"I'll tell you the truth, you're guilty."

Cyra's eyes twinkled faintly, and her tone was solemn: "There is no need to justify - no matter what the reason, you burned down the neighbor's house, and this is a sin." You did not hurt his life, but the fire spread to several houses, and their possessions were reduced to nothingness. If you cannot repay their losses, how will the anger in their hearts be appeased if you are not cast into this prison for permanent labor? ”

At this moment, Cyra's hands were shackled, her ankles were chained, and the other end of the chain was nailed deep into the wall, like a sinner about to be executed.

He was dressed in a tattered, mud-stained white linen robe, and his torn sleeves showed blood from the whip. But his spine was still straight, and his voice was steady and powerful, as if he were still standing in the lecture hall in his red robe.

"Besides, they have lost their homes. Their wives and daughters will suffer because of this, and they will be sick and incurable, and they will not be hungry in the year of the plague. Neither shall it be warm to work day and night. You have caused trouble to others and ruined their otherwise happy lives, and you are naturally guilty. ”

"But, my lord," said a thin young man, kneeling before him, his voice full of anguish and sorrow, "I burned their house because their words and deeds had hurt my father and mother. Tyre teaches us to respect our parents and protect them as if they were our own hearts and lungs...... So what's wrong with my actions? And they put me in jail, and they can't pay them for their losses, so it's better to let me work and pay them back to build a house. ”

"No, it's not."

Cyra sighed and shook her head: "Their mistake. Need to get them to pay it back. You don't have the right to judge, and you don't have the right to enforce. If everyone in this world was like this, then the world would have been in chaos a long time ago...... The world needs the law. Those who break the law must be punished, like me and you. It is true that it does them no good to put you in prison, but it can remind those who come after them not to break the law, just as people live in the world to suffer, but what they have suffered will always make future generations suffer less. This is the meaning of human life. ”

Many of them knelt reverently before Cyra. The men were also dressed in sackcloth, but they were not shackled on their hands. The dim sunset light squeezed in through the narrow window above. Occasionally, there were snowflakes falling, freezing their skin red.

These are people who have committed serious crimes, but their sins do not lead to death.

Without exception, all of them, including Cyra, are sinners who cannot leave for the rest of their lives unless the Pope himself forgives them.

Once they were cunning, evil, and ruthless, but these sharp enough to cut themselves and others have been smoothed out by years of captivity. Here, they need to work all day and all their lives to atone for their sins. Every month, people die from heavy work and illness.

Cyra is the only exception here. He didn't have to work, but he worked harder than all these people.

When he was brought in, his tongue was cut off and the bones of his hands and feet were broken. Eyes gouged out. But after only one night, his injuries recovered naturally.

This is an undoubted miracle - since half of the people in this prison have or have had the priesthood of Tyre, the main function of this prison is to ban the priest of Tyre.

Over here. Prayer is useless. No matter how pious the voice of a priest is, it cannot reach Tyre, for it is a holy place blessed by Jupiter's authority.

So Cyra's "miracle" significantly angered the warden.

Because that's tantamount to saying. He didn't have the magic of Tyre, or that Cyra had more authority than Jupiter IV - either way. It was enough to make him feel disgusted with Cyra from the bottom of his heart.

"Don't fool the people, heretic! If Tyre still cares for you, come out of here with a great miracle! If not, then your God is not here! ”

These were the last words spoken by the warden to Cyra, who had been recovering from miracles for several days, and saw that his injuries healed at sunrise every day. For some unknown reason, the whip marks on Cyra's body on the last day did not recover as they did at the beginning.

However, because the warden didn't even want to look at Cyra, and he hadn't been here for so many days, he didn't know what had happened to Cyra.

Because of his personal malice, Cyra's food was directly crossed by him. And Cyrah, who had not eaten for several days, eventually attracted the attention of the other sinners. So, with the consciousness of a cardinal, even though hungry and thirsty, Cyra still preached to these sinners in a hoarse voice, enlightening them and comforting them.

In just three days, the immensely pure Cyra had gained the trust of these sinners. He became the object of reverence for these sinners.

Every day, at every meal, these sinners spontaneously gave him food and water, and they were thrilled by it. This behavior brought them a sense of atoning satisfaction, and soon this behavior spontaneously formed an order, and the sinners worked every day, came back to attend lectures, worked, and returned to listen to lectures, and their mental state improved significantly.

Cyra looked at these people and felt a lot of emotion in her heart.

Once upon a time, he also used to think that these people who had committed great sins were ungodly and unkind. And Roland's words changed him: "Why do you think that only the justice of Tyre is the only justice?" ”

This sentence deeply touched Cyla and provoked him to think.

Tyre is the only god of justice, and the concept of justice is defined by Tyre, and it seems that it is not wrong to say that Tyre's justice is the only justice.

But does this mean that all of Tyre's enemies are unjust? If they are righteous, then why attack them? If they are unjust, don't they say that anyone other than Bansa is guilty of unforgivable sins?

And now, seeing these sinners who have committed great mistakes but still have conscience and morality in their hearts, and looking at these former priests and former Templars who are imprisoned for the devout service of Tyre, the concept of "justice" has changed dramatically in Cyra's mind.

If it had been him, he would never have said a word to these "sinners". Just being in a room with them makes the air feel dirty. But now, Cyra has realized that these people are just poor people.

They are at fault, but it is not entirely theirs.

For example, in this boy, his mother is slumped in bed, and his father is a craftsman. Once, his father picked up someone else's jewelry and decided to stay to supplement the family, but then he was beaten up by the owner, and his hands were discounted and he couldn't work. It was later learned that the jewelry was a very valuable enchanted item, and that its owner was a big businessman. A thief who stole his things was immediately discovered, and then left on a hurried escape, not seen by the merchant's men, but picked up by his father.

Although his father was beaten by the merchant's men, the boy did not dare to take revenge on the merchant. But then he learned that it was the neighbor who had reported to the merchant that his father had brought back the jewelry, so the merchant took his father for the thief and took off his hand as a habitual offender. So the boy became angry and set fire to his neighbor's house.

But then, the fire spread. Because of the dry weather, the fire finally burned down half of the street before it was extinguished, dozens of houses were burned, and even children and the elderly were burned. The boy caused a loss that he couldn't pay for in his life, if it weren't for his father and mother kneeling on the ground and begging for mercy, plus he didn't really burn people, the boy didn't even have a chance to enter the prison and wait for ****, but would have been executed directly.

But is he really wrong? If anything, there is—arson is indeed a felony in Tyre's teachings, but he did not set fire out of sheer malice, but rather that his arson itself was a form of revenge, which was also allowed by Tyre.

Indeed, his neighbor had sinned. Slander is also a crime, but it is light; The merchant was also guilty of driving his men to injure and was liable for a fine. But the merchants and neighbors alike thought the boy's father was a thief, and in their eyes, they were also on the side of justice.

Look at these people here - unforgiven sinners and heretics, all of them hold on to their own righteousness, all of them think they are right.

Justice is such a difficult thing to understand.

Cyra sighed deeply, and felt lost in it. (To be continued.) )