From time to time, the quiet cell resounded with the subtle sound of metal shackles and the grinding of masonry walls.

The emerald green vertical pupils flickered like two deep ghostly fires in the darkness, flickering with the blink of Peloris's eyes.

Boom!

Scales struck the shackles again and again, constantly fraying the magical runes on them.

However, for the powerful restraint of the shackles, the young dragon's resistance to it is inevitably a little too weak, as if it is a child who is fighting against his parents in adolescence, and the seemingly powerful attack cannot actually achieve any substantive effect.

"What you're doing is meaningless. A crisp male voice sounded.

A black clown in a dark robe walks into the prison and casually places a human skull on the table.

Suffocate.

The black clown brings Peloris a sense of oppression far more than the previous "jailer" Duke of Spades.

Peloris said in a hoarse voice:

"No matter what you plan to do with me, you won't succeed, let me go quickly......"

The Black Clown leaned his face to the railing and smiled in satisfaction:

"No, no, no, we've 'got it'. ”

A bad premonition welled up in Peloris's heart:

"What do you mean?"

The black clown picked up the skull on the table:

"I disguised yourself as you and hanged in public, and you did come with two friends to save you, one of whom is holding the Nine of Spades in my hand at the moment. ”

He raised his skull in Pelores' direction.

The girl's face turned pale for a moment, she took two steps back, and muttered in a low voice:

"How can this be ......"

The black clown smiled and comforted:

"Don't be so sad, on the bright side, at least there is one person alive, it seems that what is the name of Hara? Her origin is not small, oh, there are a lot of miscellaneous things in the soul of the Nine of Spades......"

Peloris shouted as if she had caught a glimmer of hope:

"Haura, did she run away?"

The Black Clown shrugged:

"Of course, I didn't chase her. ”

Peloris breathed a sigh of relief when she heard this, but then lowered her head again, letting the loss and sadness engulf her.

The black clown waved his hand very kindly:

"It's not your fault, it's me who wants to kill him, I just used you a little in the process, is it possible that after the murder, the judge will put the knife he used in prison?"

Peloris looked up in surprise.

Why is this person comforting himself, and it doesn't sound like sarcasm either.

Apparently he had just killed the Boss of Spades.

The Black Clown showed a warm smile:

"You may have a little misunderstanding about me, I'm not a bad person, in fact, I am saddened by the death of the Nine of Spades, and the King of Hearts is the same, when my sister and I came here, he really welcomed us warmly, and protected us who were only mortals at the time in this dangerous world.

"It's just that sometimes, people are like that, and they always have to do things they don't like. ”

Peloris showed a disdainful expression:

"To do evil is to do evil, and no matter what reason you have, evil will not change. ”

The black clown smiled and nodded:

"You're right.

"We've done some very bad things, very bad things, and that's not going to change.

"Just because I've done something bad doesn't mean I'm a bad person, I'm just a good person who has gone down a different path from them.

Peloris sarcastically said:

"Do you mean to judge whether a person is a good person or not, not by whether he has done good deeds, but by whether he has a 'kind' heart?"

The Black Clown shook his head again:

"No, no, no, evil is evil, but if I sacrifice a hair of someone else to save someone's life, can it be considered evil? In the same way, if I accidentally break someone's hand in order to save the lives of the whole city, will I be put in a cell for it?

"How many did those wise kings challenge tyrants and start just wars, do they still want to atone for the countless innocent soldiers who died in the war, and commit suicide after the war is over?

"The path of pursuing justice and truth is by no means without a price, and the Nine of Spades, the King of Hearts, the Queen of Hearts, they are the price that must be paid in the process. ”

Peloris could clearly sense that there was something wrong with the other party's words, but she didn't know how to refute it.

Seeing the girl's tangled expression, the black clown said again:

"Actually, I don't really understand what that paragraph just meant, it's all my sister told me, she always tells me what lofty goals, but I don't really understand it, anyway, I just need to know one thing.

"That's to protect my sister, that's all. ”

Peloris looked into the eyes of the black clown, and there was always a strange sense of disobedience, as if there was an obvious problem, but she couldn't find the cause of the abnormality at all.

The Black Clown smiled kindly:

"My sister and I have always had a good relationship, we were born almost at the same time, we have been together since we were children, and I will protect anyone who bullies her. ”

Peloris couldn't understand why the other party suddenly fell into a memory.

But the black clown is getting more and more excited:

"By the way, you heard about the assassination of the new king by the old king of hearts, I am the assassinated king of the clown, and my sister is the queen of the clown, don't you think it's strange?"

That's right! Peloris felt the discord, although the other party looked like an adult male, but the tone and demeanor of his voice were like a boy.

The boy continued:

"When I was a child, I used to find fairy tales to read on my own, did your parents ever tell you fairy tales? Anyway, my parents didn't like to tell me fairy tales, and every time I gave them fairy tale books, I would be scolded and said that I was a boy and didn't always read these things. ”

It's too verbose, Peloris thought.

"Anyway, I often look for fairy tale books to read by myself, and then I suddenly found out that the king is a man, and the queen is a woman, in fact, I am very strange at this time, why the queen must be a woman, but the stranger is still to come.

"They turned out to be husband and wife, husband and wife!"

Was there anything strange about that? Why did he say it with such a horrified gaze and tone?

Peloris was starting to feel weird.

"I wondered why the king and queen couldn't be brothers?

"So, when we came here and found a pair of chairs, the Queen of Hearts and the King of Hearts, I was thinking......"

The black clown turned his head and looked directly at Peloris with a pair of clear big eyes:

"I was thinking, why can't the king and queen be me and my sister?"