The Witcher: Make Witcher Great Again

Chapter 171 Dettlaff Wants a Quiet Life
"It's a nice place, but a little eerie, like a tomb," Lin En commented, as if he was visiting the house. "You tried to use candles to dispel the darkness, but that's not a good enough method. Instead, it looks more like a cult meeting place."

The man in black stood in a dark corner where no light could reach him. "So, do you have any suggestions?"

Lin En seemed not to notice the other party's defensive posture, as if chatting with an old friend, and said:
"If you open the windows in the right places, the toy store will be filled with sunlight and won't be as gloomy as it is now. Also, you should change your outfit."

"Oh, for heaven's sake, my friend, you look awful in this attire."

"If you're a spymaster or a royal coroner, you have impeccable taste."

"But for a toy store owner, it's too gloomy, and..."

Lynn glanced around.

His eyes moved from the stuffed animals on the shelf to the wooden pony in the corner.

"I don't know if you've noticed, but this city we're in is the capital of Toussaint, the hometown of knights. Since it's the hometown of knights, wouldn't knight-related toys sell better?"

"For example, wooden swords, wooden shields, etc..."

The man in black said sternly.

"Your opinion is very informative, and I will consider it, but if you don't mind, I would like to ask you a question."

Lin En made a gesture of invitation: "Of course, go ahead."

The man in black walked out from the shadowy corner and came to the dividing line between light and darkness.

Half of his body was standing in the light, and half was hidden in the shadow.

"I've heard of your profession and have come across it a few times before, but I've never been in close contact with you."

"I know that your profession relies on hunting monsters for a living, and exchanging monster heads for bounties is your only way to survive in this world."

"So, I'm curious, what's it like to face a monster? Does it always have to be a bloody fight?"

Lin En supported his right elbow with his left hand, clenched his right fingers, and tapped his cheek lightly with the flat of his fist as if he was deep in thought.

"Maybe some demon hunters do things this way, but I'm different. I won't rush towards a monster with a silver sword as soon as I see it. If the monster can talk, I prefer to solve the problem through dialogue."

The man in black, who always had a serious expression on his face, showed a hint of surprise.

"Then you are indeed very different from your peers. Tell me, Witcher, what do you usually say to monsters that can talk? How do you communicate?"

Lynn didn't answer, his eyes falling on the toys on a shelf behind the man in black.

That shelf was filled with toys that were not well made and obviously not up to the standard for sale.

Most of these toys are cute animals such as rabbits, wild deer, and sheep.

But among these toys, there is only one that is out of tune with the others.

It was a doll of a girl wearing a wolf skull and wolf skin as clothing.

This doll is even more exquisitely made than the toys sold in the toy store below.

But it was placed in the attic, among other defective items.

"Why does she pretend to be a she-wolf? For hunting?"

The man in black picked up the doll girl.

"No, she dresses like this just to blend in with the animals. They are not her friends, but she doesn't want to hurt them either. She just wants to live a peaceful life."

Lin En asked, "Does she mind changing her environment? Once she gets to the new environment, she'll have real friends, more than one."

The man in black was stunned.

"Is this a trap set by a hunter with a bow and arrow to lure prey? Has someone offered a huge reward for her head? Or does the hunter simply want her head to decorate his collection?"

Lin En pulled out a herbal bag from his magic pattern leather bag, which emitted a variety of herbal scents. "Neither of them. The hunter invited her sincerely. Moreover, she has no one like her here, but there is someone like her beside the hunter."

"His name is Emil Regis Lohorek Tagif Godfroy, and he likes his friends to call him Regis."

"Once he finishes his business in Toussaint, the hunter will return north. He has his own villa in the upper city of Novigrad."

"He will then take Regis with him. Note that this is not coercion, but an invitation as a friend."

"If anyone else is willing to visit, I think the host will be happy to do the hospitality."

The man in black hesitated for a long time.

"Maybe, maybe not. Hunter, could you please tell me your name?"

Lynn gave the man in black a knight-errant salute.

"Lynn."

The other party also returned the gift, as if finally making a major decision.

Hand over the exquisitely crafted doll girl.

"I am Dettlaff van der Eretin. Consider this a gift for standing up for me."

Lin En took it without hesitation and put it into the magic pattern leather bag.

Afterwards, he walked out of the dark and eerie toy store and came outside.

He squinted his eyes and used his hands to block out the glaring sunlight that made him uncomfortable due to the sudden change in environment.

"Dettlaff?"

he said to himself.

Having played The Witcher 3, he naturally knows very well:

What kind of bloody storm will Dettlaff, the high-ranking vampire of the blood prohibition sect, cause in this city more than 20 years later?

Now Dettlaff said he just wants to live a peaceful life and he doesn't want to hurt others.

But the result is that when that time comes, hundreds and thousands of people will die because of his anger.

But this does not mean that he is an unforgivable bad person.

On the contrary, he is innocent, has a clear sense of right and wrong, and selflessly helps humanity.

In the kingdoms of Leiria and Livia, there was a legendary story:
Around the 10th century, a very ferocious wild beast appeared in Leiria, wreaking havoc on the village and killing countless people.

Later, a hunter went deep into the forest alone, tried his best, and killed the beast, thus eliminating the harm to the people.

Bards composed a ballad in his honor, and his legend spread even throughout the kingdoms of Lyria and Rivia.

But in fact, it was not the hunter but Dettlaff who killed the beast.

When Dettlaff was still living in Lyria, a child gave him an apple and asked for nothing in return.

Later, the child was killed by the Beast of Lyria.

It was Dettlaff who killed the beast to avenge his child and placed the beast's body next to a hunter. So, this is how the legendary story of the hunter eliminating harm for the people actually came about.

As Regis commented, Dettlaff and Geralt are actually very similar.

The only difference is that Dettlaff is more naive than Geralt and is even less able to understand why humans lie and deceive others.

It was this character that led him to make a big mistake more than 20 years later.

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