Erin left Grey Curtain at the end of the fall, and it is said that she will be married to someone else's bride the following spring.

The night before leaving, she suddenly went to the grave keeper's hut to find Thor.

Thor thought she wanted a formal goodbye, but it wasn't.

Erin pressed Thor to the chair, and then sat down in his arms, pulled Thor by his hands and put his arms around her waist, and she also hugged Thor tightly, her head resting on his shoulder, silent for each other.

She was still wearing the dress that Saul had given her, and every time Saul saw the dress, it was always washed clean and like new.

At this moment, Thor suddenly had an inexplicable sense of overlap in time and space.

It was as if they were back to the day of winter, and he slept peacefully on her lap, and she sat in his arms, clutching the fishing rod in one hand and flipping through the half-read books of Thor in the other, her little legs swaying.

The long quiet passed.

Erin stood up, pinned her hands behind her back in the candlelight, and expertly unbuttoned her skirt. Then the dress slides down the shoulders, revealing a smooth and beautiful carcass.

The vigorous and compact body stretches gracefully, which is something that Thor once knew and deeply cherished.

"This ...... It's not ethical. Heh~!" Thor was stunned for a moment, and then subconsciously said a word, but after saying it, he himself smiled sadly first. Morality? Damn, that's a damn word.

In the candlelight, Erin looked at Thor with a faint gaze and smiled.

"Yes, but morality is, I only care about what I care about. At this moment, there are only two things in my heart, one is that I want to remember you, and the other is that I want a child of yours. ”

"I've counted the time, and today is a good time. If I am lucky enough to conceive, I will take the time to give birth to him and raise him, and it has nothing to do with you. ”

Thor's mouth was slightly open, his mind in a state of confusion, and he couldn't think of a response for a moment.

Erin put her arms around Thor's head, pressed it against her chest, and looked down at him tenderly.

"Come on, you've never been the kind of person to cringe. ”

Eventually, Thor put his arms around her leg and turned around and threw her on the bed.

“...... Deeper...... Let me remember you forever. Whispers of sadness and madness rang out in the darkness.

That night, he fought to the death, fighting until dawn, even if he was as strong as Thor, he finally broke his sword and sank into the sand.

By the time Thor woke up, Erin was gone.

In fact, she didn't leave, she was squatting in front of Covier's grave in the cemetery outside the house, holding the hem of her skirt.

"I'm coming to see you, sister. ”

Originally, only two words were engraved on the tombstone, 'Beloved', but on the day when Erin and her family came to worship, Shogues pulled out the tombstone in a panic and turned it over, which became the current tomb of Covier.

Raising her hand to gently caress the cold stone, Erin sighed slightly.

"I'm leaving, sister, well, going alone. In this world, there are too many people who are separated, too many people who have not found the person who can be together, and too many people who may have found it, but they are not together after all. ”

On the day of the send-off, Saul and Shogues both went, avoiding Erin's parents, and finally found a chance to speak.

Thor and Erin smiled at each other and stood facing each other.

"Thank you for being by my side at the best age. Saul said.

Suddenly, the wind blew and tore the two of them into a mess.

From time to time, the wind of the wilderness would rush into the town, howling and running away.

"Hehe, it looks like I'm about to become an old woman. Erin rubbed her eyes and smiled.

Thor habitually wanted to step forward and blow it for her, but when he reached out, he only scratched his head in the end.

"We're not together, but I think I'll still keep an eye on you, maybe through some passing woodcutter or merchant, maybe through the birds in the sky or the wind coming from nowhere. ”

"If I suddenly hear the news of your death one day, I think I'll still grieve for you, you kind of man...... It's always reassuring. Erin smiled.

Eventually, they agreed to watch over each other.

Maybe Thor won't wait, and Erin won't come back, but so what's the matter. Now that the parting is in sight, let's pretend to believe it, who knows if this time it will be a temporary farewell or never see each other again.

The carriage was finally gone.

"I always think you're right, people like us end up with suffering. Even those who are close to us are doomed. ”

"At the end of the day, the future of orphans isn't really worth speculating, and if there are other possibilities, it probably won't be much. Looking at the departing carriage, Shogues stood next to Thor with his hands folded.

"What the hell are you trying to say?" Thor glanced at him.

"I want to say...... Well, now I'm no longer the only one who lost my love, now we're the same again. With a quick finish, Hughgos pulled his legs and ran wildly.

"Damn it, draw your sword, only one person will live today. Thor chased after him.

In the blink of an eye, there is no one left here, just like this story that has finally ended.

About him, about her, about theirs.

"Your eyes are as bright as the stars, your hair is as soft as the waves, and no matter how hard the day, wherever I go, it is as if you are by your side, and I am fearless. ”

Erin leaned on the side of the carriage window and hummed softly the 'Ode to the Goddess' that Thor had taught her, which was said to have been used to boost morale on the battlefield. Deceived by that hateful guy again, this is obviously a love song.

An arrowtail rat peered through the gaps in the dwarf bushes, silently observing the passing wagons and caravans, but it soon lost interest, for its limited intelligence told it that it was not profitable.

Slightly strangely, it heard some strange sounds, as if someone was singing in the wind.

The song was low and melodious, and it faded away......

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During this time, something happened in the town as well.

The first thing is that a group of self-proclaimed magicians in high-necked robes have come to the town, and it is said that they are from the magic guild branch of Niles' territory, and they have come to screen for people with magical talents.

They set up a table in Green Square with a crystal ball on it, and a silver coin for the test fee, anyone could come forward and take the primary test of the magic trial.

It is said that if someone has a magical talent hidden in their body, they only need to touch the crystal ball, and then the crystal ball will light up, and even the direction of his elemental affinity can be judged by the color of the crystal ball's light.

Thor spent two silver coins trying it twice, pressing his hand on the crystal ball, but the crystal ball didn't respond, and it turned out that talent was a far away thing for him.

It wasn't that he was hungry for magic, Thor was really concerned with universal magic like illumination and basic healing, and he didn't care much about attacking them.

The undying Thor stood in the crowd for a day, but until the group of guys closed the stall at night, Thor never saw anyone light up the crystal ball.

Even after the group of robed fellows left town three days later with a full load of silver coins, he hadn't heard of anyone in Grey Curtain lighting a crystal ball. Eventually, Saul had to wonder if this was a new way of scamming money.

The second thing is that the old magician who was originally retired in New Town came to Gray Curtain Town, and it is said that the old man is old and suffering from amnesia, and he is good and bad. He had left two magic apprentices behind, and he had never come back after going out one time.

Unexpectedly, after a year or two, he is still alive, and it is said that he has a new home deep in the forest, but it seems that he forgot his new home again during the episode of forgetting.

For unknown reasons, he came to Grey Curtain and settled down.

Thor had bumped into him on the main street twice, and he looked like a wrinkled old man in addition to being flamboyantly dressed.

Most of the people around him looked at him with respect and distantness, but judging from his wooden expression, Thor couldn't tell whether he was awake or wandering in oblivion.

The third thing has a bit of a big impact.

It is said that on the side of the Yar pit in the west of the town, the miners and the two mercenary groups stationed there all died overnight. Later, the town sent people to investigate the field, but they did not find the cause of death, nor did they find any traces of the enemy or the traces of the fight.

Gradually, some bad rumors are circulating in the town, and it is inevitable that some people will bring up the old things again.

The root of the matter may have been many years ago, and the resurgence of bones is not an isolated phenomenon unique to Grey Curtain Town, in fact, it has existed throughout the continent since it entered the Dark Calendar.

In all places where graves are densely populated, skeletons crawl out of the dirt at dawn and wander around their tombs.

The first to study this phenomenon were some folk self-proclaimed scholars, but the main focus of the real research was within the Magic Guild, because those sleepless bones still had to rely on magic to purify and destroy them.

However, the Magic Guild itself did not have enough manpower to send it to various places at any time to solve the problem of bones, so the research on bones gradually shifted to the aspect of potions.

The magicians hope to develop a special potion that can be used to purify the bones instead of human hands.

Later, little progress was made in the potion to purify the bones, but there was a breakthrough in other areas, and a spell that was said to control the corpse's repetitive work was suddenly revealed.

As a result, in villages and towns like Grey Curtain Town, which require a lot of labor to build on the mines, this spell has become very popular.

Dead corpses coated with magical potions that prevent decay and odor can still be driven by spells to continue their long years of labor, becoming free labor.

The initial appearance of this spell caused some turmoil, as the retrieval of corpses began to appear on the lists of speculative traders.

This means that other people around you are starting to become hidden dangers, and anyone can stab you in the back and loot your belongings and trade your corpse for a few pieces of rye bread.

Later, the chaos was finally cleared up, and people got used to it, and no one wanted to make a fortune from the dead.

After all, killing people is not an easy thing, whether it is psychologically or physically, and if you don't know it, you will become the one who is counter-killed.

This age-old vice had been going on for years before Mayor Elton took over Grey Curtain Town. In the pits, the dead and the living work separately, with the dead digging deep and the living working shallow.

After taking over, Elton didn't change anything, perhaps considering that not everyone is willing to accept that their loved ones are still entangled in mundane things after they die, and they work all day long.

Elton issued a decree announcing to the populace:

"Except for the unaccompanied homeless and unclaimed corpses of the unclaimed people who died in the wilderness, if a relative dies in the town, he is free to choose to bury the dead relative, or hand over the body to the town's labor force that has expanded into the mines. Correspondingly, the town will compensate a certain amount. ”

And so it went.

It wasn't until someone died in the pit recently that the old story was revealed.

For a moment, the whole town was panicked.