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The sky was covered with gray-black clouds, and the cold wind of hunting blew through people's clothes.

On this day, Passion's body was sent back to Sunset City, where his funeral was held.

Rorschach stood outside the cemetery, looking at the brown coffin slowly sinking into the graveyard.

He was still wearing his black coat and his black hat, and let the rain crackle on his body and drip down the brim and hem of his hat. He didn't wear a mask, because it was just at this moment, he wanted to allow himself to have a weak sadness.

There were very few people attending the funeral, two men and one woman, and three people stood in the heavy rain, listening to the pastor's eulogy.

Rorschach recognized them, one of them was also a night's watchman in Sunset City, and it was said that they were Passion's former apprentices, and the other was a criminal who had been captured by Passion - Shadow.

The funeral was soon over, and everyone was ready to leave with umbrellas, except for Shadow, who stayed behind and offered a bouquet of flowers to Passion.

The cemetery soon regained its "silence" in the endless sound of rain.

Rorschach walked in, he walked over to Passion's tombstone and slowly crouched down.

"Is this the loneliness you once admired but feared?"

The rain pulled down the heavy curtain, blurring everything in front of him in the loneliness, and Rorschach whispered in his heart:

"Walking in the dark, struggling in the mire, you made an unsung hero, for this, you have almost nothing, you don't have time to take care of friendship, and when you die, only the enemy comes to lay flowers. ”

He took a rose from the bouquet and placed it in front of Passion's grave.

"This is where we end? Right? Violence will end by violence, and the only thing that awaits us is a lonely death. Is it a tragedy, or is it a comedy? Whatever it is, you're always passionate, and I'm not afraid, I'm not going to compromise. ”

Donald Hugh, Passionate, was born in 2458 A.D.

Buried in the rain.

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The identities of the night watchmen are extremely secretive, and many times even the real night watch partners do not know each other's true identities.

But [Enthusiasm] is different, he is very high-profile, although he never says it explicitly, but almost the entire Sunset City, and even the entire Western Continent, knows who he is, he is the former Sunset City Guard Chief Instructor, after his resignation, he still tries to maintain the peace of Sunset City.

Every day, Sunset City's newspapers reported on his deeds, and in the streets and alleys, people talked about the movements of the vigilantes with great interest. But ironically, his praise does not reflect his popularity at all.

Is it because the rain is too heavy? No, perhaps, it's just that in the hearts of the people, he is not as important as he thinks.

Passion's place of death was in Ash City, though the newspapers said it was just an accidental homicide caused by a burglary.

But a burglary is able to kill [passion]? ridiculous!

What's more, before Passion left, Rorschach heard from him that he had recently been investigating a strange organization that might be involved in a huge conspiracy.

For many reasons, but in the end, Rorschach followed the footsteps of [Passion] and came to Ash City step by step.

――――

Rorschach hated airships, he was a little airsick.

By the time he walked out of the mooring, the sunset had begun to recede.

The night in Ash City came so quickly that Rorschach put on his mask in a bit of a hurry, and the days of running around made him a little irritable.

But, no matter which city it is, sin is everywhere.

He knocked out two thugs who tried to rape the girl and brought down five gang members who had burgled and robbed.

Later, Rorschach meets the Night Watch of Ember City, the White Knight, a middle-aged man in a white samurai robe, a hood, and an owl mask on his face.

The White Samurai lowered the vigilantly raised sword in his hand and asked, "Aren't you supposed to be in Sunset City?"

"Don't you know, White Warrior? [Passion] died in Ember City. Rorschach's voice was low and hoarse.

"When?"

"Five days ago. Have you had any strange things happening in Ember City lately, or do you have any clues?"

"If anything's strange, Earl Jack Scarlett was assassinated eight days ago, and two days ago, the Nine Lives Cat came to this city. ”

"[Nine Lives Cat]?

"Yes, [the Mole] has spotted them, but they are no match for us. ”

"So, you're going to let them wreak havoc in this city?"

Rorschach's tone made the [White Knight] frown angrily: "This is also for the sake of safety, even for you [Nine Lives Cat] is an enemy that cannot be fought against, isn't it?, at least in the past two days, they haven't caused any trouble, maybe they are just passing by and will leave soon." ”

"Hmph!" Rorschach squeezed a sneer out of his nose, "for the sake of safety?ridiculous, let evil come and go freely, is this your justice?or is this the night watchman you want to be? a guy who compromises with evil? Say, where are the ten cats?"

"What do you want to do?" even though he was taunted by Rorschach just now, the [White Knight] couldn't let Rorschach go to trouble the [Nine Lives Cat] - of course, it was not for the sake of the [Nine Lives Cat], but for the safety of the [Faceless One].

However, a withdrawn guy like Rorschach never felt the concern of others, and he just said coldly and resolutely: "I'm going to slaughter those kittens who reap life wantonly." ”

"No matter how you slaughter, you can't beat them head-to-head. ”

"Then ambush in the shadows, sneak attack when they are relaxed, there is no evil in this world that cannot be opposed, only justice that is soft and hesitant. ”

"Well, if that's what you mean!" [White Warrior] was not angry at this time, although he and Rorschach had different views, but in the face of a colleague with a resolute will, he felt that he had enough stomach to endure the other party's violent temper, so he told Rorschach the whereabouts of [Nine Lives Cat].

On the first night, Rorschach kills the cat trapped in the cage.

At the same time, Rorschach meets two interesting people. The boy among them, with a loneliness out of step with the world, had a kind of moral inertia in his eyes.

In those bright black eyes, Rorschach saw the sorrow of hypocrisy, the kindness as small as a seed.

It reminded him of his youth with Passion.

――――

For the next few days, Rorschach found nothing, but he sensed something was wrong from the previous newspaper.

The famous night watchman [Owl] in Ember City has not appeared for a month, making people wonder if he is dead, just like [Passion].

On the afternoon of the seventh day, Rorschach found the man he had seen the Owl for the last time.

At that time, the man was being punched and kicked by two debt collectors.

The afternoon sun was still blazing, but it could only cast a dark light in the filthy alley.

Rorschach saw the pain and confusion in the eyes of the man crouching in the corner, and he suddenly thought:

In this world, so many people die every day, what makes one person's death more important than others?

Because, there are good and bad people in these dead people.

However, there are so many people in this world who deserve to be punished, but there is so little time. (Note 1)

Note: The last three sentences are from "Watchmen", the meaning is pretty much the same, I don't remember very clearly, in fact, Rorschach's character construction is a lot of reference to that movie, well, it was a really good movie.