The female devils I saved came to my door

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"Sirna noticed some problems at the time, but she didn't know what she was thinking, so she didn't tell me. At that time, I was also debating whether to leave Glory City and go to the distant Principality of Beztan to continue tracking down clues about Sharlanna.

"Because, at that time, there were no such official channels built by the East Ipoli Empire. There were still riots in the east of the mainland. Even if I had the blessing of the power of the Netherworld, I would have wasted at least half a year on a trip to the Principality of Beztan. Katrin also You need my company.

“So, I never made up my mind.

"At that time, there was another thing that surprised me - Monroe never came back. He had been delayed in the north for almost a month, and I don't know what he was doing."

But no matter what, Sirna was successfully promoted to cardinal, entered the cardinal group of the Holy See with overwhelming support, and became the real power within the Eternal Holy See.

During the ordination ceremony, standing under the brilliant stained glass dome, facing the bishops and priests standing under the magnificent reliefs, Hilna, dressed in gorgeous clothes, exuded holy white light, nodded to them one by one, like a A kind angel.

Onlookers looked at this holy, beautiful and noble woman in amazement. Everyone believed that this would be a pious, great and competent new cardinal.

Charles, who was wearing full armor and wearing the cloak given by Sirna, stood behind her somewhat absentmindedly, holding up various ritual instruments that would be used next, and assisted Sirna in completing a series of lengthy and tedious oaths. Speech and prayer process.

At the end of the ceremony, he breathed a sigh of relief.

Although Sirna's achievements were very high, as a teacher, he still couldn't feel happy when he looked at the students who were becoming more and more mature and indifferent.

Bishop Sirna's promotion ceremony was coming to an end. He, the knight who protected Sirna, kissed the back of the female bishop's hand and then escorted her to her seat.

Finally becoming a big shot who could treat the higher-ups of the Holy See as equals, Sirna still had that polite smile without unnecessary emotion on the surface, like a sculpture, but only she knew what was going on in her heart.

In the cheers of everyone, the ceremony that announced that Sirna had squeezed into the top of the Holy See and became the true ruler of the Holy Church finally came to an end.

Feeling relieved, Ciel briefly congratulated Sirna on her achievement after taking off his armor. Sirna also thanked her teacher for her support and care over the years.

"Hilna, even if you say this now, you may find me verbose, but I still hope that after you become a cardinal, you will try your best to be a kind person, be ruthless and decisive, and use some unseemly means to avoid being forced to do anything. It’s understandable. However, you still have to have a moral bottom line, and don’t live like a crazy person who doesn’t recognize your relatives just for the sake of power.”

"I know." Hilna looked a little disinterested in the teacher's teachings, probably not listening.

Charles was also a little helpless.

It was at this moment that the Pope suddenly found Ciel.

"Ciel, Katrin...she wants to see you for the last time, so go quickly."

111. Katrin’s departure

In the imperial mausoleum in Lovnania City, Ciel's tone was quite plain when he mentioned that parting.

It seems that the long time has indifferent to all his emotions:

"For some reason, Katrin's condition suddenly worsened. She fainted several times in bed. This time, St. Ann IV could not suppress her sudden curse, so he could only ask me to go over quickly and see the somewhat unconscious Katrin for the last time. one side.

"That was the first time I faced the death of a loved one. To be honest, I didn't feel sad at first, just a little unreal feeling, like I was in a dream. Looking at her face covered with spells, I didn't even know what to say to comfort her. I just stood beside her bed, looking at her like a fool and saying nothing.

"After I arrived, Katrin's groggy thinking became clearer. She and I actually didn't chat for too long before she passed away. After all, we had already said almost everything we could say.

"She just advised me to be open-minded and not to worry about her death.

"Because, she promised me that after she dies, as long as her soul returns to the netherworld, she will continue to guide the powers of chaos to protect me, so that I can fight against the turmoil and disasters that I will inevitably experience in the future. She will not really leave me. , but will continue to accompany me in other ways.

"She also said that after she died, she wanted me to live as comfortably as possible, not to always live for others, but to do something that I really wanted to do. Stop worrying about her, St. Ann IV, and the Doors Because of Luo's favor, he did a lot of things that he didn't want to do.

"Then, she came to Hilna again, hoping to have a private chat with her. Hilna started to resist because she didn't like Hilna, the woman who took me away. But Katrin still insisted on talking to her. , Sirna could only obey.

"I don't know what they talked about, but they talked for a long time. In the end, Hilna didn't tell me what Katrin said, but I could see that she was a little frustrated.

"At the end of her life, Katrine's only regret was not being able to see her father. She asked me to thank Monroe for her, and begged me to try to be nicer to Monroe in the future, because she believed that her father was also a You are a bit awkward like me. We may have some conflicts in the future.

"This request for my son-in-law to take care of his father-in-law was a bit strange, but I agreed without thinking much at the time - later I guessed that Katrin had a premonition of what would happen later, and the power of the Netherworld helped her see a bad future, so she would say something like this.

"Because Katrin was a cursed child after all, she could not be buried in the conventional way and could only be cremated... and her ashes were finally placed in the tomb of the cathedral. In this way, she and I were separated."

As for Ciel, after Katrin's death, he thought blankly for a long time, recalling Katrin's last words before her death.

Katrin encouraged him to do whatever he wanted to do after she left.

But he didn't have anything in particular that he wanted to do.

If I have to say what obsession I have recently, it is to find the child that I can't forget and find out who she is and what relationship she has with me.

"So, I also accepted Catlin's dying advice and planned to start from this matter. I volunteered to find Saint Ann IV and asked her to send me to the dangerous east to do some random tasks - in fact, I just wanted to find Xia Xia privately. Erlana - The Pope originally planned to let me recuperate for a while after Catherine's death, but seeing that I insisted on finding something to do, she agreed.

"Just like that, I really made up my mind to leave Glory City and prepare to go to the east to find my mysterious daughter...

“Later, I traveled halfway across the continent and met Lovna who was fighting in the Principality of Beztan.

"That should be the beginning of me leaving the Holy See and working alone..."

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In the royal tomb of Lovnania.

Recalling the separation between Dachar and Katrin, Lovna didn't say anything.

However, Wuming seemed to be touched in his heart when he heard about Katrin's death.

She felt like her mind was in a mess, and she had a lot of things she wanted to ask Charles, but she didn't know how to ask them.

"What's wrong, do you have something to say?" Luovna noticed Wuming's hesitant look and reminded, "Don't act coy. If you have anything you want to ask, just ask."

"Master Charles...are you still sad when you mention Miss Katrin now?" After being reminded by Lovna, she boldly asked the question.

"...What do you think?" Charles asked, "Do you think I am sad or forgetful?"

Wuming answered honestly: "I don't know. I think as long as it's Sir Charles, he must have his own reasons for any reaction."

Seeing that she was so honest, Charles did not give a seemingly honest answer: "I can't explain the relationship thing clearly, but I shouldn't be sad, because what Katrin said is right, she has always been in a certain way. She stays with me in a way, so I don't have to feel pain about it." Charles said, touching Wuming's head: "I also know that she has never left me in the thousands of years since. Never."

The warmth from the palm of his hand calmed Wuming's mood a little: "That's good."

"Hey, hey, hey, stop touching around." Luovna looked at Wuming who was enjoying himself, and was obviously a little unhappy: "This is my territory, so please stop flirting here!"

"Okay, okay, I know, I know..."

Charles knew that he could not favor one person against another, so he gently stroked Lovna's face with his other hand, gently scratching her smooth and delicate face like a cat, and kneading her pink earlobes.

The Queen reluctantly accepted his comfort and stopped complaining.

After coaxing the two women, Charles withdrew his hand and turned his head, as if to continue looking at the magnificent murals. In fact, he wanted to avoid Wuming's confused and shy eyes.

What he didn't say was that it was several days after Katrin's death that he slowly and truly felt the sadness. In the days after Katrin's death, his consciousness slowed down his feelings to prevent sudden Grief overwhelmed him.

But when his lover's departure became an ironclad fact, he accepted it all belatedly.

The word death was indeed much heavier than he expected.Especially the death of a loved one is like someone slowly cutting open his chest with a red-hot blade, pouring boiling water into his chest, and burning his internal organs.

No wonder people would fictionalize the underworld and expect the existence of the origin called the soul.

In this way, the departure of the living is no longer a farewell. Everyone can hold on to vague expectations, hoping that their souls can fill in the gaps in their past lives with their own memories, regrets and expectations at some point in the distant future. .

He felt that the power of the underworld he possessed was still with him after Katrin's departure.

He desperately hoped that he could use this power to do something truly meaningful, so as to comfort her soul and soothe his chaotic thoughts.

As for Sirna, although she regretted that Charles was leaving again, she also knew that Charles would definitely not ignore the child who was suspected to be related to Charles.

He must have had his concerns when he deliberately hid it from the Pope, and just respected his teacher's opinion.

She knew that Ciel wanted her to be a kind and sincere good person, but in her heart, Sirna felt that this was impossible.Teacher Charles could not help but do many things that he did not want to do in the Holy See.

It is not enough to become a cardinal. Only when you have the greatest power and become a more authoritative pope than St. Ann IV can you make Charles live comfortably, suppress those bastards who want to cause trouble, and completely eliminate those who make trouble. Ciel was faced with a dilemma.

Therefore, she must continue to climb up.

Also, she planned to find an opportunity to find out who the seven existences suspected to be related to Ciel underground in Glory City were.

Saint Ann IV stood on the tower of the Holy See, watching Charles leave Glory City.

The Pope knows very well that a big reason why Charles, a guy with a lot of inner thoughts, can always stay in the Holy See and do things that he doesn't want to do at all is because he can't leave the Holy See. of Katrine.

As long as she, the pope, is still Catlin's caregiver, as long as Catlin is still alive, then for Ciel, even if he sees clearly what kind of person she is, the pope, no matter how dissatisfied he is in his heart, Ciel will not speak out. Express opposition.

Just like birds flying away from their nests, as long as there are fragile chicks in the nest that have not yet grown up, they will not fly far and will always try their best to return to the nest.

Catrine is the link between the Pope, Monroe and Charles, and her departure will inevitably have a profound impact.

Ciel, the "perfect new human being", cannot be allowed to escape control.

112. Sharlanna’s experience

When Sharlanna first met Charles, like her father, she was convinced that the man riding the black horse was her father in just one meeting.

She was stunned at first.

Originally, she just followed the guidance and omens of her bloodline and headed east.After arriving in the north of the mainland, we stayed for a while.Because the longer she traveled, the more she thought and worried, and the more entangled she became about whether to go south to Rongguang City to find her father.

But she didn't expect that she would meet Charles on the road on that rainy night.

She knew it the moment they looked at each other.The man who, like himself, has black hair and black eyes, riding a Netherworld war horse in the rain, must be the source of his bloodline.

When he looked at himself through the rain, his heart beat like a beating war drum.

Sister Lovna's warning still rings in her ears.As a creature of the devil, she realized that she had been exposed, and immediately fled to the east without thinking. She originally just wanted to see what kind of person her father was, but she did not dare to let her father notice her existence.

Moreover, in order to catch up with her, Ciel casually wielded his heavy sword and chopped down the trees. The visual impact was too strong. He looked like a berserker chasing his prey. This scared the girl.

In order to escape from Ciel's sight, she ran away desperately.After driving the unicorn lightly over the hills, over the streams, and through the dense forests...she felt relieved only after she was sure that she was getting rid of Ciel.

After escaping, she sat on a horse beside a forest and thought for a while, then suddenly smiled bitterly.

The reason I left Ipoli this time was to find my father, but I never expected to meet him in such an unexpected way.In the end, I didn't even have time to say a word. I just had a face-to-face meeting, and I instinctively ran away in panic.

Complaining about her own incompetence, she drove the sitting white unicorn to wander aimlessly on the plain.

She actually wanted to overcome her fear and go back to see her father again. It would be best to have a chat with him... although she didn't know what to talk about.

She felt that even if her father was a knight of the Holy See and a hero who was absolutely loyal to the Holy Religion, he would not be so ruthless and terrifying. He would not destroy her involuntarily because she was a creature of the devil.

She hoped so.

But this time, she had been away from Yiboli for a long time. Lovna must have been anxious about her departure, and the other brothers and sisters were also waiting for her to return.

She also wanted to share with them her trip to meet her father and ask for their opinions.

Thinking of this, Sharlana breathed a sigh of relief and decided that it would be better to return along the original route.

There will be a chance to see my father again in the future.

Thinking of this, she made up her mind and planned to drive her mount back to Ipoli, to return to Lovna and her brothers and sisters.But just when she made her decision, the person who stopped her appeared.

Monroe, who had been tracking her for more than half a month, slowly approached her with a heavy sword in hand.

This was the reason why Monroe and Ciel separated - when he heard about the "child riding a unicorn", he vaguely guessed the identity of the child.

And his purpose is to capture all the children of the underworld created by the devil and bring them back to the Holy See - even dead.

Although this agile swordsman is nearly two meters tall, wears a full set of heavy armor, and is quite strong, he can perfectly blend into the woodland environment behind him, walking silently with silent steps. Approaching Sharlana who was thinking.

It wasn't until he stood behind Sharlanna, raising his heavy sword and preparing to slash, that Sharlanna belatedly saw the reflection of the tall man behind her from the puddle on the ground.

She immediately turned over and dismounted to avoid the fatal slash, but Munro's heavy sword still cut her mount in half neatly - the dismembered unicorn neighed and turned into a ball of darkness. The ink-like smoke dispersed and disappeared into the human world.

"You are quite vigilant." Monroe praised expressionlessly: "You little guys from the Netherworld are quite smart."

"Who are you? Wait..."

She rolled on the ground twice and looked up at the guy who suddenly appeared to kill her. Sharlanna was confused, but suddenly thought about it.

When I was a child, when I lived in Charles's former residence, I saw the sketches that my father drew and sent to Lovna.Among those paintings, several depict the legendary Vatican Sword Master, Ether Monroe, who has lived for more than 300 years.

In that sketch, the old man slashing with a sword had the same temperament and appearance as the guy in front of him.

"Aether Munro?"

She didn't have time to think too much, because Monroe's next attack had already come.

The heavy sword, which was much longer than Sharlanna, had already slashed at her with terrifying pressure, and was about to cut her into two pieces.

In desperation, she immediately retreated and cast her Netherworld magic.

The black energy rising underground quickly gathered and quickly took shape, condensing into a faceless warrior wearing black armor.

The black knight raised his huge iris shield and blocked Monroe's heavy sword that was about to slash at him.The heavy sword directly cut a crack on his shield, and the black knight's body also trembled. Even the joints of the armor were almost collapsed by the force exerted by the heavy blow.

"Oh, can you already summon humanoid creatures using Netherworld magic?" Monroe looked at the black knight blocking the road in front of him, then looked at Sharlanna, and said to himself: "It's pretty awesome."

His words were not loud, and Sharlana felt confused.