Angel on earth

After his back disappeared into the huge and narrow shadow of the Hundred Flowers Cathedral, Priest Gray jumped down from the railing nimbly, stood in the middle of the stone bridge, and took out a delicate dagger:

"His Royal Highness still has the habit of walking in the middle. ——Let me introduce myself again, the third of the Twelve Saints, 'Black Tulip' Grey."

"The fifth Marquess of Edwards." Aaron replied briefly, holding a cane in one hand, and took out a lancet from the inside of his long coat with the other.

Mikhail again.Mikhail felt that since Lieyang City had Mithril, they should also have new metals.He tried many recipes and got the metal, which he decided to call "Catherine alloy". "Catherine" will neither rust nor be fragile and easy to break. It has strong bending resistance, shear resistance, corrosion resistance, hardness and rigidity, and complex anti-magic spells are engraved on the blade surface.

Priest Grey twirled his dagger, spread his feet apart, and lowered his center of gravity, but he didn't make a move immediately.Aaron also moved slowly along the stone bricks on the bridge. The evening sea breeze blew his open black double-breasted long trench coat. From a distance, they looked like two bats, one big and one small, with their bone wings spread out. Prepare to pounce.

Priest Gray said with a smile:

"Doctor, did I tell you?"

"I don't know you well. What are you going to tell me?" Aaron tilted his head, raised his eyebrows, and said with a smile, "You are an Abaddon."

Priest Gray sighed in disappointment, but his body movements did not slack at all: "Oh, that's all? I thought that as one of the best doctors in the world, you also have made achievements in genetics."

Aaron shifted his steps and turned to the other side of the bridge: "If you are willing to remove the word 'one', maybe I can see that you are Rollins' son."

Priest Grey laughed out loud, "That's right. But, when you were in Potosi, why didn't you tell His Highness Kupala?"

"Such an obvious thing, do I need to say anything? I thought your father castrated you to avoid Maria's fate. Well, he is not a woman, maybe it will not be so serious, but for the face of the church, the punishment It's still inevitable."

Priest Gray thought about it seriously: "I still like you, doctor. So does His Royal Highness Kupala. Anyway, my father never cared about me... What is the difference between him and Vasily? He let Vasily go. Such a person abuses me, and I am not allowed to speak out to ruin the reputation of the church, because he is the same person, and he gave birth to me with a nun. These days, everyone wants to live a good life, who hasn’t killed a few bishops? No What a big deal. Do you remember Omar officiate?"

"Oh, what a coincidence." Aaron's handsome and stiff face showed a rare mocking smile again, and he waved his cane, "He stabbed me in the stomach with a red-hot iron rod, and I have to say, hey, Oh, please, go a little to the left, that's where the guts are, don't burn my spine!—what, did he poke your ass with another stick?"

"Yes!" Priest Gray suddenly put away the dagger, turned his hands behind his back, and walked up and down like a child, "Will he ask you to sing while stabbing you? He likes my singing and always asks me to sing. I sang it too, and I told him, oh, oh, a little to the right, that's where the intestines are... well, he's short and small, you know? Fortunately, poor little Ryder, he's found something else, He was bleeding all the time, had a high fever, and just died."

"Ah, ah, is this what the church teaches?" Aaron straightened up with a smile, and put his cane on the ground again, "Mikhail also likes to sing."

Priest Gray spread his hands, his round face was so pure that it almost shone, like a lifeless porcelain doll in the setting sun: "Your Highness's singing voice is really beautiful. When he was young, I always thought, Why didn't anyone put him on the altar and ask him to sing? If I didn't have to sing, I would give my body to Mithras. Fair enough, isn't it?"

"So that's how it is." Aaron said, suddenly realized, "I don't sing, so Omar stabs me with a red-hot iron rod; you want to sing, so Omar stabs you with his small stick. So, this is One more question: Mikhail sings too, why did he stab me with his stick?"

Priest Gray patted the railing and laughed, and Aaron realized that there was no human voice near the Hundred Flowers Church:

"Yes, yes! How could this happen? Didn't we castrate us for pure singing and flesh? How did you teach the purest Son of God to have such a thing? Looking at him, I thought he was born with Didn't bring it with me!"

"Believe it or not, I'm surprised too," Aaron said gravely. "Why don't you surrender. I'm in a hurry to find Margaret. Is she still alive?"

So Priest Gray said: "Well, I surrender, I don't want to touch your knife. Death is not dead... Well, don't be so vengeful, Your Excellency the Marquis, I have no choice. Are all saints bad people? Not your Mesha, nor your Micah."

"What's the deal with Micah?"

Aaron shrugged his nose against the icy wind and walked towards the monastery on the mountain.Priest Gray didn't stop him, and ran forward two steps graciously, leaving his back to him.Aaron paused, buttoned his coat with one hand, and still held the knife in his left hand.

Priest Grey didn't seem to know that there was a knife pointing at his spine:

"Oh yes, this report hasn't been shown to you yet. That's it, Your Excellency, Stanley and I are really scared. You know, Micah is closer to Father God than you. Isabella That vicious woman, told me and Stanley to come out and catch him. Well, speaking of this, you are also responsible, if you didn’t put our holy son to sleep, uh, I think you should? No one will Abduct him away and stay awake?"

Aaron said: "Unfortunately, I fell asleep the day I left Lieyang City. Before that, you still had a chance—you know, he can't even blaspheme himself."

"Sure enough, excuse me, how does your Highness feel?"

Aaron glanced at him, but didn't answer.Priest Gray said to himself: "Okay, it seems that it is indeed presumptuous. Ahem, you slept with His Royal Highness Kupala, he lost his virginity and couldn't bear the gods, so Isabella asked us to come out to catch rice Ka. Anyway, it's very simple. I just want you to do me a little favor by saying that you put Micah to sleep, so that we can testify to both of us. To be honest, this is not unusual, is it? You even Kupala Your Highness can run away, let alone Micah? He can at least tell dirty jokes."

"Isabella won't believe your nonsense." Aaron commented, "Micah is a brat, just like those annoying adolescent boys, I don't know where I heard a half-knowledgeable dirty joke, use this to make fun of it Girl, it turned out that if people took a step towards him, he would run away. Mikhail is different, he and I——is a dirty joke heard by Micah!"

"It's a good story. But just in case, what if Isabella believes it? You know, that woman is suspicious. Or, if you help us catch Micah, of course the church will never catch her again." If you don’t let it go, maybe you will give something because of your merits, for example——isn’t there still a vacancy for the saint?” Priest Gray kindly persuaded.

This time Aaron didn't answer.From a distance, the moonstone on his body looks like a group of swimming stars.The not-so-steep stairs were printed with the special iris pattern and intermittent ruts of Emile's horseshoe, and he crossed Laura and Sergio.Not far away was the roar of a building collapsing. The two turned around and saw the bell tower of Baihua Church slowly collapse in the blood-red afterglow of the setting sun.

Aaron sighed: "He really likes the clock tower."

"Isn't it?" Priest Gray said perfunctorily, and started another topic, "Do you know why I thought you were a vampire from the beginning, Mr. Arnold?"

"Because of the smell," Aaron said.

Priest Gray nodded, and his thick heels slammed on the stone steps: "Yes, the smell in your clinic is exactly the same as Isabella. She will use perfume to cover it up, but it's been too long, and she can't get rid of it. After Mikhail was born, she also thought about starting over, but she hated Mikhail, she said he was too much like Arnold. She tried to get rid of that smell: mugwort leaves, calamus, perilla leaves, mint, perrin, Ah, the last pronunciation is very similar to your goddaughter's husband's name."

"Then do you know why Mikhail didn't suspect me at that time? Because of the smell." Aaron looked at his back indifferently, a pair of beautiful green eyes moved precisely between his spine and the main artery, "in Before that, I hadn't mixed these herbs for a long time, and it reminded me of... home. It was the smell of the Emerald City, a simple recipe for repelling mosquitoes in summer, we always take it out. Home makes people weak."

"You took advantage of His Highness Kupala's trust in Isabella." Priest Gray clapped his hands and said in surprise.

"Yes." Aaron said frankly, "After his second visit, I stuffed this medicine bag in many corners of the living room. Of course I know what Isabella smells like, do you know, sir, she once Asked me to play 'Arnold'." So he said, with a nasty smile, "it's better to cover up. Mikhail could pick out the smell, but didn't know what it was. A simple, imperceptible Mental hints. He'll trust me, for Isabella's sake.—he's so naive, so easy to deceive."

The last sentence was like a sigh.

Priest Gray stood on a higher step, turned around, and looked at him seriously: "You are a bastard."

"Did I deny it?" Aaron smiled, leaned forward, and compared the tip of the knife to Priest Grey's chin, "Don't play tricks, Your Excellency, lead the way. First Jeanne, then Marguerite .”

"But Rita is going to die soon?" Priest Gray turned around and said as he walked with his hands up.

"She's dead, why don't I kill you to avenge her?"

"I didn't hit her, and Stanley didn't do anything." The boy smiled lightly, "Perrin did it himself. What does it matter to us?"

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