Alien Knights

Alfonso rubbed his sore neck and asked Rachel: "Are you sure this is a good idea?"

Rachel stared at Marcus standing next to Karin and said, "Todd agreed."

Alfonso paused, then sighed: "Since your Majesty has decided..."

Rachel lowered her voice and said, "I have already sent out a request for help from the Valkyries. I have deployed additional manpower from the Alien Association. You can also ask the Knights to send some more people."

Alfonso thought of the scene of the battle just now and couldn't help but worry: "Let such a dead spirit enter Muxi City, where the population is densely populated. I am worried that something will happen."

Rachel said: "Marcus will not enter Muxi City, we will place him elsewhere... Oh, by the way, your mission this time is over, His Majesty asked you to go back first."

Alfonso glanced at Marcus: "The mission is over? I'm afraid the grudge between him and me will not end."

Rachel said: "Don't think about solving anything now. In Todd's words, Marcus is very useful to us now."

Alfonso turned to look at Rachel and asked: "Your words make me suspicious. Are you implying that once Marcus loses his use, he will be disposed of?"

Rachel nodded slightly.

Alfonso frowned and asked hesitantly: "Is this also His Majesty's decision?"

Rachel shook her head: "No, this is my decision."

Alfonso turned his head and said with a little displeasure: "It is not wise to use others and then abandon them. You may gain short-term benefits, but it will completely chill many people."

Rachel said with a smile: "Then what you mean is that you want Marcus, the undead spirit, to stay in the Dragon Kingdom forever. Even if it may trigger the undead plague, you plan to turn a blind eye?"

Alfonso didn't know how to answer this question for a moment.

After struggling for a while in his heart, Alfonso whispered his decision: "If one day, Marcus really has to die, at least arrange a fair duel for me and him. If I win, then everything will Nature is the best..."

Rachel asked: "What if you lose?"

Alfonso: "You can do whatever you want after I close my eyes."

Early the next morning, Rachel took Karin on the journey home.

Marcus was placed alone in a special carriage, and a "guard" composed of dozens of knights and Valkyries were responsible for "taking care" of this guest.

Starting from Lone Rock City, head all the way north.

Rachel, who was sitting in the carriage, hugged the quiet Karin and said softly: "Remember, you can't take such a risk next time."

Karin whispered, "I just thought I should do that."

"It's one thing to do what you should do, but it's another thing to pay the price." Rachel gently touched Karin's hair: "Sometimes, you work hard and you carry a heavy burden, but in the end you find that everything has returned to you. origin."

Karin raised her head in confusion.

Rachel smiled and said, "Don't think too much."

Karin lowered her head thoughtfully and swallowed the words that came to her lips.

Rachel lifted the curtains of the carriage, looked at the scenery outside, and said, "Before returning to Twilight City, we have to take Marcus to a place."

Karin suddenly grabbed Rachel's hand: "If possible, please don't hurt him."

Rachel looked at Karin's dull eyes and asked: "Marcus's body is sewn together from corpses. He only retains the most primitive nature and intelligence. His behavior is more like an undead spirit than a ghost." Human. In your opinion, is he still the same person?"

Karin lowered her head and said: "I know that he is no longer the original Marcus, but he still remembers me and many things in the past. If I really let me judge, he should be half human and half undead." ."

Rachel said: "So, do you think the reason why he continues to exist is because of the half human being in his body?"

Karin continued to nod slightly.

Rachel smiled.

She patted Karin on the head: "You are the same as Todd. You both value Marcus' humanity more, but downplay the threat of him as an undead."

Karin asked: "Todd also thinks Marcus should be kept?"

"Todd supports keeping Marcus conditionally, but the premise is to conduct an experiment to see if the latter really has humanity."

Rachel's words confused Karin again: "Experiment?"

Rachel moved her gaze out the window: "Soon, you will know."

Three days later, the group finally arrived at their destination - the Monastery of San Sidro.

Listening to the monks chanting sutras and the bell ringing from the distant bell tower, Karin asked Rachel in surprise: "Why are you here?"

Rachel motioned to the knights to open Marcus' car door.

Marcus, who had been imprisoned in the carriage for a long time, was already on the verge of rage. He knocked open the unlocked door and rushed out of the carriage, but was attracted by the towering cross of San Sidro Monastery and stopped.

Rachel waved her hand, signaling all the knights and Valkyries to stay alert and move back.

Marcus stroked the pattern on the door of San Sidro Monastery and walked in unexpectedly.

Along the way, the monks who saw Marcus were so frightened that they screamed and fled.

But Marcus didn't care at all about these noisy humans and walked straight towards the depths of the monastery.

Rachel supported Karin, followed Marcus under the protection of the knights and Valkyries, and finally came to a room built in the innermost room of the monastery.

Marcus carefully pushed open the dusty door, pushed aside the cobwebs hanging everywhere in the room, walked to a wall, and gently touched the engravings on the corner of the wall.

Karin, unable to see, asked: "Where are we?"

Rachel said: "Marcus entered Mairis's room. Since Mairis disappeared, Todd ordered that this room be kept and no one is allowed to enter."

Karin nodded and asked again: "What is Marcus doing now?"

Rachel looked at it carefully and said: "On the corner of the room, there are some marks made with a knife. Marcus is looking at those marks carefully."

Karin was silent for a moment and then said: "I know what it is. Those were carved by Melis to record Marcus' height records from childhood to adulthood."

Rachel said to herself: "The memories of father and son?"

Marcus turned around, came to the bed, and pulled out a box from under the bed. When he opened it, he found a lonely silver dagger inside.

When Karin learned all this, she couldn't help covering her mouth and whispered: "That was the gift I gave Marcus at his coming-of-age ceremony. I always thought he lost my gift."