Whispering Verse

"You have been standing there with your eyes closed for more than half an hour. It will probably be midnight in a few minutes. How do you feel now?"

The firelight in the dead forest has dimmed a lot, but the gray snow is still flying in the night sky. With the help of the doctor, Shade sat down on the other half of the millstone buried deep in the snow, and then looked down at his hands:

"The devil wants to see what I look like and then transform into me to deal with me."

He put his right arm on his right knee, lowered his upper body slightly, and looked at the doctor in front of him:

"So, I saw what I looked like."

"No, no, that's not what you look like, that's your shadow."

The doctor corrected:

"I understand Goethe's power. What you see is only the part of yourself that you cannot see under normal circumstances. It seems that you have gained something from this?"

"Yes."

Although there was only one more spiritual rune and one more passive thaumaturgy, all of his moon-related powers were enhanced. He couldn't describe this feeling, so he summoned the [Moonlight Great Sword].

The weight of the spiritual weapon was almost the same as that of a normal weapon, and Shade, who was a little weak at this time, could hardly hold the weapon.

The big sword with rune strings attached pierced the snow, and the almost translucent silver sword illuminated the side of Shade's face and the gray snow. The appearance of [Moonlight Great Sword] has also become more gorgeous than before.

"What a beautiful weapon."

The doctor also praised, then took out a glass bottle from his pocket and handed it to Shade:

"I guessed that you would be in a very embarrassed state. Drink this. The demon realm is not friendly to any creature with a soul. I know that you have some special abilities, but it seems that it will take a while to recover."

So Shade drank the fiery red liquid. Just as the doctor said, he stayed in the devil's realm for too long, and his body had to rest to recover from the effects. After drinking the magic potion, although he did not recover immediately, at least his body began to feel warm:

"In about an hour, I'll be back to normal."

Seeing that Xia De's face improved a little, the doctor finally asked with a smile:

"Shad, Shad, didn't you tell me to give me the task of defeating the demon? Why did you do it yourself? I prepared for two full weeks, but in the end, none of the preparations were used."

It could be seen that the doctor was in a particularly good mood. Shade shook his head:

"There's a lot going on."

The doctor didn’t ask in detail:

"Tell me when you have time later. This matter is over. This is the key. Speaking of which, what is happening outside? Why is the forest burning? Also, I just saw a dragon heading this way. It flew over, but your friend, a beautiful black-haired lady, held your sword to stop it. The lady seemed to care about you, and she said she would be back soon."

He should be talking about Miss Sylvia, so Shade didn't see the witch when he opened his eyes.

"Although you have said that Randall Valley will be very lively tonight, I didn't expect it to be so lively."

The doctor said again, turning his head to look at the night sky illuminated by the fire, while Shade looked around. There were no traces of the battle just now in the white yard.

"Doctor, did you see the other lady? I sent her to intercept Stone Oxenfurt."

"Is this Ms. Marilyn Handel? Yes, she appeared after I swallowed Goethe. She introduced her identity, and was followed by a very weird soul. Together with that soul, she dragged the demon with chains. Man. Are all your friends in Randall Valley this interesting?"

The doctor nodded:

"But she also left. She said that there will be many places that need her in the Randall Valley tonight. But, is this the soul you are talking about?"

The doctor took out a narrow-necked glass bottle covered with gray snow from the snow at his feet, and inside the bottle, a miniature Stone Oxenfurt was constantly tapping the inner wall of the bottle.

"The soul is in the bottle, and his body is in the snow next to us. You can see it if you peel back the snow. Don't look at me with strange eyes. Since I know the knowledge of demons, it is not normal for me to know how to imprison the soul. ?"

The doctor explained and handed the bottle to Shade. Shade poked his head to see. From the perspective of Stone Oxenfurt in the bottle, this was probably the face of the giant that was getting closer.

"Doctor, your abilities are getting weirder and weirder, but this is indeed him."

Shade breathed a sigh of relief. In this way, at least the two worst endings of tonight had been avoided. When it was over, he wanted to thank Ms. Handel properly.

"Now this soul is completely under your control. Ms. Handel said before leaving that you can give it away at any time."

The doctor reminded again, Shade nodded and drew a dark crack on his side with his finger. The doctor almost jumped up in fright, but then Shade shook his head again, instead of throwing the bottle in, he smoothed the crack:

"How to get him out?"

"Just remove the cork, be careful not to let him escape."

The doctor reminded him, and Shade uncorked the bottle.

The two of them saw together that the soul contained in the bottle turned into a stream of white smoke and flew out of the slender mouth of the bottle. The white smoke flew towards the corpse under the snow, and then the breathing dead man sat up again from under the snow.

"The Stone Mirror Demon - Goethe has been expelled by us."

Shade sat on the millstone and did not release the [Light of Imprisonment] and the Chain of Sin, but just looked at Stone Oxenfurt in the heavy snow. The doctor sitting on the other side added:

"Don't even think about seeing him again for at least a thousand years."

"Oxenfurt, actually there is no grudge between the two of us."

Shade continued. Both Shade and the doctor were facing the burning forest sideways, their slender shadows trembling amidst the crackling sound of burning:

"The relationship between us is just a simple trust relationship, and you are very happy to pay the reward. However, I know some things about your past and the relationship between you and Haila Oxenfurt, so..."

"You want to be a messenger of justice, save me from the devil, and then kill me?"

Oxenfurt asked, looking at the two figures.

"I saved you from the devil for other reasons."

Shade shook his head:

"I can give you a chance to choose between death and an ugly death. As a price, you have to repent. Now kneel here to count your crimes and repent to all the people you murdered."

"Now that things have happened, is this still necessary?"

Stone Oxenfurt looked up at Shad. Even in the face of the current situation, there was still no sign of weakness on his face:

"Killing and robbing, this is my way of life. I have nothing to repent and I don't think what I did was wrong."

"If you didn't meet the devil, you would probably become a famous pirate or a murderer."

Shade said:

"Even now, do you still think that you did nothing wrong?"

"Yes."

So Shade said calmly:

"Hela Oxenfurt said she doesn't want to see you anymore."

The man on the snow immediately closed his mouth. After being stunned for a moment, he turned to look at the window on the third floor:

"Let me see her again, even if you don't say anything, at least let me see her again. I can give you everything I have."

Shade shook his head:

"When those people you killed asked you to forgive them before they died, did you ever show kindness?"

Oxenfurt ignored Shade, supported Xue Mian and struggled to control his stiff body to stand up, and then stumbled towards the door of the mansion.

Shade just sat there and watched him run further and further away.

"Won't you stop him?"

Dr. Schneider asked curiously, and Shade said:

"I hope you don't think my behavior for a while is excessive."

The doctor raised his eyebrows and motioned for Shade to take action:

"To be honest, I don't believe you have any excessive means."

So Shade took out the photo of the Watson family from his pocket. He originally used this photo as the first insurance against Oxenfurt, but unexpectedly it became a prop at the end:

"Those who should go, don't stay."

After speaking softly, he threw the photo into the air. The gray snow reflected the shadows of old photos blowing in the wind. The shadow in the photo was a slanted rectangle, but then the shadows of dozens of big black hands stretched out from the rectangular block on the snow.

Shade stood up, took a few steps forward, and suddenly slashed straight down from top to bottom with his right hand, and then the crack leading to real death appeared again.

At the same time, there were an old ghoul with four arms, a half-demon like a rat, an old woman in a ghost state, an ogre covered in pink fat, and a banshee covering her face with her hands. The souls squeezed out of the picture together, and at the door of the mansion, they caught Oxenfurt from behind as he tried to enter the mansion.

The old wight held him by the neck, the rat half-demon held his left hand, the ghost held his right hand, the ogre held his feet, and the weeping banshee stabbed him from behind with both hands. His chest grasped the heart that originally belonged to his sister.

The heart was taken out of the chest of the living dead and thrown onto the snow. Then the family of five dragged Oxenfurt from behind, moving little by little towards the crack opened by Shade.

Stone Oxenfurt lay on the snow, his fingers leaving ten clear scratches on the snow. He looked up desperately at the only lighted window on the third floor, but he never saw the person he was missing appearing there.

Shade and the doctor sat on their own half of the millstone, silently watching the five resentful souls, which finally dragged Oxenfurt into death. Screams came from the calm beach, but then the crack closed automatically, so the living people didn't know what would happen next.