"Drive, drive!"

The only dragoon who escaped the killing of Kuroki alive galloped in the direction of the kingdom's borders.

Elbe was close to the border, and along the way, he avoided as many battlefields as possible where his army was engaged. The distant wilderness was filled with the haze of war, the houses of the suburbs were burning, and the sound of artillery and gunfire was incessant.

Every now and then, a few stray bullets would fall on the grass around the dragoon, exploding to kick up a layer of grassy dirt that left him covered in mud.

The dragoons thought to themselves, the information must be delivered, and it was too strange that the Eastern Exorcist would appear in the kingdom.

"Stop!"

A dozen Northern Empire soldiers with rifles suddenly rushed out of the woods on both sides of the road, and they blocked the path of the dragoons.

"Don't shoot. The dragoon raised his hand and calmly looked at the soldiers surrounding him, "I'm here for Colonel Surovich." ”

"Is that standard in Northland?" the soldiers looked at each other, and the last man in the lead said, "Okay, leave the weapon with us, and I'll take you to him." ”

The soldier led the dragoons through the grove, across the stone bridge of a small river, to the camp next to a steam train.

Many recruits practiced target shooting with rifles, an armored vehicle patrolled around the camp, and soldiers with Grimm guns on the roof of the vehicles were listlessly smoking in tin sheets.

"This is it. ”

The soldiers lifted the white tent, and the dragoons first saw a yellow and blue flag with a black brown bear pattern hanging in the center of the tent.

An officer in a white cloak sat at a table fiddling with a gun in his hand, his left eye wearing a monocle, and his blue eyes were dark and deep.

The dragoons noticed a set of dark gold metal skeletons around the tent, and a two-meter-long straight-edged saber lay across the corner of the tent.

"Vasily, back so soon?"

"Well, probably, Deputy Commander. The dragoon, named "Vasily", took off his military cap and hung his coat on a chair, but he did not sit down.

"Why is it so fast this time?Has the demon resurgence in Elbe investigated what is the reason?" Colonel Surovich, or "Deputy Commander", propped up his monocle and lowered the gun in his hand.

"No, and I was almost killed by a Fuso exorcist, and without a mechanical skeleton, I don't dare fight the monsters that parasitize demons in my body. ”

"Oh, the Orientals are also stepping on this troubled water? It seems that the awakening of the demons in Elbe City is really not easy. Deputy Head Surovich leaned back on the edge of his chair and looked at Vasily with his hands on his chest, "So how did you come back alive?"

"Don't mention it, I was so scared that I begged for mercy, oh, that's a fucking shame. Vasily covered his face and laughed at himself, "I swear, if I were wearing mechanical bones, I would have to punch him in the face!"

"The problem is that your tattered bones are still lying in the Order's headquarters, and you don't love them yourself, so do you expect to wear them to beat people?" Surovich smiled meaningfully, "What I'm concerned about right now is what's going on in Elbe. ”

"The call of hell. Vasily replied.

"The call of hell?" Surovich sat up straight as if interested, "How is that possible?"

"Unless I've been in a church school for ten years. I could not have been wrong at my level of being a cardinal. Vasily insisted on his opinion, "If you go to Elbe, you will know that the whole city is shrouded in black mist, and one man is big enough to hold the bell tower!"

"Could it be that the demon who is about to wake up is the Hell Maiden?!" Surovich's face changed, he grabbed the pen on the table and turned it between his fingers, and began to think, "No wonder, it turns out that Fuso's Yin Yang Liao wants to compete for the coffin where the Hell Maiden is buried." ”

"Hell Girl?"

"Yes. ”

Surovich sneered and got up from his chair and walked to the metal skeleton placed in the corner, "We need to hurry up and go to Elbe City to see if the Hell Maiden has fallen into the hands of Yin Yang Liao, if necessary, we must use the metal skeleton, and it is not impossible to kill the Fuso exorcist." ”

Vasily silently took out the pamphlet in his pocket and began to flip through it.

"No need to look for it, there is no Hell Girl in the book. Surovich had taken off his white cloak, and under his cloak was a strange vest full of gears and parts, "The Hellmaidens are the eternal demons mentioned in the dogma of our Demon Hunting Order, the highest beings in Hell. It can be recorded that she was burned to death by Alexei V, the first emperor of the Northern Empire, a thousand years ago. ”

"I don't seem to remember much. Vasily scratched his head, watching as the deputy head slowly put on the metal exoskeleton.

"Of course you don't remember, but as far as you remember, if the Pope and his old man were going to make you a cardinal, he would probably be old and confused or insane. ”

- Kara!

Surovich was dressed in his dark gold metal skeleton, like a medieval knight's armor covering his body, and the steam engine behind him made a strange sound of gear grinding.

Surovich spewed hot steam from the exhaust pipe behind him, and he easily raised his two-meter-long straight-edged saber with one hand and pointed it forward, the steel of the blade looming a cold blue.

It was a heavy weapon forged from the rare cold steel of the North, capable of easily slicing through a telephone pole made of concrete, but for a demon hunter equipped with a mechanical skeleton, using this heavy weapon was as light as using a one-handed sword.

"What should I do? My mechanical skeleton isn't here. Vasily involuntarily took a few steps back, "Do you want me to be cannon fodder and Fuso exorcist?"

"Pick up the one* in the corner and bring the Mithril bullet. Surovich turned his body and made a metal crash sound as his footsteps stepped on the ground, "And your kingdom dragoon uniform, provide me with long-range cover if necessary, and let me go back to the kingdom to continue as a spy when the matter is over." ”

"Alright, Deputy Master!" Vasily put his left hand on his chest and his right hand behind his back, puffing up his chest and performing the Order ceremony, "Heavenly Father instructed us to behead the demons. ”

"Good. Surovich then lifted the curtain and dragged his heavy knife to the middle of the soldiers, the blade scraping the ground with a goosebump sound, sparks splashing and falling to the ground around him, and the soldiers who were training stopped and looked at the half-man, half-machine monster together.

"Colonel?" the officers looked at him with wide eyes, "where are you going?"

"Look for the devil. Surovich looked at them condescendingly and said, "Also, the coffin of the devil." ”

I don't know how long he had been shackled, but Andrei felt like a felon who had been suddenly released from life in prison, and he danced with joy.

And Silo was still curled up next to a stone, and for some reason, as soon as he saw the oriental, his heart felt an inexplicable wave, as if it was a strange fear, like a natural sense of resistance, that strong fear.

Xiluo didn't dare to look at that person at all, he seemed to say that his name was "Kuroki Dust", and he was an exorcist of Fuso.

Andrei asked at the time, what is an exorcist, is it the same nature as the people of the Demon Hunting Order? Kuroki replied that it was about the same, but there were some differences.

Maybe it's because he's relatively small and inconspicuous, so Kuroki Yangchen never looked at him. Silo didn't dare to run out and talk to him on his own.

"Is the monster still up there?" said Andre with a flick of his wrist.

"It's gone. "It's gone, along with the black mist and the citizens. ”

"How so?!"

"I don't know. He replied simply, "Have you seen any coffins?"

Andrei scratched his nose with his hand with a blank face, "What coffin? Where did the coffin come from in the subway station? Haunted?" The question mark on Uncle Andrei's head is always the most.

Siloh suddenly remembered what he had seen in the darkness with a miner's lamp, the strange sarcophagus that kept saying "Hell is calling".

"The coffin was taken away by the giant black hand......" Siloh couldn't help but respond, but then he regretted it again and said no more. Kuroki Yangchen stared at him, and Silo hurriedly lowered his head and buried his face in the shadows.

"Lift your head up. Kuroki Yangchen suddenly said in a cold tone.

Silo still lowered his head, didn't say a word, his heart beat like a drum, and for some reason, a strong fear arose.

"I said and put your head up!" Kuroki Dusty walked up to Silo and suddenly pulled him up, the cold blade of the Brilliant Cutting resting on his neck.

Silo looked at the Fuso exorcist in horror, and his purple jewel-like eyes met Kuroki Dust's eyes for a split second.

"I see. Kuroki Dust's gaze sharpened, "It's really hidden, demon." The corners of his mouth curled slightly.

"Hey, what are you doing!" Andre was taken aback, he didn't expect that the man who had just saved them would suddenly become malicious towards Silo!

"He's a demon. Kuroki Dust didn't turn around, and forced Xiluo straight to the wall of the tunnel, "Maybe it's still an extremely dangerous high-ranking demon." ”

"Strange uncle......" Xiluo felt blood flow from the skin of his throat, and the pain was like a sting.

"you, you say yes!" Andre was furious, picked up a thin steel bar on the ground, rushed behind the exorcist, and smashed his head hard, "It's unforgivable to use a knife on a child!"

- Boom!

Kuroki Yangchen didn't look at it, and the Yan Slash in his hand cut the thin steel bar in Andre's hand like cutting tofu!

"Uncle Strange......" Xiluo leaned against the wall, his throat slashed by Huang, and it became extremely difficult to speak.

Andrei dropped the thin steel bar and gritted his teeth, "Imp, don't speak!" He clenched his fist and struck Kuroki Dusty in the back, only to turn his knife around and grab Silo by the collar with one hand, pulling him off the wall and finally kicking him across Andrei's legs.

Andrei couldn't dodge and tripped and hit the wall headfirst!

"Uncle Andrea!" Silo shouted and struggled, slashing his fingernails into Kuroki's arm, but Kuroki looked at him indifferently.

"Bastard, let go of that kid......" Andre struggled to get back to his feet as he propped up the wall, a line of red blood running down his forehead.

"I can't help myself. ”

Andre picked up the stones on the ground again, wiped the blood from his forehead, and rushed to Kuroki Dust without hesitation, "You damn fellow!"

He roared and lifted the stone above his head, and Kuroki Dust leaned his head slightly, slamming the hilt of his knife into Andrei's abdomen!

"No, Uncle Blame!" Silo desperately grabbed Kuroki's arm, but Kuroki shook it off and choked him.

I'm about to suffocate. Silo's little face was almost purple, and he struggled to breathe the air, feeling like his whole body was about to lose consciousness. I can't do anything at all, I can only watch Uncle Blame desperately.

"Why?" Kuroki Dust once again knocked Andre to the ground, "It's not your child, why are you desperate?"

"That's because this kid didn't try to hurt me when I was confronting that Miss Spy. Because, this little ghost pushed away the stone that was holding my leg for me when I needed help. Andrei's uniform was soaked with blood and sweat, and he could barely stand on his feet, but he never fell, "just because...... Just because he's just a kid, I fucking like this kid!"

- I just fucking like this kid......

Siloh stopped struggling, and a familiar voice seemed to echo in his ears. More hallucinations started to appear, a long, long time ago, right?

He seemed to see the city of Elbe five years ago, and countless snowflakes fluttered from the sky around him.

"Demon!" said a priest in a white robe holding a cross and pointing at a little boy who looked to be only five or six years old, "this is the child of the devil, he will bring misfortune to the people around him!

The little boy looked at the frantic crowd around him, and he was like a helpless puppy curled up on the corner of the street in front of a group of adults.

The ragged people shouted with their fists and their children spat at him, insulting him as a "demonic bastard".

"Burn him, burn him!" the priest shouted as the crowd chimed in, "gouging out his purple eyes!"

"No, I'm not ......," the little boy hugged his body, "I'm not a demon. ”

"Hey, hey!" a tall man squeezed out of the crowd and stopped in front of everyone, "Don't do this!"

"Sibelius, do you want to protect that child?" the priest asked the man in a fierce voice, "he is the son of the devil, and he doesn't even know who his real parents are!"

"No, he's not a demon. Sibelius smiled reluctantly, his tall frame standing in front of the little boy like an impregnable wall.

"Why do you say that, huh?!"

"Just because he's still a kid. Sibelius thought about it for a long time, and finally said this sentence, and the crowd around him became even louder.

"Isn't it true that I just like this kid!" Sibelius clenched his fists and yelled, punching the wall next to him hard, "He's just a child, not a demon child, and he doesn't have no father and no mother! If he wants, I'm willing to be his father!"

Everyone was silent, watching Sibelius's fist leave a scarlet mark, and listening to him resolutely say: "You treat a child like this, I, Sibelius, am the first to stand up against it!"

Gradually, he stretched out his bloodstained hand to the little boy, and a kind smile appeared on his face, "Let's go, from now on, you won't be without a home again." ”

Silo's eyes moistened inexplicably, and a line of shallow tears slid across his immature face. The next moment, Sibelius' face changed to Andrei's.

He stood up again, wiped the blood from the corner of his mouth unwillingly, and limped towards Kuroki Dust.

"You treat a child like this, I'm Andre...... Never, never forgive you. ”

"Don't you think it's ridiculous?" Kuroki Dusty casually caught Andre's weak punch, "Don't you think it's contradictory that a murderous soldier would say such a thing?"

He suddenly twisted Andrei's wrist hard. It hurt so much that Andrei cried out!

"Bastard Fuso!"

"It's annoying, I'm not killing him. Andre kept struggling, and Kuroki hit him with the backhand hilt of his head, and Andre finally fell down and didn't get back up.

"Uncle Andrei......" Silo looked at him blankly, tears wet his lips, "I'm sorry, it's my fault." ”

"It's time to go, little devil. Kuroki Dusty forcibly grabbed Xiluo's hand and walked towards the stone pile under the patio.