Sherlock Holmes

day of holy love

This may be the most deviant holiday in the entire history of mankind.

It doesn't even have a fixed time.

Maybe it spanned thirty or fifty years, and the longest one spanned 74 years, so that people during that period needed to go through a lifetime of birth, old age, illness and death before they could witness this event that would move and admire everyone. day.

On this day, from the dying patients on the hospital bed to the children who have just come to their senses, and even the Crusaders on the battlefield of hell in the far south where there is only killing and blood, all will immersed in a common theme - love.

Even though the origin of this festival is filled with power, money, belief, and many other elements, in the end, they will all be attributed to love.

Love that has been blessed by the Holy Light and ordained by the Holy Light.

In fact, the origin of this holiday is very simple and clear;

It is the Holy Son, or the successor of the next Pope, the man with the greatest power in the entire empire; he will meet Her Royal Highness the Saint on this day.

On the saint's 20th birthday, he will join hands with his beloved under the witness of the great priest of the [Holy Light Temple]. They will experience joys and hardships together and go through life together;

That's all

It doesn't sound very shocking, because the Pope is also a human being, and human beings are bound to experience love; this is no different from all civilians on the streets.

However, because of the existence of the Holy Light, this love has been pushed into an extreme romance that humans cannot imagine. Because the Holy Light can predict the birth of Her Highness [Saint Girl] twenty years in advance!

That's right, the Holy Light, which can foresee the past and the future, is omniscient and omnipotent, has given all the Holy Sons an authority that is not known to be good or bad. It will help him find the most suitable person among hundreds of millions of people.

This resulted in every Holy Love Day telling the citizens of the entire empire how true, arrogant, blind, and unscrupulous love is.

It also explains that romance is not necessarily a complimentary word

Because the love of the Son may be a disabled girl who survived the war!

Or maybe it was an orphan who begged for a living in the slums.

It could be a thief, a widowed woman, a fraudster, or even a prostitute.

In short, in the hundreds of years since the Holy Light came to the world, it has refreshed people's understanding of love again and again, and has made people believe again and again that identity, status, money and power are never mixed in love. Elements such as secularity, and even sometimes, have no regard for morality.

It is estimated that the Holy Light has such an extremely pure understanding of human love. In order to avoid the embarrassing situation of "a married woman being elected as a saint", the empire's marriage bill decided that only citizens over the age of 20 can Marriage; and the Holy Light is also very honorable. In the past dozens of Holy Love Days, there has never been such an embarrassing situation as "the saint died before the age of 20, or the saint was a man".

As for whether such a thing as "a saint falling in love with someone else in advance" has ever happened.

It may or may not have happened.

unimportant.

Because in the face of great power, love will become more vivid and pure.

This may have already been within the Holy Light's calculations. After all, love is so easy to shake compared to the woman who becomes the next pope.

That's right!

Transference is also part of love.

In short, centuries have passed. The Day of Holy Love has become a much-talked-about festival. On this day, the atmosphere of love will be heightened to the extreme in the streets and alleys. Young men and women will dress up and go out. Everywhere, you can encounter couples hugging and kissing. The government's marriage registration department will suddenly become the busiest place in the world, and the wages of its staff will skyrocket by more than three or four times in these days.

Of course, except for the servants of the Holy Light Temple, no one knows when the Day of Holy Love will arrive. Only one week before the Saint's 20th birthday, the government will print the news in all newspapers.

As for the saint, she will not know her identity until this moment. The clergy of the Holy See will come to her on this day and invite her into a gorgeous carriage with the most pious etiquette;

The reason why the saint's identity was not told when she was born is easy to understand. After all, power can easily change a person's quality and personality. The servants of the Holy Light Temple always believe that only those who have experienced After everything that should have happened, the saint can truly grow into a saint.

All tribulations and pain are arranged by the Holy Light

So much so that this custom has led to a delusional disease called "Saint Fantasy Syndrome". Of course, this disease usually heals naturally by the age of 20.

I have to say that alcohol is indeed a good thing. After three rounds, people who meet by chance can put their arms around their necks and call each other brothers. During this period, Sherlock saw no less than five or six women coming to Watson's side, pretending to be dizzy. fell on him.

Watson has always maintained the attitude a gentleman should have. Even though several women were about to slap their breasts on his face, he still smiled and helped them up. It seemed that this woman seemed qualified enough to go. The doctor who enjoys countless women is not immersed in luxury and happiness.

But Sherlock remembered that Watson once said that what he likes is beautiful things; in other words, he may not be obsessed with gentlemanly demeanor, but simply feels that these girls are too long. .

"By the way, I'm curious. Why do you think the Day of Holy Love is coming? Logically speaking, this kind of rare festival that only occurs once every few decades should be the least likely to be thought of." Sherlock will He asked casually, buried in the smoke.

"Originally I really couldn't think of it, but" Watson hesitated: "You may not believe it, but I know a friend;

Well, not really a friend at all, just an old homeless man who lives across from my house. He has made a home in an abandoned steam boiler. When I pass by occasionally, I will go and sit at his place.

And the guy claimed he could tell fortunes. "

"Fortune telling?"

"It's things like divination, tarot cards, and crystal balls. Of course, if that guy really knows divination, he won't become a homeless person.

Anyway, I don’t know what’s wrong with him recently. He’s always talking to me about the Day of Holy Love, the Holy Son, the Holy Lady, and the like. He drank too much a few days ago and kept talking about it for almost half the time. Hours.

As a result, I now feel that the Day of Holy Love is really coming. "

"I see." Sherlock shrugged his shoulders. Perhaps because he was a detective, he was naturally not very interested in such operations that had no theoretical basis, so he naturally didn't ask any more questions.

Just like this, two people who had just met were sitting side by side, chatting without a word, or thinking quietly about something, not trying to dig out each other's secrets, but just letting alcohol and noise erode their minds. , until the surrounding atmosphere becomes more and more chaotic, and people become more and more intoxicated.

Just when the craziness of the whole night reached its peak, the two people sitting opposite each other had to speak close to their ears.

A crack in the void.

There is no reason.

Appeared on the back of Sherlock's neck!

It appeared so quietly, suddenly, without any warning, and unprepared, as if it had forcibly broken into a plot that did not belong to it, hidden in the dim light, and did not emit the slightest sound. sound.

The next second!

A sharp thorn suddenly pierced out from the gap in the void and hit Sherlock's head!