Shadow of the Beautiful World

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"They arranged a lot of foster families for me."

In the ward of the Philadelphia Hospital, Billy Batterson sat in a chair beside Father Paul.

While cutting apples for the priest, he whispered and told his past stories for the priest.

The story of an orphan sent to foster care at a very young age.

"In the beginning, we sent me to a family without children. It looked perfect. The couple were decent, the husband was a lawyer, and the wife worked outside."

Billy peeled the apple and said:

"But actually, it just looks beautiful outside, and the family is actually full of tragedy."

"Wife and husband sleep in separate rooms. Husbands need to maintain a good image and go home and vent to their wives when they get angry outside."

"They are arguing every day, and occasionally fighting."

Billy looked at Father Paul. He shrugged and said:

"I was still young and frightened by their quarrel. I hid under the bed every day. I was afraid that the crazy man would hit me. Then I couldn't stand it anymore and ran away."

"That was my first escape."

"It's not difficult for the orphans. I ran back to the orphanage, told the nun about the family, and stayed in the orphanage for a while."

Billy cut the cut apple, carefully soaked it in hot water, and handed it to the priest.

He says:

"I don't actually want to go to other families. I have a mother, she just didn't find me."

"So you have escaped from the foster family again and again, and then became a'problem child'."

The priest took a sip of hot water with apple flavor. He held the glass and Billy said:

"You reminded me of a girl. In New York, she also experienced many things just like you."

"Is she looking for mother?"

Billy joked:

"I don't think there are many stubborn children like me."

"No, quite a lot."

The priest closed his eyes and leaned against the head of the bed. He remembered the children in Merlin's house.

Eric, Lorna, Daisy, Matt...

Those children are undoubtedly more fortunate than the little Billy in front of them,

When they encountered darkness in their lives, they met someone who could take them out of darkness.

After a moment, the priest opened his eyes and he said to Billy:

"A lot of children will encounter the same things as you. I have seen a lot of them. They renounce themselves, grow up in grievances, and are tempted by the hostility and darkness of the society. They are on the wrong path."

"But there are others, they have encountered something more terrible than what happened to you, but they are lucky to return to normal life under the guidance of good people."

"Listen to me, boy."

Father Paul reached out and put it on Billy's hand, he said softly:

"I know you are confused. It is your obsession to find your loved ones. It has been running through your life, but in addition to this matter, there are many things worth doing in this world. Don’t close you to this century. Soul, Billy."

"Go hug it and bravely reach out to it, you will reap a feeling, maybe friendship, affection, and love in the future."

"A friend of mine told me that disasters in life are like shadows. They look powerful and unbeatable, but they only need a beam of light, and they will disappear."

The 15-year-old sat next to the priest. He lowered his head and did not know how to respond to the priest.

He and Father Paul have only met one side.

They are not very familiar with each other.

After a few seconds of silence, Billy turned back suddenly, and the child stood up suddenly and walked to the window. He looked at the empty lawn outside the window.

In his eyes, he could see a woman with blond hair and a neutral face wearing a white suit and high heels, walking towards the ward of the priest.

The woman is like a normal office worker.

But behind her, there are a pair of open wings.

White, like the wings of a swan.

The gentle light shone behind her, embellishing her like a falling angel...

Do not.

That is a real angel.

Billy turned his head and said to the priest:

"She's here to pick you up."

"Who?"

Father Paul asked in surprise:

"Who will pick me up?"

"angel..."

Billy pointed out the window, and the boy said:

"I've never seen her, I thought they were just legends..."

"I have concealed something, priest, I can see something that others cannot see, but only occasionally."

"Well?"

The priest blinked.

He recalled some of the things Merlin had told him, some rumours like jokes.

"Some people in this world are gifted. Most of them will not be exposed to mysterious things in their lives, just like ordinary people's lives.

But if you add a little bit of luck, they will really step into it. "

A new world.

"The gorgeous world will open its doors to them."

The priest whispered what Merlin told him.

He looked up and looked at Billy by the window. He said:

"You are a gifted child, so you will drift away... It wants to see a story of breaking cocoons into butterflies, so it makes you suffer."

"She is coming in, Father."

Billy was nervous. He didn't hear what the priest said.

All his attention was attracted by the angel who stepped into the air and passed through the wall.

The angel also seemed surprised.

She seemed to find Billy's anomaly, but she said nothing.

As she walked through the wall and entered the ward, she reached out and stroked Billy's head.

It's like teasing a child.

Billy felt warm.

He watched the messenger walk to Father Paul's bed and looked at him.

At the end of his life, the world in front of the priest became brighter, and he saw the beam of light, and the woman standing in the light.

She is very different from the gods in the church.

She didn't wear a robe and replaced it with a more modern suit.

The suit was worn on her, very decent, full of an indescribable, neutral, sacred beauty.

"I am Gabriel."

The angel looked at Father Paul lying on the hospital bed and she said:

"I haven't taken a soul to heaven in person for many years...Paul, but you are special."

The priest was not nervous or excited.

Although as a cleric, after seeing the miracle of God appearing with his own eyes, he should be nervous or excited, but he did not.

He behaved calmly and calmly.

He looked at the archangel Gabriel in front of him, his finger on the Bible, he said softly:

"Is it because I am special? Or because I am a friend of Merlin?"

The priest blinked, he was like a child.

He says:

"He is a great man, right?"

"What Merlin Riley has done has spread to all circles."

Archangel Gabriel shrugged, she said:

"But believe me, Paul, even without him, you will still be qualified for ascension to heaven..."

"In this age of material desires, there are very few pure souls like you. You are the treasure of the Lord."

"Now, you should go home."

"Merlin saved the world."

The priest felt that his soul was breaking away from the body. He asked:

"Has he also ascended to heaven?"

The archangel shook her head and she showed a strange expression, she said:

"He, he doesn't belong to us."

"So he is still alive?"

There was a trace of rejoicing in the priest's face, although the archangel did not answer his question.

"Wait a minute, sir."

The moment the soul left the body, the priest suddenly remembered a very important thing.

He begged the archangel to give him a little more time.

Gabriel seemed to be a good speaker, but perhaps also because Father Paul was really special.

In short, his soul was returned to his body at the next moment.

The priest sat up on the hospital bed and he beckoned to Billy Batterson, who was on the side.

"Come here, boy."

The priest took something off his wrist and placed it carefully in Billy's hands.

That is a very delicate bracelet.

Under the bracelet, there is a cross made of red crystal, which looks a little weird, and it is not like what a priest should wear.

"This is what a friend deposits with me."

The priest took Billy's hand and he said to Billy:

"Because it happened suddenly, if you can, Billy, I hope you can send it back to St. Matthew's Church in New York and give it to Sister Maggie."

"Or send it directly to Queens and give it to a lady named May Riley, this is the relic of her brother Merlin Riley..."

He looked at Billy at a loss.

The priest suddenly realized that a 15-year-old orphan child might not be able to do what he said.

He sighed and patted Billy's shoulder.

He says:

"Forget it, boy."

"You give it to my members and tell them to protect it. If Merlin is still alive, someone will definitely take it."

"Sorry, boy, I gave you a heavy responsibility that should not be borne by you."

Father Paul's tone became hoarse, and he coughed a few times.

At the last moment of his life, he took Billy's hand, and he said to the child who had been with him, who had only seen him twice:

"You have a troubled but still soul, a valuable soul, and you have talent."

"Hold on, Billy, don't be overwhelmed by the darkness of life, you are destined to have a wonderful life."

"Goodbye, boy."

The priest lay back on the bed, and he reached out to bid farewell.

In the last breath, the priest's old face had a satisfied smile, and he folded his hands on his chest.

In Billy Batterson's gaze, the priest's soul rose from the body.

He took the Archangel Gabriel's hand, and in the surging warm light, in the reverberation of the light and spiritual hymn, Father Paul and the Archangel disappeared into the ward.

The moment he disappeared, he turned back to Billy and waved goodbye.

"child..."

At the moment of utter silence, when the light shattered, the gentle voice of the archangel suddenly sounded in Billy's ear.

she says:

"Don't tell others, including what you have in your hands."

"It's important. It's more important than you think. The broken destiny is still running. This time, it chose you..."

"What a lucky little guy."

A few minutes later, the doctor and several nurses rushed into the ward, but Father Paul had left the world with a smile.

"The angel took the priest."

Billy clenched the bracelet in his hand. With tears in his eyes, he looked at the priest. He said to a sad nun:

"He came home."

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A few days later, the body of Father Paul was sent back to New York, and the entire Hell's Kitchen was sorrowful in the sudden news.

Father Paul has lived in this neighborhood for decades. He has helped countless people. In the eyes of believers in this neighborhood, the priest is definitely a perfect person.

On the day of his burial, the people who came to the funeral packed the church.

"he died..."

In the St. Matthew's church full of sadness and crying, Zatana in a black dress looked at the coffin placed in front of the church in disbelief.

She had a pair of black sunglasses on her face.

she says:

"So sudden."

"You suspect that other forces are involved in this matter?"

Icarus's voice sounded in Zatana's ear, she said:

"Someone has the same purpose as us, all directed at Merlin's Horcrux? The news leaked?"

"No, impossible."

Miss Magician Shen Sheng said:

"This matter cannot be revealed. Until now, only you and I know about Horcruxes. I didn't rush to find Father Paul because of this kind of thinking. I don't want to attract the attention of others."

"But the bracelet is indeed gone."

Icarus said coldly:

"The surveillance in that hospital broke strangely in the ten minutes that the priest passed away. I don't think it was a coincidence."

"Maybe heaven..."

Zatana narrowed her eyes and looked at the priest in the coffin. She said:

"I contacted Liana. There was no soul of Father Paul on the border of hell. He didn't pass there, so he went to heaven. It takes angels to enter heaven."

"Perhaps those angels moved."

"Did they take away the Horcrux?"

Icarus said:

"Do you have a way to enter heaven?"

"Yes, but that's risky."

Miss Magician shook her head:

"And I did the divination before, the bracelet should still be on the earth, but you also know that everything related to Merlin, it is difficult to get accurate results with divination."

"But one thing is certain, some people don't want us to find the Horcrux at this time, but they don't want to be hostile to us. They are using this method to delay time."

"So what should I do now?"

Icarus asked a little irritably:

"Can you just wait?"

Zatana hesitated for a moment, she held a bunch of white flowers and walked towards the priest's coffin.

She placed the white flower beside the coffin, and she said softly:

"When Merlin met me last time, he told me not to worry, maybe he also expected that this thing would not be smooth."

"If something goes wrong, he will find a way to re-enter the dream and contact us."

"He didn't show up, which means that things are not as bad as we thought..."

"I came to find the bracelet, you continue to do your thing."

"Anyway, don't panic..."

"It's useless to panic."

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