Verse 47. Annan is not ready to be a father
"Gui'an, Your Excellency."
The Paladins of the Church of Order greet the archbishop standing in front of the church.
Annan looked at Reiner as if he had seen Corlett, and then felt a pang of sadness...... Valencia will be suspected by her daughter that she is not herself, just because she is too good to her......
"Teacher, what's wrong with you?"
Reiner had never seen his teacher look like this......
"It's Corlett's birthday, and I just had a fight with her." Annan became much more serious and humbly asked for advice: "How do you balance your home and church?" β
"Have you forgotten, I'm an orphan......"
"Oh......"
Oh, and I'm going to be taken away by the students again.
But perhaps it was Annan's sadness, Reiner didn't do it right away, and quietly watched him go back to his room.
Looking at the pedestrians on the street outside the window, Annan's thinking diverged, what would happen if he returned to the north to take a look at himself at this time? Will you see Levi? Can't stop Augusta yet?
But today it should be the same as the Archbishop of Valencia's room, and the scope of activity is limited to Persona.
Reiner didn't knock on the door again and burst in, holding the official business.
"Put it there." Annan did not turn around and asked Reiner to prepare the carriage and flowers.
"Teacher ......"
"Not right now. I'll deal with these things when I get back from the palace. β
"I mean...... If my parents were still alive, I would try to balance things in the church and at home......"
Reiner was clearly implying that Annan cared about the family...... It seems that even the students of Valencia felt that he was too focused on the church.
"Thank you." Annan sincerely thanked him.
He got into the carriage and went to Rosella's house for the third time.
Still offering flowers, being sneered at by Corlett, and slamming the door slam - Annan didn't reach out to block the crack because it really hurt.
"There should be other places to get into, right?" Annan looked at Rosella, who was locked up like him.
"Uncle, please come with me."
Rosella led Annan through the side door into the mansion, and Corlit was sulking in the living room
Placing the flowers on the table in front of Corlett: "I put the church on hold until the evening. β
"What do you say this has to do with me?"
"Absolutely." Annan smiled, "Today is your birthday, and I'm going to take you out for a walk." β
Curlet, who pretended to be an adult with a straight face, opened her mouth cutely.
β¦β¦
"Do you remember Mrs. Soma? She had been to the house several times. And Dies......"
What happened next was the same as yesterday, and even the order did not change.
Annan said apologetically while thinking that she was such a smart girl: "I'm sorry, but my attention was on the church at that time, and I didn't have much of an impression......
"Father......" Corlett called softly.
Annan smiled: "You've never called me that." β
Corlett didn't speak, but her eyes gradually turned red, and she whispered for a long time, "You never treated me like that......"
Annan didn't want to make both of them cry: "Actually, I treated, when you were young......"
"Let's talk about that time......
Annan didn't know anything, but he could make it up - Corlett didn't know anyway.
At some point, Corlett took Annan's arm.
"Look, Corlett never hated you."
Annan whispered and Valencia, who was watching all this, said.
"What did you say?"
"I said, maybe I really did something wrong in the past......"
The hand wrapped around the arm tightened.
"I don't blame you......"
Annan smiled deliberately: "If I hadn't been with you today, you wouldn't have said that......"
Corlett let go of him, but didn't really get angry, but walked a few quick steps to the window of a flower shop.
"Miss, these are all flowers shipped from Huadu, what do you want?" The clerk asked.
Corlett looked back: "The flowers you bought from here?" β
"Actually, it's a ...... from the church"
"I guess so, I'll go in and pick some." Corlett stepped briskly into the window.
Annan watched with relief as Corlett in the window conversed with the clerk, almost thinking that he was going to succeed β only to see a white shadow pass in front of him.
The paladins and priests of the Church of Order haunt the ghosts......
Annan suddenly turned and walked briskly to the other side of the street, the people around him becoming fewer and fewer but still not stopping. At some point, a group of paladins and priests blocked him.
Annan looked back, and it was already far from the flower shop.
"I haven't seen the princess until now......" Annan said helplessly, and he did not once "live" into the evening.
The old priest's old eyes were full of sharpness: "You still have something to do with the princess?" β
"I said that the princess is the 'murderer' behind the scenes who entrusted me with this, do you believe it or not?" Annan said casually, but the truth.
The princess asked him to find the strange body, and Valencia said that she would give him the body when she completed the commission.
Reiner looked shocked: "He didn't lie......"
"Calm down!"
The old priest stared at Annan, "He can make Valencia disappear, it's easy to deceive the Truth Word." β
Reiner approached Annan with a certain complication in his eyes, as if he didn't want to believe that Valencia was fake.
"Really?" He couldn't help but ask.
"You should take it for ......," Annan offered to hold out his hand, "but don't tell Lily...... I don't want to make her sad anymore. β
ββ¦β¦ Who the hell are you? β
"In a way, I am indeed a Valencian ......"
Reiner took a deep breath, "You're not. β
"But at least Valencia didn't object, at least he asked me to do it."
Or is it true......
The wrinkles on the old priest's face deepened, realizing that they were caught up in some kind of complex vortex.
"Take me away quickly, don't talk to Lilyβ"
Annan suddenly saw Corlett standing quietly on the periphery, still holding a bouquet of flowers in her handβwhich Annan guessed she was going to give herself.
He glared at the old priest and Reiner angrily, apologized, and said to her gently, "I'm sorry, I won't let you go through this again next time." β
After saying that, he didn't dare to look at Corette again, and lowered his head and asked them to take him away.
β¦β¦
In the deepest part of the church dungeon, Annan looked at Reiner, who appeared outside
"What's the matter with you?"
"What?"
"I can't think of where I'm exposed, isn't it your temptation to knock on the door?"
Reiner didn't deny it: "The teacher doesn't like me like this. β
It seems that the third time can be avoided...... But Annan still didn't vomit or be unhappy: "Then you still do it!" β
Reiner couldn't help but ask, "Do I know you?" Why do you feel ......?"
"If you want to know the answer, just wait until tomorrow."
"Okay."
Reiner left, and Corlet didn't come.
Late at night, Annan came out on January 17.
"What's going on with your students, who like to arrest their own teachers when they have nothing to do?" Annan couldn't help but complain.
"They know me very well, and when you behave in a way that is not in line with me, they will be suspicious and tempting...... Doubts accumulate like snowflakes. The Archbishop of Valencia was relieved to Annan.
"But you really have a good daughter, she called me father and bought me a bouquet of flowers......" Annan said deliberately.
This time it was Valencia that was unhappy.
(End of chapter)