Part 1 The Promise Under the Stars 24 Sins
24 Sin
Milo didn't know how he had recovered consciousness from his near-paralyzed, collapsed to the ground, and he was dazed to see the servant beside the viscount struggling to lift himself up and drag himself to the room in the fortress, where a maid took out a wooden spoon and pried open his mouth to prevent him from biting his tongue as he convulsed...... He could see and hear all this, but his body did not listen to the command at all, and even his consciousness was inseparable from his body......
Heidi is dead, and he has lost his spiritual support.
"Where?" Milo asked the Viscount after confirming that he could still speak, his tone surprisingly calm.
"Her body is ......," the Viscount tried to continue, only to be interrupted by Milo.
"Where?" Again, the same calm tone.
Only then did the viscount understand - "where?" "It's not Heidi's body that is asked, it's where Heidi's killer is.
The viscount was silent. Both the silence and the calm of Melo were precursors to an outburst.
"Where???!!! The sound of a lion's roar resounded throughout the fortress. The servants were so frightened that they even wanted to flee from the place, but soon everything was quiet again.
Melo grabbed the Viscount's right arm, the right sleeve, to be exact, and he stopped yelling because he noticed that the sleeve of the Viscount's right arm was empty. The Viscount's face was sympathetic, he understood Milo's rude behavior, but he would never answer Milo's question, he just said, "Miss Trister's body, in the room next to the council chamber. Milo stopped asking the Viscount, but slowly stood up, he understood that he was not the only victim of this incident, and he did not continue to ask out of respect and admiration for the Viscount, but he knew that he would definitely get an answer.
Milo was selfish, he didn't sympathize with the viscount, he didn't sympathize with the residents who also lost their loved ones, he thought only of himself:
Heidi died, and he lost the treasure of his life.
Melo found Heidi's body, and there were two bodies beside her—both servants of the fortress, and the dead of the inhabitants would be handed over to their families, and the people of the fortress would be sent here. He didn't even glance at the victims other than Heidi. The girl's body lay there. In the town and in the fortress, except for Count Li's father and son, no one knew about his relationship with Heidi, and naturally no one would come to comfort him.
The Viscount didn't follow, and he had to deal with the town's affairs and deal with the threats that were coming—and he had to help his father and Windwalk get through it, even if he didn't have the strength to recover.
Mellot's face was bloodless, and his frozen expression would be mistaken for the fourth corpse here.
The girl's face was distorted and calm, and it was evident that she tried her best to walk peacefully before she died, as if she had only been pricked with a needle, so that her beloved would not think that she was walking in pain. Dare to ask who said: "The fragile name is a woman"?
With trembling fingers, Milo gently touched Heidi's hand, cold, stiff, and unresponsive......
Heidi dies and he loses the response of his beloved.
There was no familiar response, and Milo's heart was cold, sunk, and dead...... His eyes moved to Heidi's fatal wound - a sinful bullet pierced the girl's throat from the side, and the wound that the bullet entered was a small hole the thickness of a finger, and the wound that went out was more than three times larger, and the blood was then on one side of the girl's clothing, and the medical man's overalls were soaked in large patches of blood, mottled and mottled with sporadic spots of blood on the other side of the clothing, which reminded Milo of the legend of the stars......
Yes, Heidi also told a legend about a star, and made a promise with her about stars......
"Don't be angry, Milo, don't be angry...... Heidi is dead, and you still have the leisure to look back on the meaningless stuff......"
They have agreed many times that what will happen to the other party after the death of the other...... He had also imagined that Heidi would be ...... if he left
This time, the horrific vision is ruthlessly transformed into reality, and will the agreement be kept? Once upon a time, those promises were good, sweet memories, but now they have become stiff and bitter, and taste like chewing wax......
Heidi is dead, and he has lost all beautiful memories.
The Viscount knew that Milo would not be so masochistic as to put all the blame on himself, but he still arranged for the servants to secretly observe Milo in case he did something stupid, but this worry was indeed unnecessary - Milo would take care of everything before doing something stupid.
The Viscount lost his right arm, but he still endured the pain, because it would not be long before they would face an attack by the Praetorian Guard. After he took care of the affairs of the town and pacified the lost population, he also encountered greater troubles - some of the residents wanted to take refuge in the town temporarily, but were "friendly escorted" by the cavalry patrolling by the Praetorian Guard, and after several unsuccessful attempts, the residents began to riot, believing that the Janissaries were not only not protecting them, but even harming them. At this time, the viscount had already learned from the night sparrow that they had found the wind chimes, and she had already gone to the earl first, and the viscount seemed to be assured, and also promised the residents that they would protect everyone's safety, and the most important thing at present was to restore order to the town first, and not to fight before the Praetorian Guard attacked.
As for the Imperial army in the town - Charlie completely collapsed, he sat weakly in his chair, listlessly watching everything that happened in the town, he did not expect Hans's team to mutiny. However, Charlie turned the tide when the mutiny almost succeeded, leading his team and Milo's team to assist the militia in subduing all the mutinous soldiers, confiscating their weapons and equipment, sending them to temporary cells, and making sure that nothing leaked...... Even the Viscount felt that Charlie had saved Windrun Town in this mutiny. But his spirit was tortured again, and seeing so many innocent residents hurt, and several of his own soldiers were wounded and killed in battle, a series of sudden changes broke his spirit once again. Charlie pinched his fingers and counted how many djinn heads there were in his hand, as if he was thinking about something. One of the soldiers had reported that Milo had returned, but he didn't care about it at all, at least not because Milo and his men hadn't caused much trouble for themselves this time.
This time, though, he was wrong......
"Sister Magician, what a ...... Long time no see...... You're still so young, and I'm ...... I'm already an old man. Count Lee lay pale on the bed, unable to stand up now with so much blood loss that he could not stand up now, and the bullet hit his thigh bone, in his own words, "the bone marrow enters the bloodstream, and it will first cause a fever, and then die, and there is no salvation."
The wind chimes watched over the Count, who had come in through the window in the form of a canary, and as it happened that there were no servants in the house, she helped to check on the Count's injuries. "If you know that you are old, don't be reckless, you are a lord, and you must think about the people in the territory." Feng Chime said very seriously, and there was a sense of reproach in his words for Count Li for not cherishing his life.
"So, this time it's difficult...... I'm still asking the magician sister, looking at the way I look now, it's really inappropriate to call you that. The Count seemed to be joking, but his voice was already very weak. Wind Chime saw that the earl's body was almost unable to support it, and she didn't say much, facing her old friend for many years, she knew the other party's determination.
"I know a little bit about what is going on here, I just need to deal with the Praetorian Guards, right......" Wind Chime said, his tone seemed a little helpless.
The Count interrupted her: "You can't kill them, they also have relatives...... After such a tragic crisis, they also want to go home and reunite with their families...... Ahem......"
"You've said it twice...... I've got a solution here. Wind Chime's answer gave the Earl confidence and courage, and made his spirits much better.
"And besides, the man whose name is Melo Entekoman...... continued the Count, "he has saved us our lives, but yesterday we failed to protect his lover...... She was there to protect my son...... Alas......"
"So I'm going to make sure he lives...... aren't you?" said Wind Chime coldly, but the Count didn't think it was cold, adding, "I'm just afraid he's doing something stupid...... And, I remember you told me...... The family crest of the ivy ......"
"I see, I'll help him without you saying it." Wind Chime still said coldly, "What about you?" Really ......"
"Not really...... I've ...... No need......" The Count's voice became faint, and he did not want to continue.
Wind Chimes understood what the Count meant, and did not say anything, but bowed slightly, expressing his final blessings. She turned into a canary and flew out of the window......
The Count closed his eyes slightly, and kept muttering, "...... Sorry ......"
At noon, Melo threw off his servants, who were watching him, and went to an abandoned house in the middle of the town, where two of his soldiers were at the door, and when they saw the captain returning, the soldiers immediately saluted. Although no one told Milo, his military experience told him that this was a makeshift cell, and that the mutinous soldiers had been caught here, but he had actually followed the servant who had delivered the prison food to find it.
Melo walked in and saw twelve soldiers sitting on the ground inside, disarmed, with twine tied to their hands—even if they were not tied, they would not dare to escape, and the angry inhabitants would have dismantled them. Melo didn't speak to them, just held his breath and looked at them. The captured soldiers looked dejected and sad as losers, and did not give Milo a second look, after all, they were not Milo's men. But Milo's actions bewildered them - he drew his sword and cut the rope that bound them. The captured soldiers were stunned, they didn't dare to say anything, but they were all thinking about what Milo wanted to do next, but they would soon know what Milo was going to do-
He killed all the people in the cell.