"The fire burned all night..."

"When they were satisfied...they dispersed like a dark cloud that had been accumulating for a long time in the sky, revealing...the sun of the next morning..."

"I am declared...not guilty...ahem!"

"They said that I was bewitched by a monster and that I did everything I did out of necessity. In the end... I woke up in time and pointed out Martha's crimes... cough cough!"

Old Willie shook his head.

"I want to crawl over to Martha...I want to pick up a few pieces...of her..."

......

Old Willy, who had just been untied, lay weakly on the ground. His eyes had become blurry from staying up all night and being smoked by fire, but he still wanted to move to the pile of charred ashes.

Just when I climbed halfway, I was stepped on by a foot.

"Ah... Willy... that's enough, it's not worth it."

Old Willy was speechless and just kept crawling forward.

"I actually know it's not that guy..."

The mayor leaned over and whispered in old Willie's ear.

Old Willy's body shook suddenly, and then he pounded the floor weakly to show his long-numbed anger.

"Don't pretend to be innocent here... Even if it's not, can you guarantee that it won't do it in the future? My son... He's only twelve years old... He still has a lot of life to enjoy, and my huge fortune is not inherited... Not only it, but that guy, the real murderer, I will definitely find him out and burn him to death..."

"Thank you for your small sacrifice, Martha. I will use the ashes of its kind to lure it out..."

"So... you can't take anything with you..."

These were the last words Old Willy heard before he passed out.

......

After waking up again, Old Willy sat in the church for a long time, touching every inch of the place where he and his wife lived.

The church doors were closed that day, and Old Willy turned away everyone who wanted to confess, including those who claimed to have the best relationship with him.

That night, flames rose up outside the church again, but not in the square, but everywhere.

Mixed in with the sounds were the screams and cries for help from the townspeople.

The church door was knocked violently several times, but old Willy turned a deaf ear to it, as if nothing was happening outside.

Finally, the world returned to peace again, and the door of the church was forced open from the outside.

"Is anyone there? This smell is really bad... The burnt smell outside is better..."

"Oh, there are people here... Old man, are you the priest here? The door is closed tightly, no one was allowed in? Even the barrier was not activated? Hmm... It saves a lot of trouble."

"Hey, I'm talking to you..."

The man walked up to the dazed old Willy.

It was a female orc, staring at the old man with a pair of red eyes.

"Are you still breathing? If you are, say something..."

"Bloodlines?"

"Yeah, is it hard to recognize?"

"No, I recognized it right away..."

"Then what? Aren't you afraid? Don't you old charlatans hate us the most? Why don't you splash me with the holy water you are so proud of?"

Old Willie shook his head.

"What are you doing here?"

"Help out, what else? There's so much noise outside, didn't you hear it?"

"I was really attracted..."

Old Willy stood up tremblingly, and walked out of the church with his body not having eaten for a day.

"All dead..."

For some reason, Old Willy felt nothing when he looked at the corpses scattered on the ground outside the church.

"...Martha...Martha..."

Dragging his broken body, Old Willy walked towards the town center.

There were corpses and real "monsters" all along the way, but they did not attack him.

Walking to the square, there were more bodies of guards and various adventurers, as well as countless monsters.

The mayor's body, like his son's, was hung at the highest point in the square.

At the execution ground, everything was the same as before, and Martha's remains were still piled there.

"Who is this?"

"my wife......"

"...It's pretty miserable..."

"...You don't know her?"

"Know her? Why would I know her?"

"Isn't this what attracted you here to avenge your own kind?"

"Same race? What are you talking about?"

Old Willie pointed to the pile of bones and said:

"Isn't she a vampire?"

"Huh? What nonsense are you talking about? How can this be a vampire? The color of the bones is not right..."

The woman said this and took out a red skull.

"See? This is what the bones of the vampires should look like. Also, revenge for their own kind? If they die, they die. Who cares if they live or die?"

At this moment, Old Willy felt as if his whole world had collapsed.

Martha is not a vampire at all, not from the beginning...

"But she looks like you...?"

"Old man, you wouldn't mistake people with that disease for vampires... This is a bit funny..."

“Haha…hahahahahahaha!”

Old Willy laughed, a heart-rending laugh.

"Crazy..." said the woman.

"Yeah...crazy...all crazy...hahahaha! cough cough cough!!"

Old Willy laughed and spat out a mouthful of blood.

"I think I understand now. So this is what the guy said before he died... I didn't understand it at the time..."

The woman suddenly realized.

"Old man, I came here for the Gangro family. Whether you have heard of Gangro or not, they like to come to your remote place to find food. This guy happened to run into them. Your experience... is indeed a bit ridiculous."

"So, what are you going to do now? Live? Or die? If you want to live, I can't help you. If you want to die, I can help you."

"...Originally I wanted to die... But now... Lord of the Blood Clan... Can you tell me where I can find you? I think, when my life is about to come to an end... Can you allow me to redeem myself for the sins I have committed..."

"Guilt? What crime have you committed?"

"I committed an unforgivable crime of arrogance... I was not qualified to decide her life... but I still did it... I brought her to a human society that she should not have come into contact with, letting her feel love and affection, but I was powerless to protect this beauty... I even... I even thought for a moment that she had done those things... I deserve to die..."

"Old man... this is indeed a 'huge sin'... humans like you are really rare... Well, when you feel that your life is about to end, you can come to the forest north of Campino City, and I will take you to the 'Land of Atonement'... There you will embrace the death you desire."

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