Pastor's Tantra

Sherlock raised his cane and knocked on the table where Aiwass and Yunus were drinking. The crystal wine glass vibrated, indicating that both of them should look towards him.

"Think carefully, Mr. Yunus—"

Sherlock repeated the question with a serious expression.

——The elf girl named Anastasia was grateful to Yunus for saving her life, so she left a token and invited him to her home.

——After her father got the token, he directly told Yunus that she had died long ago and had never been to Avalon.

"Generally speaking, shouldn't we ask you first... what happened specifically? 'Why did you get it', 'Is Anastasia not dead yet'... or even suspect that she was killed by a necromancer It didn't matter if he desecrated the corpse - although normally the tree disease would be incinerated without leaving a corpse. But he didn't think about it. Anastasia became the apostle of Zhu Zhu or other phantoms, and in the material Is it possible for the world to be summoned?

"He said that Anastasia completely transformed into a tree more than twenty years ago - but didn't he go to Horus to build a house more than twenty years ago?

"To say that he was so sad that he had to devote himself to work... Then why did he not care about the information you brought?"

Sherlock said meaningfully: "Under what circumstances can a father who loves his daughter have no concern for her daughter's information?

"There is only one truth - he has actually been able to see Anastasia all the time. And he also knows Anastasia's current situation... Because of this, he will always entertain you so warmly, but he will Your doubts, my investigation are indifferent. Because he knows that you did save Anastasia, but he can't explain why he knows and understands it.

"He has stayed in Horus for so long, and he went to Iris a few years after he came back. He has just come back now. But he can know the current situation of Anastasia? And he also knows that she met in Avalon of you?

"That means one thing - wherever he goes, he can see Anastasia."

"——So the situation is obvious. Anastasia did not die of tree disease at all, because she was secretly sent to the fairy kingdom... There is a fairy forest and even a fairy cave nearby. And Anastasia had her own surname "Moonlight" at a young age. But according to your description, she was just a child - she had no chance to get a complete inheritance, so how could she get a surname?

"That's very simple. The inheritance of 'Moonlight' can only come from the surname of Maxim or his wife. After that, they gave up their family inheritance and inherited other people's inheritance, so they changed their surname to Changed the past.

"And their child Anastasia has not yet reached the age to start receiving inheritance, so she can only use her original surname temporarily..."

——Just like Inelise inherited the surname "Flower".

When Aiwass said this, he silently added in his heart.

"And Maxim helped the Star Antimony people build the railway two hundred years ago. At that time, he was already a 'rock digger'.

"therefore……"

"--it's me."

A sweet and girlish voice suddenly came from the corner: "My previous name... was called Grace Moonlight."

The three of them turned their gazes away.

I saw Grace Dead Leaf Butterfly, standing there silently for some time.

She wore a short goose-yellow dress and long white stockings, and a spring flower hairpin on her head - the color was very similar to Nelim's dress. Judging from her appearance, she doesn’t look like a mother at all, but more like a young female student of seventeen or eighteen years old.

At this time, Nelim was lying quietly on her raised fingers. Stopping here as quietly as a moth, sleeping soundly.

It's like a butterfly turning into a dead leaf. At a glance, she couldn't be seen at all.

It was obvious that she had been standing here for a long time. At least she had been staying here quietly since before Sherlock came in... Nelim suddenly disappeared, and she must have been caught by her.

"I got it."

Aiwass nodded slightly: "I have already made a rough guess from the time the underage fairy appeared. When I touched this hair tie and confirmed that it was a normal item and not an extraordinary item, I made a rough guess. Got it.

"Withered Leaf Butterfly is the inheritance of the three paths of adaptation, beauty, and dusk, and it also requires a considerable level of dance skills. This means that the level of the path of beauty must be very high... and the main path of the 'Moonlight' inheritance , should be the path of beauty.”

"...As a human being, how can you actually know this?"

Grace looked at Aiwass in surprise.

Aiwass nodded and said modestly: "I just read a lot..."

——In a sense, what he said was very satisfying.

Because he really read it from the book this time, and it was no longer "mysterious information" whose source could not be told.

"You guessed it right... Archbishop Aiwass. [Moonlight] is about the inheritance of fairies and illusions. It is the field of beauty and adaptability, and has a good relationship with the Fairy Queen. I have only mastered the Withered Leaf Butterfly in the past few years. inherited."

Mrs. Grace sighed softly and bowed slightly to several people: "But please let us go..."

"...let it go?"

Yunus murmured.

"Probably because 'tree degeneration' is a sacred act in the Theocracy."

Sherlock reminded from the side: "After all, we are getting closer to our ancestors."

"Not really."

Aiwass shook his head.

At least judging from the attitude of the Eternal Saint of this generation, she personally obviously does not think that the transformation of the Eternal Pope is a good thing. The same goes for the other cardinals... almost no one really sees this as an honor.

But in a sense, it is obviously not okay to publicly say that dendrosis is bad.

This is a kind of "political correctness" in the Theocracy: the giant tree created the elves with its own flesh and blood, and dedicated its body to them, becoming the country of giant trees that carries the elves. The life form is close to The giant tree, repeating the miracle of the giant tree in the past, entering the dream world, coming to the giant tree and the candle, what is wrong and bad?

"...But both I and Maxim have a more pragmatic attitude."

Grace said softly: "We don't want... Anastasia to be summoned into the dream world by the grace of a tree without even passing through childhood.

"I want...at least to let her be happy and healthy for decades. But Maxim just doesn't want his daughter to die.

"More than twenty years ago, one of our human friends reminded me, so I came up with this method - sending Anastasia to the fairy kingdom. When we want to see her, we summon the fairies, Use real illusions to manifest her. As long as she does not return to the material world in the physical body, her dendrosis will not worsen to the final stage. She can still play happily...

"...In the Theocracy, we declare that Anastasia has turned into a tree, and we have burned her tree-turned body and belongings."

——It’s just that whether it is falsely claiming that the tree disease has died, or using extraordinary means to forcibly prevent the tree disease... this must be a taboo that is not allowed in the Theocracy. Especially the latter... That would be equivalent to asking fairies on the path of beauty to poach people from the path of devotion, and the Fairy Queen is only at the Tiansi level.

The giant tree is the apostle of Si Zhu, and can also be regarded as a follower of God. Those summoned by the disease will directly become "apostles of the apostles", which is the same level as Sister Sasha.

If the nature of this matter were to be replaced by other methods, it would be equivalent to the Fallen Heaven Division using the mark of sin to turn Sister Sasha, who had not yet entered the dream world, into a succubus.

The three of Aiwass were silent.

And Grace said sincerely: "The Anastasia that Mr. Yunus saw was not a real illusion, it was the real Anastasia - she suddenly fell out for some unknown reason. It seemed like Passing by the goblin cave, she was sucked out. Thanks to Mr. Yunus for saving her from the bandits, the goblins were able to get her back again, otherwise...

"——We don't want to keep Anastasia forever! We just want her to live happily for a few more decades. The work efficiency of our elves is usually low. When she has enough fun, we can It’s not too late to come back and become a tree again, and ascend to the dream world…”

Aiwass understood.

Grace and the others just want to make a time difference.

They risked great things—perhaps even the great risk of having their souls punished by the Candles—to keep Anastasia for a few more decades.

This isn't too long.

In the elves' sense of time, it is equivalent to several human years.

And these times are just to allow Anastasia to have a happy childhood.

Fifty years later, when Anastasia comes back and transforms into a tree...then the "accounts" on the Theocracy's side can be reconciled.

This could be considered a form of embezzlement—except that it was the apostle of God who was embezzling money.

Dare to instigate Grace and his wife to do such a thing...

Who is this?

What is his purpose?

...Wait, instigation?

"By the way, that human friend..."

Aiwass suddenly had some intuition and asked anxiously: "What's your name?"

"...I actually never knew his full name. He called himself 'Spider'."

Grace shook her head: "And the Fairy Queen called him 'James'."