Chapter 978 [Viewpoint] Godfather, don't go, we're embarrassed.

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He said he would finish reading this book, and after spending more than an hour reading it to the last page, Nathaniel closed the book in his hand, picked up all the books and put them back in their original places under Morataya's gaze, and then left the library.

Morataya slowly got up and followed behind him, saying to his back, "Your room is next to Lex's. If you want to rest, just go there."

Nathaniel paused slightly upon hearing this, then nodded and thanked him, saying, "Thank you."

"No need to thank me, after all, the Godfather specially brought you back."

Morataya yawned and prepared to go back to her room.

On their way back to the church, they happened to run into R walking towards them.

“Godfather,” Morataya stopped and looked at him.

He stroked the head of the little pigeon perched on his hand with his fingertips, then noticed the movement ahead and looked up. He glanced at Morataya before turning to Nathaniel, and after two seconds asked, "Nothing?"

Nathaniel shook his head, but he didn't seem disappointed.

R paused slightly, released the pigeon, and smiled gently. "I see... That's really unfortunate. The gentleman just left. Otherwise, you could have gone and asked him."

Nathaniel: "...?"

Morataya asked in confusion, "Sir? Who?"

R smiled, patted her head, and left.

Morataya pursed her lips, stood still, and looked back at his back with a hint of resentment.

As the Godfather left, Nathaniel continued onward and arrived at Ellex's room. Upon entering, he saw the latter lying peacefully on the bed with his hands covering his abdomen, looking as if he had been dead for two days.

"..." He stood silently at the door for a few seconds before stepping forward to the bedside and softly calling out, "Lex?"

The other person's eyelashes fluttered.

Thankfully, he didn't actually die.

Nathaniel lowered his eyes and sat down on a chair nearby, his eyes unfocused, lost in thought.

A moment later, Alex suddenly opened his eyes, his gaze clear and without a trace of sleepiness. He turned his head to look at Nathaniel, frowned slightly, and said, "Aren't you going back to your room to rest?"

Nathaniel remained silent for a long time before glancing up at him and saying calmly, "I'm not tired, I don't need to rest."

"Heh." Ellex chuckled dismissively, sat up, and smacked him on the head before throwing back the covers and getting out of bed. "You rest, I'm going for a walk."

"……good."

Looking at Ellex standing beside him with a beaming smile, who seemed ready to knock him unconscious and throw him on the bed if he didn't rest, Nathaniel reluctantly agreed.

"You can rest here. If I come back and don't see you resting, you're doomed~" Elex chuckled and patted his head lightly before leaving the room barefoot.

He squinted at the sun, then jumped over the fence and out of the church corridor. He turned around in the sunlight, and Elex looked at his remaining half wing, and helplessly shrugged.

"It's a real shame, it probably won't be able to fly."

He flapped his wings, and sure enough, he could only fly a little bit; even jumping would have been higher.

Left with no other option, Ellex walked around the church.

Under the sunlight, a fallen angel strolls leisurely.

The gold ornaments on his body shimmered, giving him a dreamlike, hazy feeling.

The birds resting on the tree tilted their heads and looked at him curiously. Feeling that he didn't have any aura that would frighten them, they boldly approached him and even landed on him without any hesitation.

Hmm... I have wings, and he has wings too, so we're the same kind, right?

Alex glanced at the little bird on his shoulder; it appeared white, but in the sunlight it revealed other colors, making it look quite beautiful.

He couldn't help but chuckle, raising his hand to gently poke the little bird's cheek. "You're quite bold."

"Mmm~" The little bird squinted comfortably and responded in a soft voice.

Alex's tense heart gradually relaxed. He found the tallest and thickest tree, climbed up in the most primitive way, and sat on a branch, gazing at the clear sky and white clouds.

He didn't go down until the sun had moved to the west.

Glancing down, Alexon spotted a figure and immediately called out with a grin, "Godfather!"

R had just passed by when he heard someone calling him. He looked up and saw Ellex sitting almost at the top of the tree. He raised an eyebrow slightly, a smile of interest on his lips. "What's up?"

Alex smiled somewhat sheepishly. "Godfather, save me, I can't get down..."

R immediately burst out laughing.

Ellex coughed. "I've been waiting for ages and no one's passed by..."

R waved his hand gently and used magic to bring him down. Hearing this, he smiled helplessly, "Because all the members who were going to pass by here today have already left."

Alex was silent for a moment.

"...Then I guess I'm just unlucky."

R's lips curled slightly as she glanced at his wings. "So, what are you going to do with your wings?"

Ellex paused, then stared intently at R.

R's smile remained unchanged. "You mean?"

Elex silently reached out his hand, demanding the item he gave Nassar without any sense of entitlement: "I want the item you gave Nassar too."

R gave him a ring.

Once Alex put it on, he didn't need to do anything; the wings on his back simply disappeared.

"...You didn't anticipate this all along, did you?" He touched his back with his other hand and looked at R with a hesitant expression.

“How could that be? Do you think I’m a prophet?” R glanced at him. “This is what the master asked me to give you.”

Elex paused, blinking in confusion. "Huh?"

R rested his fist on his chin and said with a smile, "The master said you are the first to truly learn the little gadgets he left behind, so I'll give you this ring as a gift."

Alex remained silent: "..."

He couldn't help but recall that when he first became the High Priest, he searched the High Priest's Hall extensively and found a bunch of strange but interesting things in a corner. One of them was a spellbook that had hardly been opened, which said that as long as you learned this spell, you could leave the Angel race.

He was indeed curious, so whenever he was bored, he would study the contents of the book. Unexpectedly, he actually used it in the end, and it was even used to escape.

Alex sighed and rubbed his forehead in exasperation.

Well, the gentleman is actually his mentor?

A smile appeared in R's eyes as she placed another crystal in his hand. "This crystal can nourish your life force, although it can't make your wings grow back."

Elex was taken aback, then caught the small crystal. "Th...thank you."

The next second, he suddenly grasped R's hand with a look of deep emotion, "A godfather for a day, a godfather for life!"

“…You’re exaggerating.” R’s lips twitched slightly, but the smile in his eyes deepened.

Liu Qingyao chuckled, "Another child! Yay!"

"Not to be rude, but everyone here is a child of the Godfather." Morataya raised her hand and swept her gaze across the people in the white chairs beside and in front of her.

Kawasaki Machi: "Hmm... how can it not count?"

Behrfinger nodded seriously.

Liu Qingyao looked puzzled, pointing at herself with a question mark in her eye: "Do I count?"

Morataya retorted, "Don't you count? Think about it carefully, don't you count?"

Liu Qingyao touched it and carefully went through her memories, then suddenly realized, "Oh, that's really true."

Conan Edogawa: "...So, Yanagi-san, you don't also have connections to the church, do you?"

He had a slight doubt about life.

Qianzhu, Beihefeng, Zhenzhi, Zhenliu, and even Liuge all have direct connections with the church.

And Asa was even a member of Death...

Who else is without an identity? Huh? Who exactly is without an identity?

Conan Edogawa's lips twitched slightly.

Perhaps this is the price I pay for concealing my identity.

Does that mean everyone will lie to someone who lies to others? (No)

Liu Qingyao, with an air of righteous indignation, declared, "No, I only have a relationship with the Godfather, not with the Church!"

The second personality connected to the church has nothing to do with him.

Conan Edogawa nodded.

That's true. Depending on the situation, Brother Liu's alternate personality might have a direct connection to the church.

However, the others were curious, "So, Brother Liu, how did you get involved with Mr. R?"

Liu Qingyao touched her nose. "Well... you'll find out when it's my turn."

"All right……"

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That being said, there will be another Liu Qingyao.

Liu Qingyao trembled all over.

Hmm? It seems like someone's watching us.

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Elex's life force has been completely stabilized with the help of Behefinger last time.

Because they couldn't use magic most of the time, they started learning martial arts.

"Learn martial arts? To fight? I want to learn too!"

Upon hearing that Nassar and Lex were going to learn martial arts, Morataya immediately came to join in the fun. She said matter-of-factly, "After all, I can't just take my scepter and smash someone's head with it whenever I want."

Nathaniel: "..."

Alex: "??"

"You look so small, but you're surprisingly fierce?"

He was greatly shocked.

Upon seeing this, someone suddenly remembered that the Morataya monster was known for its "child-severing kick".

A chill ran down my spine.

Liu Qingyao: "Not only fierce, but also... very wicked."

Morataya shrugged, looked up at R, and smiled brightly, "Godfather, will you teach us yourself?"

R lifted his eyelids and glanced at her. "No, I'm just temporarily supervising your training."

"...Supervision? Training?" Alex blinked. "What kind of training?"

R smiled, a smile that seemed somewhat unsettling, and nodded towards them in the air.

The three of them immediately felt their racial abilities being suppressed. Just as they were wondering what was going on, they heard R's gentle voice, which seemed to pierce their ears like a devil.

"Alright, let's run a lap around this island today."

R smiled and pointed to the horizon.

"Huh!?" Morataya was shocked, frowning and pointing pitifully at herself, "Me too?"

R looked at her with feigned surprise, "Didn't you say you wanted to learn too? Of course you do."

Morataya: "..."

She turned her head and saw the two figures that had almost run far away. "?"

"Hey! You two! Wait for me!!"

Alexon followed closely behind Nathaniel, turning back with a smile and waving at her.

Nathaniel glanced at him and reminded him, "Don't laugh."

"Oh." Alex shut his mouth.

After running a lap around the island, the three returned to the starting point. Nathaniel looked alright, but the other two seemed half-dead.

Elex and Nathanael supported each other, while Morataya threw herself into R's arms.

Out of breath.

R smiled and patted Morataya back to calm her down, showing no intention of using magic to help. Once they had recovered, he said, "That's enough for today. Go back and rest. We'll continue tomorrow."

After saying that, he released the restraints on them.

After glancing at R as he left, Alex sighed, "I feel like my current physical condition is exactly like that of a human in their seventies or eighties."

Nathaniel patted him on the shoulder. "It's good that you've recovered."

"Well, that makes sense." Alex wasn't wallowing in self-pity, but rather just sighing.

He sat down cross-legged on the spot, propped his chin up with his hand, and looked at the sky. "Do you know who is going to teach me martial arts, Morataya?"

"I don't know." Morataya's tone was a little listless. She used a magic crystal to cast a cleansing spell on herself, and the sticky sweat disappeared. She felt comfortable after her body became dry.

She took a deep breath and smoothed her blonde hair behind her ear. "Although most members of the church know martial arts, none of them are skilled enough for the Godfather to call them in to teach us."

“I see…” Elex murmured. “The church is truly a magical place.”

Morataya smiled. "That's right."

R returned quickly after leaving, and said with a smile, "The person who taught you is back."

The three looked up and caught a glimpse of the person behind him.

The newcomer was about twenty years old, with black hair except for a strand of silver-red hair on his bangs. His black eyes were icy, as if he regarded everyone as air.

“Lorenia, you can start teaching them tomorrow,” R said with a smile, patting him on the shoulder.

Lorenia gave the three of them a cold glance and nodded slightly.

His indifference was similar to Nathaniel's, yet different.

Looking at him, a hint of curiosity flashed in the eyes of both Elex and Morataya.

The two looked at each other, then blinked.

Nathaniel glanced at them, then looked away as if he hadn't seen them.

So what if he saw them? He can't control either of them.

The three stood up and greeted Lorenia, "Hello."

R smiled slightly, "You two get along well, I'll be leaving now."

Alex, Morataya: Godfather, don't go! We're embarrassed.