It was less than four o'clock in the afternoon, the earliest time Alice and Maya had returned from school. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 Info Of course, they were grounded and couldn't be dragged around by Lola.

Little Pink drove into Grande's backyard, and as soon as she stopped, Lola rushed out. Uh, you can't drag Alice around, this guy came with her, the only consolation is that she didn't pull a bunch of people.

Grande's backyard wasn't just Little Pink's car, there were cars parked, James's car, and Curson, who was constantly trying to tease the Great Dane. The intuitive result is that none of the members of the Grande, who are often messing around on the back porch, show up. Lola glanced at Grande and headed to Benjamin's warehouse.

Alice and Maya didn't have much of the host's hospitality, and Lola was too familiar with the place, so she just let her go. The two entered Grande, and could already hear James yelling in the office, and couldn't take care of it, and went to the entertainment room, where Ink was watching a soap opera.

Perhaps after such a description, everyone would think that it was Louise who listened to James yelling in the office, but no, Louise was not in Grande-

"I'm back~" Ink greeted, "Louise asked you to go to the east basement (morgue) before you go out~"

"Louise is out, what's wrong with the basement?" Alice, who had just sat down, stood up again.

"Early in the morning, after you left, Danny found a pile of deer carcasses in the south, and a message that had been written in blood 'I'm sorry,' and Louise got it back, wondering who had left it. Although Mo's explanation is comprehensive, his eyes on the TV have not shifted in the slightest, "You just go and see it." ”

"Oh. Alice agreed, and returned the same way with Maya.

As I passed through the office, I heard this voice.

"Lance!

Voices that are unfamiliar to Alice and Maya, leave it alone, go downstairs, the back porch, to the basement on the east side.

When he turned the corner, he was stopped by Lola, "Alice, where is Matthew?"

"I don't know. Alice replied with a wink, "Isn't it on Benjamin's side?"

"Well, Benjamin isn't here!" Lola pouted, preparing to rush towards the main Grande building.

Louise wasn't there. Alice reminded, "The detective is in the office. This was a reminder to Lola not to trespass, and she also glanced at Curson, who was still bored in the backyard and teased the Great Dane.

Corson waved his hand impatiently, meaning to ignore him.

Lola rushed to the back porch, rolled her eyes, and looked at Detective Cowson, it didn't matter if she greeted or not, no one would care about politeness at this time. Lola caught up with Alice and Maya, "What are you going to do?"

When she turned the corner and opened the door to Maya's basement, Alice replied, whispering, "Louise has found something, let's take a look...... Well, Lola, don't follow it...... "Yes, the things that need to be seen by the banshee are either dead or dying." Now Lola is fully aware of this fact.

Because of this, Lola's face instantly turned ugly, and her steps about to move forward stopped, a little hesitant, "Yes, is it a person?"

"Deer. Maya, who had already glanced into the basement, replied.

"Oh. Lola rolled her eyes, "I've eaten venison." "Maya and Alice went down to the basement one step ahead. This girl is very logical.

Alice was stunned for a moment, blinked, and followed.

"Uh......" Lola covered her nose again, "this smells ......"

"There are masks in the cabinet next to it. Alice reminded, and her eyes were already with Maya, looking at the corpse of the deer that had been placed on the stone platform.

Louise had already done the treatment, and the black plastic bag stacked next to the stone platform should be other deer corpses, and only one deer corpse was tightly wrapped in transparent plastic wrap on the stone platform. The smell Lola smells is actually the smell of chemicals, the long-term smell of this environment.

Speaking of which, Lola was also entering here for the first time, and after wearing a mask, she began to look around with a little curiosity. The most conspicuous thing is naturally the neatly arranged corpse cabinet. I don't know if it's bold or what, Lola knocks on the morgue with an icy chill......

Where she was knocked all the way, there was a hollow 'bell' sound, until there was a dull 'bell', Lola shrunk her shoulders and looked at the closed cabinet door with a tangled expression, looking at it as if she wanted to look but didn't dare to look at it.

"Yes, strange. Maya, who was looking at the deer corpse, tilted her head as if hesitating, "Do we want to confirm the other deer?"

Alice's expression was similar, "Yes." Nodding, the two girls separated and opened the deer carcass in a plastic bag.

Lola seemed to be a little curious, got closer, and looked at the deer corpse in the body bag, although there was a mask, but it may be the synaesthesia brought by vision, Lola pressed the mask and stepped back, tilted her head, and pointed to the corpse cabinet where she found the corpse just now, "Who is there? I thought you were out of business." ”

Instead of looking at Lola with the eyes that flashed with all sorts of images in her eyes, Alice continued to examine the deer corpse, "It's Sgaull's body, he's a demon now." ”

"Who's Scoyle?" too, how could Lola know such a criminal from the Southeast.

"Uh......" Alice felt that the explanation was not clear for a while, so according to the cognitive habits of the Patton people, "the people of the Southeast." ”

"Oh. "The Patton people are habitually ignoring the Southeast, and Lola is too lazy to ask. Keeping their distance, they watched as their two friends repeatedly pulled open and pulled the bag containing the deer carcass.

The silence lasted for a while, and Lola asked again, "I've always been curious, well, Alice, do you feel affected when you eat meat......?"

Alice was stunned again, as if she didn't understand the meaning of the question. It's Maya, who is already laughing over there.

"I mean...... Belch. "It doesn't seem like it's easy to describe, "You eat and you see how you die, uh, won't your appetite be affected?"

Alice then understood, a little confused, and actually looked at Maya, "I can't see the death of food, should I be able to see the death of food??"

"Hehe, no, you can't see death when food is still an ingredient. Maya also looked at Lola's question specifically, and looked at the person who asked with a smile, "You made your friend's head knot~"

"Uh...... I'm sorry. There should be no sincerity, because Lola still has an inquisitive look, "Why?"

"yes, why?" Alice looked at Maya with a look of curiosity.

"Well, what do you say? Maya had a thoughtful look on her face, "Well—well, the Banshee's ability to avenge was created by Papa Midnight to bypass death. ”

"Papa Midnight?, Pochi's master?" Look, Lola's logic is very divine.

"Oh, our God. Maya corrected it anyway, "The god of witchcraft." Waving his hand, there was nothing else to say to Papa Midnight, "In witchcraft, there is a, well, the concept of nature, which is this world. And this world is full of death, but it is not the death we generally say, but the transformation, the transfer of energy, the transformation of matter. Just as a stone mine dies and becomes metal, living things die and become oil, and wood dies and becomes tables and chairs. It's like food dies and becomes the energy and nutrients we need in life. ”

Well, for high school students, this definition of death that encompasses all matter in the whole world can still be understood. Who hasn't studied physics and chemistry, Lola and Alice, who often skip lab classes, nodded reluctantly.

"But all of this, the death that happens all the time in our world, has one thing in common. No matter how it dies, it is still in this world. It's just a different way of being, and then it's still functioning. Maya blinked, what should she be saying, "But we can't open our eyes and see all these deaths that are happening, we have all learned biology, and right now, our bodies are going on with metabolism, and thousands of deaths are happening in our bodies." If we all saw it and warned Papa Midnight, 'Hey, your scalp died a thousand times,' and he'd be annoyed. ”

"Papa learned biology at midnight...... Uh......" Finally, Lola came to her senses, "Sorry, you continue." ”

So, Papa Midnight gives a simple definition, a definition of life and death. Maya obediently continued, "It was determined that the Banshee he created, ignoring the death that occurred at these moments, would only see one type of death, what we call life in the general sense, death." ”

"Wasn't food life before?" Alice asked, like the chicken steak in the Reipt cafeteria.

"No, food is not life, not life as defined by Papa Midnight. Maya shook her head, "Life, in Papa's definition of Midnight, is something beyond the collection of natural substances, like people. Maya frowned, "We all know that the composition of the human body is very simple, charcoal, calcium, ......" and a bunch of elements, not repeated, "But, people, not just a collection of these substances, right, we can speak, we can act, we can use our own ability, we can accelerate, slow down, change, nature is to change the process of transformation in this world, we are not charcoal lying on the ground, not meat waiting to rot and be decomposed by nature." We, the human race, are the collection above the material. We are the beings who meet the definition of Papa. ”

"Well, there's food that moves, cows, chickens......" Lola pointed to the deer corpse, "deer." You say that, they're also life, it's, it's, uh. "Human self-esteem seems to be a bit redundant," it's just that they don't have the same mobility as humans. ”

"Nope. Maya shook her head, "They are only partially life, wild, not animals in captivity, life." The others are just collections of matter, ingredients, collections of substances that can only play a role in the transformation of the most basic substances in this natural world. They are not life. And adding, "Not to mention food that has already been cooked, it's just a combination of spiced substances." ”

Maya glanced at Alice, "Haven't you been curious before, you like cooking so much, didn't you realize it, most of the ingredients you handle, even if they are fresh, have no death pictures." ”

"I ......" Alice was actually recalling, and the result was a nod, "I didn't even care, the things that occasionally appear in the death picture are also ...... me killing them" he~

Maya smiled, "Then it is easy to understand, it is just a collection of substances used to play the most primitive role in this nature, no matter what it is, whether it is a pile of stones, whether it is a creature that used to be able to run and jump, they are not the life defined by Papa Midnight, they are just artifacts in this nature." The rest is life, and having something that affects this natural change is life. ”

What a vague definition, but—

"It's really unfair!" Lola actually got a little angry, "What if one day something comes along and keeps humans in captivity as food? Aren't humans alive? Then those human deaths can't be seen by you? Their deaths, no one can warn them?"

"Not to mention that as the species that has changed the world the most, it is impossible for human beings to fall to this point. But, if that happens. Maya shrugged her shoulders, "Then, human beings are only elements that provide material transformation, and whether they die or not has no effect on the world, just this natural object." Glancing at Lola, "You won't be asking these questions here anymore, just like you think you'd eat a deer and you can come in with peace of mind." You don't care about anything that only has the effect of material transformation, even if it was once life, dead or alive. ”

Lola was stunned for a moment, the corners of her mouth twitching slightly, as if she couldn't refute it.

Maya shook her head, "And, having just explained so much, Lola, you should understand that these deer, not bred and only provided food for material transformation, because Alice and I can see the picture of their death, they are real beings that once had an impact on this world, and now they are dead." ”

Lola shuddered.

"Maya!" Alice shouted.

"Okay, okay. Maya smiled and waved her hand, "I won't say anything." Raising an eyebrow, "Shall we summarize what we saw?"

"Summary. Alice pursed her lips and looked at Lola, "Lola, are you alright?" ”

"No, it's okay......" Lola was a little complicated, "You, you're busy." ”

"That~" Maya pulled the last plastic bag, "I guess that guy with exaggerated makeup is Eli Torredo." ”

"Presumably, Louise is right, this is indeed a message. But, I don't understand, in the picture, he looks sad......"

"'I'm sorry'. Maya said in silence, "When he wrote this, he was in silence. The smoky dark circles under his eyes were all gone, and he was crying. ”

"We should tell Louise about this. Alice went to pull Lola, "Let's go up and wait for Louise to come back." ”

"Oh......" Lola, the complicated mood probably couldn't dissipate for a while.