Verse 554: If fate is in chains
Standing in front of Hoffman Abbey in Fort Carter, the man with his cloak on his hood looked at the gate that was being opened, and the terrified worshippers behind the gate smiled and nodded.
As if to encourage them, and as if to comfort them, he pulled back his hood and showed an ordinary smile: "What about this kid Colin." β
"Bishop Colin has recently been presiding over the church and the old bishop is emeritus...... Your Excellency, what is the matter with you? Standing in the door, the lady who welcomed the visitor had a little panic on her face, and she looked at the god in front of her and asked cautiously.
"I came to see a child who was not in good health and his days were running out." Anonymous, standing in front of mortals, said.
"You mean...... The kid named Susu? As the administrator of the monastery, the lady quickly found the child mentioned by the god in front of her from among the children living in the monastery.
"Yes, it's her." The god said this and looked at the lady, "Can I go see her?" β
"Yes, but Your Excellency, she is in very bad health and seems to be infected with a very difficult disease, which we have confirmed is not Nurgle's, but ...... She's just not going to get better, can you save her. The lady's eyes were full of begging, and she looked at Anonymous with a somewhat arrogant question.
She had expected that she would get an affirmative answer from the benevolent god that the girl she liked the most would have a happy future, so she looked at him until she saw him shake her head.
"The only one who can save her is herself." Anonymous said, and walked to the children's residence as if he were a familiar acquaintance.
"Your Excellency, you can't do it too, you're a god......" Madame stopped halfway through the chase, she turned around a little dazedly, and looked at the equally dazed attendants: "Why didn't you close the door, who are you greeting, the cold wind?" β
Listening to the grumblings and apologies coming from behind him, Anonymous walked through the corridor, where the children in the corridor ignored him, except for a few children with high inspiration to glance at him.
Coming to the door of the room at the end of the corridor, Anonymous pushed the door open, looking at the children sitting at the head of the bed in the room, reading books in the company of the fire, the light and the black cat, his face had a touch of human sadness.
"Susu, I'm here."
"Ah, it's you...... Looks like I'm coming to an end again, right? The girl brushed her long hair behind her ears, and she smiled as she looked at Anonymous, and there was no blood on her pale face.
The black cat on her sheets looked up and looked directly at the anonymous kitten and slowly stood up, slowly starting to blow up until its owner reached out and took it into his arms.
The kitten curled up in its owner's arms, its eyes fixed on Anonymous, unblinking as he followed.
"Susu, I want to know, do you regret it?" Anonymous stood in front of the girl's bed, the roots of the World Tree weaving a chair behind him, and their owner sat down before asking.
"How many times should I be thirteen hundred?" At this, the girl gasped twice, coughed again, and finally she raised her head and shook it.
"I don't regret it, Anonymous, even if you come to see me in another six thousand years, you will give such an answer." With that, the girl's face flushed slightly, and she smiled and leaned herself against the soft cushion at the head of the bed.
"Even if you can only live for six years in every life, even if you will die in pain every time, even if there is no end to your protection...... Is that okay? Anonymous continued.
He stared at the girl in front of him, trying to get a new choice from her mouth that he had never heard of.
The girl answered with silence, and the resolute look in her eyes as she looked at the god was also giving the god the firmest answer.
Eventually, Anonymous sighed, and he reached out his hand, the divine positive energy healing the girl in front of him.
The latter finally sighed with satisfaction.
"Thank you." She said.
"Just like when I first met you, you still answered me like that, Susu, the world is for you...... Is it really that important? Anonymous stroked the head of the girl in front of him.
"yes, I remember you asked me that when I summoned you." The girl gently brushed away the god's hand, and she looked up at the great being: "I have failed a person, I originally said that I would stay with him for a long time, and I said that I would grow old with him, but I lost him...... Fate reincarnated me into this world on the eve of the Great Apocalypse, perhaps to give me the opportunity to protect the planet we once lived on. β
mentioned the past time, and the girl's face had a little more nostalgia and more regret.
"You know, Lord Anonymous, every time I regain my memory, I watch the world become better, because in the beginning, I could only be born in a cave and die in a cave, and I used to wonder for a long time if civilization would ever rekindle...... Until one time, I was born in a wooden house. β
"I remember, it was almost six thousand years ago, when you were born in the eastern human world, the heart of the Southern Thai Empire." Anonymous looked at the girl in front of him, he continued to treat the girl in front of him, trying to maintain her body: "I remember that time, when I came to bid you farewell, you passed away surrounded by your family in that life, it was me...... The first time I saw you crying. β
"Because I am happy, my sacrifice has been rewarded, my efforts have not been wasted, and the lives in this world are still trying to save themselves...... Maybe there will be his offspring among them, and when I think about it, I am happy, because I am protecting his children, and although I have missed the appointment, I ...... But I still love him. The girl said this, looking at the god in her eyes: "Why do you always want me to give up?" β
"Because...... If you keep your oath, I won't be able to change the world drastically. Anonymous replied.
"Don't say it as if you are depraved, Your Excellency, you are the good of this world, I have summoned you with all my might, I hope you can protect this world." At this, the girl fell silent again.
In the entire room, only the positive energy in Anonymous's hands as he treated her glowedβthe fire was completely obscured by the soft, divine light.
"I have about half a day, right?"
"To be exact, there is still half an hour left, and my treatment will be able to make your body better, but the oath cannot be broken, and you will eventually die."
The answer from Anonymous made the girl smile bitterly, and while she stroked the kitten, she looked at the god in front of her and asked, "If I give up my vow, will I be able to live again in the next reincarnation, but I will lose all the memories I had before, right?" β
"No, your soul will be destroyed, you will face true eternity, but at least you are free, and I am free." Anonymous smiled at this, "I know why you don't want to give up, because you want to remember him forever, right?" β
"Yes, as long as I don't give up, I can always remember him, and I will always remember that brief time 10,000 years ago, forever." Speaking of this, the girl looked at the little black cat in her arms: "I still remember his name, we met in the same orphanage, grew up together, watched movies together, had the first meal together, we had no money at that time, and two people could be very happy when they ate an apple...... It was the happiest time of my life, and two people with the same joys and sorrows made an appointment to go through the road of life together. β
The little black cat in her arms meowed a few times, then got up and lay on her chest.
"I've heard you mention him a thousand and three hundred and thirty-nine times, and every time I come to see you off, you always mention him, but you don't say who he is or what his name is." Anonymous finished his treatment, and he said with a smile as he looked at the girl in front of him.
And the girl named Susu stroked the kitten in her arms and shook her head: "It's been 10,000 years...... Does his name still have meaning, maybe he and his family have been submerged by the long river of time, the tide of death has washed the world again and again, and human civilization is shaking in the wind and rain......"
Anonymous was silent until he heard a name be mentioned in the girl's self-talk. Number One
Marin ...... His name is Marin. The girl mentioned the name, and this time, the tears in her eye sockets could no longer be hidden.
Anonymous shook his head slightly, and he sighed: "Everything you do, is it for him?" β
"Yes, I couldn't keep my oath with him, so after I woke up again, I kept trying to find his offspring, but when the destruction came, I accidentally gained a supernatural ability, which I could have used to find him, but ...... I think it's better to ...... than to waste such an ability to find him Do something greater, so I summoned you, the kindest god Nameless, and I beg you to save this world at the cost of my soul, I don't know how powerful those evil gods are, and the only thing I can trust at that time is you...... Now it looks like you kept your vows with me, thank you. β
"You don't need to thank me, but I've always been curious, the Marin you mentioned is a little tall, looks wooden, has a weak temper, but has a very rigid brain, and rarely gets really angry, but when he is fierce, he always likes to brow and beat his opponent to death." Anonymous asked, smiling.
The question made the girl laugh, and after enough laughter, she gasped a few times helplessly: "Your Excellency, don't steal the answer from my mind." β
"I've really seen him." Anonymous laughed, "That's a very contradictory guy, do you want to see him." β
The girl was silent for a while, and finally shook her head: "No need, I don't want to see him." β
"Why, you finally had a chance to meet." Anonymous looked at the girl as if he was seeing her stubbornness and awkwardness for the first time.
"I'm afraid that when I see him, I won't want to die...... I'm afraid that when I see him, I won't recognize him. Speaking of this, the girl showed a bitter smile: "That's right...... Did he reincarnate too? β
"You really don't want to see him, so to speak." Anonymous looked at the girl, expecting her answer.
In her silence, he turned his head to see that the door was being opened.
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Marin pushed open the door, he didn't want to go back to the south when the war was raging in the north, but Colin said that they had a strange seriously ill child here, with an incurable disease, and it looked like people were dying, but she had always wanted to meet the great hero of the church, Lord Marin.
Out of pity for the child, Marin came, and when he opened the door, he saw a child sitting at the head of the bed, crying in the company of the fire, the light and the black cat.
She has long blond hair, pointed ears, and obvious elven blood, but her face looks bad.
There is a clear positive energy in the room, it must be that the previous therapist has come and left traces of existence.
Thinking of this, Marin walked up to her with a smile: "Your name, child, I'm Marin Gayat, and you want to see me, so I'm in front of you now." β
Marin pulled a chair and sat down in front of the girl's bed.
She looked at Marin in a daze, neither the screams of the star nor the excitement of the legend.
This makes Marin even more sad, this child, is he blind? Or was she deaf enough to hear all of this Mason say without any reaction.
"You said you wanted to see me, didn't you?" Marin spoke again, and this time, the girl laughed.
She looked very happy, and she tried to soothe the kitten in her arms while nodding to Marin, "Yes, I ...... I've always wanted to see you, and today, today, I finally got my wish. β
As she spoke, she began to cry, not loudly, but with laughter and tears.
This made Marin's heart hurt even more, this child looked less than five years old, very thin, the skin on his arms was even wrinkled because of the lack of muscles, if it wasn't for hearing that she was six years old, Marin really couldn't imagine that this little little bit was already six years old.
He stretched out his hand and stroked her head: "Don't cry, didn't I come, I'm a big hero, I never cried when I heard that you were sick, and you are also a big hero." β
The child nodded, she reached out and grabbed Marin's fingers, she had no strength at all, but Marin still let her go.
Eventually, the child picked up the kitten in his arms and put it in Marin's hands.
"Help me take care of Sophie, okay." She asked.
The voice was hoarse, probably caused by a long-term illness, which made Marin unable to say the words he wanted to refuse.
The child knew that her time was running out, and she wanted to entrust her little pet to someone who could be trusted, and a hero like Marin Gayat would be the most trustworthy person to trust.
"Leave it to me." Marin hugged the kitten.
"Thank you...... Thank you, Marlin. The child smiled joyfully as Marin hugged the kitten.
The child gradually breathed faster and faster in the smile, as if she had fulfilled her last wish, she collapsed on the bed, Marin reached out to treat her, only to find that she had crossed the line, and the divine positive energy could no longer give her the last care.
"I ...... I'm a little cold......" the kid said.
Marin reached out and hugged her.
For some reason, tears welled up in the corners of Marin's eyes, as if remembering something, he put the kitten in her arms, and then held him in his arms with both hands.
"I'm here."
Marin replied until the girl in his arms was no longer breathing, then he let go of his hands and helped her to lean against the large pillow at the head of the bed.
"Good night, kid."
Wiping the tears from the corners of her eyes, Marin got up and took the little black cat into his arms.
He walked to the door, and as he pushed it open, Marin turned to take one last look at the child.
Then he closed the door with a sigh.