Pastor's Tantra

Although Aiwass has become the "Pope of Humanity" for four months, Yassen still doesn't know what the Pope looks like.

Although the news of Aiwass becoming the Pope was due to the arrest and investigation of Alice de Harcourt in the past, the photos could not be transmitted to Iris immediately... but the previous scene when Aiwass resisted the Fallen Division, But it was briefly broadcast live to the iris. Although only the part of the city close to Star Antimony saw all this, it was enough for people to take photos and distribute them everywhere.

He had only heard people mention that the appearance of His Majesty the Pope and the Fallen Heaven Secretary were almost identical - this was actually the focus of people's greatest attention. After all, this is so easy to imagine.

Yassen didn't come specifically to see it, it was entirely because of his personal reasons - he was not interested in such a high-ranking big shot. Neither worship nor hate. That is someone completely unrelated to his life, career, and ideals. He doesn't like to join in the fun.

At least until he actually met Aiwass, Yassen couldn't imagine how this truly big man could be so gentle, rational and down-to-earth... This was absolutely unimaginable in Iris.

——Precisely because he is now considered the Duke's son-in-law, he knows what the big shots' attitude is towards those civilians who have no status.

After seeing Aiwass's face clearly, Yassen's eyes suddenly opened wide.

The pupils are trembling!

Although there are some differences in appearance and there are strange huge antlers on the head, there is no doubt that the long platinum hair is the most distinctive feature of the Vendôme family!

They are extremely proud of their platinum hair, which is "as bright as gold" and "as bright as the sun".

It is said that this is proof that their ancestors have divine blood flowing through them.

Those hair colors and eye colors that are obviously different from ordinary people and too bright are basically proof of divine blood. The same was true for the royal family of the former Herasl Empire.

As for Aiwass’s appearance, it is even more shocking——

Yassen has seen the portraits of each generation of heads of the Vendome family. Unlike the nobles of other families, their appearance is quite stable. They are all 70% or 80% similar to each other. They are all portraits of people in their twenties, and they look like brothers and sisters when put together.

——And Aiwass’s appearance is almost exactly the same as that of a certain generation of Vendôme family ancestors whose names were erased!

It is said that that ancestor was a sinner of the Vendome family. Because of his existence, the Vendome family was burdened with hundreds of thousands of blood debts... and they changed their surnames from then on. Until then, the Vendôme family name was not Vendôme.

But at the same time, this ancestor is also the pride of the Vendome family.

——It is said that he once challenged the gods.

It is also said that the gods he challenged were closely related to the demise of the Herasl Empire.

His identity is an unspeakable secret. Even though Yassen's surname has changed to Vendôme, he is still not qualified to seek details. Only the head of the family can know about this...

And what Shylock said to the Duke is said to be related to this.

At that time, Yassen couldn't understand why Shylock could reveal secrets that could shock the Duke just after he came to the Vendôme family. Now he finally understood... It was because Sherlock saw the portrait of the Vendome family.

Especially the only unnamed portrait!

Sherlock immediately realized that this matter had something to do with Aiwass. Thus, they obtained information that Yassen didn't know...the information gap between them appeared from that time on.

"...Why," Aiwass was a little surprised, "Haven't you seen me? I think I'm quite famous."

"Well...how should I put it..."

Yassen's expression was a little troubled.

He didn't know what to say.

According to Yassen's character, he has always been dismissive of the intelligence of those "big people" - after all, most Iris people are like this. They are keen on deconstructing those big figures, using all kinds of gossip and political jokes to make them less mysterious and great, so that they can become great in disguise.

As many as there are people who tout the greatness and pioneering nature of the human pope, there are as many people who are against it.

Especially because the authority of the "Pope" comes from the Elf Theocracy, which Iris does not dare to offend, this provides even more excuses - the glory of the Pope is not "human glory" at all, but the worship of elves. So some of the Iris people who hated the elves also hated Aiwass.

Yes, the hatred of elves—

This is related to the nobles of Iris.

The nobles of Iris have always regarded themselves as the orthodox inheritance of the Herasl Empire, so they admire the elven culture quite a lot. All nobles must learn Elvish, and this priority is even more important than learning the language of Iris.

After people rebelled against the rule of the nobility, they decided to overthrow everything that the nobility admired - the nobility liked traditional and solemn architecture, so they had to make it lively and light; the nobility respected elf-style crafts, so people Oppose these handicrafts; the nobles like traditional operas, so they must encourage new operas; the nobles like elegant and slow-paced dances, so they must encourage dances that are uninhibited, novel and too avant-garde; the nobles like to mop the floor Long skirts, short skirts are now popular...

Elf culture is also one of them.

But they didn't dare to destroy the buildings that really belonged to the elves. So just stay away and denounce those craftsmen who "worship elven culture and therefore build buildings in an elven style".

After all, the resistance of the Iris people was never because of their thoughts or opinions, but just because "the trend is like this" and because "everyone is like this." They do not understand the true meaning of resistance, because they have never launched resistance at the "really necessary moment" - premature and overly successful resistance has made them accustomed to being able to take advantage of them if they make a fuss. Seeing the benefits of this logic, I gradually regarded it as a kind of entertainment and an art.

And as a pure-blood Iris man, Yassen is actually not exempt from vulgarity.

"...So, you mean that the Iris people are boycotting me as a high-ranking big shot?"

Aiwass was very surprised and couldn't help laughing: "No wonder there are so many operas and plays about me... Sherlock mentioned this in the letter he sent me before. He said that people He admired me very much and performed a lot of operas for me.

"I was actually wondering about one thing at the time - if they respect me enough, shouldn't they not dare to touch this topic? After all, the adaptation is not a random fabrication, not to mention that the plot also involves a pink aria... Where did this come from? courage."

Now Aiwass finally knows.

This is actually the cowardly and forbearing cultural resistance of the Iris people - jokes similar to "Soviet jokes" and "French jokes". The purpose is to gradually deconstruct the authority of the Pope in this way.

The words in Shylock's letter are actually troubling!

Aiwass had to sigh, Sherlock came to visit Iris, and the level of yin and yang was really getting higher and higher...

"Aren't you angry?"

Yassen was surprised to see Aiwass laughing happily.

According to his understanding of the big shots, at this time, even if he is well-educated and does not show his dislike to others... he will still feel obvious displeasure and silence. If you are not a clown, who would be happy to choreograph yourself?

But Aiwass disagreed: "If they have mouths on them, can I catch them and prevent them from talking?"

"...It's really possible."

Yasen hesitated to speak, but still whispered.

Iris is not like Avalon, which has the censorship of opinions and works. They have always adopted a more direct and thorough approach - whoever dares to gossip will be skinned, drained of blood and hung outside. It will be quiet in a few days.

Since speech cannot be eliminated, just eliminate the carrier of speech directly.

By this time, the Iris Man had become silent.

Hearing this, the smile on Aiwass's face gradually faded.

He prepared a prayer ceremony directed at Ms. Morgan and sighed helplessly: "It is probably for this reason that the Iris man with such a 'rebellious spirit' did not win the favor of Ni Tiansi.

"Their behavior has fallen into the realm of the path of beauty. Treating resistance as a performance art will get nothing in the end. It is just a waste of life..."

The fusion of beauty and transcendence is also the way of nothingness.

But just as Aiwass was preparing for the prayer ceremony, Yassen suddenly opened his eyes.

"careful!"

He shouted loudly and suddenly stretched out his right hand towards Aiwass——

——The king's car castles!

I saw him and Aiwass switching places instantly.

And then, Yasen's body was silently cut in half by huge pliers!

The pliers made no sound at all, nothing behind them, and they didn't even cast a shadow. If Yasen hadn't just happened to look at Aiwass, and the lightning lit up in the sky at that moment, he wouldn't have noticed that something was sneaking up on Aiwass!

However, Yassen was not dead - his coat was neatly cut into two pieces, and he rolled out of the shadows wearing a shirt, grabbed Aiwass and fled outside.

——clothes stand-in!

This is also one of Yassen's "Phantom Thief Tricks".

No matter what kind of damage he suffered, as long as he had time to use this move, he could use "a piece of clothing" as a substitute to escape safely. The strength of this ability is that he only "moved himself" and did not interact with the opponent's abilities, so he could ignore the energy level suppression of most extraordinary skills.

As long as you can react, the few clothes you have on you are equal to the extra lives you have!

When he was still a very young Phantom Thief, he relied on this trick to escape!

"——Don't run."

Aiwass said calmly: "It's useless - close your eyes."

With that said, Aiwass broke away from Yassen's hand and raised his other hand high.

The next moment, an extremely brilliant light lit up from his hands!

Yassen did not react to Aiwass's words - or in other words, he did not develop the habit of following Aiwass's orders unconditionally.

So in an instant, Yasen was so bright that his head was buzzing. He felt strong dizziness accompanied by tinnitus, which even made him stagger a little, and the strong feeling of vomiting made him lose strength and fall to his knees. This is as harmful to Yasen, who has an extremely outstanding sense of smell, as the highly irritating gas is to a dog with a sensitive sense of smell.

But fortunately, the unknown enemy also screamed - it was probably a scream, because it made a "squeaking" sound like a cigarette butt roasting a cockroach, and then disappeared.

"Don't run away."

Aiwass said slowly: "There's no point in running away.

"That's the seventh-level shadow hunter beast. They live by devouring the shadows of other phantoms. Once they are stripped of their shadows, they will become confused and lose their dreams. These things can appear in the blind spots of other people's vision at will... You still dare to run? Where do you want to escape to? Are you going to die?"

"...Is it gone?"

Yasen asked hoarsely while retching, "Do you still need me to...close my eyes?"

"No," Aiwas responded and comforted him, "Don't be too scared. I came to the Shadow Kingdom because I am familiar with the phantoms here..."

Before he finished speaking, another thunder fell.

From Yasen's instantly frightened eyes, Aiwas realized that the enemy was approaching.

This is also the reason why he didn't let Yasen close his eyes.

Because relying on himself alone is not enough to identify whether there is a shadow hunter beast behind him.

"——Venes!"

Aiwas called out loudly.

Blood rain fell in torrents.

The trembling dark purple decadent breath seeped out.

"... not calling me Alai?"

Miss Night Demon's unhappy voice came: "I thought you were going to take her with you all the time... you don't need to call me."

The next moment, countless dark purple chains full of fallen runes spread out and tightly bound the three shadow hunters behind Aiwas!

-This is the authority of the Fallen Angel, [Sin Entanglement]!

Although it is the sixth energy level, Venis easily bound three seventh energy level phantoms!