Pastor's Tantra

When Oswald wheeled Aiwass through the door, it wasn't just the family's valet who greeted them.

Yulia stood quietly in front of the window in her pajamas, holding her stuffed doll.

She watched eagerly as Oswald pushed his wheelchair slowly through the front door. Then he trotted to the door to greet him.

"Miss Yulia is waiting for you."

Oswald said softly behind Aiwass.

Aiwass nodded and also lowered his voice: "I think Yuli is just a little lonely. After all, those children of the same age as her play with their classmates in school. But Yuli can see only children of the same age. I’m the only one.”

The old housekeeper sighed and said nothing more.

He just closed the door when Yulia came to greet him. Keep out the cold winter wind in the evening.

He frowned and said seriously: "Miss Yulia, it's cold in winter. Please don't get too close to the main entrance."

"……I am okay."

Yulia whispered stubbornly: "I have taken medicine twice."

"That's not OK."

The old housekeeper said without hesitation: "You are already weak, and it will be even more troublesome if you catch a cold..."

"...It's okay, Mr. Oswald. Now if Yuli gets sick, I can help treat her."

Aiwass interrupted gently: "I think the sacred skills taught to me by Bishop Mathers should be used at this moment."

With that said, he took off his coat first. Revealing the sweater underneath.

Aiwass put his hand into the sweater and tried to warm it with his own body heat.

He had just come back from outside, and his coat and hands were covered with cold air. For Yulia, whose body temperature is higher than that of ordinary people, it will be very uncomfortable. Just like a person with a fever is afraid of the cold.

This is also Yulia's old problem.

Since she was very young, Yulia has had the young phantom demon, the Butterfly of Flame, living in her body.

A qualified person with a young ecological phantom living in his body is called a "phantom egg".

Their mental power, physical strength and even vitality will be continuously withdrawn and supplied to the phantom demon in their bodies. When they die due to weakness or external forces, the phantoms in their bodies will awaken and cause disasters. But if you can allow the phantom to develop safely to a certain level, you can borrow some of the power of the phantom in your body without even embarking on the path to transcendence.

As the Phantom Demon further develops, the strength of the Phantom Demon Egg will gradually increase, and the nutrients required for growth will become higher and more demanding. When the phantom grows to acquire a complete personality, it is considered fully developed. They can then choose to be forcibly awakened, or become symbiotic partners with their host.

The initiative of choice lies in the hands of the phantom, not the host. That’s why the host is called the Phantom Demon Egg—because the vast majority of Phantom Demons choose the former.

But even though the demon in Yulia's body has not yet awakened, it has already given her some power. It also gave her a higher burden.

Yulia's body temperature is several degrees higher than that of ordinary people.

Specifically, it's like having a perpetual fever. Her body temperature is higher than that of ordinary people... When she was six or seven years old, it was half a degree higher than ordinary people; but now it is two degrees higher than ordinary people.

Her body temperature is around thirty-eight and a half degrees all year round... If she hadn't received regular treatment from the church pastor, she would have died long ago.

And the most terrible thing is that this kind of high fever has nothing to do with disease or curse, so it cannot be cured by extraordinary means. Her nerves and organs could only be healed through illumination, and magic potions could be used to help her body replenish the nutrients needed by the phantom.

Yulia is not James’ biological daughter either. Also his adopted daughter.

The reason she is very close to Aiwass is because they were in the same orphanage when they were children.

When Aiwass was four years old, his biological parents died in an accident. He was so young that his memory is hazy. Don't know exactly what happened.

After that, Aiwass entered an orphanage and met Yulia.

At that time, Yulia was still an abandoned baby.

Yulia, who was still a baby, had almost magical power and often injured the caregiver. At that time, there were not many people who could easily get close to her, only the mother-in-law, the mother-in-law who cooked, and Aiwass. So the job of taking care of her fell on the mother-in-law of the dean... But as her mother-in-law got older, Aiwass, who had been very sensible since he was a child, would take the initiative to help.

Aivas is only three and a half years older than Yulia, but he is extremely mature. Not only does he not have the childish habits of his peers, but he is also extremely calm and never panics at all. He looks like a well-informed adult. If he hadn't been as innocent as a child and didn't understand anything, some people might have doubted him. There is another soul inside him.

This is not impossible.

The preservers and amber craftsmen of the Twilight Path can put one person's soul into another person's body. Aiwass is even abnormal to the point of being scary.

The orphanage specially invited the church's pastor to verify whether his soul belonged to its own.

The relationship between the two equally abnormal children is getting better and better. Yulia almost always sticks to Aiwass's side and never leaves.

In the orphanage at that time, their clothes were very thin. Yulia's body was like a furnace, which made Aiwass very comfortable in the winter. At that time, Aiwass could sleep peacefully without shivering with cold until he hugged Yulia.

Until Aiwass was six years old, the two of them were adopted by James Moriarty.

Aiwass remembers this very clearly——

In fact, at first James wanted to adopt only Yulia, not Aiwass.

But as soon as Yulia was taken away from Aiwass, she cried very hard, heartbroken, and was very mentally unstable. Moreover, her strength at that time was extremely huge - completely different from the weakness and weakness she has now. She had an innate terrifying power.

She was only three years old at the time, but even several adults couldn't lift her.

Some people were even dragged directly to the ground by her, and the scene was chaotic. The whole orphanage was in a commotion for a long time, and many things were pulled down and broken by the crazy Yulia.

Later, James asked the dean's mother-in-law about something, and then suddenly changed his mind and packed them both away. Only then did Yulia calm down.

As Yulia gradually became literate, her personality gradually became gentle and introverted, and her innate strange power gradually faded away. To this day, her body is so weak that she is not even as good as other girls of the same age. Relying on priests and magic potions, he could barely maintain his life.

Aiwass has always been grateful to Yulia.

It is precisely because of her that I have the opportunity to change my original destiny. Born in an orphanage without a father or mother, and a noble son named "Moriarty", they must have completely different futures. And he was not adopted originally, he was just Yulia's "additional head". Although James was kind to Aiwass, he never forgot that he was not wanted in the first place.

For Aiwass, who lost his parents at a very young age, Yulia was the person he had real contact with for the longest time. Two years longer than his adoptive father and eldest brother.

And Yulia is also very dependent on Aiwass.

She has no feelings for her biological parents. For her who had no parents before she could remember, Aiwass was her real family. Followed by the dean's mother-in-law, Aunt Misu, James and the eldest brother Edward.

Aiwass finished warming his hands and then stretched out his hand to signal Yulia to come over.

The weak girl with white hair and red eyes obediently hugged Aiwass's neck from the front. She knelt with her left knee beside Aiwass's leg, being careful not to let her weight crush Aiwass.

"Don't worry, Yuri. I'm not that fragile."

Aiwass couldn't help laughing.

He stretched out his right hand and gently pressed the left side of Yulia's back, behind her heart.

Using a little fire attribute magic as an inducement, a soft light bloomed from the palm of his right hand.

As soft light seeped out from Aiwass's fingers, Yulia's body gradually relaxed. The short and shallow breathing gradually became calmer - the pain was easily dispelled by Aiwass.

Although she had been ill for a long time, as long as James invested in continuous treatment, she was actually not seriously ill - because every time before her physical condition worsened, he would invite a priest to treat various hidden injuries. Aiwass only spent two points of light attribute mana to heal her body.

Immediately afterwards, Aiwass took his still shining right hand away from his back, and then pressed it on Yulia's forehead.

As the light nourished her spirit, her depressed mental state immediately improved a lot. This time Aiwass didn't even spend a single mana.

Yulia's body was still hot. But apparently she was able to get a good night's sleep today.

"Good girl," Aiwass said with a slightly raised corner of his mouth, "Let's go and eat..."

At this moment, Aiwass casually touched the "Shepherd's Tantra" placed on his lap.

His movements paused slightly for a moment.

Because I had never touched Yulia's "Shepherd's Tantra", at this moment, I felt the same burning heat as Yulia's body, and a strange feeling that was completely different from before.

It's as if Aiwass wasn't stroking the cover of the book. But it was like touching the skin of Yulia's back.

Without the barrier of clothes, the heat was even stronger than the heat Aiwass felt when he touched Yulia just now. It's so hot that it's almost scalding.

But a strange sense of dissonance made Aiwass look down.

The air did not become hot, nor did its texture change. It's still that cowhide-like material.

At this time, Aiwass suddenly discovered that it was so hot, but he did not feel the heat on his legs. Only my right hand, which had just used the illumination technique, had this illusion. Even my left hand had a normal temperature when I touched it.

So Aiwass calmly handed the hot tantra book to Yulia: "Help me put this book in my brother's study, okay?"

"Um."

Yulia nodded slightly and responded.

She didn't have any special reaction after taking the book.

It was as if he didn't feel its heat at all.

Aiwass asked with concern: "Does it feel a little cold? It has been exposed outside for a long time just now."

"A bit, but it doesn't matter," Yulia hummed and then asked, "Where do you want to put it, brother?"

"Put it in front of the desk. This is the book that my brother will read after dinner."

"OK."

Yulia nodded in agreement, took the book and left.

Aiwass confirmed one thing.

It seems that only I can feel the changes in temperature and touch of "Shepherd's Tantra".

Interesting, he thought.

Let's study it carefully after eating.