"That's a damn answer!" said Ivan buried in the ground, fussed.

"The truth is never pretty. Thor replied casually, the brush in his hand still going back and forth on Ivan's face, the movements were meticulous, as if he were smearing a work of art.

After a brief silence, Ivan suddenly spoke in a solemn tone.

"If it hadn't happened to Presia, but another girl who had nothing to do with you, I mean, you were just an insider or an eyewitness, would you still kill so many people to avenge her like you do now?"

"I won't. I'm not a savior, I only care about what I reach out to. As for whether to stretch out my hand or not, it will eventually divide people, and it depends on whether she passes by my life. Thor gave the answer without thinking.

Hearing Thor's answer, Ivan sighed.

"That's good, at least you're not one of those fools who are full of righteousness and morality, so I can be relieved to die at your hands. ”

Seeing Evan's relieved look, Thor spoke flatly.

"I'm definitely inferior to you in terms of layout and experience, but you're making the same mistakes that smart people do, and you shouldn't give your opponent too much time to take a detour. ”

"And most smart people like to use a lot of nonsense to explain to their opponents what kind of clever means they have used when they have the odds of winning, so that the opponent seizes the last opportunity to turn the tables. ”

But it makes sense from a human point of view, after all, no one wants to win in solitude, and when you do something that you think is wonderful, you always want to find some agreeers or listeners. ”

Ivan buried in the earth shook his head.

"No, no, you're not right, it's the same. ”

"The minutiae don't matter at all, and my problem is really only two. One is that you should not be allowed to enter the secret realm, so that you break through the dead end in the end. The second is that when you ask the mayor for help, I should resolutely retreat and then look for a chance. ”

"As long as these two points remain the same, the other lengthening or shortening of the process will not actually have any effect, if you think about it, is it so? Even if I do it to you on the day I arrive in Graycurtain Town, I will still return to this ending because of these two points. ”

"And I'm not without a chance, in fact, I can divide my troops at any time, let people find and control your woman, then you still have to play, but I personally don't like that kind of means. ”

Listening to Ivan's defense, Thor nodded, Ivan was not wrong, as long as these two points remain the same, there is actually no difference in other processes.

No, it's not nothing.

The difference is that in the other ending, maybe Covier is not dead, and Shogoth is still the cynical Shogoth, not the walking dead who is desperate as he is now.

Observing Thor's expression, Evan smiled strangely at the success of his conspiracy.

"You're feeling sorry for your brother, aren't you? You're angry, aren't you? You're an avenger! You're so bland that I don't get used to it, so I'm angry...... Phew, phew. ”

"What the hell are you swiping shit on my face, damn it, stop it, you're putting your brush in my mouth. I'm going to die soon, can't I have a good conversation?"

"It's a special sweet liquid that attracts saber-toothed ants, and it's the ending I've prepared for you, and you and your brother will have to be a little different after all. Saul explained.

"My ...... Brother!?"

Ivan muttered, subconsciously rolling his gaze along Thor's line of sight, and then he suddenly noticed that not far from him, there was a clay pot that was upside down on the ground.

"Yes, your brother Barton, I don't doubt he's a tough guy, but it's useless, there are many things in this world that can't be carried out with a single bravery. ”

Thor said as he walked over and lifted the clay pot on the ground, revealing a hideous head that had rotted down beneath the pot.

"Some special maggots gnawed away at his body, and in the end only a intact head was left, but unfortunately, I didn't have any special means of embalming, so it rotted. ”

"Brother!" Looking at this shocking scene, Ivan's face was shocked, frightened, disgusted, and many emotions were fleeting, and finally frozen in sadness, but his call was destined to go unanswered.

Ivan, with red eyes, turned his head and glared at Thor.

"So you're talking about the saber-toothed ants that you want them to take my head?"

"As I said, you are different from your brother, and maggots have hollowed out his body. And you, in turn, will hollow out your skull and build a nest in your head. ”

"You have a devil in your heart! You're definitely not a normal person!" Ivan was on the verge of losing control of his emotions, and his exposed head twitched inexplicably.

"I never said I was a normal person. Thor nodded.

Looking at Thor's calm appearance, Ivan's eyes lit up with deep resentment.

"Do you know how we toyed with Presia? and then how we cut her into pieces and stuffed her into the pot, and put her fine skin and tender flesh in our mouths and chewed it carefully. I have a good memory and I can tell you every detail in detail. ”

"To be honest, I personally felt very uncomfortable at the time, and even felt compassion for a while, but now that I have learned your methods, I think we did the right thing at that time, and I ......"

"It's a pity that I didn't see it with my own eyes and didn't have enough imagination, so I couldn't imagine it. Thor shrugged.

Looking at Thor's calm appearance, Ivan finally burst out laughing.

"Very well, you thought you were in good spirits, so now let's change the subject. ”

"I know you too well, because we are the same kind of people, in fact, the name of 'martial arts' was put on my head before, and then it came to my brother. ”

"Do you know what is the most terrible thing in life? You see your loved one die in your arms, you see your brother cut off your head and splatter blood, these are terrible? ”

"What's really scary is that you see too much despair, too much grief, too much irreparability, and you look and look, but when you look back, you realize that you're still alive. ”

"You know! The most terrible thing about life is not what you have seen, but after you have seen it, you ~still~alive~ah!!" At the end, Evan was already roaring.

Thor didn't have any expression on his face, but he was hit hard in his heart.

Yes, I'm still alive.

Ivan was completely out of control, his face flushed, and the bruises on his forehead erupted.

"Don't hold on, the woman you care about is long gone, and your brother's love is dead because of you, so why shouldn't you be angry while you're still alive? ”

Thor stood up, walked over to Evan and crouched down, then stared at each other.

After a brief moment of silence, Thor sighed slightly, then spread his hand and moved around.

"Well, look around here, this wilderness, and this endless darkness, doesn't it look like a nightmare that you can't wake up from? Suppose it's a nightmare, and you and I are in this nightmare. ”

"You want to get out of here, you are afraid, you wander, you struggle, only to find that this nightmare is finally out of it, you know that you are going to die, to dust, and to end up as worthless as dust in a chimney. ”

"And your humble deeds, no one will pass them on to you, and when those scattered stories are completely gone, how can you prove that you have ever lived?"

"I, too, walked in this nightmare, experienced what you experienced, wandered in the same fear, but when I woke up sweating profusely, I found myself sleeping in the warm arms of my beloved. ”

"Even so, do you think I should be angry?" asked Thor at the end.

Ivan opened his mouth slightly, as if his consciousness had suddenly been pierced, and fell into a freeze.

"Woo~woo......" After a while, Evan's howling voice sounded in the darkness, tragic and tortuous.

Thor smiled, dipped his brush in the liquid from the clay pot, and stretched all the way from the ground to the door of the ant's nest before turning back to Evan.

"Take your iniquity, be it unwilling, be it redeemed, rest in peace. With that, Thor turned the clay pot upside down and put it on Ivan's head.

Then Thor stood up and walked to the side into the darkness.

After a long silence, voices rang out in the darkness.

"From now on, I don't owe you anything. ”

"You never owe me anything, my brother. ”

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I thought it would be a night of tossing and turning and couldn't sleep, but strangely, not long after he collapsed, Thor fell into a deep sleep.

In the dream, Saul meets Presya again.

Eventually, you will lose something in life that you think you will never forget.

Thor knew that as time passed, when forgetting flared on, when memories turned pale, he would not be able to remember what Precia looked like.

In fact, since that rainy night at the convent, Presya had appeared in Saul's dreams many times, but most of the time she appeared in her back, or she hurried by sideways.

Thor in the dream always subconsciously stretched out his hand, as if trying to stop her, but never succeeded.

Tonight's dreams have finally changed a little.

Thor felt like he was standing in some kind of hall, and Precia stood in front of him, smiling at him.

She raised her hand and stroked Thor's face, patted Thor's head again, and then smiled happily and walked into the light.

In the dream, someone seemed to be singing a hymn all the time, and the voice was mournful and ethereal.

Thor suddenly remembered what Precia had said.

"Sometimes, people who can't understand a song or a piece of music are happy. ”

It's just that Thor hadn't experienced it deeply enough before, and it wasn't until this moment that he suddenly woke up, because he understood the mournful and ethereal chant.

Wake up peacefully.

Thor wiped his eyes, pillowed his arm, and stretched out his other hand, shaking it in the air.

Nothing was caught.

Feeling the warmth of his palm, Thor finally said the words that he had wanted to tell Precia, but had never had time to say.

"I want to fall into darkness for you, even if I don't see the light for the rest of my life. ”

He knew that Precia might never appear in his dreams again.

That once rainy night finally passed in my heart

This...... It's my real rite of passage.

Volume 1 - End