Whispering Verse

The fire light swayed, and Shade, who was holding the [Angel's Right Arm], stopped in the barn, stood there and turned around to look around.

A bang made him turn around quickly, and what he saw was the broken shade of the kerosene lamp on the stone table. At that moment when the firelight disappeared and the moonlight shone into the barn from the upper window, the invisible vampire attacked Shade from behind.

The figure could not be seen at all in the night, and the open mouth was aimed at Shade's neck. But as a golden shield appeared around Shade, and after the "Seaton Seal" bounced off Madam Jude, Shade aimed a sword in her direction.

The blood-moon-colored sword marks were dodged by the agile vampire, and she remained invisible. She could almost directly touch the high ceiling of the barn with every jump.

With her high mobility, she tried to avoid Shade's tracking again, but found that no matter where she moved, Shade's eyes could immediately follow her:

"Can you actually see me?"

Giving up her invisibility, the lady of the sky transformed into hundreds of bats in the dim barn. A dense swarm of bats flew above Shade, and while they swooped down together, Shade, who closed his mouth, groaned:

"snort!"

As if the dragon's roar exploded from the ears, Lady Jude's scream of pain came from those blood-red bats. The woman whose spellcasting was forcibly interrupted by the dragon's roar appeared from the sky, then turned over and disappeared into the dark barn again.

The wind blew the treetops outside the barn, and the moonlight only dimly illuminated a small area inside the barn door. Standing in the darkness, Shade suddenly raised his head and saw in the moonlight in front of the small window, a bloody red mist overflowing from the body of a lady wearing a long dress.

The red moon outside the window stopped precisely behind her, and then her whole body turned into a bloody light and rushed towards the man below.

Shade held the sword with both hands, and the bloody moonlight sword marks that he swung violently collided head-on with the bloody light in the air.

After the explosion, Mrs. Jude screamed in pain and rolled down onto the straw-covered floor of the barn in embarrassment. She stretched out her hands to support her body and tried to get up, but she was immediately caught in pain. The dark chain wrapped around her neck.

There was a deep light on the clattering chains of sin. The gradually tightening of the chains made the lady's face turn red first and then turn white. She dug hard at the chain with her nails, trying to carve out a gap so that she could breathe more smoothly.

But with Shade's sudden force, the woman who was sitting on the ground fell backwards and was pulled by the chain, completely lying on the ground.

Shade turned his back to her, let the sin chain pass over his right shoulder, held the chain with both hands and walked towards the barn door. The struggling woman made a sound of uh uh~ while her back rubbed against the ground, and was dragged out of the barn by the chains.

Leaving the room indoors, the moon outside seems to be rounder. Shade, who still didn't speak, walked towards the big tree in the yard, while Mrs. Jude struggled even more fiercely.

His back was scratched by the rough ground in the yard, and his neck was tightly strangled by the chain and dragged forward, but he was completely unable to shake the chain with any strength. She wanted to at least get up, but by then Shade was already under the big tree.

With a slight flick, the lengthened chain looped around the thickest branch of the tree. With a sudden pull from Shade under the tree, Mrs. Jude was hung up out of thin air.

Her legs kept struggling and kicking, and her hands were still trying to dig out the gaps in the chains, but her eyes were fixed on the man below.

Shade waved expressionlessly, and the firewood piled in the corner of the yard flew under Mrs. Jude.

He grabbed the chain with one hand, rubbed the thumb and index finger of his left hand together and blew gently, and flames appeared in his hand.

It was obvious what Shade was going to do next, but instead of taking action immediately, he finally asked:

"Do you repent?"

The lady who had almost all of her spell-casting abilities sealed by the [Sin Chain] seemed to want to spit on Shade, but unfortunately she couldn't. Perhaps it was the instinct of survival that allowed her to still shake her body in her current state, but her body being hung by chains and shaking under the tree could not help her break free from Shade's magic.

Dark clouds appeared out of nowhere and gradually floated in front of the three moons in the night sky. There are no street lights in the country at night and can only be illuminated by moonlight, so the appearance of dark clouds gradually envelopes the earth in darkness.

"I am a human being. Why do you think I will tolerate you using those children as food?"

He said coldly. After waiting for a while and seeing that Mrs. Jude still didn't speak, he said again:

"I am here to judge your sins, and your sinful soul needs to be purified by the fire."

As he spoke, he made a motion to blow the flames on his fingertips. At this time, the three moons were finally covered by dark clouds. In the moment of darkness between heaven and earth, only the flames at Shade's fingertips illuminated his face and the hanging woman's body.

But in the next moment, the flame suddenly went out in the darkness. The [Sin Chain] even suppressed her racial talent. The chained Lady Jude could not see what was happening below in the dark.

But she heard the fierce wind, and she heard the sword clash with something hard. Then, she felt the chain around her neck loosen, and she fell from the tree:

"Ahem, ahem."

The weird chains left her body, and the spirit that started flowing again made her feel like she was alive again.

The right hand wearing a ruby ​​​​and sterling silver bat ring supported the ground, ignoring that the luxurious dress was stained by the ground. She kept beating her chest with her left hand and gasping for breath.

Then I had time to look up and look ahead. At this time, the clouds in the night sky gradually drifted past, and the moonlight illuminated the earth again. The body functions recovered from the control of that weird chain, and the vampire's powerful physical fitness made the dizziness disappear quickly.

Through the dim moonlight, she could clearly see what was happening in front of her. The handsome young man held the silver cross sword in front of him with his left hand, and held the flexible black chain in his right hand, facing a strange middle-aged man she had never seen before.

It would be inaccurate to say that she had never seen him before. In her vague memory, Mrs. Jude remembered that this short man seemed to be a servant of a local noble.

"You finally came."

Shade said to the stranger with the notebook under his left arm. The powerful whispering element in the other person would not make him mistake him for the wrong person:

"If you don't show up again, I won't know what to say."

"You want to lure me out?"

The man said in a calm tone. He was wearing a dirty brown coat and his eyes were dull. Compared to him, the black leather-covered notebook he held had a stronger presence in Shade's eyes.

"Yes, you killed so many people locally, of course we want to meet you."

Mr. Bernhard spoke, and together with Mr. Albert, appeared from behind the stranger. Mrs. Jude immediately guessed what happened tonight, and the stranger didn't even look back at the two vampires. He kept staring at Shade:

"I am willing to come out, not only because you want to judge this monster that sucks human blood, but also because I smell a familiar smell on your body. That smell was from a long time ago. Can you tell me what it is?"

Shade frowned slightly:

"Before I answer your question, you answer my question."

He did not turn around, but pointed directly behind him:

"The power of [Richard's Note] has caused the death of so many people. Do you really think you are enforcing justice? No need to answer me, I know your answer. I just want to ask you the question that the lady behind me once asked : If you kill her for sucking human blood, what will happen to the orphanage she built a year later? What will happen to those children?"

None of the five people in the barn yard spoke. The moonlit night was so quiet. The orphanage on the hill in the distance had no light like this one.

"There is always a price to pay for enforcing justice, but you cannot stop enforcing justice just because you are kidnapped by morality. This is a matter of principle."

The stranger holding the notebook said:

"Tell me, do you think a murderer is a good person just because he raises money for an orphanage?"

"Lady Jude did no more evil than she did good."

“Can good and evil really be measured and offset?”

The stranger asked again, but this time Shade did not answer. Mr. Albert, who was wearing a burqa, spoke:

"It is true that justice and evil cannot be measured and offset, but whether sin should be repaid with life is also not up to you to judge. If she is guilty, then she must find a way to atone for her sin instead of being killed directly by you. I have always believed that, Murder is the lowest means of enforcing justice, it is a means of escape."

Mr. Bernhard nodded slightly because of these words, but the stranger surrounded by them shook his head:

"I once made a big mistake, and that was a story a long time ago. Since then, I have understood that justice cannot be relented. Taking away the lives of sinners is the outcome they deserve most. I once lost my lover, So I chose to wear a mask, which was also my atonement."

After hearing this, Shade basically confirmed that the thing in front of him was the target he wanted. The stranger suddenly stopped speaking and turned to look at the dark chain under the moonlight:

“I am willing to say this to you just because you are a special group of people, but this trial must come to an end.

[Gluttony], [Greed], [Sloth], [Angry], [Apathy], [Pride], [Prejudice]. Being able to turn sin into strength, it turns out that you are the person who deserves to be judged in this city. The power of sin is too heavy, and you will be swallowed up by sin sooner or later. Even if there is a one in ten thousand chance that you will not be controlled by this power, I cannot bet on such a probability.

Killing you will be my most important goal after coming to this city. "