Phil's Cafe

When Sean looked at the white Gothic door carved with mystic patterns again, he had an indescribable feeling in his heart, knowing that he could bring a joy and harvest yesterday, and pushed open this door without hesitation.

And now Sean, who is standing in front of the door, doesn't know how to face it, after all, once he pushes it away, will there be light waiting for him inside?

hesitate

A word flashed through Sean's mind, and only this word could express Sean's mood at the moment, on the one hand, the imaginary madness, and on the other hand, the truth he longed for.

"Brother..."

Gently reciting the words that gave him courage, he calmed down, pushed open the door of the café, and walked in calmly with the sun on his back and the shadow under his feet.

Sean, who had just stepped through the door, found the figure without a top hat, wearing a black coat, drinking coffee, and the conspicuous black box on the right hand side of the door.

Elf, who had just finished taking a sip of coffee at the table, immediately spotted Sean at the door, nodded politely at him and beckoned him to come over.

"What do you want to drink, Mr. Morrison?" Elf asked, smiling half-face, as he looked at Sean, who was sitting across from him, flipping through the menu.

"Bitter coffee, thank you. ”

After saying that, watching the waiter leave, although Sean was full of doubts, he still didn't ask immediately, and directly cut the topic into the topic in the empire, which would show the eagerness and rudeness of the guests, and then began to chat with Elf.

"Thanks to Mr. Morrison, I suddenly found myself in a long time not to have such a casual tea time. ”

Sean looked at Elf, who was relaxed, and couldn't help but chuckle: "It looks like you're short of manpower." ”

"That's why we want you to join us. ”

"And who are you?"

Sean, who understood that he would get to the point next, put the coffee on the table, looked at Elf's dark eyes that were as calm as night and asked.

Elf still kept a smile on Sean's wary eyes and explained: "First of all, let me introduce to Mr. Morrison, we belong to a special agency of the Kelder Empire, as for the name of the Empire, we can't tell you the name for the time being, and we can not accept any orders and transfers from the Empire, we have our own set of rules of conduct, and our usual work content is to deal with some special events, special spies of enemy countries and some cultists." ”

"Cultists?"

"Yes, cultists. Elf looked at Sean with a puzzled face without a trace of urgency, and continued to explain as he drank his coffee without hurrying: "For example, I believe in the goddess of the night, not the moon, understand?"

Belief in the goddess of the night instead of the moon?

By analogy, then, the Dawnists only believe in the goddess of Dawn and not the sun.

Cultists who believe directly in the moon and sun?

Thinking of Sean, Elf asked with a little doubt, "Is it that those who directly believe in the moon will gradually go crazy?"

"Crazy?" Elf seemed a little surprised to hear the word, but then suddenly realized, "It seems that your little girlfriend has told you a lot." ”

"Vivien and I are just friends, please answer my question head-on, Mr. Elf. ”

"Just kidding, Mr. Morrison. After briefly calming down Sean, whose emotions began to fluctuate, Elf retracted a smile on his face and said in a calm tone: "No, all paths will be accompanied by madness, and we can only maintain humanity in madness and reason." ”

Sean, who received an expected and unexpected answer, had an inexplicable fear welling up in his chest, a fear of the unknown.

Elf looked at Sean, who was using the act of drinking coffee to hide his fear, smiled and didn't say much, after all, he didn't feel much better when he heard the news, especially for a teenager with dreams of magic.

"Mr. Elf, what are you talking about?" asked Sean, who had been silent for a moment, again.

"The way is that the gods of the past have given mankind the power to fight evil. ”

"If it's a gift from the gods, why is it accompanied by madness?"

Hearing Sean's rhetorical question, Elf immediately did not explain, but split half of his face and said with a strange smile: "Secret." ”

What kind of answer is this, Sean looked at Elf who was about to ask, and finally chose to remain silent.

"Haha, Mr. Morrison is such an interesting person, but you don't know this yet. Elf, who had been smiling as he spoke, retracted his expression again and added, "In the occult, especially when it comes to gods, the more you know, the more dangerous it is. ”

The thoughtful Sean had no choice but to nod, and could only stop repeating the above questions, but asked about the way to get it.

"Quite simply, by taking the corresponding potion, you can get the corresponding path. This time, Elf did not hold back, and said: "For example, the night path I am in, as long as you take the potion of the first order 'night walker' of the night path, you can obtain the corresponding extraordinary power. ”

"Potions, potions like anything like that?" Sean, who had taken the potions Anna had concocted, frowned and thought.

"Pretty much, but Mr. Morrison, you have to remember that potions are both a gift and a curse. ”

Hearing Elf's warning, Sean nodded subconsciously, and then remembered the word curse, and asked, "Like Mr. Terry?"

"He is as extraordinary as I am, although he is only at the first rank, the only difference is that he believes in death rather than death. ”

"Is this the secret of his resurrection?"

Elf nodded and said, "It's not just him, because after death, if there is no special ritual to disperse or exile his spirit, then he will turn into a monster within a certain period of time, and other ways of extraordinary people will not." ”

After saying that, Elf took out the linked watch in his arms and looked at the time, then got up and handed Sean a business card and said: "Mr. Morrison's happy chat time is over again, if you want to join us, please come to me at the address on the business card, and we hope you don't tell anyone else about our conversation today, I don't think you want to see me again in your dreams." ”

Ignoring Elf's black humor, Sean took his business card and fell into deep thought, until he looked at Elf, who was carrying a black box and was about to leave, before he spoke: "Mr. Elf, you know the dangers of potions, why did you choose this path in the first place?"

Elf, who was standing in the shadows, listened to Sean's question, rarely did not answer immediately, and quietly looked at the sunlight for a long time before saying to him with a smile: "After all, there are always some people who need to stand in the dark and make sacrifices for the people who live in the sun." ”

Sean watched Elf's tall figure disappear into the café, and he couldn't get up for a long time, he kept flipping the business card on the table repeatedly, and finally solemnly took it into his arms, muttering to himself, "What a greatness, Mr. Elf." ”

...

Sean, who left the café, did not choose to take a carriage, but chose to go home on foot, but his calm face hid his unpeaceful heart.

The way, the potion, can only believe in God and not directly believe in God's authority.

Sean looked at the light and warm sun in the sky and thought for a long time, but he still only knew a little about it, and couldn't help but curse to Elf: "Old fox." ”

I told myself a lot of things, but when I calmed down and thought about it, I realized that it was useless at all, just like just a cursory look at the table of contents of a book, how to understand the content of the book, it seems that if I don't join them, I may not be able to get in touch with deeper things in my life.

Knowing the crux of the matter, Sean no longer bothered about it, and decided to go to the next public carriage to ride, after all, it was still too far for an injured man to walk from the inner city back to his home on the edge of the South End.

After a while, Sean stood in front of his door and watched the last rays of the sunset disappear, feeling the darkness coming, he subconsciously remembered Elf's words, and muttered to himself: "Guardian in the dark, it sounds pretty good." ”

As he spoke, Sean also had a smile like Elf on his face, and he was about to open the door and go in, but the next moment his smiling face froze, because he remembered that the clothes he was wearing now were prepared for him by Vivian, of course, there was no key to the door, and now he had to come up with a reasonable excuse to calm the anger of an old lady.