Half-step Purgatory

Durin stroked the black cat on the armrest of his chair, sitting on the black leather sofa. Through the glasses perched on his nose, his gaze passed over the long table in front of him and settled on the man kneeling on the carpet:
"I understand, you've made money in Naples, your business has been very successful, and you've led a happy life. You've had those secret police, friends in both the law and the underground, and even the Royal Family speaking on your behalf."
"You don't need a friend like me, I know that. You're afraid of owing me a favor, and you don't want to get involved in troubles."
"But now you come to me and say, 'I beg you, Mr. Durin of the Corleon family, please help me seek justice, so that my life and my family will not suffer and sink into despair.'
Yet, in your eyes, I was nothing more than a second-rate artist involved in movies and music. Even at the brink of death, you still show me such disrespect, not even willing to call me by my title... Keeper of Secrets."

Durin's Diary

Talking about the Kriegern Family's broken affairs isn't pleasant.


But Durin had seen this device that could revive life with his own eyes, and Eleven had also confirmed its working process.


So Durin dragged the old men and women over, pulled up a blackboard, and explained the working principle of this device in detail. In the end, Durin came to a conclusion, "In the hands of others, this machine can indeed revive their own people, but for us, using this thing once might mean our camp can never wash itself clean again."


The Tri-Saint Society was, after all, a collection of families that had only recently reforged their vows, and they understood all too well the terrible curse that breaking a vow again would bring to their family—the curse of breaking a vow once is completely different from breaking it twice.


With the former, you endure it, and maybe after dozens of generations, the effect of the curse might weaken.


Chapter 80: Happiness