Blood of the Hunting God

The children were laughing and talking about where they were going to play today.

Adults are busy with work or decide to take a break from work.

No one noticed that this town was once again missing certain figures.

"Jason, Liz, I'm taking you home."

In the murmured voice, Disma returned to Xingkong Town like this.

The moonlight rises and then sets again.

Hunter and Abigail, who came to Starry Sky Town with Disma, have already fallen asleep in the sustenance house.

The children asked about the whereabouts of Disma's two companions, where Uncle Jason and Sister Liz were, and when they would be able to return.

Disma could only reply that they had traveled far away and would not return until a year or two later.

lie.

When the truth cannot be spoken, such lies can only be used to cover up.

"Why did Uncle Jason and Aunt Liz go so far away?"

In the sustenance house, some curious Xuerong looked up at Disma and asked.

"...Well, they all happened to be busy with some things at home, so they left temporarily and couldn't come back. Let me think about it, Jason should be able to come back within a year, right? Liz's words may be later, maybe Going to go next year."

He hesitated, and finally perfected the lie further.

Telling the truth serves no purpose and will only cause further harm to these children.

So, it's fine, it's fine now.

He raised his head and looked in the direction of the third floor.

Disma remembered the situation when he delivered food to Branca at dinner.

The girl didn't ask him where Jason and Liz went, just asked him if it was hard or something.

Blanca, you should have understood, right?

That kid is always so smart, sensible, mature

.

She can always quickly understand some things, some things that adults don't want her to understand at this age.

So, she won't ask.

She will not continue to deepen Desma's pain and guilt.

He can understand.

"Mr. Disma, go to bed early tonight, you are already... very tired..."

Mona stood in front of Disma, persuading him softly.

"No... I... still have things to do..."

Disma answered sadly, shook his head, turned around and left the sustenance house.

Tonight, he has no way to spend the night in this room.

There was no way to spend the night in the cabin he shared with Jason.

There is really no way to do this kind of thing.

As long as you stay in those places with memories of the past, as long as you stay in the places where their traces have been left, you will be unable to control yourself to think of them who have left, and think of them who can no longer stand up and walk by your side .

Jason and Liz were left in Fengrao Town forever, and the only surviving Disma just brought back some of their body parts and some personal items.

It is only a part that can be used as a burial and memorial.

This is a helpless thing, the filthy power will have a serious erosion effect on all corpses, if there is no condition for cremation, to collect a part of the limbs of a companion that is easy to carry, and bury it on behalf of the deceased companion, this is Traditions of hunters.

Speaking of which, I have actually sent off many companions, haven't I?

Over the years in Star Town, Disma has also seen the death of dozens of hunters, many of whom are still his friends.

However, I am afraid there will never be such a pain like today, right?

After all, this time, what Disma lost was a real friend, a real friend who joined hands with each other and worked hard for the same goal, and the friends who gave blood and sweat together are already close to the existence of family members.

But in the end, such a day came.

"People like hunters, to put it bluntly, are either dead or on their way to death. Everyone is like this, without any exceptions. There is no need to make yourself feel so uncomfortable or desperate for this kind of thing, really, I mean it, Desma, don't take it to heart."

At the gate of the cemetery, the man carrying the catalpa, who just spent some money in the medical center to heal his injuries, just stood there and spoke seriously.

"Those two friends of yours..."

Disma looked at the bounty hunter in front of him and asked hesitantly.

Earlier, on the way back to Star Town, Disma and Hunter encountered Elvis the Caller, an extremely terrifying and powerful filthy monster that ordinary people could not fight against.Among them, Disma escaped with Abigail and finally joined Tardif, while the hunter stayed behind to hold back the terrible monster.

During this process, the opponent launched a large-scale attack of terrifying light, which caused Tardif's comrades in arms to be affected and wiped out. Only Tardif, who was alert and reacted in advance, dodged the attack in time.

What a miserable outcome, isn't it?

Disma seemed to be able to see the face of fate, the mocking smile he showed when facing his group.

Speaking of which, Tardif did not support his actions from the very beginning, and had a falling out before.

Thinking back to a few days before the departure, Tadif, who was not informed of this operation, when he learned that Disma decided to organize people to go deep into Fengrao Town, he very straightforwardly said that his brain was filled with water, and that the other party did not He is looking for death.

[Fengrao Town is a ghostly place that has penetrated deep into the corrupt wilderness, you actually plan to go in with three people?And it's still a large-scale and large-scale search, just to pray for a goddess that you don't know exactly what it looks like? 】

[Disma, are you out of your mind?The usual range of activities of our hunters is short enough. Basically, many people will not leave the Gate of the Dead [-] kilometers away, but at least a dozen hunters die here every year, and now you have to go deep More than double the distance to go to a deep area with scarce data? 】

【What kind of ecstasy//drug did you give Jason and Lise to participate in such a life-threatening event? I warn you, Disma, to quickly give up this stupid mission.The strength of those two guys, Jason Lisi, absolutely cannot go deep into it. They are also my friends, so don't take them to this kind of place! 】

After the unhappy discussion that day, Tardif ignored Disma for several days, and occasionally the two of them just shook their faces coldly when they met.

It was only natural that it would become like this, but in the end they reconciled.

After Jason and Liz died, reconciled.

"The ordered tombstone will be finished tomorrow. Heh, the master carvers here are slow in doing everything. Only the tombstone is carved too much, so it can be finished quickly every time."

Tardiff held the gate of the cemetery while talking.

"As for my two friends, forget it, it's just the relationship between drinking and drinking. Next time I go to the tavern, I will drink two more glasses, and I will treat them as a respect."

squeak-

Tadif who said so

After opening the door, after a harsh sound, Disma held the torch and walked into this gloomy and dead cemetery with Tardif carrying the iron catalpa, except for them.

"Be careful. I heard that something seems to have come out of the underground tomb of the cemetery during this period of time. In the past few days, a special commission has been sent from the Hunter's Hall. I saw a small team to pick it up before. Today I just came back, and I don’t know whether that team has solved the problem or been solved by the problem, or we will encounter a situation.”

Tardiff said to Disma very seriously, but Disma just nodded in silence and continued to walk forward.

Very early on, Disma bought a small piece of land in this cemetery.

But at that time, I was probably just thinking about where I accidentally died, and I hope I can still be brought back and buried there.As a result, now, he is really going to bury something, but it's not himself, but his friend.

Slowly, she stopped in the open space reserved by the tomb.

At this moment, the two people were digging alternately, one person was alert to possible abnormalities around them, and the other person was responsible for digging up the soil, and they took turns taking actions in this way.

The box that had been prepared in advance contained some of the last things left by those two people.

In the end, Disma dug the grave himself and buried it, filling up the surrounding soil little by little, leaving a small bag of soil in place.

"Well, I guess that's what it's about in the end..."

Disma, who sat down in front of the soil bag, murmured like this.

"Pick one?"

Tardiff offered him a cigarette.

"Forget it today, neither of them like the smell of smoke very much."

Disma shook his head.

"makes sense."

Tardiff shrugged, originally he planned to smoke one, but he put the cigarette back in his pocket after hearing this.

One is standing and the other is sitting.

The two of them just faced the grave in front of them, facing the dirt bag where their former friends were buried.

"Tell me, how did you meet them in the first place?"

Disma asked at this moment.

"Jason, that kid is pretty reliable. He has been a mission partner twice, and Liz met through you."

Tardiff, who was standing with his arms folded, thought for a while and said.

"Well, that's it, it seems like a lot of days have passed..."

Closing his eyes, Disma spoke slowly, with a hint of reminiscence in his voice.

"Do you still remember that time, the time when the three of you got drunk together?"

Tardive, who didn't know what he thought of, suddenly laughed and said.

"When Liz and Mona dragged us back to the boarding house? It's hard to forget, after all, since that time, Mona has been using me as a teaching material to teach those children not to drink alcohol. Think about it It's embarrassing."

Disma also laughed and shook his head.

That was a rare time for them, when they got together to drink after completing a difficult entrusted task and making a lot of money.

At that time, Jason had already improved his character because of contact with the House of Sustenance, and then Disma and Tardif took Jason and Liz to complete the task together, which was their first four-person cooperation task.Because it was completed smoothly and made a lot of money, they went to the tavern together.Of course, Liz didn't go, she didn't like that smelly place very much, and the environment there really seemed a bit too vulgar for a person with a relatively quiet personality.

Then, from the very beginning, it's just you and me drinking a little wine.

When they drank and didn't know what was going on, they began to compete with each other. It was better to hold down the bottle in one breath, than to compete with anyone else's drinking capacity.

But speaking of it, it seems that Tardiff was the one who started this.

【Come on, come on, I did it, you can do whatever you want】

The bounty hunter at that time had an impressive look on his face.

【Okay, then I did it too, what should I say? 】

Disma, who couldn't be willing to bow down in this kind of matter, also drank a whole piece of low-quality spirits in one go.

【Since you have all said this, I will follow until you fall down】

Jason was incited to be competitive by these two guys, so he nodded and drank vigorously.

We all know that when men start fighting for their own face and self-esteem, it is usually not so easy to end it peacefully.

One bottle after another, the three of them kept stuffing their mouths with wine.

The hunters who hadn't noticed before surrounded them one after another, and more and more gathered around them. Whenever a person successfully drank a whole bottle of wine, the group of guys who watched the excitement and didn't think it was a big deal applauded , Pass them the next bottle.

The betting went on for several hours, until the feet of the three were full of wine bottles, and until the brains of the three began to blur.

The first to be drunk was Jason. After all, this man was no match for the two old alcoholics Disma and Tardif. After drinking, he fell on the ground and vomited unconsciously. They pulled it out and threw it in the open space outside the tavern.

Then, Disma and Tardif fell one after the other.

So they fell down when they drank the same amount of wine, and the wine bottles fell on the ground, one was broken and the other was spilled. The three drunks just lay side by side on the open space outside the tavern, muttering to themselves in a daze, even Disma and Tardiff were holding pieces of wood cut by the carpenter on the street. Kuai Dang touched the wine glasses there, and when he found that he couldn't drink, he suspected that the other party was tricking him, so he became furious and rolled together and had a fight, and then fell down and fell asleep on the ground.

When Liz and Mona rushed over, they saw three drunk men lying on the ground and sleeping peacefully, especially some wicked thing that found flowers and put them on each of them. As if dying.It took a lot of effort to drag these three lifeless men back to the sustenance house, and the strong smell of alcohol on their bodies that day became a negative lesson for many children. Alcohol should be kept at a respectful distance.

In a sense, they seem to have done something good.

"A lot of days have passed in a flash. I thought this kind of life could last forever..."

Disma finally let out a long sigh.

"Nothing lasts forever."

Tardiff just spoke calmly.