Thea was buried in the cemetery of the Holy See, the captain did not object, but took away her soldier card and saber, I have been so confused these days that I did not even attend her funeral, and when the captain handed these two things into my hands, I did not shed a single tear, but hung the soldier card around my neck, as if she were with me, and I would take him with me to find our enemy and give an account to the unborn child.

The captain gave the order to leave Rome two days later, and before leaving, I went to the grave of Thea, the gravestone, her picture smiling like a flower, as beautiful as I remember, I put down the flowers in my hand, sat on the ground and smiled at the picture.

I didn't want her to see my sad appearance, but I was so incompetent that I was already in tears when I laughed and laughed.

I came to say goodbye to her, and there were a thousand words in my heart, but when it came to my lips, there were only three words left: "I miss you!" When I said these three words, sadness came like a tidal wave, and I couldn't stop crying.

Sitting in front of the tombstone with her, crying for a long, long time, until I couldn't cry anymore, I looked down at the gemstone ring on my ring finger lonely, some people once said that it was a bad thing, and it could not be used as a wedding ring, but I didn't believe it, in fact, it was not ominous, maybe the two same nightmares, it was the prophecy it gave me, but unfortunately I didn't take it to heart.

It's too late to say anything now, all that's left of this wedding is this wedding ring, maybe all this could have been avoided, but I'm too confident, maybe this is retribution, I'm destined to not be happy, and all good things are replaced by sin.

When the sun was in the west, I slowly got up and carved my name on the tombstone with the goddess's saber, believing that it would not be long before I would be back and I would be reunited with her in the Yellow Springs.

I bent down and kissed her picture gently, and said quietly, "Wait for me to come back!" With that, I turned around and left the cemetery.

I did not go back to the villa, I did not say goodbye to everyone, I left Rome alone, I did not leave a word, I was no longer the assassin I used to be, everything in the world was no longer important to me, I no longer longed for war, I no longer accepted missions, I was no longer even a warrior, the only thing I had to do was to find the defenders and die with them.

I hope the captain will remove me from Caesar's mercenaries as if I had never been a subordinate, because I don't know what stupidity I'm going to do, and I don't want my brothers to be implicated in it.

But the captain can't throw me down at all, this is not Caesar's rule, although our gang is inhumane, we never abandon our comrades, this is a belief, unshakable.

That's why I secretly left, and before leaving, I left all the positioning devices on my body, including the tracker implanted under the skin, and dug it out, just because I was afraid that my brothers would find me and stupidly follow me to death.

In order to hide myself, I did not go to the airport, but chose to take a boat to Sicily, but what I never expected was that just after getting on the boat, before I sat down, two figures appeared in front of me, I looked up and couldn't help but roll my eyes.

"Haunted fellow!" I muttered in a low voice that the two people in front of me were none other than the wolf and the devil.

"Do you want to drink?" The wolf handed over a can of beer, I grabbed it angrily, raised my head and took a big sip, the wolf smiled and said, "The captain has already seen that something is wrong with you, let us follow you all the time, what's the matter?" What does it mean to leave alone? Don't want to do it anymore? ”

I shook my head with a wry smile and said, "I have no intention of fighting, and if I go to war again, it will only kill everyone." ”

"Don't make a fuss, who are you, you're an assassin, what else can you do but fight?" The devil scoffed at my words.

"I have one last thing to do, and when I'm done, I'll be back on the team, so you don't have to follow me." I tilted my head and took a sip of my beer and looked at them calmly.

"Needless to say, we know very well what you want to do, you think we are willing to come, it is the captain who gave the order, let us help you, the military order is like a mountain, there is no way, you can't think of it, alas, life is hard!" The wolf had a reluctant expression.

I sighed, the evil wolf found a good reason, and an order blocked all my excuses, in fact, the bullshit order was afraid that I would not be able to handle it alone, and no one would collect the body when I died outside, so I chased it over to help.

"Two idiots!" I raised my fist in front of them, and the two looked at each other, and the devil rolled his eyes and said, "As if you are smart!" Then he raised his fist and slammed it into me, and the wolf chuckled and stretched out his fist.

The whistle sounded, far away on the sea, the ship gradually sailed towards the ocean, the lights of the city gradually faded away, I stood in the bow of the ship against the sea breeze and stared into the distance, my white hair fluttering in the wind, black trench coat hunting and dancing, facing the coming darkness, embarking on the road of revenge.

In the year that followed, I traveled to every battlefield on the planet, traveled to more than 30 countries, hundreds of cities, searched for all the places where the defenders might appear, contacted dozens of intelligence organizations, experienced countless battles large and small, added dozens of new scars to my face, and stood in front of the mirror, I could no longer even recognize myself.

Not only me, Caesar's other brothers, but also the Snow Wolves and the Italian Mafia have been helping me find the whereabouts of the defenders for the past year, but there are still no clues.

Until February 2011, when the Libyan war broke out, a large number of mercenaries entered Libya, before the start of the war, Caesar mercenaries were invited by the French military to avoid the front line and carry out secret reconnaissance operations codenamed invaders, targeting the secret military base of the Gaddafi government in northern Libya, which is said to contain weapons of mass destruction.

NATO countries meant to secretly destroy this arsenal before the war began, in order to prevent Gaddafi from jumping over the wall and detonating a dirty bomb when cornered, with catastrophic consequences.

At this moment, my brothers are preparing for the invasion in Libya, and I am watching the sunset in the snow in the northern Norwegian city of Tromsø.

This is the base camp of the snow wolf clan, and it is also Artemis' home, the three of us searched for a whole year without finding any trace of the defenders, and went to Northern Europe with nowhere to go for a while, and wanted to ask Artemis if he had any clues.

The wolf and the devil are obviously a little absent-minded these days, the devil has already mentioned Libya more than once, I understand what they mean, the brothers are going on a very dangerous mission, we have been away for a year, and it is time to return.

But I had no interest in the war, and a year had passed, and my thoughts had not changed in the slightest, and everything had become dispensable to me, and the only thing that mattered was revenge.

I will not stop them from returning to the team, on the contrary, I also hope that they will return to their brothers as soon as possible, where they are really needed, and as for me, I will continue to look for them until I personally send Manju Sawa to hell.

(End of chapter)