Then Shadow took Julian to many more places, but the similarity was that no matter how illustrious the king was in life, he shed the cloak of power in the face of death and became a pitiful mortal, some feared death, some shed tears of remorse, some were tormented by illness, and some even denied their lives..... They are all unfortunate, and very few of them can die peacefully.

Eventually, Shadow leads Julian to a cemetery that Julian recognizes, the burial ground of the McCarvey family, where his father had been brought by his father when his grandfather, the former Duke of McCarvey, died, and where his deceased people are buried.

In front of a tombstone, there were many people in black mourning clothes, whom he knew, his father, mother, sister Rosalind, and many other members of McCarvey's side, Charlotte, Sebas, and Barr were still in the crowd.

Crying sobs were heard from the crowd.

Who died? Julian came to the tombstone with a question, which was inscribed with the inscription, "My son, Julian McCarvey, is buried here." ”

"I'm dead? no. I don't believe it, you're lying. Julian roared at the shadow.

"You're dead, accept it. ”

Julian came to his father, who was constantly touching the tombstone, and kept shouting, wanting his father to turn to look at him, but his father couldn't hear him, and tried to reach out but couldn't touch it, and then he came to Rosalind, who was wiping tears from her tears in a black veil, and wanted to tell her that she was not dead, that she was here. But no one responded to him, even if he was shouting loudly, no one responded to his call.

"Charlotte, I know you love me the most, tell everyone that I'm here, and I'm sure you'll feel my presence. Charlotte kept crying, her red eyes no longer watering, her voice hoarse, and Julian kept calling her name, but to no avail. Suddenly Charlotte stopped whimpering, and Julian was ecstatic, he thought Charlotte had heard him, but Charlotte fell down at once, and she fainted, from excessive grief and exhaustion accumulated over the past few days. The crowd panicked, and instead of responding to Julian's voice, they called out Charlotte's name.

Julian was desperate, he knew that no one could see him, he was stuck in place, not knowing what to do.

"Got it, you're dead. ”

"Admit it! You're wrong. ”

"You took Christine to your side, but she didn't attend your funeral, and the city of Azuchi, which you worked so hard to build, will soon have a new owner. Your stomach is always rumbling, and you will do whatever it takes to fill your greed, and now what you have seized is no longer yours, you come to the world naked, and finally leave naked. Do you understand?"

Julian was silent, and after a long time, he said, "And then?" Julian sneered, "Do you want to prove me wrong by this?" No, I'm not wrong, I'm not wrong, even if I'm dead!"

"You've shown me a lot of things, and now I'm going to show you the world too. ”

The scene changes again, and Julian takes his shadow to a slum.

"How could you change the world?" asked Shadow in horror.

"You said you are me, then I am you, why can't I do what you can do, we are one. ”

The slum stenched from the inside out, the streets were littered with garbage and excrement, the buildings were in tatters, like the ruins of a war, many of the walls had collapsed, only to be poorly repaired, dirty, and dilapidated, it was hard to believe that it could be inhabited, but the sounds of pedestrians and houses in the streets showed that it was indeed still functioning as a house.

"See that kid just now? guess how old he is?" said Julian, pointing to a child with a muddy face on his face.

"Probably 7 or 8 years old. ”

"7 or 8 years old, it's really innocent, Rosalind at that time was not like now, she was very cute at that time. Julian reminisced about his childhood.

"Did you see the money bag in his arms? He stole it just now, and seeing how happy he laughed, he must have gained a lot. A child of seven or eight years old learns to steal and lie. Julian turned to Shadow and asked, "Is he going to hell?"

"This is what the Father in Heaven has decided, and I cannot answer you. ”

Julian shrugged his shoulders and continued to walk forward with the shadow, Yurian stopped, pointed to a dark corner in the distance and said to the shadow, "Tell me, what do you see?"

The shadow hesitated for a moment, then replied, "A woman and a man are mating." ”

"Where?"

"...... on the street"

"What does that woman have to do with a man?"

"The woman looks very young, probably not yet twenty years old, and the man looks a little old, probably almost forty years old. ”

"You didn't answer my question, do you think they're husband and wife?"

"It shouldn't be ......"

Julian nodded, satisfied with the answer.

Later, after the man finished solving the crotch point, he lifted his pants and threw a few copper plates to the woman and left.

"It's sad that a woman can sell her beauty for just a few copper coins, and she doesn't even have a place to hide. Do you say?"

The shadow didn't speak, and he was silent.

Julian led the shadow to a church where the wedding was taking place, the steps were lined with flowers, and outside the church entertainers played the lute and sang their blessings to the newlyweds.

Julian and Shadow walked in, and under the Lord's gaze, the priest was sending blessings to the two newlyweds.

The bridegroom is in high spirits, but the bride is full of sadness.

Julian said sarcastically, "The bride's father must owe this man a lot of money, what do you say?"

The shadow closed his eyes, bowed his head and whispered, "When the day comes, the Lord will judge everything." ”

"I also believe that the Lord will judge everything, otherwise these people would be too unfortunate, and I mourn for their misfortune. Julian shook and sighed for the suffering.

Julian waved his hand and came to a grand and magnificent banquet.

"Where is this?" asked Shadow.

"It's a fantasy of me, not real. After seeing so many sad facts, there is always a need to relax. ”

Julian jumped and jumped, spread his hands and said, "I've been thinking that when I continue to be a duke, I must have an incomparably extravagant ballroom ballroom. ”

Julian went to the long table with desserts, picked up one on the table, and tasted it. "It's delicious, would you like to try it?"

"No need. ”

"It's a pity, it's a famous pastry chef in Raging Waves, and a small piece of cake costs three gold coins. ”

"Go and see what I'm doing. ”

Julian led the shadow to the center of the ball, the temple was richly decorated, and in the corner of the hall a band played melodious, soothing music. At this time, he was entertaining the guests as the host, surrounded by a group of warblers, and countless beautiful women in gorgeous dresses snuggled up to him.

"How could Rosalind be in there?" Yurian looked at the incredible scene, and Rosalind was actually coquettish to herself.

"What a terrible dream. Julian shook his head, trying to get the frightening image out of his mind.

"What the hell are you going to tell me?" Shadow said to a self-absorbed Julian.

"Don't you understand?" said Julian to Shadow, using what Shadow had said to himself.

"What do you need for a gorgeous banquet?"

"The answer is simple, money! I've already estimated that it would cost thousands of gold coins to hold this banquet. ”

"Do you remember how many copper plates the woman who sold herself cheaply got them?"

Seeing that the shadow didn't answer, Julian smiled, "It's okay if I don't know, because I don't know either, but it's not gold anyway." ”

"What is the truth, I'll tell you now!"

Pointing to the nobles dancing at the ball, Julian said, "People can't choose their birth, race, gender, status, and country are all determined before they are born, and they can't be changed. A pig, it can't escape the fate of being slaughtered, no matter how much you hate your gender, you can't turn yourself into a woman, you can't choose to be born in a rich or poor family, you can only suffer in silence for poverty, and you can't decide who you pay taxes, because where you are born you have to pay taxes to whom. You've decided all of this long before you open your eyes. ”

Shadow retorted: "Of course, people cannot choose their own birth, but everyone is born free, you can choose your future, what kind of job you choose, what kind of wife or husband you choose, what kind of life you choose." You can choose a life that is different from ordinary people. ”

"All men are born free. Julian sighed, like an amorous poet, "All men are born free, what a seductive sentence." But .....," said Julian after a slight pause, "all men are born free, but they carry shackles everywhere. ”

"Can the groom's son become a king, can the blacksmith's son become a general? ”

"Although the hope is slim and slim, it is by no means impossible, because in history there have been people who have become kings and people who have become generals. ”

"Really?" Julian smiled, smiling like a child, "I think I can be a speaker in the future, and there will be many fools who will work for me without money." ”

"Some people! some people! some people! people like you always emphasize those who stand on the clouds, but can't you see the corpses under the clouds?!, don't you hear the painful wails of the losers?!" Yurian roared, furious like he had never been.

After calming his mind, Julian continued, "You know I love Christine. ”

Listening to Julian's words, Shadow said disdainfully, "Is your so-called love to take her away from the person she loves, the person who loves her?"

"Why not? I give her the best food, the most beautiful clothes, and the nobility of status, isn't that love?"

"Your love is really superficial. ”

"Superficial!" Julian scoffed, "I'm not a poet. ”

"If I don't take her, how can she come to me?"

"I love her, but she hates me. ”

Shadow laughed angrily, "After doing such a thing, you expect her to still love you?"

"No, no, no, three times no. The disgust I say is not because I did that kind of thing, but because of the physical disgust, I'm a coward, a coward, a megalomaniac, a jealous person, but Christine doesn't like that. ”

"If I had not been Count Karazhan, I would not have been able to take her into my arms, she would have been the wife of other men, the mother of other men's children. As she spoke, Julian burst into tears and whimpered.

Julian wiped her tears, stopped crying, and continued as if nothing had happened just now: "She is now as docile as a cat, and knows how to be coquettish to me, and this is my happiness. ”

Shadow sneered, "Is this really the case?!She just compromised, a compromise with fate, because she knew that she would never escape your clutches, and if she was given a choice, she would leave you without hesitation." ”

"Of course I know! Of course I do! But ....." Julian's eyes changed from blurry to unprecedentedly determined, "this is my happiness, the path of happiness I have chosen, I will try to make her fall in love with me, this is my happiness." Whether it is superficial, cowardly, or ridiculed, this is my happiness and the life I have chosen. If life is only plundering and being plundered, then I choose to plunder others, even if what awaits me in front of me is destruction. ”

......

"Go and never appear in front of me again!" Julian waved his hand, and everything dissipated, the melodious music of the band, the dancing crowd, and his shadow, everything disappeared as if it had never appeared.