"It's little Aofe, I haven't seen you for a long time, you've grown so big...... Well, yes, at least a little more feminine than my family's Fania. If one day no one wants Fania in my family, if you don't dislike it, take that child away. ”

"Uh, Grandpa, what are you talking about?"

Aoye never thought that ten years later, when he saw this elder who had taken care of him very much since he was a child, the other party would throw out such unreliable words as soon as he came up, which made him wonder if the kind and kind old man he remembered and at the same time serious and majestic would be a false delusion.

"The two of us...... It's all girls......"

"I don't have to hold my grandson, Fanya just needs to be happy in the future, as for whether she likes boys or girls......, does it matter? Well, she doesn't seem to be based on that kind of 'like' feelings, is she? ”

"No, no, no, I mean to say...... Grandpa, what are you doing when you suddenly mention this stubble to me!"

Aoife was very introverted when she was a child, which also means that she is quite shy, and in the environment of the Holy See, she has faded into adulthood, and in some ways, she can be said to be quite pure......

Starting a family or something, getting married and having children, I've never thought about it!

And...... Can you really enjoy these happiness?

"My son and daughter-in-law died not long after Fanya was born, and now she is such a granddaughter as Fanya, and she herself is not conscious. But how could a grandfather not think about her? If she really didn't have that heart, it would be nice to think about it the other way around......"

Aoife was silent.

She knew what the old man in front of her had experienced. He was involved in two relationships, but the end ended in pain - his wife died and raised his son alone, and when his son finally reaped happiness, both husband and wife died, leaving only their daughter and a sad father...... Fanya, who has no parents but still has her grandfather's care, has grown up healthy, but Dean Andgar, I'm afraid my heart has long been tired, right?

The reason why Dean Andgar is so "unimportant" about his granddaughter's lifelong events. To a large extent, it's also because of his own personal experience, right? is still his own child, how happy he is when he finds the other half of his life, but the last thing is still carved into his heart with two deep knives. Since even the beginning is such a happy marriage. In the end, it was just a sigh. Where can a twisted melon be sweet?

It would be better to give up and let Fanya decide for herself...... Or, simply don't go that way.

"I, I can't ......"

Aoife thought about it, and finally said the worries in his heart.

"How could it be? You two have not been children since childhood, and your personalities are also very incompatible, but in the end, you actually became friends, this is fate, right? I didn't say that it had to be love - people don't have to rely on love for spiritual support, if that's the case. I'm already in the grave. ”

"I didn't mean that, and I don't hate Fanya...... It's just that I really can't agree to your suggestion, grandpa...... Really, I can't do it......"

Aoife pressed his lips and struggled to finish his words.

"What the hell is going on!" Andegar also noticed that something was wrong with Aophee, not only her current state - before, because of the reunion after a long absence, he patronized and compared the appearance of the girl in front of him with his past memories, ignoring some details.

"It's so vigorous...... However, the inside has been emptied!?"

Dean Andegar's eyes couldn't help but widen, and he couldn't believe that what could only happen to an old man who had returned to the light was seen in a girl in her early twenties!

Andegar suddenly understood what Aoife meant by "no".

The girl didn't have much time left.

Dean Andergar didn't care about his demeanor anymore, so he rushed forward and held Aophee's shoulder tightly: "Aophee! What's going on!How did it get to be like this!?"

Suddenly, Dean Andgar's movements stiffened. He seemed to have thought of something, and his gaze gradually cooled, revealing Sen Sen's chill.

"Is that Fergus guy?"

Aoife smiled and shook his head.

"He actually wanted me to live longer, but I ignored him - he couldn't restrain my life anymore, and it was mostly my own decision, so it didn't have much to do with him. ”

Offie gently pushed Dean Andgar away, smiled and tidied up the corners of his somewhat messy clothes.

"Aoife, you ......"

Out of the corner of his eye, Dean Andgar glanced at Aoife's left hand...... Then, he was frightened.

"Uh......!!" Aoife also realized this, and hurriedly took two steps back and lowered the cuff to cover her left hand, but it was too late, with Dean Andgar's eyesight, she could understand what she was seeing with just one glance.

"Are you crazy! Even if you use this, your soul will be tortured before you can return to the underworld, and you actually use it by yourself!? Calm down, if it were you, it might even become a luxury to go to the underworld!"

"But I'm the commander of the exorcist unit, and if I don't do it, then my subordinates can do it—the kind of thing that only we exorcists can use. But compared to me, their abilities are slightly inferior, and they can't do it alone. ”

"So, instead of sacrificing multiple people, you girl just think that you only need to be alone, right?"

Dean Andgar didn't know what to think of Aoife—even if her determination was respectable, but what was that? when his granddaughter became friends with this withdrawn girl. He already regarded Aoife as his granddaughter. His granddaughter told her that she was going to die, and Dean Andegar didn't understand this feeling. How to vent it.

The old man has never expected his granddaughter to be a great person in his life!

"Grandpa, the exorcist unit I am in is also a unit that my father doesn't love and my mother doesn't love. Its existence has been an eyesore for the Holy See, and until now, it has not been just me. Even some of the older exorcist seniors can almost understand the plans of the higher-ups. But even so, there has never been a person. Tried to resist ...... Grandpa, you understand what they are up to, looking at the centuries-old tradition as they step into the abyss. Still don't say anything?"

"Because that doesn't make sense – the meaning of an exorcist. It is by no means a unit in formation. Even if one day the Holy See ceases to exist, but in this world, exorcists will not be extinct. Joining this group because of the pain we have witnessed, we will strive to reduce the number of people who are going through the same situation as we are throughout our lives. This belief is not only based on the teachings of the Holy See, but on the goodness of all life. So beings like me can try to embrace this light. ”

"This light only needs to be hugged once. You won't want to let go anymore. ”

“...... Yes? You were attracted to it. Listening to Aophee's words, Dean Andgar's expression gradually softened. "I haven't seen it before, but it must be a wonderful sight, right?"

"At least, I'm no longer a puppet. ”

Aoife didn't know what Dean Andergar had suddenly changed his attitude, but since the old man was no longer so excited, it was always a good thing.

"Is it better to die as a moth to a fire than to live a lifetime as a puppet......? There may really be an established fate between people. ”

Dean Andgar stood up and walked straight to the bookshelf in his office, where he took down a heavy book. Then, he threw the book directly to Aoife.

By the way, it is a book with a thickness similar to that of "Ci Hai".

"I'm ready to die, but I don't plan to die here, Grandpa!" Aoife scrambled to grab the book that was enough to smash an adult's head and bleed, glaring at Dean Andgar dissatisfied. If it was really smashed by this blow, it would definitely kill someone, right?

Aofei saw that the book of this book was inlaid with a bright crystal, and looking at the angular shape, he knew that it could definitely make a cameo appearance as a murder weapon......

"Huh?"

When Aophee's hand slid over the "crystal", he couldn't help but be stunned for a moment.

"Soft ...... Soft?"

The smooth touch of that flick is almost like a piece of pudding. But before Aoife could say anything about the wonderful substance, a sharp pain suddenly came from her left hand.

"Wow......! Actually...... Agitated?"

The sharp pain hit Aoife's brain, and Aoife fell to the ground suddenly. Then she was surprised to find that the unknown substance, which seemed to be a crystal and felt like a patch, had actually melted and covered her left hand.

"Grandpa! What the hell is this?"

Even if he is calm enough to die calmly, Aofei still has an instinctive fear of this "soft and greasy, slippery" thing!

"I guess I got it when I vented my inner pain after I was angry for a while. I always thought that this belated treasure was a joke played by the heavens, but I didn't expect it to come in handy - all in all, it's a good thing, you don't have to worry. ”

"How can you not be worried! It's triggering the 'Key to Tranquility'! If you let it activate here, the consequences will be terrible!"

The key to tranquility is prefixed with the word "tranquility...... That's because this key once made a city completely tranquil - however, it was not an evil thing, and the reason why it had caused so much damage was entirely because of the reckless actions of its original owner, which triggered the huge energy contained in it.

This is also the reason why the Holy See did not destroy it after it was confiscated. Not to mention whether anyone would be willing to destroy a treasure with such a huge amount of energy, even if it really was...... unimaginable. What are the consequences when it is destroyed?

It's a key.

A key corresponds to a lock. If the key is destroyed, then that lock. It has become an unsolvable problem. Unfortunately, it should be quite a ridiculous idea to smash a lock that needs to be opened with such a key and smashed it in a strong way, right?

The tragic examples of the past were in front of him, and Aoife had no doubt that if the Key to Tranquility was activated so abruptly, it would definitely be able to raze the academy to the ground. As for what happened to the imperial capital, it's hard to say...... But then, no matter what the consequences. The empire and the Holy See must have formed a bond that cannot be resolved!

"That's not a start...... It's just merging. ”

"Fusion?"

"The missing part of the Key to Tranquility is the legendary Soul Purifying Stone. Dean Andergar said something that made Offie unable to calm down, but he just quietly watched the semi-solid object attached to Ofie's left hand, gradually melting into her left hand.

At this moment, his eyes are full of a feeling called "relieved".

"Soul Purifying Stone! The key to tranquility now......" Aoife stared nervously at his left hand. Now, her left hand has actually begun to become transparent, and she can even see a narrow key, looming in the translucent arm, "Woo...... It hurts, it hurts!"

As an exorcist, Aoye could never have imagined that one day, he would roll in pain. Trying to seek reassurance from others to ease the pain in your own body. Dean Andergar also hurriedly stepped forward and hugged Aoife, but he didn't expect it. Aoife would have behaved so painfully.

"Bear with me! The key to tranquility, which has been filled in where it was missing, is now reversely repairing the part of your soul that you were born missing...... I know it hurts, but you have to be patient!"

"Top-up...... Missing soul?" Aophee, who was a little confused, looked at Dean Andgar with wide eyes, and it took a few seconds to understand the meaning of this sentence, and then he showed a somewhat reluctant smile, "Grandpa, you said it earlier! As long as you have motivation...... I'm not going to be so embarrassed......"

......

"I always feel as if I have been stripped of a layer of skin. ”

Aoife stroked his forehead, trying to ease the remaining pain.

"What are you doing grandpa, you will have the Soul Purifying Stone? The Holy See has obviously spent a lot of manpower, material and financial resources to find it, but it has no result, I didn't expect it to be already here with you, grandpa?"

"yes, they've been on the shelves for twenty years. ”

Twenty years?Aoife couldn't help but be stunned - dare to love this stone (is this really a stone?soft as pudding...... Isn't it any younger than you are here, and has it been watching you all the time when you were playing with Fanya in this office?

Twenty years...... Wait a minute!

Aoye's eyes lit up, and he suddenly understood something. Referring to what Dean Andergar had said before, Aophee's brain became a little clearer - this Soul Purifying Stone has been placed here for twenty years, could it be that when Dean Andergar found it, it was not long after Vanya's parents died, right?

Is there anything to do with the two?

"I suddenly believe again that fate or something really exists, and it is everywhere. ”

"Grandpa......"

Dean Andergar picked up the bald book on the spine and carefully put it into its original place on the shelf: "Do you know why you, who were still young at the beginning, would come to me, an old man who obviously has nothing to do with the Holy See, to spend a period of time?"

Aoife shook her head, which was also a question she had always had in her mind. With her status, there was no way her father would have allowed her to stay in a place that was almost alien to the Holy See for five years, right?

"Because I'm not a member of the Holy See, but my child is......"

Aoife couldn't help but froze - did the son of the head of the Imperial Academy actually join the Holy See?If so, then why did Dean Andgar go looking for the Soul Purifying Stone...... The cause of death of Fanya's parents...... Seem......

It can't really be like that, right?

Seeing the look on Aophee's face, Dean Andergar smiled and explained to her, "Yes." Just as you think, my son and daughter-in-law, Fanya's parents, were the last users of the Key to Tranquility. That's why, and I had a small friendship with the pope at the time, that Aoife was 'put' here to spend a childhood, right? Speaking of which, it's also fate, isn't it?"

If it weren't for the fact that Vanya's parents gave their lives for the cause of the Holy See, then Aophee would not have come to Dean Andergar's side, and Dean Andergar would not have gone out to find the Soul Purifying Stone out of depression in his heart. At the beginning, Dean Andergar would not have expected that just a few years later, the girl who was regarded as her granddaughter would actually go down the same path.

"Really, I don't even know if you're my granddaughter or Vanya......" Dean Andgar burst out laughing out loud, perhaps the happiest laugh he'd had in years.

"You see, because of them, the two of us met, and because of them, I did something that seemed useless at the time, but I was able to save your life twenty years later - if it weren't for the fact that some people died and were restless, and insisted on intervening in the yang world, I wouldn't believe it~"

"Yes...... Is that so?"

Aoife still couldn't believe it.

"The Soul Purifying Stone comes into contact with the Key of Tranquility through your body, and in the eyes of the Key of Tranquility, it is your body that is one with it. That is, now that you are inseparable from the Key of Tranquility, it will work backwards to make up for the soul you were born missing. In the same way, your lack of overdrawn vitality is no longer a problem. ”

Speaking of this, a sneer suddenly appeared on the corner of Dean Andgar's mouth.

"Now you can't return this broken key to the Holy See - hmph, the key to the tranquility that took away the life of my son and daughter-in-law will be my granddaughter's belongings in the future, and the Holy See doesn't want to take it back!

"Huh...... Eh!?"

Aoife couldn't help but hold his head - what about my position! (To be continued......