This Sunday was not good, the top of the head was always gray, and Karl van Burt was in the same mood as the weather, and it was extremely low.

Walking down the wet slate street, he was greeted from time to time—in the town where Karl ran an academy.Unlike the colleges that the noble children of Grey Fort could attend, he also taught to the children of the general public.Therefore, in the border town, he has a high reputation.

"Good morning, Mr. Falbert."

“Sir, is my son doing well?”

"When are you free, Carl, go fishing together."

Karl would always respond to them with a smile, but today he just nodded and didn’t say a word.

Ever since watching Anna’s hanging, the world in his eyes has cracked – or has been there since leaving the Greysburg, but he has deliberately turned a blind eye.He paralyzed himself with his busy work, and the students' innocent smile also covered the cracks to some extent.

It wasn’t until Anna died that he realized that the world had not changed.The rift not only did not disappear, but widened.

For Anna, his memory stayed six months ago.She was not conspicuous among the more than thirty children of the college, ordinary appearance, and not much, but one thing impressed Karl.

That’s her passion for knowledge.No matter what she teaches, whether it is written or history, she can always be the first to remember.Even he himself finds a boring history of religious evolution, and the other side can hold books all day.He had also seen little girls help to take care of the sheep of her neighbors—in the sun, Anna carefully brushed the lambs with their hair, and moved softly as if to take care of the baby.He still remembers the picture, and the girl's smile is sweet and pleasant, and it is impossible to hook up with evil anyway.

Then there was a fire in the neighborhood, and Anna's mother died, and Anna did not return to the college.Until a week ago, she was proved to be a witch, hanged in the square in the center of town.

Seduced by the devil?Unscrupulous people?The evil ones?It's all shit!For the first time in his heart he doubted the Holy See, and for the first time in his mind doubted the knowledge he imparted.

Anna was not a witch he did not know, but the word evil could not be her turn!If a girl who is not yet an adult and is curious about the world can also be called evil, the administrators in the gray castle are all devils from hell!In order to deliberately exchange hundreds of golden dragons, the stone was deliberately exchanged, which led to the collapse of the new district theater construction in the middle of the day, and more than 30 members of the Mason Society died.

But did they go to the gallows?None of them!The judge finally pronounced that the leader of the Masons was improperly built and sentenced to exile, and the Masons ordered the dissolution.And know the inside of the situation, in order to escape the limelight, had to drag the family to escape the gray castle, all the way to the west, and finally to the border town.

He started the college, had many students, met new neighbors, new friends, but the crimes staged in the gray castle were always engraved on his mind.Now, once again, he felt the mockery of the world—what is evil, and can the gods of heaven really see it clearly?

The last straw that overwhelms Carl is Nanawa.

Nanawa is different from Anna, and can even be said to be the exact opposite.She was a very active girl and well-known in the academy.As long as she does not attend class, she rarely sees her stopping, either riding in a tree to make fun of birds, or lying on the grass to roll.When asked what she was doing, she chuckled for a while before she replied that she was listening to the ants and the ants arguing.

Nanawa’s face was always full of laughter, which seemed to her nature.This miserable and difficult world had nothing to do with her, at least in the academy, that she could laugh carelessly.Carl even had a hint of curiosity—did she ever cry from birth to now?

Until two days ago, Nanawa found him crying, "Teacher, will I be hanged like Anna?"

He knew then that his student, Nanawa Payne, had become a witch.

"Ah, isn't that Mr. Fainbert?"Please come here and show us what's written on it."

Karl felt someone pulling his sleeve, and he looked up and found that he had walked to the town square.Many people shouted around the bulletin board, and when they heard the name of Falbert, everyone consciously gave up a road.

"You've come too far, sir, and let's see."

"Yes, it was always Meg's guy who read it, and it turned out to be a stomach ache to go to the bathroom, and he hasn't come back yet."

If it is usual, he will certainly smile and nod, and then explain the contents of the bulletin board to everyone in detail.But now Karl found himself unable to do it—the smiles and enthusiasms of these people did not seem to be fake, but for him it was more intolerable than wearing a mask of a fake smile.

The sign of hanging Anna was so posted on it, and it was so cheerfully discussed.In a sense, you are all murderers, and he says in his heart that your ignorance and ignorance have killed her.

Karl pressed down the emotion, took a breath, and walked up to the announcement list.

"The prince recruited manpower to build a border town, and there are various grades of work to choose from," he read.

But I am also one of the murderers, what is the right to blame them?Aren’t the people who tell them that witches are evil people who are themselves?Karl only felt that the corners of his mouth were bitter, and I looked at what I had said to the children, and I thought I was speaking well to the teachings of the church, damn it!

"The gravel man, asked the man, 20 to 40 years old, strong and strong.Reward 25 bronze eagles a day.”

“Pmud craftsmen, regardless of gender, over 18 years of age, masonry experience, and are paid 45 bronze eagles per day.”

“Wednesmen, men over 18 years of age, are paid 12 bronze eagles a day.”

“...”

No, he must do something, and if Anna's death is irreparable, then at least Nanawa can't be allowed to repeat it.There was a voice in Karl's heart shouting that he had not come forward when the mason would perish, and when Anna was hanged, he did not stand out, did he have to be so silent, watching these lovely children be sent to the gallows?

But what else can he do?Take Nanawa to escape the border town - he has his own family, the family from the gray castle to come here, the situation has just improved and left?Not to mention that Nanawa herself came from a rich family, and did she have a life without a place to live?

“Stone craftsmen, regardless of gender, age is unlimited, all those who have participated in municipal construction, fortifications, fortifications, and fortifications are allowed to be recruited by the city hall for a long time, and one golden dragon is paid every month.”

“Supplementary terms: Experienced and outstanding performance may be granted official positions.”

After reading the notice, the people have already clamored, "the monthly reward of the golden dragon, this is like the long song fortress of the cavalry!"

“But will you?“A cesspool is bad, and a fortress is built?”

"Don't just stare at this, the first few are very good, and if you give every day you get paid, you will not be much less than hunting."

“Indeed, hunting may have lost its life, and the fascination of the forest is not a place to go.”

Karl van Burt paid no attention to this, and all his attention was focused on the final seal and signature of the notice.It was signed by four princes Roland Wimbledon.

Don't the prince know that it will not be long before the month of evil?No matter what he wants to build, it is not a good time to start at this moment.It seems that His Highness Wimbledon could not understand the construction, and if he could draw his attention with the name of the Masonic Society... Karl suddenly came up with an idea in his heart, perhaps through this recruitment, he could see the prince himself, the supreme ruler of the border town.

This thought caused Karl to swallow his mouth and convince the prince that witches were not evil.It is rumored that His Royal Highness the Prince has a unique idea, a different personality from ordinary people, and a great dislike for the church.Maybe it works!He thought that although it was Prince Roland who had finally ordered Anna to be hanged, it could be seen that he was reluctant.

The prince himself was only in his early twenties, and he should have easier to understand how the young girls, who were still in the age of the cardamom, suddenly became the wicked and inexcusable evil?

Of course, there is a possibility that he was sent to the gallows together as a witch.Church law clearly states that anyone who harbours a witch or pleads for a witch should be regarded as a self-defeating cult.

I can only hope that the princes who hate the church also use the law of the church as waste paper.

Carl was praying in his heart.

Although he did not know which god to pray to, he closed his eyes and prayed for blessings.

For the dead Anna, for the still alive Nanawa, for the cracks in his heart no longer expand.

He decided to take that risk.