Midnight.

Madison was in his own apartment at the mill, looking up at the chandelier on the ceiling, "A broken bulb." ”

A chandelier in the shape of a five-petal flower, one of which is black.

Brian was in Madison's apartment, but instead of looking at the lights Madison was paying attention to, he was Madison himself, "Don't interrupt suddenly, keep telling the story." ”

Madison's head bowed back, "Oh, go on then." Maddison raised his wrist and glanced at the time, twelve o'clock, "Then, after confirming the death of Rute Lesenbra, and destroying all of Rute Lesenbra's 'evil' blood......"

Interrupted, "Why destroy Lot's blood?"

"Because he's Lesenbra. Madison shrugged his shoulders, "Lesenbra has information about a person's entire life course in his blood." Even if the creature Ruter Lesenbra is dead, the person (vampire) may still be alive in a pot of blood, waiting for the day of resurrection. ”

Brian blinked, "Lesembra is so strong." "It's an exclamation.

"Otherwise, why do you think Zach once had a 'duel' with Root, why would Root win?" Maddison laughed, "Lesembra's blood can flow all the time, but Torredo can't keep staring at Lesembra." ”

Brian nodded understandingly, "Go on, and then." ”

"Then, Bruch's messenger Salde, with his father, Bruch's messenger, prepared to kill all the Lesenbra in the Feast of Light......"

"Why?" was interrupted again.

"Because as long as Lesenbra exists, there's probably a steady stream of things that replace Zach. Maddison shrugged his shoulders, "Root's obsession with Zach is objectively analyzed, not his personal choice. Maddison seemed willing to explain to Brian, "It's something that Root has to cling to in his position—he's the head of the House of Lesenbra, he's the leader of the Feast, and he's got to be interested in Zach, the man who continues to create vampire patterns." ”

"Oh. Brian still blinked, not knowing if he understood, "Let's just tell me, if it were someone else, maybe he would have made a plan to make another Zach like Root?"

Maddison nodded, "Salder is not smart, he only decided on one thing, Lesembra can make a replacement for Zach, so he made this decision. ”

"Chopping the forest with a knife. Brian pouted, "It's extreme enough." ”

"It's not extreme, it's just a tendon. What's more, this knife was given to him by Zack, and he ...... There's probably a rush to perform, so, like any retarded person who is in a hurry to perform,......" Madison waved his hand and said nothing. Looking back at the blackened lamp on the ceiling, "Brian, promise me that you will remember to change the light bulb." ”

"I promise I promise and continue to tell the story. Brian urged.

"Well, go ahead. Madison's eyes turned away from the lamp and he took a random place—the couch where Brian was now lying comfortably listening to stories. On the edge of the sofa, there are burr scratches on the wooden feet, which are the marks left by the black cat when West brought the black cat in the past. Madison stared at the scratch and continued, "But Lesembra didn't exterminate. Because Frank stopped the Bruch ancestor. ”

"Can the Bruch Clan Ancestor break straight into Vega City and kill Root under the siege of the entire Demon Feast vampire, but he can't beat Frank??" Brian's eyes widened.

Madison pouted, "Brian, you'll remember to change this couch later." "Uh, forget it, Madison immediately returned to the topic, "The siege of the entire Demon Feast vampire is nothing to the Bruch Clan's ancestors, don't use this kind of thing as a reference for Bruch's combat ability." "Correct Brian's cognitive error first, and then, "It's not that the Bruch Ancestor can't beat Frank, but that the Bruch Ancestor and Frank have a ......" Madison's gaze retracted, revealing a look of thinking about the wording, "The same mood." ”

"Is it all the mood of the ancestor?"

Maddison nodded, glanced at Brian, and gave a rare look that you were listening to the story carefully, "Yes, in addition, Frank also promised that the future Lesembra would not be able to make a move to make Zach, the promise of the ancestor to the ancestor. A promise between Cain, the vampire who had been destroyed by the faith of the Holy Lord, and Cain's sons, the ancestors of the current source of all vampires in this world. ”

Brian tilted his head and thought for a moment, "But this promise, Salde won't agree." Sald didn't have the mood of the ancestor, he only cared about Zach as a teacher. ”

Madison had a smile on his face, and his gaze was no longer wandering—there was nowhere to wander. Madison has been telling this story since noon, from the time Brian was chased away from Grande by Zach, to now, in the course of this story, Madison has looked at everything in this apartment, and has also given Brian a lot of orders to "promise me, you must remember to change ...... in the future".

Now, Madison doesn't have much more to make Brian promise himself to.

Because Madison didn't speak, Brian blinked to himself, "I see! The promise between the ancestors is bigger!" This vague word, Brian himself explained, "It's like the thirteen ancestors agreed to keep the secret of the ultimate reward of the Holy Lord's faith and then go to sleep. So even if Salde didn't want his father to make an agreement with Frank, there was no way to change it. The agreement of the ancestor is the agreement of the ancestor!"

Maddison still had a smile on his face, still not continuing to tell the story.

Brian had no choice but to continue, "But Salder certainly won't just give up." He was in a hurry to perform, eager to keep Zach as a teacher where he knew, and he couldn't have pinned all his hopes on his father's promise......"

Brian got up from the couch.

Because the door of the apartment was forcibly pushed open.

One, two, three, four, five. Five strangers.

"Who are you?" said Brian, staring at the five strangers who came in.

Madison stood in front of Brian, "Brian, be polite to Bruch's messengers and ancestors, even if you hate vampires. Madison glanced at the swaying apartments and gave Brian his final order, "Remember to change the door too." ”

Salder walked over to Madison, "You're Madison. ”

Madison nodded, "I am." ”

"You wrote Zach's story that made it possible for Lesembra to make another Zach. Salder continued closer to Madison.

Madison nodded as if he had been prepared for a long time, and pushed a suitcase behind him in front of him, "This is all the manuscript backup ......" Before he finished speaking, he connected to the suitcase, and in the dazzling afterimage, it turned into dust. The reappeared Salder continued to approach Madison.

Madison raised his hand, "I have a request. ”

Salder clasped his hands together and stopped in front of Madison's face," he said. ”

"What's going on?!" Brian began to yell behind Madison, "Madison!!!"

Madison looked at the sharp palm in front of him, and the expression on his face remained smiling, "Don't get excited Brian, the future is bound to be the present and then the past." This is the law of the operation of this world~"

Then, "I want to be by your father." Madison said his request, "Being killed by a full-fledged vampire, going to purgatory, I want to go where the Holy Lord wants to go." Then, I, the 'archangel', can be regarded as completing my mission. ”

Salde was silent for a moment. Withdrawing his hand, "Grant your wish, because you didn't write the story of my arrival at Barton to Lut Lesenbra!" Then, turning around, "Father, kill him, and then my teacher, Zachary Torredo, in the Federation, will be completely unthreatening, and he will always be here to guide our clan forward." ”

Among the four strangers, a young man walked out, his eyes were confused, "Son, are you sure?"

"I'm sure. ”

"You don't have to ask Zack, is that okay?" the young man walked over to Maddison, but the question continued, "Frank said at the feast that Zach wouldn't be happy that we slaughtered the entire Lesenbra clan, and now, you're trying to get me to kill Zack's friends at Barton." ”

"He's not a friend of Zach. Salder glanced at Madison, "We've looked at the manuscript from Root, and this Madison doesn't think of his main character, Zach, as a friend at all. It's just a writing subject, and he doesn't have the slightest reverence for Zachary Toledo. ”

"Okay. The confused youth walked up to Madison.

"Madison!Madison!!" Brian ...... Uh, "Run, Run, Madison!!"

Madison, smiling and giving Brian one last look, "Remember to change the things I gave me......"

The world has changed. Got a bunch of things that need to be replaced in the apartment?

Madison looked ahead.

Plane, Madison only saw plane, boundless plane.

Madison took a step forward and looked back, looking at what appeared to be a physical afterimage pulled out behind him. One step away, Madison seemed to create countless of himself, stacked and squeezed together.

The smile on Madison's face finally disappeared, and he turned into a pout, watching himself slowly disappear in a single step, is this death, or rather, is this purgatory? It was completely different from what he had imagined.

"Is Madison standing there?"

Some familiar voices. Madison turned around and dragged out countless afterimages, Madison didn't dare to move sharply, squinted, and looked at the place where the voice came from, "Who is calling me?"

"It's me. ”

On a distant plane, a man trotted over.

Madis looked at the other party's swinging six arms, "Gatekeeper of Purgatory, Leo?"

"It's really Madison!" Leo seemed pleased, but right away, "Uh, you were killed by 'Colt' too?"

Maddison instinctively waved his hand, "Oh, no......" found that his movements had pulled out countless overlapping arms for himself, and he froze there and didn't dare to move anymore, "I was killed by the vampire ancestor." ”

"Oh. Leo's arms drooped back and forth when he ran past Madison, merging into normal arms, "I'm sorry. ”

Madison wanted to shake his head and tell Leo that there was nothing to be sorry for, but he didn't dare to move, probably because the movement of his head just now had already filled his face with afterimages. Therefore, if you don't act, "it counts as suicide." There's nothing to be sorry for......" Maddison looked at Leo who didn't have an afterimage, "Why didn't you ......" Maddison moved his fingers, and countless fingers were dragged out.

"Uh......" Leo looked at Madison and reached out his hand, holding down the tail end of the afterimage that Madison had dragged out, "It will hurt a little ......" and pushed it towards Madison.

Maddison felt the squeeze, the feeling of every cell being crushed? a little painful? Leo was too polite. Madison doesn't even have the ability to think about pain!

Fortunately, the process was not long, "Move again?" Leo's hand was already on Maddison's back, and the action of pushing the afterimage was over.

Maddison still only moved his fingers, and the afterimage was still there, but not as serious as before, at least it wouldn't last too long, and it disappeared much faster.

"Uh......" Leo frowned and glanced at Madison, "Probably because you're not a creature of this world after all, and I can't completely help you eliminate the effects of time." ”

Madison shook his hand, playing the same way to watch the afterimage appear, and then watch the afterimage disappear, "Isn't the creature of this world referring to me as an angel of the Holy Lord's faith or is it that I am a human in this world?"

"Angels. Leo replied simply, "This world is where purgatory begins, and the place where time begins—purgatory, is the same world as the past, present, and future." It is the faith of the Holy Lord that hijacks the past and the future. What does not belong to this world is the faith of the Holy Lord. ”

Madison nodded, "That's pretty much what I thought." ”

"Come here. Leo beckoned, turning as if he was going to take Madison somewhere, "Everybody's over there." ”

Madison didn't move, "Everyone?"

"The creatures that were killed by Colt. Leo laughed, "You might meet a few guys you know, hehe, like the Descendants of 'Toredo' (Eli's Descendants) that Zach killed." ”

Madison shook his head, "No, I'd better stay where I am." ”

"Uh...... You're going to get bored. ”

"I don't mind, I don't have a concept of time anyway, do I, I don't feel anything. Madison seemed insistent.

Leo frowned again, "There are also some creatures of the Holy Lord that were killed when 'Colt' first appeared, angels, demons or something, you may be able to meet your friends." ”

Madison continued to shake his head, "I don't remember them. As if he didn't want to be bothered by Leo anymore, "Go ahead, I'm right here." ”

Leo pursed his lips and took two steps, "You don't think you can get out of here, do you? Madison, this place is different from the world of your common sense, you stay where you are, and no one in this world can find you." ”

Madison shook his head, "I know it's not the same as this world, at least since I've been here, I haven't felt the 'future' anymore." Madison looked at Leo, "But I still remember the 'future' I've seen, I'm in the future, I'm in the present at some point in the future, I can go back." Madison smiled, "I don't have to make friends here~"

。 Nine Heavenly God Emperors