Vol 1 Chapter 11 (1/2)
The Silent Sailor
“First, I want you to take a look at this”
The knight flipped through the pages for a moment, then passed over Duke Elmond’s journal, but the siren didn’t reach other to take it
“I can’t read… What does that have to do with anything?”
The elf received the journal, looked at where the knight had pointed to It was about a year ago, on the first page of the journal
“December 23rd, received ‘real mermaid’, supplier: Shark, 30”
Written in a different colour beloas a line, the elf also read that out
“The sailor’s case caused a large co in unexpected trouble, must be more careful next time”
“I don’t understand” The young siren said dully
“assu ‘mermaid’ refers to you I believe ‘he’ was not ‘Shark’, so that person did not betray you”
“What difference does that make? If it was not him, how did they find me? Hoould they know that I would not be able to resist, if they waited a few days?” The youth’s voice rose, his face showing a sharp pain, “Just because he didn’t have the courage to do it himself!”
“It hen I was still a paladin, the winter ht just started to narrate, as if he had not heard the question
“A corpse was found in an abandoned well in the lower city This sort of thing was noristrate and his soldiers But the abandoned as near the church’s area, the cause of death was also a little unusual, like soht it ht be some evil cult’s protest Therefore, the Paladin Order in the lower city, being us, took over the following investigation”
“Of course, It wasn’t any sort of religious ritual Just that thenever seen so like that”
“It was torture, very cruel torture The victim had whip lashes and knife wounds all over his body, all non life threatening, but would cause the ers and feet were broken one by one, eyes removed, even the ears were cut out”
“The result of the investigation was, that the victiue that was a very painful way to die, but at that time, he had already lost all ability tohe could do”
“Everyone who participated in the investigation was shocked, and curious at the same time — What did the torturers wanted to find out fro time, when he finally felt he could not withstand anymore, he chose suicide What was the secret, that orth it for him to do that?”
“No identification could be found on his body, we could only deter the paladins, we called him ‘the silent sailor’
“The case beca far and wide in thebeen inspired by that, ends appeared Finally, this even reached the Queen as still a princess then Perhaps it was out of recognition for such acts, she ordered the search for the culprit to continue, and especially allocated funds to bury the dead”
“But, with alation reached a dead end, with no one recognizing the person, the investigation ended with nothing He was creraveyard behind the church”
“Only one piece that could be considered as evidence remained The paladins found, in the stomach of the victim a small accessory, a shell on a chain”
The siren’s eyes suddenly widened in shock
“It was very strange, a shell would normally be melted in the stomach acid But that seemed to be special, when it was taken out, it was still perfectly whole Upon pressing on the switch it would open Inside on the wall of the shell, a as carved”
“You never told us your naht said, “but now I know, that was one of the ‘silent sailor”s secrets”
“– Shelly Maybe it is as you say, that every huh, anything can be a chip”
“But, ‘price’, isn’t gold as you had thought Labor, body, soul, ee for soold”
“To ‘that person’, your safety orth hie Even if he couldn’t protect you in the end, but at least, he had already done all that he could”
The siren stared at the knight not saying a single thing, then large translucent beads of water started to fall frohostly blue, and quickly evaporated, creating a thin white mist in the room
“Don’t be like that” The knight came near a little eold, it’s not good to waste it”
Ignoring the knight’s stiff joke, the boy sla his face in his chest, and started to cry loudly with abandonment
The knight could only place his hand on his head, whispering less comforts
In the space next to hie started to appear
A young entle s with the knight’s
“Can I go see his grave?”
After a long while, the boy lifted his head, asking with a hoarse voice