Chapter 18: Little Luca's Educational Record
Little Luca's incomplete educational record. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info
Fragment one
Priest: God, our Lord, He is eternal, He is great, He is omnipotent-
Little Luca interjected: Is God really omnipotent?
Priest: Well, the great God is omnipotent.
Little Luca: You can have whatever you want?
Priest: Yes, you can have whatever you want, yes, Luca, even if you want to eat an endless amount of honey candy!
Little Luca: Wow! That's nice! Kindness...... But...... Even God can't eat all the honey candy - doesn't that mean there is something God can't do?
Priest:!
Little Luca: Since there is honey candy that even God can't eat, that means that God is not omnipotent, right?
Priest: This! This one......
Little Luca: Then why did the teacher say that God is omnipotent?!
Priest: Ah! This one...... This one...... That's right! The book says that everything is God's will and God's arrangement! That is, God does everything according to His own will—that is, that is, that is...... In other words, God would not do anything against His will that even He could not eat honey candy!
Luca: Didn't you say, teacher, just now?
Priest: Ugh! …… The inexhaustible honey candy that the teacher said just now is that the shape is large, like, just like ...... It's like Luca, you want to eat more honey candy every time, but in reality you only have to eat so much to satisfy yourself......
Little Luca: But Luca, I really want to eat endless honey candy!
Priest:......
Luca Jr.: God is a liar.
Priest:!
Little Luca: If you can do anything, you can say that you can do anything, and if you can't do it, you will not go against your will - big liar!
Priest: Luca! Get the hell out of here!
Fragment two
Priest: We are God's messengers, we are God's slaves, we want to spread God's gospel to the world, so that all people can bathe in God's gifts, this is God's mission, God's slaves, we should ......
Little Luca interjected: What does it mean to be bathed in God's gifts?
Priest: When people believe in God, worship God, and follow God's norms from their hearts.
Little Luca: What if people don't know God and don't know God's norms?
Priest: That's why we clergy need to preach!
Little Luca: Oh! Luca: I see.
Priest: Well, very well, let's move on—
Little Luca: Wait! What about believing in God, worshiping God, and following God's norms from the heart?
Priest: And they were bathed in the gift of God.
Little Luca: Teacher, you haven't answered Luca yet—what does it mean to be bathed in God's gift?
Priest: It is to gain peace of mind, to be happy!
Little Luca: But but, when Luca was on a pilgrimage, I saw that many villages were very poor because they believed in God! They weren't happy at all.
Priest: They are unhappy because they have not yet found peace in their hearts. When they are at peace, they naturally feel happy.
Little Luca: But they can't get enough to eat! How can you have peace of mind when you are hungry?! Teacher, do you know what it's like to be hungry? It's so uncomfortable!
Priest: It is the result of *greed* transcending the heart and not obeying God's norms!
Little Luca: Teacher, have you ever been hungry? It's really uncomfortable! - Luca: I didn't eat for a day when I was on a pilgrimage, and I said crazy!
Priest: That's a sign that you're not firm in your faith!
Little Luca: Teacher, have you ever been hungry?
Priest:......
Little Luca: Teacher, Luca, I'm hungry......
Priest: Concentrate on your lessons!
Little Luca: Hungry ...... Can't listen...... Woo......
Senior Priest: What's wrong? What's wrong? Yes! What are you doing? Provoked Mistress Luca to cry?!
Priest: It's not my fault - she's hungry......
Little Luca: Hungry ...... Woo......
Fragment three
Priest: Mistress Luca, have you eaten enough?
Little Luca: Teacher, do you have honey candy?
Priest: Yes, here it is—shall we continue the lesson?
Little Luca: Yes!
Priest: Then we go on, God is omnipotent, God is loving, God is omnipresent, He blesses us, He protects us, we should be thankful......
Little Luca: Loving?
Priest: Yes.
Little Luca: Bless us?
Priest: Yes!
Little Luca: Teacher, do you mean "we" or do you mean all of us?
Priest: All of us, of course! God loves each of us, and He blesses everyone who listens to His teachings.
Little Luca: Oh.
Priest: So, we should thank God for His protection, for His love.
Little Luca: Love? The same for everyone?
Priest: Yes, God is the fairest, the most selfless, and He gives His love fairly.
Little Luca: But, but!
Priest: What's wrong with you, Lord Luca?!
Little Luca: But why did Luca see a lot of people who didn't have enough to eat when I was on the pilgrimage? They all worship God! But they live so hard...... And some people are-
Priest: That's a test God has given them!
Little Luca: Trials?
Priest: Well, it's like a lion will push a lion cub off a cliff, God is testing them, training them, ......
Little Luca: But, a lot of people are starving to death...... And being killed by robbers, so pitiful - these are also tests?!
Priest: Yes.
Little Luca: They're all dead!
Priest: It's because they don't have enough faith and haven't stood the test of God, so Luca should ......
Little Luca: God is good or bad!
Priest:!
Little Luca: God isn't fair at all! Some aristocrats don't have to do anything, they have what they want, and they bully people everywhere! God still loves them, and the villagers have been working hard to cultivate the land, praying to God when they are dying, but God never saves them! ――Is it because the villagers don't have enough faith?!
Priest: Yes, yes.
Little Luca: Where's the fairness! God is so partial! He gave his love only to those who believed enough, some were always happy, some were hungry until they died—and, and Luca, I see, some nobles did not believe in God at all! Do they have enough faith?!
Priest: This ...... This-that's God hasn't punished them yet! God is giving them a chance!
Little Luca: They'll be happy until they die!
Clergy: Their souls will be judged! God is omniscient and will-
Little Luca: We're all happy to death! If Luca and I can be happy until death, then Luca I don't care if my soul will be judged in the future!
Cleric: Lord Luca! How can you say that!
Little Luca: So, Luca, I think there's something wrong with God's love! Eccentric, right! Excessive eccentricity!
Priest:......
Fragment four
Priest: Lord Luca, how did you show off your wealth to the trainees just now?
Little Luca: Luca, I just counted the new honey candy and gave it to them! - Isn't God asking us to share?
Priest: It's true to share, but you're showing it off, aren't you? The smug look is written on your face!
Little Luca: Hey, hey! It's been discovered! Well, what's wrong with showing off? Isn't that right?
Priest: Well, it's wrong to be complacent about something that doesn't belong to you, huh? Don't understand? Let me tell you a story.
Little Luca: Oh.
Priest: Once upon a time there was a king who had a vast land and countless people, and one day he suddenly decided to count his people so that he could boast of his greatness to the generations to come.
Luca Jr.: And then?
Priest: And then? God was angry and punished him by raining frogs for a week.
Little Luca: Ugh! It's disgusting!
Priest: Yes, the king later knew that he was wrong and confessed to God......
Little Luca: Huh? Wait! Was he wrong? What's wrong?
Priest: Oh, you don't know this Lord Luca - he is wrong to regard everything God has given him as his own wealth, the vast land and countless people, all of which are given by God, and the great should be God, not Him. He should not boast of His greatness to future generations by the power of God.
Little Luca: Oh! Luca: I see.
Priest: So-
Luca Jr.: But what does this story have to do with Luca?
Priest: Lord Luca, you are the same as the king! Your honey candy too-
Little Luca: I bought it myself!
Priest: And your money-
Little Luca: It was given to Brother Lacey!
Priest: Then why did that brother of yours give you money to Mistress Luca?
Little Luca: Because Brother Lacey didn't bother to come to the church to receive the bounty for killing demons! He told Sister Minia to leave all the bounty to Lucca and I would buy the honey candy!
Priest: Oh! Then why doesn't your brother Reis give it to someone else, and he must give it to you?
Luca Jr.: Because Brother Lacey likes Luca!
Priest: Yes, yes! Because God uses the hand of your brother Lacey and uses Brother Lacey's love for you, you can have money to buy honey candy, Lord Luca!
Little Luca: ......
Priest: Everything was arranged by God, and God arranged everything, and finally you got the honey candy, Lord Luca.
Little Luca: Luca: I don't think honey candy has anything to do with God.
Cleric: How can it be okay? If God doesn't want to give it to you, then he can borrow your brother Lacey and ask him to give the money to someone else. Or......
Luca Jr.: Brother Lacey won't! Even if there is no God's arrangement, Brother Lacey will still give Luca the money to buy honey candy!
Priest: You! …… Lord Luca! Please listen to me.
Little Luca: Don't listen, don't listen, don't listen! Even if Luca and I take the money given by Brother Lacey to buy honey candy, and then show off everywhere that Luca is wrong, it has absolutely nothing to do with God! God is a liar! Thief! It's obvious that Brother Lacey likes Luca and gave it to Luca! I like Luca!
Priest:......
Fragment five
Priest: God is great, we fear Him, we worship Him, we live by Him, we go through Him, His highest reward for us is to allow us to serve Him, to allow us to worship Him.
Luca Jr.: Well...... Teacher, do you mean that we will all be by God's side in the future?
Priest: Yes.
Little Luca: That'...... What if I don't want to be Luca?
Priest: Huh? Everybody thinks about it!
Little Luca: But, but I don't want to be Luca!
Priest: Who, Lord Ruca, do you want to be by your side in the future?
Little Luca: Luca I want to follow my brother......
Priest: Oh! But your brother will be with God in the future!
Little Luca: No! Because of my brother, he and Sister Ruthya—ah! Nothing, nothing! Teacher, teacher! Luca: I'm hungry!
Priest: Ugh! Again......