Joko finally listened to Ciel's advice, and left Glow City in a carriage after the curtain slowly ended. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

The drivers were all of Hill's men, and I heard that they were also members of the Acrobatic Troupe, and after following the caravan for several slave transports, they had a clear idea of the evacuation route. It was not until the sun had completely set that the speed of the convoy slowed down, but even though the ground was covered in night, they continued to march for more than an hour with oil lamps in their hands before they set up camp in a deserted wilderness.

The vehicles are circled around a campfire, a young man who calls himself a clown skillfully fetches water to make porridge, a tall man named Iwayama feeds the horses, a magician who guards and patrols, and the Jom brothers, who dig improvised traps...... They are more like an army than an acrobatic troupe.

Joko found that he didn't have to do anything, and the fragrant porridge was already in his hand.

In addition to this, there is a plate of bacon and an apple.

He finally knew why Hill had chosen to ship these things.

With two truckloads of food, even if they had to spend a month or two on the road, these so-called "selling goods" were enough to meet the needs of all employees.

But to be able to load the food so quickly, could he have been ready to escape from the Dawn Kingdom at any time?And according to the guards, he was always in touch with the rats in the streets, oh my God...... Is this guy really just an acrobat?

Yoko is determined that when he returns to Grey Keep, he must ask his old friend for clarification.

The men consciously took the porridge to the periphery of the carriage, and only he and Seventy-Six, along with the four witches, were left around the campfire.

"I'm sorry for what I said last time," said Anne generously, "and it's true that you didn't hand us over to the Lord of the Dawn, but I still can't fully trust you. ”

"Why?" Amy wondered, "he doesn't look like a bad guy. ”

This sentence made Yokoa blush slightly, he had never felt that he was a good person, but fortunately the light of the campfire could hide it for him, "Ahem, I think it's probably because Miss Anne still doubts the purity of the Greykeep Witch Order, right?"

"Purity?"

"For example, some powerful nobles often steal a few witches for fun—"

"It's just one aspect," interrupted Anne, "as long as there is unilateral deception and exploitation, whether it's in the heart of the wolf or in the Grey Keep, it's a cage for witches, and there's no essential difference. Of course, if it can be confirmed that the witch organization in the Grey Keep is indeed what you say, I will formally apologize to you. ”

"It doesn't matter," Joko shrugged, "I'm on a mission to get you before His Majesty Roland, and then the matter is none of my business." Even if you want to apologize, you won't necessarily be able to see me. ”

The atmosphere was a little stiff for a moment, except for the crackling sound of the campfire.

In normal times, he would not have let the chat get to an impasse, but he really couldn't lift the energy of these witches, not only disrupting his peaceful life as ambassadors, but also bringing a lot of risks to the envoys - caution is not a mistake, but when the person who is suspected is replaced by himself, this feeling is not so easy to relieve.

The last one to break the silence was Seventy-Six.

"Are you all from the Wolfheart Kingdom?" she asked, "I've heard Amy say you've known each other for a long time. ”

Anne nodded, "Although we weren't born in the same city, ...... You guessed it right. ”

"The Wolfheart has been swallowed up by the Church, and you must have gone through a lot of hardships all the way to Dawn," Seventy-Six leaned over and touched the hero's empty trouser legs, and asked in a low voice, "Was her leg also injured by the Church people during the escape?"

The hero bit his lip, looked sad, and lowered his head.

"It was cut off by the people she guarded," Anne replied unexpectedly, "In the most dangerous moment of Wolfheart, she stood up, and in the end she was hated by the people. ”

"The Guarded...... Hurt?"

Anne nodded, "If you want to know, I can tell you, but it's not an easy story. ”

Seventy-six looked at the hero for a moment, and replied seriously, "I want to understand." ”

Joko pretended to be intently nibbling on the bacon meat, but his curiosity was also aroused.

"A year ago, when the Church army attacked Wolfheart, they threw a large number of corpses with the plague into the city in an attempt to weaken the capital's resistance, just as they did at Broken Tooth Castle. Anne filled the bonfire with two branches and splashed a little spark, "But this time the plague didn't spread, it was the hero's ability. She was able to transfer the disease to other living creatures, thus stopping the spread of the disease. ”

"What kind of living creature?"

"Rats, cats and dogs, cattle and sheep can all ...... And of course, people. "The townsfolk have dug a large pit in the slums, and the people infected by the plague will gather here to let the hero transfer the disease to the animals, and then throw the animals into the pit and burn them." Slowly, people began to call her a hero as the savior of Wolfheart, and Amy and I were treated by her. ”

"However, the good times did not last long, a large animal could restore five or six infected people before death, while cats and dogs could only accept one or two transfers, and the church repeatedly spread evil plagues, even if the wolf-hearted people caught all the living creatures that could run and burned them in front of the slum pits, they would not be able to meet the needs of every sick person. ”

"As the war dragged on, they set their sights on the living. ”

This made Joko shudder.

Seventy-six moved to the hero's side and gently took her into his arms, "It's not your fault. ”

And Anne's expression was particularly solemn in the light of the fire, "Of course it's not her fault, from the beginning, those people didn't give her the power to choose." The first to be thrown into the fire pit were the prisoners, prisoners, and volunteers, and then the elderly, wounded soldiers, and prisoners of the Inquisition. ”

But the hero did not accede to the demands of the madmen, especially in the face of warriors who did not want to die at all and surrenderers who were not yet minors, and she was reluctant to do so anyway. As a result, people's attitudes towards her changed, and it was even secretly rumored that she was in collusion with the church, and that she was an enemy, but wanted to save their lives. The rescuer has become a traitor, the hero has been imprisoned, and if it weren't for the use of her abilities, she would have been sent to the gallows long ago. ”

After that, the church made a comeback, and it took only one day to break through the walls of the royal capital, and when the city was broken, the guards who had been treated by her cut off her legs with axes, and then set the cell on fire, saying that it was the hero's collusion with the church that led to the destruction of the wolf's heart. She didn't want to go anywhere, the betrayer should be destroyed with the city in this flaming cage. ”

"But the caretaker didn't expect that the person who saved the immobile hero was the same prisoner of the Inquisitors who was locked in a cell. ”