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On a cold night, a blazing white light without a trace of temperature descended from the towering black iron lampposts, stretching the figures of pedestrians in the snow.

The brown-haired boy walked alone on the street, he hadn't eaten in days, he had already run out of money to buy a ferry ticket, and he could only hold his gurgling stomach and search for garbage heaps along the way, hoping to find the bread that had been thrown away.

"Cheryl, I'm sorry......"

"Take care of yourself, I know he wants my life, you're safe, you'll be fine......"

"I can't die yet, when I find those people and avenge my mother, I'll go back to you and take you out of the manor......"

The murmur slowly spread from his throat, and no one knew what he was talking about or why he said it.

Only the other consciousness that lived within him knew that he was in such a hurry to flee the Nardo Manor simply because fear had risen again, and he felt endless malice and murderous thoughts from the crazy man.

He ran away like this, fleeing alone with his notebook, but left without Cheryl, leaving only a farewell letter and leaving without looking back.

Just as Williams was parked next to the trash can at the back door of a restaurant, he suddenly saw the Cathedral of Marseille towering in the center of Brittus, which was lit up even on a cold winter night.

He grinned and hissed.

"Only the Oude Holy See and the Witch Hunters' Association have carried out witch hunting activities against wizards, and those men must have been sent by the Oude Holy See, and no one else will do this. ”

Facing the glowing Cathedral of Marseille, Williams suddenly spat and turned away with his hands in his pockets, he did not see the bell tower far from the church of Marseille, a man was looking at everything around the church with a telescope.

It's just that Bill keenly sensed that someone was watching, and he turned his head to look southeast at will, and a blurred shadow appeared in his sight, but in front of him was still the picture that William saw.

The images flashed by quickly, and countless twisted and fragmented scenes were fragmented in my mind, from images of a garbage dump, to writing letters to Cheryl, to men and women whose faces were barely visible, and to a completely incomprehensible darkness......

But Bill couldn't put the fragmented memories together, and he didn't know exactly what was going on in between, and he only saw one result.

Over the course of a year, Williams got the power of a wizard and became more reticent.

No one knows where he came from, what he came to Brittus to do, and almost no one knows his real name and true face.

The following year, Williams met his nobleman in Brittus, Thomas Rudson.

In some illusory worlds like submerged water, everything is like dreams in bubbles, but Bill can clearly feel his heartfelt concern for Williams.

When Thomas came home from charity, he saw the boy standing stupidly in the alley staring at the Holy See of Ode, and suddenly froze, and the cane in his hand suddenly slipped off.

He walked quickly over to Williams and tried to hug him.

Luckily, on this cold winter's day, Thomas was wearing a thick fur coat and gloves made of pure leather, and he didn't have any skin touching Williams.

Bill could clearly feel that Williams's eyes suddenly widened at this moment, and the empty, lonely and cowardly heart seemed to have been suddenly hit by something, and a warm current of confusion and warmth passed through his brain and rushed into his heart.

The flickering images came to an abrupt end, and Bill suddenly couldn't feel what happened to Williams anymore, and his consciousness peeled away from his body, as if everything was frozen.

Strange uneasiness rises from the bottom of his heart, and Bill struggles to open his eyes and control his body, but there is nothing to deal with in this nightmare, and he doesn't know how to leave.

"I don't know if Boss Fett and I went into the same dream as me, and it doesn't seem to be anything scary. 」

「...... Wouldn't I want to fulfill Williams' wish to leave......

Bill began to be distressed, even if he had seen something with Williams in his dreams, and he had only a rough idea of what Williams had experienced as a child.

Just as he was trying to figure out what to do, the cold touch instantly made him shiver......

Straight open stiff eyelids, breathing hard, eyeballs rolling from side to side, Bill felt as if his body was stiff like death,

He found that this was not the place where he had fainted, it was a small room, surrounded by a dark blue candlelight, which soaked everything in the cold light.

"It's the first time I've seen a blue cold fire, is there any special material added to the candle?"

"What is the reason for my inability to move, the infusion of drugs that tighten my muscles, or the stiffness of my body due to death?"

"How did I get here, Cheryl?"

The suffocating lungs made Bill breathe rapidly, his limbs were about to be punctured, and the blood circulated slowly through his body, but there was no doubt that his heart was beating less than half the speed of a normal person every minute.

Swish......

Whoop - Whoop - Whoop

The sound of sharpening knives grew clearer, the shadow didn't react, and Bill struggled to control the rotation of his head from side to side, and there was a creaking sound around his neck.

The sound of sharpening the knife stopped abruptly.

Bill quickly stopped his movements and turned his head to look at the place where the sharpening sound of the knife had come from, only to realize that Williams's body was tied to a sloping plank, and the board still smelled disgusting.

In the suffocating underground stone chamber, the cold light robbed Bill of sight in the darkness, and thin footsteps sounded, as if something was slowly approaching......

Bill narrowed his eyes and searched for something that made noise in the darkness, and in the darkness that shook around him, he gradually saw the behemoth!

It was a black shadow in the shape of a human, its steps light and heavy, rising and falling, walking like a cripple, its right hand carrying a sharp knife that refracted in the cold glow and sliced through the air.

The shadow's facial features were very blurred, like an ethereal mist that could not be precisely formed, and its eyes were pure black, with no whites, like dead eyeballs.

"Huha......"

From time to time, a cloud of black gas came out of its mouth, breathing like an ordinary human, and its body did not know whether it was surrounded by black shadows or composed of black shadows, and it was constantly emitting churning black gas, and the human body could not be seen at all.

The two-meter-tall shadow figure continued to move forward, getting closer and closer to Bill, and the blade in his hand suddenly turned!

The tip of the knife is aimed at the body, and the cold light is refracted and flashes over the eyeballs......