Prince Lucas's realm is safe, and no matter how hideously the Piper Boy threatens us outside, it won't be able to enter "Starfall".

So, after a while, it knew that no matter how hard it tried, it was futile, so it stared at us bitterly and disappeared in place.

"Excuse me, Your Highness, it is a demon of calamity and does not need to eat, but you and I are both human beings, and if we don't eat, we will starve to death." So if we want to compare who consumes more energy, we must be losers.

"It's not that food is everywhere here." Lukas pouted his mouth, gestured to the cotton candy of various colors and flavors on the ground, and looked at the stream-like white grape juice, as well as the bread, roast chicken, candy and fruit on the tree. pudding.

You should eat the things conjured up by the demon of calamity first.

"Oh, don't worry, I haven't answered my question just now." His Royal Highness the little prince patted the empty seat next to the meteorite and asked me to sit over and chat, "What's your name, how old are you, why did you become evil Christian?"

My eyelids jumped, I chose another meteorite, floated over to sit down in a state of weightlessness, opened my eyes and said nonsense: "My name is Sal, I am 15 years old, the reason why I believe in evil gods is because of family tradition, we Generations of the family have believed in the great master of death and reincarnation."

Lukas shook his feet, showing the innocence and cuteness of a 14-year-old boy, with dimples on his cheeks, and two small canine teeth showing when he opened his mouth: "It's no fun to lie to people, now we can't get out, What are you afraid of?"

I glanced at him and thought to myself, I have experienced the weirdness of Ren Gouzi in the last world, so I don't believe that the person who looks like the "protagonist" can be such a fuel-efficient lamp.After all, the villain is ruthless, and the protagonist can only hold them down if he is more ruthless than the villain.

Just like Lucas, the 14-year-old son of heaven, I did the most outrageous thing when he was his age, that is, secretly put a novel in the drawer to read in class, but Lucas can When the demon of calamity holds them hostage, they calmly and calmly calculate the "evil/religionists" they encounter by chance.

Unless it is the gods and mages who are in charge of the authority of time, the flow rate in the general field is the same as that in the real world.Lucas was not in a hurry to go out, because as a prince, as the most beloved companion of the Lord of the Star Sea, his disappearance would inevitably cause turbulent waves.

At that time, whether it is a mage working in the royal family or a priest of the Xinghai Church, they will desperately come to him, and even the Lord of the Xinghai himself will pay attention. It will be a matter of time before the Piper is exposed.

As long as Lucas waits for the rescuers in "Falling Stars", he can leave without hesitation, but I, who is also trapped in the Pied Piper's domain, will be executed and purified on the spot.

So, of course he's not in a hurry, he's in a hurry.

"Why are you in a bad mood recently, Your Highness?" I asked seemingly casually.He can trick me, why can't I trick him?

Lucas stared at the boundless starry sky above his head with his face in his hands, and sighed: "Because there is only one candy, but every child hopes that his father can leave it to him/her."

"Then do you want this candy too?"

"Do you have to use the honorific title, Sal, we are not a few years apart, and you are still a cultist, why do you respect the royal family so much?" Lucas opened his eyes brighter than the stars, "Just call Me Lucas, no, I don't want this candy."

"Your Majesty said that if all goes well, I will become a congregation god before the age of 30. At that time, as long as I want to, I will be the next Xinghai Pope. This job is not much worse than that of King Bolita."

Yes, from a territorial point of view, Polita is just a chicken leg, and the Star Sea Church controls half of the ocean, as well as many coastal countries and the Cahill Federation.

Moreover, the Lord of the Star Sea is not as rigid as the Goddess of Light. He allows his clergy to marry and have children, even the Pope.

"But you're still not happy."

"Believe me, Sal, no one can keep happy physically and mentally when his family is bickering, hating each other and playing tricks, unless he is a pervert." Lucas sighed like a grown-up, "Sometimes , I wonder if our family would be happier without this candy."

I thought of the women in the high mountains who were proud of their daughters as noble mistresses, the poor kids in the West who were wearing crotch pants and sniffing their noses, and Xia Li who was beaten by Barry and others, and said decisively: "No, the troubles of the poor There will only be more, at least your eldest brother doesn't need to work from four in the morning to nine in the evening, your sister doesn't need to be the lover of the noble lord, and you never worry about what to eat next, whether you will be killed tomorrow beat."

Lucas was stunned for a while, then looked at me seriously and apologized, "I'm sorry, Sal, just pretend that what I just said is hypocritical nonsense, I really have no right to complain."

He stared down at the delicate nightgown on his body, and whispered: "I don't know people in the west and east districts, and I seldom even go to the south district. Can you tell me about it?"

I found that the child suddenly didn't need to be beaten so much.

In fact, I have no right to say that about him. I am also a noble rentier class. Although my father is a fairly qualified lord, he also lays on the people to suck blood. Every year we receive thousands of gold creeks , In the end, it was replaced by fine wine, food and luxury goods at home.

"I don't know much," I sighed, "but there are a lot of children in the West District. Often a couple can have six or seven children before the age of 30, because they don't have good contraceptive measures. There are many children, but There were more deaths, and on my way from the West District, I could see several dead babies, thrown together with fish viscera and garbage."

"They don't have enough clothes and food. They started working with their parents when they were eight years old. The younger ones would guard the intersection and ask every passing gentleman and lady for money. If they were sick, they would have no medicine to see if they could survive. There are many girls in the West District who moved to the East District after they began to develop... This is also a good way out, at least not starving to death, and if you are lucky, you can still be favored by the gentlemen in the South District and North District. The illegitimate child has finally escaped from life in the West End."

These contents are all what I saw and inquired on the way from the West District. After all, Jarno wants me to take over Miruel's Brotherhood of the Dead, so I have to collect more information.

There is no future for going offline in the wealthy area, so in the last cleansing of the Xinghai Church, the person in charge and members of the northern area were executed by the executioner, leaving only Karl and Paul in the western area, and Mo Mo in the eastern area. Nika, that makes a lot of sense.

"You said earlier that the Piper was born from the West End. It instinctively wanted to give all suffering children a perfect world. This is very reasonable, because this is probably the childhood dream of every child in the West End."

"No starvation, no beating, no morning labor, the land is cotton candy, the trees are endless food, the stream is white grape juice, no adults, no quarrels and pain. But for you, except the last One, your daily life is like this."

Lucas was silent.

"I don't know which calamity event that flute was born in, but I know that it must have carried all the real pain and dream hopes of one, or even several children in the West District."

Lukas looked at me helplessly, and it took him a long time before he said, "You don't have to use such words to motivate me if you want to encourage me to break out of the Pied Piper realm."

I shrugged: "Even though I have selfish intentions, I'm telling the truth. I swear by my soul."

"I know it's true." Lukas sighed deeply, jumped off the meteorite, and flew to my side. His slightly curly blond hair, as smooth as moonlight, floated weightlessly, and a few strands rubbed against my face. "Let's go." , Sal. As the third prince Polita, I want to seek justice for the children of the West District, and as the favored person of the Lord of the Star Sea, I want to reveal the truth about this demon of calamity."

To take back what I said before, he is much more likable than Ren Gouzi.

However, it is not so easy to investigate the weakness of the Demon of Calamity.Although I call myself a detective Sanin, reasoning without any clues is called making up stories and writing novels.

And Prince Lucas beside me has no relevant work experience.

We can only cover the area of ​​"Falling Stars", turn the Piper's fairy tale world around, and then find that although this place is large, many of them are like copy-pasted, essentially a copy of the same terrain.

"I always feel... I've seen similar scenes somewhere." Lukas tilted his head, frowned and meditated. He pointed to the tigers and lions that live in harmony with the sheep, rabbits, and Bambi. They're all eating marshmallows now.

I twitched the corner of my mouth: "No way, apart from ridiculous fairy tales, where else do tigers eat candy?"

"Ah!" Lukas shouted suddenly, his eyes brightened, ""Polita Folklore Fairy Tales", the nanny who took care of me when I was young told similar stories, and they were all bedtime stories collected from folks. "

No wonder I haven't heard of it, I'm from Manan, but knowing this now, does it help us break the Pied Piper field?

"What is the end of this story?"

"A long time ago, I think about it, it seems to say that a child was orphaned at a young age and was apprenticed to a mill, but the bread miller kept mistreating him, and it was cold that night, and he was hungry in a mill with no one. Weeping while working, suddenly the big millstone gave off a burst of light and warmth, and he jumped into it, and he came to a perfect and happy world."

"The ending is that he lived happily in this world from then on, and there was no more pain."

Me: ...So, what's the use of thinking about it now? !

"This can only prove that the demon of calamity has also read this book, which is the source of its creation." I was so tired that I wanted to lie on a meteorite, watching the same fairy tale dream scene for so long, except for the creepy, I just feel aesthetic fatigue.

"Sal, did you have a fake beard glued on before?" A very beautiful moonlight head poked over, and Lucas poked the glue on my chin with his finger curiously, "You evil/religionists are working so hard Are you still pretending to be an adult?"

A knife precisely pierced the heart of the animal.

"Why did you come in to save these children?" "How do you pay for your work there?" "But you live in the southern district, and you look very poor." "The master of death and reincarnation is called 'the God fears', does he look particularly frightening?"

"Shut up!" I gritted my teeth, why did such a nice boy just open his mouth?

"So, he is really ugly?" Lucas asked enthusiastically.

You are ugly!As expected of the lord of the star sea, the curiosity is really too strong!

"Sal, I always feel that the ending of that story is not what Mammy told me." Suddenly, Lucas brought the topic back to serious business.

I was silent because I also remembered something, and it took me a long time before I slowly said: "Lucas, do you know that there are two or even more versions of many fairy tales? A beautiful version for children , and a dark version of the truth."

Just like the familiar Cinderella, Snow White, Little Red Riding Hood, etc. in our world, in fact, the original version is much more cruel.

"Or to put it another way, Lucas, if I told you right now that someone who has been suffering will never suffer again, what would be your first reaction?"

Lukas lowered his star-like eyes and whispered: "He died and returned to the eternal and peaceful kingdom of God."

"Yeah, that's why you think Mammy's ending is weird because you're listening to the happy version." After all, who would tell a young Prince Polita a bedtime horror story?

"If you don't look at the story of the bread mill apprentice from the perspective of a fairy tale, how do you think it should end?" I asked again.

"He died of hunger and cold in a deserted mill. Before he died, he had hallucinations, lying on the millstone, and felt that he had come to another beautiful world, a world without cold and hunger, and without pain and oppression."

I turned over from the meteorite, looked at the Piper Wonderland at my feet, and said seriously: "So, all of this is an illusion, a hallucination of a child before death, and the way to break this realm is to find the real ending, to find ...the body of the child on the millstone."

Lukas paused, pointed to the big tree with bread, and asked, "Look, Sal, does the outline of this tree look like a millstone?"

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