Verse 184: The Familiar Stranger (2)
Who is Elsa?
Marlin instinctively felt strange, his own high inspiration made Marin's intuition sometimes make him feel intimidated, but this name, more to Marin, is a sense of relief, just like watching the cubs grow up.
What was the situation, Marlin turned around and motioned for an apprentice to come over, who didn't know why, but still trotted all the way over: "Mr. Marin, is there something wrong?" ”
"Do you know the person in the painting?" Marlin asked the kid.
He looked at the photo frame in Marin's hand, was silent for a moment, and then looked at Marin with some surprise: "Mr. Marin, there is no one in the frame." ”
"No one?" Marin first confirmed that he was okay for the first time, instantly sent a mind protection, and then brushed another one for this kid.
The two stared at each other with wide eyes, and the kid's face was a little better: "Mr. Marin, there is really no one." ”
"No, Mr. Punisher over there." Ma Lin spoke, and the middle-aged man who was smoking over there came over when he heard the words, and Ma Lin held up the photo frame: "He said he couldn't see people, I saw a young girl, what can you see." ”
“…… What I saw was a boy who, for some reason, looked a lot like mine...... A child. The middle-aged man frowned when he said this: "There is something wrong with this picture frame, I instinctively feel the danger, but you and I have looked directly at this picture frame, and it is not distorted because of seeing different things...... It shouldn't be some kind of chaotic creation. ”
"Could it be a strange thing? Mr. Punisher. The boy's eyes widened.
"It's possible, but it could be something else, Mr. Marin's resistance is very high, and there will be no problem, but if someone else is holding it, it probably won't be harmless." The substitute obviously knew that Marin was different, and his topic made the kid look at the picture frame in Marin's hand again, and finally smiled a little fearfully: "You're right. ”
"Do any of you know Elsa?" Marin asked.
The middle-aged man and the kid shook their heads in unison, but a halfling punisher came over: "I know a person named Aisha, but I don't know if it will be the Aisha you said." ”
"Who's?" Marin asked curiously.
"Aisha Moka, that old great-grandmother of the Moka family, a once gifted girl." The halfling punisher said, pulling up his sleeve as he pulled up his sleeve: "This is the wound I was cut by a knife when I was a child, and she helped me stitch it up, a member of the Mother of Mercy." ”
Marin glanced at the picture frame in his hand - he was a little unsure if the two Aisha were the same person, but his curiosity made him decide to investigate.
It didn't take long for the punishers to get a piece of information from the surviving Chaos cultists - there are not many people in their sect, and they have suffered heavy losses once before, this time their sect is located here, and they have been doing business without capital to make some start-up capital, and they were ready to hide when they encountered a battle, but Falm Feller, that is, the chief evangelist of the Happy House, was hammered to death by Marlin on the second floor, and the guy who was hammered to death on the second floor by Marin said that he saw Marin, and he wanted revenge, so he led a team of people upstairs, and they were preparing to retreat, As a result, I did not wait for the news of Mr. Falm's victory, but waited for the people who were urging him.
Marin sounds outrageous, you guys are the masterminds behind the moonshine camp? I'm really convinced of you, Marin has thought of a lot of possible behind-the-scenes emissaries for the moonshine camp, but he really didn't think that even the Chaos Cultists would do this.
But in any case, it can be regarded as a heart disease, and there is no need to worry about what someone will fight with Marlin for a dozen gallons of moonshine in the future.
Other than that, Marin had other things to do, such as finding information about this Elsa, so he left the scene to the punisher to deal with, Marin took the apprentices to the ground, told the old bishop about the matter, and then took Kane back from him.
Before he left the camp, Marin saw the team led by his own mentor, and he saw Marin immediately dismount, not like an old man who often sighed in a wheelchair.
"You're making such a big fuss when I'm not there, but...... Well done, boy. Old Hoffman patted Marlin's head, and then noticed the little heel behind him: "Who is this kid?" ”
"Ah, by the way, this is Kane......" Marin told his tutor about the child, and when he got the news, the old Hoffman was also very satisfied, and he put the kid on his horse: "I'll take this kid to take the test, what about you." ”
"Is the town hall still there?" Marin really wanted to see who Elsa Moka was, but considering that his mentor had just returned from there, Marin had to make sure that the town hall was still there.
"It's still there, but now it's blocked by us, and there are a lot of chaos residues in it, and it can't be used until the Mother of Love Church sends someone to purify it." At the mention of the town hall, old Hoffman looked gloomy.
Under his introduction, Marlin learned that the elf was not a believer in the tongue bird, but a believer of a fat boy, in the face of the old Hoffman's church assault, the entire town hall became a living person, and the staff who had already been infected had already fought with the elves Old Hoffman and the substitute punisher troops, the two sides fought from the first floor to the rooftop, and the mother body transformed by the elf hit the roof from the first floor to the top of the building while fighting and living, and the entire town hall was full of chaotic corpses.
Marin began to understand how bad old Hoffman and the punisters were.
These chaotic individuals are not strong, and they can even be said to be weak, but they are better in number, and they can be replenished at any time, and the substitute punishers fought until the end and even ran out of bullets, and the two sides started hand-to-hand combat several times, if it weren't for the weakness of the individuals, I don't know how many people would die this time.
"By the way, that elf is a woman." Speaking of which, Marin has one last question.
It's a man. Old Hoffman sighed.
Marin began to pity everyone - the dead fat boy was so terrible, thinking about it, it felt like the town hall really couldn't go until it was purified, it was so disgusting, Marlin was disgusted just by listening to it, I really didn't know how his mentors and substitutes played the whole audience.
"Then I'll go back to church." Marlin made a decision.
"By the way, what's going on with that little girl over there." Old Hoffman pointed behind Marin, who turned his head and saw Sheldon's sister, who also smiled at Marin as Tetsuo Hara's macho man.
Old man, the little girl in your mouth can stand on your arms as a junior apprentice, okay?
Marin rolled his eyes, hid his face and hurried away.
………………
Back at the church, Marin suddenly thought of something - since Aisha Moka is a native of Fort Carter, will his girls know, so he first asked Jielika, this girl is confused, and Marin is also prepared for this, if according to the words of the old halfling, this Aisha is only afraid that she is dead, and it is very normal for Jielika and a wolf girl not to know.
Maya doesn't need to ask, she, like Marin, can know that there are ghosts.
Lilim...... This girl Marin didn't ask, not that she didn't think Lilim didn't know, but Marin felt that there were too many things recently, and the little sheep girl was already under a lot of psychological pressure, so it was better not to block this girl anymore.
Cross didn't ask, if that Elsa was really a member of the Mother of Mercy, then if she asked Cross, she wouldn't know about it - like Marin and Maya, it was only a problem for Cross to know about this person.
So in the end, Marin asked Faye, and the girl heard the story of the photo frame in Marin's hand, and glanced at the photo frame with some curiosity: "Hey, it's strange, I see you when I was a child, I look at the back......" The girl snatched the photo frame from Marin's hand, and then turned it back and looked: "Lorraine?" ”
The girl looked up at Marin, "What the hell is your name, Marin?" ”
"Lorraine, the name is very nice, it will be my stage name in the future." Marin smiled without changing his face, and then twisted his face by this girl, Faye snorted with a smile: "Aren't you jealous, what I see is someone else." ”
"You said it was me when I was a child, maybe this name is my nickname, maybe it's my nickname, I told you before, I was hungry and faint, and I was picked up by my adoptive father." Marin replied, while guiding the words in a different voice, Faye nodded when he heard it: "That's right, this is you, no matter how jealous you are, you won't be jealous of yourself, okay, back to business, I know this Aisha Moka, she is a legendary figure who miraculously led the family revival after the Moka family was weakened, the family of the Mother of Mercy, the greatest alchemist." ”
In Faye's words, Marin learned that the Moka family was an outlier among the nobles of Fort Carter, and that this family was also one of the thirty warriors of the year, but unlike other knighted warriors, the ancestor of the Moka family was a guardian of nature, an advanced profession of druids - the human world is almost impossible to find druids today, and back then, there were still many human druids.
After acquiring the forest east of Fort Carter as a fief, he was isolated from Fort Carter's nobility until the fall of the surrounding area of Fort Carter one hundred and thirty years ago, and a loyal Mocha family guard entered Fort Carter with the family's sole heir, Elsa Moka.
At that time, people were terrified, but Aisha Moka never seemed to know what fear was, although she was a helpless orphan, but what happened to be the protagonist of Destiny unfolded, this girl first shined in the defense of Fort Carter, she made potions to save thousands of transcendents and mortals, and even met the last heir of Fort Carter, Anna Schelling.
The two chose to marry a civilian hero at the time after the war, which sounds like a completely broken operation, but in Marin's opinion, this is also a way to avoid the two families being stolen by outsiders - although the civilian hero is not strong in blood, his children will definitely be the children of two families, and for him and them, this is a game with no losers.
After that, this Lady Aisha was like having the care of the goddess of happiness, first of all, the Moka family's potions were sold in various countries - the elf's potions were better than the Moka's potions, but the price was not affordable at all, and the goblins had only started this business in recent decades, and before that, the Moka family had already opened their potion stores in all cities in the Western human countries.
What this teenager did was completely beyond the whole era, and Marin felt that if this thing did not exist like himself, it was probably crazy to have such an unexpected performance.
You get what you pay for, and the Moka family of potions is perfectly worth their price.
Lady Aisha herself devoted herself to the Mother of Mercy Church for the joy of helping orphans, and she even sponsored a strong man on the first step, who to this day calls her Mother.
But no matter how good life is, there seem to be regrets, Lady Aisha has only one son and a daughter, the boy died unexpectedly at the age of seven, and Lady Anna has no children in her life, and they and their lovers love each other all their lives, but they seem to be lacking in childbearing.
The Schelling family, the owner of Fort Carter, was cut off, and the city eventually became a free city.
Lady Elsa's daughter grew up and married two sons and four daughters, the second of whom was the youngest of six children, and he returned to inherit the Mokka family, but none of this was for Marin and Faye to discuss.
"What is the situation with this picture frame, and what can be seen is the most important person? Or is it someone who has something to do with fate? Faye was a little curious, she looked at Marin, "Why do I see you, but you see this old lady named Elsa." ”
"How do I know that neither she nor I are from the same era." Marin spread his hands out, looking helpless.
Faye thought about it, and it was indeed like Marin said: "Maybe that will be the person who can change the fate of you and me?" It should be so, I saw you and changed my fate because of it, and you can't see her anymore because she died decades ago. With that, Faye stretched out his hand and hugged Marin: "Don't worry, Marin, our sisters will always be by your side." ”
"I've never been worried about that." Marin smiled and reached out to pat Faye's little face: "By the way, then again, is this a strange thing." He held up the frame and asked Faye.
"I guess so, but what do you say about this strange thing...... Some of them are not reliable, such as me and you, I have long been on good terms with you, and I don't need this photo frame to remind me of anything. When Faye said this, he smiled and kissed Marin's face: "As for you, your true daughter and you are the product of two eras." ”
"I've never believed that anything in this world is predestined." Marin was dismissive of this.
"But you're what I was meant to be." Faye has a completely different view on this.
So the two who disagreed looked at each other and finally laughed at each other.
"Well, I believe it." Marin changed his mind.
There is no shame in sacrificing one's views and opinions for the sake of one's lover.
Besides, it's good to be able to meet you.