The Tale of the Alchemist and the Demon

During that time, he almost started a new life.He has someone he loves and lives with him.With academic reputation, many alchemists came here especially.With a family, and a sense of stability and security about the future.

They try many times after their first half-baked sex, digging into each other's bodies and secrets.In this respect, L is actually not that different from a human being, and also has his own sensitive position and excitement, and occasionally praises him when they are both having a lot of fun.He won't admit it, but he does like L□□, and the two switch places occasionally, but both are honest with each other.It's much more enjoyable and easier than communicating with your heart.

Maybe the nightmare in that room has completely gone, and Yue has begun to control his emotions and appearance very well this year.He tried to be the self he was used to.There were occasional strange dreams and omens, but he put them behind him.

He could feel himself bound in the tender web of fate.

But maybe there is no freedom in life.Everything is a false lie.

Maybe.

In addition to the prosperity on the surface, this city also has inherent corruption.The cemeteries in the suburbs are evidence.Many poor people are buried there hastily when they die.Among the dead, there will be gangsters, thieves, orphans, old people abandoned, but no big shots.

Roger is here for the death of a musician friend.He got sick, had no money for treatment, and died.When people found him, his body was already cold, and the manuscript of the score was still scattered beside the bed.Roger paid his rent, loaded his body into a carriage, and brought it here.

It's a little early.But he hopes to bury his friend's body as soon as possible.Anyway, the musician has no other relatives.He was accompanied by several locals, the only one who could be called a gentleman, the businessman who paid for his orphanage, Gush Huami.

They dug a pit and put the musician's body in it.The impromptu priest began to pray for the soul.

This time, however, Roger noticed something was wrong.He walked to another tomb.In the twilight of the morning, he saw the soil of the tomb being turned.

"What's going on?" He couldn't help asking.

Huami also noticed this situation. He came to the grave and touched the soil.They were fresh, no grass or moss, evidently dug up today.But the wooden tombstone in front of it has long been mottled, and even the name of the person is blurred: obviously, someone has dug this tomb.

"This is the cemetery of the poor, and no one will try to dig up burial objects here." Mr. Hua Mi expressed his speculation.

"What should I do, should I report to the investigator?"

Another young man beside them who helped them dig the grave said, "It's useless, the investigators don't care about the people buried here at all."

The pastor made the sign of the cross in front of him: "But this is a sin...God, may God forgive them."

Several people were silent for a while, and Mr. Hua Mi thought for a while: "Maybe they came for these dead."

He set his sights on the grave of the musician: just wrapped in a straw mat and buried hastily.He suddenly felt that at least he couldn't leave this matter alone.

"A person came to my store recently... Maybe he knows what's going on." Finally, Mr. Huami said.

L carefully studied the soil on the grave, and even took a branch to stir up the lower layer of soil himself.

"The bones are gone," he concluded. "This can only be done by an alchemist."

Mr. Hua Mi frowned: "I want to hear your reason for saying that."

L smiled slightly, and looked at him: "You have seen the alchemist who lives with me, haven't you?"

"Well, it is said that he is quite famous."

"He is a genius, and he has done some experiments that others dare not do." L threw down the branch, took the towel handed over by Mr. Huami and wiped the dirt on his hands. "The difference is that he would do it with animals, and he said he would never do it with humans."

"Oh?"

"In other words, other alchemists may not have the same bottom line as him." L thought carefully for a while, and then said. "There should be other graves that have been dug around here, let's check along here."

They circled around the cemetery a few times, and sure enough, they came across many graves where the bones had been dug out.The soil was covered back, but L still found several places.Looking at the traces of these tombs, it should be that the excavation started before the thunderstorm.

"Can I ask? Ryuzaki, what kind of experiments will these bones be used for?"

"As far as I know, there are dozens of possibilities." L bit his thumb.He also already has knowledge of alchemy, maybe more than Yue, but he is not very interested in using this knowledge. "But judging from the people Yue has come into contact with, the alchemists in this city may not be of such a high standard...the biggest possibility is that they are conducting experiments related to the human body, or summoning demons."

"What do you think it is?"

"...I don't know, maybe, just keep paying attention to this guy."

Light was sitting on the side of the tavern by the pier, in fact he loathed such a place so much now that he now had to depend on it.Almost all the sailors here are muscular and bloody sailors, huddled in this place speaking foul language from all over the world.An alchemist like him is not too strange.People know there are always dark deals going on here.

The man he hooked up with sat across from him.Both of them pulled their hoods, deliberately avoiding the other's appearance.Light reached out from under his cloak and placed a vial of potion on the table.

"That's the thing."

"What about the recipe?"

"I'll give it to you when we meet next time. Please check the contents first."

The alchemist on the opposite side showed a hidden smile under his hood, and then also took out a bag of gold coins and put them in his hand.Yue took the bags and checked them, then put them away again.

"I also accepted the deposit." He said.

"Kira... why don't you just join us?" The man licked his lips sickly. "This will be a very interesting experiment. If you join, we can dominate this country or this world..."

"Dominate the country?" Yue originally planned to leave immediately, but seemed to have changed his mind suddenly.He raised the corner of his mouth and showed the other party a confident smile. "What good is it to me to dominate the country?"

"Money, women, pleasure and supreme power." The other party was very frank. "Don't you want it?"

"If you want those, the alchemist will fall under the temptation of desire sooner or later." Yue said unwaveringly. "There have been many ready-made examples before. You are not so unclear, are you?"

"Haha, why don't you tell the church about this? In their view, all alchemists are depraved."

"Strength does not mean corruption."

"Then I'm sorry... It seems that we can't reach an agreement for the time being. Forget it, Ye Shenyue. I hope you have prepared the formula when we meet next time."

After the other party left, Yue didn't think about leaving immediately.He ordered another beer and sat there deep in thought.

They also wanted to summon demons, but the difference between the two sides was too great.The other party is only acting purely for desire, which is completely different from his own principles.They do not even realize the necessity of self-discipline and principles.They are beasts.

If Ryuzaki hadn't been summoned, how would things have developed?Moon stroked the rim of the cup with her fingers.Ryuzaki, L, he made the whole thing tangled up.

I procrastinated not to give the formula, but also to buy time.The function of the potion is mysterious, it is to extract the spiritual components inside the living body.This is an intermediate product made by Yue when he was researching Hormon Cruise that year.Using this thing to process a large number of human bones may be able to precipitate enough spiritual substances.They can then use this substance for the body-soul connection.

The body can also use specially processed dead bodies, but the soul is more complicated.So far, no alchemist has succeeded in creating a soul.This is always the domain of God.

But there should be some way.Perhaps it was for this purpose that they thought of summoning demons.

"However, to use this potion, you need a lot of bones... Let's go to that place and have a look."

He set off for the cemetery in the suburbs.He'd known the place before, but had never been near it.The road to that place was filled with cold mist, as if some ghost still lingered.

Crows yelled and flew by.

He saw a familiar voice slowly appear in the mist.

"...Mr. Yue."

he came.

L had seriously considered not telling Yue what happened today.For some reason, he didn't want Yue to get involved in such shady cases again.But the moment L saw Yue in the cemetery, he knew that neither of them could stay out of it, so he simply let go of these entanglements.The two quickly exchanged information.Yue sorted out all the people he knew, and quickly deduced the general identity of the other party.

"The question is what to do. Just hand them over to the Inquisitor and the City Council..." Light said. "But we are still wanted by neighboring countries..."

"That's right, and the influence of the church is not limited to a country. Even if the king's power cannot cross the border, they are not necessarily."

"But if we report anonymously without evidence, the higher-ups will definitely not believe us, and we will be exposed to those cultists..."

"Are you going to give up? It doesn't matter if they summon demons..."

"No." Yue replied simply. "Let me think about it again."

He won't give up.Yue is now eager to jump into this contingency.

Maybe finding something interesting to make him happy (L thinks so), they rolled on the couch and had sex again that night.The same caresses L's face that day, but he enjoys it more than ever.

He is that kind of person.