In the afternoon, the world suddenly... broke.
The world is rapidly switching between light and darkness with incredible frequency. It was as if the sun was blinking in the sky.
When this vision began to happen, Zach was receiving a call from Repert High School, asking if the Grand Guardian would be willing to join the parent-teacher conference in the next three days to help decorate the venue for the fundraising dance.
In the rapid alternation of light and dark, Zach replied, "I'll go if I have time." Putting down the phone and walking out of the office, Roy was already waiting for Zach at the door, "Do you feel it?! What happened!"
Roy's horrified expression switched between light and dark, like a frame skip, but Zach ignored it and went straight downstairs, standing in the backyard, looking in Hank's direction.
Hank was making an Indian-style coffin for Sibella in the carpentry shed, but now he had stopped working and was looking around blankly. Winston, who was cutting wood and cutting hands next to him, was still continuing. He found that Han After Ke's movements stopped, "What's wrong? Why didn't you do it? Did I cut it wrong?"
Zach and Hank's eyes met, and Zach continued to move his gaze to the living area.
The Grande employees in the living area seemed completely unaffected by the anomalies in the world and continued their daily lives of freedom and unfreedom.
Zach raised his head, and Sibella was floating on the roof - she came back at noon, and after hearing Zach talk about Corden's funeral request, she had been alone on the roof, not knowing what she was doing.
Realizing that Zach was looking at her, Sibella lowered her head and looked over, "What are you looking at!" There was no kindness at all.
"Nothing." Zach looked away and glanced at Roy, who had been following him. Without explaining, he continued to walk out of Grande, standing in an open space and looking at the northern sky.
In the direction of Mary's Church, a large amount of black is gathering.
Soon, Sibella also noticed the situation in the Mary Church in the North, "What is the devil doing..."
Before he finished speaking, a large number of ugly dog-shaped creatures appeared in the alternation of light and dark. The hellhounds seemed to have no direction where they were going, and they shuttled aimlessly, crowding into the sight of everyone who could see them. But the changes in light and dark made it impossible for Zach to fix his eyes on a specific hellhound.
Sibera on the roof was obviously frightened by the sudden appearance of the Cerberus. Dark red spells wrapped around her body, but she did not attack. These hellhounds that suddenly appeared did not seem to have any desire to attack, but were just walking aimlessly.
Zach turned around while being surrounded by hellhounds and looked in the direction of Newton.
Different from the black color of Mary's Church, it is the gathering of golden light.
"Zach!" Sibella shouted, "What's going on!!" Wherever he looked, there were all eyes full of hellhounds. This made it unclear what life form he was using, but he was essentially a wizard. Sibella was a little flustered.
Zach didn't answer because he didn't know the answer.
The vision of the world, as it appeared, suddenly stopped. After a change of light and dark, the brightness continued, and the Cerberus, which was supposed to only appear at the moment when light and darkness intersected, also disappeared from sight after the brightness stabilized.
The daily routine of employees in the living area continued. Winston in the carpentry shed was still holding a piece of wood. "Hank? Hank? Hank?" Sibella on the roof wrinkled her face and maintained her expression. witchcraft.
Zach continued to ignore Roy and watched the black of Mary's Church in the north and the gold of Newton slowly fade away.
A black streak floated over from the west at a very fast speed. The moment it fell into Grande, human shapes gathered. It was Mike.
"The Holy Lord has disappeared." He said one word and turned into black mist again, drifting towards the Mary Church in the north.
Hank resumed making his own coffin, Roy froze next to Zach, and Sibella on the roof... put away her witchcraft, "Humph, I finally left. You gave us a scare before leaving." Finally. One sentence was said to the two vampires downstairs, "You now know why your maker is hated by witchcraft beliefs."
Roy probably didn't hear Sibella's taunt at all. Zach would not respond after hearing this, and turned around instead of going back to Grande. He was waiting at the door of the backyard for the hearse to pick up Sibella's body.
After a long while, Roy's consciousness returned to his body. He was not too stupid. When he and Zach were observing together just now, he realized that except for vampires, angels, and demons, no one noticed the changes in light and shadow in the world. "Why do you think it's happening?" Will this happen after the Holy Lord leaves?" Roy was a little soft-spoken, as if asking this question requires courage.
"I don't know, I don't care." Zach said calmly. If something finally comes to an end, let it end. Life goes on, let’s move forward.
Roy obviously didn't have such a good attitude, "You... uh, can you just pretend to care? I'm also tasked with reporting the situation of Holy Lord West to the Sabbat! The people in the west will ask What happened just now! How should I answer them?!"
Zach could understand Roy's thoughts, "You can tell them that Toledo, who arranged West's departure, doesn't know what's going on."
Well.
The corners of Roy's mouth twitched, "You know that Lute Lesembra will catch you with this attitude, and then try his best to mess with you!"
Zach just shrugged, "As if he hasn't done this before, I don't have a problem with it."
Roy shook his head, "Ignore you, instead of waiting for the West to ask, I will tell them now that you don't know!" With that, he went back to Grande.
Zach added, "Say hello to Root for me."
Roy paid no attention.
Roy let Zach go, but Sibella didn't. Finally, she floated down from the roof and stood next to Zach, "I like your attitude. Anyway, it's not a big deal if the Holy Lord disappears from this world." Something that happens repeatedly. Why Cerberus suddenly appears? This one-time phenomenon caused by the disappearance of the Holy Lord is not worth studying."
This is very objective. But Zach had already said he didn't care. So I had no intention of participating and looked at the dirt road in front of Grande.
"But some things can't be solved with a flattering attitude." Sibella continued objectively, "Our Barton can be considered a city controlled by demons. The aliens living in Barton also know that if they see a hellhound, they will Don't panic too much, the demons in Mary's Church are in charge of these creatures caught in the gap." Sibella paused, "But even though I knew there was no need to panic, I was startled just now when I saw the hellhounds in my eyes. "There is nothing to deny, because the key point is the last sentence, "Do you think the aliens in the city outside Barton are as calm as us?"
Zach glanced at Sibella, "Do you think there are aliens attacking Cerberus elsewhere?"
"Whether Cerberus is attacked or not is not my focus. What I care about is whether Cerberus fights back. Creatures dragged into hell by Cerberus, except for alien souls that adapt to the attributes of the hell world, will be punished by the laws of the world and burned to death. .”
Zach smiled, "Are you worried about the lives of aliens other than Barton?"
"What I'm worried about is you." Sibella looked at Zach, "No one will blame Cerberus for this kind of thing, they will blame you." Sibella seemed to be ready to continue after finishing her words. The one who returned to the roof has now begun to slowly rise into the air, but kept looking at Zach, "All aliens in the entire federation know that you are the vampire who sent the Holy Lord away, but you did not remind them what will happen when the Holy Lord leaves. Abnormal situation. So~ if something tragic happened somewhere in just a few minutes, they would blame you, Zachary Toredo~"
Zach shook his head, not looking at Si Bella who was in the air, and said in a slightly mocking tone, "If you are really worried about me, you shouldn't spread the news that I sent West to leave this world." This is the truth. Although strictly speaking, it was the central wizard family that was still alive in the Tower of Babel who spread the news, but Sibera could not escape his involvement.
Sibella didn't look at Zach either, "Anyway, my advice is as it should be. This is a matter of your Holy Lord's belief. From now on, I will no longer have anything to do with these things..."
Before Sibera could finish her words, she broke into pieces in mid-air.
Immediately afterwards, directly below the shattered Sibella, a mirror hit Zach's feet, but it was not damaged at all.
Zach glanced at the familiar mirror that suddenly fell from the sky, and raised his eyebrows, "'Jian'?" This mirror was the original body that Zach made for 'Jian'.
The mirror deconstructed itself, and the overturned mirror refracted light on the gravel road. The figure of Hannah, who had been using the 'Jian', crawled out awkwardly from the refracted light and shadow...
Zach looked up and looked at the broken Sibella, "Sibella?"
"I'm fine." Sibera's fragments answered, and the dark red spell connected the body fragments, slowly pulling them together.
Zach lowered his head again and stretched out his hand to pull out the embarrassed 'jian'. First, he took a look at the God of the Republic who was suddenly 'kidnapped' by Pucci beside Papa Midnight, "You look like..."
"A lost dog!" Words that Zach couldn't understand came out of Jian's lips.
But it doesn't matter, Zach could hear the tone - resentment. Zach cleared his throat and said comfortingly, "It's not that bad."
'Jian' glared at Zach, said nothing, and raised his head directly, staring at Sibella who was using witchcraft to restore her body, "What is this?!" He maintained his resentment, "Why is it that we, the republicans, are obviously transformed into The ghost! But he is using the dirty tricks of your federal wizards!"
Worthy of being the god of 'identification', 'Jian' instantly identified Si Bella's current life form.
Zach was actually a little uncomfortable, because the ghosts of the Republic were obviously soul creatures that were very in line with the federal culture, but they were not restrained by vampires. Mo, who once lived in Grande, has fully demonstrated this to Zach. Sibella actually chose such a life to start a new life, which made Zach a little... ugh, unhappy. The kind of unhappiness that can only be buried in the heart and cannot be expressed.
Based on this displeasure, Zach said nothing and explained the current situation. Zach also has a temper.
Sibella defended herself, "Are you blind? I look like you republicans." Sibella's body regrouped, and the deep outline of the Indian fully demonstrated Sibella's character as a human being. "And did I just hear you commenting on witchcraft as a skill?"
Naturally, Sibella would not have any good intentions towards Jian. What does it mean to disagree? This is.
"Isn't it!" 'Jian' did not keep looking up to Sibella. While Zach silently walked away without participating in the situation at all, he was still floating in the air with Sibella, "A despicable means of abusing the rules of the world! You are just as disgusting to the creatures of this world as your god, Papa Midnight!”
"How you want to insult Papa Midnight is your business, I don't care." As if in response to the mirror turning around Jian's body, Sibella's body was also covered in dark red spells, "But don't wear it Me, you don’t want to mess with me, little republican mirror.”
"Oh? Really?" The mirror around Flip and Jian's body instantly moved behind Sibella, reflecting Sibella's back. 'Jian''s body also disappeared and appeared in the mirror, holding a strange-shaped spike in one hand - as if it was condensed with light, and pointed it at Siberella's neck in the mirror, "Believe it or not, I will make your soul fly away." !”
"You're bluffing!" The dark red color on Sibera's body suddenly erupted, wrapping around every mirror in the sky in an instant, gradually tightening, "Say something I can understand!"
…
Zach looked up and saw that the mirror and the dark red spell were entangled and stagnant in the air. Zach only cared about one thing, "No one can see you, right? I mean humans."
No one answered. Zach waved his hand expressionlessly and ignored it—Sibella’s body arrived.
Zach didn't give the humans who were delivering the bodies a chance to look up at the sky, and motioned for them to send the bodies into the basement east of Grande.
Who knows how long the stalemate between Si Bella and Jian will last, Zach went directly into the basement and began to sort out Si Bella's body.
The funeral will be held on Thursday. What Zach has to do now is just preservation and processing, which doesn't take much time. When they came out, Sibella and Jian were still frozen there. nothing to say. Zach returned to Grandry, and Roy just finished the phone call:
"I can already imagine Root thinking about how to get you over there." Roy said.
Zach still looked like he didn't care, but Zach also cared about something. After Sibella reminded her, "Did you talk to Root directly?"
"Humph, how is that possible?" Roy answered quickly and with sarcasm, "I called his secretary Lily. You should be familiar with this woman."
Zach waved his hand, "Have there been any incidents in the West where aliens were accidentally attacked by Cerberus?"
"Oh, how could it not be possible? Lily is already compiling the incident report." Roy still said the same thing, "I said, Root won't let it go easily."
If someone keeps reminding you of something, you can do it and then accept their 'advice'. Zach didn't want to say anything more, "Luckily, I have you standing by my side to help me, right?"
"Tsk." Roy should have realized it. He was already tied to Zach, "Are you going to do something to those two guys outside?"
"No." (To be continued)