"No!" the man shouted. "You don't understand! They're all monsters! I see them for what they really are! Darkness, only darkness!"

"Confession!" shouted Giselle.

The crowd shouted along, and the desire for revenge poured out of a pair of mouthpieces. They are on the verge of breaking out, and at any moment they may rush to the high platform and tear Aldo Dayan's body apart. At the moment, he hasn't made a move, maybe it's just because of the four fearless vanguard warriors in front of him.

"What is this doing? What's going on?" asked Lux as he walked over to Galen.

Galen didn't look at her, but at the kneeling man.

He killed his sleeping wife and children, and then ran out into the street and attacked his neighbors. He hacked three people to death with an axe before he was subdued. ”

"Why is he like this?"

Galen finally turned his head to look at her. "What do you think? There must be a mage around here. There are dark forces at work. It is only under the evil influence of a mage that a loyal resident of Demacia would commit such a heinous crime. ”

Swallowing her angry retort, Lux pushed Galen onto the platform and walked over to the kneeling man.

"What are you doing?" said Giselle, in a commanding tone.

Ignoring her questioning, Lux cupped the man's face. His face was covered in bruises, and one eye was swollen from being beaten with a blunt object, and he couldn't open it. There was blood and snot in his nose, and there were several bloody cuts on his chapped lips.

"Look at me. She said that the man was trying to see her with his remaining good eye. The whites of his eyes were bloodshot, his eyelids were black, and he seemed to have not slept for days.

Lux asked him, "Good man Dayan, tell me, why did you kill your own family, why did you attack your neighbors?"

"They are not. No. I see. It's not them, they're ...... The monster ......" the man began to cry. "The darkness in human skins has been hiding among us! I woke up and saw them for what they really were! So I killed them! I had to. I have to kill it!"

She looked up and saw Judge Giselle standing beside her. Lux saw soul-wrenching sadness in the woman's face. The last two days have made her feel like she has aged ten years. The judge looked down at Aldo Dayan with hatred on his face, his hands clenched into fists.

"Did you kill my Luca?" her voice was hoarse with grief. "Did you kill my son? just because he was different?"

The crowd erupted in demands for blood debt, and the sun began to set in the west, and the shadows gradually lengthened. Several clumps of dung were thrown on Aldo Dayan's body, and his former friends and neighbors were shouting for his life. He swayed back and forth under the guards' custody, blood foaming at his mouth.

"I must kill them!" he shouted, glaring at his accusers. "They are no longer them. It's all darkness. Some of you will have it too!"

Lux turned to Judge Gilsay.

"What did you mean when you said your son was different?"

Giselle is grief-stricken, but Lux sees the unspeakable shame hidden beneath it through the cloak of grief. The judge's eyes were bloodshot and dark, but even those weary eyes still revealed a look familiar to Lux, the kind her mother had used to look at her mother whenever her magic was out of control when she was a child. Sometimes her brother would look at her like this, thinking she hadn't noticed.

"What do you mean?" asked Lux again.

"Nothing," Giselle replied. "I don't mean anything. ”

"How is it different?"

"It's just different. ”

When Lux heard the flickering, she knew immediately how different the judge's son was.

"I've heard enough. Galen said as he walked to the high platform. The long flame of the sun steel sword body hissed out of its sheath. The blade shimmered in the twilight, sharp and cold.

"Galen, don't," Lux advised. "It's not that simple. Let me talk to him. ”

"He's a monster," Galen said, slung the greatsword over his shoulder. Even though he was not a traitorous servant, he was still guilty of murder. There is only one appropriate punishment. Your Excellency?"

Giselle's gaze left Lux, tears welling up in her eyes. She nodded.

"Aldo Dayan. I convict you, and enlist the intrepid Garyn Crownguard to enforce Demacia's justice. ”

The man looked up, and Lux was full of doubts, and a feeling of uneasiness welled up...... It seemed as if something was passing through his body. Something hidden in the depths whispered. Before she could confirm it, the whisper had slipped away. A cool breeze blew across the back of her neck, making her hair stand on end.

Dayan's limbs began to twitch, like a homeless man on the side of the road suddenly having a seizure. He whispered, his voice rough and faint, as Galen raised his greatsword and made a gesture ready for execution. Dayan's last words drowned out the crowd's shouts, but Lux finally pieced them together as Galen's greatsword began to slash downward.

The light is fading...

"Wait!" she exclaimed.

With a powerful swing, Galen's greatsword slashed off the head, and the crowd let out a cheering cry. The corpse fell to the high platform, two columns of blood spurting out of the neck. The head rolled down to Giselle's feet, and from Aldo Dayan's corpse rolled a curling puff of black smoke, like the pitch-black slime that poured out of a corpse pit. The judge was stunned, and a ghost, with teeth and claws, and fire in its eyes, burst out of the dead man's skull.

The dark ghost rushed towards the judge with an evil aura. She screamed, and the ghost passed through her body before vanishing like embers in the wind. Lux could feel the last breath of its demise moment, an energy so vicious, so resentful, so evil, that it only longed to show its existence. Judge Giselle collapsed to the ground, crying in horror.

Lux's mind conjured up a hundred terrifying images that made her fall to one knee. The fear of being buried alive in the mud, the fear of being expelled from Demacia by his brother, the fear of a thousand slow and painful deaths. The glow within her battled the horrific sights, and Lux banished the smell of death out of her mouth, exhaling faint balls of light.

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"Lux ......"

Galen whispered her name, and it took her a moment to realize how she could hear so clearly when there was so much noise around her. Lux's gaze turned away from the weeping judge, and she felt the magic in her body stir like a raging wave.

(End of chapter)