"I killed Madison." Zach stood in front of the altar of Holy Child Church, facing the people attending the funeral below, "I killed Madison." Funeral? At Madison's funeral, Zach is now giving the farewell speech, "I killed Madison."
Zach had said the same thing three times without expression. Now, I have to say it for the fourth time, "I killed Tracy McGrady..."
"Uh, Zach..." Father Dance interrupted Zach, "If you have nothing else to say, you should let someone else..."
Zach cut off Dance's words, "I killed Madison." After saying what he wanted to say, he nodded to the audience, "This is what I want to say." He straightened his clothes and left the stage.
Father Dance pursed his lips and returned to the podium, "Does anyone else want to come up and give a speech?"
Zach had returned to his seat, and sitting next to him was Benjamin. Benjamin looked sideways at Zach for a while, raised his hand, "Let me say a few words."
"Please." Father Dance gave way.
Benjamin walked onto the stage and cleared his throat first, "Ahem." Then, "No one killed McGrady..."
I couldn't even finish my words.
Zach stood up from his seat, "Don't argue with me Benjamin. When I say I killed Madison, I killed Madison."
The guests at the funeral looked at Zach in the audience, and then at Benjamin on the stage, just watching.
Benjamin was quiet for a while, "Okay, you kill Madison. I'm done." He glanced at Father Dance and stepped down...
"Then let's start the free time. Please say goodbye to the deceased..." Father Dance did not dare to let anyone come up to give a speech. The people at the funeral home did not control the process at all, and only he, the priest, came to play a guest role. Why.
Free time and farewell begins.
The first to leave his seat was West, the new West as everyone knew him. Holding a bouquet of flowers, he walked towards the coffin in front of the altar.
When looking at the things inside the coffin, he curled his lips and looked back at Zach, "Are you serious? You brought us here to have a funeral and ended up putting a bunch of garbage in it??"
Need to explain.
This funeral was not a public funeral, but a 'private funeral' that Zach insisted on having. The reason for his persistence was that he simply said that he killed Madison.
Funeral attendees? There were no humans, or to be precise, no ordinary humans. When Zach went to personally invite people to attend Madison's funeral, he went to the only human acquaintance Zach knew of Madis, the night school teacher Maurice.
As a result, people looked at Zach for a long time and said, "Is he dead? How did he die? Was he eaten by the monster he created? Hahahahahaha..."
Whether this is a normal manifestation of the Morris teacher's caustic abilities or just his normal way of dealing with death. Zach used the Eye of Charm to remove Madison's memory from this human's mind.
As a result, no ordinary humans came to Madison's funeral. Those who came were the 'monsters' Madison had written about.
Zach looked at West, "That's not garbage, that's the only thing Madison left in this world. Please be respectful, Ms. West." Zach said expressionlessly, "There is no Maddie. Sen’s reminder, you are a useless person now.”
'Trash', indeed rubbish, is the colorful hair left behind after Madison gave up getting haircuts outside and shaved her own head every time. Zach dug it out of Madison's apartment... at least it was part of Madison's body...
West frowned, twitched the corners of his mouth, and muttered in a low voice not wanting to argue with Zach publicly, "Tsk, he just gave me a suggestion to maintain West's social identity relationship (visit Reiput High School (the principal), without his advice, I would not let West’s identity be abolished, I am a god, the immortal of the Republic!”
Despite all the mumbling, West placed the flowers in Madison's coffin. He stood in front of the coffin for a while, not knowing what he was thinking, and looked at Father Dance, "What should I say?" Hey, West just didn't know the federal funeral customs.
"Say goodbye."
West sighed in an irritable way, "Well, goodbye." He turned around to return to his seat, took two steps, then turned back to face Father Dance, "Just to confirm, goodbye in Federalese means farewell. It means, it doesn’t include the implicit meaning of meeting again next time, right?”
Yes, for New West, Federal Language is not their mother tongue after all, and it is difficult to understand it.
Father Dance was about to answer, but Zach beat him to it, "So what if we have the intention of meeting again? Doesn't your republican culture have reincarnations and births? There is no absolute farewell. Do you think this is good for Madison? Isn't it right to say goodbye? Do you hope to say goodbye to Madison forever? Do you really not want Madison to have the possibility of reincarnation or birth?"
West regrets that he shouldn't have been the first to come up! Everyone let Zach's willfulness lead to this funeral, and now it turns out that Zach wanted to take his willfulness to the extreme. It was obviously Zach himself who had to take the responsibility for Madison's sudden death. Now look at it. Come on, Zach is acting like this because he wants everyone to bear this inexplicable responsibility!
West opened his mouth, but immediately closed it. It was not worth it. He ignored Zach and walked back to his seat to sit down.
With West's first example, the church was quiet for a long time, and no one was willing to say goodbye...
You may be wondering if Brian attended the funeral? Yes, he didn't, he refused to admit the fact of Madison's death, even if everything happened in front of his eyes. When Zach asked him to attend the funeral, he said the following to Zach: "Madison is not dead. He said that he would go to purgatory as long as he was attacked by the ancestors. Purgatory is not death. I want to stay in the mill. , replace the furniture and sundries he asked me to replace, and then wait for him to come back."
Finally, a second person stood up.
It's Reutzmich. The reason why he... came forward was that he and Madison had no interaction, and they were simply not familiar with each other, so it didn't matter. Roy came to attend the funeral because Zach, who was in a bad state, came.
Roy didn't bring any flowers, but he stood in front of the coffin, and with a squirming movement, he pulled out a pendant-like thing made of something unknown from his palm. When he put down his things, Roy glanced at Father Dance, who looked slightly curious, "India's amulet, given by someone else."
'A gift from someone else'.
Gee, who would give a vampire Indian amulet? There can be no one but Corden.
Forget it, don't pay attention to these inexplicable things at Madison's funeral.
Roy returned to his seat.
The church fell silent again.
The silence didn't last long this time, as a third person stood up.
It was probably Roitsmich's identity as a Sabbat vampire that gave this third person the courage. This third person was Hamilton.
Hamilton left his seat and trembled a little as he walked, causing him to move extremely slowly.
Hamilton stood in front of the coffin and looked at the... uh, hair, flowers, and Indian amulets inside. Hamilton pulled up his sleeves, turned to look at Zach, his eyes... were not kind.
Hamilton spoke in a dull voice: "Madison, I don't know who killed you." Don't take it literally, please connect it with Zach's speech to establish a logical relationship.
Hamilton looked at Zach and was about to speak, but as soon as he opened his mouth, Hamilton suppressed him with a gloomy and unkind look! Hamilton continued to watch Zach finish what he was about to say: "But I know you killed my father! Lutresembra!"
Zach closed his open mouth and said nothing.
Hamilton finally turned around and looked back at Madison's coffin. His arms were completely exposed outside the sleeves, "Madison, you erased my father!" Gloomily, "But I want to tell you Madison, he is still here!" Hamilton's fingers crossed The skin on his own arm was broken, and the flowing blood dripped into the coffin. "See, Lesembra, there is no death!" After saying that, Hamilton turned around. The scar on his arm had healed automatically. He stared at He turned to Zach and said, "Zachary Toredo! Farewell!" and then turned into an afterimage and disappeared.
The creatures in the funeral were stunned for a moment.
It was Roy who stood up with a frown and asked, "Do you want to take care of it?"
"It's as if Hamilton knows his father well." Zach replied indifferently, "Let him go."
Roy sat back, but still looked back at where the vampires from Allen's funeral were sitting around Hamilton's seat.
Everyone has been around Zach for a long time, and they have the instinct to always pay attention to their identity and position. At this time, Royzmich, the highest-ranking Sabbat vampire in Barton except Zach, signaled the other Sabbats with his eyes. Vampire, watch your words and actions.
The fourth man stood up, it was Nenad Cappadocia. Nenad moved very steadily, left his seat, and walked directly towards the coffin. "It's better that that guy leaves, lest the current civil strife in Lesembula's power affects our business in Barton." After saying that, he looked back. He glanced at Revro and said, "Do you think so?"
The Reveros nodded.
A new power class has been established, and Nenad will inevitably become the chief of staff at Allen's funeral.
Nenad stood in front of Madison's coffin and was quiet for a while, as if he didn't know what to say. But when he spoke, Nenad said something inspiring to the people behind him, "Although you have not been here for a long time at Allen Funeral, your serious work attitude makes me full of respect. Goodbye, Madison."
After saying this official farewell without touching the real Madison at all. Nenad returned to action.
Finally, the creatures in the church began to stand up one after another.
Soon, there was even a queue in front of Madison's coffin, and everyone was saying, "I like the story you made up in "Urban Legend", it's not like a joke~"
After the procession in front of Madison's coffin disappeared, the church was quiet for a while.
Tam, a guy who regretted not going with the army to say goodbye, stood up. The reason he didn't follow the army was because when he was about to stand up and join those characters who had no special use in the stories Madison had written. At this time, Sissi was fixed in place.
The reason why Sissi did this? Who knows.
Anyway, now, Tam walked to the coffin under the gaze of everyone, "I like your performance in "The City..."
"Don't you have anything else to say?" Sissi suddenly spoke, "Madison went to purgatory, Tam, purgatory, don't you have anything to say to Madison in purgatory?"
No one knew what Sissi was doing. Including Zach.
Zach was sitting in his seat, looking sideways at Sissi, with a sullen face. On the one hand, Zach was unhappy with Sissi interrupting the funeral process (Zach himself could do it, but others couldn't!). On the other hand, it was because of the relationship between Alice and Maya. After the high school group went to the Republic, Sissi started dancing... Not only did she use the ability to split space when she sent Harrison back to Grande a few days ago. Everyone be patient
Sissi also glanced at Zach, not afraid of Zach's gloomy eyes at all, "Look at what I'm doing, do you still want to keep those boring secrets, Zach?" Sissi curled her mouth and stood up... No, yes Floating up, supported by the golden light, "Everyone is here today, so I'll tell you a secret. Because our Zachary Toredo didn't invite Madison's only true friend Brian, so We are all missing an important piece of information, that is, Madison did not die, he just went to purgatory."
A thin hum of discussion began to emerge in the church.
"What did you say?!" Tam stared at Sissi who had almost risen to the ceiling of the church.
"You heard it." Sissi didn't seem to mind repeating it, "In purgatory, Madison was killed by Bruch's ancestor, and the ancestor, the highest representative of vampires, is a complete vampire with a connection to purgatory. Ability. It is the most...ah, the last work of the Holy Lord's faith."
"Sissi." Zach had already stood up.
But she only called Sissi’s name.
Sissi was already holding the carvings on the church ceiling, and no one could get her. She continued: "Do you know the reason why Madison did not publish his manuscript in the later period?" To all the aliens below, "Because of the story of Zach The protagonist has obtained the deepest secrets of the Holy Lord's faith and vampires from me and my ancestors. Madison doesn't want these secrets to be known by other creatures. Haha, in the final analysis, Madison has shouldered the mission of believing in the Holy Lord and the angel. "
Then, Sissi looked at Tam, "For you, you probably don't care about the Holy Lord's faith. You care about purgatory, right? Then I'll tell you, your 'friend' Leo was sent to purgatory by Zach. Use the weapon 'Colt' made with Vendro's blood. So now, Madison should be reminiscing with Leo in Purgatory." Sissi smiled, "Tam, think about this carefully, and then say to Madison Farewell words~"
There was an explosion of gold, the ceiling of the church opened in the gold, and Sissi flew away.