Chapter 63: A Bleeding Tomorrow (I)

As Jonah surveyed the strange food on the fork tip, he pondered how he could open his mouth to tell his companions the prophecy of the Nameless Book and convince them that they had received a true revelation and not hallucinate from witnessing the bloody scenes of Rent Day.

"Uh...... Is this really edible?" he asked timidly.

"Eat while it's hot!" Sibby glared at him viciously.

Jonah resisted the feeling of churning in his stomach and slowly opened his mouth. Although the two-inch-long fried trineworm looks brown, crispy and fragrant, like a small sausage filled with diced meat, the aquatic worm with strong vitality still twists on the tip of the fork, dancing a dance of dying struggle.

"I think it's still alive......" he said timidly.

"Live a fart!!Precocious!

Jonah peeked at his teammates.

People sit around the floor of room A51 with fried trinematodes, small fish soup, hard bread and black gold gopher meat that has not changed for thousands of years.

The two Bazeral mountain dwellers happily chewed the traditional food of their homeland without a hint of mental disorder, the southerner Jekon put all kinds of food into his mouth with a blank face, and Jonah did not think he tasted the food, Elliot was obviously also engaged in a psychological struggle, but the principle of obedience forced him to submit to the obscenity of Sibby, frowning and swallowing half of the dancing flesh worm; "I don't eat meat." Ryuki said that she was given an additional pardon, but she betrayed her with a smile on her face, peeking at Jonah and Elliott, and the astrologer apprentice was indignant.

Jonah thought about it for a long time. Maybe it's been thinking about it for too long. He looked at his friends and decided the time was right.

"I ...... I have one thing to say to you. He lowered his fork and said.

"You say you say. The head of the room took a wooden cup and gulped down a gulp of food.

"Very serious matter. Jonah had a stern look in his eyes.

"You say you say. The Bazelar peasant waved majestically, motioning for his companions to be quiet and listening to the astrologer's lecture as they squeaked and chewed on crunchy fried insects.

"Seriously. Jonah reminded.

"You say you say. Toba sat with his chest up, his mouth tightly closed, and a lump of his cheeks bulged.

Jonah decided to ignore the reaction.

He lowered his head and looked at the ground, and said quickly: "Actually, there is one thing that I have been trying to tell you since I came to Cherry Ferry, but I have not been able to say it for various reasons.

As you know, I am a native of St. Bouron, and before the Red Rock Fortress was breached by the army of the Zawi Empire, the army called the 'Raven' according to the Dragon Knight Chop, I used to walk from the Astrologer's Tower to the Royal and Anglican Library of the Red Rock Castle to check the materials, and one day I found a strange nameless book in a hidden hut in the library, the first half of which was a large book signed 'Seglas the Betrayer', the first half of which was about the secret history of St. Borun, and the second half of which was a strange and illogical diary or poem.

I was too young to realize the meaning of the book until the day the invaders breached the walls of the Red Stone Fort. At that time, the tyrant Jerizavitan had not unilaterally torn up the joint amnesty treaty, which allowed me to safely walk into the Red Stone Fort and witness the brutal slaughter, which seemed to me at that time as if it were something of a knight's novel, and had nothing to do with me. It wasn't until a certain image in front of me matched a chapter in my memory that I realized that the second half of the Nameless Book was a prophecy about the future by Seglas the Betrayer, the mysterious author who had accurately predicted the impending massacre at Fort Redstone in vague language decades earlier.

By the time I realized the importance of books, the Royal and Anglican libraries had already been set on fire by the enemy, and I braved the flames to rush in and save only two and a half pages of the nameless book.

The head of the room, Eli, the grasshopper, the Jekong,...... Listen to me, Ryuji, I came to Cherry Ferry because of the prophecy of the Nameless Book, and I had to leave even though the Astrology Tower was no longer safe, and Cherry Ferry was in the prophecy of Seglas, my friends, and the prophecy date was soon in the future, April 26th, I don't know what would happen, but I was sure that something bad was going to happen, and we needed to be ready for this day, the day of prophecy. ”

Jonah finished the long monologue in one breath, breathing rapidly, looking up to see how everyone reacted. The tenants of A51 looked at him stunned with their utensils, and with a grunt, the head of the room swallowed the lump of food.

"What are you talking about, man? I didn't understand. Sibi blinked with green eyes.

Jonah stood up and anxiously pulled out the unnamed pages of the unnamed book from the pocket of his underwear, "You see, right here, what I say is true, believe me, I didn't tell anyone about it, because astrologers are not supposed to believe stupid prophecies, but I know that it is all true, and these pages clearly write the future of Cherry Crossing, our future, and even the future of the world. Please, trust me!"

"May we ......," Elliott gestured.

"Of course, of course, Eli. Jonah stood on tiptoe and handed the paper to the Rose Knight, twitching his nose restlessly. Whenever he felt anxious, he always felt an itchy nose, and this feeling was not felt in a long time after leaving Mr. Koshavoy, who had assigned his homework. The sense of urgency that is nervous but longing for recognition is like holding back morning urine in the middle of the night, making people restless.

Elliott held up the yellowed papyrus, so that the words on the paper were illuminated by the sunlight that entered the narrow window**.

"That half page, half a page burned, Eli. In order, that page is what happened first. The previous prophecy was burned, but I remembered the contents, so I wrote on it. Jonah reminded.

"On the 5th of October, the sun was pierced by a sword," the Rose Knight read in the most standard lingua franca of the road, pausing and looking at Jonah with a little doubt.

"This is the first prophecy we know, keep saying it, keep it, keep it, Eli. Jonah rubbed his nose uneasily.

"On October 5, the sun was pierced by a sword, and they gathered together, unable to see each other, only the sky and their heels. Elliot said.

Jonah walked to the center of the room and spread his hands to explain to his companions, "This is what happened that day, April 2, the day the Redstone Fort was breached, hundreds of soldiers of the Queen's Guard were beheaded en masse by the Zawi in front of the square in front of the palace.

The sun pierced by a sword, a reference to Matraktili (the first sun) hanging from the spire of the palace tower of the Red Rock Castle, gathered together, unable to see each other but the sky and their heels, refers to the decapitated soldiers, who were tied together, their heads falling to the ground, and the eyes on their heads looked at the sky and the headless corpses. That's it!"

He looked around, people had confused expressions on their faces, and Ryuji stretched out her hand slightly, as if she wanted to give him some help.

"No, I'm not crazy!" Jonah exclaimed, almost hysterically, "Listen to me, if you're there, at Fort Redstone on the afternoon of April 2nd, and see that scene with me, you're going to believe every word I say, because the damn image is screaming 'I'm that nightmarish prophecy!'"

"Of course I believe you. Toba spoke with reverence.

"No, no, no, I don't want your kind of belief, I want 'believing' my belief. Belch...... Oh my God, how am I going to convince you?" Jonah rubbed the bridge of his nose violently, pacing in circles, "Well, Elieri, can you go on?"

"Yes, Your Excellency. On October 6, Gamaliel descended from heaven with all the chosen pagans. Ayala couldn't see him, Ayala couldn't hear him, but he lived in the palace of bones and didn't panic. 'Do not go near the mirror,' Gamaliel advised. The Rose Knight continued.

This is the second prophecy. Do you hear that? That's all ......" Jonah opened his mouth excitedly, but his expression suddenly froze, as if he had been petrified and turned into a stone statue.

Sibi hesitantly stood up and waved his little hand in front of him, "Brother, are you okay?"

About the demons in my body. This is something even more bizarre than prophecy. Can I tell anyone else? If I were known, would I become a heretic who should be burned at the stake? But if I don't say it, how can I verify the prophecy of being true?

Wait a minute...... I have overlooked the important fact that the prophecy speaks of 'taking with all the chosen heathen', that is, there may be many possessed demons descending into the world, and perhaps there are demons lurking in the mortal shells of my close companions, the tenants of A51, who are now in front of me, and that if I show that I have insight into this great conspiracy, it may bring even greater calamity upon me and them...... But if you hide your secret like this, how can you ask for help and find a way to exorcise the demon?

Jonah thought about it, his brain became a whirlpool of thunder and lightning and storms tumbling with a sense of fear and a sense of purpose, one thought after another swept through like lightning, and then the hurricane of negation was destroyed, and the fragments of fragmented thoughts were scattered on the plain of thought, he didn't know what to do, not even how to make a small movement to relieve the embarrassment, his whole body stiffened, and even his toes were tense in his boots.

"Hey, hey?" Sibby patted him on the face and nervously asked, "Is he still alive?" ”

"Sit down, little grasshopper, he's fine. Ryuki said, standing up slightly, pinching Jonah's cheek and looking into his pupils with bottomless black eyes.

I don't know what the Oriental woman did, but Jonah, who was struggling in the contradictions, saw a thunderbolt that split the sky and suddenly disperse the mixed thoughts, and with a boom, the thunder and lightning and the storm disappeared without a trace, his brain became extremely clear, the breeze blew through the field, and the fragments of his thoughts combined into clear thoughts, and in this moment, he knew what to do.