Chapter 15: The Story
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When you want something, you have to put down another thing at the same time.
It could be time, it could be a beloved treasure, it could be a loved one, it could be your final bottom line.
It may seem brutal, but it's exactly what Jack is facing.
His curiosity, his pity, and his words of "not being swayed by this world" were all tested at this moment.
Kill these two women, and he will settle the matter without any risk, and what is there to hesitate about? Just because they are beautiful? Just because they cry pitifully? Just because they seem to have something else hidden?
Who in this world has not encountered one or two misunderstandings? Who in this world has not cried like a fool? Who in this world has not seen a truly beautiful face?
Jack thought of the Nine-Lives Cat he had spared, the poor assassin killed by Rorschach, and the bad demon Maffei whom he had forced with Rorschach to question, who had died at Jack's hands.
In the vast expanse of memory, the pictures flashed, the words were like songs, and in the end, everything was frozen in the moment when Rorschach died.
"Jack, this is my last magic, take it!"
The heroic cry echoes in the corridor of memory.
Jack suddenly realized that what he had received was not only Rorschach's magic, but also the man's life, the man's dreams, and the man's backbone. It only dawned on Jack to this day how deeply Rorschach, the man with whom he had briefly met and separated, had left a deep imprint on his soul.
"Never compromise. ”
Jack muttered, reciting Rorschach's favorite phrase. His voice was not loud, not even harsh, but it brought a trembling echo.
So, he smiled. yes, isn't the result crystal clear?
Jack took out a magic scroll from the spatial ring, he held it tightly with his bloodied right hand, and held the scroll to his mouth,
Biting down on the edge of the scroll, he tore the magic scroll open entirely. In the next moment, the scroll that had stored its own magic power burst into a dazzling light.
The melodious and solemn music crosses the blue sky and sprinkles rainbow-colored light.
All of their wounds were healed in an instant.
Jack's life-saving magic [Aria: Section 3 (Seven Rings)], which cost Jack 300,000 gold coins, comes from Puccini, a famous opera genius from the Second Age. His music made the goddess of music sigh too, and in order to reward him, the goddess of the Seven Rings [Collective Life Restoration Technique] used Puccini's most famous music, "Aria: Section 3", and named it after it.
Lilith watched in shock as her sister's wounds healed little by little, the gentle vitality like a spring watering the dying seedlings, making her face ruddy again, and her misty eyes regained their brilliance.
The hatred in Lilith's eyes dissipated instantly, and her heart was filled with joy, surprise, and happiness.
"Lu!"
"Sister!"
Lu raised her hand and held her sister's hand, and she burst into tears.
This young girl, who was extremely strong in the face of death, at the moment of escaping death, cried as if she was sad and happy, and the tears flowed down her cheeks, and she opened her mouth and trembled, but the whimpering sound was incomparably smaller.
"I'm sorry...... I'm sorry......" As if begging for forgiveness, she intermittently apologized for no reason. No, maybe there is a reason, it's just that it's too heavy for language to carry its weight.
"Lu!" Lilith didn't speak, she just hugged her sister into her arms again, this time, no longer gently, but very hard, as if everything was as illusory as a dream, and she would lose everything if she let go of her hand.
The time of reunion is always short, and although she is reluctant to give up the warmth of sweeping away loneliness, Lilith still let go of her hugging Lu's hands, and she turns her waist to look at the man standing aside in the messy clothes, the man who has rescued her sister from a serious injury.
"Why?"
She ripped off her black hood and let her long red hair flutter in the breeze. Matched with it, there are incomprehensible questions and complicated eyes.
"Why?" Jack smiled, he smiled so innocently, as if he had let go of all his burdens, "what is the reason for saving people? Because I'm curious? Why do you want to seek revenge on me, I look back on the last nineteen years of my life, and I ask myself what drove you to seek revenge on me? Can I hear your story?"
Lilith's eyelids drooped slightly, she sighed, and said slowly:
"Because of your uncle, Vader, who ruined our family. When Lu and I were four years old, he snatched our mom and sent someone to break my dad's leg. Two years later, my father passed away in depression, leaving my sister and I to survive, struggling to survive in the slums, nibbling on hard bread stained with sludge, being beaten, being driven, and abandoning our dignity in order to survive. It was a cruel time that a noble young master like you couldn't imagine. This dark life lasted until we met a woman who had us join her group of Assassins, the Red Enchantress. ”
There was no sadness in his calm voice, but Jack was still infected, and he slowly pursed his lips, but did not speak.
"Later life, although it was still painful, every day was boring and exhausting training, but for the first time in our lives, there was a ray of hope, and it was then that the two of us made up our minds that the injustice suffered by our parents, the hell we experienced, and the hardships we have paid now will be turned into a sharp blade of revenge, and we will let the Scarlet family completely perish. In the beginning, this was our goal, but later, the goal of the Assassins further strengthened our belief that we wanted to create an egalitarian society, where people were equal, where women were not discriminated against, and where the weak could still speak out, and this was our revolution, and the first step of our revolution was to eradicate the aristocracy. Yes, that's what it is...... Our story. ”
Lilith was silent, and so was Jack.
"That's why you want to kill me? That's why you killed me as an innocent person?" Jack pointed to himself, raising an eyebrow.
"Yes, that's why we're going to kill you, but, to say you're innocent, do you have a clear conscience? Every nobleman is the same, and under their glossy cloak are depraved souls corrupted by power. ”
"Hmm...... Innocent, I may not be able to say, but I have never taken the initiative to harm anyone, and more importantly, I have no direct grudge against you at all, do you still insist on killing me?"
"Of course, you must not forget that the goal of our organization is to build an egalitarian society, and only by killing the nobility will we be able to open the way. Lilith hesitated, she wiped away her tears and strengthened her will, "Yes, that's it, nobles, all obstacles. ”
"Yes, but there are innocent people, and there are good people among the nobles, and what difference is the way you kill and the depraved souls you hate?" asked Jack rhetorically.
"There is no difference, but we carry the darkness only to open up the light, and for this reason, even if our hands are stained with blood and sin, we have no regrets!" Lilith recited the slogan she had always remembered, with an indomitable momentum, "This time, you saved Lu, and we will spare your life, and the next time we meet, we will definitely take your head in the shadows." ”
"Wait!" Jack yelled, wanting Lilith to stay with Lu, and to talk to her about utopia and dystopia!
"Tsk...... Really, secondary two is a disease, and it needs to be cured!"
Muttering, Jack walked towards the house, and as he walked, he suddenly hit a wall.
A transparent wall that encloses the entire garden in an enchantment.
This familiar wall, which Jack had seen in the time since he had crossed it, suddenly realized something.
"Damn, this isn't the first time you've assassinated me!!"