"Squeak-" The old wooden door made a screeching grinding sound.

Zero pushed open the door of the Shrine Hall and watched as only a few candles burned quietly inside the gloomy hall. He turned back to his senses, closed the door, and walked slowly towards the hall.

His slow steps made a "creaking, creaking" sound on the wooden floor, the surroundings were quiet with the sound of falling pins, and there was a strong smell of burning in the hall, he walked step by step to the many tablets in the hall and stood still, scanning the many rows in the gloom, he picked up an ash lamp, and looked at the words on the tablets one by one by the candlelight.

After a while, he finally found the tablet engraved with the inscription "Jeno Crete" in the upper right corner, where some of the main members of the family who had passed away in recent years, and "Jeno" was the youngest.

Zero squatted and looked at the small tablet at his feet, feeling infinitely lonely. After a long time, he let out a long breath, and just as he was about to jump off the tablet table, there was a sudden sound of footsteps at the door.

"What?!" Zero was shocked.

He quickly jumped down from the stage and put the ash lamp back in its place, and just as he was about to find a place to hide, the figure had already walked to the door and was about to push the door open.

Scattered and confused, his heart was uncertain. His mind field has been kept open, and in the case of his mind scattering around, he can immediately detect any wind and grass within 500 meters of the surroundings, but this person outside the door, he walked to the door silently, and Zero did not notice it at all, this problem did not appear in his own body, even if he was just looking for a tablet and his energy was distracted, he could not not notice that someone outside the door was approaching.

The door was pushed open, the old wooden door made a "creaking" sound, and someone stepped on the wooden floor.

Quinn looked at the figure in the hall who was wiping the candlestick with a rag, and he asked suspiciously, "Why are you here?"

Zero, who was dressed as a servant of the Cretan family, bowed his head and bowed to Quinn and said, "The master of the house has instructed that the Sacrifice Hall must be cleaned before nightfall. ”

Quinn stood still, looking at Zero as he bent down in front of the candlestick. Zero's heart was beating wildly, he was afraid that Quinn would find out his true identity, but fortunately he went to the servant's house before coming here and stole a servant's suit to wear on his body, and he could tell a decent lie if he was discovered, otherwise he would have been dismantled immediately.

Zero stretched his telekinesis towards Quinn, his head down, his eyebrows furrowed, and he immediately retracted his telekinesis when he almost touched Quinn.

"Exposed ......" Zero was half cold in his heart.

He now realized how foolish it was for him to stretch his mind to detect Quinn. Just now, when he saw that his telekinesis had touched Quinn's body, he didn't detect anything, his telekinesis seemed to pass through a piece of air, and Quinn stood there, but he couldn't perceive anything, he could only see his figure with the naked eye. Zero should have thought that this 300-year-old crane-haired old man was by no means just an old man who had lived for a long time, and his longevity must be matched by a strength beyond the reach of ordinary people.

He has not practiced magic for five years, and his cultivation of telekinesis has not been interrupted for a day, and he has sufficient confidence in his telekinesis, as far as the room he is in now, how many tables and chairs there are, how many tablets there are, how many candlesticks there are, which candlesticks are lit and which ones are not lit, and even the grass and trees around this room, the number of patrols passing by, and how many insects and birds fly by one after another...... He could sense it all clearly, but in the face of Quinn standing at the door, the other party was like air to him, and he couldn't detect his breath at all, or even the heartbeat of a normal person. It's not because the other party is a ghost, it's better to say that he's like a piece of air, it's better to say that he's become one with nature.

Zero's palms were sweaty, he really didn't expect that there would be such a peerless powerhouse in the world, this ancestor of the Cretan family can survive to this day, there must be a reason for him. Zero originally thought that the Sword Master was already the pinnacle of the powerhouse in this world, but Zero could still feel Wayne's breath when he squatted on the tree at dusk, but this old man Quinn, Zero couldn't detect it, maybe because he had the heart to guard himself. Zero had just used his telekinesis to probe him, and he must have discovered it.

What Zero is most worried about now is that Quinn will arrest him, so that his identity that he has managed to hide will be revealed. He stood in place with his head bowed motionless, frowning, his back to the candlelight, and there was darkness in front of him.

Quinn stepped forward step by step to the many tablets and stood still, he raised his face and glanced at the tablets in front of him, his eyes were unwavering, he looked at one of the tablets and asked Zero, "Are you a magician?"

"Yes......" Zero didn't dare to lie and replied directly.

"It seems that he has a good talent, how did he come here to be a domestic servant?" asked Quinn continued.

"This ...... People always have to live ......," Zero replied in a low voice.

He still kept his head down, not daring to come out, and his whole face was hidden in the darkness.

"Life...... Life ......" Quinn muttered twice after listening to Zero's words, "Life, a mirror that reflects reality......"

Zero didn't speak, his head was lowered and he didn't move in place, Quinn then looked at the upper right corner and asked Zero, "Have you wiped the tablet seriously?"

Zero nodded silently, in fact, the place had been cleaned, and it was spotless when he came in.

"Is the tablet in the upper right corner properly polished? That's one of the earliest members of my Cretan family in recent years, and it's also my favorite descendant......" Quinn stared at the tablet in the upper right corner hidden in the darkness, and there was a hint of loneliness in his eyes.

"It's all carefully wiped. Zero replied in a modest manner.

Quinn fell silent, Zero didn't say a word, and the two of them stood motionless in the dimly lit room with their heads raised and the other down, as the minutes ticked by.

After a while, Quinn finally spoke: "You stand down, let me stay here alone for a while." ”

Zero breathed a sigh of relief, and after leaning over to salute, he turned and walked outside the house.

"Wait......" Quinn suddenly called out to him, "since you have some talent, don't nest in this little Cretan house." Young people should not use life as an excuse to blindly covet stability, go out and explore more, and do not always use the experience of others to limit their own worldview. Break free from the shackles in front of you, and you will find that the world is far smaller than you think. ”

Zero stood there in silence for a few moments, then he turned around, looked at Quinn's old but tall back, and bowed deeply.

"Follow the teachings. ”

At night, the Cretan family cemetery. There was no one around, except for a not-so-bright lamp flickering not far away.

The wind is a little strong tonight, the dead leaves are blown by the wind and roll on the roadside, the dense grass and trees make a "rustling" sound with the wind, and the lights in the capital city are bright in the distance, but there are few people here, and the surroundings are quiet.

Standing expressionlessly in front of the tombstone of "Jeno Crete", he had been standing here for nearly half an hour, staring blankly at the words on the tablet without moving.

On the tombstone is a line of epitaph - "He went out, was free from then on, and never returned." ”

Never came back...... Yes, it never came back, and five years ago, when Zero knelt in front of Josevi and begged her not to send him back to Crete's house, Josevi said to him: "From now on, there will be no such person as Jeno Crete, you are Zero." ”

Jeno Crete is indeed dead, dead in the hearts of all who knew him, died five years ago, he was only found with a severed hand, and now he is buried in this tomb. Even if Zero knew it, it wasn't Jeno's hand buried in this tomb, but the hand of Prince Vitok, who had been kidnapped with him five years earlier.

Five years ago, Zero was thinking about running away from Crete's house, and he was still trying his best to run away from Crete's house when he was still so young. If it hadn't been for the kidnapping, he might have just disappeared. He wanted to learn magic, and his idea was to go back to Crete after learning it, and of course, he might never go back. In fact, he had no other plans at that time except for the idea of running out of Crete's house to learn magic, anyway, there are so many magicians in this world, as long as they can learn magic, he has no plans for the future.

Who knew that he was kidnapped as soon as he went out, and he was attacked by a monster in the forest, and then Jeno Crete died. He put his storage ring on the other party's hand in order to comfort the crying Prince Vitok, but who knew that this unintentional act became the most powerful proof of the death of "Jeno Crete". Vitok, who was kidnapped with him, became a substitute for "Jeno", and someone else took his arm and buried it here instead of "Jeno's" death, all of which is like a perfect coincidence.

Zero is not a person from this world, and he has not yet figured out how he inexplicably died in the original world, and then inexplicably resurrected in the current world. Now it is not clear whether this body belongs to him or not, so he has always been a little repulsed by the Cretan family in his heart, because he feels that he does not belong to this world, let alone the Cretan family, so his desire to leave there is so direct. Since there was a gap in my heart, and I couldn't pursue the life I wanted, I simply left. Just when he was worried about his identity, someone died in place of "Jeno".

When Jeno died, he was free. He was originally an orphan, but now he has just become an orphan again, this body is now completely his own, he is zero, no longer "Jeno Crete", from now on, he can do whatever he wants, no one is responsible, and he doesn't have to worry about implicating others.

But is his goal still meaningful? All he's been thinking about for the past five years is to learn magic with all his might, until he learns that he is strong enough to challenge the Juggernaut. But now, even if he learns magic well, even if he can compete with Juggernaut, what's the point? his former position has been replaced by Wayne and Nasha's new child, and he has nothing to do with the Cretan family......

Zero's heart gave birth to a sense of loneliness, complex emotions like a fish in the throat, wanting to say but unable to speak.

He suddenly felt that this was also good, and he had been an "outsider" all along. He doesn't belong to this world, and this world will still run as it always has with or without it, and the Cretan family's life is still all right. Time will eventually heal the wounds in people's hearts, and people will only have some memories of "Jeno Crete" now, and perhaps after a while, he will gradually disappear from people's memories, and everyone will no longer have any sadness, and still live a peaceful life, happy and healthy. Thinking of this, a sense of relief arose in his heart.

"It's better to be dead...... Zero said softly with a dry smile.

After he finished speaking, he put his hand on the tombstone and patted it lightly twice, as if patting an old friend on the shoulder, and then he looked up at the cold full moon in the night sky, and let out a long sigh.

Zero took the pies and the HOS herbal tea out of the storage ring and placed them in front of the tombstone, and then bowed deeply to the tombstone.

When he had done that, he turned and left.