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"Sit down."

The hunter reached out and pushed hard, and Panatia, the "Nightingale of Despair" in a white dress, fell into the announcer's seat, in front of a simple microphone wrapped in a handkerchief, connected to a strange device and a seal that was steaming lightning.

Panatia's eyes rolled as she surveyed what was in front of her, a smile slowly tugging at the corners of her mouth. After returning to normal from more than half a year of puppet status, her mind was almost irreparably damaged, and if it weren't for her own divinity, she would be vegetative even if she turned back.

But even though she was almost in the shape of a potion carrying container, the demigod witch's every move was still imaginative with charm and enchantment. She leaned back in the chair with a sad smile of acceptance of her fate, and the eyes of one of the hunters who were in charge of escorting her widened, almost sticking directly to the witch's face.

The other hunter looked at Panatia with a sigh of relief, and raised his leg and kicked his sick colleague in the calf:

"Think of your fiancée's fist."

The young hunter who was kicked woke up from his dream and suddenly became a great enemy of the invisible charm of the witch. But even if he resisted physically and mentally, his eyes were still uncontrollably attracted by the extremely beautiful and mournful Pannadia for a long time, and the hunter took out the picture of his fiancée from his wallet, put it in front of him to block the witch, and finally reluctantly retracted his attention.

"I think she laughs a little bit like her." The red-faced hunter couldn't help but defend himself, "Why didn't you react?" ”

"Like? I don't think so. ”

The reddish-brown haired hunter glanced at Panatia and gestured to his face: "Your fiancée has dimples on only one side of her smile, her eyes are a little more curved, and her eyebrows are higher than hers, you think she is seduced." ”

The young hunter suddenly realized, and then almost jumped:

"How do you know so well how my fiancée laughs?!"

"Because I've soaked your fiancée's mother, grandmother, and aunt." The reddish-brown haired hunter shrugged, "Your fiancée inherited your future mother-in-law's eyes, and I used to compliment her on her beautiful eyes when I used to write love letters. ”

After saying that, he glanced back at the wall clock, and without waiting for the stunned young hunter to come to his senses, he said directly to Panatia:

"You have two minutes left to prepare."

"If you honestly tell all the details of the Augustan royal family's cooperation with the Witch Sect, I will let you die without pain."

After about five seconds, Panatia blinked slowly, and her beautiful face became even more poignant and sad.

"Huh...... When I drank the potion and killed someone, I thought that one day I would die like this. Panatia sighed with some emotion and some reluctance, her slender fingers curling her black hair, "Then I gradually forgot." Strength has given me too much self-confidence, and the disgusting world has given me the opportunity to act recklessly, but it seems that I still can't hide from it. ”

The young hunter rubbed his arms together, frowning and wondering if this was a witch's curse. And Panatia looked at the strange device in front of her, thought for a moment, and couldn't help but ask:

"What the hell is this?"

Trainor glanced at the clock again: "The microphone will carry your voice to where it needs to go." You have one minute left. Prepare yourself. ”

"It's really incomprehensible." The witch smiled, "But my face and temper are pleasing to me." The thought of how many more people can be inflicted on death makes me feel less afraid of death. ”

Panatia turned her head and calmly stared at the hourglass beside her, and when the last grain of sand fell, she was silent for two seconds, the corners of her mouth slightly raised, and she spoke softly and viciously:

"Good afternoon, poor behold, Beckland pigs to be slaughtered, in the name of the primordial witch, I Panatia greet you."

"Hehe, let me tell you one thing, in the past five years, your missing family, friends, children, relatives may have been captured by us, they were sent to various parts of the kingdom of Rune, they were enslaved, doing endless hard labor for His Majesty the King, if they were exhausted, they burned their corpses into ashes and sprinkled them in the kiln, if they escaped, they were killed, and then burned to ashes......"

……

"Don't be afraid, don't be afraid, it's over......" Audrey used the technique of "hypnosis" to communicate directly with Hazel's mental body, heard the hysterical cry, and felt the fear higher than the mountain and deeper than the sea.

Combined with the other party's state and experience, she quickly formulated a treatment plan, and directly "hypnotized" Hazel, making her forget what happened today, forgetting that she still had a teacher, and only remembering the identity and common sense of the extraordinary.

Hazel grew calmer and calmer, slowly falling asleep.

"When you wake up, those terrible experiences will be gone, and I, never before." Audrey used her soft voice to complete the last step of "hypnosis".

Then, she slowly got up and stared at Hazel for several seconds.

She pursed her lips, did not turn her head, and whispered:

"I asked her to temporarily forget the corresponding memory, but this memory has not disappeared, just hidden, in the corresponding party in the future, I will continue to treat her, guide her to slowly remember and accept this memory, only in this way, her spiritual problems can be solved, otherwise, maybe a familiar action, a familiar word, can make her 'wake up' and collapse again, at that time, she is likely to lose control directly."

Miss "Justice" is becoming more and more professional...... Crane said half-sighing, half-cautious:

"Then you have to do a 'hypnosis' on all the people who have been 'parasitized', so that they don't have hobbies that don't belong to them, like wearing monocles.

"Also, let them pray to the 'Goddess of the Night' after a quarter of an hour, asking for a complete purification."

Audrey bowed her head very seriously:

"No problem."

Crane then stood beside him, watching the aristocratic maiden "hint" at all the people who had been parasitized in the house with the utmost pity.

At this moment, Crane suddenly heard a strange sizzling sound of electricity, which would not exist in a world dominated by steam machinery, but Crane's first reaction was still "Something in Councillor Macht's house is leaking".

Before he could dispel this anachronistic idea, he noticed that a familiar horn had been hung on a gas street lamp on Berlund Street at some point, and the first time he saw a horn in the present world that looked so similar to his own memory almost immediately reminded him of the kind that the teacher hung around his waist during the spring outing, and the kind that the tour guide had been holding when he went on a trip.

Then, from the horn came a soft, infinitely attractive feminine voice, like honey mixed with poison.

"Good afternoon, poor behold, Beckland pigs to be slaughtered, in the name of the primordial witch, I Panatia greet you."

The Primordial Witch!

Cleine shrinks suddenly, and is about to "teleport" to Audrey's side and take her out of the place.

This is very likely to be the new plan of the Witch Sect, and there are extraordinary abilities that can be transmitted through words alone, and Crane knows a lot of them, not to mention that the witch's sequence 8 is called "Instigator"!

At this time, after doing the psychological suggestion, Audrey, who heard the movement, also hurried over with her skirt, and she saw the strange device hanging on the street lamp at a glance, and saw Mr. "World" with a serious expression, and immediately understood that something bad might have happened.

She immediately looked at "Gelman Sparrow": "Mr. 'World', what happened just now?" ”

"I don't know." Crane stared at the horn, "I'll take you out of ...... first"

His voice was interrupted the next moment by a witch named "Panatia" coming out of the loudspeaker:

“…… Your missing family, friends, children, and relatives may have been taken by us and sent to slavery throughout the kingdom...... If they die of exhaustion, burn the corpses into ashes and sprinkle them into the kiln, and if they escape, kill them and burn them to ashes......"

"Anyway, there will always be more than ...... You are like cattle or weeds...... After a while, it will grow on its own...... Isn't it? ”

The witch's voice was smiling softly, and Audrey's face turned white when she heard this.

"Is it the Witch Sect that is trafficking in human beings?" The aristocratic maiden spoke incredulously, "And it is the royal family that has received the population?" ”

"Is it the king who drives these people? What does the king want such a huge population to do? If he wants to expand the army or build a new palace, he can just say it and discuss it with the House of Lords and the church......"

Crane hesitated for a moment, but only whispered: "Before the start of the war, when I was still active at sea, the 'Sick Lieutenant General' witch Tracy admitted that she was involved in the human trade with the Witch Sect. Later, I found out that the pirate 'Mad Captain' Victor, who traveled back and forth between the North and South continents to trade in human beings, was working as an intermediary between the Witch Cult and Rune. And when I investigated him, he was killed again, and subsequent evidence and intelligence pointed to the person who might have killed him, it was Rune's deputy MI9 chief, Major General Chunas Korge. ”

Audrey was stunned for a long time, almost speechless.

"...... Mr. 'World', I remember, I remember you mentioned at the Tarot meeting that you were tracking down the 'Mad Captain', and you also said that please help us keep an eye on Rear Admiral Chunas Korg."

Audrey's turquoise eyes widened: "But you didn't say it, there is such a thing in it...... Mr. 'World', you don't seem to be surprised by what the witch said, you actually already know all this?" Have you already looked it out? ”

I've done all of this, but how am I going to tell you all about it, you're still a nobleman of Rune...... Crane fell into a somewhat awkward silence, the Vossack Imperial newspaper that Ms. D had handed over was still in the clutter pile on the source fort. He didn't want to throw it away, and he didn't want to look at it again, he put it there, as if he could temporarily escape from the suffocating truth of the world.

In the intriguing silence, the loudspeaker still played the witch's languid voice unhurriedly:

"It's a pity that your lives are too cheap, like a thousand pigs that you will kill at a banquet. Even if so many people died, it would still not be enough to build a beautiful mausoleum for His Majesty, and even the kiln pit would not be enough to fill it. ”

"His Majesty the King and the royal family need more people at their disposal, so we go and arrest more people, from the southern continent, from the eastern side, from the lower streets, from the countless slums in every city. Hehe, you should really thank us for cleaning up the redundant population. ”

Audrey took a deep breath and clenched her fists.

If it had been me half a year ago, I might not have recognized the viciousness of this sentence at all, and I might even think that there is a little truth.

In the past, I didn't know anything about the lives of the poor, but under the influence of education and the attitudes of others, I subconsciously felt that they were a group that hindered development and affected the city's appearance. But when I really participated in some charity activities, I found that there are no superfluous people at all, and there are almost no people who don't work hard, because such people will die early. Everyone is trying to live, even if they have an empty stomach, they have to go to the dock to carry heavy objects for a day, so they hurt their waists, and even can't stand upright for life, some people become orphans at a young age, if they are lucky not to be killed when they steal, and they are not accidentally killed in the factory, there will be a fatal job of "cleaning the chimney" waiting for these children.

Many more people are just going on as usual, but it may be an accident, a theft, an illness, and they lose their livelihood and are reduced to the most miserable conditions, but they are still struggling to survive.

How can they be superfluous?

In any case, God has said that godly people, rich and poor, can go to the kingdom of God, but evildoers are not.

The human soul is equal and unequal, and it is the life and origin of the human being......

And when it comes to her background, the first thing Audrey thinks of is the people from the Southern Continent and her second brother who died in battle, which makes her feel uncontrollably sad, even if she knows that dying in war is a normal thing.

Audrey breathed deeply again.

Then, she looked at Crane, who seemed to be thinking about something.

As an audience member who is already in the middle sequence, Audrey easily judged Kleine's thoughts through his subtle expressions and movements, combined with her own understanding of the heart and true character of "Gelman Sparrow", Audrey fully understood Crane's scruples.

"I'm sorry, Mr. 'World', but I was a little rude. But I'm already an adult, and I can take responsibility for my choices, and I should be responsible for my nobility. ”

Audrey said seriously: "I have been working hard to learn, accept and recognize the world now, and I know that there are many bad things in it. But as someone who lives in this country, I have the right to know the good and the bad. If you have any other information about the Great Smog, please let me know them all. Rather than living in a glass house, I want to try to accept the world as it is. ”

So what is the nature of the world?

It's just—

"Do you wonder why we do so much for the royal family?"

When she said this, Panatia couldn't help but laugh, and the beautiful laughter was full of flamboyant viciousness, which made people shudder:

"Because His Majesty has allowed me to slaughter in the East!"

"The Great Smog is my masterpiece, my most satisfying masterpiece!"

"All I have to do is move my hands lightly, and you'll fall in pieces, as clean and tidy as a mowed lawn. 10,000 dead, 20,000 is not enough at all, 50,000, 100,000, or even more! I almost laugh out loud when I see you slaughtered like livestock, when I see you die in agony in the great smog, when I see you crying with the corpses of your family in your arms! ”

"Despair as much as you want, suffer as much as you want, and anger as much as you want!"

"For you who have no strength are as lowly as blades of grass. Even if I stepped on it, I wouldn't look down at it. ”

The silence in Councillor Mahert's mansion was audible, and from the moment on, Crane and Audrey had heard constant noise and cursing in the streets, as well as the shouting of the police to maintain order. Crane also hears the decree, but it doesn't seem to be in effect.

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Is it a witch's conspiracy?

It doesn't seem to be very important now.

“…… As you can see, Audrey, this is the truth. ”

Gelman Sparrow, who had a grim face, calmly looked at the aristocratic girl who clenched his fists, and felt tired for a while: "That's it, King George III cooperated with the Witch Sect for a certain purpose, and the Witch Sect helped him buy and sell people, and he allowed the upper echelons of the Witch Sect to launch a big haze, and the third prince was just a victim who was pushed to the front of the stage." That's it, Miss 'Justice', that's it. ”

The blonde and blue-eyed aristocratic girl stood silently in place, looking at the device that kept coming from the sound of crazy laughter in the distance, and felt that her world, her cognition, and her pride in the strength of her country were all silently shattered at this moment.

Crane looked at her in silence, he wanted to laugh a little, he wanted to laugh like a witch, laugh at this damn world and these damn high and strong people, but he couldn't laugh, he just felt so tired that he couldn't speak.

……

The Witch of Despair burst out laughing, breathlessly, like a piercing magic sound, and the sound waves shook the young hunter's head and shook, and he could hardly resist being infected by the pain and despair described by the other party.

She heard the soft sound of glass shattering inside herself.

Moments before she died, her potion had been digested.

"Ah, what a shame......"

Panatia closed her eyes, and she heard the sound of the blade unsheathed behind her, and the corners of her mouth outlined a regretful smile:

"I also seriously thought about what color I would choose as my code name if I became 'Ageless'."

A sharp silver light erupted around her neck, and her beautiful head fell to the ground, no one cared about her regrets, unwillingness, and dreams.

It's like the straw she didn't care about.

tbc

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