[Warning: High energy ahead. Non-combatants must evacuate immediately. Repeat. High energy ahead. Non-combatants must evacuate immediately.]
When Thales regained his senses, Quide had already grabbed him by the throat and lifted him into the air.
Thales struggled and held on tightly to Quide's hand that was strangling his neck, but he could not muster up any strength.
He desperately opened his mouth wide, but he could not inhale any air.
His legs kept kicking.
His head started to spin.
Beside his ears, all the sounds seemed to be separated by a thick layer of cloth. Coria was crying, Ryan was shivering in the hole in the wall, and Kellet was sitting in front of the hole in the wall, muttering to himself.
Sinti and Ned shouted angrily and fearlessly rushed over. One of them hugged Quide's thigh, and the other hit Quide's stomach with his small hand.
Sinti flew out and knocked over the water tank. The water splashed all over the courtyard.
Ned was kicked by Quide. He screamed and fell to the ground, unable to get up.
Thales did not have the time or mood to be surprised by Ned's bravery and Kellet and Ryan's cowardice (he knew what Sinti was doing). He dug his nails into Quide's hand from the front of his neck to the back of his neck.
He wanted to break free, to get a breath of air.
Suddenly, his nails dug into the back of Quide's right hand. It was as if he had dug into a hollow wound.
Thales did not hesitate. His face was already red, and he dug his nails into Quide's hand.
"Ah!"
Quide cried out in pain. He loosened his iron-like hands and flung Thales against the wall.
Thales felt dizzy and his throat was in pain. He held onto the broken wall and could not help but cough.
Quide grabbed his palm. The wound caused by Jala's knife had started to bleed again.
"Damn you, Jala Charleton! Damn you, brat! "
Quide endured the pain and roared angrily. His anger and drunkenness surged at the same time.
* Bang! *
The ferocious Quide suddenly turned around and saw Ursola in the seventeenth room trying to escape. However, the door that Quide had just kicked down could not support his weight and broke apart.
"Haha, you want to run?"
Quide laughed sinisterly. He strode forward and grabbed Ursola's left leg.
"No! No! "
Ursula cried as she was lifted upside down by Quide.
"Kid, have you ever forged iron before? There is? No? Haha, it's alright, I'll teach you! "
Thales crawled up in pain. He only had time to see Quide swing Nsola's left leg with both arms and smash Nsola's head against the wall behind him.
Thales only had time to instinctively turn his head to the side.
There was a muffled sound above his head. It was similar to the sound of a fruit and vegetable vendor in Arlen smashing a melon.
That's right, it was the vendor from whom they had stolen the Bright Moon God Statue.
Coria's cries turned into piercing screams.
Thales was stunned. He could not close his eyes in time.
Red and white liquid splashed onto Thales' face from afar. It was warm, but also cold.
Ned crawled up from the ground and witnessed everything. He broke down and screamed, then ran toward the dog hole that led to Room 17.
Quide opened his mouth and took a deep breath. He had an intoxicated look on his face, as if he was not inhaling air, but high-grade black pine wine. The demon in human skin turned around and threw away the remaining part of Ursula. He laughed angrily and looked in Ned's direction.
At that moment, Thales thought that Ned was small and agile. He would definitely be able to get through the dog hole before Quide did.
Everything would be fine once he got through the hole.
Once he got through the hole, he would be safe.
Get through the hole.
Get through the hole.
Get through the hole.
But before Ned could get through the hole, Quide grabbed both of Ned's legs.
"Are you that kid who can't even pay up?"
Quide laughed, "Then what's the use of having you?"
Ned cried loudly as he was dragged out of the hole by Quide.
"Scream, it's not miserable enough. It's a pity that the water tank is broken. Hmm, I can't catch fish anymore."
Quide shook his head to dispel the dizziness caused by the alcohol. He looked at Sinti who had just woken up from the ground and the water tank beside him and muttered.
"Then let's make it simpler."
As Ned cried and kicked, Quide threw him face down on the ground. Then, he raised his right foot and stomped on the center of the six-year-old child beggar's back.
"No!"
* Thud! Crack! *
At the same time as Thales' heart-wrenching roar, there was also a heart-wrenching sound of something breaking.
Everything in front of Thales became blurry.
* Thud! *
This was Quide's second kick.
* Thud! *
The third kick.
Sinti shouted with all his might. He grabbed a piece of the water tank and rushed towards Quide.
Quide only laughed loudly and kicked away the pieces in Sinti's hand. Then, he grabbed the collar of Sinti's linen clothes and lifted him up.
'So I … I can't do anything.'
Thales lowered his head.
In the corner, Ursula's body was still twitching silently but terrifyingly. Ned was lying face down on the ground, motionless.
'I thought I was protecting these children.
But I can't do anything.
I can't do anything. '
Sinti howled and kicked. Quide's laughter became louder and louder.
"Little brat, continue screaming. I like to hear you scream. Maybe I'll let you go when I'm in a good mood."
Thales' vision darkened, and a familiar scene appeared in his mind.
"Deviant behavior. This is what we call human behavior that goes against social norms. Most people are used to calling it crime. But we must know that crime is only a very small part of deviant behavior. What we are concerned about is not the behavior itself, but the meaning and understanding of the behavior at the social level, at the collective level. Durkheim was one of the first scholars to put forward the theory of social norms, and he also looked at deviant behavior from the perspective of functionalism.
"There is a point of view that the enforcement and punishment of deviant behavior is one of the basic methods by which the main body of power shapes the people and shapes the social structure."
This was the memory fragment from Thales' previous life. Just now, he had recovered a part of it.
"Demon! You demon! "
At this moment, Sinti howled and kicked, dispersing the scene in front of Thales' eyes.
"Yes! I am the demon! "Quide laughed." Tell me, how will the demon deal with you? "
Thales took a deep breath.
'Damn bastard.'
His mind was unprecedentedly clear.
He knew what to do.
He should do this.
He clenched his teeth and rushed to the corner of the house.
'He knows.'
Thales grabbed a stone at the corner of the house and forcefully lifted it. Then, he put his hand into a hidden hole behind the stone.
'Hurry up.
Hurry up and touch it. '
"Forget it. Since you have guts, I'll leave you for last."
Quide laughed until his lips were asymmetrical. He fiercely pulled Sinti's right leg until Sinti's lips turned pale.
* Crack! *
Until it was dislocated.
Quide threw Sinti down and stomped on Sinti's dislocated leg.
Sinti's suppressed but uncontrollable howl reached Thales' ears, causing him to speed up his search.
Quide left the courtyard and walked towards the house.
The bright moonlight shone on Quide's smiling face through the half-collapsed roof.
Ryan crossed his arms and stared at the floor beneath him. He tried his best to shrink further into the hole in the wall.
Kellet crawled out of the hole in the wall shakily. He wanted to pull Coria, who was already hoarse and silent, out to escape.
However, Coria seemed to be paralyzed from fear. She sobbed and did not move.
Kellet did not dare to look at Sinti. He only pulled Coria as if he was pleading.
However, Coria suddenly raised her head and whined like a lamb.
Kelly seemed to have noticed something. He turned around and saw Quide's grinning face.
He only felt something wet under his crotch.
'Caught it!'
Thales touched the thing he wanted and pulled it out with all his might.
Then.
Then?
Then, Quide grabbed his right arm from behind with a delighted expression on his face.
"Did you think that I would miss you? Brat? I knew it. You're the most cunning and treacherous one among these little bastards! Haha! "Quide gradually tightened his grip and laughed sinisterly.
'No.'
Thales felt the pain in his right arm. He struggled to turn around. At the same time, he wanted to stab Quide with the thing in his left hand.
"Look!" Quide looked as if he had found a treasure. He dodged and avoided Thales' attack.
Then, he snatched something from the boy's left hand.
"A … dagger! Haha! Brat, you actually want to use a dagger to deal with me? Hahahahaha, what are you going to do? Stab my thigh? "
Quide pulled Thales up and laughed maniacally.
'No!
No! '
Thales thought in despair. 'The dagger. The sheathless dagger that I stole from Sunset Pub.'
That was his last hope.
"Yo!"
Quide looked behind Thales in surprise.
When Thales pulled out the dagger from the hole, he used too much force and brought out a coin.
"Look at what I found."
"A silver coin?"
"A silver coin! Hahaha, you really are a damn brat! You secretly hid a silver coin! "
Thales wanted to use his left hand to struggle, but a seven-year-old child's strength was not enough. He could only hit Quide's iron-like abdomen in vain.
That silver coin was a gift from the noblewoman in Red District. Thales wanted to say that he did not lie.
'Copper coins. That lady only gave me twelve of them.
'One silver coin.'
Thales let his imagination run wild in despair.
But it all came to an end.
He had failed.
"As the price for lying …"
Quide did not care about Thales' punches and kicks. He only laughed sinisterly and used the dagger to pick up the silver coin. He swung it in the air and caught it with the other side of the dagger.
This Mindis silver coin of the kingdom was very valuable. It was rare even today. The front side of the coin was engraved with the portrait of King Mindis the Third. In the history of Constellation, and even in the history of the Eastern and Western Peninsulas, there was also an inscription engraved with ancient patterns.
A king is not respected by his bloodline, but his bloodline is glorious because of the king.
Thales could not understand this line of words at all. Its true meaning was the answer that Thales had received when he boldly asked the noblewoman.
'Hehe.' Thales thought silently. He still wanted to learn how to read, learn how to read, and learn the knowledge and wisdom of this world.
In the end.
Quide held the silver coin with the dagger again and swung it a few times. He nodded and was very satisfied with his knife skills. It seemed that he had not regressed.
Then, he pulled Thales a few steps away and threw the silver coin into the fire near the courtyard.
"As the price for lying, I will reward you with this silver coin."
Thales looked at the silver coin that was gradually turning black in the fire. He suddenly realized what Quide was going to do. He kicked even more crazily.
At that moment, Thales suddenly caught a glimpse of the cripple, Ryan, who had always been timid and cowardly, shakily crept behind Quide and lifted a stone.
'No.'
Thales thought sadly.
Ryan did not fight much.
That stone.
Too small.
Too small.
* Thud! *
Ryan did not have enough strength. The stone only hit the back of Quide's neck.
But it was enough to attract Quide's attention.
"Run! Ryan! "
"Run!"
Thales and Sinti, who was hugging his right leg in pain, shouted loudly.
However, Ryan was a cripple. His leg was broken by a bad-tempered thief when he was begging. He became a cripple after he became a child beggar who lacked medicine.
Ryan retreated in fear. He turned around and ran away with a limp.
Thales was dragged by Quide as he chased after Ryan.
Soon, Quide caught up to Ryan.
Quide was so angry that he laughed.
"Cripple!" Quide opened his mouth wide and panted like a wild boar. "Smashing just now was really fun."
* Plop! *
Ryan was kicked to the ground. His eyes were filled with fear and regret.
"I … I …"
Without waiting for the terrified Ryan to finish speaking, Quide raised the dagger in his hand and ruthlessly stabbed Ryan's right wrist!
"Ah ah ah ah …"
Ryan's screams were deafening. Even Thales trembled a little.
"Aren't you a cripple? You have a broken leg! "Quide shouted crazily." You should at least be symmetrical from top to bottom! "
Then, Quide pulled out his dagger. The smile on his face became wider.
He pushed Thales to the ground with one hand and turned around to focus on Ryan.
He viciously kneed Ryan's stomach. He raised the dagger and aimed it at Ryan's wrist that was already pierced.
It was like sawing wood.
Start.
Cut.
Thales closed his eyes in pain.
"No! No! Ah! Ah! No! That! Ahhh! "
Ryan's screams had already turned into a continuous, unrhythmic wail.
Sinti's angry roar rang in his ears.
Thales did not look at Coria who was still sobbing. He also did not look at Kellet who was silent.
'Please, let this end quickly.
Quickly end it. '
When Ryan's continuous wails turned into painful moans, Thales, who was already numb, felt his collar being grabbed by Quide again.
He felt a burning sensation.
Thales opened his eyes and saw the dagger in front of him. There was a silver coin on top of it.
It was a silver coin that was scorched black by the fire.
The burning heat assaulted him.
"Open your mouth," Quide said fiercely and coldly.
Beside him, Ryan held his bloody right hand. There was no emotion in his eyes. He just lay on his side in a daze. His body trembled from time to time.
There was only a bit of flesh left on his right palm that was connected to his wrist.
Thales retracted his gaze and looked coldly at Quide.
"Are you not willing?"
Quide shook his head and chuckled. "Then your eyes will do."
After he finished speaking, he grabbed the dagger and the silver coin that was burnt black and moved it closer to Thales' eyes.
The burnt black King Mindis was getting closer and closer to his eyes.
The inscription became clearer.
A king is not respected by his bloodline.
But his bloodline is honoured by the king.
Just as it was about to touch his eyes …
"Ah!"
Thales roared and struggled fiercely. He bit the little finger of Quide's hand that was holding the dagger!
Quide hissed in pain and leaned back. The silver coin fell from the dagger and landed on Thales' bare chest.
A burning sensation came from his chest!
"Ah! No!"
It was an intense burning sensation! It even caused excruciating pain!
Thales could not endure the burning of the silver coin. He let go of Quide's teeth and reached out to grab the silver coin on his chest.
"Bastard!" Quide looked at his bloody little finger. He was furious.
"Then I'll leave you something as a souvenir!"
He knocked the boy down with one punch, then pounced on Thales and pinned him down. He pressed the scalded silver coin against Thales' chest with his dagger.
"Hiss …" It was like the sound of a soldering iron rapidly cooling down.
However, the material used to cool it was a body of flesh and blood.
"Ah ah ah ah ah …"
Thales roared furiously. Along with the burning temperature on his chest, there was also a burning smell.
The muscles all over his body started to burn in pain again.
Quide pressed on the silver coin for a full five seconds. He stared at Thales' face that was constantly changing in pain. Only then did he feel relieved and let go of Thales.
Thales struggled free and fiercely pulled the silver coin that was stuck to his chest. He did not care about the burning temperature and tore it off along with his belt and blood.
The silver coin rolled on the ground with charred flesh and fresh blood from Thales's hand. It clanked loudly.
Thales' blood fell to the ground and quickly dried up.
He laid on the ground and tears flowed out uncontrollably.
Damn it. He was obviously an adult, wasn't he?
Why, why did he want to cry?
"What a pity. It would have been better to swallow it or press it against my eyelids."
Quide carefully picked up the silver coin and threw it into the fire. "It's okay. We'll do it again in the next round."
Thales closed his eyes tightly. The burning sensation on his chest did not seem to weaken. Instead, it became stronger and hotter.
There seemed to be a surge of power.
It was accumulating.
'Just let me, let me, let me slit Quide's throat.' He muttered in his heart.
When Thales opened his eyes again, he only stared coldly at Quide.
Quide looked at those lifeless eyes and suddenly felt a little bored.
"Hey, brat. Don't you want to play anymore?" Quide kicked Thales.
Thales only stared at him coldly.
'Come on,' he thought. 'This time, whether it's my eyelids or my nose.
You can burn it however you like.
'After all, I can't do anything after I transmigrated, can I?'
Quide looked into Thales' eyes and confirmed the coldness in them.
Quide hated this kind of coldness. When he was collecting debts, he hated this kind of debtor the most. This meant that no matter how much he tortured the other party, he would not be able to collect any money.
Boring. Quide spat and thought fiercely, 'The fun has been ruined.
I've wasted too much time. '
However, when he turned around and saw the other two child beggars in the hole in the wall, his eyes brightened again.
Under Coria's cries and Kellet's fearful gaze, Quide reached his hand into one of the holes in the wall in the sixth house. He reached for the only and youngest girl.
Thales' pupils instantly focused. Sinti looked at this scene in horror. Even Ryan put down his broken hand and raised his head.
No.
No!
That's Coria.
That's their youngest child.
That child!
The burning sensation in his chest became hotter and hotter. His muscles also felt like they were on fire.
Coria only cried loudly.
She was only four years old.
Bastard.
How dare you!
"Coria!"
"Devil! Come at me! "
"How dare you! You can't! "
Thales, Sinti, and even Ryan, who was holding his broken hand, frantically crawled towards Quide. However, they were all kicked away by Quide one by one.
"You are not allowed to hurt her!"
At this moment, a figure blocked in front of the hole in the wall.
It was Kellet, who had been scared back into the hole.
At this moment, he bravely pounced forward, wanting to protect Coria.
However, Thales only shook his head in pain.
'No, you are not enough.'
Kellet's fist was easily caught by Quide.
"Don't disturb the entertainment." Quide chuckled. Without any hesitation, without any hindrance, he slit Kellet's neck.
Kellet's eyes widened, as if he could not believe what was happening in front of him.
Thales collapsed on the ground. Ryan began to cry and laugh as if he had lost his mind. As for Sinti, he only hammered the ground fiercely.
Quide pushed Kellet, whose windpipe was broken and artery was spurting blood, to the side. He could not speak.
Coria cried more and more fiercely.
"Don't! Don't grab me! I am very obedient! I don't have typhoid! I don't have it! "
Quide grabbed Coria's hair and carried the crying girl out of the hole in the wall like a pet.
Then, he stretched out his dagger and picked up the silver coin from the fire.
"Bastard! Damn bastard! "
Thales closed his eyes and roared with all his strength.
He hated himself.
He hated this damned world.
Then.
Then, he looked at Quide helplessly.
As the girl struggled desperately and crazily, he pressed the silver coin, which had been burnt black for the second time, against Coria's face with the dagger.
The children's sobs rang in his ears.
Coria's cries were no longer coherent.
'How could this be?'
Thales lay on the ground, as if he had given up all hope. He was motionless, and his eyes were filled with gray despair.
Only his chest, where he had been scalded, felt a scorching heat.
Quide lifted the dagger and the silver coin from the girl's face, causing the girl to scream.
He panted and looked around. He suddenly felt a little bored.
'Let's settle this quickly and look for the other kids.
'Wait a minute. Is it not good for the Brotherhood to do this?'
Quide's drunkenness began to subside.
'Who cares. Since Rick and his thugs did not appear, it's not a problem.'
He closed his eyes and shook his head.
Then, he wanted to use both hands to break the girl's neck.
'Huh?'
When he raised his left hand, Quide suddenly felt strange. 'Didn't I hold the dagger and press the silver coin against the girl's face?
Dagger? '
He did not think much about it.
Quide continued to raise his left hand and touched Coria's neck.
At this moment, Thales, who was lying on the ground, seemed to have touched something with his right hand. It made him tremble slightly.
'A dagger?'
He did not think much about it.
Thales trembled as he got up and hid his hand behind his back.
Everything happened just like that.
In Sinti's eyes, Thales, who was trembling on the ground a moment ago, suddenly jumped up.
"Go to hell!"
The seven-year-old transmigrator used up the craziness of two worlds and two lives to stab and twist Quide's neck.
"So annoying!"
Quide had already seen his movements, but he did not care and just used his elbow.
Then, Thales was sent flying by the impatient Quide's elbow.
* Bang! *
Thales' head hit the side of a hole. He saw stars, but he still stubbornly raised his head and looked at his hand.
He was holding the dagger that he stole from Sunset Pub.
The dagger's edge was stained with blood.
Everything seemed to have stopped at that moment.
Quide was stunned for a moment. He lowered his head in surprise and looked at Thales, who was sent flying and coughing non-stop on the ground.
Quide's surprised gaze did not last long before he realized what had happened to him.
He suddenly let go of Coria. Then, in disbelief, he stretched out his trembling hand and touched his neck.
His hand felt warm, moist and sticky. This feeling spread down from his collarbone to his chest and abdomen.
In Quide's eyes, that damned brat, Thales, strenuously but firmly, slowly climbed up from the ground. The dagger in his hand trembled slightly along with his right hand.
However, the frequency was stable and trembling.
At that moment, Quide panicked a little.
His hands rushed to his neck in panic and pressed on the big hole that was gushing blood.
However, his trembling hands and chin seemed to be resisting his intentions. Arterial blood that was as red as paint gushed out unstoppably.
Quide clenched his teeth. He felt that his legs were a little weak, so he took a step back.
However, this step made him fall to the ground and he could no longer get up.
The burning pain in his chest continued, but Thales raised his head. Under Coria and Sinti's fearful and shocked gazes, and amidst Ryan's indiscernible laughter, he looked at Quide coldly but firmly.
He spoke word by word.
"Go to hell."
"Trash."
Quide clenched his teeth even tighter. His anger surged again.
However, it was different from before. Along with the anger, everything in front of him became dark, blurry, distant, and small. Everything was collapsing.
His eyes bulged as if they were about to pop out of their sockets. He glared at Thales.
Then, he extended his slightly trembling hand — the hand that was pierced by Jala — towards Thales' direction. He spoke in a hoarse voice.
He spoke hoarsely, "Damned brat!"
His blood-stained hand swept past Thales' ice-cold face.
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