Angel on earth

Arnold laughed twice, tapped his knees and thought:

"The snake is the Satan that lures mankind to fall. It stirs up troubles in peacetime, and devours all directions with its bloody mouth in the last days. Compared with these, repaying kindness with revenge is a trivial matter."

Mikhail said gently: "But the snake in this story is not Satan, but the victim, or the weak. I always think I know what other people want, but the world doesn't treat me with common sense. Isabella After telling the story, ask: "Mikhail, if you were a farmer, would you save the snake?" I said: "Of course. I didn't know that the snake would bite me. Even if I knew, saving the snake is my business. Biting I'm a snake. And as long as I'm stronger than a snake, I won't get bitten. I'll always be stronger than a snake.'

"'Perhaps the snake doesn't want to be bothered by you?' Isabella coaxed. 'Snakes hibernate. I think Chevalier Salvatore mentioned that in last month's lesson.'

"I said: 'Farmers deal with snakes more often than we do, so the farmer in the story must know this better than I do, but he still takes the snake home in his arms. The real poor people don't go out in winter, hide Don’t they hibernate like snakes if they stay motionless at home? They also do it voluntarily, because they don’t have enough money and food, and they don’t have thick clothes to wear in the snow. They can only reduce their activities and save food. But they still have to be hungry every winter Many people died of freezing because they didn't even have quilts, they couldn't burn coal, and they didn't have the strength to chop wood. Farmers took the frozen snake home to make it active in winter; I'm going to do the same, so that everyone To be able to eat and clothe warmly in winter and walk out on the street. I can’t do it now, but I must do it when I grow up.’”

Arnold said with a bitter face: "You are only six years old, why do you think so much? Although this is a touching declaration, what is the church teaching you..."

Mikhail tilted his head: "Then I was imprisoned for three days. In a small cage with no windows and no water, I was hungry and crying. Jonathan and Isabella had a fight."

Arnold was stunned, and laughed out loud: "Why?"

"Because of arrogance." Mikhail revealed the answer slyly, "Isabella said that I regarded myself as a farmer and compared a real farmer to a snake. I was prejudiced from the beginning and thought too much of people." Low and low, although people are indeed low and low, but I am definitely not a farmer. I was taught badly by the Knights, and I don’t think about the dignity of others at all. I only think that I must sacrifice for a great purpose. A useless self-indulgence. But in fact, people are people, just like me, not snakes. So she replaced all the nuns and rabbis around me, and the Knights eliminated a lot of people at once."

Fortunately, vampires don’t need to breathe, so Arnold won’t be able to breathe out of laughter: “God, I heard this story when I was a child. We all thought that the farmer picked up the poisonous snake to make wine. Six years old, how do we know what a farmer is? , and promised my father that I would not become such a stupid doctor, but you have even seen the winter in the slums!"

"However," Mikhail smiled wryly again, a helpless smile that is hard to see on a 16-year-old boy. A 16-year-old boy like him who has no worries about food and drink would not be helpless, "In my After defeating 'Hill, she never mentioned it again. Everyone told me that I was born superior. A farmer is not a snake, but I am not a farmer. I am an angel from the Father. Then, Micah told me , I want to become a god.”

The stiff smile on Arnold's face also disappeared: "What do you want to do?"

Mikhail asked back: "What about you?"

"I have no choice." Arnold shrugged, "Maybe you still have."

"We all have choices." Mikhail stood up, shook his cloak, hung it in his arms, and extinguished the fire.

"Let's go. Get out of here. After Priest Gray leaves Potosi, he will return to Lieyang City for a two-year in-depth investigation and training. The Kingdom of Aerys will be a relatively safe place, and Aiden, who is farther away, will not Why pay attention to the rules of the church." Mikhail looked at him sadly and nostalgicly, his face turned pale after the fire suddenly disappeared, "Sunset City is too dangerous for you. You are going to commit suicide, I feel Got it, I'm sure, stop teasing me. But - please hear me out - do me a favor, give me a few extra days for me. I may not be able to conquer the Church, and may be living to beat Hill lies, but some things have to be tried."

Arnold looked at him for a long time, then suddenly smiled.This smile is different from any of the previous ones, almost allowing Mikhail to see the real vitality emanating from the vampire's corpse, as if his few words have become the words of Mithra's descending, Tell the dead to come out of the grave and reunite with their parents and relatives.But "Arnold" has no parents. "Arnold" was the name of his distant ancestor, Mikhail didn't even know the doctor's real name, he had no name, just a vampire crushed to death by all the "Doctor Edwards" glory.

Arnold said: "Yes, Your Highness. Please take a good look at your church. I don't know if there are any materials in the monastery. If you see it, please don't tell me. You will know that I am as guilty as the church after reading it. Kill whichever you want first. But don’t tell me, please come to me on Emile, and please bring a bouquet of flowers as my reward for telling you today. You can pray with the Brilliant Maiden or the Chastity Sacrifice, and have a good laugh , have I ever praised you? Let me tell you now, you are the most beautiful I have ever seen—"

"I won't kill you! You didn't do anything wrong!" Mikhail said stubbornly, "We've only known each other for so long, and you think you can make decisions for me!"

"...Keep your voice down, Your Highness." Arnold lowered his head and wiped his glasses, "You also said that the power of the saints within the borders is exceptionally strong, and maybe someone is listening right now and preparing to lay an ambush. "

Mikhail looked at him, unfolded his cloak and put it on his shoulders, fastened the sun cross brooch on his right chest, his eyes were like flames, and his voice was like spring thunder:

"Then let them come!"

Two beams of light flew over from a distance, and "Glorious Maiden" and "Chastity Prayer" pierced into the grass beside him.

The morning sun rose behind Mikhail from below the horizon, like a cold and holy halo illuminating the clear blue sky of autumn.

Mikhail was wearing a priest's white robe and a saint's cloak, flanked by a knight's lance and an exorcist's long sword. His brilliant blond hair and fair skin melted into the sunlight, and his pupilless eyes were as bright as the starry sky. Deeper and clearer than the ocean.He looked at Arnold like a farmer looks at a frozen snake in the snow.

So Arnold said: "Isabella is wrong. A farmer who can run around in winter and has no time to save a snake, and wastes milk to feed it. How can it be the sun god to save it? If the Lazarus line up to enter The kingdom of heaven, it won’t be that rich peasant’s turn until Christmas next year.”

Mikhail asked: "Do you still dream of the kingdom of Mithras, the sun god, even after all this?"

Arnold looked ugly and distorted, looking at the cross on his chest: "I was baptized when I was born, and I was still paying tithes until August this year. I went to the monastery to worship every week. I am a believer in the sun god. Saints What do I have to do with grievances? It is the church that killed my parents, and it is the human beings who killed each other under the banner of Mithra. I remember the warmth of the cross that Yana gave me on Christmas Eve when I was a child, and I also remember you with His The wet cold and pain dispelled by name, Micah who rescued me from Lieyang City is also his saint!"

While he was talking, Mikhail kept his head down and looked at him motionless, and had not looked away until now.

Mikhail said: "I love you."

Arnold looked up in astonishment.

"Give me one last kiss," said Mikhail softly, "you can refuse. I just—"

Arnold strode forward and tiptoed to kiss him on the lips.Mikhail bent down, like the angel descending from the sky to receive the soul of the dead in all the ancient or contemporary church murals.

"That brooch, the emerald one." Before Mikhail opened his eyes, Arnold leaned against his lips and said hoarsely, "Can you return it to me?"

Mikhail tilted his head in doubt, not understanding where his obsession came from, but he still took out the emerald from the neckline, and with a little force, broke the silver chain.The toe of the vampire's shoe rubbed against the ground, took the emerald but didn't put it on or wear it, just put it carefully into the breast pocket, and said softly:

"It was my 16th birthday present. Mum gave it to me."

Mikhail nodded and stood still.The slightly cold autumn wind blew his light-colored soft short hair, and his expression was so gentle that it seemed to be staying.

But Arnold smiled, turned around, stepped on the wet ground and scattered fallen leaves in early autumn, and walked eastward.

"...Mr. Edwards!"

Mikhail stopped him.Arnold turned his head in doubt. The young knight was bathed in the morning sun, and a blush gradually appeared on his fair cheeks.The blue-purple eyes that were more mysterious than the starry sky and clearer than the ocean looked at him. Mikhail took a deep breath and asked embarrassingly:

"You, what's your name?"

Arnold squinted his eyes and thought about it, moved his fingers absently against his trousers, and replied defensively: "You can find the answer in the church."

"And 'Katherine'? Who is 'Katherine' to you?"

After a long silence, Arnold said softly, "My mother. Her Christian name is Catherine."

After finishing speaking, Arnold turned around, with the icy morning sun behind his back, and disappeared into the rustling autumn day without looking back.

Mikhail looked at his thin back, and suddenly found that although the doctor always walked steadily and his back was straight, like some kind of pride that nobles live on, his left knee was [-] centimeters higher than the right .

The author says:

It’s also almost implied here. I didn’t warn you before because I didn’t want to spoil it. In short, here’s a solemn warning: the body that the doctor is using now is Frankenstein’s suture monster, which was almost taught to cut into human sticks before () The doctor handles it himself After a while, it is still well-proportioned and beautiful (carefully selected.jpg), but this kind of setting must have many people and even feel disgusted by Lei, so although it is expected that this knife was stabbed at Misha in the last chapter, I am afraid that it will be said that Lei Wen Fraud, I decided to explain in advance, although it will affect the appearance... Doxiaza.jpg

The last paragraph has not been thought of for the time being. It will not cause ambiguity and the wording is fluent. Let me explain it. It means that the legs are equal in length and the height of the knees is different, but it is surprising that there is no one high and one low when walking; the two legs are composed of four different limbs. , not one long and one short.It may be revised in the future. 3.7cm has no special meaning, it is used for comparison with Misha.