After arranging the children's bodies one by one, Charlotte stood silent.

The air was as sluggish as if it had been solidified by superglue, and Vivien and Lolita stood aside holding each other's hands, bowing their heads in silence for the children.

Green goes to Will's side, and El, who hates the heavy atmosphere, turns into a book prototype. Charlotte was thinking about her mind alone, and she wanted to light a cigarette.

There are crops like tobacco in the world of Steeu, and there are them in Charlotte's other dimension. However, the nicotine of cigarettes can damage the mechanism of the brain, considering that she is a mage who eats by her head after all, Charlotte, who was a smoker in her previous life, has never been exposed to this slow-moving drug in this life.

By the time he was strong enough to withstand the dangers of nicotine, he didn't want to smoke that kind of thing at all.

But now he couldn't help it. He pulled out a box of exquisitely packaged cigarettes from the other dimension, which was supposed to be a tribute from the maritime merchants of Icewind Castle several years ago. He tore open the delicate package, took one in his mouth, snapped his fingers with his right hand, and expertly lit the cigarette.

Take a deep breath and choke on tears.

The first puff of the cigarette didn't taste good, but Charlotte gulped it as if she wanted to punish herself in this way. He flipped the Destiny Coin in his left hand, pinched his cigarette and frowned, looking through the cyan smoke at Will.

There seems to be some argument over there.

No, that's not a good thing to say. The so-called dispute should be a term that must be used by both parties to be effective. But through the faint cyan smoke, all Green could see was yelling at Will's shoulder.

Charlotte had a hunch that something was wrong, so he threw the cigarette away and walked over quickly.

He arrived just in time, and almost as soon as he reached the two of them, he saw Will jerk the unsuspecting Green, then pulled out the dagger he was carrying from his waist and prepared to plunge his backhand into his neck.

Charlotte was startled, and subconsciously shouted, drawing her sword and slapping Will's wrist. There was a crack, Will clutched his wrist, and the dagger fell to the rocks of the cavern with a crisp clanging sound.

"Are you crazy?!" Green, who had been pushed away, rushed up again, pushing Will to the ground.

Vivien and Lolita rushed after her, the former covering her mouth and the latter stunned. Charlotte had just subconsciously come to the rescue, but at the moment she could only stand in place, just watching Green push Will to the ground.

He found that he had no position of persuasion, and perhaps he could say at length some chicken soup for the soul that seemed to make sense, but would that really work for the person concerned?

When you do good, you have to be apologic. Because there is no more hurtful act in the world than to do good to others.

Charlotte now understands the meaning of this sentence. Will cried like a remorseful child before his eyes, and the unsuccessful suicide seemed to make him even more painful, clutching his hair and just keeping yelling at Grimm.

"I promised Lena to be with her forever, I can't lie......"

Green was annoyed by his words and punched him in the face in anger.

"You coward!" he roared, "don't forget why I went to the lighthouse! Is it only your children who died young? Don't forget, I used to have a wife and children!"

This was the first time Charlotte and the others had heard of it, and once upon a time, they thought Green was a bachelor.

"You're at least better than me, you at least have a mother at home, and I'm nothing!" Green pulled Will's leather armor and roared, "Are you going to run away? Are you going to let your mother die alone in hunger and loneliness? You coward! You're not the only one in the village who has lost their children, counting Lena, there are forty-nine children here who have lost their lives forever! Think about it, think about what we should do! Escape is a coward's behavior, and we must find a way to change all this!"

That punch, or the crazy old mother, or Green's monologue and roar, brought Will to his senses to some extent, and although he was still pessimistic, he no longer seemed to be bent on dying, but thinking about the future according to Green's words.

"But what are we supposed to do?" asked Will pessimistically, his eyes still lacking light and life, "we thought that His Majesty Elbert, or your General Zenas, could change all this, and we chose a different path, but what happened? ”

"You're right!" Green nodded heavily, then he picked up the dagger that had fallen to the ground and cut off the lighthouse symbol from his leather armor, "We have limited power, and we can't change anything about this country that is like a big garbage can." ”

Green held out his hand to Will, "But we can at least change our homes and our mountain villages." I...... It's a shame, but I did get some money, and this time I'll find a way to get it out of the joke of the Valcam Council of Elders. We can use that money to clear the fields, collect orphans, and rebuild our homes. Don't care about the lighthouse, and don't care about the San Lorenzo Empire. How about spending the rest of your life making up for the mistakes we made?"

Will looked at Green's outstretched hand, faltering.

"If you want to collect the orphans of the war, I still have some savings over the years. Vivien suddenly interjected, "I can take some of it out to help you rebuild your home." ”

"Hmm!" Lolita frowned heartbrokenly, "I have some savings ...... too"

"That's a great act of kindness. Charlotte also said, "Even if such an act of kindness may not last forever, it is definitely not mediocre than any previous great achievement." ”

"Do you want to come along?" asked Green again, "Will." ”

Will smiled with a mixed expression that seemed bitter and redeemed, "I want to be a spoopy child." What else can I say? Green. Although I used to think that you guy had been corrupted by the lighthouse, now it looks like you are still the hot-blooded Grimm. ”

"You're still the same Will with a sense of responsibility!"

Together, they decided to build a new, larger home in this remote mountain village.

Charlotte helped them carry the children's bodies back to the village, and this time, instead of ignoring Charlotte's apprentices, the grieving villagers invited them to join them in the children's funeral.

At the funeral, crows in the mountains and forests croaked around the grave. They are like the spirits of the dead who have gathered from far and wide, welcoming new companions to join their ranks.

By noon, the clouds that had covered the day were dispelled by the rare sunny sun, and the warm autumn midday sun sprinkled through the taiga into the cemetery, lighting up tiny dust in the air, but it shone like the phosphorescent light of the sea.

After the funeral, Charlotte decided to say goodbye to the villagers.