boy and bone

Outside the black church wall, an equally solemn and heavy carriage was parked.

Gray was lying on the roof of the carriage, staring at the blue and cloudless sky for thousands of miles, his pupils were empty.

Inside the wall, the death knell released the news of death to its heart's content, and the lingering sound of mourning scattered into the sky, as if those lives had been lost and could not be recovered, and the invisible haze covered the reality in the eyes of those who were still alive.

The prayer in the church was over, and a group of people in black mourning clothes came out carrying the flower raft for the funeral. The flower raft was covered with a piece of brocade, and under the brocade embroidered with the family emblem, there was a human figure, Yuexi Guilanzhi Then sleep forever.

Due to the lack of limbs of Yuexi Guilanzhi, the step of paying homage to the remains was omitted because of this layer of brocade. The tradition of the Guilanzhi clan has always been water burials, never using coffins, and ghosts carrying flower rafts The members of the Lanzhi clan prepared to send the remains to the ancient moat on the outskirts of the old capital. The ancient moat was turbulent, and it would carry the funeral flower stand and eventually flow to the ocean far away from the land.

Al did not attend the funeral, and the airship of the Mechanical Alliance that came to pick him up to the south had parked over his palace on time, and his perplexity and regret would eventually sink to the bottom of the sea along with the flower raft.

The ferret drove the carriage slowly behind the funeral procession, while Man hiding in the carriage was reading a letter from home.Man didn't walk in the funeral procession like other clan members, but just followed behind like an outsider. In Man's view, death was irreversible, and funerals held by living people had no meaning, and he never bothered to participate.

If it wasn't for the ferret pulling him and insisting on sending Yuexi off for the last time, he probably wouldn't even follow her.

A few days ago, his father informed their mother of Yuexi's death in the Eastern Continent's Forest of Night, but Man's mother only sent a silver-white paper flower to express her condolences in the reply letter, and claimed that she would not Attend Yuexi's funeral.Although her mother has nothing to do with the clan, as Yuexi's biological mother, her indifferent approach still seems a lot more ruthless to the outside world.

When Lin Guilanzhi saw this fluffy reply letter, he was so angry that he threw the reply letter out of the window together with the mourning flower.

But Man, seemed to understand his mother's thoughts better. He carefully picked up the family letter and paper flowers and hid them. The hand of Shengwu wearing the ring held up the white paper flower. He observed it intently, and the paper flower suddenly burst into crystal light like a vein.

"Yuexi, my beloved child." The paper flower bloomed, and lines of small characters were written inside.

"You will never see this letter, just as I will never see your face again.

When I was young and unmarried, I was full of wild fantasies about marriage. I fantasized that my husband should be a handsome, outstanding and noble person. However, the reality beyond regret told me that it was just his appearance.

He single-handedly created your misfortune.

I repent all the time, I shouldn't have brought you into this world.

It was my blind choice to have you born into a gloomy family without being able to protect you.

As a mother, I will suffer from this forever in my life.

Full, my lovely son-in-law.

I believe you will discover the secret of this mourning flower.

Your father, full of selfish interests and honors, might have discarded it as a perfunctory clump of paper, but you, my dear brat, would perceive the wonderful art of magic in it.

The nominal recipient of this letter is Yuexi, but you and I both know that letters of condolence are always read to the living.

Whether you know Yuexi's secret or not, it also represents the secret of this hopeless clan.

I have intended to inform you of this fact.

Your name did not belong to you in the first place.

Child, I know you won't be jealous. You have been jealous of everything that belongs to Yuexi since you were a child. Until now, I think your jealousy has been numb.

Unfortunately, the traits you displayed in your childhood clearly tell me that you inherited almost all the faults of your parents: you inherited your father's treachery, you inherited my stubbornness, you inherited your father's arrogance , and inherited my pride,

You are as selfish as your father, and as thoughtful as your mother.

But don't worry, your temper is bad, but transparently bad.

This in turn gives you a strange beauty.

My mother, your grandmother, the most beloved thing in the world is the full moon scene that heralds the death and resurrection of the moon, so I used to imagine that I must have a daughter, and I must name her full moon at that time .

But the fact is that my first child will be a boy, which I expected from the day I married your father.

Not giving birth to a baby girl, this unique 'curse' that haunts everyone in the Kiranji clan has lasted for nearly 200 years, and it will not be easily changed by me.

When I accepted this fate, I named my first child 'Man'.

Less than two weeks after the birth of 'Man', a huge change happened to the Guilanzhi Clan. The previous Duke, that is, your grandpa who had never been masked fell seriously ill.

Underneath this sad turn of events lies a wrestling wrestling without gunpowder. The duke's heir is unresolved. There is a hidden estrangement within the immediate lineage. The outside clans take the opportunity to intervene.

Because your father coveted the Duke position, and because he was unable to suppress other offshoots, he was unable to convince the public, so he was always in a state of anxiety and anxiety during that period of time, and his sometimes inexplicable anger made our marriage in jeopardy. .

It was also at that time that I gradually became aware of his jackal nature hidden under his dignified appearance.

However, because I still miss his tenderness when I fell in love, I willfully forget this uncomfortable sign in my mind, and I attribute all his bad temper to reality. I naively thought that if only he could With the thorny nuisance of this reality resolved, we can still be sweet as ever.

After I gave birth to 'Man', your father rarely came to visit me and my newborn son because he was busy with clan affairs, and whenever he stepped into our bedroom with a sullen face, I would I am very happy to talk with him, and always try to find a topic that can make him happy and try to calm his anxiety. Once, in front of him, I did not hesitate to praise that "full" is very similar to my childhood , I joked: "It's a pity, it's a pity that my peerless appearance was inherited by a boy."

This joke is still fresh in my memory, and I often shed bitter tears of regret because of self-blame when I dreamed back at midnight.

I vaguely remember the scrutinizing eyes of your father at that time. He looked at the baby in my arms, just like a businessman looking at a famous painting in a gallery, estimating its value.

Your father came up with a very absurd idea.

He's going to be 'full' to be a girl, I can see how excited his eyes are.

The baby girl of the Kiranji family, what a legendary birth it will be, and it will be the most powerful symbol of destiny.

More convincing than any of his previous insignificant achievements.

And I, compromising on the safety of the moment, actually agreed to this decision under the trick of his clever words.

I foolishly thought that when he got his dukedom, he could restore Man to his true form.

Your father bribed the grass doctor who delivered me and the maids who served me to keep silent about this matter, then he temporarily distorted the baby's physical characteristics in order to dispel suspicion in the clan, he didn't really change The real gender of the child was just using runes with the meaning of cheating and cheating. His magic was actually full of loopholes. He only selected a few high-authority members of the clan on the grounds that his daughter was not in good health. The elderly to verify the baby's identity.

I don't know what method he used to win over the elders. I sat next to the empty cradle in the room, and only heard the cheers outside, and I knew the ending. This rare absurd scam in the world was successful. .

He changed the name of 'Man', and the birth of 'Man' was postponed for two weeks, until the day of 'Yuexi' was born.

And the name 'Man' was given by me to my second child, which is you.

Maybe you have forgotten what I told you and Yuexi when I left Guilanzhi disheartened.

"I hope that you will grow up clinging to each other, be intimate, share the joys of the world together, and be both relatives and close friends."

I don't think you did.

You can see your mother's eccentricity since you were a child. You have to ask for exactly the same things that Yuexi has.

You are always envious and jealous of everything Yuexi has, your father's expectations, and your mother's love. You think that he has taken what you deserve.

You don't know the fear of your father when he pushes the young one into the world of grown-ups like an expensive exhibit for people to see.

You don't know how surprised he is when you are locked up in the attic to learn women's etiquette when you happily run around in the courtyard to tease the servants with mud.

You won't know the sadness I lie when he comes to me and asks me what's the difference between him and you in the night when no one is there.

You don't know, but you are the one who has occupied his name and whom he admires all his life.

He will always want you to live a real and wonderful life.

Because you are the person he yearns for the most in his heart.I hope you live up to his yearning.

Yuexi has passed away, and the pain of his life has flowed eastward.

But please don't remember him, and don't remember me.

We are all set free.

The three of us, from now on, we will forget each other across the sea.

Dedicated to my forever beloved children. "

After reading, a rippling fire light spread across the letter paper where the letter paper was squeezed, and after a while, the paper flowers were reduced to ashes.

The floating ashes fell, but condensed from it into a gray copper key.

"Ferret, turn around." Man knocked on the partition in front of the carriage.

"What?" The ferret on the carriage replied against the partition outside the carriage: "Didn't we agree to go back after completing the funeral ceremony?"

"The ceremony is just empty air. My mother wants me to avenge Yuexi." Man said with a cold face.

"What did your mother say in her letter?"

"The whole letter is full of unnecessary sensationalism and remorse for the past. She didn't say it clearly. If she hadn't given me a key in the end, I would have almost believed her nonsense." Man thought: "Yue Xi and my mother have always The relationship is close, and Yue Xi's little actions must be known to her mother. The original ruler of the altar in the old king's capital was the high priest serving the Tiqi royal family, Isakel. During the existence of the royal family, the altar had been given to Yi The Shakell clan, my mother, as a descendant of Isakel, should have the right to enter the altar, but she left the Westland a long time ago, and there was no one else to take over from Isakel, so the altar was abandoned. I think that Yuexi was able to enter the altar, most likely because she obtained permission from her mother and obtained a passable prop."

"Father must have mentioned in the letter that Yuexi died at the altar. Mother must have guessed that this would be related to Yuexi's plan, but she couldn't leave it to her father to handle the matter. She was worried that Yuexi's intention to deviate would be discovered by her father. Not only can't the murderer be punished that way, but my father will also hinder other people's investigations in order to prevent his deception from being exposed. Yuexi can't pass away without knowing why, she can only let me deal with it. At the same time, she also knows the relationship between Yuexi and me It’s not good, so write a lyrical letter first, to arouse my emotions for blood, and let me do things for her. But I don’t want to just do things like this. Yuexi is not good in every way, he is also my sister ……family."

"...Is your Kiranji family's thinking so tortuous?"

"What do you mean? My mother is from the Isakel clan." She didn't understand.

"When I didn't say it." The ferret had nothing to do with this sometimes quick-witted and sometimes slow-witted man.

Man knocked on the roof of the shed: "Little ghost, do you still want the magic bone, this time we can help you get it back."

Gray took a deep breath and sat up from the roof: "...Of course."

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It is said that there is a mysterious creature in the deep sea, which is wiser, more cautious, and even timid than human beings.

No one has ever seen their true colors.

Some said they were creatures like whales, others that they were like will-o'-the-wisps at the bottom of the sea, and still others that they were the sea itself.

The flower raft drifted with the rapids, and quickly fell apart on the water surface, while the body carried on the flower raft slowly sank to the bottom of the sea. The noble brocade floated away from his body along the current like a worldly swaddle, and the failed metal skeleton filled the gap. The incomplete part of the body barely maintains the integrity of the human body, but the abrupt feeling is like a patch is forcibly sewn on the human skin, which is ugly and ugly.

Silent and dark currents surround this mottled body, and the bottom of the sea is like a loving mother's embrace, gently accepting anything that comes into its arms, no matter seaweed, small fish or this stiff corpse.

In the calm ocean, quietly, one after another countercurrent surged up from the abyss of the seabed, wrapping around the body of the dead person.

This unusual flow of water converged into the only empty place in his body, forming the shape of a heart.

Suddenly, the blue transparent water flow extended to his limbs, and his half-metal skeleton instantly became transparent and crystal clear, as if it was a skeleton made of water.

poof...

The heart made of water vigorously oscillated the surrounding sea water, and a string of air bubbles carrying the breath of life quickly floated to the surface of the sea.

The spirit of the deep sea is born when it encounters the sea, just like the blind girl who was married before the mysterious legend was born.

In the airship, on Al's desk, an eight-sided Rubik's Cube standing still on an old map suddenly lit up with a crystal blue light, and the frequency of the light flickering was like a person's breathing ups and downs, as if it was a wordless call .

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A group of dignified men ushered in the Fink Inn, their erratic eyes seemed to be on guard all the time.

And amidst the layers of protection of this group of men, a figure with his face covered by a robe stood among them.

He didn't say a word, only the assistant around him approached with a bag of money: "Your VIP-level guest room."

The welcome boy at the front door accepted the money bag in a daze, and led the group of people upstairs respectfully: "Please."

"Please show your pass." The waiter pushed open the door of a room on the top floor, where the last group of guests had just been sent away, and the smell of cleaned lavender wafted in the air.

These few tall men who were like the pioneers of the adventure stepped into the door, and after looking around, the man in the cloak stepped forward, and when passing by the door servant, he threw a nameplate to the door. he.

Seeing this, the boy stopped talking.

The nameplate with a cold light is the logo of black market merchants. Their post house also provides food and lodging when the clan reception is not held. VIPs such as high-ranking clans, so the guest rooms in the post house are all treated with high-strength protection, which has a certain protective effect.

This has led to the fact that some confidential personnel or people from the black market with obscure identities stay here in normal times.

And these characters are mostly masters with disasters on their bodies.

At this time, the boys will be satisfied not to disturb you any more.

The door was locked tightly, and the robe was ripped off, revealing the shrewd face of a businessman operating in the dark.

He turned left and right in the room: "Is everything arranged?"

The deputy on the left and right replied: "The arrangements are made. Your body is now floating in the ocean. No one except the black market headquarters knows that you are still alive."

"That's good." The businessman stroked the ring on his little finger, and his subtle movements still revealed his slight uneasiness: "Is there any news about the person we sent to find that kid Yechidoan?"

"No, the members of the Iron Dagger Lizard Detachment have not contacted their head team either, and I am afraid something has happened. Their leader wanted to contact us several times, probably to find out about this matter."

"After the limelight has passed, contact him again." The man sat down behind the desk dejectedly: "The coffin has been given to them, what else do those people want?"

The deputy also had a sad face: "The people who escaped from there said that it seems that the coffin is a fake, so we provoked the other party."

The black market merchant's eyelids jumped: "That bastard Ye Chidoan must be playing tricks. He kept clamoring to return the coffin. Seeing that I didn't let go, he dropped the things."

The deputy shook his head and analyzed: "That kid doesn't look like he has the guts to play tricks under our noses... I feel that there is something strange about it. Could it be that something went wrong in the process of picking up the goods?"

"The people who went to pick up the goods from the Forbidden Forest were also members of the Iron Dagger Lizard Squad... Their Black Knights have cooperated with us for many years, and there has never been a mistake. There is still a foundation of trust. I don't think it's their problem." The businessman fidgeted. , as if there was a cold sharp knife hanging above his head all the time, he was worried about it: "The man from the Iron Dagger Lizard is missing, Yechidoan has no trace at all, and the other party didn't even give me a chance to negotiate... What a fleeting time Unfavorable, such an unlucky business."

Before the words fell, there was a knock on the door.

The thugs hired by the merchants in the room tensed up.

"who?"

Through the door, a vague voice said: "Room room service, sir."

"unnecessary."

"That's a pity, today's fruit and vegetable platter is quite delicious."

The black market merchant was annoyed, and waved his hand, signaling for his deputy to drive away the people outside.

However, before the deputy took a step, the lock on the door suddenly turned by itself.

Everyone was stunned for a moment and became vigilant. They all drew their swords and were ready to go.

However, when the door was pushed open, before they could clearly see the face of the person coming, a red light suddenly appeared, and when they realized it, they were already decapitated.

The red-haired man slowly walked in with a silver tray in his hands wearing black silk gloves, and he locked the door behind him.

The red light fell on the black market merchant's table and turned into a blood-colored bird.

The businessman forced himself to watch the man put the fruit plate in front of him calmly.

In the room, almost in the blink of an eye, except for the strange man with red hair, he was the only living person left.

At the merchant's feet, the deputy's blood gushed from the severed neck and spread across the soles of his shoes.

"You're so smart that I spent a lot of unnecessary time tracking down your whereabouts." The long and soft voice of the red-haired man disguised as a waiter was quite different from his butcher-like behavior.

"You may not know me yet, but you don't need to know my identity. That's useless. You just need to know that I'm just a poor owner."

The businessman quickly turned to think: "Are you here for that coffin?"

"Yes." Chris frowned.

"Simply put, you stole my stuff and I need you to return it." Curris naturally pulled the back of a chair and sat down, keeping himself at eye level with the person across the table.

Xueyan's little claws bounced on the thick books on the desk, vividly like every free and lovely little swallow in the forest.

"I think there is some misunderstanding between us." The businessman moved his timid eyes away from the blood swallow that was the murder weapon, and he forced himself to look directly at the man in front of him: "I am a businessman, and I am only responsible for reselling goods. Indeed , the fakes sold by me really damage my reputation, I want to apologize to you for this, but I am also trying to find out exactly which link is wrong with the goods, you can give me a little time……"

"Fake?" Curris laughed and interrupted: "No, no, I think you misunderstood."

"The coffin is indeed my coffin. What I lost was what should have been placed peacefully inside it, more precisely, it was a boy." Culis sat in the soft single chair, his appearance Very relaxed, he raised his hand and measured his height near his chest: "He is about this tall, with brown hair and eyes, very cute."

Curris' eyes stayed on the businessman's face for a while, and he observed his blank expression, and he came to a conclusion: "You've never seen him, have you?"

Curris sighed softly: "You are more useless than those rude black knights... To be honest, I am a little disappointed."

Before the businessman could chew and understand the meaning of these words in his mind, he suddenly felt a biting wind passing by his neck.The wings of the blood swallow were deeply embedded under his throat, his neck was like a thin tree trunk blown off by a strong wind, his head snapped back irresistibly, and bright red flesh flakes were exposed from the crack.

Curris took out a business card with a star map from the pocket of his thin shirt. He stepped over the blood-stained ground and found a spiral instrument. He held a microphone in the shape of a golden bell. After drawing the pattern, while waiting for the answer, he looked at the red bird on the desk with admiration and tenderness, singing happily.

"Hello? May I ask the... photo I sent you? Is this the term... have you received it?" Curriss said to the microphone.

After a while, he took the receiver away, and only after the insulting sound in it faded away, he leaned back to his ear again, and said: "Don't be so angry, I have already taken your insulting words from your photos. I have learned from the mouth of my companions."

"Don't worry, they still have a sigh of relief. Although they are not in a healthy state, I assure you that your companion will receive our best care."

"The degree of care depends on the degree of your cooperation."

"Would you be interested in talking to me calmly now?"

After explaining his request, Curris put down the microphone, turned his head and called to the bird, "Let's go, Duoling. When the blood on the ground dries up, it will be difficult for Sanel and the others to clean up."

"Broken spirit?" Kuris saw that the bird did not respond to his call as quickly as usual, so he looked at the slightly unusual behavior of the bird.

I saw the blood swallow stopped at a corner of the table, constantly pecking at the surface of the wooden table with its small beak.

Curris walked over, and there was a little inconspicuous scratch on the wooden table under the cover of a thick book.

It seems to be text.

For some reason, Kuris felt a fever in his heart, as if he had a premonition, all the books that were in the way on the table were suddenly cleared by him into the pool of blood on the ground.

The lettering on the wooden table is bare.

The familiar font came into view, like a stroke engraved on his heart, and he could even imagine the wrong writing posture of the person who wrote this text that could never be corrected.

Xueyan flew onto Kuris' shoulder, tilted her head and wailed crisply in his ear.

Curris smiled slowly: "...Yes, Duoling, it's him."

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The deserted altars of the old royal capital are visible but not accessible.

The intertwined roots of ancient trees cover the surface of the altar like a net.

A man wearing a purple-white bishop's robe stood in the center of the abandoned altar. He inserted the snake-headed staff into the altar stone slab under his feet. The cracks continued to vibrate, and the roots of the ancient trees guarding the altar were scattered and receded.

Holding the original scripture, he hung the book above his head silently, and silently recited the charms on it, a huge circle of runes was pieced together bit by bit, and slowly, as the spells in his mouth continued to Stopping, circle after circle of slightly smaller circles gradually gathered in the circle of the talisman array and overlapped each other.

Shi Mengluo, who was concentrating on casting the talisman array, quietly noticed something strange, as if an outsider broke into the altar protected by a barrier, but at the moment when the talisman array was forming, he could not be distracted.The young priest who had been silently beside him felt something at the same time. Shi Mengluo glanced at him with a signifying look, and then continued to concentrate on the talisman array in front of him.

Su Wen nodded in agreement, and he took his staff and walked towards the place where the change occurred.

The carriage traveled through the forest at high speed, and a bolt of lightning was cut across the air and landed in front of the carriage. The panicked horse had no time to turn around, and then a swift figure slammed heavily on the roof of the carriage, instantly shattering the carriage.

No one escaped from it, and the carriage was empty.

When Su Wen realized that this was a trap, there was already a knight's long sword that was too ordinary to be ordinary across his neck.

The voice of the ferret came from behind: "Su Wen, we have opened the barrier of the altar, and soon the guards of the royal capital will surround this place, and they will arrest you for murdering the daughter of the clan... follow me."

The young priest lowered his head, and immediately turned into a wisp of gray smoke in front of the ferret's eyes. The front end of the blade suddenly lost its weight, and the ferret was startled.

At this moment, a calm and clear voice sounded in the ear of the nearby ferret: "Bishop Shi Mengluo has no crime. He is always right."

As he spoke, a scimitar-like cold light slashed across his waist, and the ferret stepped back. Even with such a quick reaction, a bloodstain was drawn on his waist.

The ferret froze for a moment, and the priest's fluttering robes suddenly passed his eyes.Ferret never thought that Su Wen was not only a priest, but also an assassin.The Pope of the Dongfei Church built on the pile of bones, its changes have always been accompanied by blood and conspiracy, and the first Pope of Dongfei had set up such an organization a long time ago, and they collected orphans from all over the world Or the homeless, inculcating their devotion from childhood, instilling divine teachings into their minds, and disciplining their bodies in cruel ways.Make them a most pious humanoid weapon in defense of the Pope's interests.

The ferret was wounded and his movements were gradually restricted.

Su Wen controlled his staff like a poisonous snake, leaving no gap between the thrusts for others to get close to.

Gray squatted on the branch and whistled: "You are so good at it, yet you were beaten by a group of hooligans and begged for mercy?"

Su Wen was taken aback for a moment, he didn't notice the aura of other people nearby, and the unsuspecting child's voice caused a fault in his moves, and he was caught by the ferret with one blow, and he had the possibility of counterattack.

Su Wen, who was on the defensive, resisted the pressure from the ferret's mana exceeding that of the trainee knight, and said distractedly: "I don't harm innocent people."

"So, the ferret in front of you, as well as me... are all guilty of death?" Gray jumped off the tree, landed in the middle of the stalemate battle between the two sides, and kicked Su Wen hard on the forehead along the way. One foot: "Where's my magic bone?"

"You cheated on my feelings, Su Wen."

Su Wen received a blow to his forehead, staggered back a few steps, and stood firm: "Sorry."

"The magic bone is an ominous thing, Mr. Gray shouldn't have it." Su Wen said.

"Who deserves me if I don't deserve it? Are you and that old man?" Gray said in a bad tone, "You pay me back as soon as possible. Stop your damn rituals."

"The magic bone is sealed under the altar. It will contribute to the coming of the gods. You should also be honored for this. Your magic bone will be freed and redeemed."

Gray said angrily: "Did I let you free him? There is nothing wrong with him, what a redemption."

It just so happened that at this moment, the ring of runes in the semicircle in the distance released a strange brilliance, attracting the eyes of the three of them at the same time.

Grai raised his eyebrows suddenly: "Ferret, go and kill that old man, stop that talisman array as soon as possible, and if it is consumed, the magic bone will not be brought back." He paused, and added: "I stop this Fool."

"No! You can't destroy the ceremony." Su Wen said excitedly.

The ferret thought about it for a while, and Gray was not an ordinary little boy, he was full of mysteries, but for some reason, the ferret fully believed in Gray, and if he said he could stop him, he would definitely be able to stop him.

He seems to have this ability.

Ferret, amused by his inexplicable trust, agrees with Gray's decision.Rather than spending two people here to let the talisman that does not know what monsters can be summoned grow rapidly, it is better to quickly send someone to restrain the caster of the talisman and slow down its growth.

The ferret made up his mind, and told Gray: "Persist for a while, and the patrol will be called soon."

"Mr. Gray, please don't hinder me, I don't intend to be your enemy." Su Wen said.

"I know that ordinary magic weapons have no effect on you." As he said, Su Wen drew a rusty and blunt dagger from the back of his waist.

Seeing the rough and blunt dagger, Gray snorted and said, "You have even mastered my weaknesses, so you still call it 'unintentional'?"

Afterwards, Gray's expression became calm and stern.

"Please forgive me in Heaven, Mr. Gray."

"Sorry, see you in hell."