Embers of Embers

Chapter 144 The mystery of the gap
It is still the familiar and cold world. Under the broken ice sheet is the surging dark blue. The huge full moon is half-set on the horizon. You can clearly see the Milky Way running through the night sky, and then the cold howling hammer. Beating everything.
Everything here seems to be an artist's painting, but a bench and the person on the bench suddenly appeared.
As if he had had an extremely long dream, Lorenzo woke up leisurely and looked at everything that was somewhat familiar.
He didn't know how long he had slept, and a thin layer of snowflakes had accumulated on his clothes, but he didn't feel very cold. In front of his field of vision, a familiar man had his back to him, as if he was waiting for something.
"Good morning!"
He turned his head and smiled with a face that was somewhat similar to Lorenzo's.
"May...Danzo?"
Lorenzo covered his head with a headache. It seemed that he was back here again, at the end of the connection, that weird spiritual world, or a place called [The Gap].
In the deepest part of the world corroded by demons, in the deepest part of the connection with darkness, this unknown and strange spiritual world.
"Did you drag me here?"
Lorenzo tried to ask, remembering that the first time he arrived here, it was Metanzo who was secretly causing trouble.
"No, you were involved this time. I'm also curious about what you were doing. Your connection with this place reached its maximum in an instant, and then you fell into the [gap]."
Lorenzo was a little shocked when he heard what he said.
"You mean I got here on my own."
Medanzuo nodded, and then said to him.
"Lorenzo, you have forgotten a lot of things. In fact, you are more complicated than you think."
There was a deep meaning in those similar eyes, as if he was hiding something, something that Lorenzo had almost forgotten, but then Metanzo waved his hand to signal Lorenzo to come over.
Lorenzo also stood up slowly on the bench. He tried to recall how he arrived here, but unlike the first time, his memory became very blurry, like a dream, broken and blurred.
He struggled hard, and the vague memories gradually became clear. He remembered that he stepped into the armor, and then arrived here... It was the original sin armor that made him arrive here.
"Does that damn thing still have this effect?"
Lorenzo remembered Tesla's warning that everyone's first time driving armor was accompanied by extremely unstable risks. No one knew what would happen, so it seemed that this was the risk Lorenzo encountered.
Lorenzo walked slowly to Medanzo's side. Just as he was about to say something, his eyes were caught by the things in front of him. Lorenzo looked at the things in front of him in a daze, in disbelief.
The originally intact ice sheet tends to crumble, and fissures several meters deep appear on it like huge wounds, extending to the end of the field of vision like a spider web. Dark blue seawater surges between the gaps, and the dark Deeper there was the metallic sound of chains rubbing against each other.
[The Gap] is changing. Lorenzo still remembers what it was like when he first came here, but now it seems to be collapsing.
"She is coming."
Suddenly Metanzo said, and before Lorenzo could react, the ice in front of him completely shattered. The surging seawater mixed with the broken ice slag, and the chains danced wildly, bringing with it a biting cold wind.
The bone-chilling cold fell, and a stunning shadow was drawn under the night sky. Then another familiar guest appeared beside Lorenzo. Watson smiled slightly and looked at the two of them kindly.
"You know, I learned about a procedure that will destroy my nerves, and maybe that will trap her completely."
Lorenzo didn't panic too much. For some reason, he always felt that everything was under control as long as Metanzo was by his side, even if Metanzo was just an echoing ghost now.
"No, she is not an enemy for the time being, Lorenzo."
No one expected Metanzo to say this.
"What do you mean?"
Lorenzo looked at Medanzo with some uneasiness. In Lorenzo's creed, Watson, as the pseudo-Holy Grail, even took priority over the threat of Dean Lawrence.
"It's a gift from the devil, what do you think?"
Watson's voice sounded, but she clearly didn't open her mouth, but the voice echoed so ethereal.
She just looked at Lorenzo. He couldn't help but step back slowly and looked at Metanzo and Watson warily. What Lorenzo was most worried about happened. He would not trap Watson forever. She was The cunning devil, the heavy ice-field was broken, and even Metanzo leaned towards her.
"Relax Lorenzo, we are actually on the same front now. She is a threat to us, but...she is also our ally."
Already anticipating Lorenzo's vigilance, Medanzo tried to steady Lorenzo.
"You'd better explain it clearly, Metanzo. It depends on whether I should shoot myself in the head and take everyone to death after I wake up, or whether I should do something else and relax."
Lorenzo said seriously that he had wanted to commit suicide more than once to end this damn and absurd life, but he was still unsure about the characteristics of the pseudo-Holy Grail. The Evangelical Church had produced this imitation of the Holy Grail, but it was not People knew its nature, and even said that it erupted on the Night of Advent before they could even test its characteristics.
No one knows whether Lorenzo's death can put an end to this spread, just like no one knows whether the concept of demons will really completely collapse after killing the Holy Grail. All of this comes from the fact that it has never been confirmed. His words are just stubborn persistence.
"You are still like this Lorenzo. You know very well that you cannot die. Your mission has not been accomplished yet."
Medanzo said leisurely, he knew Lorenzo too well, he still had a lot of things to do, and he would never die easily after achieving these things.
"I thought about it for a long time after you left last time. I was thinking about what [the gap] is, how this weird world exists in this world... and even how I survive. .”
Medanzo said and looked at Watson.
"Just like her, is she the person we once knew, or is she a demon in skin?"
"demon!"
Lorenzo snapped.
"But what am I, Lorenzo?"
Medanzo then asked in reply.
"What is the difference between me and Watson? We are both dead, but we are alive in your mind, living in this weird [gap]. In fact, Watson and I are the same... It's just that There is a slight difference, but can this completely distinguish us?"
Lorenzo was slightly dazed. He wanted to say something to rebut him but couldn't.
"Look, Lorenzo, your thinking is still stuck in the ignorance of the church. Put aside the so-called gods completely and think with absolute reason!"
Medanzo said again.
But after a long pause, Lorenzo's voice sounded again.
"So is this the reason why Watson appeared in front of me? You let her go, you made her reappear...Have you forgotten how much we paid for it?"
Lorenzo was angry about this.
"I paid the price, Lorenzo!"
Medanzo said in a shocked voice, which he always did, shocking his mind, but then he did not continue speaking, but said quietly after a short silence.
"It looks like I've taken over your mind, Lorenzo."
Lorenzo stared at Metanzo, and after he arrived at the [Gap], Watson, who had been almost forgotten by him, appeared.
He initially thought that this was Watson breaking free from the shackles over time as he reconnected with the demons, but now it seems that this is obviously not the case. There was the assistance of Metanzo, the man who killed the dragon, but in the end he was assisting evil dragon.
"Then let's calm down among ourselves."
Lorenzo said slowly after thinking for a long time. He kept a safe distance. This feeling was terrible, as if no one could be trusted anymore.
But he still looked at Medanzo with some reluctance, as if he didn't want to believe that this would happen, and he said.
"Give me a reason, Metanzo, a reason I can accept."
Seeing that Lorenzo was still talking, Medanzo couldn't help but breathed a sigh of relief and said.
"This is because after you left last time, you should have discovered the weirdness of this place. Whether it is me or Watson, we are all trapped here..."
"What do you want to say?"
Lorenzo asked, but as his words fell, the whole world changed.
The ice sheet was completely broken, and the dark blue water poured out from the gap and swallowed everything. Lorenzo could only hold on tightly to the ice floe under his feet, and then rolled in the turbulent waves, but just as he was about to be swept up by the surging waves. When the waves crashed down, everything fell silent again, as if an extreme low temperature passed by, and the ferocious roaring sea was frozen.
Just like a painter's random strokes, the entire world of oil painting is thrown into chaos.
"This...is a world controlled by us."
Metanzo's voice sounded again. Unlike Lorenzo's embarrassment, his position did not change at all, as if he was protected by an unknown force. Neither the tide nor the broken ice could disturb him.
"A world we control?"
Lorenzo climbed up from the ice. This is the [Gap], the [Gap] with the deepest connection to darkness. How could it be a world controlled by Lorenzo.
"Yes, this is your shortcoming Lorenzo, you are too angry, so angry that you never try to think about the monster."
"Thinking about them? I think the meaning of their existence is to be killed and eradicated completely!"
Lorenzo said angrily.
"So you're so blinded by anger that you don't realize the great wealth that surrounds you."
Metanzo said with some distress, Lorenzo is a smart man, but smart people are sometimes blinded by a leaf.
"We have never understood the demons from beginning to end, because of their strange erosion, their extremely aggressive nature, and their inability to speak human language."
Medanzo once again displays his off-kilter sense of humor.
"But didn't you notice, Lorenzo."
He looked at Watson aside.
"We are surrounded by the first demon who can communicate normally without worrying about erosion. She is a replica of the holy Holy Grail, a man-made natural disaster, and also our best friend."
A faint smile appeared on Watson's familiar face, just like before.
"I should have thought of that."
Medanzo said to Watson.
"You're making a deal with the devil! Making a deal with the devil!"
Lorenzo still seems to be unable to accept it. He is extremely resistant to Watson, just like he witnessed the burning of the Cathedral of San Naro. The fire that night has not been extinguished and is still burning in his heart.
"But aren't we demon hunters ourselves descended from demons? Lorenzo, some wrong decisions can bring about right results."
Metanzo asked again.
Then Medanzo seemed to have figured something out. Words are never the best way to convince someone, only letting him see it with his own eyes is enough, he said to Watson.
"Show him."
"you sure?"
"This is a great opportunity."
Watson nodded.
"Okay, but you have to remember, this all comes at a price."
Just like a deal, no contract or signature is required, everything is only reached through words.
Lorenzo looked at them, as if something was about to happen. He stepped on the ice floes that had been frozen and splashed. Under an unknown force, it was like a forest of ice. The ice made of sea water is still a step slower.
It was an indescribable feeling, as if your brain was opened in an instant, and all the closed barriers were shattered in an instant, finally revealing the real world.
It was as if there was a sword blade that far exceeded the cognitive dimension. It was cut down in an instant and split open the whole world. Lorenzo could not express the scene at this moment in words. A huge black crack appeared in his field of vision. It was not a kind of The fixed scars seem to act directly on the entire space, and they look the same no matter which angle you look at them.
A gap was cut out in the [Gap], and the cage of confinement was opened.
"Medanzo, you are crazy!"
Lorenzo roared. Sure enough, no matter how stubborn the demon hunter is, he will go crazy if he is locked up with the demon for a long time, not to mention that she is still the false Holy Grail and the person that Metanzo misses deeply. He should not believe him, just like As Metanzo said, he is dead, and he is no longer the Metanzo.
After smashing through the clumps of ice, Lorenzo staggered towards the two of them. He violently raised his fist, but Metanzo held him tightly, preventing him from moving down even half a inch.
"Be sensible, Lorenzo."
Medanzo didn't even look at him. He just looked at the crack that cut across the world. There seemed to be something in the deep darkness.
"Lorenzo, what do you think [the gap] is?"
Medanzo was still answering questions calmly during this damn time.
"I just think you're trying to let her go!"
"She won't leave. Actually, haven't you thought about it? Lorenzo, the erosion is mutual. When you feel the oppression of the demon, the erosion of the demon is also integrated into your will... just like now."
Metanzo let go of his hand, and just as he said, Watson didn't make any unnecessary moves from beginning to end, just watching Lorenzo vent his long-accumulated anger.
"Look there, Lorenzo, and you'll understand."
At this moment, Metanzo finally showed his power. He held down Lorenzo's head and forced him to look there. His movements were as skillful as he had done to Lorenzo many times before.
Lorenzo was still struggling a little at first, but soon his struggle stopped, and his anger towards the demon gradually subsided. He looked rationally into the dark crack. Whether it was out of fear of the unknown or confusion, Lorenzo Zuo felt his blood run cold.
"what is that?"
he asked.
"【gap】."
"【gap】?"
Medanzo said firmly again.
"That's right... [gap], another [gap]."
After looking at the deep darkness, Metazord said with some joy.
"Congratulations Lorenzo, we are one step closer to the truth about the demon."
After the crack in the darkness, outside this [gap], there is endless darkness, but in this darkness there are a few faint starlights, and near the [gap] where Lorenzo and others are, there are There are stars as bright as the day.
　Changed the outline, many settings have to be advanced, these chapters are a bit difficult to write
　
(End of this chapter)