28 Purgatory
Purgatory.
It is not a 'labyrinth' of colors filled with all kinds of bewildering human eyes, but a 'rabbit hole' with infinite planes.
Leo looked at the two men in front of him with a confused expression.
Sissi and Madison.
The two were chatting. Tsk, there's not much to do here besides chatting.
Originally, as long as he could get the 'mind' moving, so that there were other living creatures in this purgatory besides him, Leo would not complain about anything. However, the thoughts of the two people in front of him were moving, but they were moving too much......
"You never said I was going to be attacked by Mokawi!!" Sissi grabbed Madison by the collar. The afterimage completely retains Sissi's movement trajectory, and visually, Sissi's movements should be very slow. But hey~ this is purgatory, there is no time, there is no speed without time, isn't it~ the denominator of the speed unit is time~ so~
Madison, an adult man, didn't even hide from Sissi's hand, and dragged the afterimage to be pulled and swayed twice, "I told you you were going to come to purgatory, how do you think you're going to come, open the door, and walk in?" Madison asked rhetorically, after all, it was an adult, grabbed his collar and pushed it twice, pushing Sissi away.
"I at least thought I was going to go the 'easy way' and annoyed Zach and was blown away by him with a shot of 'Colt'!"
"Huh. "Don't you know how bad Zack's marksmanship is, a shot? He put on a mocking smile as he said this, "And Zach doesn't have 'Colt' in his hand at all." β
"Don't talk about these useless things!" Sissi stared at Madison, "What now?!"
"We wait. β
"Wait for Gangaro?"
"Yes, wait for Gangero. β
Let's talk about how things came to be like this:
Leo sends Madison back to his own 'rabbit hole' and back into purgatory, a stomach-wrenching space that looks like a miniature color to other creatures.
Because Leo knew that this was the end of purgatory.
Infinite labyrinth? No, the space of this labyrinth no longer expands, and the walls of this labyrinth no longer extend. Infinite? can only deceive the guy who can't see the real appearance of purgatory.
Maddison tells him that this is because the 'Colt' in this world has lost its effect. Of course, Leo asked, and Maddison replied, probably just because he didn't want to be annoyed by Leo anymore, "Because Fan Zhuo has been demoted collectively, 'Colt' is a weaponized Fan Zhuo blood, and Fan Zhuo is no longer a complete body, and 'Colt' has no effect." There is no longer a way to send creatures to purgatory. Understood, don't bother me if you understand, we don't have to build a relationship, hehe, I told you, I'm leaving here~"
So Leo couldn't help but be sad, loneliness seemed to be about to become his life again, and he and his romantic world (purgatory) would be eternal......
A new rabbit hole has appeared.
Leo jumped down the new rabbit hole with Madison's mistaken joy to meet the new inhabitants of Purgatory.
Leo meets Sissi.
"Why are there a thousand mes!!" Sissi ran and jumped on the infinite plane...... 'Chased' by the infinitely stretched, overlapping afterimages behind her......
"Wait, wait...... Don't run, I can help you ......" As with Madison, Leo started with the afterimages, pushing them forward and overlapping, until he pushed them in front of Sissi, pushing the afterimages into Sissi's body, "Uh, you are the soul of the Holy Lord's faith, and the afterimages will not disappear completely, but, at least, it will not affect the movement." It's good to get used to it......"
"Habit? Why should I get used to it! This is purgatory......? Leo!!Where is Madison?!Take me to meet Madison!!!"
A labyrinth filled with color.
"Are you wasting my time?Leo!How long have we been walking?!Why haven't we come out of this fancy fog?!"
"Well, there's no time here, and it's not fog...... We're here. β
"Where!!?"
Sissi falls down Madison's 'rabbit hole'.
When Maddison's story is written in the afterimage of *Arthur accepting the food supplies sent by No, Sissi stands in front of Madison.
Then the two creatures of the Holy Lord's faith began to chat.
During the conversation between Madison and Sissi, Leo is unable to interject, and there are so many time-related things that Leo is mentally and physically unable to access the content of their conversation. Now, in the gap between the so-called 'waiting for Gangero' chat, Leo finally has a chance...... Expressing what confuses him.
"You ...... "Let's make sure."
Madison and Sissi looked at Leo together.
Leo felt like he was being targeted, and shook his head, "Uh, let me make sure first, what do you mean when you say deliberately isolating Zack??"
After a long or short silence, Sissi turned into a golden light and went to explore the endless plane.
Madison didn't have the ability, so he stayed where he was, looking at Leo, "Why, do you sympathize with that vampire?" β
"Well, anyway, I was able to get back to the world where I was supposed to be, and he helped me. I should be grateful to him. "But I'll never have a chance, at least, I can hope he has a good day......"
"Huh. Madison laughed, "I don't know where the progress of this world is, but I guess it should be when he needs this blessing~"
"Really?" Leo blinked, and then his face turned worried, because it was very simple logic, the vampire Zachary Toredo was not the kind of person who needed the blessing of others. But if a person who writes a book with Zach as the protagonist now says that Zach needs such a blessing, then ......, "Is Zach so bad in this life?"
Madison snorted, "He deserves it." Raising his hand, he began to write the manuscript with the afterimage. But the hand stayed for a while, "Where did I just write?" and said to Sissi for a long time, and the afterimage had long since disappeared.
"You wrote about Arthur collecting food supplies in No's safe house. Leo remembered.
"Oh. Madison shook his head and began to write in the afterimageβ
* "Who's downstairs!" Arthur grabbed No, who was about to leave, "I saw that there was another person in your car!"
"That's Toredo. Zachary Toledo. Nou easily pushed Arthur away.
"Vampires?!How can you bring a vampire here!You're breaking the contract!"
"I didn't bring him, he came to me on his own. Heh, what am I going to do? Is it suspicious? Hehe, don't worry, this safe house was made by me (under the influence of the Eyes of Charm) to hide from the vampires. Pointing to the wall, "It's all silver." You're safe here~unless you go out and die by yourself~"
"You ......"*
It's not that the story is over, it's that Leo can't stand it anymore, "No...... Isn't that Zack relationship, uh, complicated human friend? What is he doing? Even he betrayed Zach?"
"Betrayal?" Maddison looked at Ou, "hehehe." If it were that simple, it would be fine~~" Maddison's tone was very much like a mockery. But no, Madison was ready to keep writing.
"Stop writing! Stop writing!" Leo interrupted Madison, "What the hell is going on?!Why did you and Sissi just talk so much about Zach? What the hell are you doing?!"
"Didn't you hear it all? β
"Yes! I hear you! Sissi began to spread the secrets of the vampires, and Zachary Toledo's mysterious properties in the Feast were constantly destroyed! But why?!Why was Zack isolated here?
Madison's hand was grabbed by Leo, so he couldn't continue writing, so he had no choice but to ...... replied, "Because Zach has done a lot of things, and his motives are vague in the eyes of others." Madison looked at Zach, "It's like he's sending you back to purgatory." Don't forget, when you first came to him, you wanted to just leave this world like the Holy Lord, and it was Zach who took the initiative to return to purgatory, back to your home, and put this option in front of you. Tell me, why did Zach have to be so nice to you?"
Leo was stunned for a moment, and the first thing he sighed was naturally that Madison, as the person who wrote Zach, really didn't miss anything about Zach. Even if you're just a trick......
"Uh, I, I don't know, because Zach is good? He sympathizes with me, the Eternal who is a mess of life in this world?"
"Oh, yes, then the question is, why should a vampire be nice to you, a creature of purgatory?" Madison looked at Leo.
"Because he's a good man!" seems to be the answer.
But for Maddison, the man who wrote Zach, the problem is big, "'He's a good guy.'" Hmph, who can you convince with this?" "The person in the story, or the person who reads the story?"
Leo opened his mouth, the question was out of the question.
How do we understand why a person does something, we boil down this understanding process to the retrospective of motivation. Tell me, how often do we think about a person's motivation for doing something and end up concluding that 'he's a good person'?
There is no such moment.
No one thinks anyone else is a good person.
This is not some so-called pessimistic idea of human nature, but a fact. We're all adults, and no one is going to do anything because 'I'm good'! The world doesn't allow us to be so simple! Not to mention that Madison is a vampire!
A vampire who is always at the center of the world. Zach is a good guy, huh, who can convince!
That's what Maddison was saying now, he looked at Leo, "He's a vampire, he's good to you as a creature of outdated beliefs, you can think so, but no one would think so!
Leo shook his head, a little forcefully, "But that's the truth! there's no conspiracy here, I'm back to purgatory, and I'm connected to the secrets of purgatory with the blood of a vampire's full body." Helping me won't cause Zach any loss, he did it for me! It's such a simple thing! It's useless for anyone else to think about it!"
"Oh, your defense should be listened to by Zack, and he will be happy. Then, Madison raised his chin at the chatter, "You go and defend Zack, go and convince the others." β
"Okay! I'll go!" Leo let go of Madison, turned around, and took two steps. With a gloomy face, he returned, "I can't defend Zach! I'm here!!"
"It's a pity~" Madison shrugged his shoulders, and the meaning was already clear.
People who think that others are good people and cling to this beautiful idea, hehe, are those who have left that chaotic, complicated, and innocent world......
Leo watched as Madison raised his hand again, continuing the story of Arthur and No. But Leo doesn't care about Arthur and No, because no matter what, these are two humans, weak humans. Even if it caused trouble for the vampires, it wouldn't be a big deal...... Leo cared, "So Sissi is spreading vampire secrets, Zack's secrets!"
"Let the Devil's Banquet know Zack, or rather, let the Devil's feast think that he knows Zack's motives. Madison replied.
"What do you mean?"
"Meaning, Zach has recently done a series of things in order to defend against the possible conflict between vampires and creatures of the Holy Lord's faith. The vampires of the Demon Feast have all cooperated with Zack at the moment, and it can be regarded as the first action organized by the Toledo clan to gather all the forces of the Demon Feast after entering the Demon Feast. β
"That's a good thing, isn't it?!Zach has a reputation at the Feast and has shown ability, right?"
"Yes, Toredo was so popular and capable in the Hidden Alliance before, and then?" Maddison shrugged.
"That's the Demon Banquet, those people are too careful! They either trust Zack or they don't trust Zack! Those swinging guys, get rid of them!" Leo naturally realized that what he said here didn't mean anything to the present world, so he was silent for a while, "Don't Zack also have true friends in the Demon Banquet? They will help Zack." β
Madison shook his head, "They won't." They are likewise questioning Zach's motives. Toredo has been proven by history to be a capable, but not entirely dependent clan, and it is not known when Toredo will go crazy repeating the course of history. Madison looked at Leo, "The division of the Thirteen Clans and the decline of the Hidden Alliance caused by the defeat of the colonial war were all caused by Toredo. No one could understand what Toredo was thinking, which is why Rute Lesenbra was so obsessed with understanding Toredo's style. β
"Okay! Even if the Demon Banquet questioned Zack's reason for doing these things, but Zack did these things for the sake of the vampire race after all, and the beneficiary was obviously the current Demon Banquet! What else do they have to complain about?"
"As long as they don't understand Zach's true motives for a while, they will always have something to complain about. That's the life Zachary Torredo has to face. Madison, the author, gave the final word, and then, "Sissi spread the secrets of the vampires, the secrets that were originally only held in Zack's hands, and that made the Devil's banquet think that Zack had Zack's motives." Zach is for himself, for the reward of his faith in the Holy Lord, and for his way of avoiding the malice of the creatures of the Holy Lord's faith when he is fully embodied. Everything is for himself, he is selfish. β
Leo looked at Madison for a moment, "It's not fair! Zach did these things for the sake of the vampire race, otherwise he would have more freedom as a funeral owner." And now, being thought of as such a selfish guy!"
"Hmph. Madison smiled, "You should really go up and comfort Zach~~"