This time, I won't be the devil.

Since old Pope Carol was once a fairy tale author, under his order, all children in the Theocracy are qualified to read fairy tale books, even the numbered ones who are experimental subjects are no exception.

And today, the mission of the phantom thief Robin Hood has finally been completed.

Jacob dragged his broken body to an unattended mass grave on the outskirts of the city, where soldiers who died in the holy war were buried.

A large number of old tombstones were stuck in the soil in a crooked manner, with moss covering the surfaces. The words on them had long been blurred, and some were even broken and covered by weeds.

Logically speaking, the remains of the martyrs should be buried uniformly by the Holy See and worshipped regularly, and should not end up in such a miserable state.

But in reality, only those registered soldiers can be named martyrs, and among the victims of the jihad, such registered soldiers account for less than one-tenth of the total.

Those nameless heroes were hastily buried here, and gradually forgotten as time passed.

A gust of wind blew across the grave, rolling up a few dead leaves. The leaves swirled in the air and finally landed gently on a low grave mound.

This is the tomb of the 86th Company.

Those medals of human heroism that symbolize the highest honor have been buried under this small pile of earth that no one cares about.

Jacob knew very well that with his strength, he was not strong enough to take revenge on Cardinal Aesop, who was at the top of the theocracy.

All he could do was to take back the medals that should have belonged to the 86th Company and scare the high-ranking officials of the Church who stole the military merits.

This kind of thing may be meaningless, may just be for self-satisfaction, or may be seen by those bigwigs as nothing more than a child's play that makes a fool of oneself.

But for Jacob, doing things within his ability is his resistance to this damn world.

Thirty years ago, he first went to the Hayek Consortium and got back the pension that the 30th Company deserved.

Since the members of the company had no relatives and no children, Jacob used the money to open an orphanage to adopt war orphans.

After that, he spent 27 years and successfully won back 49 medals. As for the last one, which belonged to him, Jacob no longer cared about it.

Three years ago, after the old Pope died, Jacob could feel that the blessing of the God of Joy had become much weaker, and his body, which had been relying on the blessing of the evil god to survive, began to deteriorate.

In addition, the Vatican canceled the funding for the welfare home, so Jacob was busy helping the children find a way out.

Half a year ago, as the brave man destroyed the Demon King, the power of the evil god was further weakened. Coupled with years of hard work, Jacob fainted.

After leaving a sum of money to the orphanage, Jacob prepared himself for death, but unexpectedly, the children used the money to send him to the hospital.

He was in a coma in the hospital for four months. When he woke up, the holy war between humans and demons had long ended, and even the hero had been forgotten.

The war that lasted for three hundred years came to an end, which should have been a good thing.

But Jacob felt a sense of fear. He realized that the Great Expedition and the 86th Company would become a thing of the past and be forgotten.

After his death, those who falsely claim credit for his achievements will lose their last worries and enjoy life with peace of mind.

That's why he decided to make one last cry to the world before he died.

He wanted to let those thieves know that the 86th Company was still alive.

Walking to the grave, Jacob squatted down and tried to dig up the soil to put the medal in, but he failed.

His body completely lost its strength and he fell against the dead tree next to him.

Looking at Jacob slumped under the tree, Frey, who had been observing from a distance for a while, walked over.

"Do you need my help? I think I'd be pretty good at digging graves."

After noticing someone coming, Jacob gripped the dagger again, and then he found that the person coming was the black-haired young man who sent Sanmao to the hospital last night.

"Are you the commander of this operation?" Jacob asked, looking at the walkie-talkie on Frey's waist.

"This plan was made by the elven princess who cast wind magic. I am just her mouthpiece."

Frey stopped about 50 meters away from Jacob, surrounded by several rock shells.

"Kid, is a dying old man worthy of your vigilance?" Jacob chuckled self-deprecatingly.

"I can't help it. I'm a coward by nature and I don't dare approach a thief with a weapon. Could you please put down the dagger first?"

"What if I say no?"

As the saying goes, a knight never dies empty-handed. The thief Jacob did not seem to intend to surrender, so Frey turned on the intercom and Noel's voice came from it.

"Frey, I'm at the orphanage with my boss. Little Sanmao has already called all the children over. We'll do as you say..."

Before Noelle could finish her words, Frey hung up the intercom.

"Are you planning on threatening me?"

"Not harming innocent children is one of my principles, but I can't guarantee that others will follow my lead," Frey said.

After a while, Jacob sighed deeply, threw the dagger to Frey, and gave up resistance.

He had no choice from the beginning. In his current state, he was obviously no match for the young man in front of him.

"You win. Take me back to the courtroom and ask Qi Si to give you some credit."

Frey took the dagger and explained:

"Don't get me wrong, I'm not in the same group as those guys in the Court of Inquisition."

"Then what is your purpose?"

"I just want to retrieve something from you on behalf of the princess who hired me." Frey said, imitating the lines in the Phantom Thief's preview letter.

"The inheritance of the wealthy Petrarch and the map of the cemetery that you stole from the Hayek Consortium are now owned by the Forest Kingdom. I hope you can return these two items."

After hearing Frey's explanation, Jacob showed an expression of sudden enlightenment.

"Come to think of it, I did take something that didn't belong to me."

After thinking for a while, Jacob said:

"The box containing the map is in the basement of the orphanage."

"And what of Petrarch's legacy?"

"I didn't take it. If I'm guessing correctly, the gold has been returned to its original owner. It should be in the maze now..."

Afterwards, Jacob recounted his bizarre experience in the gold robbery.

After listening to Jacob's story, Frey touched his chin and began to think. At this moment, he found a figure approaching here rapidly from 3 kilometers away.

It's Leonard.

Frey was very surprised. In order to avoid interruption in the conversation, he clearly did not report his location to Leonard.

"My guess was right." Two minutes later, Leonard came to Frey and said slowly:

"This mass grave is under the jurisdiction of the Labyrinth City. According to regulations, it is required to be patrolled regularly. However, since no one is willing to do it, this arduous task is always assigned to me."

"I just didn't expect that those stolen medals were hidden right under my feet."

He looked at the graves of the 86th Company, then looked at Jacob beside him, and said:

"Tell me the truth, and I will help you get justice."

"Is there still justice in the current Holy See of Light?"

Jacob weakly raised his head and looked at the night sky. It was the darkest hour before dawn, and the moonlight was obscured by dark clouds.

"In my opinion, the sky of the Kingdom of Light is darker than that of the Demon Territory." Jacob lowered his head again.

Leonard also stared at the dark night sky, but did not lower his head because of the dark clouds. He stood quietly there until the moonlight reappeared.

“The sun and moon may be obscured by clouds, but their light will not be lost.”

"And the guilty will eventually be punished."

After saying that, Leonard took out a golden badge from the inside of his armor.

After seeing this badge, Frey's confusion was finally resolved.

Before the operation began, the old fox Qis made Leonard sign a contract in the name of supervising the work.

According to the contract, after catching the thief, Leonard must immediately send him back to the Court of Justice and hand him over to Qis.

It is precisely because of the existence of this contract that Qis is confident in letting Frey and Leonard act alone together.

But Leonard was not affected by the contract. There are only two possibilities for this situation.

Or his level must be above 50. For such a strong person, ordinary contracts cannot bind him, but Leonard obviously does not meet this requirement.

Or, he has something with higher authority than the contract.

"Captain Reynard, you really are a hidden talent..."

After sunrise, Frey and Reynard brought the dying Jacob back to the courtroom.

Qi Si was not there at the time, and his subordinates immediately took Jacob into a small dark room and began to torture him.

According to Vatican regulations, violence was not allowed when interrogating prisoners, so the court took another approach.

First use hypnotic magic to make a person fall asleep, then wake him up, and torture the person's spirit by repeating this process over and over again.

But this method of not letting people sleep was repeated dozens of times, and Jacob still did not confess.

Just when this group of subordinates felt helpless, Qi Si walked in with several documents in his hands.

"Phantom Thief Robin Hood, I have already checked your background."

After sending everyone else away, Qis gave a disgusting smile.

"Director Jacob, you don't want the children in the orphanage to encounter any accidents, right?"

Under Qisi's threat, Jacob signed a contract. According to the contract, he would not reveal any information related to the 86th Company. In return, Qisi would not do anything bad to the children in the orphanage.

In order to prevent future troubles, Qi Si used his authority as director to advance the trial process as quickly as possible.

Qi Si was willing to break the rules and execute Jacob before the Pope's birthday and amnesty on the 16th.

He was arrested on the 12th, interrogated on the 13th, convicted on the 14th, and executed on the guillotine on the 15th.

……

On October 10, the sun was shining brightly in the sky. According to the tradition of the Church of Light to execute criminals on cloudy days, no execution could be carried out at that time.

But this little thing was no problem for Qis. He spent a lot of money to invite more than a dozen senior magicians to cast magic together to create the dark cloud.

If the sun comes out, just cover it up.

As the head of the maze city, he has the ability to cover the sky with one hand.

By noon, when the execution was about to take place, the maze city was already covered with dark clouds, and the earth was shrouded in gray.