After working the night shift, Tole Claes walked alone on the road, and in order to become a good police officer, he chose to rent a house near the Sheriff's Office, a short distance away, but it was the oldest small house, and the only advantage was that he did not have to pay the high rent fee.

A colleague suggested that as long as he was far from King Street, he could rent a two-bedroom apartment on good terms for the same rent, and that he could commute to work quickly by steam and tram as long as it was easily accessible, but this suggestion was rejected by Toller Claes.

He would buy his evening meals on the street and go back to his small room to rest.

But recently, he often slept until midnight and would be woken up by a "clang" sound, and the wound that had not yet healed completely would always crack again in this half-dream, and he couldn't stop oozing blood.

He touched the heavy gauze on his neck, a wet and tingling pain, bright red blood spread through the white, if it wasn't tightly wrapped, he would have had the illusion of separation from his body.

According to the hospital, the gauze cannot be removed until the wound is completely healed, so during this time, he can't even take a shower, and can only wipe his face and body clean with a soft towel.

The moment he woke up, Tole Claes was in a trance, as if he had seen something in the house, but when he looked closely, nothing appeared.

There was another noise from the next door, like the sound of entering the door, and Tole Claes was a little surprised, and looked at the clock on the wall by the moonlight, which showed that the time was already past three o'clock.

"Are you coming back so late?"

Toller Claes muttered a few words, but after all, it was someone else's business, and it didn't matter to him whether he came back sooner or later.

It's just that

The woman next door had just returned home, obviously after a hard day's work, and her face was slightly tired, so she didn't pay too much attention when she closed the door, and accidentally used her strength a little more.

"Be careful."

In the darkness behind her, I don't know when a strange figure appeared, and the moonlight shone through the glass into the room, and the figure that was no different from a human could be seen.

"I'm sorry, I'm so tired."

The woman put down the bag in her hand and crouched down to untie her shoes.

"If you don't know how serious, you'll wake them all up."

The man warned in a low voice.

"Got it, can you stop complaining."

But the woman was visibly impatient, and she checked the preparations and traces she had made before leaving, and made sure that the man had followed her advice and had not left the room, and her face had improved slightly.

"Did anyone find it?"

The man knew the woman's thoughts, but he didn't say much, with his current state, it was really not suitable to go outside, if he was caught by the people of the Knights, it would be more than worth the loss.

"Not yet, and I don't know where the boy from Beritol has gone, I've been to a lot of places today, and the missing person notice that should have been sent has also been sent, but no one has seen him."

The woman dragged her tired body to the sofa and sat down, and seeing that there were still some blood stains on the sofa, she leaned back in disgust to the clean place next to her.

The man lifted his leg to approach her, and there was a metallic crash, and when he reached a certain distance, he could no longer move forward.

He looked at the chain in his hand helplessly, tried to wave it, and found that he really couldn't resist, so he could only look at the woman pitifully, and said coquettishly:

"Please, let me go."

"No, your injuries are not healed yet, your body is very unstable, in case it gets out of control, I'm still in trouble."

The woman refused mercilessly, she stood up, patted the dust that remained on her body, and walked towards the house, leaving the man alone to stop in place, making a whimpering sound, in the darkness, the golden pupils flickered, but no matter how hard he tried, he could not return to normal eyes.

"By the way, you can't leave here until you find Berlito, don't think about disobeying me, or you'll ...... You know the consequences."

"But ......"

The man seemed to want to argue about something, but the woman didn't want to give him that chance.

Without much communication, she entered the bedroom alone, and the first thing she did was to turn on the light on the desk, the light outlined the outline of the surrounding objects, she opened the chair, and sat down quietly.

The man came to her room, looked at her lonely back working alone, and said nothing, and could clearly see by the light that his blue and white skin was covered with large and small wounds, some of which had not even healed completely, and kept oozing blood.

"Go back and rest."

Even if the woman didn't look back, she knew that the man was behind her, probably an illusion. Tears seemed to flow from the face reflected in the glass.

"But ......"

"Nothing, by the way, your dinner is in the bag, remember...... Enough is enough."

The woman said softly.

She picked up the pen and wrote something down in her notebook, and this time, she controlled her strength, and under the table next to her, she lost a lot of discarded half-cut pens.

"You know, you never believed me."

The man muttered quietly, turned and went back into the living room, his injuries were recovering so slowly, and partly because he ate less.

"I'm only allowed to eat one meal a day, and this will have to wait until the Year of the Monkey, and Mistress Berlito can't find it, and when will I be imprisoned......

The man reached with a pole to the bag in the doorway, which contained an iron cage, and the small creature in the cage was rolling its eyes with suspicion at the dark and strange world.

A hint of gloom flashed in his eyes, and he thought about carrying the cage to complain, but when he thought that it was not easy for her, she would go out early in the morning and be busy until evening, and she would work to earn money to support him, and she would also find Berito's whereabouts at the same time, so she couldn't bear to blame.

"No way, whoever makes me kind-hearted, it's you."

Grinning open, baring his fangs, there was only a brief animal wail, and the room returned to its original silence.

Flesh and hair were mixed together, scattered bones were thrown in the bag so casually, the corners of the man's mouth were still bright red, and for a brief moment, his pupils returned to the blue characteristic of the Anglais people.

"Go rest, I'll clean up the rest of the garbage."

The woman didn't know when she appeared at the bedroom door, looked at the motionless man, sighed softly, she quietly approached, then crouched down and gave him a warm hug.

"It's okay, wait until everything is settled......

When everything is settled,

We'll be able to go home.