"Did you like this walk?"

The countess stood by the river and asked Magellan with a soft smile as the white rose on the brim of her hat was dyed a soft golden twilight like a marble statue in the forest of gods. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

"It's true that I rarely go out for a walk under the gaze of so many people, and it's a novel experience. ”

Magellan smiled and glanced at the Countess's Emunquet gold bracelet hidden in her sleeve, and as he spoke, he glanced at the sparkling river.

"The great hero of all eyes, Magellan," the countess's smile concealed a message that made Magellan nervous, and it was this that kept her happy, "the warrior of the goddess Athena." ”

"Sherlock Holmes moved......"

Magellan sighed and said nothing more.

"Please don't worry, he's just busy with his own business. ”

The countess took a step forward and set out on her way home.

The sun is setting.

......

Ruidu in the dark, the city of steam, the city of essence, the eternal double-sided coin, is revealing its other side hidden by darkness.

The noisy steam engines were still noisy, the huge steel was pounding on each other like on an anvil, the quiet Essence Furnace was still quiet, and the delicate transmission lines of gems lay silently in the midst of the heavy packages.

This is the most beautiful city, but also the ugliest.

There is an eerie smell in the streets, a collection of countless strange smells that you don't want to know where they come from, and that's the city itself.

Darkness hung over the city, but Magellan could clearly see the cracks in the iron-blue brick walls, the filthy iron bars of black sewers, and rats coming in and out.

"Please stand there and do not move, Magellan, sir. ”

Magellan hears the voice of an adult man, calm, determined, confident.

"You're threatening me?"

"I have no ill intentions. ”

Magellan placed his right hand on the hilt of his sword and turned to face a corner in the darkness.

"I don't know...... What do you think I want to do. ”

Magellan smiled as he spoke, not knowing how terrible it looked.

"I have no ill intentions. ”

The man finally emerged from the darkness in the midst of this threat, a rare alien with black eyes and hair - the same as Magellan's.

"I know you want to reshape the city's underworld," the man was keenly aware of Magellan's concession, and he didn't miss the opportunity, "but that's not necessary, Mr. Holmes is with us." ”

"You guys?"

Magellan's hand left the hilt, but his tone remained dangerous.

"We are, hunters. ”

At that moment, Magellan felt something he had never seen before, not essence, not divine power, not unexplained transcendent power, not the pure power of science, but some kind of subtle breath...... It's like life.

"Hmph. ”

Magellan sneered and placed his right hand on the hilt of his sword, and the feeling receded like a tide.

"Please follow me. ”

The sound of men's footsteps echoed through the silent alleys of midnight, and Magellan followed unhurriedly.

......

"We must put an end to this pointless argument, Holmes is already a hunter, so the contradiction between him and Moriarty must go through the roundtable!"

"The hunter must follow the interests of the masses, he wants to judge Moriarty, this must not be allowed, what will the collapse of the dark world order bring?"

"Hunter's Creed is not ......"

"No compromise......

"There is no need to ......"

In a sprawling ancient Loren's amphitheater-like building, a group of people are hiding in the darkness and arguing, their breath filling the air with sound that envelops the entire building.

Then a voice suddenly rang out.

"Magellan has arrived. ”

The heated argument suddenly disappeared.

In the silence of darkness, a door opened and closed, and Magellan entered the theater.

He stood on the circular stage in the center, looking up at the circular staircase around him, feeling the peeping gaze.

"I'm Magellan. ”

A silent wave swept through the theater like a silent breeze.

"We are hunters. ”

A majestic voice echoed through the theater.

"On the way here, I heard about it. ”

"We need a man who understands darkness to make a verdict, and you are the only one. ”

"Understood, then, what is the verdict?"

No one answered, and on the first step below the stage, the lights came on.

"Sherlock Holmes ......"

"Long time no see, Professor Magellan. ”

Magellan smiled and shook his head: "What happened?"

"I touched the darkness. ”

"Don't fool me with any vague answers, someone said to me before I left here for Emunquet...... The dark world is collapsing. ”

Sherlock Holmes smiled and pulled out his pipe and lit it, "That's the last thing to be put on the agenda, and before that, I have to explain something to you." ”

"That's why I'm disappearing during this time. ”

"Okay. ”

Magellan stepped off the stage and sat next to Sherlock Holmes, feeling his gaze moving in the dark dead silence.

"You can feel it, right?"

For some reason, Magellan could fully understand what Holmes was asking.

"Yes. ”

"It's the way the underground organization that has always protected Professor Moriarty uses to distinguish friend from foe, a complex power based on the philosophy of the Dragon Nation, and you can think of it as a form of magic. ”

"No, I know, that's supposed to be called, gas. ”

"You do, know a lot about the dark world, Professor Magellan. ”

Holmes shoved his pipe into his mouth, took a hard puff, and continued his story.

"They call themselves hunters, and on many occasions they have stood in my way when I was about to catch Professor Moriarty. It wasn't a big deal, but when the tide of explorers came in and the order of the dark world was about to collapse, my chance finally came. ”

"Moriarty was busy dealing with a sudden flood and was caught by you?"

"I was almost on the verge of success, but at the last step, these hunters stopped me. ”

"Why?"

"The hunters agree that you know far more about the dark world than I do. ”

Magellan smiled.

"Order in the dark world, right? Professor Moriarty is the only spider in the city, he lets the bugs in the darkness walk along the spider's web, and if the big man is gone, there will be chaos in the underworld. ”

"And at the time of the influx of explorers, the chaos seemed very deadly and unnecessary. Holmes smiled, "So I joined the Hunters." ”

"Why?"