Realize she's going to burn everybody. He desperately stabbed her in the arm, but she removed it. However, the fire was extinguished; Explain that she needs to concentrate. He stabbed and stabbed, and each time she walked away effortlessly and gracefully. She glared at him, her fiery gaze scorching his skin.

But his attacks began to force her to back down. She tried again and again to start a fire, but each time he stabbed her with a spear, forcing her to dodge. She jumped back and screamed at him, her mouth unbelievably wide, revealing rows of wolf-like fangs. Then she turned around and disappeared completely, leaving no trace.

Androx's murderous intent was finally exhausted and extinguished like a candle. He knelt down, panting, sweat dripping onto the shards of the table. For a moment, the whole room was silent. After the wind passed, the people at the door began to walk out, leaving quietly without saying a word. After a while, Andlos stood up and walked towards the couch, slumping into his seat exhausted.

He picked up the wine and took a big sip as the others left, then reached into his robe and pulled out the wolf scar. The little fairy's cheeks were wet with tears, and he was speechless. He trembled like a leaf blown by the wind, his eyes tightly closed. A

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Okles gently pressed him to his chest and held him in place with one hand.

He ate some of the food on the plate and it tasted good. The sensation penetrated a strange numbness in his mind and brought him to his senses. Some in the crowd looked back at him as they walked out, their expressions incomprehensible. He wondered if they would come back with stones and spears to drive him out of town. After seeing this, he wondered if they would have the courage.

After a while, the wolf sca

calmed down a bit; But instead of jumping, he leaned deeper and fell silent.

"Are you alright, little one?" A

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Okles asked.

The fairy moved, then said in a hoarse voice, "Yes."

"Good," he said.

After a while, the fairy sat up and said, "Can we go and see Gabi?"

"Do you want to see her?"

"yes, that's what I meant. Check her out. "Wolf sca

Say. Then he climbed onto Anchors' chest and burrowed into the neckline of his robe. The fairy sat down and stuck his little head under Androx's chin so he could see. The fairy behaves a bit like a puppy that has been kicked, and Androx finds it a little funny.

Gotzo

e sat on the stairs with his hands still and his skin pale. When she saw Anders, she stood up and straightened her clothes, but she couldn't regain her usual composure. When she saw the fairy's little head from A

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When Okles stretched out of his robes, she sighed sympathetically and said, "Oh, you look scared!"

"She eats fairies. I remember. "Wolf sca

Say. "I don't want to see her again."

Gotzo

E nodded sympathetically. Pity for this little thing seemed to give her strength. She said, "Let me take you to your room, Master Androx." When I last checked-up, Gabi was already in bed. ”

When Andlos opened the door, the servant screamed and jumped, but when she saw that it was him, she exhaled out loud with relief. "How...... How ......," she said. Then she took a deep breath and said unexpectedly politely: "Mr. Androx, this girl has been sleeping downstairs throughout the course of the incident. She was not injured. Can we take off your clothes and your fairies and let you rest for the night?"

He saw Gotzo

E looked at her servant with a proud smile, and her eyes quickly moistened, and rightfully so.

"Wait a minute," he said. He crept up to the sleeping Gabi, serene and innocent, just like his sons. Her loose hair spread out in all directions, over the pillow, and dragged onto the bed. He brushed the hair from her forehead with his thumb and pressed his palm to her cheek for a moment. She moved, but didn't wake up.

"I'll have to take her with me, won't I?" He said, almost talking to himself. "I can't give her to Kelsel right now."

Gotzo

E's voice was calm and wise, and she said, "The goddess will come to save her, and no one will rebel against the wild mother." There were no living people anywhere. I believe so. ”

"The kids will regret it too," he said sincerely. However, they were no longer in his care, though he was saddened by the thought of them being eaten. It really hurt him. When he remembered that he still had a choice, a struggle began to slowly surface in his mind. He said, "Do you know that she eats human sacrifices?"

"I already knew that. I mentioned earlier that I refuse to worship her, and that's why. My father made sure I understood the curse," she said. "My family and I will never honor the God who drinks human blood."

"And what god do you worship?"

"No one deserves respect. She threw everyone else out, and no other god heard his prayers, and no other god accepted sacrifices. The traveling priestesses from the Kingdom of Glory and many other nations live under my roof, and none of them can speak to their gods here. ”

"It's ridiculous. The sun is still in the sky, isn't it? What about the moon? Pray to them! Androx said. Still, there was something in her voice that scared him, gentle and deep. Is he really out of the jurisdiction of the Court of Sworn Fathers? Can no other god see him but Mary? Which one is worse? Is it knowing that he has lost the gods of his ancestors and their help, or does he know that he has been freed from their greed and discontent, and that his misfortune is nothing more than empty chaos in the world?

If Gotzo

E noticed his philosophical reflections, and she didn't hint at it either. She sat in the chair, folded her legs gracefully, and rested her arms on the armrests to make the chair look like a throne.

"Master Andrakles, your presence makes me suspect that you were sent by the gods to weaken her. Tatarlo is the hammer she uses to shape people, and he is broken. You walked through the basket and headed south. You've definitely seen their bountiful harvest. They bore her a child in the spring, and she blessed them as well. But the child was chosen because he was sick and he died before the ceremony began. The other was not found in time. Since then, that terrible Tataror has been eating peasants and woodcutters. Her priest said that she would not accept any more sacrifices until the first snow came. ”

"To be honest, I was lucky to kill that guy, but I'm sure that with two hundred men with fire and arrows, I can take him down. Are all the people here cowards?"

"Truth is more terrible than cowardice. Many people here sincerely adore her. She is generous when she is happy. I have heard that she has cared for this people for a hundred generations. Those who do not worship her are usually treated with contempt. ”

Well, that's not the same, he thought; What would he do if his father's patron saint was Mary instead of a sworn father? Even if she is a curser, is it appropriate for anyone to go against such a time-honored tradition?

He said, "Well, then maybe I shouldn't interfere." I'm only here because I'm going to keep my vows. As soon as he said this, he saw how ashamed he was. He bowed his head.

"Maybe you were really lucky in the fight with Tatalo. But in my opinion, there is no better person to be sent by the gods than a man who is taller and stronger, strong-willed, and dignified than anyone else? A man with a spear in one hand and a rescued child in the other, knocking down the enemy? You are a man who risked his life to save the child, Master Androx. You are gentle and strong. You can save more people. ”

Androx glared at her fiercely. "I'm not that kind of person, it's rude for you to say such things. I am the one who kills my parents, not the one who saves my children. I'm just here to get my stuff back. That's all. ”

"No, Master Androx, you think you're that kind of person. When there is no one around you to direct you, what you do is who you really are. ”

"Listen, master, I saved these children because I swore to help them before I found some orphans. They delayed me for a week before I got them somewhere. I saved the girl because I was caught and she happened to be in the pit with me. I'm here now because she forced me to swear. I'm a man who kills people for his city, and that's all I have. That's me, Gotzo

Master E, I had lost this before I found my silverware. To be honest, I think all this happened only because Della made a sacrifice to the magician or the road clearer, and he agreed to stand in my way while she escaped. He noticed that his frustration and unease about the situation was showing up. He spoke a little louder than he needed to, and he could feel his interest in Gotzo

e How deeply the brow furrows when he is blatant. Maybe she shouldn't have been scolded, but she brought it up.

"May I ask, which boys are you referring to?" The goddess also mentioned them," she said politely. She handles his anger gracefully and calmly, which annoys him a little.

"I spotted some skinny, starving Skytha on the road

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Kit, a few hours' drive from the intersection south of the basket. They begged me to save them, and I saved them. I left them in the basket and gave them to a woman named Arguna, who is the exact opposite of you in every way, just because she promised to take care of them. ”

"What about the robbers?" Have you been attacked?"

"Not exactly. They wanted the kids and didn't accept rejection, so I had to kill the six of them. "It's getting more and more annoying.

"Why don't you hand them over?"

"Robbers? He said sarcastically.

"Yes, to the robbers. Why don't you hand them over? Will the six robbers take the bag away?"

"Oh, I'm sure they'll do their best. But I don't deal with robbers. ”

"You mentioned that you were delayed for a week or more. However, the journey from the basket to the intersection takes less than two days. What happened?"

"I had to sit there and take care of them to get back to health. They were all so hungry that each had one foot on the ghould's moldy threshold. Pepper said that Pepper's entire foot was sideways and was leaning in that direction. ”

Gotzo

E looked at him calmly and waited for a long time before speaking. "You're trying to tell me," she said in a tone of naked sarcasm and suspicion, "that you rescued two children from starvation, killed six bandits to protect them, spent a week caring for them like a maid to their health, found them a home, and then you did the same to little Galby there, only this time not the bandits, but a Tatar with human legs on his teeth, and you are not a child protector?"

Andex roared in frustration. "Listen, even if it's like this, it's not like that."

"Master Andlox," she said with great dignity, "do you like those boys?" Tell me the truth. ”

He looked at her, then lowered his head, unable to resist her gaze. If he lied now, this whole unpleasant conversation would be over and he could go on with his life tomorrow. But he knew he couldn't. Honest people never lie to their friends. "I do like them. I did. ”

"Do you love them?"

After a pause, he looked at the ground and said calmly, "It's me."

"You don't know yourself, Andrew. You take such good care of them because you have a tender heart, no matter what you think. Don't deny it. How would you feel about yourself and your honor if you let Mary eat it? The boy you've saved and loved? Haven't you lost enough?"

Her words hit me in the sore spot. He had a lump in his throat, a big lump. He didn't answer, fearing that his voice would be heard.

She just waited. She didn't say anything, and struck a posture of an emperor without moving. The silence grew longer and stronger. He knew he was losing. Finally he relented, saying, "I've lost what I can't stand anymore." This... Torture me. I only have ...... left" He was about to speak, but his voice was choked up and he couldn't continue.

Gotzo

e did not speak.

"What I have left," he said at last, "is my honor, my vow, and a small, fading hope, that one day I will get something that I can keep." ”

"Master Androx," Gotzo

E said calmly and forcefully, "You want to keep those kids, along with Gabby and Wolf Sca."

Is it? Really, in your soul?"

He opened his mouth to explain that he couldn't do it even if he wanted to. Then he changed his mind and was about to say that it would be safer for them to stay there. Then he changed his mind a few more times, trying to say something to make her understand so that she wouldn't bother him anymore. But he couldn't say anything. He didn't answer.

"Yes. He finally confessed.

Gotzo

E nodded thoughtfully, then stood gracefully, as she did for anything else. She turned to the young woman who had been hiding in the corner and said, "Please help Wolf SCA."

Get ready to sleep. I'll send another servant to Master Androx at once. Then she nodded politely and left.

One of the young men walked in and helped Androcles take off his robe and put on a nightgown, and the maid gave the wolf sca

Take off your clothes and cover him. No one spoke. As soon as the room went dark, he realized how much his encounter with Mary had cost him of energy. He thought it was inner torment, but in fact it was extremely exhausted in disguise; He was so tired that once he lay down, he couldn't even roll himself over. He had just taken five breaths and began to float away, but before he could fall asleep, he heard Gabbie say, "If you have boys, doesn't that mean except for the wolf sca."

I'll have a brother?"

"Yes, Gabi, girl. Now go back to sleep. ”