When night came, all the doors and windows were tightly closed.

Count Celence, whether he was a real count or not, or just a bandit, he treated Hervendelenge very attentively, not only inviting him to dinner, but also preparing a guest room and a maid.

But Hewen had to move on, this time the hunt was complete, and if he dragged it too far, then by the time he found Vötigen's hiding place, it was likely that he would have gone to the surface.

Death is a necessary path for everyone to go through.

But that's not how the original underworld should be.

Niflheim lost his mistress.

At least no longer sane.

Herwin returned to the streets of the town.

No one dared to wander outside, perhaps because they were afraid that the gray fog would penetrate the town and eat them directly in the streets, perhaps out of fear of Serens' men, or simply a lack of reason to leave the house.

The streets should have been empty.

Until Hervin came to the corpse.

A young and beautiful girl was standing firmly in front of the corpse.

She spoke:

"Hello. ”

Hervin says:

"Hello. ”

The girl looked up at him with stubborn eyes:

"I heard you want to ask for directions?"

Hervin says:

"That's right. ”

She said:

"My name is Annie, I probably know something, do you want to hear it?"

Herwin watched in silence as she stared straight into her eyes.

He nodded.

Anne turned and walked to a house not far away.

Herwin followed her.

Anne walked over to a rusty iron door and gently pushed them open and walked in.

Hervin also walked in.

The interior of the house is not as gloomy as it looks from the outside, except that many of the furniture looks a little old and slightly damaged in some places compared to a normal house.

After all, you can't buy new furniture in the underworld.

Anne turned to look at Herwen:

"Sir, you're a knight, I can see at a glance. ”

Hervin's current status is indeed a part-time knight's aristocrat.

Anne says:

"Uncle Edek's son, Marston, is also a knight, and we've always lived here. ”

There are only two people in the house now.

Anne says:

"Uncle Edek is the one who has just been brutally killed by them, he is not from Inlands, but his son Marston is a knight of Inlands, and Uncle Edek says that he used to be a worker in Milton, and a member of the Workers' Union, although I don't quite understand what the Workers' Union means.

"But I know that Uncle Edk is a good man, and that he has always done good deeds during his lifetime, and so has his son, but in order to pay the taxes of Count Silens, Marcus has disappeared outside.

"Uncle Edek thinks Sellence is asking too much, and he forces us to leave town frequently and collect the black fog in the neighborhood to stay from being driven away.

And it is true that he wants too much, and many people have already disappeared into the town in the process of collecting the black mist, but Sellence doesn't care about that, because every now and then new souls will come to the town.

"And not all people have to pay taxes, if it's a strong man or a beautiful enough woman, they can submit to him, and they won't need to go out to collect the black mist.

"At least a few people disappear every month, sometimes a dozen, and he's violently dominating the place. ”

"I know it's not your obligation, I just see that you might be a knight, so I'd like to ask if you'd like to......

"Punish adultery and eliminate evil. ”

Hervin says:

"Do you know how to protect this place from the gray fog, do you know how to deal with the dangers in the dark, do you know how to keep this town running?"

The hope in the girl's eyes gradually dimmed:

"Do you think he is not guilty, and does not such a tyrant deserve to die?"

Herwin shook his head:

"I don't know if he deserves to die, but even if he is guilty, I am not a judge, and I have done what ordinary people would consider barbaric and bloody.

"But I know that I won't stay here to protect you from the Grey Mist, and what if you kill him and you can't protect the others?

Girl says:

"He killed the only two people who cared about me, do you want me to give up my revenge? Do you want me to forget all this?"

Hervin says:

"No, revenge is your rightful right, but I won't help you do it, because I can't keep the Grey Mist away from this place forever, but he can.

"I am not a messenger of justice, child, and I sometimes do good deeds and kill a little wicked, but I cannot eradicate all the evil in front of me, and in a much more distant time, his actions may not be called evil.

"This is not the human world, but the underworld, I am just a newcomer, maybe his actions can save more people, maybe his actions are hurting others, but I don't have time to stop and investigate who is right and who is wrong in this matter.

"I'm leaving, and there's no way I'm going to help you get revenge, but again, I'm not going to stop you for him, I just want you to know that if you really want revenge, it's likely to cause the rest of the town to be consumed by the Grey Mist.

"So if you want, at least think of a way to pry out of Silens's mouth how to dispel the gray fog, and then do it to protect them. ”

The girl said disappointedly:

"I thought you were a knight. ”

Hervin says:

"I'm sorry, you're mistaken, I'm not a knight.

"I know a knight who, if she were here, would not only do what she wants to do now, but she would also judge Cyrens for you, but unlike me, she will not lynch Celence, she will ensure that Celence is punished as he deserves, and she will never let him be punished undeserved.

"But I'm in a hurry now, and I can't just take your word for it and kill him, and even if I weren't in a hurry, I wouldn't be involved in it. ”

Anne asked:

"What could be more important than justice, more important than the lives of two good men. ”

Hervin corrected:

"It's not the lives of two good people, it's the revenge of two good people. ”

The girl pointed out the window:

"There's an evil tyrant there, and if you're a good man, stop and put down what you're doing to do justice to this town. ”

Hewen shook his head:

"As I said, I'm not a knight, I'm not a judge, and I'm not a good person in the strict sense of the word.

"Life is immeasurable, and what I am going to do now is related to many such immeasurable lives, whether they die or live, depending on whether I will succeed or not.

"But do you know why I didn't leave right away?"