01.
This is the first snow of the year and the last snow left in the winter.
The snow is not heavy, but because it has been falling for too long, the outside is already completely white.
The order of the caravan traveling in the heavy snow looked quite chaotic at this time, the carriages and horses were noisy, the porters loaded the goods onto the vehicles, and the coachman checked the reins for the last time to see if they were secure. Fine snow fell in the air, falling on their fur coats, and falling on the hair of the horses, which snorted impatiently.
Monroe, Hill, and Captain Rhodes walked on the streets of Josh Kenny, Hill walked in the front, he looked at the snow in the human world, looked at the crumbling wooden buildings of Josh Kenny, looked at the Their dilapidated doors and almost abandoned lanterns at the door. When he passed by the horse, he poked it in the stomach. As a result, the horse was frightened on the spot and almost overturned the cart. Hill didn't expect this to happen. He hurriedly stepped forward, pulled the rein to control the horse, and secretly used The coercion made the horse dare not move.
The coachman stepped forward and thanked Hill repeatedly. Hill laughed and said that it was all right. It was just a matter of raising a finger. The coachman even took out the copper coins. After counting five copper coins, Hill walked away with a smile, not ashamed. Then he ostentatiously showed the copper coins in front of Monroe and said, "Look, this is the deceit of the devil!" After speaking, without waiting for Monroe's response, he walked forward with a smile.
Captain Rhodes looked at Hill's back, at this man who theoretically handles thousands of gold coins every day. If it was in the past, he would think what the other party was doing, but now after playing the role of Captain Jack, he also feels a little bit about Hill's behavior. I didn't expect people with similar personalities to exist in this world.
"I thought the demons didn't have any feelings." Captain Rhodes said.
"Generally not," Monroe replied, "but we have desires."
"So..." Captain Rhodes nodded, "I feel that the boundary between desire and emotion is often not clear."
"I don't deny it," Monroe said, "but we don't take it seriously. We want it, we take it; we don't want it, we let it go. We don't care about why we want it, but the fact that we want it."
"But it will be empty after a long time." Captain Rhodes said. In fact, some pirates are also like this.
"Other demons may become empty after a long time, but I won't." Monroe said.
"Because you were transformed by humans?" Captain Rhodes asked.
"None of that," Monroe said. "The reason I don't feel empty is—"
The snow suddenly fell heavily, and there were many. The wind also picked up, blowing snowflakes and rushing towards him, and the horse neighed through the air.
Captain Rhodes closed his eyes and used his arms to block the wind and snow. Amidst the wind, he heard Monroe's words:
"—My Lord is eternal."
The wind stopped and the snow fell misty.
Captain Rhodes lowered his arms and saw Hill turning around and looking at them with a smile not far ahead: "The snow scene is very good today, let's go outside the city to enjoy the snow, and bring a magic camera by the way, so we can take a few photos. "
"Okay." Monroe nodded.
Captain Rhodes looked at Monroe, and found that his eyes were as quiet as falling snowflakes at this time, without the slightest hostility of being a dark pope.
"Captain Rhodes, what about you?" Hill asked.
"Yes." Rhodes replied.
02.
Every time such a major event is completed, Hill has to take a short break.
They took a lot of photos in the snow that day, Hill had a whim, let Captain Rhodes dress up as Captain Jack, Monroe cosplayed the death knight in vain, and Hill himself dressed up as he did when he was filming the domineering devil , Then he came with such a group photo. The first photo is more serious, each posing handsome poses, the second photo is the scissorhands squeezed together in front of the camera, all three of them have relaxed smiles on their faces, which makes people feel uncomfortable after seeing them The consciously infected kind.
"Okay." Hill put away the photo contentedly: "This can be published in the next issue of the magazine, Captain Rhodes, don't you mind?"
"I don't mind." Rhodes shook his head, "I have already benefited enough from this."
"Does enough benefit include Leona?" Hill joked, he could see that the atmosphere between Captain Rhodes and Leona was a bit strange.
"Ah." Rhode was silent for a few seconds, "I see her as a teacher."
"Can't you?" Hill asked.
"No." Rhodes said, "I admit that I am a little tempted... But I promised, and I swore to Catherine's body, I only love her in my life."
The amount of information contained in this sentence is very huge, and Hill nodded without asking. But he seemed to understand why Olivia cried during the finale, probably because Rhodes told her about his past.
"Oh. I'm sorry," Hill rubbed his nose, "I... I'm a bit of a bastard, I like to talk nonsense, so don't take it to heart."
"I didn't take it to heart." Captain Rhodes shook his head, "Actually, I've always been very curious, and I have a very presumptuous question to ask."
"Think about it for yourself. Don't ask if it's too presumptuous. Be careful that I'm going crazy. If you're generally presumptuous, you can ask." Hill said.
Monroe next to him wanted to laugh a little, and he always felt very relaxed with Hill. Hill was the most godless or superior person he had ever met—he was like that most of the time, but the tranquility he felt around him was something no bishop, no ceremony, no prayer could give.
Captain Rhodes thought for a while and said, "Then I will ask—I often feel that you are very kind, and I don't think I feel wrong."
"What? Didn't you see that I just cheated a coachman of five copper coins? I'm not kind!" Hill raised his voice, "You're slandering a demon! It's slander!" he said As I talked, I felt that this scene was somewhat similar to Kong Yiji.
Captain Rhodes was taken aback by such a cute Hill, he looked helplessly (…) at Monroe.
Monroe spread his hands, "As you can see, my lord has entered the stage of messing around."
"It's too much, saying 'my lord' verbally, but doing such a disrespectful thing..." Hill was stunned, he bent down and picked up a ball of snow, and then threw it directly at Monroe: "Take a trick from me!" ! This is divine punishment!"
Monroe avoided God's punishment, and then grabbed a handful of snow: "I still look forward to God's gift, God's punishment is fine." Then he sprinkled the snow on Hill.
"You greedy believer." Hill directly killed the snowflakes, "Eat me again!"
"Greed is the nature of the demons. You led me on this path, so please be responsible to the end." Monroe also hit Hill, and his snowball accidentally injured Captain Rhodes. Captain Rhodes pondered for a second before joining the battlefield.
"Forget it, I'll forgive you for the time being, because you are my only believer." Hill said, "But the death penalty is inevitable! Rhodes, attack him together! I'll give you ten boxes of canned food!"
Seeing that Qian's eyes opened (...), Rhodes immediately stood by Hill's side.
"Captain Rhodes, he is in charge of too many things. He said he doesn't care about the sea. I'm in charge of the human world. You should stand by my side," Monroe said.
Captain Rhodes felt very reasonable when he heard it, so he snowballed Hill.
"Wow, wow, I'm so angry! You traitor! Look at my ninjutsu!" Hill became furious.
"... I think using magic is cheating." Rhode looked at the huge snowball above his head that almost covered the sky and swallowed, and said with a swallow.
"You've been too noisy."
Monroe took a step forward and raised his arms horizontally. The black mist surrounded it and then instantly condensed into a wriggling black snake. The black snake opened its mouth, and a knight sword spit out from it. The sword looked tattered, but it exuded a terrifying and destructive aura. When he raised the sword, Rhodes felt the surging tide, rising and falling, exhaling and breathing, with the breath of cold bones. The moment he swung his sword, Rhodes seemed to see the sun rising and the moon setting, and the stars falling. It was not darkness or light, but a vast emptiness—named, Death Knight.
"It's always like this, it will make me a little distressed. My lord." He said lightly.
The black half-moon-shaped halo rushed towards the meteorite-like snowball, dragging a flame-like afterimage behind it.
The snowball disintegrated inch by inch, turning into heavy snow that fell from the sky.
Hill closed his eyes, looked up, and opened his arms.
He had a smile on his face: "I want to torment you more, to see how distressed you are... can't you?"
"I will try my best to accept it." Monroe gripped the hilt of the sword vigorously, and the whole sword disappeared into black mist.
Rhodes stood dumbfounded in the snow, thinking that the journey to become stronger is really long and desperate.
It was clearly just a game, but it turned out to be such a big battle.
"That's great, Monroe, it's snowing again." Hill closed his eyes, enjoying the feeling of snowflakes falling on his body.
"Um."
After several seconds, Hill opened his eyes and said, "Rod."
"En." Rhodes replied.
"In this world, kindness is the power of the strong." Hill waved his hand to evoke a gust of wind that washed away the snow that followed, "I am not a good person, but I am willing to be kind occasionally."
Rhodes nodded thoughtfully. Is that what it meant
"Okay, I've been out for a long time, let's go to the restaurant to have a big meal!" Hill said with a smile, without giving him more time to think.
03.
Devil's Restaurant.
Hill looked at the letter in his hand, and the relaxed expression just now disappeared.
There he sat, his clothes puffed out, his cloak fluttering, and the unchecked chill released from him.
The corners of his mouth drooped slightly, and after a while, he curled up.
"Looks like the break is over."
Then he handed the letter in his hand to Monroe. After Monroe read it, a wisp of black mist appeared on his fingertips, and the letter decayed instantly, turning into dust and flowing down from his fingertips.
He looked at Hill: "Hill."
"It's time to use some chess pieces." Hill narrowed his eyes and said slowly.
At this moment, he doesn't have half of the wandering appearance just now.
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