Fairy tale: Little Red Riding Hood's wolf mentor

The young boy's hands trembled, and when he turned around, his sunken eyes were filled with sorrow.

Shaking, he handed a notebook wrapped in cloth, and… a silver dagger, to Leake.

He looked at Leake's face, obscured by the hood, with a hint of pleading.

He desperately opened his mouth, but realizing he couldn't speak, he could only close it futilely, gesturing with his dirt-covered hand to turn a page.

Leake was silent for a moment, then stepped forward, picked up the dying child, and together with Poro, walked back to the mound in front of the house that was about to burn down.

"Chī--"

Leake lit an oil lamp with a match.

Then, finding a corner sheltered from the wind, she held Poro in her arms and began to flip through the worn notebook.

"Hmm… judging from the paper, this notebook seems to be pieced together."

Poro tilted his head to observe the side of the notebook, and said, "It looks like… about three parts?"

"The original pages should be that kid's diary, right?"

Leake opened the book and glanced at the other corner of the room, where the rescued child was motionless in the shadows, like a dead statue.

"Looks like there aren't many words, we should be able to finish reading it all in half a night, right?"

The first half, that is, the inner pages that came with the notebook's hard cover, was indeed mostly the boy's diary, recording some fragmented little things.

【Father's arm injury is healed, he is very happy, and went out to help move things again…】

【Today, mother taught me how to embroider, maybe in the future… I can become a tailor?】

【……】

But the subsequent parts made Poro and Leake's expressions gradually become serious.

【Today, father happily told us that the Bishop allowed him to work as a porter in the church, and mother was also very happy.】

【Sure enough, father's wages have increased a lot, the Bishop is so kind!】

【I will also work for the church in the future!】

【Father said that he has been a bit forgetful lately, and always forgets what he moved in the church.】

【Hehe, it turns out that my family still has an heirloom, mother found a dagger from the bottom of the box, it's so bright, and feels cool in my hand!】

【Mother said that this dagger can calm the nerves and make people clear-headed!】

【Why did father's expression suddenly change after touching that dagger?】

【Father hasn't gone out to work for several days, and doesn't answer when mother asks him anything.】

【Today, father's old friend came to see him.】

【I've seen that uncle, he's also a porter at the church, I heard that he just married the washerwoman at the entrance of the town last year!】

【Father and uncle didn't know what they were talking about, but they finally went to work together!】

【Strange, why didn't father come back today?】

【Father hasn't come back for two days, and mother is also very worried about him!】

【I secretly went to the church to take a look today, without telling mom, maybe dad went to work a long-term job - I even brought the family heirloom dagger for self-defense, hehe, I'm so smart!】

【I met a beautiful sister in the church, she stopped me and said that some places behind the church are not allowed to enter, but she promised to help me find out where my father is.】

【That sister is so pretty, she should be about my age, right?】

【If she could marry me, that would be great, but she seems to be a nun, and the Bishop said that nuns cannot marry!】

【I can't sleep tonight!】

【I suddenly feel that what the Bishop said is a bit unreasonable - why do I have such thoughts?】

【No, I'm going to ask that sister!】

【The sister's smile is so beautiful, but… I was rejected after all!】

【But the sister gave me a bone carving, she said that she is the daughter of a hunter, and this bone carving was given to her by her father!】

【The bone carving is very delicate, I played with it all night and still couldn't sleep.】

【Does she also like me?】

【Oh no, I gave the family heirloom dagger to that sister, I wonder if mom will be mad when she finds out?】

【But mom has been very sad recently, and I also miss dad a bit.】

【Recently, the nun sister doesn't seem to smile anymore, why? Her eyes are also red, has she been crying?】

【The nun sister handed me a letter, saying it was about my father's information, she repeatedly told me not to tell others, and give it directly to mother.】

【I gave the letter to mother.】

After this passage, the boy's handwriting suddenly became messy and uneven.

Several times, the paper was even torn!

Many of the characters were blurred by water stains, but this made Poro even more aware of the boy's desperate state of mind when he wrote.

【That night, mother cried very sadly, she packed all the food and the only money in the house!】

【Where are we going!?】

【Mother gave me all the family property and asked me to leave the town and go to a faraway place, and never come back.】

【Why!?】

【Mother took the kitchen knife and went to the church!】

【The next day, mother didn't come back either.】

【On the third day, I went to the church, my mother also died, but there was no body.】

【The Bishop spoke in the square, he said that the witch in the forest mixed into the town and killed innocent people.】

【The Bishop comforted me and sent someone to give me some food, he is really a good person.】

【Damn witch!】

【Tonight it's raining, someone knocked on the door.】

【It's the nun sister, she's soaking wet, her face is pale, her eyes are dull, and she's trembling all over, what's wrong with her?】

【The nun sister took out a notebook from her arms, it's her diary.】

【The nun sister also took out the family heirloom dagger that I gave her.】

【The nun sister is dead.】

【She stabbed herself in the neck with that silver dagger.】

【The dagger is cool, I remembered that feeling.】

【I think the Bishop… is lying! Has been lying all along!】

The original pages of the notebook had come to an end, and Poro turned to the next page, which was several stacks of different paper.

The handwriting on it was also obviously different from the boy's.

【I went to the church to work as a porter, the wages are not bad.】

【I just feel that my memory seems to have declined a bit, I don't remember what I moved at all?】

【A beautiful dagger, holding it, I feel… my memory is back!】

【What I transported to the church were dead people!】

【I even remembered who some of them were!】

【But why before… I didn't remember? I even forgot those dead people!?】

【That's right, it's the Bishop!】

【The Bishop he… is not right? Or am I being bewitched by a demon?】

【I… I'm afraid I have to think for a while!】

【It's the Bishop, all my logic, all my memories, all… point to him… and why was I completely unaware before? Everyone… is like this!?】

【Today, brother invited me to transport to the church.】

【I let him touch the dagger.】

【We want to go and see, because, among the dead people transported before, one was also our brother.】

Poro turned to the next page, which seemed to be the last page of his father's diary.

The handwriting on it was not ink, but reddish-brown blood!

【The Bishop and the witch hunters, they are killing people! They are the real devils!】

Poro and Leake looked at each other, the look in the girl's eyes was complicated, although it was not good, Poro was inexplicably relieved.

He knew why.

His guess was right, the townspeople's "Bishop" did have a problem!

And there were quite a few problems--

He was probably a hypocrite who covered up countless sins and bloodshed!

But the power he showed behind being able to deceive the entire town for several years made the two of them feel a chill in their hearts.

The last part.

Poro and Leake refocused their attention on the pages in their hands, which was a thin booklet.

The pages were relatively white, like the more delicate paper used in churches.

This time… it should be the nun's diary.

Seeing this, Poro's pupils shrank, on the blank first page of the nun's diary, there was a mark written by the boy.

That should be the nun's name.

And the nun's name was--Fulan!