Walking silently among the houses charred by raging fire, Horn accidentally stepped on and crushed a carbonized bone.
He crouched down, gently touching the ground, where a faint warmth still lingered. A few dark red embers fell from the only remaining wooden framework of the house.
In the spring breeze, the bodies of those Defensive Army members hung on the charred-black trees, swaying with the wind.
These five people had their clothes stripped off, and a "⺧" character was carved with a knife on their foreheads. Their eyes were gouged out, leaving only bloody hollows.
On their chests and bellies, blood-red Falan letters were carved with a knife, reading "Be Grateful, Farmers" and "The Betrayer's End."
Three crows perched on their shoulders, tearing strips of flesh from their faces with their gray beaks.
Deprived of Moliat's protection and becoming accomplices of the short-haired devils, these so-called knight demons once again revealed their true faces.
