our family is gone

Chapter 8 Veterans
Now it was the woman's turn to hesitate, thinking of Lance's smile just now, something she had never dared to ask for, and seeing his compassionate face now, she couldn't help trembling.

"Sorry, we are late." Lance seized this opportunity to hug the woman without fear, and softly comforted: "There will be no such things in the future, I will protect you, and I will let you be full rice, I will..."

Saying that he gave her a weak "blessing" secretly, a warm current surged from the bottom of the woman's heart and awakened the tears that had dried up, and she burst into tears like a burst bank, and the iron piece in her hand followed. fell to the ground.

Leonard couldn't help being startled when he saw this scene, and the hand holding the sword hilt couldn't help tightening.

He remembered the statue of the Virgin Mary holding the Son of Mercy that he saw in the church when he was a child, and at this moment it overlapped with Lance.

Is this the savior!
Even Disma with a rough personality is a great shock. No nobleman has ever been willing to get close to a dirty commoner, let alone hug him.

Aristocrats can't make mistakes, but this man chooses to take responsibility that doesn't belong to him, admits his mistakes to the common people and even allows them to beat and scold him.

At this time, Disma only felt a steady stream of strength pouring out of his tired body, and he knew that he would follow the glory of the lord to be redeemed!

Seeing that almost Lance stopped pretending and let go of the woman.

To be honest, he grew up in modern society with a bit of cleanliness, and he still dislikes women's dirty and tattered clothes touching him, not to mention the sour smell on his body, but in order to create a character, he can only be hard-nosed on.

After appeasing the woman, Lance came to the bed and looked at the man lying on it.

His beard and hair are gray, and he is already very old at a glance. His face is as pale as a dead person, his right eye is covered by a black eyepatch, and there is an obvious wound on his right shoulder, which is covered with a piece of rag.

Lance frowned and lifted the rag to reveal the festering wound inside.

"It's still alive~" Disma was a little surprised.

That's right, if it were an ordinary person who suffered such serious injuries and endured so many days of pain, he would have died long ago. Now this person is still alive. Although his breath is so weak that it is almost imperceptible, there are indeed signs of life.

"She is taking care of him, otherwise no matter how strong your physique is, you can't match the scythe of death." Lance looked at the surrounding environment and commented, then turned to look at the woman, "Why did you save him?"

Are women crazy?
In the eyes of those townspeople, she was really crazy after everything she experienced, otherwise how could she even want to save others even if she couldn't get enough to eat~
But Lance could feel that she was more like falling into some kind of hysteria, pouring her feelings for her dead husband and son into this mercenary.

His not dead means that her husband and son are still alive.

But in fact, she also knows that this is just an emotional sustenance, and now that Lance has disrupted the situation, she has recognized the truth, otherwise she would not break down and burst into tears.

"Because he saved my son..."

As the woman spoke slowly, the three of Lance also heard stories that were somewhat different from those of the clerk.

The bandits didn't attack the town from the very beginning. Before that, they just suddenly appeared on the old road to rob the passing caravans. Those caravans recruited mercenary guards for safety. This actually stimulated the town's economy. Many mercenaries came to beg for life.

It's just that the bandits suddenly started attacking the town more than half a month ago, and the mayor directly recruited young men from among the townspeople, and the woman's husband was one of them who was dragged by the mayor to become a militiaman.

There is a team of knights and priests in the church in the town. Although they didn’t move out, there is still a deterrent. In addition to the mercenaries who came to beg for a living and the militiamen who were forcibly recruited by the mayor, they really resisted the bandits’ attack from the very beginning. , there is a see-saw between the two.

One of these mercenaries was an experienced veteran. While the rest of the mercenaries were having a good time, he organized militiamen and townspeople to explain his training methods in the square. Anyone who wanted to learn about self-protection skills was encouraged to participate.

Until one day, the war broke out without warning, but this time the bandits pulled a few cannons from somewhere, directly defeated the town's defense force, broke in, burned, killed and looted.

The knights of the church retreated to the church, the mayor ran away, and the woman's husband died and was torn apart by shells in the first confrontation.

Only veterans were left to lead the rest of the militia to defend and cover the retreat of the townspeople.

During the battle, in order to protect her son, the veteran was pierced through the right shoulder by the bandit with a sword, but a shell finally took away her son's life, and the veteran fell on the battlefield.

Instead of fleeing with those people, she took advantage of the chaos and dragged the veteran back under the ruins of the collapsed building to escape the looting of the bandits.

After the bandits left, they dragged the veteran back home, and of course the... son.

Lance followed the woman's gaze to the straw mat in the corner of the room. He hadn't noticed it just now, but now he knows what's in it without saying anything. It seems that this is the source of the stench.

Lance sighed, and lifted the straw mat under the watchful eyes of several people, and the already decomposed corpse appeared in front of everyone's eyes. Judging from the skeleton, it looked about six or seven years old.

It has to be said that the impact was very strong, even though Lance was already mentally prepared, this moment still made him realize the cruelty of this world.

That's the fear of death~
And Disma was even more excited than Lance when he saw the child's body, gnashing his teeth and screaming.

"I must slit their throats!"

But Lance didn't mean to be frightened by this, instead he looked back at everyone and said sharply:

"Anger will blind your eyes, and calmness is the sharp edge we use to kill evil."

Disma's excitement subsided, and only then did Lance turn to look at the woman, "The dead are gone, but the living still need to live. Now please let us give the child the last peace."

The woman looked at the corpse with tears in her eyes again, and finally nodded in agreement, but turned her head to cover her face and wept in the next second.

"No, ma'am, please look over here."

Lance guided her to look at the corpse, while he solemnly came to the corpse and raised his hand, muttering something.

"I will give you rest~"

[Sacrifice] was activated, and the child's body was swallowed by the void in the next second, and in the eyes of the woman, her child's bones disappeared in an instant. This scene directly stunned her, but she instinctively wanted to come over in the next second.

"Child! My child!"

"Don't worry, he has entered the kingdom of God, where there will be no more war and death, nor hunger and disease, and he will be happy forever."

"Really?"

"real."

(End of this chapter)