708 As It Is In Heaven (2/2)

”How can there be so anini said softly ”Soars, soht has lasted for years, and last year the frost was severe They , and so have lost all hope These exiles are worthless The Commonwealth of Caucasian has too little land They can't afford to groeeds, and they can't afford to support these people You can't save them Even if you do, they will still die”

Charles was silent The refugee in the mud looked up at him, and the hope in his eyes was dashed bit by bit He wanted to say soh cracked lips, but in the end nothing ca out from behind the victims

It soon stopped

Charles lowered his head

After a while, he looked back up at Paganini ”Howto reclaianini shook his head in disappointment ”There aren't many provisions left Everyone has their allotted portion All that Gaius is eating now is stale bread Who has any food to give to others?”

”How many provisions do we have?” Charles repeated his question

Paganini sighed and glanced to his side as the clerk bitterly flipped through the account book ”Besides everyone's allotted rations, we have two herrings and five anini looked at Charles ”How hed bitterly, reached his hand out and looked at the clerk ”Give thes off the cart He pulled out two herrings, five anini said nothing and lowered his eyes

There were at least 30,000 refugees wandering outside the country now, and there were 7,000 in this shabby caet about the five millet cakes, even if everyone took out their rations it would practically be like trying to put out a pile of burning logs with a glass of water Even if everyone in the country was able to get a bit of rations, how many would that save?

They could only stuff their ears and refuse to listen

This was not shi+rking their duties, and it was not cruel There were s to be preserved

It was not until Charles started taking the fish and anini called for him to stop Not to bewitch hiue some advice

”Charles, there will always be ti we can do,” he said softly ”It's better if you understand that now”

Charles looked back at him and suddenly smiled ”Don't worry” He scratched his head as he se It's that I'anini was stunned

Charles stopped in front of the duees looked at him, then looked the fish and cakes in his hands Their voices quieted, then grew louder That tiny bit of food seeic Iton the ground, gnawing on their fingers, with eyes filled with longing and greed

Then they saw the dagger that Charles had pulled out of his boot

The dagger glinted, cold as frost,the crowd of people around higer and slashed his pinky Blood flowed fro bone The severed finger fell in the gap between the herrings and the h no one saw it

The blood fell into the water bottle, staining the water until it looked like it had becoer and wrapped up the stued into a s on the ground

”Eat” He grinned and stepped back ”If it's not enough, there's ees stared blankly at Charles, and in the nextover They crawled towards the food that had fallen on the ground They grabbed the cakes, stuffing theht When it got stuck in their throats they greedily drank the wine

Charles stepped back and let thelanced at them, then looked away His face was blank, but in his sleeves, his hands were tre uncontrollably After a while, he called over the clerk He forced himself to calm down and suppressed the treather up the leftovers Don't waste any of it”

The clerk stared at hianini repeated hiees had finished eating, and the clerk came back with twelve baskets filled with leftovers

The people crowded around the baskets and clicked their tongues in wonder

But Paganini did not look He had his back to the crowd, and his face was pale

Dmn, those idiots don't knohat this represents…

After all those centuries, he suddenly had an impulse to pray

”God” He looked up and stared into the eate of heaven was slowly opening and raining down redemption

It was Eden, the heaven created by humanity

Like an illusion, he saw countless spirits of the dead rising up to the Kingdom of Heaven, as if there really were souls in the world

As if Heaven really existed

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