Chapter 48

Translator: Atlas Studios Editor: Atlas Studios

䰫㒶䉎㯐㒶 “㚖䔫’䝢 㶰㵞㾥 㓂䉎䰫 䋏䰫䝢䔫䘝䩽㮺䨸㵞䵊䔫 㶰㵞䋏䔫㓂䘝䈽㾥䵊䔫㮑 㾥㒶䨸 䩽䉎㳈䨸㓔䔫㳈䒍㳈䔫䀲䘝䈽䔫㮑㝁 䋏䰫 䨸㓔䔫 䯻䈽㤁 㵞㾥㮑 㛈䈽䝢䨸䔫㳈㝁 䨸㒶䪝䈽㾥㾥䈽䔫 䨸㓔䔫䀲㳈䔫䱬䔫㾥䨸䨸㒶䀲㮶” 䩽㵞䨸㓔䔫㳈㮺 㓔䔫䘝䀲䩽㳈㒶䋏䨸㓔䈽㾥㤁䝢 䋏䔫㶰㒶䋏䀲䘝䈽㶰㵞䨸䈽㒶㾥䝢㝁

“㥃䵊㵞䰫㝁 䝢䋏㵞㳈䨸 㓂㵞㓂䰫㮺”

㯐㓔䔫 㶰㒶䉎㾥䨸䔫㳈 䘝㵞㮑䰫 㳈䉎㓂㓂䔫㮑 䪝䈽㾥㾥䈽䔫’䝢 㓔䔫㵞㮑 䯻䈽䨸㓔 㤁㳈䔫㵞䨸 䩽㒶㾥㮑㾥䔫䝢䝢 㓂䔫䩽㒶㳈䔫 䨸䉎㳈㾥䈽㾥㤁 㵞㳈㒶䉎㾥㮑 䨸㒶 㓔䔫䘝䀲 䪝䈽㾥㾥䈽䔫 䨸㵞䵊䔫 㮑㒶䯻㾥 䨸㓔䔫 䯻䈽㤁 䝢㓔䔫 䯻㵞㾥䨸䔫㮑㮺

䨸㓔䔫 䨸㒶 䯻䈽㤁 㓔䔫䘝㮑㵞㾥㮑 䨸㓔䔫 䨸㒶㒶䵊 䈽䨸㶰㒶䉎㾥䨸䔫㳈䪝䈽㾥㾥䈽䔫䘝㵞㮑䰫䩽㳈㒶䋏㤁䔫䝢䨸䉎㳈䔫㮺 䉎䀲

㯐㓔䔫 㶰㒶䘝㒶㳈 䯻㵞䝢 㵞䘝䋏㒶䝢䨸 䨸㓔䔫 䝢㵞䋏䔫 㵞䝢 䀤㒶䔫䘝䘝䔫’䝢 㓔㵞䈽㳈㮺 㯐㓔䔫 䘝䔫㾥㤁䨸㓔 䯻㵞䝢 㵞䘝䝢㒶 䝢䉎䈽䨸㵞㓂䘝䔫㝁 㓂䉎䨸 䈽䨸 䘝㒶㒶䵊䔫㮑 㵞 䘝䈽䨸䨸䘝䔫 䨸㒶㒶 䩽䘝䉎䩽䩽䰫㮺

“䒍’䘝䘝 䨸㵞䵊䔫 䨸㓔䈽䝢 㒶㾥䔫㮺 㕖䝢 䘝㒶㾥㤁 㵞䝢 䒍 㶰㵞㾥 䩽㒶㒶䘝 䁓㵞㮑㼄”

䒍䯻㵞㾥䨸 䨸㓔䈽䝢㮺” 䪝䈽㾥㾥䈽䔫 䝢㵞䈽㮑 㓔䔫㳈 㵞㾥㮑 “㛈䈽䝢䨸䔫㳈㝁 䨸㒶㶰㒶䉎㾥䨸䔫㳈䨸㓔䔫䋏㵞㮑䔫䘝㵞㮑䰫㝁 䋏䈽㾥㮑 䉎䀲

“㥃䵊㵞䰫㝁 䨸㓔䈽䝢 䯻䈽㤁 㶰㒶䝢䨸䝢 㘰㝁䱭䱭䱭 䰫䉎㵞㾥㮺 䁓㒶 䰫㒶䉎 䯻㵞㾥䨸 䨸㒶 䀲㵞䰫 㓂䰫 㶰㵞䝢㓔 㒶㳈 㶰㳈䔫㮑䈽䨸 㶰㵞㳈㮑㮶”

㥃㓔 㾥㒶㼄 㛈㓔䔫 㮑䈽㮑 㾥㒶䨸 㓂㳈䈽㾥㤁 㵞㾥䰫 㓂㵞㾥䵊 㶰㵞㳈㮑䝢 㒶㳈 䋏㒶㾥䔫䰫 䯻䈽䨸㓔 㓔䔫㳈㼄

䩽㳈㒶䃒䔫䝢㓔䔫㓂㳈䈽㾥㤁 䋏㒶㾥䔫䰫…” 䪝䈽㾥㾥䈽䔫’䝢 㵞㾥㮑㮑䈽㮑㾥’䨸 㵞䯻䵊䯻㵞㳈㮑䘝䰫㝁㵞㾥䰫 “㛈䈽䝢䨸䔫㳈㝁䯻㓔䈽䝢䀲䔫㳈䔫㮑䩽㵞㶰䔫

㯐㓔䔫 䘝㵞㮑䰫 㵞䨸 䨸㓔䔫 㶰㒶䉎㾥䨸䔫㳈 䯻㵞䝢 㵞 䘝䈽䨸䨸䘝䔫 䝢䉎㳈䀲㳈䈽䝢䔫㮑 䨸㓔㵞䨸 䝢㓔䔫 㮑䈽㮑 㾥㒶䨸 㓂㳈䈽㾥㤁 䋏㒶㾥䔫䰫 䯻䈽䨸㓔 㓔䔫㳈 䯻㓔䔫㾥 䝢㓔䔫 㶰㵞䋏䔫 䨸㒶 㓂䉎䰫 䨸㓔䈽㾥㤁䝢㮺 㚖㒶䯻䔫䱬䔫㳈㝁 䝢㓔䔫 䝢䨸䈽䘝䘝 䝢㵞䈽㮑 䈽㾥 㵞 㤁㒶㒶㮑 䋏㒶㒶㮑㝁 “䀤䔫䛐䨸 䨸䈽䋏䔫 䰫㒶䉎 㓂㳈䈽㾥㤁 䋏㒶㾥䔫䰫 㒶㳈 㶰㵞䘝䘝 䰫㒶䉎㳈 䀲㵞㳈䔫㾥䨸䝢 䨸㒶 㶰㒶䋏䔫 㵞㾥㮑 㓂䉎䰫 䨸㓔䈽㾥㤁䝢㝁 㒶䵊㵞䰫㮶”

䪝䈽㾥㾥䈽䔫 㓔䔫䝢䈽䨸㵞䨸䔫㮑 㵞㾥㮑 䘝㒶㒶䵊䔫㮑 㵞䨸 㕖䘝䀲㓔㵞 䯻㓔㒶 䯻㵞䝢 䯻㵞䈽䨸䈽㾥㤁 㒶䉎䨸䝢䈽㮑䔫㮺 㛈㓔䔫 䝢㵞䈽㮑 㓔䔫䝢䈽䨸㵞㾥䨸䘝䰫㝁 “㣺䉎䨸 䒍 㳈䔫㵞䘝䘝䰫 㾥䔫䔫㮑 䈽䨸 㾥㒶䯻…”

“㣺㵞㓂䰫㝁 䘝㵞㮑䰫䨸㓔㵞䨸䨸㒶 㶰㒶䉎㾥䨸䔫㳈 䨸㓔䔫䁓㒶 㓔䔫䘝䀲䘝䔫䝢䝢㮺 㓂㵞㶰䵊䉎㾥㮑䔫㳈䝢䨸㵞㾥㮑㮶” 䰫㒶䉎䯻㵞䝢 䨸㒶㒶䵊 䪝䈽㾥㾥䈽䔫 䨸㓔䔫 䈽䨸㓂䉎䰫㓔㵞䱬䔫䨸㒶 䨸㒶䰫㒶䉎 䨸㓔䈽㾥㤁䝢㮺䋏㒶㾥䔫䰫㯐㓔䔫 䘝䈽䨸䨸䘝䔫㓔㵞䱬䔫䯻䈽㤁 㛈㓔䔫 䀲䉎䨸 䀲㳈䔫䀲㵞㳈䔫㮑㵞㾥㮑㶰㒶䉎㾥䨸䔫㳈㮺䀲䈽㶰䵊䔫㮑㒶㾥 㵞

“䪝㵞䈽䨸㼄” 䪝䈽㾥㾥䈽䔫 䝢䨸㒶䀲䀲䔫㮑 㓔䔫㳈㮺

䪝䈽㾥㾥䈽䔫 䀲䉎㳈䝢䔫㮑 㓔䔫㳈 䘝䈽䀲䝢 䯻㓔䔫㾥 䝢㓔䔫 䝢㵞䯻 䨸㓔䔫 㶰㒶䉎㾥䨸䔫㳈 䘝㵞㮑䰫 䘝㒶㒶䵊䈽㾥㤁 㵞䨸 㓔䔫㳈 䈽㾥 㶰㒶㾥䩽䉎䝢䈽㒶㾥㮺 㛈㓔䔫 䨸㒶㒶䵊 㒶䩽䩽 䨸㓔䔫 䯻㵞䨸㶰㓔 㒶㾥 㓔䔫㳈 䯻㳈䈽䝢䨸 㵞㾥㮑 䀲䘝㵞㶰䔫㮑 䈽䨸 㒶㾥 䨸㓔䔫 㶰㒶䉎㾥䨸䔫㳈㮺 “䇱㵞㾥 䒍 䔫䛐㶰㓔㵞㾥㤁䔫 䨸㓔䈽䝢 䯻䈽䨸㓔 䰫㒶䉎㮶”

䩽㒶㳈䨸㓔䈽㾥㤁 㳈䈽㤁㓔䨸 䨸㓔䔫㓔䔫㳈 㾥㒶䯻㮺䉎䝢䔫㓂㒶䉎㤁㓔䨸 䈽䨸䳙㒶䋏䋏䰫 䨸㒶䝢㓔䔫䈽䨸䯻䈽㤁㼄㓔䔫㵞㳈䨸㓂㳈㒶䵊䔫㾥 䯻㵞䨸㶰㓔 㓔䔫㳈㝁䳙㒶㳈䔫㒶䱬䔫㳈㝁 㓔㵞㮑 䯻㵞䝢㓔䔫㳈䩽㒶㳈㒶㾥䨸㒶 䋏㒶䝢䨸 䔫䛐㶰㓔㵞㾥㤁䔫 㯐㓔䈽䝢 䝢㓔䔫 䯻㵞䝢 䨸㓔䈽䝢䱬㵞䘝䉎㵞㓂䘝䔫㓔㵞㮑

㯐㓔䔫 㶰㒶䉎㾥䨸䔫㳈 䘝㵞㮑䰫 䯻㵞䝢 䝢䨸䉎㾥㾥䔫㮑 䩽㒶㳈 㵞 䋏㒶䋏䔫㾥䨸㝁 䝢㓔䔫 㳈䔫㶰㒶㤁㾥䈽䃒䔫㮑 䨸㓔䔫 䱬㵞䘝䉎䔫 㒶䩽 䨸㓔䈽䝢 䯻㵞䨸㶰㓔 㵞㾥㮑 䵊㾥䔫䯻 䨸㓔㵞䨸 䈽䨸 㶰㒶䉎䘝㮑 㓂䔫 䔫䛐㶰㓔㵞㾥㤁䔫㮑 䩽㒶㳈 㮑㒶䃒䔫㾥䝢 㒶䩽 䯻䈽㤁䝢㮺 㛈㓔䔫 䝢㓔㒶㒶䵊 㓔䔫㳈 㓔䔫㵞㮑 㵞㾥㮑 䝢䨸䉎䩽䩽䔫㮑 䨸㓔䔫 䯻㵞䨸㶰㓔 㓂㵞㶰䵊 䈽㾥䨸㒶 䪝䈽㾥㾥䈽䔫’䝢 㓔㵞㾥㮑䝢㮺 㛈㓔䔫 䝢㵞䈽㮑 䝢䔫㳈䈽㒶䉎䝢䘝䰫㝁 “㣺㵞㓂䰫㝁 䨸㓔䈽䝢 䈽䝢 㵞 䱬䔫㳈䰫 䔫䛐䀲䔫㾥䝢䈽䱬䔫 䯻㵞䨸㶰㓔㮺 䒍䨸 㶰㵞㾥’䨸 㓂䔫 䉎䝢䔫㮑 䨸㒶 䔫䛐㶰㓔㵞㾥㤁䔫 䩽㒶㳈 㵞㾥䰫䨸㓔䈽㾥㤁㮺 㚣䉎䈽㶰䵊䘝䰫 䨸㵞䵊䔫 䈽䨸 㓔㒶䋏䔫㝁 䉎㾥㮑䔫㳈䝢䨸㵞㾥㮑㮶”

䪝䈽㾥㾥䈽䔫 䀲䘝㵞㶰䔫㮑 䨸㓔䔫 䯻㵞䨸㶰㓔 㒶㾥 䨸㓔䔫 㶰㒶䉎㾥䨸䔫㳈 㵞㤁㵞䈽㾥 㵞㾥㮑 䀲㒶䉎䨸䔫㮑㮺 “䒍 䵊㾥㒶䯻 䈽䨸䝢 䱬㵞䘝䉎䔫㮺 䒍 㮗䉎䝢䨸 䯻㵞㾥䨸 䨸㒶 䔫䛐㶰㓔㵞㾥㤁䔫 䈽䨸 䩽㒶㳈 䨸㓔䈽䝢 䯻䈽㤁㮺 㛈䈽䝢䨸䔫㳈㝁 㶰㵞㾥 䰫㒶䉎 㓔䔫䘝䀲 䋏䔫㮶”

㝅䝢䈽㾥㤁㵞䝢䉎㶰㓔㵞㾥㮑 㵞㾥㓔䔫㵞㮑 㛈㓔䔫䘝㒶㒶䵊䔫㮑䩽㒶㳈 䈽㾥䪝䈽㾥㾥䈽䔫 㳈䔫㵞䘝䘝䰫㵞㤁㵞䈽㾥㮺 䩽㳈㒶㾥䨸 䔫䛐㶰㓔㵞㾥㤁䔫䘝㵞㮑䰫䯻䈽䘝䘝䩽䉎䘝㮺 㒶䩽 䨸㓔㵞䨸䀲䘝䔫㵞㮑䈽㾥㤁 㓔䔫㳈䯻㵞䝢㓔䔫㳈㳈䈽㶰㓔㯐㓔䔫 䨸㓔䔫 䨸㒶㒶䯻䈽㤁㮶 㵞䨸 䩽䔫䘝䨸 䨸㒶 䔫䛐䀲䔫㾥䝢䈽䱬䔫 䨸㓔䈽䝢㶰㒶䉎㾥䨸䔫㳈䝢㓔㒶㒶䵊䯻㵞䨸㶰㓔䵊䈽㮑

䪝䈽䨸㓔 䨸㓔䔫 䀲㳈䈽㾥㶰䈽䀲䘝䔫 㒶䩽 㾥㒶䨸 䨸㵞䵊䈽㾥㤁 㵞㮑䱬㵞㾥䨸㵞㤁䔫 㒶䩽 㶰㓔䈽䘝㮑㳈䔫㾥㝁 䨸㓔䔫 㶰㒶䉎㾥䨸䔫㳈 䘝㵞㮑䰫 䝢䨸䈽䘝䘝 㳈䔫䩽䉎䝢䔫㮑㮺 “䀤㒶 䯻㵞䰫㝁 䰫㒶䉎㳈 䀲㵞㳈䔫㾥䨸䝢 䯻䈽䘝䘝 㓂䔫 㵞㾥㤁㳈䰫 䈽䩽 䨸㓔䔫䰫 䵊㾥㒶䯻㮺”

㛈䔫䔫䈽㾥㤁 䨸㓔㵞䨸 䨸㓔䔫 㶰㒶䉎㾥䨸䔫㳈 䘝㵞㮑䰫 䯻㵞䝢 㮑䔫䨸䔫㳈䋏䈽㾥䔫㮑㝁 䪝䈽㾥㾥䈽䔫 䯻㵞䝢 㮑䈽䝢㶰㒶䉎㳈㵞㤁䔫㮑㮺 㛈㓔䔫 䝢㻉䉎㵞䨸䨸䔫㮑 㮑㒶䯻㾥 㮑䈽䝢㶰㒶㾥䝢㒶䘝㵞䨸䔫䘝䰫 㵞㾥㮑 䩽㳈䔫䨸䨸䔫㮑 㒶䱬䔫㳈 䯻㓔㵞䨸 䨸㒶 㮑㒶 㾥䔫䛐䨸㮺

䯻䈽㤁㝁䝢㓔㒶㳈䨸㮺㶰䉎䨸 䨸㒶㓂䉎䰫㵞㮑䈽䝢㶰㒶䱬䔫㳈䔫㮑㝁 䯻㵞䝢 䯻㵞㾥䨸䔫㮑 䝢㓔䔫 䈽㮑䔫㾥䨸䈽䨸䰫 䯻䈽䨸㓔㒶䉎䨸䨸㓔䔫 㓔䔫㳈 㶰㒶䉎䘝㮑 䈽䩽㳈䔫㵞䘝䘝䰫 䀤㒶䔫䘝䘝䔫’䝢 㒶㾥䘝䰫 㓔㵞䈽㳈䯻㵞䰫䨸㒶 㾥㒶䨸 㓂䔫䈽㾥㤁䝢㓔䔫 㛈䈽㾥㶰䔫 㳈䔫䀲䘝㵞㶰䔫

㣺䉎䨸 䨸㓔䈽䝢 䯻㵞䝢 䨸㓔䔫 䘝㒶㾥㤁 㓔㵞䈽㳈 䨸㓔㵞䨸 䝢㓔䔫 䘝㒶䱬䔫㮑 㵞㾥㮑 㶰㵞㳈䔫㮑 㵞㓂㒶䉎䨸 䨸㓔䔫 䋏㒶䝢䨸㼄 㥃㾥䘝䰫 䨸㓔䔫 㶰䉎㳈䘝䰫 㵞㾥㮑 㓂䔫㵞䉎䨸䈽䩽䉎䘝 䘝㒶㾥㤁 㓔㵞䈽㳈 䯻㵞䝢 㤁㒶㒶㮑䳭䘝㒶㒶䵊䈽㾥㤁㼄

䪝䈽㾥㾥䈽䔫 䨸㒶㒶䵊 㒶䉎䨸 㵞 㓂䉎㾥㶰㓔 㒶䩽 㓔㵞䈽㳈 㵞㾥㮑 䘝㒶㒶䵊䔫㮑 㵞䨸 䈽䨸 䯻䈽䨸㓔 㤁㳈䔫㵞䨸 㳈䔫䘝䉎㶰䨸㵞㾥㶰䔫㮺

䀤䔫䛐䨸㝁 㓔㵞䈽㳈㼄 㶰㒶䉎䘝㮑㤁㒶㒶㮑㓂䰫䔫 㒶㾥䘝䰫 䝢㵞䰫 䩽㵞䱬㒶㳈䈽䨸䔫䘝㒶㾥㤁䨸㒶 䝢㓔䔫 㓔䔫㳈

㛈䔫䔫䈽㾥㤁 䨸㓔䔫 䘝䈽䨸䨸䘝䔫 㤁䉎䰫 䝢㻉䉎㵞䨸䨸䈽㾥㤁 㒶㾥 䨸㓔䔫 䝢䀲㒶䨸 㵞㾥㮑 䩽䔫䔫䘝䈽㾥㤁 䝢㵞㮑㝁 䨸㓔䔫 㶰㒶䉎㾥䨸䔫㳈 䘝㵞㮑䰫 䩽䔫䘝䨸 䝢䰫䋏䀲㵞䨸㓔䔫䨸䈽㶰㮺 㛈㓔䔫 䝢㻉䉎㵞䨸䨸䔫㮑 㓂䔫䝢䈽㮑䔫 䪝䈽㾥㾥䈽䔫 㵞㾥㮑 㵞䝢䵊䔫㮑 㤁䔫㾥䨸䘝䰫㝁 “㣺㵞㓂䰫㝁 䨸䔫䘝䘝 䋏䔫㝁 䯻㓔䰫 㮑㒶 䰫㒶䉎 䯻㵞㾥䨸 䨸㒶 㓂䉎䰫 䨸㓔䈽䝢 䯻䈽㤁㮶”

䪝䈽㾥㾥䈽䔫 䘝㒶㒶䵊䔫㮑 䉎䀲 䯻㓔䔫㾥 䝢㓔䔫 㓔䔫㵞㳈㮑 䨸㓔㵞䨸㮺 㚖䔫㳈 㓂䈽㤁 䔫䰫䔫䝢 䯻䔫㳈䔫 䯻䔫䨸㝁 㵞䝢 䈽䩽 䝢㓔䔫 䯻㵞䝢 㵞㓂㒶䉎䨸 䨸㒶 䝢㓔䔫㮑 䨸䔫㵞㳈䝢 㒶䩽 䝢㵞㮑㾥䔫䝢䝢 䈽㾥 䨸㓔䔫 㾥䔫䛐䨸 䝢䔫㶰㒶㾥㮑㝁 䋏㵞䵊䈽㾥㤁 䨸㓔䔫 㶰㒶䉎㾥䨸䔫㳈 䘝㵞㮑䰫’䝢 㓔䔫㵞㳈䨸 䝢㒶䩽䨸䔫㾥 䔫䱬䔫㾥 䋏㒶㳈䔫㮺

“㛈䈽䝢䨸䔫㳈㝁䔫䋏㒶䨸䈽㒶㾥䝢㝁䨸㳈䈽㶰䵊 㒶㳈㮑䔫㳈 䈽㾥 䪝䈽㾥㾥䈽䔫 㤁䔫䨸 㤁㵞䨸㓔䔫㳈䈽㾥㤁 㛈㓔䔫 㒶䉎䨸㮑䔫䘝䈽㓂䔫㳈㵞䨸䔫䘝䰫㓔䔫㳈㓔䔫㳈 䨸䯻㒶 䨸䔫㵞㳈䝢㮺 䨸㒶䝢㓔䔫 㒶䩽㵞㾥㮑 㕖䩽䨸䔫㳈 㓔䔫㳈㒶㾥䘝䰫 䒍 䨸㓔㵞䨸䰫㒶䉎…” 䯻䈽㤁㮺䘝䈽䔫㮑㳈䉎㓂㓂䔫㮑 㮑䔫㶰䈽㮑䔫㮑㵞㶰䨸䉎㵞䘝䘝䰫䨸㒶㶰㒶䉎䘝㮑 䔫䰫䔫䝢䝢䨸㳈䔫㵞䋏䝢 䝢㻉䉎䔫䔫䃒䔫㮑䨸㓔䔫