novelraw Chapter 633: Milika
Chapter 633: Milika
"May Mother Goddess bless you, sir."
When Fisher got off the tram pacing arriving outside the St. Naris Cathedral which had been renovated once, he and Eimhart both couldn't help but be somewhat surprised, obviously seeing entirely different things compared to the past.
Because right at this moment, the believers gathered here were truly too many.
Everywhere around were dense crowds. Even if the cathedral ahead implemented crowd control, it still made the doorway of the Cathedral jammed watertight. Lingering beside the ears were entirely the reciprocating sounds of prayers from devout believers. Compared to when he left, the believers here simply presented a geometric multiple growth. Even Eimhart also felt astonished,
"Would there be so many Mother Goddess believers here in the past? I even thought this was Kadu's Holy Maiden Cathedral. How did Naris' Mother God Religion also become so popular these years."
"Who could know this..."
Fisher pondered for a bit, then gently pushed aside the adjacent crowd, finding a corner of a building, resting slightly here, primarily to research exactly what location the map the Demi-Human Girl Con left to himself was at.
But just unfolding the map seeing the markers on it Fisher then fell into difficulty. After he left St. Naris, under Elizabeth's leadership St. Naris' urban planning underwent huge changes. Earlier when taking the tram he then realized the inside and outside of the Cathedral District both underwent large-scale renovations. Obviously under the help of Cardinals their engineering progress was fast by more than just a little.
And when did the Demi-Human Girl Con leave this map?
Extremely likely before he himself was born. This also led to the markers on this map entirely being the St. Naris locations from thirty years ago. Furthermore being in a place like the Cathedral District where architectural changes were complicated, truly making Fisher recognize it still had some difficulty temporarily."Buzz buzz buzz!"
In the sky, Cardinals maintaining order rapidly flew passed, from within transmitted the voice of Naris police,
"Everyone, please properly maintain order, please yield the central road, the Cathedral's choir needs to enter the Cathedral from the main door!"
"Aiya, it's the Holy Maidens of the choir, have they returned from communicating with Kadu?"
"Everyone, quickly make way!"
Choir?
Right when Fisher looking at the map in his hands was at his wits' end, on the street on the frontal aspect, a horse carriage dragged by Cardinals had its entire body emitting full steam. Under the lingering of faint steam, the large door of the carriage cabin slowly opened, stepping out from within one young woman after another wearing elegant and simple black gauze holy maiden robes.
Every single one of their faces carried holy and harmonious smiles, holding a Scripture of Creation in their hands. Under the protection of several church knights firm like iron buckets beside them, smilingly waving in greeting with the believers slowly retreating outside the carriage. Exactly as beautiful as lustrous black pearls one after another.
And at the very end of the Holy Maidens continuously stepping down, was a black-haired young young girl with her head wrapped by a wisp of golden gauze. Compared to other Holy Maidens, obviously this Holy Maiden's status had to be considerably higher.
"Holy Maiden Milika!"
"Heavens, it's Lord Holy Maiden Milika!"
"Hello everyone, may Mother Goddess bless you all!"
That black-haired young girl standing in the center of the Holy Maidens appeared exceptionally calm facing the enthusiasm of the surrounding believers. Obviously already accustomed to this, this was also no wonder. Because of the nature of the Holy Maiden Choir, this then required this group of Holy Maidens singing the praises of Mother Goddess to walk all over the continent. The scenes they had seen were also not minor, especially when they had just only returned from a religious superpower like Kadu.
She was exactly like an exquisite precious stone. And those noticing this precious stone were not only the surrounding populace, but also the Fisher in the distance.
"..."
Perceiving his complexion undergoing changes, the Eimhart in his embrace then raised his eyes, using dead fish eyes asking,
"What, your female confidant again?"
"No, just my student from the past."
"Yoyoyo, student again huh. Who doesn't know Jasmine is your student, also haven't seen you throw her out of bed ah."
Fisher reached out patting his head. Generally speaking, when he was too lazy to debate with Eimhart he would use such simple and crude physical methods to convince the other party.
Just right now it truly wasn't him having nothing to say flustered and exasperated, but he truly didn't have any transgressive acts with Milika,
"If Milika is still in the choir then it's slightly easier to handle. At least wouldn't need to circle around here surrounding a map from several decades ago... additionally, originally I also thought about entering the Cathedral to go see Teresa."
Hearing the name "Teresa", Eimhart who continuously loved chatting and bullshitting also couldn't help but fall silent. He merely peeked out his eyes. Seeing Milika and the Holy Maiden Choir were all about to cross the crowd entering the Cathedral, he then urged,
"Then we seize the time, you should have a method to enter right?"
"Ugh ahhhh, so tired so tired so tired ah!!"
The Cathedral's large door slowly closed, heavily isolating the believers outside the door and their praying sounds entirely outside. And instantly, those Holy Maidens with amiable and perfect expressions instantly had their expressions become loose and sloppy, dragging and draping arms over each other's shoulders unable to even stand straight.
And Milika was clearly the cream of the crop among them. Not only did she directly pull off the golden gauze atop her head, even her mouth couldn't help but start complaining,
"Why not directly send us home ah, still need to return inside the Cathedral, could it be still needing to live here today as well? Don't want ah, I want to go home eat delicious food!"
"Exactly exactly, we stayed on the carriage for an entire day ey..."
This was also no wonder. Even if using Cardinals to rapidly transport them, the journey and energy problems within all needed to be considered. They not only needed to transfer midway in Schwari, along the way still had no way to move freely. Among them quite a few Holy Maidens who were prone to motion sickness even vomited sour water all over the floor, torturing people to death.
And right now after returning to Naris still needing to show their faces before the believers, simply wasn't treating them as humans.
"Everyone!"
But exactly at this time, from the front of the Cathedral hall an old and stern female voice suddenly sounded, then making their bodies instantly tense up standing straight. Cautiously looking at the old nun standing before several knights in front, she was the Corrective Priest in charge of the discipline of the Holy Maiden class, in private Milika and the rest just called her "Old Mother".
"Lord Priest Kayu."
"Returning to the Cathedral to undergo baptism is the duty Holy Maidens ought to fulfill. Grumbling here is wanting to eat the commandments? Quickly go change clothes, still need to participate in worship tonight!"
"Yes, Lord Priest."
The several Holy Maidens all submissively nodded their heads. Only Milika put her hands on her hips without any action, although also not refuting exactly.
Many among the remaining several Holy Maidens were outstanding individuals selected from young church schools, while Milika's background was much more complicated than theirs. Her father was the Archbishop of Naris, therefore even if unrestrained a bit Kayu also had no methods against her.
But this didn't mean her Holy Maiden was incompetent. As an outstanding graduate of St. Nazareth University with double degrees in literature and theology, she became the leader of the Holy Maidens with more than enough to spare.
Kayu unhappily swept a glance at that golden Holy Maiden appearing like a troublemaker. While her facial expression was dissatisfied yet didn't say anything, merely lightly snorting turning her head leading those knights to leave.
Experiencing such a fuss from their own immediate superior again, the already dispirited Holy Maidens were even more weak and feeble. While dragging their heavy bodies walking forward, while complaining,
"Still thought today that Old Mother going to worship was going to the Golden Palace to worship for the Empress, didn't expect returning right now. Complaining was even bumped into by her, this is troublesome now..."
"Troublesome what, at worst is merely copying the Scripture of Creation, what can she do."
"That's for you la, Milika, we are different. If our Holy Maiden identities are cancelled, then we will have to return to the church in our hometowns to be nuns..."
The companions beside helplessly laughed. Milika frowned subconsciously about to say "if not a Holy Maiden then not a Holy Maiden", but looking at the expressions of this group of companions beside, this sentence without emotional intelligence was ultimately unable to exit the mouth.
The Holy Maiden position regardless of whether in Kadu or Naris' Mother God Religion systems were both extremely precious, otherwise her father also wouldn't have let her come here to gold-plate either. Moreover different from her still having other choices, these other Holy Maidens completely had no way to walk. Her saying these words then appeared somewhat unreasonable.
But emotional intelligence is emotional intelligence, unhappy still needed to be unhappy.
"... I know already la, go quickly, otherwise that crazy woman is going to nag us again."
"Haha, Milika, your title for her changed again oh."
Milika sighed, looking at the Holy Maiden companions beside boosting their spirits again, the depression within her inner heart yet became increasingly dense.
Honestly speaking, recently Milika was increasingly unhappy.
Actually not only this kind of step-by-step Holy Maiden life, what was there to complain about this? She was like this, and those Holy Maidens beside were also like this, even to the extent they had even fewer choices than Milika.
But what truly made Milika sad was, she and her parents had produced a rift not knowing when.
If arranging the Holy Maiden's job was for Milika's good, then why introduce blind date partners for her, and when she felt it wasn't suitable yet had to display unhappiness?
If introducing blind date partners was considering for Milika's latter half of life, then why blame the matter of her letting Isabelle go. Could it be as a priest watching Isabelle grow up since childhood he didn't know Isabelle's personality? Didn't know the despair when she saw Elizabeth massacring blood relatives?
Milika was precisely because she couldn't bear to watch Isabelle having to suffer torture within such a Golden Palace, therefore secretly helped her escape. But after father knew he actually beat her, blaming her for taking matters into her own hands, cursing her for not having a brain.
Perhaps father was merely worried she would draw fire upon herself right. She knew it all, merely emotionally she still felt somewhat depressed, feeling dissatisfied towards current life.
These words she had never spoken with others before, whether it was parents or this group of Holy Maiden sisters accompanying day and night.
Because she all along understood a reasoning, pain is unable to be compared. Many of one's own thoughts others not only couldn't empathize with, conversely would feel it was being overly sensitive.
Your family is so affluent, still have such a good father, if it was me like this, I probably would wake up laughing from sleep, could it be you still have sad matters?
You are still so young, still have us paving the road for you, all day thinking about these useless things. If you were in my position, could it be you still had the mood to think about these useless things? Rather than this might as well be a bit more motivated, don't show attitude to your superior we gave you, properly get along with the opposite sex of the same age...
People always use "why not eat meat porridge" to describe the absurd downward view, also frequently use "hoeing the ground with a golden hoe" to describe the absurd upward view. Actually in short, it was nothing more than all denouncing the extreme difficulty of "putting oneself in someone else's shoes".
Since it is so, then just muddle along like this.
Milika thought like this.
She pouted her mouth, and the Holy Maidens returned to the upper level of the Cathedral. All around the praying voices of devout believers and the burnt tangible fragrance lingered, seemingly transforming into chains possessing weight, making the air also become heavy.
Under Mother Goddess's benevolent gaze, was the action of Milika completely bored stretching her waist.
Every Holy Maiden of the Holy Maiden class had an individual dormitory. When arriving at the dormitory area, those luggage they carried had also long been brought to the doorway of their respective rooms.
"Then it's like this, Milika, properly rest a bit. After eating dinner we will gather again to do worship okay?"
The companions beside seemingly saw Milika's absent-mindedness, then softly opened their mouths comforting her like so, reawakening the distracted Milika. She hurriedly smiled, opening her mouth to the companions saying,
"Alright, you too, properly rest a bit."
"Mmn, goodbye."
The Holy Maidens dispersed one after another, returning to their respective rooms to rest and reorganize. Right now was only just afternoon, still several hours away from dinner. During this period they could all rest, carrying out some bathing and organizing activities.
Milika dragged her own somewhat heavy luggage, returning to her own room. Inside was considered quite spacious, having an independent bathroom, having a magical water supply system, could be said the conditions were quite not bad.
She was too lazy to tidy up the luggage, even too lazy to change clothes. Merely softly greeted the Mother Goddess statue displayed beside the doorway for offering then abruptly pounced like a flat sand goose descending onto the soft bed. Comfortably stretching her own somewhat sore and powerless limbs upon it, just like swimming happy and natural like that.
She took a deep breath. Although still feeling her body was exceptionally heavy, yet at least slightly better than previously.
Subsequently, she then raised a bit of her head looking towards the direction of the bedside table.
There, placed a handgun used for self-defense, a magical dagger as well as a picture frame.
Within the picture frame were three young girls, displaying postures towards the camera with smiles like flowers.
Standing in the middle was the gentle and elegant golden-haired lady Isabelle, standing on her left was the carefree and casual Milika who made a "v" gesture, and on the right was Jasmine, the submissive appearing quite restrained big-breasted girl.
This was taken shortly after newly enrolling, as a commemorative black-and-white photo, currently exactly placed within Milika's room.
"..."
Milika listlessly laid on the bed just looking at that photo like this. Until the next second she seemingly suddenly followed the reflection caused by the sunlight seeping out from the crevice of the curtain seeing an extremely blurry figure of a person behind her.
"Who?!"
Her pupils shrank slightly, yet her actions were fast as lightning. She abruptly leaned forward grabbing the handgun on the cabinet, releasing the safety, turning her head achieved in one breath. But the actions of that human figure behind were actually even faster, evenly already exceeding the limits of human beings. Only instantly, an extremely powerful palm abruptly clasped upon her wrist.
That terrifying power instantly awakened Milika's fear, making her uncontrollably press down the trigger. But the person before her eyes had already anticipated it long ago using a finger pressing against the rear of the trigger, making the trigger thoroughly unable to move the slightest bit.
"Wu!"
Milika struggled for a bit, seeing that she still wanted to continue resisting, the man before her eyes actually suddenly softly opened his mouth,
"Milika, it's me."
Hearing that familiar voice, Milika's body slightly stiffened. Immediately following she then unbelievably raised her head looking towards the man before her eyes. Yet seeing the tall man before her eyes dressed in a suit, a head of black hair was tidied up neatly, a pair of black pupils also appearing bright and piercing...
"Fish... Teacher Fisher?! It's you!!"
It was exactly Fisher Benavides who reverted his facial features back to the original appearance, infiltrating all the way entering the Cathedral.
Seeing that she recognized him, Fisher then also gently let go of her hand holding the handgun. Concurrently raised his finger placing it before his lips, softly saying,
"Shh, be careful not to attract others over..."
But looking at the man before her eyes parting for a long time Milika yet appeared exceptionally excited. She trembled her body, the next second, amidst Fisher's totally extremely shocked expression abruptly pounced into his embrace, tightly hugging him,
"Teacher Fisher! Is it really you?!"
"..."
Right now, Fisher's reaction for the time being was yet unknown, but the Eimhart within his embrace feeling that tangible embrace yet instantly turned into dead fish eyes, even to the extent repeating that sentence in his inner heart again,
"Is right is right, your student again huh."