Violet Orchestra

The Thief Hodge had a record of theft in as many as a dozen countries on the mainland, and he was also the number one wanted fugitive in Domonoch.Although it is not comparable to the most powerful countries, Domonoch's military reserves are ranked first on the entire continent, and the laws are strict. It is currently the country with the highest crime rate and sentencing rate on the continent.

It is not easy to become a wanted criminal in such a country, because the vast majority of criminals in the country are quickly arrested after committing a crime, and then there is a smooth and fast verdict and trial process, and they will soon be sentenced to prison. Only a very few of them escaped the hunt and escaped from Domonoch.The thief Hodge's reputation is largely due to the fact that he is a tough bone that Domonoch can't attack for a long time.

But few people know that Hodge is a native of Domonoch.

His parents were ordinary local residents. At that time, Domonoch was at war with neighboring Salto, and the soldiers were treated very well, so he joined the army like most Domonoch youths when he grew up, and soon Because of his quick-witted personality, he became the team leader and was in charge of a certain team on the front line.

But soon he discovered that there was a reason for the good treatment of the Domonoch soldiers - most of the allowances they received were sent home to help their families improve their lives, but not many soldiers survived the war , For the soldiers who died on the battlefield, those allowances also became the last letter they sent to their families.

Not only that, he has also seen the enemy sweeping the battlefield.Due to the lack of resources in Salto and the lack of young and middle-aged labor force, part of the recruited army is composed of rogues from the north.These rogues originally joined Salto's army for rewards, so of course they would not let go of any chance to make a pot of money—after an extremely difficult defense battle, Hodge witnessed them looting the bodies of their comrades in arms, All valuables were taken away from his comrades, even the pendant with his mother's portrait.

After this battle, Hodge, who was originally quite cheerful, seemed to be a different person. He lost his most valued comrade-in-arms, and he also seemed to lose his soul.He became more and more radical and began to advocate the complete annihilation of the enemy army, and made a lot of military exploits, becoming the leader of his unit.

During a confrontation with the enemy, he met the enemy who ransacked his comrade's body again. It took him a lot of effort to catch him and wanted to get the pendant back, but the man laughed and said he was sick .

"What pendant, I don't remember it for a long time. If there is one, it must have been given to some bitch in Putt Sound!"

Hodge finally killed him, took everything from him, and escaped from Domenoch's barracks.Domonoch put him on the wanted list for treason and theft, and sent a team of soldiers to hunt him down. In the process of evading pursuit, Hodge was grazed by an arrow and almost completely lost one eye. eyesight.

He began to look for the lost pendant in various countries in the mainland, and he stole it when he heard that there was a similar existence. At first, he looked at it and found that he would not return it. Later, his life became more and more difficult, so he stopped returning it.

"Ah, so my pendant—" Elaine remembered that Hodge cared about his pendant when they first met, and suddenly realized.

"Well, he tried every means to find the pendant for his dead comrade-in-arms like a maniac, but he never found it, and instead threw himself into prison." Violet confirmed his guess, "He The technology became more and more proficient, and the stealing became more and more smooth, and finally stole the favorite necklace of Princess Lancer, the most favored princess of Dubonas, the emperor was furious, and grabbed the leader of the council by the collar to ask him to be guillotined."

"But Hodge is a Domonoch, and the emperor of Dubonas has no right to send him to the guillotine, right?" Elaine puzzled.

"He really didn't." Violet nodded, "So he asked Hodge to be escorted back to Domonoch, and let the court of Domonoch exercise his right to judge him."

It is conceivable how Domonoch will treat Hodge, who has been on the run for a long time, after receiving this "gift" from Dubonas.

"As for how Hodge escaped from the guillotine, I don't know. Maybe he will tell us later, maybe he will keep it as a secret forever. In any case, I will not take the initiative to bring it up. , because when Birkins and I met him, he had just escaped from Domonoch and he was in a bad state." After telling Elaine what she knew, Violet turned over and buried her face into his arms, and complained softly, "It's really cold tonight...I'm a little sleepy."

Elaine turned his head and looked at the window of the room. The window was half-closed, and no wind was blowing in. In his opinion, the temperature in the room was not much different from before.So he took this as a small way for the poet to divert the topic, nodded knowingly, and pulled up the quilt for him: "Then let's go to bed early."

Violet fell into his arms, seemed to feel it was very warm, rubbed against his chest in a daze, and then fell asleep.

The next day, they determined their next destination before setting off.

"Is it really okay?" Violet still hesitated, "If you really go to Domenoch, maybe you have to escape from the patrol guards in the city..."

"'Sardion's Sunset' can only be seen this season, if you miss this time, you will have to wait until next year." Hodge glanced at him, "Didn't you want to watch this for a long time?"

"But……"

"Don't think too much, just treat it as me going home to visit relatives."

Hodge wrote lightly.

Violet wanted to say something else, but he waved his hand and went out to drive the car.

"Should...no problem, right?" Elaine approached the poet and asked in a low voice, "Why don't you camouflage Hodge's face? That way the guards won't be able to recognize him."

"Makes sense."

Violet nodded, whispered something in his ear, then shrank into a corner and started tinkering with his bottles and cans.After a while, Hodge was tricked into the carriage by Elaine on the grounds of a shift change. Suddenly, several hands stretched out from around and held him firmly in place. With the help of Kings and Petra, Hodge was forcibly put on makeup, and in a short period of time, he changed from a scarred man with gloomy eyes into a short but honest-looking butler with a mustache.After performing this face-changing make-up technique, after he put on the butler's attire on the reluctant Hodge, the latter looked no different from a real butler, even poking in between driving cars to watch the lively Elaine applauded: "It's amazing."

The poet gave him a complimenting look, and without even opening his mouth, the young man understood what he was thinking, and happily went back to drive the car.The carriage went straight on the flat road, heading straight towards Domonoch.

Fortunately, they didn't catch up with the bad weather. They arrived in a small town in Domonoch in the evening, found a decent hotel, and booked a room in the name of the family.Except for Hodge, who is dressed as a housekeeper - he is now called "Pippen" and Violet strictly forbids everyone to call him by his real name in Domonoch Elaine is the younger brother, and Birkins plays the uncle who takes care of them on the road.

"……how about you?"

After listening to Violet's fabricated script, Elaine asked him with a puzzled face.

"Me?" The poet blinked and leaned towards him, "I am your tutor and also your lover, young master, how about it?"

Elaine's face turned red at a speed visible to the naked eye, but she didn't refuse.

The relationship between the few people was settled in this way, and they successfully checked into the hotel under these false identities without arousing anyone's suspicion.After all, ordinary citizens would never think that a wanted criminal would dare to stay in a hotel in a big way. No one doubts that this is normal.

Violet managed to make Elaine flushed, took the room key and went back with him; Birkins and Petra went to the supply point in the town, planning to buy some spare food and ammunition, So no one noticed that Hodge went out alone after everyone went back to the room.

It was more than two hours after Birkins came back and found that Hodge was not in the room.The four met in Violet and Elaine's room, looked at each other for a while, and felt that something might be wrong.

"Why has he been away for so long? Didn't he say that he should try not to act alone during his stay in Domonoch?" Violet looked at his watch. Hodge had been out for at least two hours. It may not be a big deal to go out alone for two hours, but for a wanted criminal with wanted notices all over the street, two hours is enough to cause ten incidents.

Birkins frowned and glanced at the darkened sky outside the window: "I think we should go out to find him, and procrastinating like this is not an option."

"Let's find them separately." Petra adjusted the sleeve arrow on her right wrist, spread out a map she just bought from the supply point on the table, took a pen to draw lines on it, "This town is not big, Vio Liet stayed at the hotel and waited, and the three of us searched separately, and it wouldn't take long to search the entire town."

Elaine nodded, agreeing with her opinion.

The three of them left the hotel separately and searched around the town, but they couldn't find Hodge, who was dressed as the butler Pippen, but Violet, who stayed in the hotel waiting for news, waited for him first.

Hodge took a man of his age back to the hotel. Seeing the poet sitting on the first floor anxiously, he asked him suspiciously, "What's wrong with you? Where's Elaine?"

"..."

Violet felt as if her suspended heart had suddenly hit the stone road in front of the hotel and turned into a puddle of flesh.

He stood up angrily, suppressed the urge to teach Hodge himself, and looked at the man who came back with him, and smiled politely at him: "This is...?"

"This is my old comrade-in-arms, Gallegon, and his hometown is in this town." Hodge introduced him, "I just remembered that he was here, so I followed my memory to find it, but I didn't expect to find it. his home."

The other party also showed a friendly smile to Violet. When shaking hands with him, the poet could clearly feel that his palms were rough. There were many scars from long-term use of weapons. It seemed that he was indeed a soldier.

Since he was Hodge's friend, he reluctantly let go of his defenses, but he still had a vague feeling that something was wrong.