Shrike looked at Lorenzo in confusion, wondering why this guy suddenly brought up all this.
Lorenzo looked out the window. Behind the hazy rain curtain was the city where he had lived for more than seven years.
Seven years ago, Lorenzo arrived at Old Dunling. To be honest, the journey from the Holy Gospel Papal States to Inglvig was not a good one. He had just experienced the night of the Holy Advent and buried those familiar people with his own hands. He did not feel the joy of a new life at all, but was in pain to the point of being numb.
Lorenzo remembered that he stumbled into Old Dunling, but was rejected because he had no formal identity. Like most strangers, he came to the lower town. To those vicious people in the lower town, new strangers like Lorenzo were still very valuable.
They wanted to rob Lorenzo, but at that time Lorenzo had nothing left except the box containing the nailed sword. The result was simple. Those people were killed by Lorenzo, simply and brutally, as if he was venting his anger at his incompetence.
For this reason, Lorenzo went from being a stranger to a dangerous stranger. He was noticed by the newly appointed Shrike, and then the ones that everyone knows.
Shrike provides Lorenzo with a new identity and a new life, while Lorenzo works for Shrike to maintain the balance of the downtown area.
Seven years have passed in a flash. I don’t know whether I should lament the rapid passage of time or human forgetfulness.
"At that time... why did you think of these things?"
Shrike felt something was wrong. Although he only learned about the situation at the last minute of the meeting, he thought Lorenzo had recovered. But now it seems that he is still struggling with the past.
"I just want to verify the truth of my memory from someone else's perspective." Lorenzo thought for a moment and said.
Different people have different perceptions of the same thing, just like the Night of the Holy Coming. Although Lorenzo experienced it personally, in the eyes of every survivor, everything about the Night of the Holy Coming was completely different.
Shrike recalled briefly, then recounted the past.
"When I saw you, you were in a very bad condition, covered in wounds, very serious injuries..."
If you think about it carefully, Lorenzo's weirdness was revealed at that time. That kind of injury could easily take a person's life, but Lorenzo had several fatal wounds on his body at that time, some of which had healed, some were still bleeding, and his body was covered in filth.
The witcher's strong body allowed him to reach Old Dunling alive, but unfortunately Shrike didn't notice it at the time. He just thought it was left behind by Lorenzo when he fought with those gang members.
"Your mental state was very bad at the time, and it was difficult for us to communicate with you at first."
The Shrike seemed to have hit upon the key point. Lorenzo listened attentively, lowering his eyes and not showing his emotion.
“How bad?”
Lorenzo couldn't remember any of that. He only remembered that he had made a deal with the Shrike, but he didn't know what actually happened.
He is very scared.
Lorenzo was very afraid that the deal between him and Shrike was also a figment of his own imagination, a lie full of loopholes, and he subconsciously tried to cover it up and conceal the key points.