"Whew...... Whew......"

Early that morning, on the forest path leading to the back hill behind the cemetery, a figure was slowly ascending along the winding path.

This figure is ordinary-looking, ordinary-dressed, and is obviously the grave keeper of the cemetery at the foot of the mountain.

On his back was also an unconscious girl, dressed in the uniform of a high school girl, who was none other than Kokarasuma who had stayed in front of the cemetery.

With his identity as the informant, who is not easily suspected, the grave keeper easily approaches and knocks out the unsuspecting little Karasuma, and takes her unconscious to the back hill where no one lives in his mouth.

"You're finally here."

Along the path, halfway up the hill into a dense forest, a somewhat old house appeared in front of the grave keeper.

In fact, the grave keeper did not lie to the boy before, because there was really no one living on this mountain, and the only private house was abandoned not knowing how long ago, and there was no longer the breath of living life in it, and even this winding path up the mountain was carved out by them little by little.

Perhaps it is precisely because of this that this place has been chosen as a secret base for them.

After a simple renovation, it has become an important place for all the believers in the neighborhood to gather and pray.

And this naturally includes the grave keeper, as well as ......

"I didn't expect you to move so fast......"

At this time, outside the private house, there were several people in robes, both men and women, and two of them, the boy and Kokarsuma, knew each other.

It is the parents of the deceased Kyoko-san, Mr. and Mrs. Muraki, who are the deceased in this case.

They seemed to have already discussed something, and when they saw the grave keeper who came up with a small Karasuma on his back, there was no look of surprise on his face, and Mr. Muraki even stepped forward to take a closer look, and then nodded and said:

"That's her, the girl who followed the young policeman......"

"It's really you, we just discussed the specific plan, and you have already arrested this girl......"

Beside him, another believer in a robe exclaimed:

"When I was dealing with the apricot incident before, it was also thanks to your ......"

"Whew!"

As soon as the believer said the name "apricot", Mrs. Muraki on the side couldn't help but cry in a low voice, covering her face with her hands, looking grief-stricken.

Seeing this, Mr. Muraki, who was beside her, hurriedly hugged her shoulders and comforted her in a low voice:

"Don't be sad anymore dear, not being able to bathe in the glory of the Lord, this is the misfortune of Apricot, helping Apricot return to the arms of the Lord, this is already the best we can do for her......"

Hearing Mr. Muraki's words, the grave keeper, who had been silent before, subconsciously clenched his hands.

The person who really killed Kyoko was actually him.

The reason is that the Muraki couple try to bring their daughter Kyoko into their order, as the boy had speculated, and bask in the glory of the "Lord".

Of course, the Muraki couple knew their daughter's character and what she was doing at school, and they also hoped that this move would help their daughter change these bad qualities.

However, Kyoko refuses them sharply, and not only that, but she also sneers and curses at their "master", and even threatens the Muraki couple to dissociate themselves from the Order, otherwise she will call the police and have the police send them all to the prison.

The daughter's reaction undoubtedly dealt a heavy blow to the Muraki couple.

They were shocked, they grieved, they were in disbelief, so much so that they decided to take matters into their own hands and allow their "rebellious" daughter to return to the arms of the "Lord" and convert to the "true faith."

It took them a few days to discuss all the details and set things off the night before.

That night, Kyoko, who came home from school, was unsuspected, and after being stunned by her parents with numbing drugs and carefully cleaning her body, she moved to the cemetery under the back mountain.

According to their plan, they will let Kyoko die in ...... No, or should it be said, let Kyoko "feather" in front of the tombstone of Hanada-san, who once died because of her, and return to the arms of the "Lord".

In this way, her soul went to the side of the "Lord", and her body remained here to confuse the eyes of the "vulgar".

In the original plan, this step of "feathering" the apricots was carried out by the Muraki couple themselves.

However, when it came to the end, they suddenly hesitated, and they seemed to finally realize that the sleeping girl in front of them was their daughter, and they couldn't do anything.

They hesitated in the cemetery for a long time, but in the end they did not stop there, but asked the grave keeper to complete the step for them.

In the Order, the Grave Keeper has always played a role similar to that of the "executioner", responsible for cleaning up all "guilty people" who have been disloyal to the Order.

Before being absorbed into the Order, the Grave Keeper was a soldier in the Southeast Asian Theater, but during the war, he was sent back to China early because of the strong psychological trauma that did not last until the end of the war, and became the Grave Keeper of this cemetery.

However, the experiences of the war did not disappear with his departure, and even after returning home, the crimes he had committed continued to torment his heart.

It was at this time that he stumbled upon the Order and was absorbed into it, becoming a follower of the Order.

For the grave keeper, the existence of the Order is bright and saveving, because he has killed "guilty people" who are burdened with crimes, and by killing them, he can also reduce the crimes he has committed on the battlefield.

Until the night before, Mr. and Mrs. Muraki brought their daughter Kyoko over and asked him to kill her.

The grave keeper asked them what was the sin in this girl?

They told him that the girl did not believe in the "Lord", did not recognize the existence of the "Lord", and even tried to expose the existence of the "Lord" in front of the eyes of the vulgar world.

There is no forgiveness for sin.

Therefore, they can only choose to send the girl to the world of the "Lord" with her own hands, and let the girl personally go and ask the "Lord" for forgiveness.

Ah, if that's the case, the girl is indeed guilty......

But if that's the case, why don't you send the girl to the Lord's side with your own hands? Shouldn't this be a thing full of redemption?

Why are you hesitating? Why did you all end up pushing me to do it?

But the grave keeper did not dare to think about it any further, for he was afraid that he would not dare to bear any more sins from the Order he had joined to atone for his sins......

So, after killing Kyoko with his own hands that night, he sneaked into Mr. Hanada's house and killed him, led by Mr. and Mrs. Muraki, and buried his body on this back mountain overnight.

Now, they are going to kill the innocent girl he was carrying on his back......

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(End of chapter)