Chapter 44 (1/2)
Gasping for breath, the man in the gray robe stumbled into the house of the ”Lyle family”, roughly dismissed the servants who followed him for instructions, returned to his bedroom step by step, locked all the doors and windows, breathed a sigh of relief, threw away his dirty gray robe and slumped on the chair.
The grey robed man hidden under his hood - or, the second son of the Lyle family, green Lyle, with his eyes full of panic and panic, picked up the wine bottle on the table and poured it down his throat.
Although he had the experience that his partner Draco, a fake priest, killed his brother. But the fear of passing by death still frightened the heir of the Lyle family, even if his heart was still beating.
The wizard who killed Draco must have been in the barn! Even if he only thought of this, he couldn't help regretting why he had to come forward in person. Damn it, don't you just find a trusted servant?
Green Lyle, who picked up the bottle and drank it, finally recovered his complexion and his heart beat gradually calmed down. Even began to figure out what to do tomorrow - the barn can't go again, but I still need those Dalits to inquire about the news, otherwise
”Dong Dong Dong!”
The sudden noise almost didn't make him jump up. When he found that it was a knock at the door, green couldn't help yelling: ”Damn, I didn't say don't disturb me tonight!”
”There are your guests, master green.” the old housekeeper's voice came from outside the door. ”He said he was very worried. He had to see you now.”
Guest... Green's yellow eyes shrunk, carefully put the wine bottle at hand, and then boldly said, ”please invite him in.”
After a short but long wait, the door opened. A tall and thin man walked into the room. Green, who was just very nervous, immediately breathed a sigh of relief and threw the wine bottle aside.
”You don't look very well, master green,” said the tall man, squinting in a tone of indifference.
”Don't look well? I almost can't come back this afternoon!” green, who had just recovered, immediately stood up and looked at the man with a distorted expression: ”the wizard who killed Draco came back and almost caught me a few quarters of an hour ago - if I hadn't run fast enough, I would have been a dead man!”
”Aren't you still safe?” the man comforted, ”and he's just a little wizard apprentice. He can't do anything to you.”
”Little wizard apprentice?!” green raised his voice. ”You said this little wizard apprentice, but kill Draco and all his ghouls!”
”Not to mention that he probably knocked a lot out of Draco's mouth. He must know everything. Besides, he went to church this afternoon. Who knows if he found anything amazing?!”
”I assure you that there was absolutely no trace left when cleaning up the priest.” the man said coldly, ”it was me, not the third rate alchemist like Draco.”
”Anyway, the damn wizard apprentice must die. He knows too much - don't forget, we are grasshoppers on a rope, and no one can escape in case of an accident!” green glared at the man: ”the crime of murdering a priest is beheading!”
”We are well aware of the risks.” the man's eyes narrowed into a seam: ”we have all been well aware since we solved father Anthony.”
”Then don't mention it again!” even if it was just said, green felt trembling all over.
After Draco's death, green Lyle, who was worried all day, was afraid that he would be caught as an accomplice, but what really bothered him was that he could no longer get the alchemy prepared by Draco.
As long as a small cup, it can make the most difficult ale unparalleled delicious, and even produce wonderful illusions, which makes green unable to stop - and the more so, the more difficult he is in the days without that kind of alchemy.
I didn't know when I met these guys... Although I knew they were not good people, for the sake of medicine, I still took them as Draco's friends, and even gave them Draco's priest clothes left here.
Then he heard that father Anthony was killed.