Chapter 125: The Declining Winterwood Church
Most of the residents of Fuyuki City have a confined impression of the new city to the new new city station, the bustling commercial street near the station, and the modern civic center, etc., which are modern and trendy, just like the name of this area, "Xindu".
Only some of the elders know that the new capital was also a traditional route before it was developed, and the style is not much different from the deep mountain town next door, but it is much more dilapidated, after all, it is a wealthy area, and it is relatively mixed here.
Dongmu is a small city with no characteristics (on the surface, it is actually full of monsters), and the annual government budget is not very large, which directly leads to the development of Xindu District for a full decade without completing a comprehensive transformation.
In the suburbs, there are still many old-style streets.
The long slope with a slight slope and the high platform looking at the sea are just like those depicted in many anime or other anime.
The higher the ramp, the fewer buildings there are, and there is a European-style cemetery on the slope of the hill. Fuyuki City is a foreign-related city, and there are many foreigners living there, and many people are buried here after they die.
Higher up than the cemetery is the shadow of a row of buildings, although it is not tall or luxurious, it looks very imposing, and there is a special oppressive force that makes people want to bow and worship.
If it were another building, this might feel excessive, but it seems very appropriate here.
Because this building is the place where faith gathers, the house of God on a high platform - Fuyuki Church.
The largest room in the church is the large and solemn chapel, and it is not difficult to see from the rows of benches that occupy the largest area, and there are many worshippers who come to visit here.
That was a long time ago, though. The old priest who had been in charge of the church was a brilliant priest, both theologically and in guiding the lost lambs. At that time, not only believers, but also many locals with Buddhist or Shinto beliefs would visit the church from time to time to talk to the old priest, until one day ten years ago, the old priest died in an accident, and everything changed.
It may be because it is located in the Far East, and it is inconvenient to deploy personnel. It was a long time after the funeral of the old priest that a new priest came to take office.
Due to the special culture of East Asia, most of the people here are unreverent pan-believers, and their beliefs are not firm in the form of worshipping gods and burning incense in temples. It's good that there are attractive points, but once they are gone, they will be quickly forgotten. And the new priest is very ordinary, although he takes his work quite seriously, but there are really no bright spots.
In fact, this is the standard configuration of a small local church like Fuyuki, an old priest is enough to run a diocese, and it is overkill to nest here, but people are like this, they are used to living a good life, and it is difficult to live a hard life. As a result, the popularity of the church has also become less and less.
At the beginning of this year, the priest who had been working for eight years was also transferred, which made the already dismal church even worse. The age of the building, coupled with the fact that no one has taken care of it, has cast a shadow over this place where faith meets. On the outside, it looks good, but the various facilities inside are gradually showing a state of disrepair.
If this continues, after a while, I am afraid that this place will become a new urban legend - the ghost church, and the sacred and evil have always been the most popular topics.
It may be that God did not want to see such a scene, so he sent new members before the church was on the verge of decay again, and mercifully sent four at once.
However, unlike the previous two priests, this time the four of them are a bit strange.
First of all, they are all women.
Secondly, they are all young, the oldest is no more than twenty years old.
Thirdly, their attitude towards the church is also strange.
The first thing I did after moving in was neither cleaning nor repairing the broken house, but I went headlong into the basement to install something weird, and then turned the church inside and out several times before tearing it down.
It had been several days since all this had been done, and it was only then that they began to clean and repair. But only two of them were working, the other two were lying on a bench in the chapel, and the other was standing motionless in the basement.
The girl who looked like the dominant girl couldn't stand it when she was hammering and beating the girl in the room with a hammer and a plank, so she put down the hammer and said helplessly to the lazy woman lying in front of her, who was taller than an adult man.
"Forget about Kalian, can't you get up and help? this little amount of exercise can't make the dignified 'Aegis Knight' feel tired. ”
"It's troublesome, I'm not a priest or a nun, why do I do such a thing?"
The woman known as the "Shield Knight" raised her eyebrows and complained with a slumped face:
"Besides, why should Karen, partiality is wrong, Shiyer. I can't discriminate just because I'm not a member of your 'burial body'. ”
Dressed in black monastic robes, Shiyer sighed: "Because this is her father, the place where the heretic lived, she must ...... I don't want to irritate her anymore. ”
"I can't see it, your 'burial agency' is quite humane. The tall, black-jacketed woman propped herself up and looked at the nun in front of her in surprise, "It's not at all like the rumors in the outside world, they are all a group of cold-blooded murderers, madmen who are only separated from heresy. ”
"In fact, the rumors from the outside world are basically right, and the director and the previous seats are more exaggerated than the rumors. I, Karen and Father Daun were slightly better, but only a limited amount of good. Shiyer sighed again, "On the contrary, it is Liz Baifei you, which is very different from the rumors in the outside world." Everyone says that you are a believer among believers, a model of knighthood, a model of self-discipline and skill. ”
"That's all deliberately exaggerated by Cardinal Gesebarunne, but there are still so many people who believe that it is very troublesome to deal with these people every day when they are in the Holy See, and they want to punch them in the face. ”
Liz Baifei said, punching the air as if to the worshippers.
“……”
Hiyer sighed for the third time. Those people who worship you are stupid, how smart can you be in the face of us who are not very familiar with us?
But Sheyer is not Liz Baife, she is not so stupid, she thinks about it in her heart, and she will not say it.
Liz Byfe continued her complaints: "So, as soon as I heard that you were going to hunt down that heretic, I immediately submitted a request for coordination, at least you won't be like those fools. ”
"You don't look like a paladin, far worse than Miss Fiore. ”
Sheyer shook his head helplessly, and at the same time set his eyes on the last member of the chapel, the woman who best matched the style of the chapel and was also the least worthy.