Angel on earth

The young man returned to the corner where Aaron slept peacefully by touching the rickety tables and chairs, and walked straight into the fire in front of Candy Kane, but he didn't even burn a piece of his clothes.The flames burned away the dirt and odor on his body. He clapped his hands and dusted off his clothes. Then he knelt down on one knee beside the coffin, inserted his warm palm between Aaron and the cushion, and slowly put him Take it out and hold it in your arms.

Candy Kane watched silently.Mikhail left her a cushion, and she imitated Mikhail and cleaned herself with fire before she sat down and looked at Aaron carefully.

Candy Kane tapped the gravel on the ground lightly, and suddenly said:

"Why didn't you become Mithras?"

It stands to reason that this is a very impolite question.But the amazing thing is that Mikhail didn't feel offended, and even felt that no one would be angry if Kandy Kane asked him that.

He lowered his head, looking at the air with his beautiful clear eyes.The light from the firewood on his cheeks made him look handsome.In what is usually one of his most oppressive images, Candy Kane nonchalantly fiddles with the wood to get the fire going.

He smiled politely and put a finger on his lips: "I will answer your question. But please keep your voice down. It's rare for him to sleep so peacefully."

The witch tilted her head: "You are so strange. Why are you laughing? I am not a good person. If you want me to talk and act like an educated person, I can't do it."

"I didn't smile at you." Mikhail stroked Aaron's hair and back, looked down at him, and said softly, "I don't know when he will wake up, if he opens his eyes , I can’t see it either. But I hope that when he occasionally wakes up, I’ll always be by his side and look reliable. That way he’ll feel more at ease, right? At least... at least I’m not Micah.”

Hearing the last sentence, Candy Kane burst out laughing.

"What!" She couldn't help laughing, but fortunately she was able to suppress the volume, "You are so cute! No wonder Aaron became so confused and became your lamb."

Mikhail said "thank you" frankly.The witch propped her chin, raised her head to look at him, and slightly bent her eyes: "You should have heard that, right?"

"Ok?"

"It's nothing."

The witch changed the topic with a smile, and turned her eyes to the flames. Her black eyes were like two abysses, and the flames dimmed a lot once the firelight shone in:

"Is the key still there?"

"Ah."

"Don't be discouraged, Misha." Candy Kane laughed softly, "Take it out, I'll strengthen the spell."

Mikhail was patting Aaron's back lightly, and said in surprise, "I thought Micah gave him the key."

The witch said: "Micah gave the key, but I cast the spell. They are a bunch of hopeless wretches. Who would want to add magic to the key to avoid Mithras except me, a heretic?"

Mikhail fell silent.Candy Kane just concentrated on watching the tumbling dancing flames. After a while, he sprinkled a handful of unknown powder into it, and suddenly there was a scent that Aaron would like very much.

Mikhail put his arms around Aaron with one arm, his strong long legs encircling the vampire in his arms, while his free hand stroked the key hanging around his neck.Candy Kane didn't look at it, and said to himself:

"You have already been to Yaranburg. My prophecy has been fulfilled again... Aaron released Morpus. Of course, on the surface he just created a new painkiller, but spiritually it is a foreshadowing of Oneiroi I don't know if it's a good thing or a bad thing, maybe a new devil will be born, but for now we have to separate him from Mithra."

Mikhail did not understand, but listened politely.Anyway, he wasn't really listening.

The witch didn't mind either, and continued, "You're...a lucky guy in this matter, Misha. The keys of the temple can resist the erosion of the gods, and Morpheus was released in Yaranburg. Yes. Aaron took Mithra's authority in the most brutal way, and gave this terrible devil to all mankind. And until then, we have been paying the price for Mithra's power. Now, all kinds of Such wars are coming, and our combat power must be liberated.

"Aaron should have told you that after Micah took him out of Lieyang City, he stayed in the Garden of Nations for more than half a year. They didn't go there to escape the pursuers, but for a plant. Tela beheaded Morpus, the God of Dreams, and devoured his body, will, and authority outside the holy spring city today. The latter's blood fell on the ground, and the land grew like flowers, grass, clouds, and fog. the blue-purple plant, that's 'Morpus'. Micah caused the gods to fall, Aaron was corrupted by the gods, and I stole the power of Mithras, we all depended on it to keep from madness, but we suffered The torment of the original comes from the real Morpheus in Mithras."

Candy Kane paused and didn't finish speaking, but seemed to be deeply afraid of the memory, so he didn't continue for a while.

Mikhail lowered his head, the golden light spilled from between the eyelashes and reflected on Aaron's pale cheekbones.He asked softly:

"Is that painful?"

"...Very, very painful. Before Aaron created Morpheus, even Micah would cry in his sleep, begging for forgiveness." The witch replied, "You know why Mithra fought with serious injuries Morpheus? Because the Oneiroi at that time loved to torture mortals, and the people of Mithra lived in nightmares every night, so the believers prayed to God: Father God, let the cruel heretical god leave us!— —What a father he was in the beginning, man changed him, and now turns other people's days into nightmares."

"Yeah. I don't understand." Mikhail said softly, sounding a little tired, "The church has done evil things, but the places that forsaken the church have not gotten better. The federal nobles cut open the girl's belly to keep warm, and the red The colonists of the Moon dumped the corpses of the miners into deep pits, and the death of the Noren workers exhausting their last bit of strength was not much more decent than the serfs of the Federation. At that time, the oppressors believed in God, and hypocritically took the lead in admitting their own to tell the oppressed that this is the truth of the world. I also thought that we came to atone for sins, but God the Father also said that we would avenge the poor among the people, save the poor, and crush the oppressors. The teaching is also to make people live better lives.

"Everything is much more terrifying than I thought. None of the Federation, Noren, Aerys, Aiden, and Abaddon rebelled against the Church for those who really needed to be saved. They were all for their own benefit. Now I don't want to be The gun of the church. I don't want to stab the sword in the chest of the old man and the child again!"

He took Aaron into his arms, not to show off, nor to be vigilant, just because he suddenly thought of it, wanted to do it, or encountered a terrible thing and wanted to find a place to hide, so he bowed his head and kissed Aaron lips.This kiss was not short. Mikhail did it with great piety and earnestness, as if he didn't know how cold, stiff, and dry the corpse in his arms was.

The witch propped her cheeks and looked up at them curiously.She was much smaller than any of them, and she sat sinisterly aside like a thin black cat, asking:

"And what about God's War?"

Mikhail hugged Aaron tightly, as if that would draw enough strength.It was a long time before he folded the vampire's knees again and covered him under his coat.

"We are the answer," he replied.

For a few moments, Candy Kane thought he was going to cry, but not only did he not, but now he was smiling again, like there was nothing more important in the world.It took a lot of effort for the witch to twist her own neck, so that she could stare at the fire and no longer look at the panicked, frightened young man who wanted to escape from the world far away:

"Weapons are a substitute for magic, and they are what mortals rely on to resist gods. But those who wield weapons often point their guns at other mortals after successful resistance. In this way, he is a new god with magic."

Mikhail seemed a little sad: "Does Isabella think of me that way?"

"You are just a spear, and Mithra is her gun. This is normal, Misha, although it shouldn't be like this, but..." the witch frowned in distress as she spoke, "The mission of the Twelve Saints is War, not preaching. You can memorize the "Sun Goddess" backwards, and you should know that in the few angel walks in it, almost none of them are for the purpose of blessing. They are war machines, bringing violence and conquest, destroying heresy. Faith, and then the pastors would stand in the middle of the bowing crowd and preach the Gospel."

Mikhail said frankly: "This is what I did in the Federation. I don't regret it."

"Don't regret it." The witch shrugged. "Farmers are more decent than serfs, and shepherds are more decent than sheepdogs. Don't be afraid, don't feel guilty, Misha, what you killed was not old people and children, but a devil who warmed the poor. , and that is your mission. If anything is wrong, you should not execute the oppressed in place of them."

"It's just a flock of sheep who spend a year's wages to buy snow water from the holy mountain." Mikhail replied.

Candy Kane looked like he was on the verge of laughing, but patted his thigh to hold it back.

"Well," she said, "at least, Bell gave up hunting you for her sheep. Don't be surprised, Misha, she is doing it for the lives of the sheep, not for the benefits they can bring her."

"I'm not surprised, Kandy Kane." Mikhail said calmly, "I can and should destroy the church today, but I can't unconscionably say that the saints in the temple have reached the point of madness. At least on the surface , we... Yes, we, we did do good things to benefit the people. Therefore, 'Mikhail' is the Son, the God the Father himself, an idol that must never fall, and 'I' is irrelevant Yes. But once Mikhail Kupala becomes an apostate, the confidence within the church will collapse first, Noren, Iris, and Abaddon will inevitably raise troops, and the church with collapsed faith will have no choice but to collapse. People will still believe in the sun god, but its essence can be Baal, Morpus or even Emperor Ivan, which is a more unacceptable shame than death."

"But when will that day come?" Candy Kane persevered, "That is one of my goals! Destroy the church and overthrow the great city of Babylon!"