Chapter 2341: The Priest's Fairy Tale

Iluna stood beside Xia De and introduced, this weapon is indeed famous:

"But unlike 【Night Watcher】, which is essentially a ritual sword, 【Pale Justice】 is a proper melee cold weapon in terms of characteristics. You should all know the power of this sword, such as making the holder immune to almost all abnormal states, enhancing positive states, and enhancing energy output such as sun and light."

"I remember the negative characteristic is that depending on the holder's character, this sword will show different weights. For evil people, it will drain his blood and spirit the moment he holds the sword. Also, one must never do anything that betrays justice while holding the sword. Also, almost all recorded long-term holders of this sword eventually sacrificed themselves... How could the Sect let you use this sword?"

Xia De asked suspiciously, and seeing that the girls around him didn't want to see this sword, he inserted it into the scabbard and returned it to Iluna.

Iluna sighed:

"What else can I do? When they called me to choose a weapon, I just held this sword, and I obtained the whisper - 【Pale Justice】. Even if I didn't want to use this sword, those people in the Sect wouldn't agree."

"However, I really don't like using swords. After the Moon Bay incident ends, I will return it. Compared to cold weapons, the holy bell given to me by our diviner friend is easier to use."

That was the ancient god's artifact she used to symbolize balance when holding the Chosen One ritual.

"This talent is really enviable."

The Countess said aside, Iluna shook her head:

"But it also carries fate. If there were no Xia De and Luweiya, I couldn't imagine how I would walk to today with a peaceful mind... Don't talk about these, what happened here just now?"

A few simple sentences explained the things just now. Iluna had heard some rumors about John Flynn's cooperation with the Orthodox Church. And the notebook dropped by the "Light Chaser" also felt too deliberate to Iluna:

"As long as the problem is solved, Xia De, you go back first. The Sect's team should be arriving soon. I won't mention the bone, just say that when I arrived, the God-Caller was just about to leave."

"That's good, come to the manor when you have time, our diviner friend is also preparing to divine again."

Xia De said, and asked the nun again:

"Sister, can you open a passage directly here?"

"I can."

Sister Diefulin nodded gently, and the sickle in her hand just drew in the fog, and the black rift expanded rapidly, while outside was the west bridge deck of the Moon Bay Bridge that had not yet been completed in the real world.

The real world tonight was also filled with thick fog, and the Moon Bay Bridge of course could not still be under construction, so the bridge deck was empty. After the group bid farewell to Iluna and returned to reality, Grace and Helen left after saying goodbye to Xia De in a good mood, and Xia De did not act with the other ladies:

"You go back first, I'll go deal with the bone."

Even though the core problem of the "Edge of Life and Death" had now been solved, the fog in the city still showed no signs of dissipating. Miss Beiya and Miss Sylvia were of course worried about Xia De acting alone, but seeing that Miss Ileth and Sister Diefulin didn't say anything, the two 11th-tier witches didn't dissuade Xia De:

"Your cat is still with me, remember to come back after dealing with things."

This was the only thing the countess exhorted Xia De to do before they parted.

Although Xia De could carry relics of the level of 【Night Watcher】 to transform, he couldn't carry that bone to transform into a cat. He didn't want to hold the bone in his mouth in the form of a cat, so he still walked through the foggy night of Moon Bay in human form.

The one he was looking for was of course Priest Augustus. The priest was an expert in dealing with skeletons. Of course, because he was worried about the priest's psychological problems, Xia De didn't think about giving him the item immediately, just wanted him to think of a way to seal it reliably.

Xia De only knew that Priest Augustus was working at the orphanage in the lower city now, but didn't know the address, so he went to the orphanage located on the edge of the lower city to try his luck.

He was quite lucky tonight. Not long after illegally breaking into the orphanage, he saw the priest holding a storybook and telling stories to a large group of children outside the window of the small dining room on the first floor.

Priest Augustus's Kassenrik language was quite proficient. The dozen or so children listening to the story were both boys and girls, and they looked to be about ten years old. The priest sat at the long dining table, and the children were scattered in front of him.

The light sources in the dining room, besides the candlestick and kerosene lamp beside the priest, also included the fireplace with a pot of soup simmering on the wall. On such a foggy night, the scene of sitting around the fireplace with childhood friends and listening to "Grandpa" tell stories would probably become a warm childhood memory that many children would still not forget after adulthood.

The priest must have noticed Xia De "peeping" in the thick fog outside the window, but he still chose to finish the story first. Xia De was not in a hurry to disturb them, but listened quietly.

Coincidentally, the story Priest Augustus told the children was the classic fairy tale "The Little Mermaid." By the time Xia De arrived, the story was nearing its end, and the Little Mermaid had exchanged her voice for legs and was preparing to go ashore.

And the version of the story the priest told was also the version closest to the outsider's memory. At the end of the story, the Little Mermaid disappeared into foam alone in the sun.

After the story was finished, the priest smiled and closed the book, but didn't stand up immediately:

"Children, this is the story of the Little Mermaid. What did you understand from this story?"

The outsider was very familiar with this way of asking questions, and the children who obviously hadn't experienced Xia De's cultural education raised their hands to speak one after another.

Judging from the fact that they raised their hands consciously instead of speaking directly, the children in the orphanage funded by the Moon Bay municipal government should have also received basic education:

"Grandpa Augustus! We must listen to our parents!"

"Yes, yes, reward you with a candy. Oh, don't let Mrs. Bovary know."

"Grandpa Augustus, we can't exchange things with bad people! Last time little Oliver exchanged my glass bead for his paper airplane, and then gave it to little sister Lina! Mr. Stan who delivers vegetables to the kitchen is right, merchants are always very bad!"

"Hmm... I'll give you a candy too, I'll talk to Stan later about what he said to you all."

"Grandpa Augustus, men are all bad! Why didn't the prince choose the poor little mermaid! I don't want to be with men in the future..."

"Ahem."

Priest Augustus hurriedly interrupted her with a cough. He glanced at Xia De, who was pursing his lips and afraid to laugh out loud in the thick fog outside the window, and then explained patiently:

"The prince in the story didn't even know what the Little Mermaid had done for him. But your idea is also very right. We must understand that doing good deeds or doing certain things for others must be within our own capabilities. Think carefully about the price and consequences before doing things, and never make decisions casually and blindly."

He educated these children carefully, and the children also widened their eyes and listened very carefully. Although Priest Augustus also used the power of death, he was much more approachable than Sister Diefulin. If Sister Diefulin were sitting here, Xia De even suspected that these children wouldn't even dare to breathe heavily.

"But stories are sometimes just stories, children, don't think too much. Go to sleep, it's not early now. If you don't sleep, Mrs. Bovary will complain about 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!"

"Stupid Isaac, it was the princess who ate the poisoned apple, the dwarf's kiss lifted the poison!"

"How do I remember that it was the prince who kissed the princess awake?"

"No, that's the story of the Sleeping Princess, you all remembered it wrong."

Amidst the discussion of the children, the little girl with braids holding a princess doll made very roughly, whose two black buttons as the doll's eyes were not even level, asked the smiling Priest Augustus at the end:

"Grandpa Augustus, is love always so difficult?"

The priest thought for a while and lowered his head to answer:

"These questions are still a bit too early for you to answer now. However, how did you think of this question?"

The little girl with braids held her doll and said:

"Because the prince and princess in the story always have to go through many tortures to be together."

She widened her eyes innocently:

"If the feelings of adults are so dangerous and painful, why have love?"

"Because..."

The priest was probably thinking about how to explain all this in a way that the children could accept. He certainly couldn't explain it from the perspective of love and reproduction, and even less could he explain what love between people was; the children didn't understand these yet.

"Because, not everything in this world will necessarily have a bad result."

He finally had to say this:

"So we must carefully distinguish between good people and bad people, think clearly before doing things, and not make decisions easily. And stories are always written with so many twists and turns to attract attention... Children, go to sleep, it's really too late. Distinguish between reality and stories, we can talk about this again tomorrow."

The little girl nodded ignorantly and returned to the room where they stayed on the second floor with the others. Priest Augustus talked to other helpers in the kitchen for a few words, then left the orphanage house alone and met Xia De in the stable in the corner of the courtyard.

The stable of the orphanage only kept a horse used for moving goods daily. Sometimes when the dean of the orphanage went out, he would also let it pull the carriage.

"Priest, this is what you said yourself—not everything in this world will necessarily have a bad result."

Xia De said with a smile, and Priest Augustus glanced at him:

"That's what I said to fool the children, detective, are you a child too?" ===== CHAPTER 2342 =====