Although Sam didn't say anything else after that, and was called out by the monastery students to ask a lot of questions, Dean felt that the gap between them should have narrowed a bit.

Sam took the two students who were looking for him to his office.

Strictly speaking, one of the children named Walt is not a student of the monastery. He was originally an apprentice of a painter. The painter was later thrown into prison for a crime. He couldn't find his master temporarily, so he persuaded his family to let him live in Hutton. Monastery retreat.

Should be a monk.

But he was very young, and he often came to Sam because of some confusion, and Sam couldn't help but treat him as a student of the monastery.

These children are usually confused about certain passages in the Bible.

Sam is always patient and the students love him.In their minds, it is very unbelievable for an Alpha to become a clergyman. The children who enter the monastery to study are very young, and many of them find out that they are their Alpha or Omega when they are in estrus, and finally give up their studies. Sam was a great surprise, humble and with such amazing self-control that few people would remember now that the young deacon was actually an Alpha.

Students always have better memories.

Sam is also happy to help them.When he was studying in the monastery, he was very lonely, partly because everything here was strange, partly because he closed himself in a world with only himself.When he grew up, the sense of loneliness did not disappear, but became more and more profound. He could integrate himself into the crowd, but he could not integrate himself into the group composed of others.

But he doesn't want other kids to be like him, it's too painful.He has the consciousness of a martyr, but no one should be martyred for "loneliness".

Sam chatted with the two boys for a long time, and when they finished discussing the Bible, Dean's name popped up in their next conversation. Sam couldn't remember which kid mentioned Dean first, but the boys had expressions of admiration and awe at the name.

The Paladins are the heroes of this realm, and the Grand Master is the hero of heroes.

Two years ago, Dean led the Paladins to end the nearly year-long Acropolis War.Although that war was not as grand as the Battle of Sealing, the heroic Paladins were still written into their romantic poems and songs by the wandering bards, and became the object of worship of the teenagers in this country.

And Dean Winchester is undoubtedly the name that is mentioned the most times.This man appears in every poem of the bards. He is described as a strong Alpha with a huge sword. Whenever he appears on the battlefield, he makes the enemy flee.

The boys didn't expect that the rock-like Alpha hero in the poem was so young and so good-looking.

They tell things about Dean, most of which Sam hasn't heard, and he's asked if those things are true.The deacon was left speechless - the boys, it seemed, knew Dean better than he did.

It made Sam slightly uncomfortable.

Just when Sam was worrying about how to answer the boys' questions, someone pushed the door and walked in.

"Half is true and half is false. According to my experience, most bards can't believe what they say. They will praise their heroes to the sky."

Sam and the boys turned to the door at the same time.

The blond knight raised his hand innocently, and said to his brother: "I swear I really didn't eavesdrop on your conversation, it's just that my accompanying priest just happened to catch me out to give a lecture, and I happened to be standing at this door," he said , turned sideways so that the other three people in the office could see Chuck who was still standing outside the door, "He told me this is a monastery, let me be honest."

Chuck, who was being called outside the door, also scratched his head in embarrassment. Obviously, talking to the head of the group like this is beyond the norm.But after staying with soldiers who have been fighting abroad for a long time, even the most disciplined priest will be imperceptibly become a little inappropriate.

Sam stood up and saluted Chuck outside the door, and the two boys quickly followed suit. Chuck seemed even more uncomfortable, he thought for a while, and could only say: "Actually, I was looking for the dean, and I happened to meet Dean, and I asked him a few words by the way..." As he spoke, he felt a sense of sophistry , so he fake coughed twice, and went to find the dean with an excuse, so he ran away alone.

The priest left, and the boys kept their eyes glued to Dean.Their eyes are full of curiosity, and they can't wait to know which stories are written in poetry, which are true and which are not. Sam could also understand what the boys were thinking, he gave up his chair to Dean, Walt saw this, and quickly gave up his chair to Sam.

"For example, it's true that I was stabbed through the body with a sword," Dean said, and the boys, even Sam, couldn't help but stare at Dean worriedly, "But it wasn't the chest, it was the stomach, it was stabbed Yes, I’m lucky that I didn’t die.” He said with a smile, and patted his heart, “If this place is pierced, how can I survive? Also, my current war horse is indeed inherited from someone else. Not the former Grand Master though, it was my father. The horse was originally his."

Dean was surrounded by the boys again and asked a lot about the Knights and the war.Both of their brothers are very talkative people. The difference is that Sam is good at listening and guiding, while Dean is like a master of the topic. No matter what the topic is, he will always attract many people and no one. Willing to interrupt him.

Dean's story made the boys feel a little heavy. Unlike the war in the bard's song, the war Dean told was full of majesty and sadness at the same time.He remembered the names of many people, including his comrades-in-arms, and the names of some civilians affected by the war-he had a brief encounter with some of them, and many times, he could still see the young father the day before. The youngest daughter was carried on his shoulders, and when they met the next day, they turned into cold and hard corpses.

Knights cannot tolerate the slaughter of civilians.

The civilians died because the knights who protected them were incompetent.

And the boys didn't notice that their topic gradually shifted from Dean alone to the whole war. He didn't say anything about himself, but just recalled those names full of memories and embarrassment, and said them one by one. Listen to people they don't even know.

Sorrow and pity can also become power.

Dean looked at the boys' faces with somewhat heavy expressions, and fell silent suddenly.No one spoke again, as if everyone was lost in their own thoughts, and the sound of breathing one after another seemed to be deliberately lightened, so that people could hardly notice it.

"Hmm..." It was Walt who was born first and broke the tranquility at this time. He looked at Dean, straightened his back unconsciously, and grabbed the fabric on his knees with some embarrassment, hesitating when Dean turned to him with focused eyes He asked, "Your Excellency, Grand Leader, I... May I please allow me to take a portrait of you?"

No one expected that Walt would make this request.

It's not that Dean hasn't been painted before, every Grand Master of the Paladin Order has a portrait.The last time he was painted by the royal painter of the Holy See, he sat on the chair for almost an afternoon. After that, when he saw the painter again, he wanted to cover his face and walk around.

But for the child's request - Walt looks like fifteen or sixteen years old, and in Dean's heart he is a child - Dean has never been able to refuse a child, he wobbled for a long time with conflicts and distress, and in the end he was full of expectations in Walt He nodded with difficulty in his eyes.

"But I haven't had any free time in the past month." Seeing the delighted smile on Walt's face, Dean added, "I'll come to you after I arrange my affairs, okay?"

Hearing this, Walt first showed a disappointed expression, but he quickly put away these expressions and nodded vigorously.

Dean patted his arm with a smile.

Then they talked about something.How to get back to the room, Sam can't remember very well, because his mind has been stuck in those stories since Dean started telling him.That was something he didn't know, how much the boys could hear in poetry, and he hadn't heard it at all.

He didn't know that Dean had been injured that badly, that he inherited the horse he was riding from his father, or that Dean had nearly died in the Battle of the Acropolis.

Dean makes these things anecdotal, like they've never been particularly important.

It made Sam's chest tighten again, making him take a good look at Dean's identity for the first time.

Paladin.

That is the warrior, the patron of God's people.

This level never occurred to Sam - it was a group of people who were always ready to die.

But Sam would never know that every time he got hurt, Dean would try to pull himself through.He would never let himself die like this. His father had already died in battle, and his responsibility must be inherited by someone.

And this successor cannot die.

TBC

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