Silver Blade and Rose

Zals held the cup in his left hand, slowly moved to the front of the table and sat down, looked up at Edwin: "What do you want to discuss?"

"About your hand."

Edwin's eyes fell on his bandaged arm, and he seemed to want to say something, but changed his words suddenly.

"I'm going to get a cup of coffee." He stood up and hurried out of the room.

Zals was stunned. He used to go downstairs to run errands for such trivial matters. How did Edwin become so diligent?

Then he realized that it was because of his injury, sighed helplessly, and sat on the chair waiting for the other party to come back.

After a while, Elvins poked his head in from the door: "Are you waiting for Abel here?"

"……Correct."

Zales said hesitantly.

"He's whispering to the puppet downstairs," Elvins pointed down, "Would you like to come and eavesdrop?"

This was really not a glorious invitation, but he looked calm, as if he didn't think there was any problem.Zals thought for a while, shook his head and said, "Forget it."

Elvins shrugged, and turned out the door by himself. From Zals' perspective, he was leaning on the railing and listening to the conversation downstairs.

He listened intently and looked very knowledgeable. Even if Zals didn't want to eavesdrop with him, he felt that Edwin might have something important to say to Munn or Hannah downstairs.But Edwin clearly planned to talk to him about something just now, but suddenly changed his mind and went downstairs... So the conversation was related to him?

Elvins, leaning against the rail, caught him looking at him, winked at him, and beckoned.

Zals sighed silently, and finally stood up and walked to his side, and became disgraceful eavesdroppers with him.

"Are you really going to do this?" It was Munn's voice. He was standing next to the sofa with a full cardboard box in his arms, sounding like he didn't quite agree with Edwin's opinion. I don't really want to..."

He deliberately lowered his voice for the latter words, and Zars couldn't hear clearly, but Elvins, who was standing beside him, raised his eyebrows in surprise and turned to look at him.

"……What's wrong?"

"He really values ​​you." Elvins said meaningfully.

Zals didn't understand what charade he was playing, but he intuitively felt that he didn't understand what was important.Elvins didn't want to say it directly. He could only know what he missed when Edwin came back. It should be related to his injury, but...

Since he was mentioned as a human being, it probably wouldn't be an easy topic.He thought a little helplessly.

Elvins had already given him his own blood in the forest, but it didn't work. In fact, he had made plans for long-term recovery and even amputation. If there was a better way, he would try it, but since Lian Even with Dewin's hesitation, maybe that's not a good solution, at least there are disadvantages in one aspect.

He stopped eavesdropping, turned around and entered the room, and Elvins followed, obviously wanting to tell him something.

"Onsastre's black flame can continue to burn without fire on humans. This is one of the ways he uses to abuse human slaves." With a serious face, he told Zha what he couldn't remember in the forest. Erles, "I am a high-ranking demon. His black flame can't pose much threat to me, and it will soon go out by itself, but you are different. As long as ordinary human beings touch a little spark, they will become human fuel, and it won't take long burn to ashes."

Zars frowned and glanced at his right arm.

"But there is nothing abnormal about me now except for my right arm."

He said with some puzzlement.

"That's true, that's why we rest assured to save your injury until now, and decide to do it after you wake up." Elvins nodded, with a little hesitation on his face, "It's just that I didn't expect that he would Going to use that method..."

"What method?" Zars asked alertly.

Elvins hesitated to speak, but finally did not speak.

"You'd better ask him yourself, he will always discuss it with you."

He dodged, afraid that if he said it in advance, someone would be upset, so he changed the subject and said, "Thank you for bringing me out, I have to go back to hell when my strength is fully recovered, and I may have to stay here for a while before that." time."

"It's nothing," he suddenly thanked him with such a solemn attitude, and Zals couldn't ask another question, so he said on this topic, "It was too late yesterday to ask, how did you get trapped in the forest? Are you up?"

He habitually treated Elvins with the attitude of asking questions casually when he was with Edwin. After he said the words, he realized that maybe they didn’t know each other that well. He was about to change his words, but Elvins smiled and said: “I I forgot my real name, so I lost most of my strength. Without you, I might not be able to break free from it. After all, the devil is destined to have desires, and it is really difficult to escape this kind of will test without external force. This is also his choice. What brought you into the forest."

In addition to explaining the reason, he also explained to Edwin. Zars understood what he meant and nodded to show that he knew.

"I should thank you," he said to Elvins, "without the props you made, I probably wouldn't have been able to go into the forest safely."

Elvins wanted to say a few more words, but Edwin interrupted their friendly conversation by pushing in the door.

"What's the point of thanking each other endlessly?" He glanced at Elvins, and he was very clear about the other party's behavior of eavesdropping upstairs with Zars just now, but he didn't say anything, but just mercilessly chased him away. Man, "Go out, I have something to talk to him about."

Zars was stunned for a moment, Elvins had already got up quickly with interest, nodded to him, and left the room like a gust of wind.Edwin didn't care how fast he ran, and sat down opposite Zals, threw the beer and coffee in his hand on the table, looked up at him, and asked, "Did you hear that just now?"

"No... I only heard a little bit." Zales said after deliberation.

He was upstairs and had eye contact with Edwin downstairs just now, and this was the real reason for giving up eavesdropping and returning to the room.Regardless of whether Edwin and Munn are talking about things related to him, eavesdropping has always made him feel bad. Zars still can’t eavesdrop on other people’s conversations like Elvins, Edwin asked He just said it all, as honest as a child who hasn't learned to lie.

Edwin nodded, not caring what he heard, and said directly: "The black flame of Onsastre has a very domineering effect on humans. I can't cure your arm."

He suddenly said something with the same conclusion. Zars opened his eyes wide and didn't know what to say for a moment. After sitting in the chair for a while, he came back to his senses: "...Oh, that's it, it's okay."

In fact, it’s not really okay, he still feels sad, but he’s got used to swallowing himself, and he can’t express his feelings for the time being.He didn't mean what he said, and felt that he was wrong. He lowered his head to avoid Edwin's sight, and it was rare that he couldn't laugh.

"But there is still a solution, I just don't know if you can accept it." Edwin found that he was very disappointed with the naked eye, so he didn't continue to play tricks, and put several highly feasible methods in front of him, "One is as soon as possible Perform an amputation operation, remove the right arm corroded by the black flame, and then install a prosthetic limb; secondly, Ivan and I will control the spread of the black flame, so as not to let it invade all parts of your body in a short period of time, but the risk A little high, once the power is out of balance, it is easy to accelerate its burning."

These two methods are palliative but not the root cause. Zars has thought of it before, but he just doesn't know how feasible it is.But if it's only to this extent... Edwin shouldn't be so hesitant.

"Is there any other way?" He asked softly.

Edwin's voice paused, and he looked back at him.

It has to be said that Zales looks a bit sloppy now.He was wearing a loose sports vest and trousers that Mun found from his room. His right arm was tightly bound with a bandage. Because his hands were inconvenient, he had no time to take care of himself. It's also a mess, the whole person doesn't look much better than the injured in the hospital, but his eyes are very bright, and he looks straight at him when he raises his head.

He seldom looked at Zals so directly, but after he finished, he suddenly couldn't help but think that he and Cerberus really look alike.

Especially when looking straight at people.

After a while, Edwin slowly said the third method that he hadn't said just now.

"The reason why Angsaster's black flame can cause so much damage to you is because you are a complete human body. Because Ivan is a demon with a higher level than him, he didn't suffer much damage. Black The flame will soon go out by itself." He repeated the principle that Elvins said just now, and then proposed a method that Zars had never heard of or thought of, "If it can't change its harm to humans , then, as long as you are no longer human, Black Flame will not let you lose your right hand."

The room was very quiet, as if they could even hear each other's breathing.Zars thought for a long time in this silence, and finally asked: "I am no longer a human being, so what will I become? A demon?"

"Not exactly." Edwin said, "Because I want to overwhelm Onsaste, so I can only do this... or Ivan - after signing the contract, you will become the contract of the upper demon Those who are loyal to the target of the contract also have the blood of demons flowing in their bodies, so they are no longer completely human, nor will they be completely demons."

To put it simply, it was to sell himself to a higher-level demon than Onsastre, and sign a contract of sale in exchange for the blood of the demon, so that Black Flame could no longer continue to burn his body.But at the same time, a very prominent fact to note is that after signing the contract, he will no longer be fully human.

He is not a human being or a demon. To exchange power and blood as a vassal of a high-ranking demon is actually something that some people can't wait for. The result is not bad except that it is irreversible. He will not use this contract to force Zals What does he do.But for some reason, Edwin felt that Zars must be more willing to be a pure human being than to become such an existence.

This is why he discussed with Ivan and even Muen successively.

But to his surprise, Zals just sighed lightly, and then said, "Let me... think about it."

He wandered away for a while, subconsciously stretched out his hand towards the beer on the table, and then Edwin intercepted the target halfway, and touched nothing.

"A wounded man can't drink," Edwin said.

Zals withdrew his left hand slowly, didn't say anything, but couldn't help but think in his heart: The wounded can't drink, and Edwin himself can't drink, so why bring beer upstairs?

Edwin didn't know that he was thinking about such a thing, so he closed his mouth and continued to wait for his answer in silence.Zars suddenly couldn't sit still, feeling uncomfortable being stared at by him, so he stood up abruptly.

"I'm going to walk the dog." He made an excuse casually, "I'll tell you the result after I come back."

Cerberus has to go out for a walk every day. He was not there yesterday, and the big dog must have been bored in the yard. It would be nice to take a walk with him by the way.

He was about to slip out with this thought, but Edwin followed him and stood up.

"It's not convenient for you to lead the dog, let me go with you."