Julian walks the court's promenade, the walls of which are covered with portraits of past Duke McCarvey. The McCarvey family has always been known for their rich imagination and temperament, and the faces of the Duke of McCarvey have all exuded a gloomy and conceited look on their faces. Julian showed the characteristics of the family in his infancy, and as he grew older, this characteristic became more and more prominent, and Julian became more and more self-serving, moody, and uninhibited, and lived a dissolute life, which made him infamous and became the bane of his reputation, and this unshakable viciousness became more and more obvious, and the duchess and his wife made many efforts but finally failed, because Julian's will became stronger and stronger. Now, Julian has finally paid the catastrophic consequences for his arrogance and self-righteousness.

When he was alienated by the nobles because of his bohemian behavior, he didn't realize his mistake, no, he should, but his pride did not allow him to bow to the nobles and humbly admit his mistakes. Instead, he was furious and destroyed the Noamun family with a thunderbolt, thinking that this would shock the ministers and make them awe-inspiring and not dare to underestimate themselves. But the effect backfired, and the nobles of the South grew increasingly dissatisfied with the rough and brutal heir, and it was difficult to imagine what atrocities it would have done to inherit the Duke throne.

But even when he finds himself in such an embarrassment and dilemma, will Julian regret it, bitterly admit his mistakes, and stop the madness of his life?

Trapped in a cramped cage for so long, unable to toss and turn, Muto was distraught, but he was disheartened by the human soldiers who were guarding him closely. He felt remorseful, why should he be so greedy and not satisfied, he communicated with many greedy merchants, and knew that these merchants could make an agreement with him, but the merchants could provide him with too little, only to maintain the needs of the tribe, and could not expand, so in the case of vanity, Muto set his sights on the great nobles of the human race, if he could reach an agreement with them, then Muto would get more, and the more things he brought back, the more respectful the people would respect him, at least Muto thought so.

After a long period of temptation and prying, Muto finally reached an agreement with the Earl of Noammon, Muto was ecstatic, but who knew that there were unforeseen circumstances, he was involved in the war, and was unfortunately arrested, and then met the sneaky K, K's too pompous performance and false words made Muto difficult to trust, but K was too cunning, the bait he threw was too sweet, and the conditions he promised were difficult to refuse. The wise man was fascinated, and Muto was fooled, and in the end he was betrayed by K.

Muto couldn't help but complain about his naivety and unsatisfactory, but Muto still had a glimmer of illusions, if K could strictly enforce the words of the contract, then he also felt that he had died a well-deserved death and lived up to his adoptive father's expectations. But the cunning K makes him unpredictable, K's figure is too hazy and blurred, his actions are too capricious, and it is difficult to find patterns.

In the dead of night, Muto slowly fell asleep in fatigue, and he dreamed that before he left, his adoptive father insisted on getting up from the sickbed and seeing him off, at that time his adoptive father held his hands tightly and asked him solemnly, "Muto, please." ”

"Are you in tears?" a familiar voice crept into his own grief as Muto awoke from his dream.

Muto got up and looked around, but there was no one around, and the guards guarding him had disappeared at some point.

"It's you, Mr. K, Muto's eyes know you, you cunning human, you sold me to the jailers, and now you come to me again to laugh at my stupidity and boast of your wisdom by the way?" Muto said with his sleeve wiped away his tears and stubbornly raised his head.

"I thought you'd be even more angry!"

"It doesn't matter, what are you going to do?"

"I want to make a deal with you. ”

"Enough! have you deprived me of my freedom, my mission, my life, and in the end you don't want to leave me even the only remaining self-esteem?" Muto felt that he had been insulted, if he had been deceived for the first time, he would have been able to admit his mistakes, but he would never allow the same people to deceive him a second time in the same way, he was different from ordinary orcs, although he was not a powerful warrior, but he also had his own pride and persistence.

"Listen to me, Mr. Muto, I can help you. ”

"Can you help me get out of this prison?"

"Unfortunately, your life is not in our transaction. ”

"Then you go, hypocrite. ”

"Please don't let useless anger blind your wise mind. ”

"My father told me not to fall on the same rock, it's a fool's mistake......" Muto turned away, deciding to turn a blind eye to K.

No doubt annoyed by Muto's actions, K, he rudely interrupted, "Aren't you a fool? It is true that I have deprived you of your life, but some must be lost, this is the principle of equivalent exchange, this is my game table, the rules of the game are made by me, you can only admit and accept, but you can also choose to refuse, but then you will only die worthless, become the fodder of the beast. ”

"You bastard. Muto was furious and was about to get up to refute, but his movements suddenly froze, his momentum was lost, and he lowered his head and said in annoyance: "Okay, I admit that this is your game table, but ......" After a while, Muto raised his fierce torch-like eyes, "I have what you need, and this is the reason why you can't wait, so please listen to my conditions as well." ”

K shook his head in annoyance and regretted his actions, he was caught by Muto, he bowed his head slightly and said, "Listen up." ”

"Take off your mask and show me what you look like. ”

K hesitated, but eventually took off the clown mask he wore on his face, revealing his gloomy, grim countenance.

"Indeed, it is you, Venerable Earl Karazan, Your Excellency Julian McCarvey, the future guardian of the South. Mu Tuo said with a smile.

"Oh, you already know it's me?"

"I vaguely guessed. The long journey, the cramped cage, gave me more time to think, and the moment you came to me, I was already convinced, because who in the city of the Furious Waves could command these loyal soldiers?

"If you already know who I am, why should I take off my mask myself? ”

"Inductive reasoning is speculation anyway, and it can't be verified, so I wanted to verify for myself whether my guess was correct. But you, I didn't expect you to agree to my terms so readily, aren't you afraid that I will expose your machinations in front of everyone?"

"You know, no one would suspect a duke's son for the words of a lowly orc, and believe me, such reckless actions will only make you die faster. ”

"Let's start negotiating, I don't have much time. Julian urges that if he spends too much time with Muto, he will arouse suspicion.

"If I'm not mistaken, your adoptive father was a shaman. ”

"Yes. ”

"You know witchcraft?"

"I know a little bit about it. ”

"Good. I need you to testify before the Inquisition, Count Noamon. ”

After friendly negotiations, the two finally reached an agreement.

The two enemies finally shook hands and made peace, and they showed joy because they both reaped a satisfactory result.

"You're going to keep your promise, right?!" Muto asked, looking at Julian's departing back.

Julian was slightly stunned, and then said, "I will." ”

Julian's back faded into Muto's eyes, and the silence of the cell was filled with only the sound of Julian's dull footsteps, which was soon swallowed up by darkness.