"The place is nice, but it's a bit gloomy, like a tomb," Lynn commented as if he was visiting the house. "You tried to use candles to disperse the darkness, but this method is not good enough. It is more like a cult meeting place."
The man in black stood in a dark corner where the light could not reach. "Then do you have any suggestions?"
Lynn seemed not to notice the defensive posture of the other party, as if he was chatting with an old friend, and said:
"If you open the window in the right place, the toy store will be filled with sunlight, and it won't be as gloomy as it is now. In addition, you should change your outfit."
"Oh, for God's sake, my friend, you are terribly dressed."
"If you're a spymaster, or the royal coroner, you have nothing to say about your taste."
"But for a toy store owner, it's too gloomy, and..."
Lynn glanced around.
His eyes moved from the stuffed toys on the shelf to the wooden pony in the corner.
"I don't know if you have noticed, but the city we are in is the capital of Toussaint, the hometown of knights. Since it is the hometown of knights, will toys related to knights sell better?"
"Such as wooden swords, wooden shields, etc..."
The man in black said without a smile.
"Your opinion is very informative and I will consider it, but if you don't mind, I would like to ask you a question."
Lynn made a gesture of invitation. "Of course, please speak."
The man in black walked out of the shadow corner and walked to the dividing line between light and darkness.
Half of his body is standing in the light, and half is hidden in the shadows.
"I have heard of your profession and have met you several times before, but I have never had close contact with you."
"I know that your profession relies on hunting monsters for a living, and exchanging monster heads for bounties is the only way for you to survive in this world."
"So, I'm curious about what it's like to be face to face with a monster? Do you have to kill each other to the death every time?"
Lynn Hold the elbow of your right hand with your left hand, clench the five fingers of your right hand, and gently tap your cheek with the fist as if in deep thought.
"Maybe some demon hunters do things like this, but I'm different. I don't rush up to a monster with a silver sword as soon as I see it. If the monster can be talked to, I prefer to use dialogue to solve the problem."
The face of the man in black, which had always shown a serious expression, showed a little surprise.
"Then you are indeed very different from your peers. Tell me, witcher, what do you usually say to monsters that you can talk to? How do you talk to them?"
Lynn didn't answer. His eyes fell on the toys on a shelf behind the man in black.
That shelf was filled with toys that were not finely crafted and obviously had not yet reached the standards for sale.
Most of these toys are cute animals such as rabbits, wild deer, and sheep.
But among these toys, there is only one toy that is incompatible with the other toys.
It was a girl doll wearing a wolf skull and wolf skin as clothing.
This doll is even more exquisite than the toys sold in the toy store below.
But it was placed in the attic with other defective products.
"Why is she pretending to be a she-wolf? To hunt?"
The man in black picked up the doll girl.
"No, she dresses like this just to blend in with the animals. They are not her friends, but she doesn't want to hurt them. She just wants to live a peaceful life."
Lynn asked, "Then would she mind changing her environment? When she gets to the new environment, she will have more than one real friend."
The man in black was stunned.
"Is this a trap set by a hunter with a bow and arrow to attract prey? Someone put a huge reward on her head? Or does the hunter just want to use her head to decorate his collection room?"
Lynn took out a herbal medicine bag from the magic pattern leather bag, and various herbal scents emitted from it.
"No, the hunter invites her from the bottom of his heart. Moreover, she has no similar people here, but beside the hunter, there is a similar person like her."
"His name is Emil Regis Lohorek Tajiv Godefroy, and he likes his friends to call him Regis."
"After finishing Toussaint's affairs, the hunter will return to the north. He has a villa of his own in the upper town of Novigrad."
"When the time comes, he will take Regis and leave with him. Please note that this is not a coercion, but an invitation as a friend."
"If anyone else is willing to visit, I think the host will be happy to do so."
The man in black hesitated for a long time.
"Maybe, maybe not. Can the hunter tell me his name?"
Lynn gave the man in black the courtesy of a knight errant.
"Lynn."
The other party returned the favor, as if he had finally made a major decision.
He handed over the exquisitely crafted doll girl.
"I am Dettlaff van der Eretin. Consider this a gift from you for standing up for me."
Lynn was not polite, took it, and put it into the magic pattern leather bag.
Afterwards, he walked out of the dark and gloomy toy store and came outside.
He squinted his eyes and used his hands to block the harsh sunlight that made him feel uncomfortable due to the sudden change of environment.
"Dettlaff?"
He said to himself.
Having played the Witcher 3, he naturally knows very well:
Dettlaff, this high-level vampire Blood Abstainers, will cause a bloody storm in this city more than twenty years later.
Now Dettlaff, he said that he just wants to live a peaceful life, and he doesn't want to hurt other people.
But the result is that when that time comes, hundreds of people will die because of his anger.
But this does not mean that he is a heinous and evil person.
On the contrary, he is both naive and clear-eyed, and he also helps mankind selflessly.
In the kingdoms of Lyria and Rivia, there was such a legendary story:
Around the 10th century, a very ferocious beast appeared in Lyria, which brought disaster to the countryside and killed countless people.
Later, a hunter went deep into the forest alone and tried his best to kill the beast and eliminate harm to the people.
The bard composed a ballad for him, and his legendary story even spread throughout the Lyria and Rivia kingdoms.
But in fact, it was not the hunter who really killed the beast, but Dettlaff.
At that time, when Dettlaff was still living in Lyria, a child gave him an apple and did not want anything in return.
Later, the child was killed by the Lyria beast.
It was Dettlaff who killed the beast to avenge the child, and placed the beast's body next to a hunter. Therefore, the legendary story of the hunter killing harm for the people actually came from this.
As Regis commented, Dettlaff and Geralt are actually very similar.
The only difference is that Dettlaff is more naive than Geralt and is even less able to understand why humans lie and deceive others.
It was this character that allowed him to make a big mistake more than 20 years later.
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