On August 39, 807, the beginning of winter, Jiangcheng ushered in the first snow of the year, Shigego sat on the stone by the river, watching the snowflakes slowly fall from the sky into the river, he held a letter sent by Xinghe from the capital in his hand, he wondered if he jumped from this place like this at this time, would he be able to do nothing?

The idea was so tempting that he almost put it into action, but he couldn't muster the courage to jump off the stone until the end.

What has happened in the past few months has been a complete nightmare, Shigego really wishes he could wake up and find himself lying in the tree house, everyone is by his side, intact, no one wants to harm Arashitsuki, Rei didn't have that damn disease, everything that happened in the past month was a nightmare he had, it never happened.

Shigego remembers a serious illness when he was a child, when his mother sat on the edge of the bed and prayed to the Virgin, praying that he would get better soon. He imitated his mother's movements at that time, praying countless times to the Merciful Virgin, turning all these things into a nightmare.

But it seemed that there was nothing Our Lady could do about it, let alone dreaming, and every time he closed his eyes, the images of Uncle Valit, Old Man Balbo, and Ling would come to mind, making him toss and turn, and could not sleep.

A few days ago, Balbo's warehouse was set on fire, because of the revenge of the Saya family, Balbo suffered burns for it, and Dr. Emilio hired a carriage from a neighbor to take him to the city hospital, Mr. Balbo's burns were somewhat severe, but more serious was another called "dementia" Dr. Emilio says that Balbo may have been sick for some time, and that this disease is usually only available to the elderly, and that it cannot be treated, and in the end Balbo forgets everything, and even needs to be served to eat and go to the toilet, and becomes like a baby.

Why do these bad things keep coming to them? Shigego wondered why they had to suffer all this when they had done nothing wrong, and what he was supposed to do? When he asked Dr. Emilio this question, she had always seemed determined to just sit at Balbo's bedside and drink, and didn't answer Shigego's question.

In the Renard incident, it is clear that Renard is the bad guy, and he blames Xinghe, but why do they have to suffer revenge in the end? Doctor Emilio said that there was a solution, but when she took Shigego and Ling to Dr. Cook, the other doctors from the Elven River said that he was not in the hospital, and they gave Ling a routine check-up and left them alone, so there was a scene of Dr. Emilio sitting at Balbo's bedside drinking in the ward, and the nurse on duty in the ward seemed to be a little afraid of Emilio, and looked like she wanted to speak and stopped, and finally did not dare to accuse Emilio.

Looking at her appearance, Shigego thought that maybe she had no choice, and in his confusion, he chose to confide everything to Ling, and this decision changed everything.

Rei, who was in a wheelchair, listened quietly to Shigego confide in her, she touched the head of the bear holding the cloth, listened carefully to everything Shigego said, and when she heard Shigego ask her, "Rei, what should I do?", her hand touching the bear's head stopped.

She looked at Shigego with a calm expression on her face, and said very seriously, "Then let's kill them all." ”

"What are you talking about?" Shigego thought he had misheard.

However, Ling looked into his eyes and said solemnly, "Just kill all the people who come to find trouble, there is no way for the dead to find trouble." ”

Her eyes were clear, and her expression was calm when she said this proposal that made Shigego's heart tremble, and for a while Shigego felt that he was almost unrecognizable to Rei, obviously it was still that familiar face, familiar voice, but Shigego felt like another person sitting in that wheelchair, someone he didn't know.

"Rei, what's wrong with you, you look so weird......" Shigego took two steps back in fear.

Ling pursed her lips and let out an inaudible sigh, "That's right." She lowered her head and touched the bear's head, her expression a little lonely.

"Rei, are you okay?" Shigego felt worried, he wasn't sure if he should walk up now.

Before he could react, Ling raised her head, "In that case, then kill me, as long as I die, there will be nothing to bind you anymore, and you can leave." ”

"Ling... What are you talking about?" Shigego looked at Rei in shock, he must be dreaming, yes, he must be dreaming, this kind of thing can't happen.

However, Rei could already see through what he was thinking, "Shigego, this is not a dream. She lifted the bear she used to hold, put her hand in behind the bear's back, drew a black dagger, and pointed it at her chest, "Look, take it, stab it from here, and then you can be free, it's very simple." ”

Shigego looked at the dagger in horror and unconsciously took a few steps back.

Ling looked at her and tilted her head, as if she was a little puzzled as to why Shigego was afraid, "Why are you hiding? Haven't you done this kind of thing once, quite simply, just like you did to Walitt." ”

Rumble!

A thunderbolt pierced Shigego's heart, "You... Why would you know!"

He never told anyone about this, two years ago in the ruins of Khiva Town, it was he who pushed the dagger into Walit's stomach, the Uncle Walit who loved him, he didn't know what happened to him at the time, he only knew that when he noticed, Uncle Walit looked at him with a complicated expression, and he was holding a dagger in his hand, and the blade of the dagger completely sank into Uncle Walit's stomach.

Shigego really didn't know what happened at that time, Walit left after being stabbed by him, and never came back, until the end Shigego didn't know where he went, whether he was broken by his own stab, for the past two years, Shigego didn't dare to pick up any daggers, knives or anything like that, because it always reminded him of his blood-stained hands, which had become a lump in his heart, tormenting his heart every sleepless night, but he didn't tell anyone about it。

Ling pushed his wheelchair closer to him with one hand, and held the blade of the dagger in the other, and handed the dagger to Shigego, but Shigego was already trembling and kneeling on the ground, and every time Rei got closer, he climbed back a few steps in horror, and Rei walked a distance forward, and finally stopped.

The expression on her face was a little helpless, "Then what do you want to do?"

Of course, there is no way to answer her now, Rei put away the dagger, Shigego didn't notice where she received the dagger, with his current trance, I'm afraid there is no way to notice anything.

Ling held on to the two armrests of the wheelchair, as if she was going to stand up, but the first time it didn't work, she looked at Shigego and asked, "Shigego, can you help me?"

Shigego is still in a trance.

Ling sighed, exerted her strength, supported the armrest of the wheelchair hard, and actually stood up, she walked down from the wheelchair, staggered at first, and almost fell, but after a few steps, she seemed to have mastered her balance, although her steps were still a little staggering, but it was no longer hindered to move.

In a trance, Shigego didn't even react to the shocking scene he saw, until Rei walked up to his side and attached it to his ear and said to him, "Shigego, remember, you owe me a favor." ”

Shigego watched a little dazedly as Rei bypassed him and walked into the hospital room, sitting on the side of Balbo's bed, Emilio rubbed her eyes, and then looked at the wine bottle in her hand self-deprecatingly, "I must have drunk too much." ”

Ling walked over to her side and stared into her eyes, and Emilio looked back at her and raised her bottle in a ruffian, "Hey, what do you want?"

"There's a hole in your heart. Ling stared at her, "You've been plugging it up in every way, but now, it's cracked again, Leia, you can't forget her pain." ”

Emilio's woke up at once, and she was so shocked that the bottle fell to the ground and shattered.

"Alcohol can't help you. Ling looked at Emilio, "But I can help you forget about Reya." ”

"You, get out!" Emilio snarled at Ling.

"Why do you refuse, you won't be distressed anymore as long as you forget?" Ling walked around her and walked to Balbo's bedside.

"What are you going to do?" Emilio walked up to catch Rei, but when his hand touched Rei's clothes, she flew straight out and slammed into the wall of the hospital room.

Shigego, who had recovered a little, ran over and helped Emilio up from the ground, "Doctor, are you alright?"

Emilio didn't answer, just stared at Ling, I don't know when, there were some more people in the ward, it was the doctors from the River of Elves, and Dr. Cook, who originally claimed to be not in the hospital, was also among them, and he looked at Ling as if he was looking at a rare treasure.

The other doctors pulled a short wooden staff from their white coat and spread it out, surrounding Ling in the middle of the room, and Cook shouted orders, "Be careful, don't kill her!"

"Scorpion 700 Scepter!" Exclaimed Emilio as she looked at the short sticks, she rushed to Cook's side, grabbed him by the collar and lifted him up, "Hell, those are military equipment, you're not a medical team, who the hell are you, what is that kid?"

Emilio's actions caused the two "doctors" to aim their scepters at her, and although she gritted her teeth, she had to let go of her hand, and Cook fell from her hand, nearly falling, and he straightened his shirt as he stood still.

Emilio glared at him and stretched out her right hand, a ball of light that kept shaking and flickering on her fingertips, "Tell me!"

Cook glanced at her, and there was no trace of the funny doctor of yesteryear, "Do you think that 'original sin' is just a simple disease or curse? is it a part of the King of Crime and Punishment, that is a key, the key to the power of the King, as long as you can survive that disease, you can get a part of the power of the King of Crime and Punishment, she is the only new qualified person in the past twenty years, do you know how precious she is?"

Emilio didn't hesitate and threw out the small ball of light that looked unstable, and she threw it towards Rei, neither Shigego nor Cook nor anyone else thought of it, so she could only watch as the ball of light flew towards Rei, and then was about to touch Rei's body when it was swallowed up by a sudden black mist.

"You madman!" Cook exclaimed, but he didn't have the time to continue pestering her, he looked at Ling with a look of disbelief, "This can't be, why did she just awaken to the fourth level?"

The doctors who surrounded Ling also looked at me, I looked at you, and the hands holding the scepter trembled a little, as if Ling was standing there was a terrifying existence.

Jugo had no idea what they were talking about, he only saw Ling holding Balbo's hand, and Balbo, who was sleeping, slowly opened his eyes, he looked at Ling a little blankly and muttered, "Leia." ”

"Balbo. Ling took his hand and smiled, "The disease in your head will rob you of your sanity, I'm sorry I can't do anything about it, but at least I can save your soul, are you going to leave with me?"

Balbo held her hand, wandering in the world, unaware of everything around him, as if Ling had let him see something else through the hands they had held together, and after a long time, Balbo finally came to his senses, and he looked at Ling and nodded.

Shigego didn't know what was going on, he wanted to stop it, but before he could speak, Rei looked at her, she looked at Shigego with a smile, her mouth moving, she was saying something, but Shigego didn't hear what she said.

In an instant, all the light in the ward was drained by Ling, and the room was suddenly dark, everything was gone, and after a few seconds, the light returned, and Ling and Balbo's hands were still clasped together, as if nothing had happened.

But it wasn't true that nothing happened, just for a moment, Ling Ling, who was standing on the side of the hospital bed, fell straight down, and Balbo on the hospital bed had already closed his eyes, with a smile on the corner of his mouth.

Both Cook and Emilio rushed over, one of them checked Rei's situation, the other checked Balbo, only Shigego, standing still and motionless, he couldn't figure it out, what was this?

"You!" Cook seemed to take his anger out on Emilio, "get rid of them!" he shouted.

However, Emilio grabbed Cook and grabbed Cook before the doctors with the scepter could do anything to him, she grabbed him by the neck and confronted everyone, "If you don't want to leak here, just leave!"

Cook, who was choked by the neck, blushed and gestured to his doctors, who hesitantly lowered their scepters, and Emilio let go of the hand that was holding his neck, but still carried him, "Swear to me, you will leave obediently." ”

Cook wanted to argue, but looking at Emilio's cold face, he coaxed, "I swear!"

Emilio threw him out, and a doctor who was closer to him came over and helped him up, and he looked at Emilio, gritted his teeth, and said, "Let's go!"

The doctors followed him out of the room, and two of them walked up to Rei's body, as if intending to take her, but Emilio stopped them, and she said coldly, "Leave obediently." ”

The two doctors looked at Cook with some uncertainty, and Cook glared at Emilio and stomped hard, "You'd better not leak today's events, otherwise it won't be that simple!"

He led a group of doctors to leave, after which Emilio and Shigego sat in the hospital room for the whole afternoon, neither spoke to each other, and that night Emilio found a cart to transport the bodies of Ling and Balbo out of the city, and they dug two pits next to a tombstone near the Balbo field outside the city, and buried Ling and Balbo, and when the monument was erected, only the policeman named Gordon came to mourn with them for a while, and he only stayed for a while, and the rest was Emilio and Shigego in a daze by the grave。

The next day, Shigego received a letter from the capital from the capital.

......

"I don't mind digging another grave if you want to die, but to ease my workload, I want you to at least choose a neater way, as it takes a lot of money to hire someone down the river to retrieve the corpse this season. ”

"Doctor Emilio!" Shigego quickly stood up and looked at Emilio, who was dressed in black.

"I'm going to the Elven River soon, are you coming?" Emilio stared at him.

Shigego looked at her, then at the crumpled letter that had been pinched by himself, and nodded.