When the real turmoil is over, the sluggish city belatedly begins to be dazed and frightened.

The emergency police officers rode horses and rushed to the streets to maintain the most basic law and order. But there were many more armies running through the streets to the sound of clanging iron, following the queen's orders to capture the rebels.

The silent upper town was awakened by the sound of heavy footsteps, the faint lights on in the darkness, the faint cries and confusion that came and went, and was quickly strangled in swaddling clothes just after birth.

So, there was still a faint silence.

All the estates and mansions involved in the House were surrounded by water, and soon a figure with a black hood on his head was escorted into a carriage and taken to the non-existent 'Fifth Division'.

Those who cooperate with the arrest can also enjoy the last dignity, and those who dare to resist will be killed on the spot.

So, in this suffocating darkness, all the members of the House were uprooted one by one......

The Fifth Division, which had been silently searching for clues, had been preparing for the day to come, and these non-existent figures appeared in the streets like illusions, and then brought the prisoners into places that did not exist.

Since then, he has disappeared from the world quietly.

It is to be expected that at the end of the secret trial, the Traitor's Gate will be filled with corpses. They swayed like wind chimes in the cold wind, paying for what they had done.

At the top of Avalon, in the pure white palace, towers rise, releasing the only light.

The light looked down like the cold eyes of a dragon, silently looking down on its own territory, watching the dying throes of the rebellious ministers.

"It's over. ”

Gavin staggered out of the blood-colored vortex, leaning against the wall. Coughing frantically. He looked up at the lights in the sky, a hint of resentment and gloom flashed in his eyes, gritted his teeth, and ran in the direction of home.

All clues must be disposed of and cut off by the root before the Fifth Department learns its exact situation.

Thankfully, just in case. Before he started, he had already sent all the people in his family to the field, and he had also arranged a retreat route for himself.

Just start up the equipment that has been prepared long ago, and leave a small spark behind, it is enough to burn it all up.

Suddenly, he knelt on the ground, spitting out a large mouthful of foul-smelling blood, feeling the power in his body disappear rapidly, which was divine punishment.

The one who has lost his incarnation has become furious. As a priest, Gavin had lost all favors. If he hadn't quietly prepared a lot of precautions, he would have already become miserable like a substitute ghost in those secret rooms at this moment.

"Gross!"

He bent down, vomited out the green poisonous juice, pulled out a silver needle, and nailed it into his neck and brain, temporarily sealing the scourge in his body: every second must be counted. His time was running out.

Gazing at the turbulent firelight in the distance, he gritted his teeth. Climbing over the walls, he fell into the garden of the old mansion - the robin puppets in the secret room, the letters he exchanged with him, the passwords to the secret lines, and the arrangements he had arranged must all be destroyed.

How much can be destroyed. Just destroy as much as you want.

Otherwise he will spend the rest of his life hunted by the Royal Orchestra. It's a pity...... After so many years of planning, he lost everything overnight.

Gritting his teeth, he regained his composure from his rage and pushed the door open.

Then it fell into a stupor.

"Father's ......"

He saw the man in a wheelchair in the hall. The aging man was still wearing a respirator. The voice was muddy, like churning in the lungs.

He's still here and hasn't evacuated.

"Father, why haven't you left yet?"

Gavin looked at him in astonishment, and soon, he stepped forward and stretched out his hand to pick up the weak old man, "It's too late, I'll take you away from ...... first"

His hands stiffened in the air, and after taking two steps forward, Gavin lost all strength and fell to the ground, unable to get up.

"Father's ......"

He raised his head sluggishly and looked at the old man in front of him.

On his face, the tattoos under the skin were hidden one by one, as if they were born, they had already been wedged into the flesh and marrow, and they could never get rid of it. The power that had been engraved in his body since birth had locked all his strength, and he lost the strength to resist in an instant.

Immediately afterward, an angry crutch poked him in the face, as if to smash his cheekbones. He didn't expect that this dying old man would have so much strength.

"You still have the face to call me father?"

The old man gasped, got up from his wheelchair, stumbled up his cane, and smashed it in his face, and then and again, and again...... Until he exhausted his weak strength and completely smashed the bridge of Gavin's nose.

"Adrian's house is finished!"

He glared at Gavin, at a seed of evil, a scourge that should not remain in the world: "Because of you, Gavin, because of you! All the names of your ancestors have been tarnished by you!"

On his face, the purple-blue veins burst out, and when he stared at Gavin, he gritted his teeth, "Sure enough, an evil seed like you shouldn't stay in this world......

Gavin froze, and he stared blankly at the frenzied man. His lips twitched, as if he wanted to explain something, but he didn't know what to say.

Until footsteps were heard in the distance, and someone led the group of men and horses towards it, and the familiar voice shouted: "He's inside!

It's Banner.

"For ...... Why?"

"Sacrifice you, and the family is saved. The old man looked at this embarrassed son coldly: "Obediently arrested, leave aside the relationship with the family, understand? Don't implicate the family ......"

"But...... Obviously ......"

Gavin looked at him blankly: "But weren't you the one who asked me to join the House?" Father, obviously, you asked me to join the House and win the favor of those big people...... Obviously, you were the one who gave me the name Mockingbird......

Clearly...... Clearly......

"I've done it, father. ”

He closed his eyes, gritted his teeth, and suppressed tears: "I have done it a thousand times better than you want!"

Gavin roared in the sound of progressive footsteps.

He drew his dagger and stripped away the restraint that had been imprinted on his face. Blood spurted out, pale cheekbones exposed, full of cracks, and looked like rotting corpses.

He screamed in pain, finally breaking free from the bondage that had imprisoned him since birth, leaving behind his flesh. Only boneless bones remained, as hideous as evil spirits.

Seeing Gavin get up from the ground and walk towards him, the old man was stunned, his body in the wheelchair trembled, and he wanted to retreat: "You...... You...... What do you want to do? Gavin, I'm ......."

"I don't want to do anything. ”

Gavin smiled, reached out and stroked his sparse white hair, and said softly, "Father." Banner has always cared about your body, and this is the first time that our father and son have been so close.

You are old and in poor health, so you should sit and rest. ”

As he spoke, he gently shoved the dagger into his withered chest, and the dagger pressed against his heart, nailed to the back of his wheelchair, and took root. Fit each other as one.

In the midst of the old man's screams, Gavin bent down. The iron-gray pupils stared into the old man's eyes: "As you wish, please put all the blame on my head."

As you said, Gavin is dead, and the family is saved. ”

He kissed the old man's forehead and laughed, laughing bloody.

He pulled out the robin's mask from his pocket. Wear it on your face.

For the first time, there was no barrier between the mask and the flesh, and it truly became his face, except that blood oozed out of the eye hole and fell down his cheek.

I can't stop it.

The robin laughed. With blood and tears, he pushed the door and threw himself into the fire that was about to ignite himself.

The roar sounded from the darkness, then fell silent, the roar came to an abrupt end, and the roar of the music finally dissipated.

In this long dark night, I don't know how much blood was buried under the rotten earth, along with the bones of the enemy and myself, with those despair and anger.

In the darkness, the path of blood flows quietly-

As dawn approached, a small broken wooden boat sailed out of the hidden harbor and quietly left Avalon.

In the cabin, the battered robin leaned against the wall, silently looking at his blood-stained hands, and laughed softly. The laughter was hollow and desolate, echoing through the cabin and finally dissipating into the gloom.

"How long are you going to wait?"

Without looking back, he asked, "It's time to make a break, right?"

"yes. ”

In the darkness behind him, the boy who seemed to be sleeping opened his eyes and looked at his back with pity in his eyes: "Have you already discovered me?"

"No, I don't have the strength to sense my surroundings anymore. The robin lowered his eyes tiredly: "But I didn't see you all the way, so I knew that you were waiting for me here." ”

"I see. ”

Ye Qingxuan sighed and got up slowly: "Gavin, the eldest son of the Adrian family, the president of the student union, the elite of the royal school, entered the royal musicians as soon as he graduated, and even became the deputy of the master......"

"I know these things better than you do, and I don't need to read my resume anymore. ”

"I just want to ask, with your ability, why do you want to be a black musician?"

"yes, why? I want to know ...... too."

The robin chuckled hoarsely, "If you have to say it, maybe it's because of the family that has long since declined?"

Since the previous generation of patriarchs, this family has been expelled from the very top. My father failed to resonate and was reduced to the point where he would have suffocated without a wheelchair and a respirator. And Adrian's house, after so many years, is only an empty shell...... Nothing but the name.

Do you understand? Mr. Holmes, all the education and all the ideas that I received since I was a child were designed to bring this family back up.

For this, I can pay any price - even if it is the destruction of Avalon, if only the Adrians can return to the highest peak. Becoming a black musician is only a small part of it. ”

"Revive the family?"

Ye Qingxuan snorted coldly, "Do your father and your younger brother really care about you? Banner even treats you as a thorn in his side. Now, isn't it your father who has betrayed you with his own hands?

You gave everything for something that doesn't love you and you don't love either. ”

"Is it a difference to love or not to love?"

The robin looked back at him, his eyes mocking, as if mocking him. It's like laughing at yourself.

"As you can see, the family that exists in name only, the father who uses me as a tool, and the younger brother who hates me from the bottom of his heart, this is the only thing I have in this world.

They don't love me, I know, how can they love me? I'm their eternal shame.

A bastard born guilty, if he hadn't been found to have a little talent as a musician, would have drowned in the gutter long ago.

Raised by a maid. Eating my brother's leftovers, wearing clothes that can only be touched when I go out, and getting a little dirty will be beaten. That's good enough for me, very good, at least alive, even if it comes at the cost of being a slave for the rest of my life...... What other way can I go?

I was born with no choice, no escape.

Ye Qingxuan, this is my life!"

The robin's mask lifted, revealing its pupils. The iron-gray was stained red with blood, dark and dead, "That's why I'm ...... I envy you so much. ”

In the silence, the boy closed his eyes sadly: "Actually, you didn't have to be so wrong. ”

Answering him was a dagger full of cracks.

The dagger passed through the corner of Ye Qingxuan's clothes, nailed into the cabin, and broke. The piece of iron shattered into the robin's hand and embedded it in the palm of his hand. New blood flowed out and merged into the old blood, which had dried up. Not each other.

"That's enough, Ye Qingxuan. ”

The robin looked at him with fierce eyes: "Don't talk about those ridiculous truths, where can you have such mercy on a dying person?"

Ye Qingxuan was silent and motionless.

"Come on, Ye Qingxuan, what are you waiting for?"

The robin roared. As if he was going crazy, there was a hint of pleading in his fierce eyes: "Enough!

Looking at those eyes, Ye Qingxuan was stunned, and after a long time, he showed a bitter smile:

"yes. Vengeful spirits and robins, how can they be friends?"

He lowered his eyes and raised his staff:

"—Gavin, you broke my heart. ”

The moonlight lit up and poured into the robin's shell, rising and engulfing him like flames.

In the hallucinatory flames, the blood-stained robin closed its eyes and plunged into endless darkness.

All to silence -

By the time the boat returned to the docks, it had been sealed off by members of the Fifth Division.

The lonely boy stepped out of the cabin, the silence of the cabin behind him like a grave. Against the soldiers who had rushed into the cabin, he returned to shore.

As if exhausted, he sat down wearily on the stake under the gaze of those awe-struck eyes, then took off his top hat and threw it aside with his cane.

Someone cautiously walked up and whispered, "Mr. Holmes, there's a ...... please."

The boy was in a daze, as if he hadn't heard. After a long time, I looked up at him. Those quiet and dark eyes seemed to be buried with someone's bones, which was terrifying and terrifying, and I didn't dare to look at it directly.

The visitor bowed his head in awe.

"Is there any smoke?" the boy asked.

"Huh?"

The man was stunned, quickly reacted, looked back behind him, and soon, a crumpled pack of cigarettes was delivered to Ye Qingxuan.

Ye Qingxuan tore open the package a little awkwardly, picked out one of them, and held it to his mouth.

The fire lit up and lit up, and the boy took a deep breath, spitting out the killing and dark embers, and his voice was hoarse: "You guys go, let me be quiet." ”

The visitor did not dare to say anything, and made a few gestures to his companions, and a black cloth bag was carefully removed from the cabin and placed on the carriage.

The men of the Fifth Division quietly withdrew.

On the silent dock, he was the only one left.

Only the faint sound of the tide is accompanied.

I don't know how long later, behind him, at the end of the ocean and sky, there was a faint light up, and a round of morning sun silently jumped up from the tide, sprinkling a faint glow.

The faint light illuminated the lonely figure of the young man.

The long dark night is over.

It's dawn --

I want to try to make a list this month, after all, it's been so long, and I haven't dared to ask for a monthly pass. I hope you will have more monthly passes, and I will try to have more than that. (To be continued.) )