Undead Requiem

The big rabbit is sick,

Two rabbits look.

Three rabbits buy medicine,

Four rabbits boil.

Five rabbits died,

Six rabbits lift.

The seven rabbits dig a pit,

Eight rabbits buried.

Nine rabbits sat on the ground and cried,

Ten rabbits asked why it was crying?

Nine Rabbits said,

The five rabbits will never come back!

In the dim manor, dolls with different looks held hands and sang "Mother Goose Nursery Rhymes".The door opened slowly, and a blond man wearing a gentleman's top hat walked in carrying a box.Seeing him, the dolls rushed over happily.

"Father is back!"

The dolls were overjoyed. The man squatted down, opened the box, took out the latest doll and put it down, saying, "Children, he is our new family member."

The red-eyed puppet said, "That's great, we have an extra brother."

The Curly Red doll said, "Oh, let's sing and welcome him."

So, the dolls surrounded the new doll and sang nursery rhymes to him.

Recently, a strange disease appeared in London.It is said to be a disease, but it is not.Because doctors can't find the root of the disease, and even can't find traces of poisoning from the patient.And the patients, as if asleep, continued to live, but no one could wake them up.Therefore, some people circulated that the people who fell into a coma were under some kind of witchcraft.Detective Charles did not believe such rumors.

Intuition told him that this was a case.However, under investigation, he could not find any connection between the victims, except for the commonality of drowsiness.Therefore, this is definitely a difficult case to crack.

While he was investigating the case, someone sent the unconscious family to Westminster Abbey and prayed that God would wake them up.

But it's useless, people who are sleepy, still haven't woken up.

The little guy must hate him.

Walter thought so.Because, he no longer knocks on the window for him.Even if he went to find him, he kept a distance from him, as if he was carrying an infectious disease.

Is he afraid that he will explore the secrets in his body?

When Walt was thinking wildly, the god of death found him and passed on Jeffrey's words, so he had to go back to the God of death department.

The Thames in summer exudes a pungent and unpleasant smell.After a short period of blue sky and white clouds, the whole city was once again shrouded in smog.This summer, Whitman gave up his job of catching mice. He spent a little money to buy shoe shine tools, and squatted with other shoe shiners on a busy street to shine shoes for the old men.

The gentlemen of London's upper class and their emphasis on red tape, especially in the case of trysts with ladies, will ask the shoemaker to shine their shoes to keep themselves tidy.

A dozen shoe shiners lined up waiting for the gentlemen to stretch their feet.When they are not active, the children will watch the adults coming and going on the street, or chat.

"Whitman, do you know? In a small theater in the North District, there is a puppet show, and you can buy a ticket for only 1 penny." The little shoe shiner next to Whitman said.

"As long as 1 shilling tickets, it is really great." Whitman replied.Because, the children of the poorhouse who have never been to the theater to watch performances, I believe they will like it.

"That theater is called 'Puppet Theatre'. I went to see it last night. The puppets sang, danced, and performed. It's really, really wonderful." The little shoe shiner said excitedly.

This kind of small theater with cheap tickets is mostly seen by people in the slums. Whitman would like to take the children of the poorhouse to see it once.The premise is that he can convince Dean Eva.

Walt returned to the Death Division, and Jeffrey said something to the Death Gods.Human souls have been stolen.

"Currently, the souls of 38 humans have been stolen. Because their lifespans are not over, the human beings who have lost their souls become empty shells. If the souls are not returned to their bodies for a long time, their lives will change and die."

Therefore, Jeffrey needs them to investigate the stolen souls, but where are those souls?

"Will it be eaten by the devil?" a god of death said.

"Oh, no. Demons cannot forcibly separate the soul and body of humans. Unless the two parties make a contract, humans are willing to sell their souls to demons."

Indeed, otherwise, the demons living in London would have hunted and killed humans everywhere.Moreover, the existence of the god of death restricts the demons, preventing them from killing humans.Otherwise, in order to protect the order in the Book of the Dead, the two sides can only start a war.

Jeffrey asked the gods of death, and asked Walt alone about the investigation.Walter stroked the earrings on his ears: "I'm sorry Jeffrey, I don't have any clues yet."

Jeffrey sighed: "That cunning enemy is lurking here, but we can't catch him. But he is waving his sickle at us at any time."

Walter said: "Dear Geoffrey, I will definitely catch that guy with my own hands." The demons in London saw the real murderer of Death, but they didn't want to tell him.Now, it was annoying enough that the parasites had caught Whitman's attention.

After Walt went to London, a black god of death wearing a large black cloak came in and informed Jeffrey to monitor the actions of the gods of death.Unfortunately, they did not observe any unusual actions by Reapers.All the gods of death are carrying out the mission of the god of death seriously, and nothing has happened to endanger the order of the god of death.After listening, Jeffrey entered the archives room and investigated the resumes of all the gods of death.Perhaps, it might be possible to find the secret from it.

The little guy ignored him, and Mr. Death thought of a way to let the other party talk to him—that is, to become his guest.So he put his foot on the tripod, and said to Whitman, "Don't let me get a speck of dust on my shoe, little fellow."

Whitman smiled politely, "Yes, sir." Then, he oiled his black boots and began to polish them.

"Did you find the job you want, little guy?" Walter asked.

"Not yet, thank you for your concern."

"I can find you a good job if you want."

"Thank you for your kindness, but we cannot leave the choice to others."

Walt continued to find words to chat with Whitman.On this day, his shoes had been polished more than a dozen times, and there was not a speck of dust on them.When night fell, he flew to the old abandoned church.

Back at the poorhouse, Whitman and Dean Eva talked about watching a puppet show.Dean Eva refused after hearing this: "No, Whitman. The poorhouse cannot waste money on meaningless things."

Whitman smiled and said, "Dean Eva, I have some money saved, so I would like to invite the Dean, Sister Emma and the children to go to the puppet show together."

Dean Eva is reluctant to take a group of children out, especially at night.Because, this will undoubtedly add unnecessary burden to her.

Therefore, she sternly refused.

The next day, Whitman continued to shine shoes on the street with tools.Soon, Walter appeared, holding out his spotless shoes again.

What a strange man, Mr. Death, teasing him, thought Whitman.However, there was one thing he never mentioned to anyone—on the day Eugene and Eugene died, after he had a nervous breakdown and fell into a coma, in his dream, he seemed to see Mr. Death.

Today, Mr. Death polished the shoes twenty times.

Back at the poorhouse, Whitman once again mentioned to Dean Eva about watching a puppet show.Dean Eva refused again.

On the third day, he once again lined up with other small shoemakers to shine shoes on the street. After a while, Mr. Death appeared again.He finally couldn't help asking: "Mr. Walter doesn't work?"

Seeing that the little guy finally paid attention to him, Walter said happily: "For me, keeping my boots clean is more important than working." Then, he stretched out his foot and stepped on the tripod.

Whitman picked up the tool and began to shine his shoes, saying, "Mr. Walt, I'm just an ordinary human being."

Looking at Whitman's slightly curly hair, Walt felt his fingers itch - this slightly curly brown hair must be very soft.

"No, you are not an ordinary human being. Because you can see me. However, you don't have to worry, I won't do anything to you. And, I don't want you to stay away from me again and again."

"Mr. Walter, no one wants to deal with death."

"But right now, I'm just a human being."

"Your entanglement makes me feel embarrassed."

"I'm so sorry, I just wanted to be friends with you."

"No...Mr. Walter listened to the lies of the devil and wanted to get the secret from me, right?"

"Little guy, I am more interested in you than your secrets. Trust me, I will never hurt you. As for secrets, if you don't want to tell me, I won't explore."

He didn't believe this.Therefore, he couldn't help thinking that if he was a girl, he would definitely think Walter was a rascal... Could it be that he likes boys? "Mr. Walter likes boys?" he couldn't help asking.

His words first caught Mr. Reaper for a moment, and he laughed "hahahaha" at random, until tears came out of his laughter.

"Hahahaha...Little guy, you are so funny!"

Whitman blushed, wishing he could bury his face in the sewer.

Walter bent down and held his face seriously, his green gem-like eyes looked at the boy's amber eyes, and said with a smile: "When you become an adult, maybe I will love you. on you."

Whitman, who had never looked into Walt's eyes seriously, fell into the emerald-like world in an instant.Some fragments flashed through my mind, and then disappeared again.

Letting go of Whitman's face, Walt said triumphantly: "You are just a boy now, and I will not regard a boy as a lover."

Whitman bowed his head and continued to shine Mr. Death's shoes.

Today, he polished Mr. Death's shoes no less than twenty times.Although it is a pleasant thing to earn money from Mr. Death's pocket, it is not a good thing to be pestered by the other party every day.

Tonight, he once again mentioned to Dean Eva about going to the theater to watch a puppet show.In this way, after five consecutive days, Dean Eva finally let go.Still, the children were not allowed to leave the poorhouse.

"You can invite the puppeteer over to give the children a performance." Dean Eva said.

"Thank you, I will."

The next day, Whitman did not go to work as a shoe shiner.Mr. Reaper was very disappointed to see no one else.

The "Puppet Theater" is in the North District, and Whitman found this small theater according to the address given by the little shoe shiner.Standing in front of the small theater, Whitman thought, if you don't pay attention, it is easy to miss.Because the entrance of the theater is too small, and there is only the name of "Puppet Theater".

The theater door was open.He walked in, and after walking more than 20 steps, he finally arrived at the inside of the theater - inside, it was a semi-circular theater, but at this time, because there was no performance yet, there was no one inside, and it seemed very quiet.

"Anyone—" Whitman yelled.

Suddenly, a puppet as tall as an adult jumped down from above the theater.Whitman saw that it had hanging wires on its body, and it was obviously being manipulated by someone.

The puppet walked to him for a mile and said: "Dear guest, hello. I am the butler in the theater. Please call me Johnny. May I help you?"

Whitman looked up at the puppet, and he had the illusion that the puppet was alive.He smiled and said, "Hi, Johnny. I'd like to visit the owner of the puppet theater and ask him to perform for the poorhouse children."

Johnny danced around and said, "There's nothing better for a puppeteer than doing a show for a child. Come with me, honey."

So it took Whitman to the backstage room of the theater.

Backstage, in front of the door of a room with lights on, Mr. Puppet knocked on the door and opened the door to invite him in.

"Come in, dear boy."

"Thank you, Mr. Johnny."

So Whitman stepped into the room.In the room, he saw a handsome man with blond hair, blue eyes, a smile, and amiable amiability.His fingers were wrapped in silk.Obviously, Johnny the Puppet was manipulated by him.He said to the guests: "Welcome, child. Mr. Johnny, please bring us two cups of tea."

He moved his fingers, and Johnny the Puppet moved, and said, "Okay, just a moment, please."

The man asks Whitman to sit down while he pours the tea.

Whitman thanked, and after Mr. Puppet brought tea, he withdrew.

"My name is Louis, and I am the owner of this theater."

"My name is Whitman, and I'm a poorhouse boy."

"I'm glad you came to the 'Puppet Theater' as a guest. I don't know what you want from me?"

"I would like to ask Mr. Lewis to do a puppet show for the children of the poorhouse."

"Oh sure. I'd love to do a show for the kids. Come on, let's make an appointment together."

Therefore, the two parties agreed to perform in the auditorium of the poorhouse two days later.After Whitman bids farewell to Louis, Mr. Puppet sends him out of the theater.

"Little guy, where did you go yesterday?" Walter stretched out his foot to shine the shoes of the young shoe shiner.

Whitman didn't answer him.

Well, Walt changed the subject: "Can I invite you to dinner?"

Whitman smiled politely and said: "Thank you for your kindness, unfortunately, I have business. I can't be invited."

Walter smiled and said, "You are such an indifferent child." In fact, he was the only one who was indifferent.Because, he has seen Whitman's gentleness towards others.The kind of gentleness in him makes people want to take good care of him.

Whitman was silent.

"Do you hate death and demons?" he asked.

"No, I'm afraid of death and demons," Whitman said truthfully.

The demon has a haggard body, an ugly appearance, sharp nails, and a strange laugh.They are coveting human souls, as long as there is a slight gap, they will snatch human souls from the hands of death and eat them.

Death, on the other hand, is indifferent.They hold a huge cold sickle, and after the death of human beings, they cut off the connection with the flesh, and then send them to hell.As a result, they witnessed different deaths.Such a god of death is cold and emotionless.Whitman even suspected that they had witnessed so much death that they had become desensitized.

"The devil is cunning and likes to lie. The god of death is the messenger of the human soul. Therefore, we are kind." Walter said with a smile.

This sentence sounds like an excuse.

"Little guy, do you want to hear the story of humans and death?"

"The story of humans and god of death?"

"Yes. Love between humans and gods of death."

Therefore, Walt slowly told the relationship between death and human beings.This relationship is entangled with love, and family love.But no matter what kind of love it is, it will not end well.

The first love is the love between human and death.The final result of this love is that the god of death harvested the lover's soul with his own hands.The god of death is in great pain.

The second love is the wonderful family love of human beings.Like Whitman and the children of the poorhouse.This kind of love, between God of Death and human beings, also has no good end.

"That god of death adopted a child who could see him. Under his protection, the child grew up slowly. In the end, the god of death didn't want to watch the child he raised grow old and die, so he left the child's side. And The child committed suicide in order to see the god of death again. After death, the god of death came to harvest the soul of the child himself. The child smiled and disappeared contentedly..."

Whitman shines Mr. Death's shoes while listening to him tell stories.

"That's why the God of Death is not allowed to communicate with humans, let alone produce 'love'."

"But Mr. Walter violated the rules of death."

"Yes. I violated the rules set by the god of death. I guess, you must want to ask me why? Little guy, if you want to know the answer, you can no longer ignore me and reject me."

"No, Mr. Walter, I don't want to ask why."

"Little guy, you are really indifferent to me..."

Walt wants to pester him, and Whitman has no way to avoid it.Because, he is just an ordinary human being.

Why did Walt pester him?Just because he can see death?Think he's funny?Still want to know his secret?If he wanted to know his secrets, he could use any terrible means to force him to tell them.But he didn't.After coming out of the demon's lair that time, he never asked about the secrets on him.Then what is the purpose of pestering him?To tease him like a pet?Obviously he has shown the most boring and boring side, but the other party is still pestering him endlessly.

This god of death is really confusing.