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24. The Death of the Painter (End) (1/5)

"Witcher! Witcher! Here is a letter for you."

Geralt turned back, and a child was calling him. Seeing him turn around, the child hurried over, took out a letter from the satchel on his waist, handed it to him and bowed: "

Greetings from House Gregory, Master Witcher!"

After saying that, he ran away.

The witcher watched him go away, lowered his head and opened the letter. A scent of fragrance floated out, and he began to read the letter.

"Dear Geralt of Rivia, first of all, I would like to extend my sincere greetings to you."

"Thank you for your righteous act, the Gregory family will never forget it."

"Secondly, I think it is necessary for me to inform you about the final fate of Carlyle Vinson. If you have paid attention to the newspapers recently, you should be able to learn that his mining business has been acquired by us, and he himself may be on the roadside now.

Be a beggar."

"I hope he will contract an illness within a few years and die in the cold in pain."

"I don't know what you will think of me, but I think revenge is a virtue. Revenge is not a stupid game or a meaningless empty act as described by poets and philosophers. Revenge makes me a mother who has lost her beloved son.

The last thing you can taste happiness."

"Finally, I want to tell you about Cronin. I knew he was a paranoid child, but I didn't know he was so paranoid. He wanted to single-handedly overthrow the centuries-old power of Novigrad.

Politically, this is tantamount to playing with fire and burning yourself. I think his death may also have something to do with me. If I hadn't been immersed in the pain of losing my husband, he probably wouldn't be like this."

"However, things are fickle. Master Demon Hunter. If you are willing to read the crazy words of an old woman like me until now, I think I need to tell you something."

"Fate is capricious."

"Fate made our family move out of the political center of Novigrad seventy years ago, made my husband die in regret, made my son full of hatred for those high-ranking MPs, and made him a compassionate person for the weak.

, a person who cared about the poor. But in the end, he died miserably."

"Let's just write this, Master. I believe you are tired of reading it. Please keep your distance from us. Although Carlyle Vinson has fallen, his partners have not. If you get too close to us, you may

will be implicated. But I must express my gratitude to you, and words are completely insufficient. If you want, please come to the Temple of Meliteli at seven o'clock tomorrow night, and you will receive the thanks of the Gregory family,

And our humble but everlasting friendship."

"Your friend, a mother who lost her son."

He folded the letter again, put it into the envelope, and stuffed it into his armor.

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"My friend Geralt is a person who likes to express himself sarcastically in most situations. He rarely has facial expressions. Only when he is with familiar people, his face will show some subtle expressions.

."

"In my long friendship with him, we have experienced many things, and I believe my readers will also have some impressions of this, whether it was catching vampires together in Novigrad, or my relationship with the duchess.

You should all be familiar with love and hate. I will not lie to my readers, so I want to tell you a new story and clarify one thing again."

"He is not the emotionless killer or monster that the public thinks, or the freak who will do anything for money. He is a living person, a person of high moral character who dares to draw a sword for innocent people. To me

In his eyes, he is more of a knight than a witcher. Although he lives in a difficult situation in most situations, it does not affect him."

"After a drink, Geralt talked to me about a past incident. I forgot how he started, but I was very impressed by this story. Please listen to me tell it in detail."

"It was at the end of 1233, Geralt traveled to Novigrad with the famous black-robed mage. They lived here for a while, and Geralt took some commissions from water ghosts in the city to spend their time.

The black-robed mage left the deepest impression on people all day long, sitting in his room reading a book."

"The days passed day by day, until December of 1233, Geralt met a young man in the square, Cronin Gregory. He was a young painter, because he had given him a jealous wife without permission.

The teacher's wife was attacked by the teacher in the Patriarch's Square while she was painting a half-length painting. Geralt happened to be passing by, and he heroically saved the young man. And the story begins from here."

"Cronin was so excited that he wanted to paint a painting for Geralt - yes, that painting, Geralt of Rivia, the painting that made our witcher famous all over the world.

At this time, it was just a prototype. Geralt said that he sat all morning that day, with people coming and going in the Patriarch's Square, while Cronin concentrated on the work at hand. When the first version was finally completed, he was hungry

The witcher no longer has the heart to read paintings."

"In this case, he was still shocked by the crude first edition, although I highly doubt he could actually tell the difference between the first edition and the finished version like I could - his poor taste in art is well known.

."

"In this way, Cronin Gregory made an appointment with our Geralt to go to his house to view the finished painting a week later. Geralt should not be interested in art, but he was obsessed with it that day, or maybe it was fate.

Sure enough, he went to the appointment on time that day. But when he arrived at Cronin's house, what he saw was the corpse of the poor painter. In order to respect him as an artist, I will not describe his appearance here. Please

forgive."

"The witcher showed rare anger. Within a day, he found the real culprit of the painter's death - city councilor Carle Vinson. He died in 1235, and his body was left on the street for half a month.

was discovered. It is worth mentioning that Hawthorne, the underground gang boss of Novigrad at that time, was also beaten to death by Geralt in this incident. He himself is a fan of my poetry and a very famous poet.

A tasteful patron of the arts.”

"Then, what everyone is familiar with - after the Gregory family learned about the real murderer, they kicked Carlyle Vinson out of his office within three days, bought his business, and asked him to

Living on the street. If you ask me, he deserves it. Let's not discuss whether Cronin Gregory's thoughts are correct, but he is just a young man, and he did not do anything bad in his short life. On the contrary,

His reputation in the shanty town was unparalleled - people knew he was a good-hearted man."

"His death may be a loss in the history of our art. But my evaluation of him is the same as the words he engraved on the statue next to the statue of his ancestors on St. Gregory's Bridge."

"...But I have been here, and when people in later generations resist oppression and call out for heroes, they still have names to call them."

——Dandelion, "Half a Century of Poetry", also known as "Memoirs of a Poet".

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