On Monday, the funeral of the low-key witcher was held as scheduled. George didn't seem to know what to do at all, coming to Grande early in the morning, "What should I do?"
"No need to do anything, just go to the church and wait." Zach was in a bad mood and waved his hand to get rid of this guy.
George's face turned ugly because he saw Matthew carrying his father's coffin and stuffing it into the hearse, "Then, then, what do I want to do when I get to the church?"
Zach glanced at this guy and curled his lips, "Will your neighbor come to the funeral?" The low-key witcher had no relatives or friends in Barton. Although he insisted on holding a farewell ceremony, the list of invited guests only included a few people. a neighbor.
"Probably..." George frowned, "No. I asked yesterday, and they said that if the funeral was not on a working day, they would definitely attend."
Why. How low-key the witchers and their son lived.
But it didn't matter. Anyway, they insisted on having the funeral at the Holy Child's Church, not for the farewell ceremony, but for the meaning of 'sacrifice' represented by the Holy Child's Church, although this meaning was interpreted wrongly by Zach.
"Then you don't have anything to do." Zach waved his hand, "Go to the church, find a seat you like, and listen to the priest's blessing." Zach walked towards the hearse, "If you want, you can come together." Xiu can't drive, remember, so Zach has to do it himself.
Why not Benjamin? That’s about to come.
In the passenger seat, Zach glanced at Matthew and said, "You don't have to follow me. It will be handed over directly to Madison after the ceremony." The end of the funeral was not a burial, but a cremation. It was carried out by the mill. "Go find Benjamin."
Matthew thanked him and got out of the car immediately, giving his seat to George who came up. After a while, he disappeared - Benjamin was missing.
Benjamin was no longer in Grande yesterday afternoon. After Walter and Tam left, Zach asked Mo and Danny, the only people in Grande, and they both said they didn't know where Benjamin was.
It is said that Benjamin despised Zach who didn't even dare to practice when he went out. Remember, the cooperation between Zach and Benjamin's wolf body was too bad. Zach still wanted to live well and was unwilling to continue practicing, so he took advantage of Kou. Detective Mori's arrival found him a new thing to do. So Mo and Danny could only remain evasive and did not ask where Benjamin was going.
Then Zach searched around, and the information he obtained was from the wizards and hunters arranged by Sibera to conduct reconnaissance and lay defensive traps in the woods on the border of Barton.
They said they saw Benjamin, because the upcoming battle was against wolves, so wizards and hunters were not worthy of traps and were also aimed at werewolves, so someone took Benjamin to understand the situation of the trap layout - although there would be three during the battle The mind readers control the field (Morelin, Oz, Morelin's son Eli), but Benjamin is here anyway, so there's nothing wrong with knowing in advance.
Then, the news stopped. The wizard, and the hunter thought that Benjamin had returned to Grande after understanding the situation, but this was obviously not the case. Benjamin did not go back at all. Zach continued to search, but could not find even a hair.
Literally speaking, when a vampire is looking for death and wants to find an Alpha during the full moon cycle, the most direct way is to find fur and follow the Alpha's route of action. But Zach didn't see a hair.
So by this morning, Zach was in a very bad mood. On the way to the church, Zach kept silent in response to George's questions.
Not exactly quiet about George. Zach asked him to come with him because he wanted this guy to give his father a final ride. In the future, the chance of George being able to share a car with his father is zero. This is a thoughtful gesture.
But George squandered this kind thoughtfulness—
"This feels, well, so strange." Zach didn't want to care. "I know this should be the last time my father and I get together." Zach didn't want to care. "But, I saw my father's physical death with my own eyes." Zach He didn't want to care. "I saw with my own eyes that his soul fell into hell after being judged by faith." Zach didn't want to care. "Honestly, I don't know what, well, the things in the coffin behind me are."
Zach, I don’t want to care.
But George seems to be very expressive in this slightly strange situation——
"I think so, um, doesn't it seem weird?" Zach didn't want to care, "You are the owner of a funeral home. You should have seen many people saying goodbye to the deceased." Zach didn't want to care, "Others What is it like?" Zach didn't want to care, "Well, no. What are ordinary people like?"
"George." Zach felt the need to tell George that now was not a good time to discuss this kind of human ethics. Zach was not in the mood, "I'm not in the mood right now..."
"I've actually been thinking about something these past few days." George probably just wanted to speak and didn't care about Zach's mood at all, so it wasn't even an interruption, he just continued, "If my father hadn't asked for cremation, He didn't want to leave any residue in this world. According to the traditional funeral, where should he be buried? It should also be in the North Garden, which symbolizes sin." His voice became softer, "Being sentenced to hell by the trial of faith, so The sin must be right, then the sinner will be buried in Beiyuan."
George used 'should'.
Zach twitched his lips and glanced towards the roadside. This road from Grand to the west to the Church of the Holy Child will pass through Grand's cemetery. If you look south in the direction of George's line of sight, you can just see the north garden of the cemetery.
On Monday morning, there were two groups of people sweeping the grave in the north garden of the Grand Cemetery.
Well, sweeping graves doesn’t count. It should be about the living thinking about their lives in front of the graves of the deceased. No, thinking about life doesn’t count. At most, it’s lamenting life. Well, it’s not right to lament life, it’s not comprehensive, because only one person may be lamenting life—the woman in front of Pierce’s tomb, Pierce’s wife.
Pierce was buried in North Park, remember. And his wife was standing quietly in front of the tomb holding a bouquet of flowers. She didn't know what she was thinking. She looked quite miserable from a distance.
It is desolate as it should be, and this woman suffered a great blow at the funeral. Pierce's funeral was an extremely deserted funeral, so it still leaves an impression. No one except relatives came to say goodbye to the man who had gone from police chief to homeless man to criminal in a matter of days. In the end, even the funeral process ended early, ending sadly.
After that, the wife came to Beiyuan often, and she didn't know how long such visits would last. Oh, Zack doesn't have a problem with that, it's the security guards at the cemetery who do.
There are people on this side in the North Park, and there are people on the other side, in the other direction. You should be able to guess that, after all, there are only two named guys buried in Grande's North Park, right
Don't think about Mr. Green's son, Lip the Dream Demon. This kind of tomb will not exist in any written records of Grande. It is best for everyone to forget it as soon as possible. I'm talking about Briz, the guy who came to North Park alone to bury his ashes after being cremated at the mill.
The people who came to visit the grave were Bray who asked Zach to bury the ashes on the grounds that "sinners should not be cremated and should be buried in the North Park. After death, everyone should know that he is carrying the sin". you.
Looking from a distance, Briar was humming in front of his brother's grave, proving that he was swaying intoxicatedly with his eyes closed.
George obviously saw these two women with completely opposite styles and frowned, "I'm thinking, which one will it be? Like that woman (Pierce's wife), there will be someone who really feels for the Witcher in his life. Sad, or, well..." George looked in the direction of Briar, "Just like that woman, there will be people with the mood of 'this is how it should be', smiling in front of the witcher's tomb."
If a person insists on being sentimental about life, nothing can stop him. Zach pressed harder on the accelerator. Well, our vampire still doesn't want to pay attention. To Constantine, Zach and the neighbor's 'obligation' to tell the truth, to George? Come on, Zach didn't even know this guy a few days ago. Wrong, no one knew this guy.
"I understand." He said it and couldn't stop it. George looked at the coffin behind him with a sad expression, "My father didn't want to give other people such a choice, so he decided not to leave anything in this world for others to judge. He also didn't want me to live a life like his, so There is a completely different one prepared for me..."
"We're here." Zach interrupted, stopping in front of the Church of the Holy Child and being greeted by Father Constantine, "It's time for you to get out of the car."
"Oh." George responded, "That father... the coffin..." As soon as the sentiment was finished, the title also changed, "To..."
"People go from the front door, and the dead go from the back." Zach responded simply, sitting in the car and nodding towards Constantine who was walking over. This was also a new situation at this funeral. Constantine had never greeted anyone before. It wasn't something Zach needed to worry about anymore. After Constantine performed the blessing ceremony on George and led him into the church, Zach started again and drove towards the back of the church.
Leon was already waiting behind. It seemed that he was Madison, the post-ceremony cremator sent by the mill. At this time, he was chatting with Mike about some topic.
However, Zach very much suspected that this was Madison's arrangement-taking a retired demon hunter for cremation and sending a demon. You can understand the irony of doing this. Maddison is not a person of this kind of dark humor. It should be Leon himself who insisted on coming.
It was considered convenient. Zach didn't even want to get out of the car and waved to Leon, "You." He pointed at the back of the hearse. It's an order.
Leon was obedient and carried the coffin to the church, but Mike came to the window and said, "Aren't you going to stay and conduct the funeral?"
Zach had already restarted the car. "There is nothing to host. George said that no guests will attend. The only process of this ceremony is Constantine's prayer."
"Oh." Mike nodded, hesitating a little, but still asked, "How are you preparing?"
Zach curled his lips and looked at Mike with a sincere expression of concern, "Absolutely, but, Ben..."
Look at Mike's face.
Zach shook his head, forget it, the demons can't get involved this time anyway, so it's better not to get involved with them, "It's okay, I'll leave this to you, I'm going back to Grande."
"Is there any trouble? Can I help?" Mike was really concerned.
To be honest, Zach didn't understand what he had done right to Mike. This guy loved Grande deeply. He did not answer directly, but smiled and waved his hand, "Grand is expanding the employee living area. The construction team will come over today. I want to go back and take a look." What Zach is best at is transfer, "George is with you and the priest. I There’s nothing to worry about, Leon…”
"I will watch him and won't let him say anything strange to George!" Mike was determined.
Zach smiled and nodded, "Well, goodbye." He said goodbye.
Driving with only Zach in the car, he thought he would be in a better mood on the return trip, but he was wrong.
Moments after leaving Holy Child Church, he had to pull over because Pierce's wife waved from the North Park boundary fence near the road, "Mr. Grande!"
"Is something wrong?" Considering the woman's fragile mental state, Zach got out of the car.
"Mr. Grande, is there a new funeral in the church?" The woman looked at the hearse parked on the roadside.
Zach had no reason or need to lie, so he nodded.
"I didn't see the convoy of mourners." The woman looked a little strange, "I didn't see any guests coming to the funeral either."
Zach didn't know what the other party wanted to say, so he pursed his lips and said, "This is a private ceremony, there are no guests."
"Oh, really?" The woman's mood was not right, "Where will they be buried then?" She glanced at the North Park, "I didn't see any preparations for a cemetery?"
Zach frowned, and he began to understand what Pierce's wife was thinking, pitiful and sad thoughts - looking for similar people, looking for comfort. If you can understand it, understand it. If you can't, just ignore it. It's not a good idea anyway.
"You shouldn't pry, Ms. Pierce. I've told you that this is a private funeral." Zach answered formally.
"I, I..." The woman lowered her head and shook her head sadly after a moment, "I'm sorry, Mr. Grande." She backed away silently.
Zach pursed his lips and looked in Briar's direction. It was a completely different scene. Brielle waved her hand in Zach's direction and actually smiled. This was the first time Zach saw this neurotic woman smile, and he felt a little uncomfortable, so he responded by saying hello. Then prepare to turn back to the hearse and continue the return journey.
This didn't interrupt it either.
Brielle walked over slowly and said, "Take me to the intersection and the station." He ordered in a commanding tone.
Based on what he learned the day before yesterday, when this woman quarreled with Sires and ran away from home, causing James to waste time outside, Zach frowned and said with vigilance, "Didn't you run away from home?"
"No." Brielle shook his head, "I went to see a friend, Siris knows."
"You have friends, except Yue Hua Bai Ying." As soon as he said it, Zach regretted it. It was so offensive.
"New friends." Brielle replied without any emotion. "Friends who I feel like they'll get along as soon as they first met." Brielle raised her finger and pointed at her head without knowing what she was thinking. Was she saying that her new friend was also a psychopath? ? Uh, forget it, don't interpret it, "She looks good, no, it's just from the newspaper (paper) before..."
Zach interrupted. No matter how much those of us who know it all want to remind Zach, listen to Brielle. But our vampire really doesn't want to care about what kind of friends this 'magical' woman Brielle has made. "Get in the car, I'll take you to the station." Then, he had to add -
"Don't climb over my fence in front of me, the owner of this cemetery. Please come out of the exit, Briar."
Zach finally knew why the security guard in the tomb area disliked Briar so much. (.)