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Chapter 40 But I Believe In You

Chapter 40 But I Trust You

Pursue, pursue.

How to chase, how to find?
This is a problem.

Linton turned his attention to the protagonist of this mission.

After the girl finished telling her "brilliant deeds", she fell into a state of confusion, and her figure became more and more transparent—this was due to the rapid consumption of the magic power that constitutes the spirit body due to emotional fluctuations.

To complete task two, he has little time left.

"Iris." Linton said in a deep voice, "Think about what information we have obtained since we entered the village."

"I don't believe that someone is born a good person, nor do I believe that someone is born with pure malice, and there must be a third person inserted into it."

It is impossible to say who this third person is, relying on his own thinking is likely to make mistakes, but if Iris recalls, he can check and make up for the mistakes as a bystander.

Iris closed her eyes and carefully read all the pictures in her memory.

"From entering the village, in chronological order, we met the old lady, the middle-aged man, Bella, and the children. Except for Bella, everyone else was an ordinary villager who was disturbed by abnormal goodness."

"No, it's not just these few people." Linton narrowed his eyes slightly, "there are also the 'bad guys' that the businessman and Bella called."

"Businessmen and villains?" Iris pondered for a while, and said, "Didn't you say that some businessmen would occasionally pass by here? They won't stay here for a long time, so it shouldn't be a problem, right?"

"Whether there is a problem or not, let's not mention it for the time being. We have to pick him out first, and we can no longer be preconceived by our own ideas as a 'bad guy'."

Linton looked at the girl sharply, and raised his voice slightly.

"Bella!"

"what?"

Bella looked up blankly as if taken aback.

"Let me ask you, you said you led your parents to the bad guys, didn't you?"

"Yes"

"Have you ever been out of the village before?"

"No."

"Then how do you know there are bad people out there?"

Bella said in a daze, "It was the businessman who told me."

"The businessman said that he met a group of gangsters on the way into the village and was almost caught by them. He also said that those people were outlaws, and that falling into their hands would mean death."

"At that time, I was just thinking about how to get Mom and Dad so."

"Do you remember how the road went?"

Bella nodded.

"Then, lead the way."

Linton turned and walked out of the yard.

The girl timidly followed him, subconsciously trying to reach out her hand, but suddenly remembered something, and froze immediately.

But when the partially transparent hand was about to fall, it couldn't fall.

She looked up suddenly, and what she saw was a stern face without sadness or joy.

"Let's go."

Iris followed Linton's left side, looked at the girl who looked much better than before but still dared not speak, and asked with a frown.

"Since you know her previous 'brilliant record', aren't you afraid that she will lie to you?"

Linton said with discretion: "Iris, I think we can trust her for the time being, because she is in a very broken state now, and the malicious emotions that originally occupied all are not much worse than others, or even lower. Some. In a sense, she may be more 'good' than the villagers here."

He never believed that a child could be so bad by nature, especially after the emotional exchange with Bella.

Of course, Linton is not a saint, and it is impossible to pity a murderer for no reason.

Judging from the reflux emotions, he felt that a series of qualities such as "innocence" and "liveliness" that the child should have did not exist at all, just like ice cream scooped away by a spoon, leaving a huge hole.

And the rest of the malice is like an animal that has lost its natural enemies, and it begins to multiply, grow, and bury those huge pits until it swallows up its sanity.

——This is definitely a situation of external intervention, not natural.

The same goes for the villagers.

No one in the world is infinitely tolerant of what you do, regardless of good or bad - except your parents.
However, Iris couldn't empathize with Bella, and she strongly refused Linton's persuasion.

"Sorry, even if you say that, I can't give her a little trust. I can't trust a person who killed seventeen people just because of her own preferences, even if she is a child."

"All right."

"But I trust you."

Linton was taken aback by the words of Jungfrau's turnaround.

"Don't get me wrong, I mean that you are the object of my allegiance, you don't have to trust me, but I must trust you completely." At the end, she added, "Loyalty is an essential character of a knight. "

Nodding his head, gentle ripples appeared in the man's eyes.

"Thank you."

"cut."

Iris turned her head away so no one could taste the delicious blush on her soft cheeks.

Bella, who lowered her head, had been paying attention to the interaction between the two. Hearing this, she couldn't help but feel a little more envy in her eyes, and then turned into loneliness.

When passing by the house where they stayed last night, Linton stopped suddenly.

"wait for me."

He knocked on the door a few times, and it was still the middle-aged man who opened the door.

"Are you back? Do you want to stay here tonight? I can let my son sleep with us"

"No need." Linton smiled and said, "I would like to ask you, how often does the merchant you mentioned who gave you sugar come to the village? How long does he stay?"

"Hiss, let me think about it."

The man pondered for a long time before he spoke slowly: "I was only eight or nine years old when he came here for the first time, and it seemed like he lived here for about a month? After that, he came here once or twice a year, and stayed for a week or two each time." about."

"This situation continued until about six years ago, and he hasn't been here since then. In the past two or three years, new businessmen have come, but they are not in the same group as the previous one."

"Then do you still remember where he lived?"

"This"

"Please, please think about it carefully!"

"All right."

The man racked his brains and thought about it for a long time: "He probably doesn't live in the village. He comes in from the outside every time. It seems to be from the west. Sorry, I can only think of so much."

"It's okay, it's already very troublesome for you."

Linton thanked them and returned to the two of them.

The puppet lady who heard the conversation between the two spoke first: "There is indeed a problem with this businessman."

"That's right, and according to my guess, this 'merchant' is the key to everything." Linton said lightly, "Since he reminded Bella that there are gangsters outside, and they are desperadoes with blood on their hands, then he Why do you want to live outside the village regardless of your own safety?"

"Maybe, we don't need to go find the 'bad guys'."

　Thanks to "Ao Wuji" for the reward of 100 starting coins, thank you very much!

　　
　
(End of this chapter)