901 Ill Be Back One Day (2/2)
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Andrew walked back and forth anxiously in the hall, waiting for information to come back from Cocus. His two friends had collapsed in the coach. What happened was totally beyond their expectation.
”Young master, Cocus told the nobles to stay calm…” The butler walked in, gasping.
Andrew felt that all his strength had been pulled out instantly. ”I knew it, I knew…”
To their great shock, even if all the nobles were willing to unite together, they were just an idle threat to the Church!
Someone was knocking on the door at this time.
”Who is it?” asked the butler nervously.
”I'm here for my reward,” said Crazy Hound, who just walked in.
Andrew and his friends were so startled that they jumped up. ”You?!”
”So you won't keep your words?” Crazy Hound had a nice smile on his face.
”No, no… This is the rest of the payment.” Andrew took out a bag full of Thales.
Crazy Hound weighed it and grinned. ”Good. You're a good partner.”
Then he said with a faint smile on his face, ”Many thanks to you, Mr. Andrew. You've made us understand how powerful we are.”
Then Crazy Hound turned around and left. Andrew was standing where he was like a stone statue. The wind coming in through the gate made him feel cold from deep inside.
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A few days later, Vicente came to the edge of the marsh again but still found nothing.
He was very worried and decided to take the risk to go back secretly.
In the darkness, he sneaked back to his village. When he was about to ”kidnap” a kid to get some information, he suddenly heard two peasant women talking.
”Poor Miss Shirley. I don't believe she was corrupted and lured by devils…”
Under the Church's propaganda, even a peasant woman knew how to use some big words.
”You're right. Miss Shirley is such a nice young lady, like an angel. Goddamn Vicente! He lied to Miss Shirley! If it weren't because of him, Miss Shirley wouldn't die in the inquisition and even be put on the gallows!” The other woman agreed.
Shirley… died?
The women's conversation was like a huge hammer that just gave Vicente's brain a fierce strike. His vision suddenly turned blurry, and he almost lost his balance.
The two women kept talking, and he had understood what had happened when he was hiding in the marsh.
His soul had been pulled away by the agony, and his mind had blanked out. He walked back to the marsh like a zombie.
Maybe he was blessed by the Goddess of Luck. On his way back, no one saw him, and he didn't encounter any monsters.
”NO!!!”
After a while, an extremely painful cry burst out somewhere from the marsh, and it was even bitter than a lonely wolf crying to the moon.
Vicente's face was covered in tears, and his eyes were ablaze with a ferocious flame of anger. He kneeled down on the ground, and his hands kept digging into the soil as if he felt no pain. His nails were completely broken from the digging, and his blood dyed the ground.
A few minutes later, two black books and a pale palm were dug out.
He picked them up, and hatred was the only thing left on his face.
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”He never came?” asked Crazy Hound, who was hiding around the corner and staring at the body on the gallows.
Tamer smiled. ”It's too obvious. Those sorcerers know.”
”Poor girl. She died for him.” Crazy Hound shrugged.
Gallows were only for ”purifying” living people, so they didn't burn her.
Quite a lot of people stopped and reproached the evil woman colluding with devils and sorcerers. Only very few people knew Shirley in person and knew it wasn't true, but they dared not to say anything.
Among the crowd, a dark-skinned man stared at Shirley's body but remained silent. The way he looked at her was full of agony for he could not imagine the suffering that his lover once experienced, and he could not stop blaming himself for this. However, he eventually turned around and headed off for the city gate. He never looked back again.
Walking out of the gate, he suddenly took off the cross he was wearing. Gripping the cross in his hand, he made his vows. The tip of the cross pierced the skin of his palm, and his blood dyed it.
He put the cross in the wall beside the city gate silently and then slowly walked into the darkness.
”I will be back!
”I will be back to bring you back to life!
”I will be back, and I'll bring destruction and death!”
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