"Now you should understand that I didn't cheat on you?" Fabius Bayer said with a little excitement.

Acudona ignored it. He frowned and began to read the readings on the medical device over and over again, he could not really understand the specific use, but he still looked at it carefully.

It was only after this that he really turned his gaze to Vogrim. Phoenix lay on the medical table with her eyes closed, breathing long, smooth, as if she had just fallen asleep.

After twelve days, his wounds finally stopped bleeding.

"I didn't lie to you, Cudona, I didn't," Fabius Bayer repeated in a chattering voice.

His noise caused Acudona to glance at him in annoyance, and the chief swordsman finally spoke coldly, "Shut up, Bayer." He's recovering, but what do you think he'll do when he wakes up? ”

"That's something to think about later, and the priority now is to heal him." Fabius replied firmly.

"And then?" Acudona stared at him coldly.

"Actually, I have a lot of questions for you, Bayer. First, why did Horus allow you to walk freely on the Vengeful Spirit? Second, why did he ask you to treat Fogham? Third, and most importantly. How can you behave like nothing after betraying us? ”

The chief apothecary of the Emperor's son frowned deeply, and he opened his mouth to say something, but chose to shut up as if he had no idea what to do. After much hesitation, he opened his mouth to explain the first question.

"I also don't understand why the commander trusts me so much." He said. "I don't understand, but I'll put this power to good use."

"Maybe it's because he thinks you're the same kind of person as him." Acudona sneered.

"Listen to your inflamed voice, listen to your words. We are bleeding, and you are talking about power here? Do you still call him a war commander? Does he deserve that title, Bayer? Can't you see what he did to the Phoenix? ”

"I'm not here to argue with you." Fabius Bayer said he did not look Acudona in the eye when he spoke.

"I understand how you're feeling right now, it's really uncomfortable, but it's necessary, I can't heal the primordial, and neither can you, not anyone on this ship-"

"-yes, it turns out that this ship can." Acudona interrupted him, shaking his head. "It's strange that a primordial can be cured by killing each other without the help of any medical treatment. Did you go to school, Bayer? Have you ever seen those fables from Guterra? ”

He stepped forward, grabbed Fabius by the collar, and pushed him against the wall. He pressed the wrist of his left hand against the apothecary's neck, and with a little force, he could easily end his life.

In the face of this obvious threat, Fabius Bayer once again remained calm and sane. As he had done last time, he raised his hands, wanting to show his harmlessness and to explain.

But this time, Acudona didn't give him that chance.

He didn't want to hear anything more from Fabius Bayer.

"The devil often appears in fables. They can do what humans can't, they can easily bring our imaginary visions into reality, and they can make people indulge in one dream after another. And the devil is going to take the price, have you thought about it, Bayer? ”

The chief pharmacist was silent, he was slowly choking, and Acudona didn't show much politeness when he lost his patience.

"I've always wondered why you're betraying us. I thought about a lot of possibilities, and I thought about how you got hooked up with Horus, and then I thought of the Bearer. ”

Acudona approached him, murderous intent in his eyes. It was not a flash in the pan, nor was it briefly suppressed by reason.

At this moment, Fabius Bayer was keenly aware of one thing - if he didn't answer, Acudona would really kill him.

"Erebus, huh?" The chief swordsman asked, the blood on his face long since dried up, forming some kind of strange mark on his face. He seemed to be laughing, the muscles in his face twitched abnormally, and the strength of his arms increased again.

"You're mixed up with something like that, he's full of poison and he's full of lies. How many times has he been looking for Phoenix? But was our father ever moved by what he said? When did he not get Erebus to leave outright? What about you? How long have you been fooling around with that bastard who is always smirking in private? ”

"I Didn't Betray"

"No?" Acudona looked him in the eye and asked softly.

"I-"

"—If it weren't for you, we would have jumped into the Soul of Vengeance. We could have saved the phoenix and gone back for help, we didn't have to be in this situation. However, our chief pharmacist is you. You were the one who gave Horus the key to embarkation, and it was you who offered to kill us. ”

He increased his strength again, and Fabius felt a sharp pain. His face flushed, blood spilling from his throat.

Accudona expressed satisfaction at his pain, still smiling, for a moment, before he continued to speak.

"So listen up, Fabius Bayer. For the past twelve days, every man who has died in battle with one another, their lives will be counted on your head. So, no matter what your original intention was, you don't deserve it anymore. ”

"You don't understand ——!" Fabius Bayer jerked him away, clutched his neck, and began to gasp for breath.

Acdonna chuckled and returned to the medical table, picking out the surgical instruments. He ignored Fabius's words, and just picked the blade with all his hand.

The Chief Apothecary noticed his movements, and he began to move towards the wall, but the words continued.

"You wouldn't believe me even if I told me, Acudona. Horus revealed to me the truth about the blight, and if we want to live, we must be on the same side as him! ”

"Hmm." Acudona nodded absently and picked up two surgical forceps. He didn't look at them, and threw them out. Fabius could have dodged, he was equally adept at fighting. But for some reason, he didn't.

The two surgical forceps shattered his left eye and smashed into his Adam's apple.

The pharmacist bent over in pain and coughed up the minced meat. The chief swordsman walked up to him and kicked him in the face. Extremely heavy, shattered eyeballs roll out of their sockets. Then another kick was made, pinpointing to Fabius's jaw, and the sound of a broken bone was heard immediately.

But that was still not the end of it, as Acudona indifferently raised his fists and began to beat Fabius hard.

He did this very meticulously and carefully, he did go to kill, but he refined the process into extreme pain and suffering.

The purpose of each punch was to make Fabius feel more pain, and the apothecary could scream at first, but then he couldn't make any sound.

It's just that there is one thing that is quite strange, he never chooses to fight back, he just looks at Acudona, half of his tongue squirms in his mouth, trying to speak.

Acudona looked down at him, finally stopping his swing. The ground was covered in blood, and Fogrem calmly closed his eyes on the medical table behind them, unaware of the outside world.

Acudona bent down and lifted Fabius, whose legs were crippled and his knees were completely shattered, from the ground, and pushed him against the wall again, forcing him to stand in pain.

"Say it." He spoke emotionlessly, holding Fabius's chin with his left hand, allowing it to temporarily return to its rightful place with the fragments of bone. "What did Horus say to you to make you so mad?"

"The Emperor. betrayed us." The chief pharmacist slurred.

His only remaining right eye was bloodshot, and tears flowed down his face. At the same time, his words began to grow clearer and clearer, and it didn't look like he was missing half a tongue at all.

"The blight is his handiwork, his last hand, and he will clean us up one day. In order to cope with possible revolt, he deliberately left this flaw. That's why I can't cure it, the murderer is not a genetic sect from the moon at all, Acudona, the murderer is the emperor, the emperor."

The chief apothecary collapsed to the ground crying bitterly, and Acudona gritted his teeth and took two steps back.

"I don't believe you." He said hoarsely. "It's a lie."

"But the commander showed me, and he showed it to me. In that future, we are gone, all honor is handed over to mortals, Astarte becomes a name in history, and the name of Fogrem is never mentioned again! ”

", Fabius ——!" Acudona roared and turned, exiting the infirmary as if fleeing. Behind him, Fabius Bayer lay on the ground with convulsions.

After a long time, he slowly stood up and set his eyes on Fogham, who was still unconscious.

"I'm going to cure the blight, I'm going to cure it, the primordial. Forgive me."

——

"I don't believe it." Fogrem said.

He clenched his fists and trudged through waist-deep water. The sky was still dark, and the clouds stared at him coldly like eyes in the night sky without half a star. He was naked, trembling with the cold, but he still chose to move forward.

"I don't believe it's true." He repeated. There was no one around to talk to, so he was probably talking to himself.

"It's impossible." He repeated it over and over again, with great firmness, but with fear on his face.

Below sea level, some shadows flickered. In the sea breeze full of blood, a voice came slowly.

"Fogham." Ferus Manus called out in a low voice, his voice changing to a roar of utter despair in the next second. "Traitor ——!"

"I don't believe it." Fogrem said.

He continued walking.

Updated.

(End of chapter)