OBS Chapter 2387 The Priest's Child Chapter
Chapter 2387 The Priest's Child Chapter
Chapter 2387 The Priest's Fairy Tale
Iluna stood beside Shade and introduced that this weapon was indeed famous:
"But unlike the Night's Watch, which is essentially a ritual sword, the Pale Justice is a proper melee cold weapon. You should all know the power of this sword, such as making the holder immune to almost all abnormal states, amplifying positive states, and amplifying the energy output of the sun and light."
"I remember the negative characteristics are that the sword will show different weights depending on the character of the holder. For the wicked, the moment the sword is held, it will drain his flesh and soul. And you must never do anything that betrays justice while holding the sword. Also, almost all the long-term holders of this sword have died in the end. Why would the church let you use this sword?"
Shade asked in confusion, and when none of the girls around him wanted to see the sword, he sheathed it and returned it to Iluna.
Iluna sighed:
"What else can I do? When I was asked to choose a weapon, I just held this sword and I received the whisper - [Pale Justice]. Even if I don't want to use this sword, those people in the church won't allow it.
But I really don't like using swords, I will return it after the Moon Bay incident. Compared with cold weapons, the holy bell given to me by our fortune-teller friend is more useful."
It was an artifact of the ancient god of balance that she used during the ritual of the chosen one.
"This talent is really enviable."
The Countess said, and Iluna shook her head:
"But I also have to bear the fate because of this. If it weren't for Shade and Luvia, I can't imagine how I would have been able to walk to this day with a peaceful mind. Let's not talk about this. What happened here just now?"
A few simple sentences explained what had just happened. Iluna had heard some rumors about John Flynn's cooperation with the church. Iluna also felt that the notebook dropped by the escaped "Light Chaser" was too deliberate:
"As long as the problem is solved, Xia De, you guys can go back first. The church team should be here soon. I won't talk about the bone. I'll just say that when I arrived, the God Summoner was just about to leave."
"Well, come to the manor when you have time. Our fortune teller is also preparing to do divination again."
Xia De said, and then asked the nun:
"Sister, can you open the passage directly here?"
"can."
Sister Defulin nodded slightly, and the sickle in her hand just slashed in the fog. The black crack expanded rapidly, and outside was the west side of the Yuewan Bridge in the real world, which had not yet been completed.
The real world was also shrouded in fog tonight, so the Yuewan Bridge was certainly not still under construction, so there was no one on the bridge. After the group said goodbye to Iluna and returned to reality, Grace and Helen said goodbye to Shade in a good mood and left. Then Shade did not move with the other ladies:
"You guys go back first, I'll go take care of the bone."
Even though the core problem of "Brink of Life and Death" has been solved, the fog in the city still shows no sign of dissipating. Miss Belindel and Miss Sylvia are of course worried about Shade acting alone, but seeing that Miss Elither and Sister Defulin didn't say anything, the two eleventh-level witches didn't dissuade Shade:
"Your cat is still with me, remember to come back after you're done with your business."
This was the only thing the Countess told Shade before she said goodbye.
Although Shade could transform with a relic of the Night Watcher's level, he could not transform into a cat with the bone. He did not want to hold the bone in his mouth as a cat, so he walked through the foggy night of Moon Bay in human form.
Of course, the person he was looking for was Priest Augustus, who was an expert in handling bones. Of course, because he was worried about the priest's psychological problems, Shade did not think of giving the item to him immediately, but just wanted him to think of a way to seal it securely.
Xia De only knew that Father Augustus now worked in the Yuewan City Orphanage, but he didn't know his address, so he went to the orphanage on the edge of the lower city to try his luck.
He was lucky tonight. Shortly after he broke into the orphanage illegally, he saw a priest holding a storybook and telling stories to a group of children at the window outside the small restaurant on the first floor.
Priest Augustus was quite fluent in Kasenric. There were more than a dozen boys and girls listening to the story, all of them around ten years old. The priest sat at the long dining table, and the children gathered in front of him in scattered groups.
In addition to the candlesticks and kerosene lamps at the priest's side, the light source in the restaurant is a fireplace with a soup pot on the wall. On such a foggy night, the scene of sitting around the fireplace with childhood friends and listening to "grandfather" telling stories will probably become a warm childhood memory that many children will never forget even after they grow up.
The priest must have noticed Shad peeping from the window, but he chose to finish the story first. Shad did not bother them, but listened quietly.
Coincidentally, the story that Father Augustus told the children was the classic fairy tale "The Little Mermaid". When Shad arrived, the story was almost over, and the little mermaid had exchanged her voice for legs and was preparing to go ashore.
The version of the story told by the priest is the closest to the version remembered by the strangers. At the end of the story, the mermaid princess turned into foam and disappeared alone in the sunlight.
After the story, the priest smiled and closed the book, but did not stand up immediately:
"Children, this is the story of the mermaid princess. What do you understand from this story?"
Outsiders were very familiar with this way of asking questions, but the children, who had obviously not received Xia De's kind of cultural education, rushed to raise their hands to speak.
Judging from the fact that they raised their hands instead of speaking directly, the children in the orphanage funded by the Yuewan Municipal Government should have received basic education:
"Grandpa Augustus! We have to listen to our parents!"
"Yes, yes, I'll give you a candy as a reward. Oh, don't let Madame Bovary know."
"Grandpa Augustus, we can't exchange things with bad people! Last time, little Oliver used his paper plane to exchange for my glass beads, and then gave them to sister Lina! Mr. Stan, who delivers food in the kitchen, is right, businessmen are always bad!"
"Well I'll give you a candy as well. I'll talk to Stan later about what he said to you guys."
"Grandpa Augustus, all men are bad! Why didn't the prince choose that poor little mermaid! I don't want to be with a man anymore."
"Cough cough."
Father Augustus interrupted her with a cough. He glanced at Shade who was pursing his lips in the thick fog outside the window, afraid to laugh out loud, and then explained patiently:
"The prince in the story didn't even know what the little mermaid did for him. But your idea is also right. We must understand that when doing good things or doing something for others, we must do it within our ability. We must carefully consider the costs and consequences before doing anything, and never make decisions casually and blindly."
He carefully educated the children, and the children listened carefully with their eyes wide open. Although Father Augustus also used the power of death, his affinity was much stronger than Sister Defulin. If Sister Defulin was sitting here, Shade even suspected that these children would not even dare to breathe deeply.
"But stories are only stories sometimes, children, and there is no need to think too much about them. Go to bed, it is late now. If you don't go to bed, Madame Bovary will complain to me."
"Good night, Grandpa Augustus!"
"Grandpa Augustus, can you tell me the story of the match girl again tomorrow?"
"I want to hear the story of the dwarf and the princess, whose kiss turned her into a toad!"
"Foolish Isaac, it was the princess who ate the poisoned apple, and the dwarf's kiss removed the poison!"
"Why do I remember that it was the prince who woke the princess up with a kiss?"
"No, that's the story of the Sleeping Princess. You all remembered it wrong."
Amid the children's chatter, a little girl with pigtails holding a crudely sewn princess doll finally asked the smiling priest Augustus. The two black buttons that served as the doll's eyes were not evenly aligned:
"Grandpa Augustus, is love always this difficult?"
The priest thought for a moment, then bowed his head and replied:
"It's a little too early to answer these questions now. But how did you come up with this question?"
The little girl with pigtails hugged her doll and said:
"Because the prince and princess in the story always have to go through a lot of torture before they can be together."
She opened her eyes wide innocently:
"If adult relationships are so dangerous and painful, then why do we need love at all?"
"because."
The priest was probably thinking about how to explain all this in a way that the children could accept. He certainly couldn't talk about it from the perspective of love and reproduction, and he couldn't explain what love between people was, because the children didn't understand this.
"Because not everything in this world will necessarily have a bad outcome."
He finally said:
"So we must carefully distinguish between good guys and bad guys, think clearly before doing anything, and don't make decisions lightly. And stories always have so many twists and turns just to attract attention. Children, go to bed, it's really too late. We can talk about distinguishing between reality and stories tomorrow."
The little girl nodded in ignorance and returned to the room on the second floor with the others. Father Augustus spoke a few more words to the other helpers in the kitchen, then quietly left the orphanage house alone and met Shade in the stable in the corner of the courtyard.
There is only one horse in the orphanage's stable, which is used for daily transport of goods. Sometimes when the director of the orphanage travels, he will also use it to pull the cart.
"Priest, you said it yourself - not everything in this world will necessarily have a bad outcome."
Shade said with a smile, and Father Augustus glanced at him:
"That's just talk for children, Detective. Are you a child too?"
(End of this chapter)