The female devils I saved came to my door

"You don't need to make a new book. Just add a few new pages of illustrations and stories to these fairy tales with tragic endings, and change the ending of the tragedy."

The Pope is very kind. Anyone's first impression of her will be that she is an old grandmother who dotes on her granddaughter: "Thank you for your hard work. If it can be completed tonight, she can sleep peacefully."

What else can I do, I can only agree.

The few fairy tale picture books he took over all ended in tragedy, such as "The Nightingale and the Rose", "The Daughter of the Sea", "The Fisherman and His Soul", these classic tragic fairy tales of the earth.

There are also some of his original tragic fairy tales, such as "The Knight Bearing Responsibility", which tells the story of a heroic knight who kept making deals with the devil in order to defeat the mad dragon, and finally sacrificed his hands, feet, senses, and even his heart in exchange for more powerful organs. , and finally turned into a monster more terrifying than the mad dragon, and died with it in a deadly battle;

"Valley of the Sky" tells the story of a long-lived lonely man wandering in another world. After a long journey and countless life and death, he found inner peace, and finally lived in seclusion in a valley, reconciled with himself, and passed away peacefully;

"Doctor in Distress" tells the story of a doctor who is looking for a drug that can cure all diseases and make himself safe once and for all. However, he discovers that this is a delusion. He finally chooses to pick up the medical box again and continue to practice medicine to save people until he is also infected by the plague and dies. .

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These tragic elements are very traditional: including self-sacrifice, longevity theory, the reality faced after the dream collapses...

At that time, after writing these fairy tales to Hilna and Lovna, they actually didn't like reading them. After all, they were tragedies.

Therefore, these fairy tale picture books with tragic endings were sold by Charles relatively early, so they were the first to spread.

But now, since the Pope has the order, what else can be done?I can only quickly pick up the paintbrush and hurry up to draw a new ending to the story.

Not only those traditional fairy tales, he also added to his own original fairy tales:

The knight who turned into a monster finally defeated the mad dragon, used the heart of the mad dragon to rest on his broken body, and asked the most powerful mage to reshape his body, and together they defeated the demon who kept bewitching him. , got his body back.

The long-lived lonely man welcomed the reincarnations of his old friends during the long wait.He retaught them and continued to take care of their children when they grew up, until finally, more and more people came to the Valley of the Sky, and everyone was by his side, and he was freed from loneliness.

Although the doctor in trouble did not find the magic medicine in the end, his clear soul moved the gods, so he became an angel who rescued the suffering and walked in the world ever since.In the end, he himself became the miracle medicine he longed to be.

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In the middle of the night, he yawned, appended the revised story endings to the picture book, and handed it to His Holiness the Pope and Monroe, who had been waiting patiently.

Katrin has been quietly waiting for the results.

Saint Ann IV took the picture book he handed over, gently picked up Catlin who was sitting next to her, and held this woman who was a head taller than him to sit on his lap.

Then, he opened the fairy tale picture book and read her the story with a changed ending.

It's really like an old grandmother reading fairy tales to her granddaughter.

Katrin listened to the story very carefully. Although she did not make any movements or obvious changes in expression, Ciel could feel that she heard a brand new ending and was very happy after seeing the happy portraits of the protagonists in the picture book.

During this period, Monroe stood motionless beside him, like a guard stationed on guard.

After finishing reading several picture books, this Katrin stood up from the Pope's arms and stood in front of Ciel.

Staring at her eyes that could reflect all kinds of futures, Charles felt strong discomfort. He could only turn his head to avoid meeting the eyes of this little girl.

This girl did something very outrageous - she knelt down respectfully in front of Charles, and then made a gesture of prayer and thanksgiving.

This gesture is generally used only by devout believers when they pray to the Eternal Heavenly Father to express their gratitude and joy.

And Ciel is an ordinary person.

Pray to an ordinary person, and pray to him in front of the Pope of the Eternal Holy Church.

Ciel was almost petrified by this.

If people see this, he should go to the Inquisition to commit suicide and apologize.

"It's okay, Charles, she's just ignorant." Pope St. Ann IV did not show any anger or surprise. She helped Catherine up and rubbed her head: "She just regards you as a god and thinks you are a god." After hearing her prayer, she thought you had really used your divine power to change those tragedies, so she expressed her gratitude to you."

"Thank you for your magnanimity, my heart almost stopped beating just now." He wiped the cold sweat on his forehead: "I...is there anything else I can do for you now?"

"Not for the time being, Charles, you can go back." Saint Ann IV said: "Of course, this child Katrin will still want to see you in the future. She still has many fairy tale endings that she needs you to help change - oh, yes If so, I also hope you will make some three-dimensional fairy tale picture books for her. Just like you made for your students, please."

"Trouble." Monroe finally spoke and added.

"But, with Katrin's situation...I'm not sure I...can satisfy her needs."

"You can do it, Charles." The Pope said: "When Sirna was seven years old, when she almost lost control and destroyed the small town of Ipoli, didn't you use patience and gentleness to save her and teach her to become a Are you a good child? Since you can be a good caregiver for Sirna, of course you can also take good care of Katrin."

"You know this?!" Charles always thought that Sirna's unexpected awakening in childhood was a secret that only he, Prince Nolen, and Lovna knew.

"Of course, since Sirna came to Glory City and stood in the preaching hall to bathe in the holy light, I have known all about her experience."

As she said this, the kind-hearted old lady looked at Charles meaningfully: "After all, all the past and future are in the control of the Eternal Heavenly Father. The secrets that mortals think of themselves have no way of escaping in front of the Holy See. .”

Charles was completely speechless.

"Very good." Seeing this, the Pope nodded and said, "That's it for today. You can go back."

"Yes……"

But before leaving, Catlin suddenly stood up, carefully tugged on the corner of Ciel's clothes, then slowly walked to the side of the room, took out a small wooden box in the room, and took out a shining orb. He handed it to Ciel expectantly.

"What does it mean?"

"A gift of thanks to you, or an offering she made to the god she recognized." Monroe explained: "Just accept it, there is nothing taboo about it."

With that, they left the house.

39.After first meeting

That was the first time Charles and Katrin met.

At that time, Katrin had not yet regained her consciousness and was still in a dazed state.

Although Charles was surprised by this meeting, he was more surprised that Monroe actually had a daughter, and that His Majesty the Pope would actually condescend to take care of this child.

He was also curious about who Monroe's wife was and what kind of relationship she had with Monroe.

But for Katrin herself, he didn't pay much attention.

He didn't think too much about where the magic lines on Katrin's body came from, nor what caused her strange abilities. He just thought it was some kind of curse and didn't think about it in detail.

He never expected that he would marry her in the future.

On the way back to his residence, Monroe expressed his gratitude to Charles:

Monroe: "I'm sorry to trouble you today, it's already late at night... I may need your help in the future."

Charles: "It's okay. Sirna and I have been taken care of by you since we came to Glory City. I can still help you with this little help. I just didn't expect that people like you would actually have children. "

"Katelin's mother...she was originally a less favored lord's daughter. When her family was in trouble, I happened to pass by and got to know them. Since then, she has admired me very much. She wanted to follow me , came to Glory City through his own efforts, enrolled in the seminary, and became my student, and we got married..."

Munro obviously didn't want to say more: "...However, because I fought against various demons in the past, I was severely cursed. There was something wrong with my bloodline. Several of the children she gave birth to me died. She also passed away later. Only One child, Katrin, survives to this day.”

Although it is a very sad story, when Munro told this story, he did not show how sad he was. Instead, he was a little numb.

Moreover, based on this time calculation, when he met his wife, he was already 70 or [-] years old. This age gap is quite large.

But Charles knew what was going on and didn't ask any more questions.

The two men walked home in silence.

After returning to his residence, he found that Sirna was already waiting for him at the door of the mansion angrily.

The girl was very dissatisfied with him for leaving without saying goodbye. She originally planned to go out to have a late night snack with Charles after reviewing her homework, enjoy the cool breeze of the autumn night, and further enhance the relationship, but who knew that Charles was not there at all, and it was not until later that he Didn't come back until midnight.

Although the maids said that Charles was taken away by Monroe for important matters, this still made her very unhappy.

"Teacher, and Mr. Monroe - it's already two o'clock in the morning." She pointed to the tall clock tower in the center of the city: "What's so urgent that you have to be busy until midnight? Can't you do it tomorrow?"

Before Charles could speak, Monroe told the lie he had prepared long ago:

"Nothing. Originally, I planned to take Charles to the church to visit the collection of weapons and equipment of the swordsmen of the past dynasties and improve his understanding of swordsmanship. But we met His Majesty the Pope during the visit. She was a little leisurely today and was also wandering around. , he chatted with Chardo and me, and we chatted until late at night without realizing it."

"Your Majesty the Pope?"

Taking out the name of St. Ann IV did work, and Sirna was indeed gagged.

But she was still puzzled: "...but what exactly did your Majesty talk about? Did they talk until after midnight?"

Monroe lied seriously: "Silna, His Majesty the Pope admires Charles very much. The collection of fairy tale picture books he produced has already spread from Ipoli, and His Majesty the Pope has even seen it. He will say later I may even be summoned by Your Majesty to produce additional picture books to enrich Your Majesty’s book collection.”

"Fairy tale picture books? Those things have actually spread to Glory City? Is that so...then it will indeed be appreciated by His Majesty..." Sirna was a little helpless: "Okay."

"Char, take out the treasure that His Majesty the Pope has bestowed upon you and show it to Hilna."

Charles immediately understood, took out the orb that Katrin gave him, and handed it to Sirna.

The blue-haired girl took the orb, and she knew it was evidence of expensive luxury goods. With Monroe's testimony, she had nothing to say.

"Charle, Hilna, I'm sorry for staying up so long tonight. You should go to bed early. If you can't get up on time to study at the seminary tomorrow, I can ask for leave for you."

Monroe finally raised his hand to say goodbye: "Goodbye."

After saying that, he turned and left.

Hilna held the orb. Although it was a good thing for Teacher Charles to be appreciated by the Pope, she still felt vaguely confused and uneasy in her heart.

But then, it seemed that it was exactly what Monroe said.

There were papal guards wearing dazzling gold armor who personally visited Charles and brought him various precious mineral pigments, high-quality cardboard that could be used for binding Vatican classics, and crystal-polished paintbrushes.

Those pigment powders reflect the intoxicating colorful light in the translucent glass bottles. Only in the most solemn and sacred religious paintings, the palace painters will carefully mix the colors and paint them on the church with a pious heart. Above the dome.

Ciel also complied with their requests and worked sleeplessly in his bedroom to create various picture books.Just like the gadgets made for Hilna and Lovna: in the picture book, there are castles that can stand on the paper when opened, there are mechanisms that pop out colorful paper pieces when pulled, and there are puzzles attached to the pages of the book. …

Looking at the picture books made by his teacher, Hilna was transported back to her childhood in Ipoli.

But unfortunately, these picture books are not hers after all.

And because the fine workmanship is extremely difficult to copy, the originals of these picture books can only be used as collections and were included in the collection of the Pope.

Even if the Pope dies and his soul returns to heaven, these picture books will only be regarded as the relics of the saints and stored in a warehouse that never sees the light of day, and will never be read by anyone.

She felt it was a pity.

"It's okay. Anyway, before these things are given to the Pope, you can take them and read them at will." Ciel said, "Just remember the content of these stories."

So, Hilna opened these picture books.

The stories in these picture books are quite different from those in the past, but they all have happy endings.

There is a story in it that Hilna quite likes.This story tells the story of an unknown blond girl who was unable to move or speak due to a congenital disease. However, Heavenly Father responded to her expectations and gave her a healthy body, allowing her to take risks in a half-dream and half-real illusion. .

In the end, the unknown girl gained love and friendship and became a hero.

The story mode is a bit like the book "The Magical Adventures of Witch Lovna" that I made for Lovna before, but this one has less content and better workmanship and materials.

It would be even more perfect if the blonde girl's hair color could be changed to blue and her name changed to Sherna.

"Teacher, do you need my help?" Looking at Ciel who was busy coloring cardboard and making three-dimensional parts and mechanisms, she felt that he was a little too tired.

I had to take classes and practice at the seminary during the day, and I had to work overtime at night to do these things. It was even busier than when I was in Ipoli.

"It doesn't matter, you go and review your homework first." Charles reminded: "I don't have any magic talent, so I can only rely on these skills to win appreciation. Although Your Majesty didn't reward me with anything every time, he just gave me some verbal praise and One or two small gifts, but I can feel that as long as this flattery is done well, His Majesty the Pope will always take extra care of me in the future.

"If I can get His Majesty the Pope's approval and letter of recommendation, maybe I can get one or two special recruitment spots from His Majesty and bring your sister to Glory City. Even if she has no magic talent, she can still enter Get a diploma from a seminary. By then, you sisters will no longer have to live in separate worlds, and you can all have a good future.

"We even have the opportunity to ask for funding for the church in Ipoli to renovate your hometown... Anyway, having a good relationship is better than anything else."

"Oh, this is your plan, Teacher Charles..." Hilna was a little speechless, but she could only say: "...Thank you, teacher, for thinking about me and Sister Lovna."

"I should." He replied, "Just study hard."

40. Nameless thoughts

After that, probably a few more months passed.

It has been almost a year since Charles and Hilna left Ipoli.

Hilna completed her first semester at the seminary with distinction in all subjects.

She was also qualified to present gifts to His Majesty the Pope on behalf of all students during the New Year's morning prayer.

The only trouble she encountered during her studies was that several students who were extremely jealous of her tried to frame her for stealing cultural relics from the seminary.

However, these people's methods were very rough, and several of the school's nuns easily saw through their lies.

The subsequent development was that at Sirna's request, these people were fired.

Lovna happily informed his teacher in the letter: This year's Yiboli will still have a bumper harvest.

Her mother bought a big cow and hired several peasant women to make cheese and even milk wine.

Many people hope to buy more new products this year to improve their lives.

Moreover, everyone is looking forward to Teacher Charles and Hilna returning home after completing their studies.