Iluna stood next to Shade and introduced, this weapon is indeed famous:
"But unlike [Night Watch], which is essentially a ceremonial sword, [Pale Justice] is a serious melee weapon in terms of characteristics. You should all know the power of this sword. For example, it can protect the holder from close combat.
All abnormal states, amplified positive states, amplified energy output such as the sun and light."
"I remember that the negative characteristic is that the sword will have different weights according to the character of the holder. For a villain, the moment he holds the sword, it will drain his flesh and spirit. And you must not do anything while holding the sword.
Any betrayal of justice, and the fact that nearly all of the sword's documented long-term holders ended up perishing, how could the Church allow you to use this sword?"
Shade asked doubtfully. Seeing that none of the girls around him wanted to see the sword, he inserted it into the scabbard and returned it to Iluna.
Iluna sighed:
"What else can I do? When I was asked to choose a weapon, as soon as I held the sword, I got the whisper - [Pale Justice]. Even if I didn't want to use this sword, the people in the church wouldn't agree to it.
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But I really don’t like using swords, so I returned 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 that she used to symbolize balance when she held the Chosen One Ceremony.
"This talent is really enviable."
The countess said from the side, and Iluna shook her head:
"But I have been burdened with fate because of it. If it weren't for Shade and Luvia, I can't imagine how I would have been able to have a peaceful mind and stop talking about this today. 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. And Iluna also felt the notebook that fell from the escaped "Light Chaser".
Too deliberate:
"As long as the problem is solved, Shade, you can go back first. The church's team should be arriving soon. I won't talk about the bone. I will just say that when I came, the Godcaller was just about to leave."
"Well, come to the manor when you have time, our fortune teller is also preparing to divine again."
Shade said, and then asked Sister Xiang:
"Sister, can you open the passage directly here?"
"Can."
Sister Devlin nodded slightly, and the scythe in her hand was just a scratch in the fog. The black cracks expanded rapidly, and outside was the west side deck of the unfinished Yuewan Bridge in the real world.
Tonight, the real world is also filled with fog. Of course, it is impossible that the Yuewan Bridge is still under construction, so there is no one on the bridge. After the group bid farewell to Iluna and returned to reality, Grace and Helen first said goodbye to Shade in a good mood.
Then left, and then Shade did not act with the other ladies:
"You guys go back first, I'll deal with the bones."
Even though the core issue of "The Edge of Life and Death" has now been resolved, the fog in the city still shows no signs of dissipating. Of course, Miss Belindel and Miss Sylvia were not worried about Shade acting alone, but seeing Miss Elisa
Neither she nor Sister Devlin said anything, and the two eleventh-level witches did not dissuade Shade:
"Your cat is still at my place. Remember to come back after finishing the matter."
These were the only words the countess told Shade before bidding farewell.
Although Shade could transform with a relic of the level of [Night Watch], he could not transform into a cat with the bone. He didn't want to hold the bone in the posture of a cat, so he still took the human form in the heavy fog of Moon Bay.
Traveling at night.
Of course, what he was looking for was Priest August. Priests are experts in handling bones. Of course, because he was worried about the priest's psychological problems, Shade did not want to give him this item immediately, but just wanted him to think of how to deal with it.
Its secure seal.
Shade only knew that Priest Augustus was currently working at an orphanage in Yuewan City, but he did not know the address, so he first went to the orphanage on the edge of the Lower City to try his luck.
He was lucky tonight. Shortly after breaking into the orphanage illegally, he saw a priest holding a storybook telling a story to a large group of children from the window outside the small restaurant on the first floor.
Priest Augustus was fairly proficient in Carsonic. There were more than a dozen children listening to the story, both boys and girls, all about ten years old. The priest was sitting at the long dining table, and the children were scattered here and there.
people gathered in front of him.
In addition to the candlesticks and kerosene lamps held by the priest, the light source in the restaurant is also a fireplace with a soup pot simmering on the wall. On such a foggy night, I sat around the fireplace with my childhood friends and listened to "grandpa" telling stories.
The scene will probably become a warm childhood memory that many children will never forget even after they become adults.
The priest must have noticed Shade "peeping" outside the window, but he still chose to finish telling the story first. Shade was not in a hurry to disturb them, but listened quietly.
Coincidentally, the story that Priest August told the children was the classic fairy tale "The Mermaid Princess". When Shade arrived, the story was coming to an end, and the Mermaid Princess had already traded her voice for her legs and was about to go ashore.
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The version of the story told by the priest is also closest to the one remembered by outsiders. At the end of the story, the mermaid princess turned into bubbles and disappeared alone in the sun.
After the story was told, the priest closed the book with a smile, but did not stand up immediately:
"Children, this is the story of the mermaid princess. What do you understand from this story?"
Foreigners were very familiar with this method of asking questions, but the children, who had obviously not experienced Shard's cultural education, rushed to raise their hands to speak.
Judging from the fact that they consciously raised their hands instead of speaking directly, the children in the orphanage funded by the Yuewan City Government should also have received basic education:
"Grandpa Augustus! We must listen to our parents!"
"Yes, yes, I will give you a candy. Oh, but don't let Madame Bovary know."
"Grandpa Augustus, we can't exchange things with bad people! Last time, little Oliver used his paper airplane in exchange for my glass beads, and then gave them to sister Linna! Mr. Stan, who delivered the food in the kitchen, was right.
Wrong, businessmen are always bad!"
"Yeah, I'll give you a candy too. I'll talk to Stan about what he said to you later."
"Grandpa Augustus, all men are bad people! Why didn't the prince choose that poor little mermaid! I don't want to be with a man in the future."
"Ahem."
Priest Augustus quickly interrupted her words with a cough. He glanced at Shade who was pursed in the thick fog outside the window and was afraid of laughing, and then explained patiently:
"The prince in the story doesn't even know what the Little Mermaid did for him. But your idea is right. We must understand that doing good deeds or doing something for others must be within our own capabilities.
You must carefully consider the costs and consequences before doing something, and never make decisions casually and blindly.”
He educated these children carefully, and the children listened carefully with their eyes wide open. Although Priest Augustus also used the power of death, he had a much stronger affinity than Sister Devlin. If it were Devlin
Sister Lin was sitting here, and Shade even suspected that these children didn't even dare to take a deep breath.
"But sometimes stories are just stories. Children, you don't have to think too much. Go to bed, it's getting late. If you don't go to bed yet, Madame Bovary will blame me."
"Good night, Grandpa Augustus!"
"Grandpa Augustus, can you tell the story of the Match Girl again tomorrow?"
"I want to hear the story of the dwarf and the princess. The dwarf's kiss turned the princess into a toad!"
"Idiot Isaac, it was the princess who ate the poisoned apple, and the dwarf's kiss lifted the poison!"
"How do I remember that it was the prince who kissed the princess?"
"No, that's the story of Princess Sleeping. You all remembered it wrong."
Amid the discussion among the children, the little girl with braided braids holding a crudely sewn princess stuffed doll finally asked the smiling Priest August about the two eyes of the stuffed doll.
The black button isn't even flush:
"Grandpa Augustus, is love always so difficult?"
The priest thought for a moment, lowered his head and replied:
"It's too early to answer these questions. But how did you come up with this question?"
The little girl with braids 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."
Her eyes widened innocently:
"If adults' relationships are so dangerous and painful, then why do we still need love?"
"because"
The priest was probably thinking about how to explain all this in a way that children could accept. He certainly couldn't explain it from the perspective of love and reproduction, let alone what love between people is. Children still don't understand.
These.
"Because, not everything in this world will necessarily have bad results."
He finally had to say this:
"So we must carefully identify the good guys and the bad guys, think clearly before doing things, and not make decisions easily. And stories are always written with so many twists and turns just to attract attention. Children, go to bed, it is really too late.
.We need to distinguish between reality and stories, which we can talk about tomorrow.”
The little girl nodded ignorantly and returned to the room where they stayed on the second floor with the others. Priest Augustus said a few words to the other helpers in the kitchen before quietly leaving the orphanage house alone.
, I met Shade at the stable in the corner of the courtyard.
There is only one horse in the orphanage's stable that is used to carry goods. Sometimes the director of the orphanage will let it pull the cart when he goes out.
"Priest, you said it yourself - not everything in this world will necessarily have bad results."
Shade said with a smile, and Priest Augustus glanced at him:
"That's just to fool a child. Detective, are you a child too?"