quicksilver blood

Chapter 373 Sira's Justice

"I'll tell you the truth, you are guilty."

There was a faint light in Xi La's eyes, and his tone was solemn: "There is no need to justify—no matter what the reason is, it is a sin for you to burn down the neighbor's house. Although you didn't kill him, the fire spread to several houses, killing everyone. Their property has been turned into nothingness. Since you cannot repay their loss, if you are not thrown into this prison to do permanent labor, how will the resentment in their hearts be appeased?"

At this moment, Xi La's hands were shackled, his ankles were chained, and the other end of the chain was deeply nailed to the wall, like a criminal about to be executed.

He was wearing a tattered and dirt-stained white linen robe, and the bloodstains of whipping could be seen on the sleeves he tore.But his spine was still straight, and his voice was calm and powerful, as if he was still standing in the lecture hall wearing his red dress.

"Besides, they have already lost their home. Their wives and daughters will suffer because of this. They will be sick and untreated, and they will not be able to eat during the disaster year. You will work day and night without warmth. You have caused trouble for others and ruined their original happiness. life, you are naturally guilty."

"But, my lord," a thin young man knelt before him, his voice full of distress and sorrow, "I burned their house because their words and actions hurt my parents. Tell us, We must respect our parents and protect them like our own heart and lungs...then what is wrong with my behavior? And they put me in prison, and they can't repay their losses. It's better to let me work and pay them back Money to build houses."

"No, it's not like that."

Xi La sighed and shook her head: "Their mistakes need to be repaid by them. You have no right to judge, and you don't have the right to execute. If everyone in this world was like this, then the world would have been in chaos long ago... this world The law is needed, and those who break the law must be punished, such as me, and you. Indeed, putting you in prison will not do them any good, but it can remind people not to break the law, just as people live in this world. It is to suffer, but the suffering they have suffered can always make future generations suffer less. This is the meaning of life."

Many people knelt down piously in front of Sira.These people were also dressed in sackcloth, but there were no shackles on their hands.The dim sunset light squeezed in through the narrow window above, and there were sporadic snowflakes falling, making their skin red from the cold.

These are people who committed serious crimes, but did not deserve to die.

Without exception, everyone here, including Xila, is a sinner, and unless the Pope personally pardons them, they must not leave for life.

They used to be cunning, evil, and cruel, but these sharp edges that could cut themselves and others have been smoothed out in years of captivity.Here, they need to work all day long to redeem their sins, and some people die every month due to heavy work, rest and disease.

Syrah is the only exception here.He doesn't have to work, but he works harder than these people.

When he was brought in, his tongue was cut off, the bones of his hands and feet were broken, and his eyes were gouged out.But after just one night, his injuries recovered naturally.

This is an undoubted miracle - because half of the people in this prison have or have had the priesthood of Tyre, so the main function of this prison is to ban the divine spells of priests of Tyre.

Here, prayer is of no use.No matter how pious the pastor's voice can reach Tire, because it is a holy place blessed by Jupiter's authority.

So Sira's "miracle" obviously angered the warden.

Because this is tantamount to saying that what he masters is not the magic of Tyre, or that Sira has higher authority than Jupiter IV—either of which is enough to make him feel sorry for Sira from the bottom of his heart. feel disgusted.

"Don't confuse everyone, heretics! If Tier still cares about you, you can come out of here with a great miracle! If you can't, it means that your god is not here!"

These were the last words spoken by the warden after the warden whipped Sira, who had been restored by miracles, for several days, and saw that her wounds recovered every day when the sun rose.For some unknown reason, the welts on Sira's body did not recover as they did at the beginning on the last day.

But because the warden didn't even want to look at Xi La, and he didn't come over for so many days, he didn't know the changes that had happened to Xi La.

Because of his personal malice, Xi La's food was directly taken away by him.And Sira, who hadn't eaten for several days, finally caught the attention of other sinners.So with the consciousness of a cardinal, even though he was hungry and thirsty, Sira still spoke to these sinners with a hoarse voice, enlightened them, and comforted them.

In just three days, the incomparably pure Sira has completely won the trust of these sinners.He became an object of reverence for these sinners.

Every meal every day, these sinners spontaneously gave him food and water, and they were excited by it.This kind of behavior brought them a sense of satisfaction of redemption, and soon, this kind of behavior spontaneously formed an order. The sinners worked every day, came back to attend classes, worked, and came back to attend classes, and their mental state improved significantly.

Seeing these people, Xi La was filled with emotion.

Once upon a time, he also thought that these people who committed great crimes were impious and unkind.But Roland's words changed him: "Why do you think that only Tyre's justice is the only justice?"

This sentence deeply touched Xi La and caused him to think.

Tire is the only god of justice, and the concept of justice is defined by Tire. It seems that there is nothing wrong with saying that Tire's justice is the only justice.

However, does this mean that all enemies of Tyr are unjust?If they are righteous, why attack them?If they are unjust, doesn't it mean that everyone other than Bansa is unforgivable?
But now, seeing these sinners who have made big mistakes but still have conscience and morality in their hearts, seeing these former priests and former Templars who were imprisoned while devoutly serving Tire, in Xi La's heart, The concept of "justice" has undergone earth-shaking changes.

If it was him before, he would never say a word to these "sinners".Just being in the same room with them makes the air filthy.But now, Xi La has realized that these people are just some poor people.

They are certainly at fault, but the fault is not entirely on them.

For example, for this boy, his mother is paralyzed on the bed, and his father is a craftsman.Once his father picked up someone else's jewelry and decided to keep it to support the family, but then the owner came to him and beat him up, his hands were also discounted and he couldn't work.It was only later that I learned that the jewelry was a very valuable enchanted item, and its owner was a big businessman.A thief who had stolen from him was discovered at once, and dropped in a hasty escape, unseen by the merchant's men, but picked up by his father.

Although his father was beaten by the merchant's men, the boy did not dare to take revenge on the merchant.But at this moment, he learned that it was the neighbor who reported to the businessman that his father had brought back the jewelry, so the businessman regarded his father as the thief and deposed him according to the practice of habitual offenders. hand.So the young man turned his back on his guts and set fire to his neighbor's house.

But then, the fire spread.Because of the dry weather, the fire finally burned down half of the street before being extinguished. Dozens of houses were burned down, and even children and the elderly were burned.The boy caused a loss that he would never be able to make up for in his life. If his father and mother hadn't knelt on the ground begging for mercy, and he didn't really burn people to death, the boy would have been put in prison to wait for the day of amnesty. There is no chance, but will be executed directly.

But is he really wrong?If you want to say something wrong, there is indeed—in Tyre’s teachings, arson is indeed a felony, but he did not arson because of pure malice, it is better to say that his arson itself is a kind of revenge. It was also allowed by Thiel.

His neighbor was indeed guilty.Slander is also a crime, but it is a lighter one; businessmen are also guilty of driving their men to hurt others and need to be fined.But the businessmen and neighbors all thought that the boy's father was a thief. In their eyes, they were also on the side of justice.

Look at these people here—these unpardoned sinners and heretics, all of them holding their own righteousness, all of them thinking they were right.

Justice is really a difficult thing to understand.

Sira sighed deeply, feeling confused.

(End of this chapter)