"I will teach you the kindness within the malice - or, in other words, the malice within the kindness."
"I won't kill you, I'll let you live."
"If you want to live for others, then I will give you the best way to do it. So, follow me."
In this way, Helos, who lost his love, fell into deep guilt and became Caruso's murder tool. As an enforcer of "justice", he mechanically carries out the orders of that man day after day, euphemistically called: eliminating evil for the people.
In fact, those who died under his sword were just the existence that the man wished to disappear.
Accusing the other party of a non-existent crime will be sufficient reason to put him on trial. In mission after mission, Helos gradually understood that what he was doing was not what the world called justice at all, and he was just a blind man carrying out dirty justice.
"In order to fight against the outside world, you must first settle down the inside. I can understand that you are confused about this, and you just need to know that these are all part of the fight against the phantom world." Regarding Helos' questions, the man did not want to Say more. There are many people who are better than Helos under the man's command, so in all the previous contacts, the man has never shown his favor towards him.
"...even if it's false." The young man clenched his fist tightly.
The only thing that cannot be denied is that he felt his own way of survival from it. The next moment I felt unbelievable, somewhere in my heart I accepted this fact.
"In the long years, he abandoned his morality and kept gritting his teeth and moving forward. No matter what kind of breakthrough, the result was still drunkenness. The expectation for beauty at the beginning of life ended up opening his big blood-red mouth towards him. Running ferociously all the way." Looking at the change in the scene in front of him, Fu Dou said and turned his head to look at Artoris.
"During that mission, he learned the truth about everything."
"The truth?" Upon hearing this, Artoris raised her eyebrows, feeling a little surprised by this unfolding.
Artoris originally thought that Helos's collapse was due to his self-blame for staining his blood and burying those close to him, but this was not the case.
From Fu Dou’s next words, Artolis knew that Caroso Sean’s appearance that day was not accidental. It was only after Helos passed the trial and obtained the talent of Blood Sacrifice to the Blood God that Helos' existence was noticed by Caroso, the Andumari city guard general.
Because he was greedy for Helos' ability, Caroso had evil thoughts in mind to exclude the city lord. The army he led pretended to be defeated and took this opportunity to allow the army from the Phantom World to crush the city lord's palace. After the city lord's palace was completely slaughtered, Caruso repelled the forces of the Phantom World on the grounds of dereliction of duty.
Helos, who was the only one protected by Caruso, accepted his brainwashing and mistakenly believed that the rampage of his talent caused such a tragedy. He defeated Helos' defense and eventually fell under the control of that man.
"Blood Sacrifice to the Blood God" is exactly the same as the talent of a ghoul, but compared to a ghoul with low intelligence, humans who can only obey orders are obviously more conducive to control.
"--clang!"
The clashing sound of weapons was like an ancient song from time immemorial, and the man's casual sword was like a raging wave coming across the abyss of the sky, as if thousands of stars were washing in the endless sky, smashing into pieces so that not even the floating dust would remain.
"You are very brave for daring to resist me, but with your current strength alone, you are far from able!" With a bit of anger, Caruso pointed his sword at the man who shattered outside the hall and turned into a blood arrow to escape. figure.
"My goal has been achieved long ago. Unfortunately, you have lost your use value to me now." Watching Helos leave, the man restrained his anger and turned around, neither looking back nor He never sighed and looked like it had nothing to do with him, which made Fu Dou frown.
At this moment, he realized that the other party was not being gentle and did not give Helos the final blow, but just thought it was too troublesome.
"In the end, he was just a puppet who could be used at will. Such an existence is no match for the great evil."
He lost everything and was left alone.
A being who just sank in a sea of blood would end up like this if he provoked someone higher than him.
If Caruso, who had used him for more than ten years, and the Demon Realm nobles under his command were not trustworthy, then what about the side of the Phantom Realm that personally destroyed his beautiful life?
Perhaps he should have understood that no one worthy of trust exists in this world. When such thoughts arose in Helos's mind, he realized that he had nothing but anger that had nowhere to vent.
"What about you?" Artoris asked, staring at Fu Dou's back.
The moment he caught Atoris's gaze, Kodou looked away, and then looked towards the distance, to the end of the sea where the seriously injured Hieros had sunk.
"I volunteered to be sealed there by the superior. Because the appearance of Hudou will bring disaster to all directions, that guy probably had the idea of using me, so he broke the seal and signed a contract with me."
"But that's not your original intention, is it?" When Fu Dou said the word "voluntary", Artolis understood the other party's attitude, just like the Fei clan.
"Perhaps Helos himself is a disaster, which is why we are destined to be together. And I am the only one who can understand him. If even I give up on him, then he would be too pitiful." This is what Fu Dou means. answer.
"Is it because of sympathy..." The picture no longer continues here, and the story of the man named Helos finally comes to an end here, but the story of Atoris should not stop there.
Helos is one of the victims of the war, and if the war is not over, similar tragedies will happen everywhere every moment.
Artoris may have understood why Helos wanted to show her his past. Deep down in his heart, he was still a child and longed for someone to talk to about his tragic life.
Then with sympathy, he stroked his head and told him: "Don't blame yourself, you did a good job."
But asking herself, Artoris would not do that. She looked at the far, far away place and said:
"I only know that your behavior is wrong!" The lack of correct guidance caused two people with similar experiences to embark on two different paths.
However, there is no need to regret this, there was nothing you could do about it at that time.
There were no clear enemies then, just sad faults.
"If the mistake you think is only based on the killing of Helos, don't you think it is stupid?" Artolis's words aroused Fu Dou's anger.
"Shut up!"
It's just that Artoris won't give in on this point.
Saying you won't give up is not a casual show of strength.
——And she, is she going to give up?
Only this sentence comes to mind repeatedly.
Despite being aware of the difficulties Helos was going through, Artoris still believed in the glimmer of possibility he showed.
In a life where you keep repeating your sins, and every time you take on new guilt, you will lose the important things as a human being.
"As a victim, you inflict the mistakes that happened to you on another person. How is this different from the perpetrator?"
