Chapter 7: The Priest and the Fish
"Father, I need to repent."
In the cramped confessional room, a thin, middle-aged man confessed to Joshua through a screen window, which was just a daily task for Joshua.
The man's name was Arcade, and he was a well-known old bachelor in the town of Montenegro, who relied on his father's inheritance and spent his days fishing for pleasure without having to work.
As far as Joshua knows, although this person is a little lustful, he is still a good person in essence, and it is not a big deal to come this time.
"Speak your sins and I will not preach them under the witness of God."
Joshua's calm voice came, the so-called priest has a tree-like effect for this town, and after a few years, Joshua was well informed that the female dog at the head of the village was pregnant, and he knew which male dog it was.
Although this information is meaningless, it is different today.
Just now, he activated the forgiveness technique in the seal, which is a magic technique that can extract the negative emotions of the other party after gaining the trust of the other party.
The forgiven person will be freed from the negative emotions that will be used by Joshua instead of magic or vindictiveness.
As for how effective it is, Joshua still doesn't know, so he says that the excellent material has come to the door.
"Father, you also know that I don't have a partner, and I don't like to go looking for flowers and willows, and my hobby is just fishing, until one day I ......"
Arcade's voice trembled, and he didn't know that he thought that while he was fishing, he picked up a stone and smashed the people next to him to death.
But you can't blame him, after all, it's common sense to wear a helmet when fishing.
"I caught a fish, and that fish was really that...... And the kind that fits my size very well. ”
"Size?"
Joshua was stunned, he didn't react for a long time.
"Well, it's comfortable to fit my size perfectly, and I used it for a while long after that fish died, and recently it got a little stinky, so I found a place to bury it."
“……”
The air of silence echoed in the confessional room, and although Joshua came from an era of advanced Internet and considered himself well-informed, it was the first time he had seen such a person.
The so-called "use" is that kind of "use", right?
"Do you regret what you did?"
"Yes, I regret it, I'm afraid that I won't be able to enter the goddess's kingdom if I do such a thing."
Good guy, you're so self-aware.
Joshua wanted to reprimand him like this, but as a priest, he still had a basic professional quality, and his job was to give people psychological comfort rather than moral criticism.
"Arcade, as long as you really love that fish, then even if you do that kind of thing, it's okay."
"I naturally love it, and its death has made me uncomfortable for a long time, but how do I know that it loves me if I'm not a fish?"
Arcade's tone was agitated, and Joshua was shocked that Joshua didn't understand.
"But you're not a fish, how do you know it doesn't love you?"
"This ......"
Obviously, the people of this world don't know the allusion of "Zi Fei Yu", and at the same time, Akkadian is not really repentant at all, but just wants to find a channel to vent through repentance.
At this moment, the mark on the back of Joshua's hand shone slightly, and black "impurities" overflowed from Akkadian's body in the direction of the mark.
"Yes, I just don't know and can't deny that it loves me too, Father Joshua thanks you for your advice, I definitely have to learn how to communicate with the fish in the future, and I will do something like that with their consent."
At the moment when the negative emotions left his body, Akadeden felt clear, his original guilt was gone, and he had a plan for his future life, but this direction seemed to be ...... Something is wrong.
Joshua did not answer, and Akkad left on his own.
At this time, Joshua was meditating on the power of original sin turned into negative emotions, and this power made Joshua feel that if he did not deliberately control the power, this newly renovated church would be easily destroyed by him.
If I hoard enough of the power of original sin......
"Father Joshua, I'll teach you Ohmcip next."
Joshua's thoughts were interrupted by Lilith's voice coming from outside the door, and when he opened the door, he felt that Lilith had a magical charm that made him unable to take his eyes off it.
"Father Joshua?"
"Sorry, I was a little distracted."
Joshua shook his head and recovered from his trance, although Lilith was beautiful, he shouldn't be so unbearable, especially since he didn't have such a situation just now.
Could it be that the negative emotions that I absorb also have an effect on me? It seems that the power of original sin cannot be hoarded infinitely.
However, as his mental power increases, he thinks that the power of original sin that he can accumulate in the future will continue to increase.
"Noisy people always disturb me when I taste my sins. ”】
"So let's start with the basics of Ohmcipher."
Although Lilith's expression was as usual, there was still some intersectionality between the words, just now she secretly peeked into the situation in the confessional room with her mental power, and the uneasiness in her heart became more and more obvious in combination with the words just now.
In the confessional chamber just now, a strong negative emotion appeared in Akkadian's body, which was then absorbed by Joshua.
In her eyes, this is Joshua's hole card that thinks highly of himself, strengthening himself by devouring evil thoughts.
Although Lilith is proficient in the various texts of the Papal Palace, she has no achievements in how to persuade people to do good, and Joshua is a god valued by the goddess, so the safest way is to let the power of the goddess personally influence him.
In order to buy time for the divine power in the imprint, Lilith also made some small means in the Ohm translation.
This is not to say that she taught Joshua the wrong way to crack it, but she taught Joshua an old and inefficient way to crack it.
It would take a lot more effort to decipher the ciphertext in this way, especially for Joshua, who had not yet mastered the magic at this time.
In order to gain the power to crack the ciphertext as soon as possible, this guy will try harder to contact the divine power.
"It's not early today, I wonder if there are guest rooms on this side of the church? We will pay the fee as usual. ”
The sky gradually darkened, and Joshua, who was obsessed with learning, came to his senses.
"Miss Lilith takes such good care, how can I still collect money, there are still a lot of churches in the guest rooms, let me Anna take you there."
As Joshua called, Anna immediately led the two of them out of the auditorium and in the direction of the guest room, and Joshua looked at the back of the three of them leaving.
Sure enough, Anna's ass is the roundest.
In the next moment, Joshua threw his distracting thoughts out of his mind, and those original sins were really difficult to deal with.