The bright sky, I don't know when, was obscured by a drifting cloud.

Click-click-

Obviously it was as thin as a bamboo pole, pressed on his arms, but it felt heavy.

It's not the weight of the substance, it's just a ......

"Miss Luxue, the girl you are holding is ......"

"A subhuman slave. ”

The tears on her face had not disappeared, but the corners of her mouth were slightly raised.

Finally, you can be freed from this hellish world, right?

"What's wrong with her?"

"She's dead. ”

Although she didn't know what she had experienced in her life, and she didn't know what unfulfilled wishes she had, Ash Lu, who had accompanied her for the last period of her life, brought her back to the tailor's shop.

"Huh? Are you going to ...... Send her to a burial?"

"Orcs don't have a cemetery. Placing the body of the maid on the rag that Gagaya had ripped up, Ash Lu half-knelt on the ground, stretched out his right paw and pressed it on the forehead of the deceased, "Wherever we die, the body returns to nourishment, nourishing the water and soil there." ”

"From generation to generation, the cycle repeats. ”

Under Yuna's gaze, Gagaya also half-knelt on the ground, placing her right flipper on the back of Gray Dew's paw.

It was a brief ritual for orcs to mourn their dead, and although Yuna also had some orc blood, she had never seen such a scene in her human kingdom growing up.

is also a subhuman, Yuna is undoubtedly lucky compared to Scarlet Lan.

"Miss Luxue, what are you doing?"

When Shulbet's voice came from the second floor, Grey Dew and Gagaya moved at the same time, wrapping Scarlet Lan's remains in the rags. This is a human city, and they can't after all, so let her return to the earth so simply.

"Just mourning. With that, Gray Lu took out the contract scroll with the information of slavery from his bag, and briefly told the three people present what had just happened.

Gagaya didn't say much about this, but Yuna and Sulbert were both indignant about what happened to Scarlet - Sulbert even said that he would complain about the shop.

But all this is meaningless.

Not long after Grey Dew walked out of the south entrance of the underground complex with Scarlet Lan in her arms, the subhuman slave who had melted all her complicated emotions into a "thank you, master" fell into her arms.

Scarlet provides an important clue to Grey Dew, so the hunter tries to rescue her. However, after a long period of physical and mental devastation, coupled with severe internal injuries caused by the sudden beating, the Grim Reaper finally took Scarlet Lan's life.

"I'm sorry, I'm just a hunter, not a doctor. ”

The words of Scarlet Lan when she was dying, like a soft thorn, gently pierced a hole in the heart of the human wolf girl who was not deeply involved in the world. Saving people is much harder than killing people.

"So, after so long, did you get in touch with your uncle?"

"See for yourself. Faced with Gagaya's questioning, Grey Lu tossed the note left by Rivat, then turned to Sulbert and pleaded, "I want to borrow your horses." ”

With the consent of the horse's owner, Grey Lu removed all the goods from the back of the cart and put them in the utility room, where there was still redundant space. And the empty cargo box has become the funeral car of Yaren Scarlet.

The duckman Gagya didn't help this time, but took the note and sat at the door of the utility room and watched coldly.

"Miss Yuna, do you have time now?"

"There's nothing going on in the store for the time being, what's wrong?"

Looking at the human wolf girl who put the slave's body in the back crate, Yuna guessed something.

"I don't know where the nearest church is, can bother you......"

"Get in the car, I'll ride the horse. ”

Looking at the smiling lady on the windowsill on the second floor, Yuna knew that she had agreed.

Later, on the west side of the North City District———

With Yuna's help, it took them about half an hour to get here, and the prayer for the day was just over. The believers left one after another, and the church became empty.

"Miss Mercenary, are you going to bury this slave?"

Facing the disbelief in the priest's eyes, Gray nodded expressionlessly, and then withdrew the slave scroll handed to the other party, "Yes, can't you?"

"It's not impossible...... What kind of burial did you choose for her?"

Looking at the top of the church, the relief that symbolizes the sun, Ash Lu made a choice, "Cremation." ”

In this kind of weather, it is not easy to take a corpse out of the city to find a suitable place to bury it. Not to mention, no one can be sure if the damn curse has spread here.

"Okay, please give me one silver coin and twenty copper plates. ”

As the priest finished speaking, the nun who was standing next to her came over, unfolded a white cloth bag, and stretched it out in front of the human wolf mercenary.

"There is labor. Without the slightest hesitation, Gray Dew took out the corresponding amount of coins from her bag and put them in the cloth bag.

"Sister Rita, go arrange the cremation. ”

"Yes Father. ”

With the nun leaving, the priest also allowed the human wolf mercenaries to carry the deceased whom she was to be cremated, and followed him through the side corridor of the church to the cemetery where only those who had contributed to the city of Dre were buried. The crematorium, which looks like an upside-down water cup, is next to the cemetery.

"Please leave the deceased to us. ”

When Grey Dew and Yuna were led by the priest to the crematorium's gates, two gravediggers in white robes, carrying a stretcher, blocked the way—they were responsible for sorting out the deceased's belongings before cremation.

"I can get her there without any effort on your part. ”

"The deceased is gone, but it should be cleaned up anyway......"

"We orcs don't need it. ”

Faced with the repeated insistence of the manwolf mercenaries, the priest finally waved his hand to the two gravediggers, signaling them not to stop them. So, Gray Dew carried Scarlet's body and walked in.

Her body, on the last stretch of the road, was extraordinarily heavy.

"Why don't you take the relics?"

When Scarlet's body was placed in the sarcophagus for cremation, the undertaker in charge of the execution asked Ash Lu a question. Seeing too much goodbye, even the most sentimental person will become numb.

"No, if you can, burn this too. ”

"Slave Nationality...... Send it to the Department of Household Registration Management and exchange it for a silver coin. ”

Faced with the kind reminder of the undertaker, Gray Lu shook her head, "She's free." ”

"As you wish. ”

At the priest's request, Grey Dew and Yuna retreated to the side, and to the undertaker's muffled chant, red flame spirits descended from all sides, and the thin sarcophagus was enveloped in flames in an instant.

In the fiery red, the gray dew witnessed the last journey of Scarlet Lan's life.

"One life, one hundred and fifty-one silver coins and twenty copper plates. ”

Muttering, the human wolf girl couldn't help but laugh - this is the human world.