The police station's exciting deployment has nothing to do with Nock.

Nock, who had lost his track of the monster halfway, returned home in frustration.

Changing into pajamas, Nock was heartbroken.

Not only was the cloak worth fifty gold coins tattered, but even the "companion" dagger with clues to his origins was lost.

He lay in bed and couldn't sleep all night.

Tossed and turned, until the rooster crowed three times, he still couldn't sleep.

Looking at the white dawn on the horizon, Nock simply got up from the bed, threw himself an energetic spirit, and went downstairs in clothes. (Note 1)

Walking into the kitchen in the backyard, it was pitch black, and it was clear that Lillian hadn't gotten up yet.

Also, children who have taken advanced nutrition drugs to repair the foundation of their bodies in sleep are afraid that they are still in deep sleep.

Nock uses light to find the flint in the kitchen and lights the kerosene lamp in the kitchen. (Note 2)

In the dim light of the oil lamp, Nock found the brown bread and bacon left over from last night.

Cut off about half a pound of bacon, cut it into small pieces and put it in a pot, pour water into it and soak it, and then Nock began to slice the black bread, spread it with jam, and prepare it to be baked in the oven.

Don't look at the monastery now only has a group of orphans like Nock, but the facilities are still very complete.

Fireplace, oven, stove, you name it.

Even, in the window of the kitchen, there is a large iron pot from the ancient oriental country. It is said that it was brought back by a senior of the monastery who traveled to the East for twenty years, and it has been used for nearly 100 years without damage.

Of course, Nock felt that it was mainly because the people of the monastery would not use this iron pot that would keep it for so long.

After all, for the natives, this kind of pot that can allow a person to get into a bath is really inconvenient for them to cook.

At least, since Nock was sensible, he had seen a monastery use this large iron pot once.

There was a shortage of bread for Thanksgiving, and the old nun and the cooks made a large pot of stew in this big iron pot before serving it as food.

That was the only time Nock could remember using the big iron pot.

Shaking off the memories of the iron pot, Nock put the processed brown bread in the oven, but he didn't light the fire.

Now is not the time to bake, otherwise after the exam, by the time the little ones get up, the bread will already be cold and will become dry and hard again.

Nock poured out the soaked pieces of bacon, drained them, and put them back in the jar.

Then Nock cut the radish into cubes, cut some onions and put them in the jar, poured water into them, covered them, and put them on the stove to prepare for cooking.

Nock sat in front of the stove, stuffed firewood into the stove one by one, and after stuffing half of the firewood, Nock didn't even bother to use the flint, so he threw a divine flame into the stove and ignited the firewood.

If the sleeping Holy Lord knows that his believers use the magic he has given him to light a fire and cook, he is afraid that he will be angry and break free from the nightmare, and directly send down divine punishment to punish this rebellious believer!

Nock didn't care about that, he mechanically added firewood to the stove, but his mind was thinking about how to catch the monster and retrieve his dagger.

In this way, before he knew it, Nock boiled the water in the soup can, and still mechanically added firewood to the stove.

"O my lord! Brother Nock, what are you doing! Do you want to burn down the kitchen? ”

Lillian's exclamation finally brought Nock back from his contemplation.

Looking at the stove blackened by the fire and the soup cans that seemed to be burned dry, Nock hurriedly took out the remaining firewood from the stove and threw it into the stove of the nearby oven.

Lillian put on insulated oven mitts and brought the blackened soup can off the stovetop.

When the lid is lifted, the smell of burnt meat with the fragrance of radish and onion rises in the kitchen space.

"Sorry, it looks like the water has been boiled dry and the meat has been wasted. Why don't you pour it. ”

Nock smelled the burnt flesh and cautiously proposed.

"Dump?! Brother Nock, are you a little drifting because you've made a little money lately! You don't know what the conditions of our family are! It's just that the meat is burned, and you want to throw it away! Have you dug up a gold mine or robbed the royal vaults! ”

Lillian angrily crossed her waist with one hand and poked Nock's waist with the other, and counted Nock with the appearance of a housekeeper.

Nock hurriedly smiled and reached out to cover Lillian's mouth: "Shhh Lillian, you can't talk nonsense, if you are heard, be careful to arrest you and convict you of theft. ”

"Cut!"

Slapping Nock's hand away, Lillian scorned with disdain, but didn't say anything "rebellious".

Lillian complained as she poured the ingredients from the soup can onto the plate, "You wasted all the good ingredients, brother." The kitchen is my territory, why can't you think about it, come and rob me of my work! ”

Nock replied listlessly: "I can't sleep, I saw that it was dawn, and I wanted to help you cook a meal, but I didn't expect to think about things and boil the soup dry." ”

When Lillian heard this, the movement of her hand slowed slightly, and she looked up at Nock.

"What happened?"

She asked because for the first time in a year since Nock perked up, she had heard that Nock had insomnia.

Even if she peeked at Nock coming back from injury in the middle of the night, or when she couldn't make money for several days, Nock could appear in front of everyone the next day.

Because she knows that even if Nock pretends to be, she must pretend to be radiant and give her younger siblings the confidence to live.

But now Nock actually confessed that he had insomnia in front of him, which made Lilian, who was familiar with Nock's character, notice something strange.

Hearing Lilian's question, Nock hesitated, but still opened his mouth to explain.

"As you said, I've been a bit drifting lately. Because I made a windfall yesterday, I was careless when I went out to do a task last night, and I lost a lot! I was so distressed all night that I couldn't sleep. ”

"What! Have you ever been injured! ”

Hearing that Nock had an accident on last night's mission, Lilian's first reaction was not to feel sorry for how much money she had lost, but to worry about whether Nock was injured.

She threw down the work in her hand and walked quickly to Nock, and put her hands on Nok, eager to strip him naked to check.

Nock was so frightened that he called a halt again and again: "Stop, stop!" I'm not hurt, I'm not hurt! It's just that the cloak left by Father John was damaged, a high-grade magic cloak of fifty gold coins! I was plagued by this, and I lost a valuable item about my origins. ”

"Whew!"

Lilian, who confirmed that Nock was not injured, was also very worried when she heard that it was Father John's relics and Nock's treasure that had been lost.

"Forget it, if the cloak is broken, it will be broken, at least it is still there, you can take it and fix it for me, and I will keep it as a thought. It's just a pity that your treasure, it's something about the clues of your background, is there a way to get it back? Why don't you go to the police station to report the crime, if you hear about the loss, the police station will take care of it. ”

Lily offers pertinent advice, but Nock refuses.

"Don't worry about me, I have a way to get my stuff back. As for John's cloak, I'll find a way to find those mysterious magicians and see if I can repair it, but the cost is estimated to be not low. ”

Lillian shook her head and rejected Nock's offer, "No need. In the past, it was because you could use it, brother, so the cloak was also useful. Now, since it can't protect my brother, it's just a memorial, so I'll just sew it up and put it away. ”

"But ......"

"No, but! The living still need to live, and there is no need to waste so much money on a dead thing. Just do as I say. I'll go to your room and bring the cloak after I've made breakfast, wash it, sew it up, and put it away. ”

Lillian made the final decision, and Nock didn't want to argue with Lillian about it anymore.

So, the two teamed up to fix a breakfast.

After waking up the children, everyone enjoyed a unique breakfast together.

Nock, who had nothing to do, spent a quiet and peaceful morning with his younger siblings in the chapel.

With ninety gold coins left in the house, Nock stopped Lillian's work of pulping and washing.

There was no way before, but now Nock won't let his children continue to wash several buckets of clothes for a mere ten copper coins.

Now the main task of the children of the monastery is to cultivate the body.

If you make up for your body, even if you are a coolie in the future, you will not suffer a loss if you go to be an apprentice.

Yes, Nock didn't think about tying up this group of younger siblings in the convent.

As the last priest of the Holy Church in England, although he did not know his situation, he also knew that the identity of the Holy Church in England was no longer open.

If it weren't for Lillian's influence on John's desire to become a nun in the church, Nock wouldn't have wanted her to continue her practice.

But Nock couldn't stop her, because she was John's adopted daughter, and unlike him and the other children, Lillian and John were adoptive fathers and daughters who had been witnessed by the gods.

Lillian was officially adopted by John, and is officially documented in the laws of the Kingdom of Lionheart.

Therefore, Lillian wants to follow in John's footsteps and devote herself to the light of the Lord, and Nock has no right or wants to interfere.

But the other children, like the impulsive Clowell, adores Nock but aspires to be a demon hunter.

Because the devil bewitched his uncle and killed his entire family, he himself almost became a sacrifice of the devil.

If Nock hadn't appeared in time and killed the demon strongly, I'm afraid that Colwell would have gone to hell with his family and become the nourishment of the demon.

What the quiet Ashley's dream is, Nock doesn't know, but judging from the fact that she likes to read books silently and please the people around her.

Nock speculates that she probably has no dreams, or that she just wants to marry a man who loves her in the future.

Naughty Hawks is simple, he comes from a merchant family, and his parents were killed by bandits while they were in business. The caravan brought the surviving Hawkes to England and left him alone in the streets. It was the good Samaritan who sent Hawkes to the convent.

Therefore, what Hawkes never forgets is to grow up to be a businessman, build the largest caravan on the mainland, and then squeeze the caravan that abandoned him to bankrupt and avenge himself and his parents!

Because he always felt that only his parents were killed by the bandits in the entire caravan, and it must have been the caravan's ghost.

The twin siblings, Hywell and Avril, were even simpler, clamoring all day long that they just wanted to grow up and make a lot of money and live happily ever after with everyone at the monastery.

But Nock still carefully discovered that Haywell would probably prefer to investigate his background when he grows up and figure out why he and his sister were abandoned.

This was guessed by Nock when he found Haywell secretly sitting in the aisle of the Suser door in the middle of the night watching him and Avril's swaddling clothes.

Because before the age of ten, Nock himself thought so.

[Note 1: In the future, the holy light spells used by the protagonist in the book belong to the Church Divine Magic.] Independent of magic. In addition, a small spoiler, the protagonist will give up magic in the future, and the reason will be explained later.

NOTE 2: The street lamps mentioned above are the kind of oil lamps that were hung on roadside lampposts in the Middle Ages, and they needed to be lit. is similar to the kerosene lamp used for absenteeism in film and television dramas. It's not about lighting up. This book has scientific and technological mechanical creations, magical civilizations, but there is no electronic technology. Here's a hint of it in advance. 】