"Holy Son!"

"Holy Son!"

"Holy Son!"

A group of men and women, and a few children, walked through the street in front of the window shouting slogans. Without exception, they were all residents of the new city of Rome and supporters of Pope Paul. The sinking of the island of Natov proved with ironclad proof the accuracy of Paul's metaphor, and yesterday Paul issued another myth, and now the inhabitants and inhabitants of the island of Florosa are in chaos.

Even with Sauron's iron-fisted policy, there is a danger that order will collapse on the island.

So now Paul's adherents have multiplied, and more than sixty percent of the inhabitants of Rome have become his followers. The majority of them were the common people, but they were also joined by many nobles and officials, who called Paul the Son. Paul, who has these believers, has become a force to be despised in a short period of time, and has had an unprecedented impact on Sauron's prestige.

This winter is not cold, but because of the craze of the Holy Son, there is a tendency to heat up.

Dressed in civilian clothes, Jafidi stood calmly in front of the window, watching groups of people weave like ants from the nearby streets, and then merge into a crowd towards the main square of the Papal Chamber.

"Had breakfast. ”

The door of the room was pushed open by a delicate woman, a woman with long flaxen hair, whose turquoise eyes reflected the thin figure of Yafidi, and a faint melancholy swept through the depths of her eyes.

Yafidi smiled, "Mina, it's cold. I'll take you and the kids to buy some winter clothes. ”

This is his wife, a gentle woman who can always wrap his soul soaked in death and coldness with her tenderness when he returns from battle. For Yafidi, his wife Mina is more like his faith, so that he will not get lost in the strife of this troubled world, and he will always be able to keep a pure land in the depths of his soul.

Mina said softly, "There are enough clothes at home, and the food is well prepared. If you don't mind, I'd like to give the extra to the poor kids on the outskirts of the city. They are still so small that they need more clothes to keep warm and food to survive the winter. ”

"Yes, if necessary, I'll go to the city and buy some more supplies and send them together. ”

Yafidi took her hand, these soft and delicate palms had formed calluses because of the fact that she had to take care of the family's daily life and diet, which made Yafidi's heart ache slightly. Mina came from a lowly aristocratic family, but she was more thrifty than other noble ladies, and Yafidi had planned to hire a few servants in the house, but Mina stopped her.

So the dignified wife of the commander of the 11th Army took care of all the household chores herself, and the saved expenses were exchanged for some supplies and given to poor families on the outskirts of the city every winter to help them survive the cold winter. After all these years, she has never changed. The only thing that has changed is these hands.

When they arrived at the restaurant, two boys were running around the table, and one girl was sitting on a chair obediently, smiling sweetly when she saw Jafidi, and then jumped down and threw herself into Jafidi's arms like butterflies.

"Anne, stop pestering Daddy, let's all have breakfast. ”

Sitting on one side of the table, Mina said with a smile as she slice a large piece of hot bread that was being taken out of the oven with a dinner knife and divide it into several plates. With salad dressing and a cup of water, it's a breakfast for a family of five. From the perspective of Yafidi's identity, such a breakfast can only be described as shabby, but Yafidi doesn't care at all, and it is already a great happiness to be able to sit and share breakfast with his family.

Jafidi sat down on the chair with her youngest daughter, Anne, and the two playful boys sat back in their seats, and when one of the younger children was about to reach for bread, he slapped his brother in the face: "Fool, pray before eating." ”

Like many Catholic families, before each meal, they thank God for the food and end the prayer with "Amen", followed by a pleasant meal. Watching the eldest son secretly put a piece of bread on his sister's plate, and then the second son whispered against it, Yafidi's face was full of smiles.

Children are the future and the hope of Shijie.

Yafidi hopes that when these three children grow up in the future, they will be able to support each other as they do now. Mina cut off a small piece of bread, brought it to her mouth, looked at Jafidi and said, "Is that good? I heard that because of His Highness Paul, Lord Sauron has summoned all the commander-level people to attend the response meeting today, are you really not going to go?"

"Lord Sauron doesn't want to see me. Yafidi smiled indifferently: "This is better, I will have more time to spend with you." ”

Although he was laughing, as his wife, Mina could not see the faint look of loss in Yafidi's eyes. She said: "This is not like you, the commander of the 11th Army, Yafidi, is a person who is full of fighting spirit at all times. ”

"Fighting spirit?" Yafidi shook his head and said, "If Shijie doesn't need you anymore, what's the use of having fighting spirit." ”

Mina hesitated for a moment and said, "Since Lord Sauron doesn't plan to pay attention to you, why don't you try it with His Highness Paul." Didn't you say the day before yesterday that His Highness Paul had contacted you privately with the intention of soliciting you?"

Yafidi's face turned grim and said, "Mina, you must not mention this outside, you know?"

"I know how important things are. ”

"Well, that's good. Yafidi smiled bitterly and said, "His Royal Highness Paul does want to recruit me, but as you can see, the current Pope has torn his face with Lord Zoro, and there is no buffer and room for maneuver in the middle. I'm still in Lord Zoro's system, and at best I'm at home. But if you stand on the side of His Highness Paul, if His Highness can replace Lord Sauron, then it is fine, if not, then it doesn't matter if something happens to me, it will affect you. ”

"What's more......" Jafidi said in a deep voice, "even if His Highness Paul finally wins this power struggle, my life will not be too easy. After all, I still bear the mark of Lord Sauron, and even if I support His Highness Paul instead, it will be difficult to be reused in the future. ”

"It's complicated. Mina laughed.

"Politics is inherently so complicated. Jafidi took her hand and said, "It is better to get out of here and stay by your side than to get caught up in the whirlpool of two factions." In a turbulent situation like this, even in the city of Rome, there is always danger, and your safety is more important than anything else!"

Mina looked at her husband and knew that he had made up her mind, so she stopped discussing it with him. The topic turned to the three children, and Jafidi talked and laughed, but there was always a little silence in his eyes. At that moment, there was a knock on the door, and Mina wanted to get up and open the door, but pressed it down for Yafidi.

"I'll come. He said, and walked to the door. Opening the door, a man in a cloak stood outside the door, and he gave Jafidi a letter before going into a nearby alley.

Jafidi opened the envelope and pulled out a note from it, which read.

Pardon me for not being able to meet you directly, my dear friend. But I still have to remind you that Lord Sauron already knows about your private meeting with His Highness Paul, and fortunately you have been at home for the past few days, so it has not caused him much disgust. However, he had always been suspicious, and now he was at odds with His Highness Paul.

My friend, I have a hunch that Lord Sauron will be against you. So at today's response meeting, I will urge you to be removed from your position as Legion Commander, and at the same time have your lordship stripped of your merits, so that you will be no different from a civilian. When the time comes, I'll arrange for you and Mina and the kids to go out of town.

The city of Rome has become a place of right and wrong, and it is useless to stay longer. I don't know when we'll be able to meet in the future, but no matter where you go, don't forget that you still have me as a friend!

Sine.

There is a family seal of Sine at the inscription, and it is not a camouflage from the seal pattern, so this letter is naturally from Sine's own handwriting.

Jafidi sighed, knowing that the storm he had feared was finally coming.

"What's wrong?" Mina asked, hearing his sigh as she walked over to him.

Jafidi handed her the letter, and Mina's face changed dramatically at the sight, and her body trembled slightly. Yafidi squeezed her hand hard and said apologetically, "It seems that there is no way to help those poor people on the outskirts of the city this year." Mina, pack up after breakfast and we're ready to leave town at any time. ”

"Do you have to do it?"

"I don't want to, either, but Signe is right. Once Sauron knows about my meeting with His Highness Paul, he will not let us go sooner or later. ”

Mina nodded, "Okay then, I'll clean up now." ”

Looking at his wife's back, the picture of zero flashed in Yafidi's mind, and he shook his head and smiled bitterly: "Is this also the so-called fate?"

That night, there was a joyful laughter in the Pope's palace, and the entire Papal Palace was so brilliant in the dark night that the papal hall not far away was so brilliant that it was even obscured by the papal hall not far away.

On a crimson-carpeted corridor, Paul walked ahead with a smile on his face. He wore a black and gold papal robe, a bloody cloak behind him, a ring of white feathers around his neck added to his handsomeness, and the gold crown on his head made Paul a little more holy and solemn. The Pope, holding the power in his hand, is in high spirits, and the chattering knightly guards behind him bear witness to his path to the pinnacle of power.

Today, with the support of his followers, he gave several speeches, from theocracy to human rights, from people's livelihood to politics, all of which alluded to the dictatorship of Sauron and provoked the resentment of the people that had accumulated for many years. In all of his speeches, Paul did not explicitly mention the words attacking Sauron, and the words were so subtle that it was difficult to make a fuss about the words of his speech. Even if Zoro gets this speech, he can only jump up and down angrily, but there is nothing he can do about him.

But to be triumphant, Paul did not forget to warn himself not to get carried away. After all, Sauron has accumulated power for many years, and his team and background are by no means comparable to his current self. Paul knew that he was as beautiful as he is today, and it was thanks to the perfect blow that made Natov Island disappear that he had the name of the Son of God today. In general, he does not have real power in his current position, and to really bring down Sauron, the name of the Holy Son alone is far from enough!

But his knightly bodyguards didn't think so, they followed Paul for years, almost watching him grow up. And Sauron has never paid attention to Paul, the pope, and in addition, their guards are no different from the honor guard in the eyes of others. They are decorations, not warriors. But in the past few days, Paul's popularity has surged, and even the knightly soldiers who looked down on them in the past now have to keep their heads down and take a detour when they see them.

Kasappa, the knight commander, took two steps forward, walked beside Paul, and waved his fist excitedly: "Your Highness, look at it this way. It won't be long before we'll be able to bring the traitor of Sauron to his knees. ”

Paul smiled and said, "You really think so?"

"Isn't that obvious?"

Paul's face suddenly turned cold, and he raised his hand and shouted, "Shut up for me!"

The young pope was now a little more majestic, and his once immature voice was now a little harsh, so the knights who were still discussing it quieted down. Paul turned around and said in a deep voice, "You all seem to have rejoiced too soon, if Sauron could threaten his people by the mere name of a holy son. Then my father, who was called the Savior, would not have been killed by him so easily! You have to remember that we are only a small step on this road of power struggle, and we are not even a milestone. If Sauron doesn't come, it will be a thunderbolt. If you are as excited and careless as you were just now, you won't even know what is going on when you die!"

Casapa gasped only then, Paul's words cleared his mind. He nodded solemnly and said, "We know, Your Highness, we were so carried away just now. ”

After the severity, Paul said softly, "Remember the word of the Lord, my knights, keep a humble heart at all times, and you will be invincible!"

The knightly guards replied yes, and then they stopped talking as loudly as they had just done, but restrained their minds, straightened their backs, and left behind Paul. Shortly after they left, a man emerged from a corridor on the left. Feng touched his chin and said softly: "Both soft and hard, hey, this kid really has a hand." ”

Then he said with a distressed face: "Hey, I didn't agree if I knew that this job was so boring." Such a boring job should make Yeliu naturally stay, a handsome man like me, the whole stay in this papal palace as a bad protector is about to mold. Paul, this kid, doesn't even have a pretty girl in such a big mansion, he can't be incompetent in that regard, right? It's pitiful, ...... young age."

A certain guard, who had seriously digressed from the topic, had already begun to viciously speculate on the young Pope's personal abilities, and at this time, across the street in front of the Pope's Palace, several faint figures appeared.

They all wore hooded hoods, and their faces were covered in the shadow of their hats, revealing only their chins. These people were like drunks, each leaning against the corner or squatting on the ground with wine bottles in their hands and laughing, and the guards of the public palace in the distance only frowned when they saw it. But they didn't get close to the mansion, and the guards didn't bother to chase them away.

At this moment, another drunk man came from behind the alley and squatted down beside a thin man. The man lifted the brim of his hat, revealing a hideous face. A scar crossed his face through the middle of his nose, and you can imagine how thrilling it was. The man's eyes were shining, and he asked in a deep voice, "How is the situation?"

"Minggang three, five people ...... the secret sentinel," he said, the drunk drew a simple map on the ground, and under the cover of other people, the other five people came over and stared at the map. These people are all sleek and have a gloomy feeling. They are all powerhouses of the underground shijie, each of them has the strength of the seventh order, and that scarface is an eighth-order master.

They were all outlaws from Sauron's snare, and some of the killings that Sauron was inconvenient for him to do.

"Paul's bedroom is here, and his knightly guards are scattered all around. There are ten of them, but they are not much better than the guards, and they are all strong guys. Scarface sneered: "The location of Minggang is two at the front gate and one at the back door. The secret sentinels are distributed around the mansion, and we can choose one to break through. Remember to move fast and then ......"

He spread out his palm, and in his palm were five pills: "After completing the task, one for each person." The poison is violent, and there is absolutely no pain. When this is done, Lord Sauron will give your family a generous pension, and I will personally oversee the distribution of this money, so you can rest assured. ”

One of them immediately took the poison and hid it in his dentures, and when he needed it, he would burst his coat and die instantly. In the killer industry, these people have already expected such a day, but no one hesitates. Soon Scarface had finished dividing the pills in his hand, he made a gesture, and several people immediately left from the back of the alley. Under the cover of their companions, the guards of the mansion did not know that the drunks on the other side of the street were missing.

In the blink of an eye, it was late at night, and it was time for the guards on duty to change their guards. Several guards dressed as knights arrived at the place where the guard was changing, and as soon as the handover was completed, they heard something fall to the ground on the wall behind them. One of the guards walked over, the other stayed put. But at this moment, a figure silently touched the back of the guard behind him.

The guard in front of him looked closer, but it was a stone. He kicked the stone away in exasperation, and as soon as he turned around, he saw a man in cloaked standing up from behind his companion. He was just about to give a warning, but his waist was cold, and a cold dagger had been inserted through the gap in the armor on his waist. At the same time, he saw that his companion was also concocted, and after the killer's dagger went in and out of his companion's waist many times, his companion's eyes lost their luster and his own consciousness slipped into darkness.

After taking down the two guards, Scarface gestured, and two killers dragged them into the grass and hid them, and then a group of six people sneaked into the shadows towards the mansion through the repulsion of trees and statues. At the same time, Kaede yawned, stood up lazily and smiled, "It seems that the rats can't help but come out of the gutter." ”