Chapter 34 Three Things
It all happened so quickly that only after the servant's head bounced twice on the ground like a ball did the well-trained knights suddenly realize what had happened.
"It's Uru!"
"Damn, where is this guy hiding?!"
The knights who realized what was happening belatedly surrounded Uru, looking somewhat nervous, because the current Uru was completely different from the harmless-looking Uru in their memories (in the perspective of the Rhine Knights). He was like a mad beast, and his originally pure white priest uniform had now been dyed black and red by mud and blood, like torn flesh that had turned rotten and decayed. In his hand, he was holding a shovel that came from nowhere, the same one that had just chopped off the servant's head, and blood was still oozing from it.
But if this alone is not enough to scare these knights, what if Uru also holds the legendary forbidden object - "Visas's Corpse Piece"? You know, more than one clergyman has died at Uru's hands.
All these elements combined together form such a funny picture - it is clearly a team of fully armed knights besieging a rebellious Orthodox civilian, but it feels like a group of wolves hunting a lion.
But the lion's attention was not on the group of wild wolves. Since entering the room, Ulu's eyes were fixed on the person standing in front of him - Kelsey.
Facing such a Ulu, Kelsey's expression was very calm. After Ulu rushed in and chopped off the servant's head with a shovel, he was the only one who did not move his body, and his hand did not move away from the hilt of the sword. At this time, he was also looking at Ulu, and there was not much expression change in his brown eyes.
But he did not remain silent. Instead, he spoke slowly: "I am a little surprised by the way you made your debut, old friend."
Ulu growled, "I am not your friend."
"Yeah...indeed." Kelsey nodded, his tone calm, "My old friend doesn't have the courage to show up here. As you just said, what are you not? Oh, 'you are not a bug', then you really can't be my old friend, because my old friend..."
The corners of Kelsey's mouth lifted slightly, revealing a mocking smile.
"He is just a worm that cannot stand the light."
Hearing this, Ulu's hand holding the shovel began to tremble slightly again, but not because of fear, but because of... anger.
Ulu felt that the anger that he had suppressed for twenty years was ignited tonight, and the fire ignited by anger burned away his rationality, otherwise he would never appear in front of Kelce.
"I don't know how you became like this." Kelsay tapped the hilt of the holy sword twice, and then said slowly, "But considering our friendship of more than 20 years, I can give you some respect."
As he spoke, Kelse raised his hand and gestured to the Rhine Knights present to retreat.
His adjutant was immediately surprised and asked, "Knight Commander, what do you want?"
Kelsey smiled and said, "Let me and my old friend catch up alone."
"But he is..."
"Don't worry." Kelsey's smile became even wider. "I know him better than you do. He won't hurt me, don't you think, old friend?"
This looked like a touching comradeship. When facing an old friend who had fallen into the abyss, the law enforcer still did not give up on him. Instead, he treated him with sincerity and trust, trying to make this old friend turn back... But the reality was that even people who didn't know Kelce and Uru could hear the undisguised sarcasm in Kelce's words.
So the real meaning of this sentence is that Kelsey doesn't believe that Uru has the ability to hurt him. Even though Uru looks terrible now, even though he just killed a man, and before that he killed two knights, a priest and a secret believer, Kelsey still looks down on Uru, even contemptuously.
The knights present looked at each other in surprise.
To be honest, Kelse's action violated Rhine's rules - when facing "taboo objects", any person or unit should do their best.
But they also knew their boss, so after exchanging glances, they slowly left the room, leaving a spacious enough performance venue for Kelsey.
At this time, Ulu was able to temporarily turn his attention to the brother and sister who were staring at them blankly. To be precise, it was the brother, because the sister was in a daze, and the little boy did not react after Ulu rushed in. He sat there covered in blood, staring blankly at the shovel that was still dripping with blood. A few hours ago, Ulu used this shovel to help him bury his mother.
With a "pop" sound.
Ulu threw a heavy bag of money at the boy's feet, waking him up.
"Three things." Wulu said slowly, "First, take the money and leave here. Second, don't come back. Third..."
He paused, as if he wanted to say something, but changed his mind when the words came to his lips.
"Don't become a priest, don't even enter any church, do you understand?"
The little boy opened his mouth and was about to say something, but Uru shouted angrily: "Don't you understand? Take your sister and get out!"
The little boy was frightened. The threats and beatings from the previous men did not scare him, but Uru's shouting frightened him. He immediately picked up the money with one hand and grabbed his sister with the other, then limped out of the room, but was stopped by the knights.
Uru looked at Kelce, and Kelce waved his hand with interest, letting the knights pass.
The little boy walked out like this, but even so, he still limped and looked back at Ulu every few steps.
"You think you are saving him." Kelsey said calmly, "But you are actually harming him. In this disaster year, he is a little kid with a stupid sister. With such a large sum of money, he won't survive."
"So what should we do?"
"Let him enter the Rhine and become a candidate priest."
"Like I did back then?"
"Yes." Kelsey smiled, "Just like you did back then."
Uru said nothing.
Kelsey asked again, "So why did you come back?"
Ulu grinned with great difficulty and laughed.
…
The little boy walked out of the village with his sister, but even so he kept looking back from time to time, trying to find Uru.
But he had walked too far, and he could no longer see the shadow of Ulu. There was only a cluster of fire that could disappear at any time. Then he looked down at his dazed sister, and then looked up at the road ahead. At that moment, a strong emotion surged up. This was even stronger than not being able to afford food, and stronger than when his mother died.
Then he suddenly burst into tears, finally like a normal child, and the sound seemed to tear the darkness apart.
…
"Because I'm not a bug." Ulu said softly.
(End of this chapter)
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