Chapter 7: The Old Priest's Worries
Can learning powerful magic protect Soth from being bullied?
Touched by Weston's words, Nina tossed and turned on the bed, holding in her hand a crystal clear pebble that her brother had given to her from the little lake.
Gentle, very special, my brother called it "jade", a very awkward name.
"Soth, are you sleeping?"
"Sleep!"
"How can you still talk when you're asleep?"
"...... please!"
Jiang Zhe, who was lying on the other bed, rolled his eyes, to be honest, he really couldn't sleep.
Originally, Jiang Zhe was in a good mood when he saw a great magician, but then he gradually found that this respected great magician didn't seem to be interested in him at all, not seemingly, yes!
Jiang Zhe could see the contempt in the eyes of the great magician, and as a result, Jiang Zhe, who was still planning to fight the relationship, suddenly lost interest.
What happened to the Great Magician?
I don't eat the food that came to me!
Cut!
"Soth, did you hear what I said!" Nina seemed to be a little angry at this tone.
"What did you just say?"
"The magician said he wanted to take me as an apprentice......," Nina said, pouting.
"Huh?" Turning over and sitting up on the bed, Jiang Zhe looked at the adjacent bed and said, "This is a good thing, I thought, that old man may be very powerful!"
"But," looking at Jiang Zhe, Nina hesitated and said, "It will take fifteen years......"
As if he understood something, Jiang Zhe said with a smile, "Isn't it fifteen years, if you learn magic, you can teach me, right?"
Nina on the adjacent bed turned over, turned her back to Jiang Zhe, and said quietly, "Soth, do you want to be a magician too?"
"Of course, since there is magic in the world, of course I have to learn it, can I not do it, will the next holy magician be me?" As if seeing Nina's loss, Jiang Zhe coaxed around the corner.
"Holy Magician?" Nina turned around, her eyes that looked even brighter in the darkness looked straight at Jiang Zhe, and suddenly smiled, "Well, Soth will definitely be able to!"
"That'...... You said yes?"
Suddenly, Nina's smile froze on her face, and she turned her back to Jiang Zhe, and it was a long time before her voice came.
"No, I'm not worried about your ......"
Scold!
It's tragic enough for a twelve-year-old girl to feel uneasy......
With a wry smile, Jiang Zhe lay back on the bed, but his heart was warm.
It's really uncomfortable to have someone else take care of you...... When, instead of me, will I protect her?
Powerful ......
Thinking wildly, Jiang Zhe gradually fell asleep.
Holy Magician...... Maybe it's easier to achieve in a dream......
"Roar!" an angry beast roared.
Suddenly opening his eyes, Jiang Zhe gasped on the bed in a big gulp, "What the hell." ”
Looking out the window of the attic, it was already dawn.
Wiping the cold sweat oozing from his forehead, Jiang Zhe glanced at the bed next to him, the quilt was neatly folded: It seems that Nina has gotten up.
Disturbing his head, Jiang Zhe put on his clothes very casually.
Strange to say, after arriving in this world, he didn't have the nightmare of 'snakes and long-distance running', but changed his new tricks: every time he slept in the depths, he could hear an angry beast roar, which woke him up, and vaguely, he could also see a fierce beast with a bloody mouth full of fangs......
He didn't have a clue what was going on.
Stepping down the creaking wooden staircase down the attic, Jiang Zhe happened to see Nina coming out of the kitchen with bread and milk.
Seeing Jiang Zhe, Nina stepped forward, touched her brother's forehead, and asked worriedly, "Are you having nightmares again?" poor Soth ......" she said, she smiled, raised the milk in her hand and said with a smile, "Breakfast is ready!"
I hate milk!
With a grin, Jiang Zhe barely managed to squeeze out a few smiles.
"Hi, old Charles!"
"Heh," the kind-faced old priest walked in from outside the church with a smile, stroked Jiang Zhe's head and said, "It seems that you are in a bad mood, my child ......"
Glancing at the milk in front of him, Jiang Zhe held his head and said weakly, "If it weren't for this milk and that damn dream, I would be in a good mood!"
The old priest was stunned, patted Jiang Zhe's head, looked at the statue in the church, and said reverently, "God has given us food, be grateful, my child ......"
Get!
Jiang Zhe yawned weakly, looked left and right, but did not see the great magician and his two servants, and asked strangely, "Old Charles, what about them?"
The old priest, who was sitting at the long table praying sincerely, paused, glanced at Jiang Zhe, and said, "Child, you shouldn't interrupt the prayer......
Shrugging his shoulders, Jiang Zhe said indifferently, "I don't believe in that thing...... Yikes!"
"Soth, don't blaspheme!" Nina knocked her brother with a small silver-plated spoon.
Looking at Jiang Zhe looking at himself depressedly, the old priest finally finished his prayer, took the bread on the table and tore it open, and said with a slight sigh, "That magician still has important business, and he will set off in the middle of the night...... Soth, don't you feel sorry?"
"Regret?" Looking at the white milk in the cup and swallowing his saliva, Jiang Zhe pushed it away without moving, chewing bread while saying lightly, "I don't think I have any regrets......
"Hmm?" the old priest's gray eyebrows twitched, "haven't you always wanted to learn powerful magic......?
"Hey!" Jiang Zhe chuckled and chewed his bread indifferently.
Perhaps sensing something, the old priest was silent.
After breakfast, while Nina was cleaning up the table, the old priest took Jiang Zhe to the flower garden outside the church.
"Don't you really regret the loss of the Great Magician, my child?"
"What's there to regret?" Sitting on the steps, Jiang Zhe held his chin and looked into the distance, and said indifferently, "There is not only one way to learn magic, I can go to Sassen!"
"You're right...... However, if you become an apprentice of a great magician, you can learn far more than you can in the Academy of Magic......"
"There are some things that I don't have the final say," Jiang Zhe said with a hint of mockery as he turned his head to look at the old priest, "From the very beginning, the great magician didn't look at me with a straight ......."
The old priest sighed secretly and forced a smile, "Don't you want to learn a magic even if you can't be his apprentice?"
"Do you want to beg him?" I don't want to!" Jiang Zhe tilted his head and said in confusion.
"Is it because he despised you?"
"......" Looking at the old priest in amazement, Jiang Zhe wondered, "Old Charles, what's wrong with you today?
The old priest shook his head with a wry smile, touched Jiang Zhe's head, and said earnestly, "Child, I have never meant to prevent you from coming into contact with magic, I am just telling you that magic does not make people happy, and happiness is to firmly grasp the ...... you cherish" As he spoke, he turned his head to look inside the church.
Jiang Zhe immediately understood what the old priest meant, nodded and said seriously, "Of course!"
Looking at the smile on the face of the child in front of him, old Charles sighed secretly, this is what I am most worried about......
After more than two years of contact, old Charles can be regarded as determining the surname of the little guy in front of him......
Kind, gentle, polite, even if he is bullied by the children in the town, he is not angry, whether in the eyes of the townspeople or in the eyes of Nina, this little guy is a kind child who is bullied and does not fight back......
However, in the eyes of old Charles, this little guy is kind and good, but it is definitely not weakness!
Politeness, which can be understood as deliberately keeping a distance, is distancing, is vigilance, and not fighting back, can be understood as his disdain to fight back, from the beginning, this little guy has positioned himself differently from the naughty, ignorant children in the town......
He's sure to be a powerful magician!
And the elder Charles was most worried about the surname of the child named South......
For so long, the elder Charles also gradually understood the surnames of the two siblings, the elder sister is cheerful and lively, and likes many things that many peers like, even a small gift will make her happy for several days, happy things, sad things, will not hide in her heart, but the younger brother is different, the younger brother's surname is introverted, does not like to talk, lacks interest in things, but has a strong self-opinion, it is difficult for outsiders to change his views on affairs......
The more intelligent and assertive a child is, the more likely it is to get lost in the blind pursuit of great power......
Plus the ...... this child is carrying
All this made the old priest very worried.
"Whew," Jiang Zhe yawned, stood up and said, "I'll go for a walk by the lake, old Charles ......"
Looking up at the clear sky, the old priest nodded and said kindly, "If the weather is good, you should go out for a walk more, be careful...... Go for it, my child......"
"Yes, let's go!"
Looking into the distance where the little one was fading, the old priest slowly got up and stood on the steps and sighed softly.
"May God bless you, child......"
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