? And you attacked me?”
“I’m sorry.” Herinos sighed softly, walked to Ning’s side, and stroked his cheek, “My real name is Herinos, one of the princes of the blood clan, I’m sorry, Ji Ning, I deliberately concealed this from you.”
“You’ve been lying to me?”
Jining showed a look of anger, and suddenly grabbed Herinos by the collar, the chain on his wrist jingled.
“Sorry, I wanted to tell you the truth, but I know you hate the blood clan, and I have never figured out how to talk to you.” Herinos smiled bitterly, “I don’t want myself hated by you.”
“It’s too late.” Ji Ning looked cold, “Let me out, I’ll just pretend that this never happened.”
Make it a priority for removal, and you’ll be in danger.”
Ning looked at him without speaking, the blood prince sighed and shook his head slowly, his voice low.
“You probably don’t understand that once you are listed as a removal target, not only you, but also everyone around you will be killed. At that time, your sister, Miss Flora, and If you have your friends, they will all launch crazy revenge.”
He looked directly into Ji Ning’s eyes, the smile in his eyes disappeared, and his expression was serious: “Even if you don’t care about your own life and death, you have to think about them, I know you are very powerful, but in Can you protect all of them under such circumstances?”
“…”
Jining lowered her eyes, her hands tightened suddenly, Hirinos saw his reaction in his eyes, hugged his body gently, his voice softened a little, and spoke to him.
“Just listen to me this time, okay? With me, both you and your relatives and friends will be safe, and I will not harm you.”
“Why should I trust you?” Ji Ning raised her head with cold eyes, “Don’t forget, you are also a member of the blood clan.”
Herinos said slowly: “I thought we had been together for so long, you could at least be able to treat me as your friend…”
“Since you brought me here,” Ning said, “this is impossible.”
…
In the end, Hirinos still did not let Ji Ning go.
Jining was locked in the room, she didn’t know what was going on outside, and she was always anxious.
According to the plot of the original book, the conflict between the blood hunting association and the blood clan is only a fuse, and will soon escalate into a war between the entire human and the blood clan.
And he should have been hunting vampires on the front line until he was included in the removal list and was assassinated to death by the extreme vampires, which was his original ending in the book.
Enchantment, as the third male lead, no matter how strong he is, he will definitely not be stronger than Herinos, who is the male lead, so that he cannot escape at all.
If the strategy cannot be completed, he will probably be directly obliterated…
Jining curled up on the bed, took off the necklace around her neck, opened the gem on it, and revealed the hollow inside.
There are two small photos in the middle, one side is his sister, the other side is the heroine Flora, this is a prop he has prepared in advance, and plans to look for opportunities later, pretend Not intending to let Flora see that he kept her picture to show his intentions.
It’s just that before he could use this item, he was already locked here by Herinos.
Jining was a little melancholy, and was about to close the gem and hang the necklace back on his neck, but someone grabbed his wrist and snatched the necklace.
The only person who can enter here from the outside is Herinos, Ji Ning immediately turned around and wanted to grab the necklace: “Give it back to me!”
“You really like her.”
Herinos held the necklace and saw the photo of the girl stored in it, the smile on his face gradually faded, and his thin lips tightened into a line.
He tore the photo of Flora from the inside and threw the necklace to Ji Ning: “Give it back to you.”
“Give me her picture back!”
Jining grabbed the sleeve of Herinos and was about to ask for the photo back. The photos of this era are very precious. He managed to get one. If it was taken away like this, he would probably not be able to get the second one in the future.
“You shouldn’t have saved her picture.”
Seeing that Ji Ning was emotional, Herinos’ smile disappeared completely, he put his hand on his shoulder, and said in a deep voice, “Miss Flora is already engaged to Prince Eric. Do you want to keep the picture of the prince and concubine?”
What…?
Jining looked astonished and stared at him blankly. Seeing his expression, Herinos couldn’t bear it, and finally told him something that had happened recently.
After the disappearance of Ning, the conflict between the Blood Hunting Association and the blood clan escalated again. Both sides suffered heavy casualties, and the extreme blood clan also began to attack civilians. The conflict soon turned into a conflict between the kingdom and the blood clan large-scale war between them.
During the war, Flora’s relationship with the prince continued to heat up. As the heir to the throne, the prince must lead by example and go to the front line in the war. Flora also became a nurse. Rescue the wounded in the battlefield hospital, the two got engaged at this time, but also to boost morale and people’s hearts, and insist on winning the war.
At this point, the plot has completely gone against the original, and Ji Ning has received a warning from the future again, and his mission to capture the heroine Flora has completely failed.
If it were normal, Ji Ning would definitely be obliterated at this time, but according to the judgment, the main responsibility for the deviation of the plot is not Ji Ning, but Herinos, he Changes were made, which led to a series of changes in the plot, and he still had a chance to save.
[The Raiders of Herinos is your last resort. 】The future said, 【So this time, do you choose to accept or not to accept? 】
“…I accept.” Ji Ning had no choice but to agree.
However, how should he attack Herinos?
Jining looked at the man in front of her with complicated eyes.
He never thought how to pursue a man…
[No need for you to do anything. 】Future said, 【You can just go with the flow, because—】
“It’s impossible for you and her.”
“So… please keep an eye on me.”
[He has a deep affection for you. 】
…
“Regardless of the past, being able to meet you again here is one of the luckiest moments of my life.”
In the villa, Herinos held Ji Ning’s hand, his dark red eyes showed a gentle smile, and he placed a light kiss on his fingertips.
“It doesn’t matter if you don’t like me, I just want a chance to pursue you. Ji Ning, do you agree to allow me to pursue you?”
Being holding his hand and looking at him with such eyes, Ji Ning’s heart skipped a beat, and she was a little overwhelmed, before she responded, “I didn’t seem to say that you can’t… “
“Thank you.”
Jining rarely gets confused, this look is so cute to Herinos, and it makes him involuntarily want to kiss Ji Ning, but now he is just a suitor I have no such rights, so I restrained my inner desire and said to Ji Ning, “Good night. I wish you a good dream.”
Because the injury has not healed yet, Herinos reincarnated into a little bat, flapped his wings and left Ji Ning’s room.
Jining lay back on the bed, thinking about the past and how Herinos treated him just now, suddenly sighed and whispered to himself.
“Am I doing something wrong…”
…
In the adjoining room, the white-haired angel curled up on the soft bed, with his wings tucked together to wrap his body, revealing his quiet sleeping face.
In a completely unfamiliar environment, he should be full of vigilance, but this is Ji Ning’s home, full of the faint fragrance of Ji Ning’s body, although it is very light, ordinary people can’t even Distinguished, but enough to allow Alke to sink into a peaceful sleep.
He even had a dream about Ji Ning.
In the dream, he has a very high status and is the core figure in the war, appearing on the battlefield for many years.
built of skeletons.
Alke in the dream is indifferent to death, he believes that he is just to complete the task and abide by his duty, as for the life and death of others, it has nothing to do with him, he will not let go on the heart.
But suddenly one day, his world changed. He got a precious mermaid, he was fragile and gentle, beautiful and seductive, the moment he saw him, Arke’s heart was deeply attracted.
Faced with the mermaid, he looks young and at a loss, although he likes mermaids very much, as long as he has time, he will stay with mermaids, but he is afraid that he will ruin the weak mermaid , carefully keeping a distance from the mermaid every time.
The mermaid would take the initiative to break the distance between them. He said that he liked the breath and temperature of Ark. He liked Ark to hold him and stroke his fish tail, and he was very willing to touch Aerke’s wings and hair.
Alke does not reject the mermaid’s closeness to him, it is better to say that he is infatuated with this feeling, whether it is hug or touch, as long as it is given to him by the mermaid, he is very happy to accept it, even Still thirsting for more.
He doesn’t know anything about love, but instinctively wants to possess everything about the mermaid.
This kind of mood accumulated day after day and became stronger and stronger, and finally one day, he hugged the mermaid in the pool and couldn’t help kissing the lips of the mermaid.
“Are you…?”
The mermaid opened her eyes slightly, showing a hint of surprise. Alke himself was also at a loss, not knowing why he did such a move, and said subconsciously: “I’m sorry…”
“No, you don’t need to apologize to me for your actions.”
The beautiful mermaid laughed, raised her snow-white hand, brushed her luscious lips, swayed her fish tail, and came to Alke again, wrapping her arms around his back neck, raised his face slightly.
“I said, I am yours, and you can do anything to me if you like.”
Alke pursed his lips: “I don’t want to hurt you.”
“It’s not hurt.” The mermaid smiled and approached him, “It’s a ‘kiss.’ It’s because you like me that you want to kiss me, like this…”
He suddenly pressed against Ark’s lips and kissed him lingeringly, Ark’s heart beat fast, and the hands on the mermaid’s waist couldn’t help but tighten, and began to feel green Learned the way the merman kissed him and quickly became proficient.
He likes kisses from mermaids.
Because it brings them closer.
The joy and love in his heart made Alke want to ask for more, he kissed the merman more deeply, until the merman turned crimson and began to push him gently, let He woke up from this intoxicated feeling and let go of the mermaid.
The mermaid completely immersed its body in the water, absorbed the oxygen in the water, and after a while, resurfaced, stroking her red and swollen lips, and said with a smile: “You really… “
“I’m sorry.” A faint blush appeared on Alke’s face, he lowered his eyelashes, and said softly, “If you don’t like it, I won’t do it again in the future.”
“I don’t hate you doing this to me.” The merman stroked his cheek and comforted him gently, “Your possessiveness reassures me, this is proof that you like me. “
“Hmm.”
Alke put his hand on the back of the mermaid’s hand, looked at him seriously, and admitted frankly: “I like you very much.”
“I’m very happy.”
The mermaid looked at him, her light-colored pupils were full of light, and her voice seemed to have a strange magic, whispering in Ark’s ear charmingly.
“Mermaids are creatures that need love to survive.”
“I want to have all your love. Please love me more, so that I can never leave you again, and you can’t leave me, noble ‘Ark’—”
The white-haired angel suddenly woke up from the dream.
“…”
He sat up and stretched out his hand to cover the position of the heart in front of his chest. It was beating very fast, and he still retained the throbbing and infatuation of his dream, the seductive voice of the mermaid It seemed that it was still echoing in his ears, making him completely drowsy.
Is this…his and Ji Ning’s past?
Alke couldn’t help walking out of the bedroom, wanting to enter Ji Ning’s room to see him, but when he walked to the door, he didn’t want to disturb Ji Ning’s sleep, he was silent for a moment, he still Turning around and turning back, he suddenly saw a little light in the red-haired man’s bedroom, and there was also the sound of typing on the keyboard.
Finding that his companion was not sleeping, Alke knocked on the door lightly and walked in after getting permission. Seeing the red-haired man was still busy in front of the computer, he asked softly: ” What are you doing?”
“I’m contacting my friends and asking them who can help us with that mission in the Republic of Ammeria.”
The red-haired man turned half a circle on the swivel chair, sitting in a relaxed posture, shrugged and said.
My sign.”
He looked at Alke strangely: “What about you, you didn’t sleep in the middle of the night, what did you want to do when you ran out?”
“I had a dream just now and I couldn’t fall asleep.” Alke explained honestly.
“Oh, dreaming…” The red-haired man stroked his jaw, observed the expression on Alke’s face, suddenly pulled the corners of his lips, and gave a wicked smile, “Don’t you dream? Little Mermaid, right? Yes-“
He stopped abruptly and swallowed the word “Spring Dream” in time, otherwise he would probably be wiped out on the spot.
“…”
Alke did not answer, but the wings behind him trembled suddenly, revealing his mind inadvertently.
Seeing his reaction, the red-haired man laughed “hehe” again, and then he restrained his mocking attitude and seriously asked his companion: “Alke, you are true You really like the little mermaid, don’t you?”
“…Yes.” Alke nodded lightly and responded.
The red-haired man said: “Then you also know that it is not easy to pursue him.”
“You can also see that his suitors are more terrifying than each other, that ghost and that vampire are not easy characters to deal with, and that crazy emperor of the empire, I just received information, Mo The Spirit Empire has dispatched more spies and secret police to move around in the interstellar space, definitely all to find the little mermaid.”
“Once you are with the little mermaid, you are fighting against the entire Moring Empire. Think about what you will face…”
Just imagine a scene like that, the red-haired man felt cold all over, touched his arm, and couldn’t help saying: “Otherwise, you will wait for the little mermaid and others first. Stay together, wait until that guy is wanted by the empire, and you wait for the opportunity to **** the little mermaid – okay, okay, I’m not kidding, don’t look at me like that.”
Alke then restrained his cold eyes and whispered: “I don’t want him to be possessed by others.”
“I understand, who told you to like him…”
The red-haired man scratched his hair and deeply felt that the old saying was right, people in love are unreasonable, Alke knew what he would face in the future, but he still desperate I want to get the favor of my sweetheart.
“Well, don’t care about the future, in short, you still have to find a way to catch him first.” The red-haired man spread his hands and said, “There are only two rivals in love, you Kill them first.”
“…Mr. Herinos will be killed too?”
Kill him without pressure.
“It’s not ‘kill’ to kill, I mean you want them to have no chance of pursuing the little mermaid!”
Cold sweat broke out on the red-haired man’s head, and he quickly waved his hand to stop Alke: “You have to work hard to make the little mermaid like you, not someone else.”
“…what should I do?”
Alke extinguished the light on his fingertips, pursed his lips, and looked a little uneasy. He always seemed very young and had no confidence in himself for this aspect.
“I have an idea for you.”
The red-haired man turned the computer screen’s angle of view, facing Ark, so that he could see the content on it.
“The little mermaid said that she wanted to go to other countries to avoid the limelight. I think this newly opened interstellar paradise is very good.” He explained, “This paradise is outside the Federation and occupies a very large area. It is big and contains more than a dozen planets. You can play as much as you like in the paradise, and I will give you an idea to make him feel good about you as soon as possible.”
…
After Hirinos left, Ji Ning fell into a drowsy sleep again, but he felt as if he didn’t sleep for a long time before being nudged slightly.
“Teacher, teacher…”
…is it Lay?
After a brief hesitation, he sat up from the bed and found that the surrounding space had become the tower of the necromancer. He sat on his own bed, wearing a black robe, And I don’t know when I put the terminal on my wrist.
[Long time no see, welcome to continue the game. 】
A string of words flashed in front of Ji Ning’s eyes.
[During the last game progress, you accepted Lessengus as your disciple and taught him the knowledge of black magic. 】
[Lai’s progress is amazing, you are very satisfied with his talent, and it didn’t take long for Lai to master the basic black magic, and he is about to enter the next stage of learning. 】
[But before that, there is another very important thing, which is to make his own dark staff for Rai. 】
More powerful magic. 】