"We shouldn't vent our hatred on those innocent townspeople." Dai Lin interrupted her and helped her finish the rest of her sentence.
She raised her eyebrows slightly, dismissing the statement: "...How do you know I'm not helping?"
"What did you say……?"
"Hatred - so this is how you see me." The smile on the female knight's face disappeared. She half turned her body to glance at Deka, and met the latter's confused eyes in mid-air.
Deka quickly turned his head to avoid the gaze.
If you look closely, you can see that his right hand, which is holding the Crusher Hammer, is shaking.
"If I had done this out of hatred, I would have killed Descartes Lavos long ago."
The female knight's light words were full of murderous intent in everyone's ears.
"It was through hatred for him... and the desire for revenge that I was able to maintain my sanity... that I became who I am today... that Brichel Atlans became Daelin Blue."
"I thought it would take a lot of effort for me to get rid of my civilian status here. It might take me ten or even thirty years to get the status I want, and then use that status to get close to him."
"But... maybe this is fate. He has been waiting here out of guilt and fear, and I got everything without any effort."
"The identity of a disciple of the Golden Knight."
“An opportunity to study at Wayne.”
"And most importantly, I can live with him closely and observe whether he has the opportunity to fulfill those promises."
Hitzfeld glanced quickly toward the end of the corridor.
She could notice that with every word Dai Lin said, Knight Descartes' trembling became more intense. When she mentioned "those promises", the old knight opened his mouth and gasped, as if he was recalling some horrible scenes.
"But you didn't do anything to him." Xia Yibing interrupted, "Why? Because you thought he did it? You acknowledged that he didn't abandon you and kill you entirely for his own life?"
"That may be the reason..." Dai Lin nodded. "Those books and theories... I'm not that ignorant... He must be under a lot of pressure to do these things."
"That means you have forgiven him." Xia Yibing frowned, "Then why did you say that to the townspeople..."
"I haven't forgiven him!" Dai Lin said hatefully, turning back and staring at Deka again.
"I don't care what his reasons are... His betrayal is a fact, and it's also a fact that Bricher-Etreans was killed by him! Even if he did it for the greater good, so what? Does the victim deserve to be sacrificed?"
"You can do whatever you want to me, Bricher..."
Deka lowered his head and only heard the voice coming from below.
"But please stop hurting others...especially the beach...this town..."
"I didn't mean to hurt anyone." Dai Lin couldn't help but raise his voice, "You just saw some things that you didn't understand... I really don't understand, who gave you the confidence to think they were dead?"
"Hitzfeld—" She turned quickly, "You saw a lot of creatures in your ocean dreams, didn't you?"
"……good."
"Aren't you curious about where they come from?"
"......!?" Hitzfeld's eyelids twitched violently.
Of course she had guessed... and made corresponding assumptions.
But when this hypothesis was confirmed by the murderer, she still felt that the whole thing, all the events that happened on the beach were too dreamy.
"During the years I followed Deka, I never gave up my hatred for him." Dai Lin continued in a calm tone, "More than once I walked to his bedside late at night and told myself to kill him... to make him pay for what he did back then."
"But the mistake has already happened. Can it be undone by killing the one who made it?"
"No... No one can turn back time... I realized there's really no point in doing this."
"I started thinking about what caused my best friend to betray me."
"Brichel..." Desca couldn't help but shouted again.
"He told me at that time to abandon me because I was a civilian and I had 'no value' to those people."
"Brichel."
"But he is different. Even if the Lavos family has fallen on hard times, the connections they have inherited are still there. He said he can rely on this - and his advantage of being younger and more talented - to improve the overall situation."
"Brichel, please—"
"So he didn't want to do this, it was this damn world that forced him to do it - am I wrong???"
Turning suddenly, Dai Lin looked at Deka fiercely.
Hitzfeld couldn't help swallowing.
From this angle, she could vaguely catch a glimpse of Deka through the hole in the female knight's chest.
There was even blood plasma spraying out there, and there were a few strands of what looked like flesh hanging there.
Being able to do this, it is obvious that the other party is no longer human.
But the original form of Changxia Sword has no effect on those derived monsters.
It's neither a human nor an evil spirit.
What on earth is she...
"I once believed in them just like you!" Dai Lin yelled at Deka, "Believe that everything will get better! Believe that I am also working hard for it... I will be a part of it!"
"I swore to take revenge on you! Because I didn't believe you at all! I didn't believe what you said at that time! I didn't believe you would really do that!"
"But everything I saw in Wayne tells me that's not the case! You've done it... and tried it! Except you're not me... what's the difference between this and if I did it myself? Even the results may not be as good as yours, because they won't care about a civilian's theory!"
"Then tell me what you are hesitating about?"
“……” Deka opened his mouth.
He wanted to refute, but he really couldn't think of any words to refute.
This is the truth... Descartes spent the rest of his life in guilt, and was also disappointed by the cold reception of the theory of equality, and became discouraged about many things... She was not wrong about anything.
You know, he was already at the Gold Level when he published those essays.
A few years after returning from the beach, he comprehended the golden secrets. As the most famous genius knight at the time, he was also a scholar with considerable achievements, and a meritorious general who assisted Darken Senar in ascending the throne of the Pope!
Even when he stood up and said those words, he received so little response.
Change to someone else?
I’m afraid not even a small splash of water can be made.
"It's not my fault, and it's not yours either."
After taking a breath, Dai Lin closed her eyes and spoke softly.
"It's all because of this deformed society... this civilized world. It's the one that doesn't allow us to survive, and it's also the one that created those tragedies."
This trend of speaking——
Hitzfeld's eyelids twitched again, and he clenched Xia's left hand tightly.
“That’s what’s wrong.”
The female knight with her vest torn remained motionless, only her head turned and her lips slightly opened.
“I’m going to get it back on track.”
Chapter 58 The Beginning of Life
As soon as these words were spoken, the ground of the chapel began to shake.
Everyone, including Knight Descartes, had to try their best to keep their bodies steady. But the shaking was just the beginning. Soon, a crack came across the corner of the yard, like a light-eating snake, quickly crawling across the ground in front of everyone.
"Don't stay here..." Bill was so scared that his lower legs had already turned and were ready to run away, but his upper body was still twisted stubbornly. He waved at the ladies in what he thought was a gentleman's demeanor: "Go! This is going to collapse!!"
Hitzfeld didn't say a word, and he and Xia Yibing turned around and ran outside almost at the same time.
She had no problem sprinting over a short distance. The two of them, along with Bill, Lu Xier, and Lily, ran out of the chapel. As soon as they took a step, Bill, who was at the back, heard a loud noise behind him.
"boom!"
Bill turned around instinctively and saw with bulging eyes - it was the gilded cross at the top of the chapel.
...The entire cross was about five meters tall and weighed as much as a small car. If it hit a metal shell, it would be destroyed. If he had run slower, it would have exploded.
"What on earth is she?" He quickly sped up and ran a few steps, howling and complaining as he ran: "Can you guys not do this next time... At least give me some time to prepare?"
"I'm sorry..." Hitzfeld was gradually caught up by him, and he said breathlessly, "Because... the evacuation of the townspeople would not be successful without her help... but since she is willing... that means... I didn't expect her to be so extreme..."
Bill didn't understand at first, but as he went over the words and the current situation in his mind, he sort of understood.
Now the case is very clear. First of all, all the troubles were caused by a guy named Bricher Atlans, who was a missing person decades ago and was actually killed indirectly by the Golden Knight Descartes Lavos.
But for some unknown reason, this man did not die completely. Through a mysterious means, he stepped onto the land along with the tsunami eighteen years ago. Maybe 'Dai Lin' is his incarnation, or maybe he stole the body of an orphan.
Dailin Blue... Considering that the opponent was fine even after a big hole was punched in his chest, Bill is more inclined to the former inference.
In short, her purpose of coming back was nothing more than revenge, but she happened to discover that Knight Descas's promises to him were all true.
The theory of equality... can be said to be a shocking statement, but it was not taken seriously by people. Instead, it was shelved after a simple exclamation.
Then she thought that this wasn’t okay…?
She's just getting stuck in a rut and is going to cause fucking trouble!
The reason why Hitzfeld asked her to cooperate with him in evacuating the townspeople at the beginning was not only because such a thing depended on her prestige, but also because she was testing this person - testing what she really thought.
And Dai Lin did not disappoint them. Although she vaguely saw the girl's purpose, she did not... follow her previous habit of harming anyone in the process, or attempt to take them as her hostages.
She didn't do that.
Even though she might have known in her heart that the last small group of people stayed alone with her just to expose her and settle accounts with her, she still chose not to continue harming them.
This is enough to show that she should still have "humanity".
Yeah...it looks like this...
But she suddenly went crazy at this moment... She said she wanted to put the civilized world back on track...
The cracks were still chasing them, and they were forced to keep running. Bill was calculating in his mind as he ran.
Judging from the follicles in the underwater caves, she seems to be trying to make all things and life "grow backwards".
Turning people back into follicles, and then the follicles... maybe it should be random division... he didn't know much about this... maybe a process similar to cell division... transforming them into other creatures, those sea monsters that Hitzfeld saw in his dream...
But if this was her purpose, why wouldn't she take action against the townspeople?
In the past few days, when a large number of townspeople were still here, wasn't this the best time for her to take action?
She no longer needed to hide. With so many prey around her, she did not move. Instead, she waited until now, until the entire town was almost empty, before she started...
"Wow!"
While I was thinking about something, a three-story building next to me suddenly collapsed, and countless bricks and tiles of building materials were swept together and rushed towards the street.
"Beware!"
Bill immediately reminded him.
Then he saw his leader pick up the gray-haired girl and jump over.
As for Lu Xier - she had been pulled by the Sheles dog to run since the beginning. She was the fastest runner among them and there was no need for him to worry about her at all.
In the end, he found that he might be the worst off. Bill showed a disgusted expression, dodged the falling rocks in a somewhat embarrassed manner, staggered out of the dust, and continued to run away while hanging behind.
Then his brows suddenly jumped, and he remembered what Hitzfeld said at the beginning... evacuating the townspeople was to prevent something.
It shouldn't be... right?
He quickly turned around, feeling the vibration under his feet, and was horrified to see that behind them, where the chapel was originally located, it was already covered by a cloud of black smoke.
That's not the smoke and dust from the collapsed building.
Wrapped in high temperatures and a pungent, fishy smell of sulfur, a layer of magma has gradually spread into the courtyard of the chapel.
They overflowed from the cracks in the ground, their color was golden and red, distorting the air, and were surrounding Desca from all sides.
Deka stood up, leaning his long-handled war hammer against the shaking ground, silently staring at the red-haired female knight several meters away.
"Yeah……"
"That's enough power to intimidate Wayne. That's what you're planning."
“No matter how good an idea is, it is useless if you don’t have the ability to execute it.”
Dai Lin was also looking at him, and each other's figure was imprinted in their two pairs of deep blue eyes.
