It was this blood-red sky again, and it was raining a light rain that flowed silently over the silent corpses.

The wasteland is empty.

In this empty dead silence, a black mist suddenly appeared, condensed, and gradually formed the body of a person.

Chu was dressed in a black robe, and as the black mist dissipated, he opened his eyes.

At the end of the mission, she returned to the Apostolic Wasteland.

She rested her hands on her face and stared blankly ahead.

What was she thinking, she was thinking about what was going on before the mission was over.

Before she returned here, Hillman left her a gift, a very shallow kiss. This made Chu very puzzled, because there seemed to be an emotion in her heart that had not appeared for a long time.

Is it sad to part, or something else, it's a little complicated, and she can't understand it all.

However, she will take good care of the gift as requested.

He put down his hand, looked at the "scenery" in front of him, found a place at first, and sat down in silence.

There is not a single living thing, and no one will talk to her.

She just sat quietly with her eyes closed.

For her, it's both a break and a wait.

Waiting for her next mission, waiting for the next evil she wants to collect.

It was a long wait, and no one knew when the voice would notice her.

Maybe it was after waking up from a sleep, and the voice rang out again from above her.

"Welcome back, Apostle, and congratulations on your mission. Now that you have 6,000 points of guilt, do you need to strengthen it?"

"Strengthen?" he first heard the voice and slowly looked at the sky.

"Yes. Although he had already spoken it once, he didn't seem to remember it at first, and his voice took the trouble to explain again: "Consuming guilt can increase the body's abilities, or increase the upper limit of one's own evil. ”

"Hmmm..." Chu Shen groaned for a moment, and in retrospect, he did talk about this ability when he introduced it to her last time.

After thinking for a while, she said, "You can distribute it as you like." ”

"No problem, according to the random assignment, I will help you increase your physical attributes by 100 points, and increase the upper limit of 1000 evil points. ”

After the voice was spoken, Chu clearly felt that her body had been strengthened again, this obvious growth made her a little uncomfortable, and at the same time, the existence called evil in her body also grew a part.

It's only a small part, but even so, Chu can still feel it, she has become more numb, and she has even gradually begun to lose her touch.

At most, a few more times like this would make her sense of touch completely untouchable. After losing the sense of touch, it may be the sense of smell, taste, hearing, and sight.

Of course, Chu didn't take these things to heart, even if she went to the five senses, she could still use evil to judge the location and identify the direction, which would not affect her to complete the task.

As long as you can get the job done, wouldn't you?

But then, will she be able to keep Hillman's gift safe?

She didn't have an answer.

"Are you ready for the next mission?" the voice asked.

Chu didn't say anything, but nodded as an answer.

"Very well, the next task has been determined, collect the evil of "hatred". Do you want to take a break for a while, or do you want to go right away?"

"Let's go. ”

While waiting, she had been resting for a long time.

She needed a mission that would make her feel like she was there, not like the corpses here.

When Chu stood up, the black robe on his body fluctuated like water, and the blood stains on the corpse were shaken off. This robe was made by her deterioration, and it has the ability to cleanse itself, and it will be repaired as soon as it is damaged.

"Well, I wish you a speedy return. ”

In front of Hatsu, a door slowly opened.

Just as he was about to walk in, Chu suddenly turned around and said, "That." ”

"Huh?" A puzzled voice came from the air, perhaps because he didn't expect Chu to start a topic.

"Here. Looking at the corpses lying all over the wasteland, Chu hesitated for a moment and said, "When can I clean it?"

“···”

After a moment of silence, the voice replied, "No problem······"

"Hmm. Chu answered, turned and walked through the door.

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Sakurako's family lived at the foot of a mountain, a very remote place, surrounded by low hills, woods and rivers, and even the nearest village was more than a dozen miles away from their home.

But even so, their family lives happily.

They have lived here for as long as Sakurako can remember.

The family hut was built by my father himself, and it was made of the strongest wood in the mountains, and every morning when I woke up, I could smell the unique scent of the trees.

There is a cherry blossom tree in front of the wooden house, and I heard that Sakurako is called Sakurako because on the day she was born, the cherry blossom tree in front of the door was in full bloom, and the pink petals fell to the ground. As soon as her father patted her on the head, he decided that her name would be Sakurako. (Maybe that's how most fathers choose their names, wry smile)

Walking down the path in front of the house is the family's field, where grains and vegetables are grown, and there are several scarecrows made by the mother. Sakurako's favorite thing to do is to go to the edge of the field to play, she is a curious girl, and everything seems to her to be so new.

Whether it's a frog jumping away from the field or a gray bird that occasionally comes back to steal grain, it can be her playmate.

She could sit on the side of the road and watch her father work in the fields while listening to the frogs sing all day. You can also hide in the haystack, lazily bask in the sun, and then wait for an opportunity to scare away the birds that come to steal food.

My father was a bit strict, and his favorite thing to do was to sit in front of the house after a hard day's work, smoke a bag of cigarettes, and wait for the cherry blossom trees in front of the door to bloom with the sunset. However, every year when the cherry blossoms are in full bloom, he is always very busy, either plowing the fields or chopping wood in the mountains, so he has no time to see the cherry blossoms.

Mother is very gentle, she likes dinner time the most, every time she prepares delicious food, and when she watches Sakurako and her father gobble up, she will sit on the side and cover her mouth and smile.

The life of their family is very ordinary, but Sakurako is willing to live like this forever.

One night, however, a guest came to their home.

The guest carried an earthy yellow tattered hat, a straw in his mouth, and his clothes were loose and sloppy, and his chest was exposed. He has a stubble at the corner of his mouth and a knife at his waist.

In the mouth of the guest, my father used to be a very powerful swordsman who had killed many people, and now, he wanted his father to pay off his debts.

With that, he pulled out the knife at his waist.

Sakurako still can't forget the scene at that time, her father lying in a pool of blood, her mother kneeling beside her father and crying, and the man holding a knife to her mother. Then the sword fell, blood splattered, and the mother fell to the ground.

With tears in her eyes, Sakurako sat down on the ground and looked at everything in front of her stupidly. The swordsman looked at her indifferently, but instead did not make any more moves, he lit a fire and threw it into the wooden house that contained all of Sakurako's memories.

The wooden house was set ablaze by flames, burned, and collapsed with a creaking moan.

The swordsman put away the knife, dropped the straw in his mouth, rested his hand lightly on the hilt, and turned to leave, and before leaving, he said a word.

"In a lifetime, there is always a time to repay. ”

I don't know if it's for Sakurako or for himself. Maybe he means that sooner or later, he will end up like this.

Tears blurred Sakurako's vision, and she sat in the blazing flames, and in a trance she touched a stone on the ground.

It was a black stone with strange patterns on it, and it didn't come from nowhere, as if it had appeared out of nowhere.

But as Sakurako held the stone, a passage came to her mind.

"Are you willing to call an apostle at the cost of your sins? ”

The voice has an inexplicable magic that makes people listen unconsciously.

For a moment, the thought of revenge filled Sakurako's heart, and she barely thought about it, and she was willing to pay whatever the cost.

The girl clung to the stone of unknown origin, as if grasping the last straw that saved her life, and said.

"Summon. ”

She didn't have to wait long, the stone really worked.

In the flames, a black figure walked towards her.

"At the beginning of the apostles, they obeyed the call and were sent to be sent. ”

"I want revenge, teach me swordsmanship, I want revenge with my own hands. ”

The firelight reflected the girl's blank eyes, and she murmured her request, then fainted.