Hugh tripped over the coffee table again, and rolled over.

By the time the chopping knife that Furth had thrown out was casually removed by the attacker, she had already resumed her crouching position, but she did not act rashly because she was afraid of the trap.

Moreover, she also believes that Varina will not sit idly by.

Forthth tripped unsuspectingly, and was so concerned about Hugh's situation that he had no time to look up in a hurry.

So, they all saw Varina's powerful assassination from the window behind him as the "Hunter" appeared to speak.

They saw it, but they didn't see it clearly.

Even if they didn't blink the whole time, when Varina pushed the "Hunter" out of the window, they only had a few incoherent images in their impressions.

Varina suddenly appears on the windowsill and jumps......

The picture of Varina landing and reflexively attacking......

The picture of the two falling out of the window......

The process of change in the middle was too fast for Forthth to see clearly.

Hugh was a little better than her, seeing "The Hunter" urgently avoid the first blow and swing his sword in a counterattack.

When Varina adjusts her stance in the air and begins to fall to attack, Hugh reacts, jumps up and chases to the window, where he sees Varina plunging the dagger into the throat of the "Hunter".

By this time, Furth had just gotten up and taken a few steps.

……

In the morning, after the church was on duty to guard the underground area, Corvo the substitute and his colleagues changed shifts and prepared to go home to rest.

He bought Dixie pie and sweet iced tea on the way, and ate it while walking, regardless of his image, just to get home early and sleep more.

As he walked down the middle of nowhere, he glanced up at the sky and felt that the weather might not be too good today.

But it has nothing to do with him...... Anyway, no matter what the weather is, he will sleep peacefully at home.

His lodgings were not facing the street, so after walking a little down the street, he turned into an alley.

Across the alley, he was not far from home.

Just as he was about to cross the alley, he suddenly heard a long roar, full of unwillingness.

It's close, just a short distance away.

By his instincts as a substitute for punishers, he could judge—

Something happened!

Is it a fight? Vendetta? Or is it an extraordinary event?

The body instinctively moved, and by the time he came back to his senses in the midst of posture analysis, Corvo was already halfway there.

Bypassing the corner in front of him, his vision suddenly opened up.

Ahead of a small public green space for nearby residents to take a leisurely stroll, a man in a black coat with a large sword half-kneeling near an apartment building......

Corvo just in time to see the final act of Varina falling from the sky and killing "The Hunter".

In an instant, Varina's figure coincided with the image of a dark shadow in his mind, and he found the outlaws who had caused chaos outside Earl Levitt's palace last time!

Unlike the last post-event tracking, this time he arrived on the spot!

Recognizing the identity of the Varina Extraordinary, he preemptively attacked.

"Lightning!"

Corvo quickly pulled out the "Lightning Charm" from his coat pocket—a small, patterned piece of tin—and recited the opening spell in the ancient Hermetian language, infused with spiritual stimulation.

Firth rushed to the window, just in time for the spell to activate, and lightning appeared out of thin air.

"Sting!"

A silvery-white light pierced the dim sky, right next to the apartment building, and suddenly lit up right before the eyes of Forth and Hugh, causing them to burst into tears.

Varina was defenseless and struck by lightning.

With a whoosh, his body fell straight down, his hair standing on end, and a little black smoke came out.

Corvo struck a blow and immediately approached quickly, saying as he went:

"I'm Corvo, Senior Inspector of the Bakerland Police Department's Hissac Bureau, and a member of the Punisher Squad."

"You are an accomplice in an important case, and you kill people every day, I announce that you are arrested!"

Upstairs, Hugh and Furth were still massaging their tearful eyes when they heard Corvo's verdict.

Ignoring the pain in their eyes, they opened their eyes to see Corvo with his pistol in hand, quickly approaching Varina lying on the ground.

The two glanced at each other, and both saw the shock and remorse in each other's eyes.

They had no idea that things would turn out the way they were.

I can't imagine that the attackers will really stay...... I didn't think that Varina would kill people directly...... I didn't expect to meet the official extraordinary......

"Shouldn't we have asked him for help?"

"Shouldn't we have come back?"

The two spoke in unison and asked similar questions.

Maybe they just have to wait a few more days outside and come back, and nothing happens......

Maybe the two of them can work together to force the attacker away and make him run into the current official extraordinary......

Maybe......

There are many "maybes" that they can think of and can't think of.

But the reality is that everything has already happened.

Hugh and Forthth saw Varina's murderous appearance, but they didn't want him to be imprisoned in the basement of the church.

It's just that they can't do anything.

Furth wanted to go down and use his bracelet to take Varina away, but ......

The 4th floor, too high for her.

Under the mixed gaze of the two, Corvo made his way to Varina's side.

At that moment, Varina moved his right hand, as if he had just recovered from the pain and paralysis of a lightning strike.

This action did not alert Corvo.

So in the next moment, his thoughts were suppressed to the extreme, and everything around him seemed to speed up several times.

He saw that Varina threw the dagger at him with unimaginably high speed.

It wasn't until the dagger was in his throat that Corvo thought of dodging, but it was clearly too late.

He fell.

This process seemed rather strange to Hugh and Firth upstairs.

They saw that the substitute had stood still after Varina had waved at him, quietly watching all of Varina's movements.

Varina first grabbed the dagger that had fallen on the ground nearby, and then stabbed it into the throat of the official extraordinaire with a throwing knife.

The whole process was not fast for ordinary people, but the substitute for punishment did not move, allowing the flying knife to kill him.

The two looked at each other again, and they could see the confusion and fear in each other's eyes.

……

The sudden lightning caused great damage to Varina.

He fell straight down, in sharp pain, and his mind was dizzy, and he was only a little short of completely unconscious.

He heard Corvo's verdict, but he didn't understand it at all.

All he knew was that there was another enemy who had attacked him.

Listening to the approaching footsteps, he knew the enemy was approaching.

At this time, although his body was still in pain, the intense paralysis had begun to recede.

He regained a bit of mobility.

Varina is well aware that in this case, he only has one chance.

Good thing he caught it!

He plunged the dagger into the throat of the enemy, and he won.

At this time, he had the heart to consider what the enemy said, "inspector", "substitute punishment......

The next moment, Varina, who reacted, fell into a deep feeling of remorse-

He killed a righteous substitute!

"Click" "Click"

Large raindrops fell.

At this time, the rainstorm that had been brewing for a long time finally fell.

It's like Varina's mood at the moment.