Just a Dog

Lu Ji's house was turned upside down by the knights under Kaisai.

Kaisai stood outside, watching coldly. To be honest, he had already guessed the truth, but he still couldn't quite believe it in his heart, couldn't believe that Ulu could do such a thing.

So he was waiting for evidence here.

Not long after, a knight jogged out of Lu Ji's room and reported to Kaisai: "Knight Captain, a large amount of blood was indeed found in Father Luigi's room. Would you like to come and see?"

"Of course."

Kaisai impatiently pushed the knight aside and walked straight into Lu Ji's room.

In this era, there was no way to identify a person's identity through blood, but it was possible to use magic to reveal areas stained with blood (of course, within a certain time frame).

As soon as he entered the house, Kaisai saw such a scene.

With the help of the pale blue magical dust floating in the air, the crimson bloodstains were as conspicuous as if they were sprinkled on white snow. They almost covered the entire floor of the room, as if all the blood from a person's body had been drained.

Undoubtedly, with this amount of bleeding, without the assistance of specific magic or divine arts, survival was impossible.

Kaisai narrowed his eyes and said softly, "It seems we have found the true location of Father Luigi's death."

He also recalled Lu Ji's corpse, whose entire lower abdomen was rotten, and there were more than a dozen knife wounds on the body. Those clearly didn't look like normal injuries sustained in combat; the person who killed Lu Ji seemed more like they were venting their anger.

In any case, it could at least be confirmed that Lu Ji did die here, rather than in the "House of Pleasure" bar.

Then only one last question remained.

Who killed Lu Ji?

In fact, the answer to this question was also very obvious. After all, only two people lived in this courtyard, and the other person's room was less than fifty meters away from this room.

Lu Ji was killed, and the other person fifty meters away knew nothing. Was this possible?

...It wasn't impossible, but the Rhine knights didn't need to provide evidence at all, especially regarding Visas's corpse pieces.

But Kaisai's heart was somewhat resistant, resistant to the possible fact that Ulu killed Lu Ji. He didn't want to believe it from the bottom of his heart.

It wasn't because "my old friend would do such a heinous thing" that he couldn't accept it. After all, in terms of friendship alone, Lu Ji was more of Kaisai's friend than Ulu. But if Lu Ji was the one who betrayed Rhine, Kaisai wouldn't find it difficult to accept, and he even felt that it wasn't very surprising for that cunning scoundrel to do such a thing. But it had to be Ulu.

Because in Kaisai's eyes, Ulu was just a dog that he and Lu Ji had raised.

They picked him up in the winter twenty years ago, gave him food, taught him to read, made him a priest, and then...

This was like raising a dog, giving the dog food, giving the dog clothes, letting the dog grow stronger, not so that the dog could be on equal footing with them, but just so that the dog could continue to please them.

But now, this dog... had turned on them.

It had killed its master.

This made Kaisai, who was also a master, feel utterly enraged.

Therefore, Kaisai would rather believe that a heretic used special methods to kill Lu Ji without Ulu's knowledge, than believe that Ulu, this dog, had actually bitten its master.

Unfortunately, more evidence was pointing towards the point Kaisai least wanted to believe.

"Knight Captain! Blood was also found outside!" Not long after, a knight reported from outside.

Kaisai immediately walked out and looked at the area of dug-up soil the knight was pointing to.

Even before getting close, Kaisai could already smell a fishy odor from the soil.

"What's going on?" Kaisai asked.

"According to my speculation, Father Luigi's body should have been buried here for a period of time," the knight said. "But not for too long, it was dug up the next day."

Before Kaisai could speak, another knight jogged over from Ulu's house.

"Knight Captain!" The knight displayed a blood-stained priest's robe in front of Kaisai. "This was found in Father Ulu's room."

Kaisai narrowed his eyes slightly.

Now it matched, everything matched.

Kaisai's mind could already simulate everything that had happened here.

Ulu killed Lu Ji and buried the body. On the day he arrived, Lu Ji's body was buried only fifty meters away from him!

Thinking of this, Kaisai felt a chill run down his spine.

That guy, that dog, that... toy that he and Lu Ji had suppressed for twenty years, could actually do such a thing!

How dare he do such a thing!

Kaisai's body trembled slightly, but not out of fear, but out of anger.

This was the anger of a master threatened by the dog he had raised.

"That guy." He spoke softly. "Where is he?"

Although it hadn't been revealed yet, the knights who were familiar with Kaisai knew that he was on the verge of exploding.

But they really didn't know where Ulu had gone now, so they didn't know how to answer Kaisai.

But just then, a knight pushed three servants in.

"Knight Captain!" The knight pressed the three trembling servants down and then said, "These three were the last to see Father Ulu."

Kaisai's eyes swept across the faces of the three servants, and he nodded slightly.

"Very good," he said softly. "Tell me, where is he?"

Ulu stopped on a familiar yet unfamiliar dirt road.

He looked at the road leading out of the small town with some hesitation.

The reason he called this road familiar was because he had walked it for many years.

But the reason he called it unfamiliar was because he hadn't been here in twenty years.

Since the day he personally set that fire, he had never returned.

He had never thought that one day he would return to this road.

"What's wrong?" Bai Wei's voice sounded in Ulu's mind. "Is there a problem?"

"No, Lord Visas." Ulu came back to his senses and shook his head. "No, there is no problem at all."

He took a deep breath. The cold wind with its chill scraped his nasal cavity painfully, just like... back then.

Then, he lifted his leg and stepped onto this road, which was once the way home.