big devil holmes

Chapter 43 Holy Love
day of love
This may be the most deviant holiday in the entire history of mankind.

It doesn't even have a fixed time.

It may span 30 years, or 50 years, and the longest one spans 74 years, so that people in that period need to experience a lifetime of birth, old age, sickness and death to witness this day that is enough to move and admire everyone. .

On this day, from the dying patients on the hospital bed, to the children who just understand the truth, and even the crusaders on the battlefield of hell in the extreme south, where there are only killing and bloodshed, all will be together. Immersed in a common theme --- love.

Even if the source of this festival is full of power, money, belief, and many other elements, in the end, they will all be attributed to love.

Blessed by the holy light, hand-picked love.

In fact, the origin of this festival is very simple and clear;
It is the Holy Son, or the successor of the next pope, the man who holds the greatest power in the entire empire; on this day, he will meet his beloved.

On the 20th birthday of the saint, he will join hands with her under the witness of the great priest of the [Holy Light Temple], and they will experience joys and tribulations together, and walk through life together;
Nothing more
It doesn't sound so shocking, because the pope is also a human being, and human beings must experience love; this is no different from all ordinary people on the street.

However, because of the existence of the Holy Light, this love has been pushed into an extreme romance unimaginable by human beings. Because the Holy Light can predict the birth of Her Royal Highness [Saint] 20 years in advance!

That's right, the all-knowing and omnipotent Holy Light, who can foresee the past and the future, has given the successive Sons the authority not to know whether it is good or bad. It will help him find the most suitable person among hundreds of millions of people.

As a result, every day of sacred love tells the citizens of the entire empire how true, arrogant, blind, and unscrupulous love is.

It is also interpreting that romance is not necessarily a commendatory word
Because the love of the Son may be a disabled girl who survived the war!

Or it could be an orphan living as a beggar in a slum.

It could be a thief, a bereaved woman, a fraudster, or even a prostitute.

In short, in the hundreds of years after the Holy Light came to the world, it has refreshed people's cognition of love time and time again, and it has also convinced people time and time again that love has never been mixed with identity, status, money and power. Secular and other elements, even sometimes, do not take into account morality.

It is estimated that the Holy Light has such a pure and extreme understanding of human love. In order to avoid the embarrassing situation of "a married woman being elected as a saint", the marriage law of the empire decided that citizens can only be married when they are over 20 years old. Marriage; and Shengguang is also very face-saving. In the past dozens of days of holy love, there has not been an embarrassing situation like "the saint is a man".

As for whether the "saint fell in love with someone else in advance" has happened.
May or may not have been.

unimportant.

Because in the face of great power, love will become more vivid and pure.

This may have already been within Shengguang's calculations. After all, love is so easy to shake compared to "the woman who will become the next Pope".

That's right!

Empathy, also belongs to love.

In short, centuries have passed. The Day of Love has become a festival that is talked about. On this day, the atmosphere of love will be set off to the extreme in the streets and alleys. Young men and women will dress up and go out. Anywhere, you can meet couples hugging and kissing. The government's marriage registration department will become the busiest place in the world, and the wages of its staff will skyrocket by more than three or four times in these few days.

Of course, except for the servants of the Holy Light Temple, no one knows when the Day of Sacred Love will come. Only one week before the saint's 20th birthday, the government will publish this news on all newspapers.

As for the saint, she will not know her identity until this time. The clergy of the Holy See will come before her on this day, and invite her to a gorgeous carriage with the most pious etiquette;

The reason why she was not informed of the identity of the saint when she was born is also easy to understand. After all, rights can easily change a person's quality and character. The servants of the Holy Light Temple always believe that only those who have experienced After everything that should have happened, the saint can truly grow into a saint.

All tribulations and pains are arranged by the Holy Light
So much so that this custom has also led to a delusional disease called 'Saint's Fantasy Syndrome'. Of course, this disease will naturally heal by the age of 20.

I have to say that alcohol is indeed a good thing. After the three tours, people who meet by chance can embrace their necks and call them brothers. During the time just now, Sherlock saw no less than five or six women coming to Watson's side, pretending to be dizzy fell on him.

Watson has always maintained the attitude that a gentleman should have. Even if several women were about to slap their breasts on his face, he still smiled and helped them up. It seemed that this man seemed qualified enough to go A doctor who enjoys countless women is not immersed in extravagance and happiness.

But Sherlock remembers that Watson once said that he likes beautiful things; in other words, he may not want to be obsessed with gentlemanly demeanor, but simply thinks that these girls are too short .

"Speaking of which, I'm curious, why do you think that the day of holy love is coming? Logically speaking, this kind of rare festival that only occurs once every few decades should be the least likely to be thought of." Sherlock will Buried in the smoke, he asked casually.

"I did not expect it at first, but" Watson hesitated: "You may not believe it, but I know a friend;
Well, not really a friend at all, just an old homeless man who lived across from my house. He made a home in a disused steam boiler. When I passed by occasionally, I would go to him to sit and sit.

And the guy claimed he could tell fortunes. "

"Fortune-telling?"

"It's divination, tarot cards, crystal balls, and things like that. Of course, if that guy really knows divination, he won't be able to become a homeless man.

Anyway, he doesn't know what's wrong recently, he always mentions to me the day of holy love, what holy son, holy woman, and other things, he drank too much a few days ago, and talked about it for almost half a day. Hours.

Now I also feel that the day of holy love is really coming. "

"I see." Sherlock shrugged his shoulders. It may be because he is a detective. He was naturally not too interested in this kind of operation without theoretical basis, so he didn't ask any more questions.

Just like that, two people who just met each other sat side by side, chatting without saying a word, or quietly thinking about something on their minds, without trying to dig out each other's secrets, just wantonly letting alcohol and noise erode one's mind , until the surrounding atmosphere became more and more chaotic, and people became more and more intoxicated.

Just when the madness of the whole night reached its climax, when the two people sitting face to face talked, they had to close their ears.

A crack in the void.
For no reason.
Appeared on the nape of Sherlock's neck!

It appeared so quietly, abruptly, without any warning, and it couldn't be guarded against, as if it forcibly broke into a plot that didn't belong to it, hidden in the dim light, and didn't send out the slightest sound. sound.

next second!
A sharp thorn suddenly pierced out of the gap in the void and hit Sherlock's head!
(End of this chapter)