Yesterday's changes didn't just change in Mermaid Song, and the whole of Pelican Town still hasn't recovered from this scare.

Arrow led Crispy Tower and Coco towards Swan Castle, and along the way, the smiling townsfolk were now talking to each other. It's like the smile has completely disappeared and is no longer on people's faces. Maybe it's because of yesterday's accident, even the flower fairies don't appear in the town anymore.

Everyone looked to the north with apprehension and prayed with all their hearts that the god of light would not abandon them.

Depart Pelican Town and head to Swan Castle. After knocking on the castle door again, the servant led the three of the Mermaid Song towards the top of the castle.

It was still the familiar parlor, but this time, it was the Viscount Ruichi who sat in it with a worried face as if he had been prepared for a long time.

"Ah, President Arrow! Great, I was thinking that you would come over in about two days, but I didn't expect you to come the next day! ”

Viscount Ruichi's face did not look good, and it was clear that he had not slept well last night.

Arrow sat down opposite the Viscount, looked at the fat man's haggard face, and said, "Your Excellency, Viscount Ruichi, you seem to be in bad spirits. ”

"Oops? How bad! I'm dying of headaches right now! President Arrow, you honestly told me, did last night's commotion have something to do with Capone?! Where is he? Is he running away somewhere now?! ”

"He's dead."

Eero gave this reply lightly.

When Viscount Ruichi hadn't come back to his senses for a while, he continued-

Or rather, it's no different from being dead. He gave his body and soul some kind of ...... It can be a very scary existence. I don't know how much willpower he has left, or if his shell has been digested. But there is no doubt that he will no longer appear before our eyes in the way we are familiar with. ”

Viscount Ruichi smacked his lips, and after a moment of silence, he shook his head lightly and said with a little resentment: "I knew it...... I knew that sooner or later that guy was going to be destroyed...... He has been a very focused person since he was a child! Once you decide on something, you become very persistent...... Damn, he's dead...... And what about the kid Tiramisu? ”

Arrow didn't answer directly, and the crispy tower and Coco in the back also turned their eyes now, showing a slightly sad expression.

Seeing the mermaid song revealing such emotions, Viscount Ruichi naturally knew the answer. There was a clear sigh on his face, but he didn't know how to vent it for a while. After a long time, the viscount collapsed on the couch like a mess of rotten flesh, looking up at the ceiling, not knowing what to say.

However, Arrowco doesn't have that much time to allow for sentimentality. After waiting for almost a minute, he spoke again: "Viscount Ruichi, may I ask if this pair of masters and apprentices gave you any explanation before they left you?" ”

Viscount Ruichi still had his mouth half-open, like a goldfish spitting bubbles. After a while, he came back to his senses, nodded lightly and said, "Explain? Well...... Do you have an explanation? Wait a minute...... Ah, I remember, it seems to have been! ”

Arrow exhaled and said, "What's that explanation?" Did he say what should be done next? ”

Viscount Ruichi sat up from the sofa and said, "Yes, yes! It wasn't a specific instruction, but he did tell me that if one day he suddenly disappeared and the kid Tiramisu came looking for him, he told me to open his room and let the kid go in and look for something on his own. ”

Without further ado, Arrow immediately asked to observe the magic swordsman's room. Ruichi was already a master of the six gods, nodded immediately, asked the servant to bring the key to Mas Capone's room, and the group hurried to their destination.

When you open the door, it's a very simple-looking room.

Unlike the other rooms, which are beautifully decorated with wooden panels, this room is made entirely of stone and has a very oppressive ascetic feel. Asked about Rich, the viscount said that Capone had asked for it.

The décor of the room is very simple, just a bed, a table, and a mountain of books stacked next to the table.

Compared to the clean and tidy bed, this table is very messy, and it is full of all kinds of manuscript paper, but at a cursory glance, you don't know what is being written.

Viscount Ruichi looked east and west, didn't see anything for a while, and asked, "President Arrow, what do you say...... Will Capone dig a hole for me? He had just injured someone from the Royal Wizards' Guild not long ago, and those two magicians would go back and then mobilize their men to come over, and they would be almost there, right? At this time, did he really leave such a mess for me to clean up? ”

Arrowk was in no mood to heed the viscount's concerns, and together with Sutta and Coco, he was constantly searching the corners of the room. After searching like this for about ten minutes, Coco bent down and lay under the bed, and the moment she lifted the sheet, she immediately screamed-

"Brother President! Over here! Here and here! ”

Arrow hurriedly put down a copy of "Rough Treatise on the Study of Ancient Gods" in his hand and rushed to the bedside. I saw Coco get under the bed, and after grinding for a long time, she crawled out of it with a slightly heavy package in her arms, patted the ash on it, and lifted it up with a smile.

"I guess that's it."

Coco placed the package on the table next to it and opened it. The first thing that caught my eye was a letter with fire paint, and when I picked up the letter, there was a stack of lists of various properties and funds, and at the bottom was a carefully renovated manuscript, and after a cursory flip, Arrow felt that he didn't understand much, so he simply put it together and didn't read it.

"This is the Fire Paint Seal of the Capone Family!" Viscount Ruichi pointed to the fire paint on the top of the envelope and said loudly, "But how did this letter get opened?" ”

Arrow picked up the envelope and looked at it repeatedly, and indeed, the paint mark had now been torn open. But the letter inside was still intact, and after thinking about it, he took the letter out anyway.

"To my dearest student, Tiramisu. Looks like Capone sent a letter to Tiramisu. ”

Arrow muttered, then continued to read—

"By the time you read this letter, I guess I've already returned to the arms of the God of Light. But please don't have any grief over my death, I don't want to see your uncomfortable expression. In that case, I will also fall into sadness. ”

After reading the first sentence, Arrow frowned slightly, put down the letter again and looked at the letter in his hand that had been opened and painted, and then turned his head with doubts and looked at Viscount Ruichi next to him.

Viscount Ruichi hurriedly waved his hand and said nervously: "No, no, no, don't look at me!" I didn't dismantle it! Bastard, it must have been some servant who opened this letter with his own hands, and I'll clean them up later!" ”

Coco on the side also stood on tiptoe and looked at the letterhead, and then said to Viscount Ruichi on the side: "You should check carefully, some places on this letter have spent ink, you cleaned it up and got wet, right?" ”

Arrow sighed, and could only put the matter aside for the first time, and read the letter in its entirety......

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To my dearest student, Tiramisu:

By the time you read this letter, I guess I've already returned to the arms of the God of Light. But please don't have any grief over my death, I don't want to see your uncomfortable expression. In that case, I will also fall into sadness.

Don't feel sad about my death, and don't blame anyone for my death. Because it's a choice I choose willingly. Don't blame yourself, although you usually seem very cold, but I, Master, know that you are a child with more delicate emotions than anyone else.

After my death, all my possessions will be yours. I made a list of all my possessions, all of which were placed throughout the Blue Bay Empire, and in some places there were people helping me run them. From now on, you will be the owner of these possessions, and I will not be able to give you a stable and peaceful life for the first half of your life, but I hope that after my death, you will be able to live a happy and happy life.

Ah, what else do I want to say to you? I always feel that there are too many things to say, but in fact, I can't figure out a clue.

Let me think about it, let me think back to 10 years ago.

Ten years ago, I rescued you from mass graves.

At that time, you seemed very scared, very aggrieved, and crying. All your family and friends are dead......

yes, killed by the robbers. This secret has been hidden in my heart for a long time, but now, I can finally tell you the truth-

The robbers who ruined your house...... Actually, it's me.

I don't want to argue about why I killed your family back then, and I didn't even have that much compassion back then. I am following the orders of the church, I am following the will of God of Light, but none of this can change the sins I have committed against you and against your family.

So, when I pulled you out of that mass grave, looking at the blood on your face, actually...... How scared I was at that time.

Seeing you cry in front of me, seeing you a child who should have a good life but being so powerless because of my fault, at that time, I felt that somewhere in my heart was finally touched.

Tiramisu, I'm not begging for your forgiveness.

In the past ten years, I, a sanctimonious hypocrite, have asked you to call me, the "master" who has been destroying enemies for ten years, but in fact, I am no longer qualified to ask for your forgiveness.

It was also since that time that I made up my mind that I must take good care of you. Even if my own life is exhausted, I want you to be able to live a relaxed and happy life, without sorrow and worry.

That's really what I thought...... I used to think that I could fight for this idea for the rest of my life.

All the way up to ...... When you are diagnosed with this terrible disease.

Tiramisu, I'm not trying to explain to you how much effort I've put into your illness and how much I've gone through to get through it. That stuff doesn't matter what I owe you. It's just that when I heard the news from those magicians that you might not live to adulthood, I felt like my heart was going to break.

I hope you can be rescued, for which I can pay any price and do anything. This is my belief, isn't it all for that little bit of belief?

How many years have it been...... As your condition got worse and worse, watching you get weaker day by day, I really felt guilty for my own powerlessness.

If I hadn't done such a terrible thing to your family, would your family have had any other way to save you?

If I hadn't been a rigid Templar, could I have more ways to help you?

Haha, now that I think about it, this kind of thing actually doesn't make any sense in itself.

Because you survived.

Your illness is cured.

The voice that called me gave me a promise, and while I can't say why, I really felt like its promise was real. Actually, you're reading the letter right now, aren't you? It didn't deceive me, because I felt that way, and even if it did, it wouldn't deceive anyone about it.

Therefore, the moment when I, the culprit who killed your entire family, finally confesses, I believe that your future life will finally be able to clear all the gloom and become incomparably brighter.

You don't have to worry about how much life you have left, you can play with the children of the Mermaid Song if you want, and travel the world if you want to.

The possibilities are endless, and I believe that there may be countless adventures waiting for you in your future. I have written down all the powers and skills that I can think of as a magic swordsman master, if you are willing to learn, you can learn, if you don't want to, it doesn't matter if you want to give up the identity of a magic swordsman.

In the not-too-distant future, perhaps, which girl will take a fancy to you? And then you will have a beautiful and romantic relationship with that girl, and then you will either leave a sentimental memory, or will you walk into the palace of marriage together?

After that, you will have a lovely child...... Or several? These adorable children will surround you and listen to stories of how brave you once were.

In a few decades, you may feel tired as you get older. But you were still very happy at that time.

One day in the future, you will lie in a warm bed, and then slowly close your eyes and walk towards the end of your life, drawing a complete and happy end to your life......

Yes...... I really want to see all of this with my own eyes...... But it doesn't matter, because I know that this is going to happen, and in the next few decades, you will be free from the pain of your illness and enjoy everything you should have enjoyed at your age.

yes, look, you're going to have such a good life, so you don't have to be sad about me at all.

Because, I will greet my end with a smile on my face.

In the end, even if it's a little bit of arrogance on my master's part......

Tiramisu, please live well.

This is the biggest belief in my life.

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In the second half of the letter, the handwriting has been completely blurred by the splash.

It took Arrowboy to make out the meaning carefully.

After reading the letter, Arrow looked up and looked at Rich, Coco, and Crispy next to him.

These people are also looking at each other now, not saying a word.

"Hoo ......"

Arrow exhaled, carefully folding the letter and stuffing it back into the envelope. Then he opened the thick book underneath again......

Yes, in addition to the large number of asset information records above, the following note does indeed record the path to becoming a magic swordsman. There are also many combat techniques and methods. Even if Arrow doesn't know combat at all, just a cursory look at a few lines will immediately feel the effort contained in this "Demon Swordsman's Handbook".

"This guy Mas ......" After a long time, Viscount Ruichi finally couldn't help it and said, "He...... Did you take the initiative to dedicate yourself and let yourself die? I don't even know...... When he was a Templar, he even slaughtered his entire family? I used to know only that the Templars were a noble profession...... There is no way there is such a thing......"

Arrow shook his head slightly, put the book back in the package, and after thinking for a moment, said, "Viscount Ruichi, can you show us Tiramisu's room?" We wanted to know if there were any clues in his room. ”

Viscount Ruichi nodded, led everyone out of the door, and turned a corner to arrive at another small room.

Pushing open the door, the décor inside was barely different from Capone's room. After a few moments of searching, no further information was gleaned from the small room.

There was no way, so Arrow could only go back to Capone's room, weigh the letter in his hand, think about it, and say-

"Viscount Rich, all of Mas Capone's property was given to Tiramisu according to his will. But the child Tiramisu is also dead now...... So, what will happen to his property? ”

Of course, Iero knew what might happen to the property, but it was respectful to ask now.

Viscount Ruichi rubbed his chin and said with a look of embarrassment: "Well...... If there are no other heirs, it will naturally belong to the state, that is, to the royal family. President Arrow, you're not going to put your brain into this, are you? ”

If he could, Arrow was indeed a little tempted.

After all, after a cursory glance just now, this magic swordsman's legacy is at least tens of thousands of gold coins! Just being able to take a small part of it is enough to make your life much better.

But no sooner had the thought come to her than Arrow shook her head.

After that, I can only smile bitterly...... After all, robbing the property of a dead person is not such an honorable thing in any case. And after reading such a letter, who can still be in the mood to do such a thing?

But......

Arrow picked up the small package and said, "According to the laws of the Empire, the inheritance of no heir to the estate is returned to the state. But the search for an heir still has to be done all over again. Viscount Rich, would you like to help find Tiramisu's relatives? ”

Hearing Arrow's words, Ruichi hurriedly waved his hand, with an expression of avoidance: "Spare me!" I don't want to have anything to do with the Demon Swordsman anymore! And the money doesn't belong to me at all now, and if it is fraudulently embezzled, it will be troublesome for the tax officer to find out! I don't want to do such a thankless task. ”

Arrow thought about it, nodded as well, and then said, "In that case, then leave the matter of finding Tiramisu's relatives to our Mermaid Song to deal with." I'll have Mayor Dame make the announcement in Pelican Town's name. Other than that...... This "Demon Swordsman Handbook", please ask our guild to accept it, is it okay? ”

Ruichi was slightly stunned, stretched out his head and glanced at the booklet that was dragged in his hand by Arrow, and hurriedly waved his hand and said, "You take it, you take it all!" As I said, I don't really like swordsmen, and I don't want to have anything to do with them anymore. Alas...... This guy Maas, who has lived a very shrewd life all his life, why did he fall into this obsession in the last few years? It's a pity, it's a pity......"

As he spoke, seeing that there was nothing left to deal with here, Viscount Ruichi turned his head away with his hands behind his back and a helpless expression.

Instead, Arrow flipped through the manual in his hand again, turned his head again, and glanced at the various books scattered around the table.

"Alas...... In this world, there is also such a situation where they are all dedicated to each other, but they cause the worst consequences......"

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Leaving Stewancastle, Arrow, Coco and Crispa each carried a package that was stuffed with various documents and notes scattered around the corners and tables by Mas Capone.

On the way back, Arrow began to look at the list of Mas Capone's inheritance repeatedly, as if to confirm it, and estimated the value of it in his mind.

Seeing that Arrow quickly flipped through it, Coco on the side couldn't help but take two steps forward and said with a sad face: "Brother President, do we really want to help find the heir of Brother Tiramisu?" But he's dead, so how can we find his heir? …… Is there a lot of money in this? ”

Arrow closed the list, smiled, and said, "You girl, why do you care so much about how much money people have?" Anyway, not a single one of them will fall into the pocket of our mermaid song. ”

Coco muttered and grimaced at Arrow. On the other side, the crisp tower also stepped forward and said, "President Arrow, this is looking for an heir...... How are we going to find it? Are we going to search for the entire Blue Bay Empire? ”