Noon is a good time to enjoy the sunshine pressing on the top of your head. Vertex 23S. Updated the fastest. On the other hand, if someone has too much money and nowhere to spend it, and builds an attic, then the addition will become a bulging pustule on the flat building, protruding and scattering the vertical pressure. Sunlight. Only a thick black shadow is cast under the top edge of himself.
On the top floor of Kozier's store on Lister Street, from the exit of the rooftop, Oz Kozier walked out holding a formal wooden mannequin, crossing the white sunlight and walking towards the dark shadow under the pustule.
"Really? So direct?" Someone in the shadow of the exit behind Oz said, "Haha, you are going to walk into the sun in front of me?"
"Is it false?" Oz turned around and glanced at the shadow huddled at his feet. "Be careful what you think." He nodded his head sideways and nodded at his temple, "I read it."
The man in the shadow of the exit took a step forward. It's just a simple optical principle. People in the light cannot see people in the shadow. So, we can’t see the speaker’s face, but the voice, haha, we’d better get used to this voice, this Barton New Toledo voice, “Oh~ I’m sorry, I thought too ‘loud’~ Take it as Just a reminder, don’t sleep too soundly at night~”
"Hmph." With a chuckle, Oz turned around and said, "Goodbye, Eli Toredo, your makeup style is not suitable for appearing here. It will scare away my guests."
"Are you asking me to leave? Kozier."
"Haha, did I say please? This is a warning, a little self-conscious, Goth guy." Oz smiled and waved his hands as he walked away, "Oh, by the way, don't go through any doors when you leave, find a ventilation pipe Or go through the sewers. If you’re lucky, you might even run into Barton’s Novel~”
"Hehehe..." It's like childish fighting with elementary school students. If you laugh at me, I will laugh back. It has no meaning at all. "Then wish me luck~"
The exit door was closed.
"You shouldn't provoke him. If he comes at night and uses you as food, no one here can stop him." Zagel, who was being held in his arms, spoke.
"He can try it." Oz was very disapproving and smiled, "I still want to try the things I communicated with Morelin recently. It would be best if he comes."
Zager stopped expressing his opinion. When Oz opened the door, he asked, "Have you read Hamilton's thoughts? What are they going to do?"
"Nothing has been determined yet. They need to contact the West first and wait for Lesembula over there to initiate a decision-making meeting. We will just wait for the call."
"I hope that soon, the 'grand' plan he wants to launch in Barton will cause the Barton aliens to rebel. If it is not the Sabbat that makes the final choice, but the Barton aliens do it for the Sabbat, Zach's plan will be There’s no point anymore.”
Oz pursed his lips and pushed open the door. The 'grand' plan is what Eli Toledo has been talking about since his sudden arrival last night. There was no point in analyzing it now, so Oz walked towards the fourth hatch. It was time for Zach to come out and take a breath of fresh air.
White mist poured out the moment the hatch was opened, and Zach leaned in the white mist with a withered face. Zach was sleeping, vampire style. The only thing you can do when you are extremely bored.
Oz's eyes twitched twice, and he raised his hand to rub Zach's face, "Zach? Wake up."
The stiff skin has rebounded a little, but it will take some time before Zach wakes up. Oz pursed his lips and looked at it for a while, until the white mist completely dissipated, and raised his eyebrows.
After sighing, Oz shook his head and looked at Zagel, "You win again."
In Zach's crooked cabin, curled up at Zach's feet, was a body, Zach's body. Lesembra Collectible Part, Skin (Shapeshifter), corpse.
While Zach was in this cabin, he killed Zagar's skin.
"Well" Zagel seemed unsure of his 'win'.
Oh, about this win or lose. Don’t forget it so quickly, this is Zagar as Oz’s toy, the game between these two
As for how to dissuade Zach from resurrecting Zagar, Cozier's method suggested that Zach start looking at the most disgusting part (the heart), and let Zach realize how disgusting the parts of resurrecting Zagar are. People can't look straight at it, and the same goes for Zagar assembled from these parts. Use this to dispel Zach's idea.
Zagel's method is to start directly from the skin that has the same appearance as Zach.
"I don't think I won. This doesn't seem to be the result I expected." Zagel's body was restricted and expressionless, but his tone said everything, "Well... I don't know, I didn't think he would kill the skinchanger. .”
"It doesn't matter." Oz already bent down and started to drag out the body, "The parts are missing the most 'important' part..." The importance of skin... "You win." He curled his lips while dragging it back, "Strange , why didn’t this guy change back to his original form?”
"The wound is on the top of the head." Zagel reminded.
Oz pulled 'Zach's' hair and searched for it. Sure enough, he found the small opening hidden in the hair. He tilted his head and said, "How do you know?"
"If I look at my face and I want to kill a guy with my own face, I'm going to do it." Uh, again, it's the tangled logic that I am Zach and Zach is me, "I have a good face. , cannot be destroyed.”
"Uh, narcissism, no one has it." Oz waved his hand and stopped pursuing it. "Still, it's strange why this guy didn't change back to his original shape. He is the only guy who doesn't have any additional devices and is just preserved. "Additional devices, the things behind the first three hatches, remember.
"Because" there was an interfering voice, Zach was rubbing his face, "I used the 'Colt'." While rubbing it, he stepped out and moved his body stiffly, "Now, what time."
"Monday at noon," Zagel answered.
"Well, good afternoon." When had Zach ever been rude, "I heard it, so you are all opposed to resurrecting Zagar?" His fingers were still stiff, so he started to dig into his pockets and fished for a long time. He found a metal wine bottle in his hand. He stiffly held half of his face and handed it to Oz, "Help me."
Oz took it, helped Zach twist it away, and handed it back without emotion, "Are you surprised? Who would expect someone to suddenly come and say, 'Let me bring your toy back to life.'"
Zach raised his head, emptied the red liquid in the wine bottle, and his recovery speed began to accelerate. "Now you are just 'Mr. Ye who saw the dragon.'" Zach's slightly more nimble fingers were shaking beside his head. , "Two sets of memories are beginning to confuse you Oz. Your toy has always been alive. I, Zagel, have always been in front of you."
Oz was stunned for a moment, as if he was persuaded... "No." He shook his head, "Don't lead me." He looked at Zach speechlessly, "I never wanted to resurrect Zagar, I like our current state. "
"Really, that's why you hid Zagar's existence from me at the beginning." Zach raised his eyebrows with a slightly surprised expression. He didn't know if his stiff face didn't convey the correct emotion, "You like to have someone with you?" A living me in Grande, and then an immobile me playing next to you?"
The atmosphere was weird for a moment.
"Uh, please don't say, uh, weird." Oz looked back at the alien corpse in the basement, "I told you, the parts that failed to be assembled were finally abandoned by Lesembra and ended up with me. Zag You stay with me, I have my reasons. You have said twice that you don’t want to hear it anymore." He waved his hand to end this embarrassing question, "This." Pointed to the corpse he was looking at, " Why?"
Zach raised his feet, letting the last trace of white mist dissipate in the air, "This thing is just an anesthetic, right? It makes the components sleep, right?"
Oz nodded, suddenly raised his eyebrows, and looked at Zach, "You woke him up!"
"Very unfortunate, yes."
"Very unfortunate?"
"Let me just say this..." I don't know if it was because he was still stiff or something else, Zach's cheeks were twitching, "Lesenbra is not the only one who is obsessed with 'me'." He started walking and moving his body. . It's not comfortable to stay in a small space for a long time.
Oz glanced at Zagel, with a strange expression on his face. He pursed his lips and did not continue to ask, trying to divert the topic, "Is this the ability of 'Colt', to fix the form of death..."
"Ele Torrido lived under your command for a while when he was at the Sabbat." Zach suddenly spoke, shaking his arms.
Because there was no questioning tone at the end, Oz didn't know how to respond. Glancing at Zach, he was disappointed to find that he had been shielded from the red.
"The official reason seems to be to learn what kind of opponents he will face, right?" There was a tone, but Zach didn't finish the question, "So you asked Eli to do more chores for you and maintain The condition of the parts, right?”
"Yes." Since it's not clear, just ask directly, "What do you want to ask?"
"Do you know what Eli Toledo thinks about me?"
"Well, curious and vigilant." Oz replied, "You are his destined enemy, so..."
"It's not such a superficial thing." Zach interrupted, "He." Pointing to the corpse with his own appearance on the ground, "Please me, end his life that will not end well..." It was actually the other party who asked, "And , he gave me a reminder.”
Before Oz could speak, Zagel spoke, "Oh! Why didn't I think of that~ Please, just please~ Zach, please, end my life that will not end well."
Zach squinted at Zagel and ignored it. Just in time, he stopped Oz's attempt to speak and continued, "He told me two things. One was about Eli Torrido's opinion of this face. Tsk. ." Skip, "There is one more thing, that is you, the reason why you came to Barton with complete parts."
Oz's face began to look a little embarrassed, but he just mocked the reality, "He is the one with the best treatment among the five components, except Zagar. Sure enough, no one is reliable." Then he nodded in recognition, "Of course it is for You. Before I came to Barton and became curious about Barton, I had to prepare for the day when your role in the Sabbat disappears and let you disappear into this world. Zagel can be the one who will always predict you perfectly. The action guy, and these parts are the aftermath of your exit from this world.”
Zach said nothing.
Oz nodded himself, "It's easy to understand. If one day, the Sabbat needs you to disappear, these things are the explanations prepared by the Sabbat for the Barton aliens and humans. But after coming to Barton, I changed my mind. , the existence of these things is a bit embarrassing, and I can't pack them up and send them back to the Sabbat, otherwise it will only cause trouble, so I can only stay here. I think in order to avoid misunderstandings, it is best not to let you know." A little helpless, "But you still found out after all."
Zach stopped shaking his body and had fully recovered, "Okay, I can understand. This matter is over. My focus is not on this, but on Eli Toredo."
"I don't know what to say to you. Eli Torredo is very guarded against us. Even Lesembra doesn't have his secrets. And hey, it's easy to block me. I don't even know how he did it. Any perception has no effect on him, so, sorry, I can only occasionally read his superficial thoughts when he is relaxed, and the rest, I don’t know.”
Zach frowned, "Then, how much does the Sabbat know about the vampires you brought to the Federation? It's not their habits after coming to the Federation, but their history. Especially Eli Toledo..." Zach seemed a little bit Impatiently, "What's his real name?"
Oz frowned, and it was Zagel who answered, "We don't know that the Sabbat brought the most powerful vampires from the other side of the ocean just for the reason of war. They have many names on the original continent.' Assassins', 'vampires'... There is even a saying that they are scavengers of the vampire bloodline. Because of their behavioral style, they kill vampires, any vampire, to strengthen themselves. They seem to be vampires who exist to kill vampires. You are very suitable for hunting down the escaped Toledo."
Zach shook his head slightly. He heard the last thing from John. Remember, what John said when he satirized the Holy Lord who created such an unreasonable species as vampires, "Who is Eli? Is he a clan member?" "The questions continued.
"He is the strongest one." Oz continued, "Lesembra can't confirm the blood rank of any of them, just like Van Zhuo, who is the noblest first-generation bloodline in the Secret Alliance. , each one of them seems to be of low-class blood, so low that people don’t want to care. The strange thing is that they are not suppressed by blood at all, and age and generation have no impact on them... "
Before he finished speaking, there was no point in repeating these things that Zach had known for a long time. "Then I will do a good deed. I will share the secret of Eli Toledo's bloodline." He glanced at Oz and understood. Turn on the shield, "Make sure Lesembra fully realizes what kind of thing he has brought to the Federation."
Oh, the secret of the Sabbat's Toledo bloodline that Zach obtained from Georgina is something that Zach often shows off in front of his vampire 'friends'. Wouldn't you think that Zach kindly shared it with the Sabbat before? . Now, it's Zach's moment of kindness.
As Oz's face continues to change, the special eating habits of Sabbat Toledo, the reason why he can kill vampires regardless of bloodline suppression, the reason for creating descendants without any bottom line... The blood control practice of hunger and gluttony, is not to be immune to bloodline Suppressed but unable to feel the lineage... begins to be read.
After thinking about the secrets of Sabbat Toledo, Zach blocked Oz again and looked at Zagar, "Do you still remember that I am not a vampire yet? I have someone, brother? Neighbor? Or maybe I'm just pitiful My passers-by, helped me and kept me alive until the day I became Toledo.”
"I remember." Zagel confirmed with a smile, "I still remember that after becoming Toledo, I sent him prey at night, but he thought it was stolen from the nobles." But, "Strange, I don’t remember who he was or what he looked like.”
"Of course, because this is the deal between me and the Toledo clan, isn't it? I want my father (the Toledo clan ancestor), who is a noble, not to pursue the escaped slaves (that story that has been mentioned many times) Here, the guy was scared away by Zack after he admitted that he was a vampire and a monster for the first time), he, let this kind man live, I, we have to give up everything human and seriously be a Toledo... "The story... we know.
Zach has emphasized many times that he used to be a clumsy and inexpressive person, and then he became the person we are familiar with now, but we all took it as a joke, right? "It's not that we don't remember, it's that we don't think about it." Get up, his memory was buried by our 'father'."
"What do you want to say?" Zagel asked uncertainly.
"It's nothing." Zach stood in the sun and added without knowing what he meant, "I want the body of the shapechanger. Pack it up for me and put it away..."
Oz, "What the hell did he say to you?"
Zach didn't answer the question, being a vampire enjoying the midday sun.
"Oh, by the way, my idea of resurrecting Zagar has not changed. Get rid of all the other parts. I don't need these things. Give me the blood as well. My former brother should be respected as the Messenger of Toledo , I will handle it personally." He looked back at Zagel, "When I say resurrect you, I mean resurrect you, not an exhibit that can be placed in the Lesembra collection cabinet and only used for viewing. You It will really come alive.”
Zagar was quiet for a while and said to Oz, "We all lost, but don't worry, I have a backup plan."
What's the backup plan? In Grande, he took away Benjamin who was unable to swallow the food provided by the sanatorium and came back from Mokawi. "Danny found these this morning! Come and take a look, I don't understand!"
"It's a dead deer," Benjamin answered. "I'm hungry, Louise."
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