Operation Red Book

"Tsk..."

Joshua smacked his lips unconsciously. He wanted to touch his forehead, but he couldn't lift his hands no matter what.

He took two deep breaths, frowned, and used a lot of effort to open his heavy eyelids.

"what……"

It was already bright in the sky, and what came into view was the blue sky without a single cloud.

Although there is no sun, the light that penetrates the darkness is still dazzling.

Joshua felt as if his eyes were on fire. He groaned silently and blinked his eyelids fiercely.

The pain didn't last long. After the soreness and swelling completely replaced the pain, Joshua breathed a sigh of relief.

"Where is this... ahem..."

His voice was as hoarse as if he had eaten a whole toad. Joshua moved his Adam's apple, unwilling to say another word.

“We’re still at the river.”

A gentle and refreshing voice was heard, followed by a head of glittering light golden hair.

"Would you like some water? I have some here..."

Moriarty smiled softly and turned away from Joshua's sight.

When he appeared again, he had a green banana leaf in his hand.

The warm water flowed into Joshua's throat like a spring on a rock. He breathed in the air slowly, enjoying the coolness and refreshing feeling in his throat.

"Mr. Moriarty..."

"Alright, alright, don't say anything for now. Yesterday's fight was too intense and you've sustained a lot of injuries... I'll go bandage Jacob. You lie down first and don't move around."

Moriarty stopped Joshua from speaking and quickly turned away from his sight.

But that was Joshua, the Joshua who would not keep to himself, the Joshua who would not obey…

He tried to clench his palms, but as soon as he moved the index finger of his right hand, his entire arm including all ten fingers felt painful as if he had been electrocuted.

"what……"

Joshua tried a few more times, but the final result was still ended with a helpless sigh.

After giving up the idea of ​​controlling his arms, he tried to turn his neck.

"Ah..."

Starting from the neck, the muscles all over the body were protesting silently against Joshua.

It would be better to stab him with a knife... Joshua cried out in his heart.

"I told you not to move around."

Moriarty appeared in Joshua's sight again. He sighed helplessly and placed his broken glasses in Joshua's palm.

After being reminded by this action, Joshua realized that Moriarty's figure was blurry.

"This is still the river in the forest, just on the opposite bank."

Moriarty seemed to have the ability to see through others. Joshua just had to twist his mouth and Moriarty would give a definite answer.

"At that time, Jacob was praying for the water in the river. After his devout prayers, all the ordinary water would become pure holy water."

"We planned to deliver a fatal blow, so we had to soak my sword in holy water...7 times, Jacob was a little rusty, and I didn't know what he had been doing in the church all day."

Moriarty explained to Joshua, who looked to his left to see Jacob standing by the creek, pointing at the water with his bandaged arm.

At this time, Thomas whimpered beside Joshua and gradually woke up.

"Thomas transformed himself into flowing water, quietly wrapping around the bat when it was in a stalemate with you, and finally, when the time was right, he retracted with all his strength, like a chain that could not move."

"And then it went like this..."

Moriarty took out a handful of silver-white iron rods from somewhere, crossed his hands, and held the iron rods tightly in his palms.

"Stab its heart with a sword."

The iron pillar flashed a silver light in the air, and as Moriarty moved, it pierced Joshua's leg fiercely.