What Should I Do If I was Forced to Marry the Elf Queen

"I think after hearing these things, Mr. Lindentu might also hate me."

"No...no, Miss Catherine... it's all in the past. Who hasn't made any mistakes?"

Although that is the case, the girl's narration made my doubts deeper and deeper.

What is it that makes Catherine, as the Holy See's saint, silently suffer humiliation in front of several nuns whose rank is far below her?

"No...Mr. Lindentu, I am indeed sorry for them...I hurt them. Speaking of which, the first thing is good. Sister Lelia is my best friend, haha... "

She laughed as if she laughed at herself, and the nun's expression turned gloomy.

"I am a saint of the Holy See, Mr. Lindentu, you know this... But in the earliest days, the alternate to the saint was not only me, but also Lelia... .. We are all saints who were sent to the church by our homes to receive training in the monastery."

Having said this, Catherine's face showed a look of nostalgia, and she said in an emotional and lonely tone:

"At that time, we were seven or eight girls together... We all lived on the hill behind the monastery. In the old attic that rattles as long as people walk around, we ate hard black bread and completely tasteless vegetable soup. I was sternly disciplined by the whips and rulers of the mothers, and received the most rigorous training."

"According to the mother, the more devout believers are, the more they must accept the baptism of poverty and suffering...because everything is the choice and test of the righteous by the heavenly Father... so even we It is the child, our saint’s alternate, and the mothers will never show mercy, let alone help us because of this."

"It was really a very difficult time... so, we can only choose to rely on ourselves and our companions. So over time, we became best friends and trusted partners."

Having said this, Catherine looked at me again, and there seemed to be some unspeakable emotion in those sapphire eyes.

"Although...Leliya and the others came from aristocrats and even tycoons. But none of them ridiculed me and excluded me because I was the daughter of a small businessman...but regarded me as me. It’s like being your own sister. Because...in the monastery, those are meaningless, we all exist to be a saint...this is our only goal in those years, and the only thing belief."

"We have agreed to become a saint together...become a saint who is admired, compassionate to the world, and helps the weak... Once upon a time, I also believed that this would be the case in the future. But facts prove... That is just a childish fantasy of a child..."

At this point, Catherine was silent until a long time later.Just looked at me and said in an extremely heavy and guilty tone:

"Because... In the end, I still betrayed them."

101. The bloody truth (monthly ticket plus more)

betray?

The girl's words shocked my mind.

This made me involuntarily focus on Miss Catherine's body, and there were some strange thoughts in my heart.

After all, the young girl in front of her is so kind and harmless.Even if you tell me that she can't bear to hurt even ants, I totally believe it.

Would such a girl really do such an excessive thing to betray her peers?

Somewhat incredible.

But... if this is the other side of Miss Catherine's heart, I can only choose to believe it.

People are diverse... Even a gangster who kills and overturns may be just a loving father when facing his family and children.

After all, people are people, it is impossible to have only a facial character like the supporting actors in third-rate dramas.

So...Since Miss Catherine believed me so, the reason for confiding such private things to me.

So, I am also very willing to be a qualified listener, and then silently hide these secrets in my heart, forever rotten in my stomach.

"I think... Miss Catherine, there must be something wrong?"

"Mr. Lindentu, I think so well...it is wrong, because I am not such a kind girl~ But thank you anyway... Mr. Lindentu said that , I am very happy."

The girl pursed her red lips and continued:

"Looking back now, it's no surprise that I would do something like that...after all, children are such creatures, stupid and selfish...never conceal their desires."

Miss Catherine's voice was full of sadness and melancholy.

She drew a piece of hay from the haystack under her body, fiddling with it unconsciously, and sighed for a while before continuing.

"That was a month before my fifteenth birthday... At that time, under the training of the monastery, all the saint candidates had become Tier 5 magicians, reached the peak of the mortal realm, and touched We have reached the threshold of the sixth-order transcendent."

"At that time, every one of us had a vision...we dreamed of becoming the legendary transcendent person who transcended the pinnacle of mortals, dreaming about how to teach the world and how to fight evil after becoming a saint."

"But soon... this dream that we had been in for more than ten years was completely shattered."

"That day... Mother Oriya called us and said that she was going to hold a special mass for us saints alternates... so as to help us and gain more grace from God, Then he breaks through the shackles of the mortal realm and becomes a'supernormal' in the true sense."

"On the night before Mass, all of us were so excited that we couldn't sleep in the room, thinking that all the suffering and torture we have experienced over the years will be drawn to an end. All the hardships and efforts are also To get a reward..."

"But... we are naive, really naive... actually foolishly believe that the mothers and professors who tortured us and punished us all day are telling the truth!"

At this point, Miss Catherine's voice began to tremble, and the hay in her hand was also clenched tightly, and it became a ball between her fingers.

"On the morning of the ceremony, before dawn, we were awakened by the mothers... and we were taken to a church built on a cliff deep in the mountains."

"There, the mothers told us to take off our clothes, use magic scrolls and holy oils to make many complicated patterns on us, and then forced us to drink a lot of weird potions and a bowl of blood mixed with them. Holy water."

"At that time, when I saw blood, I hesitated... because according to the precepts in the Holy Book, believers of the Heavenly Father cannot feed on blood. But since the mothers requested it, I did not Think about it, and finally drank the bowl of holy blood... and later, we were taken to the altar in the center of the sanctuary, lying on thirteen stone beds bordered with mithril."

"At the beginning of the ceremony, the chanting of the mothers and priests made me feel dizzy...not long before I passed out completely..."

"When I woke up again...Mother Oriya and several other priests were all around my window, and they handed me a dagger..."

Having said this, the girl bit her lip tightly, her whole body trembled uncontrollably, and the hay in her hand was also pulled tight to the point where it almost broke.

"They want me to use this dagger to kill other companions... and then dig out their hearts as a flag offering to God!"

At this moment, the hay in the girl's hand broke.

"What?! Murder and sacrifice!"

Dig out the heart of your companion as a banner offering to the gods?

This... isn't this method of offering sacrifices to living people something that only followers of evil gods can do?In the precepts of the eternal church, this is absolutely forbidden!

So, how can such a bloody sacrifice occur in the ceremony of choosing the saint?This is unreasonable!

Seeing the doubts on my face, the girl gave a wry smile, looked at me with helpless eyes, and said:

"I think... Mr. Lindentu should have heard of the prophet Abraham? Heavenly Father once tested his loyalty and asked Abraham to offer his son Isaac as a flag offering to Heavenly Father...Finally, again The moment before the prophet killed his son, he stopped him and replaced him with a lamb as a sacrifice... and the saint’s mass is the same principle."

"In this ceremony, I am the knife holder selected by the archbishop and the mothers, and the remaining twelve companions are all'Isaac' as sacrifices."

"If, in the ceremony, my talents and beliefs can be recognized by God... Then the moment I pierce the heart of my companions with a knife, God will deprive them of the [Holy Light Core] in their bodies as a substitute. The victim was pierced by the dagger in my hand. Correspondingly, I will also gain the power that originally belonged to them."

"But... if my aptitude is not recognized... then the dagger will directly penetrate the heart of my companions and take their lives."

"This is the reason why the saints of the past are able to break through the shackles one after another in just a few years, and become extraordinary... and even the powerhouse of the ninth order! Because... they are all standing In the dripping blood, it took away the [Holy Light Core] that originally belonged to other people, so that it was possible to obtain such a powerful force."

"The reason why there are thirteen saint candidates...It is not because there are so many people who will become saints...but because the rituals have very demanding requirements for the festival... .. Not every'sacrifice' can be recognized by the heavens, so so many people have to be prepared for the'sword bearer' to break through."

"And I am the one among the thirteen people...the one who has the highest affinity for the Holy Light, the one who was selected as the future saint upon birth...As for Miss Lelia and others... .From the beginning, it was cultivated as a victim of sacrifice!"

Victim?

Put a group of girls together and let them live together day and night for more than ten years... The ultimate goal is to let them as victims, be killed by their companions, and become that one person.

What a cruel and bloody fact at this time.

Upon hearing this, I felt an unspeakable uncomfortable and depressed in my heart.

"Miss Catherine...I have a question. Of course, if you don't want to say it, you can just leave it alone... What will happen to those who have been sacrificed successfully but have not been killed? It's like Riley Is Miss Ya...is placed in the monastery?"

"No...they will be killed in a coma...and then buried quietly in unknown places..."

The girl shook her head rather sadly.

"Because they have lost the core of the Holy Light, their own strength will gradually regress in the next few years, and eventually become the "waste" who cannot use the magical arts to be useless to the church. This is for any magician. In other words, they are the biggest blow.... So the custom of the monastery is to execute these saint candidates who have lost their power..."

102. They are all killed by me

Execution?

Executing the saint candidate who lost her power?

Just because of this reason, just go to kill at will, a live girl, a young and light life?

When I think of it, the Eternal Church has set the title of "Holy Woman of Religion" for hundreds of years.

The blood and cruelty behind it made me feel terrified and shudder.

In order to become a saint, twelve other candidates must be killed.

It is conceivable that after the portraits of the glorious and loving saints, what kind of corpse mountains and blood are piled up, and what ugliness is hidden behind them?

Maybe this is the so-called shadow under the light?The darkness in this shadow is even darker than the real night, and you still have to reach out your fingers.

He also covered up the real bloody things and swallowed them all.

This cruel truth shocked me, but it didn't make me angry...

Because these are the stories that the old bastard told me since I was a child...the truth told me in a subtle and casual way.

"Son, don’t you see the beautiful scenery of kings and bishops, just think that the bastards are as shining as their crowns! In fact, they are the ugliest and most shameless parasites and beasts in the world. He would only ride on other people's heads and survive by sucking the blood of others."

"And the books written for the minions of their genealogy have never only praised the kindness, kindness and merits of these butchers and executioners... But the blood stains and the cannibalism can not be completely covered in the lines! "

Looking back now, the old bastard must have seen a lot of ugliness...I heard many stories that were more bloody, cruel, and creepy than Catherine.

All of this constituted the reason for his resistance.It is all the reason why he will fight hard and destroy this old world!

My heart was tumbling like a stormy sea, and I looked at this strong girl with some admiration in my heart.

Because even if the story is so cruel and so horrifying... even if you have had such a terrible experience of cannibalism with your companions.

Miss Catherine...but still smiled, speaking in such a relaxed tone.

How strong it is, and how courageous it is.

And the suffering and guilt carried on this little shoulder is completely unimaginable for me.

Obviously it was not my own will, it was obviously forced by others, but I had to do it...Miss Catherine's repressed pain in her heart for so many years is absolutely unspeakable.

However, she can become what she is now, kind and approachable.You can tell me so calmly, uncovering your own scars, uncovering this horrible, bloody scar!

Unimaginable.... Really unimaginable.

I suddenly knew.... On the streets of the Sanctuary that day, facing the insults of those nuns...why Miss Catherine was sad and aggrieved and silent.

and many more!

According to Miss Catherine, aren't those nuns all her former companions?Seeing that they are all alive and well...maybe, what happened back then, in fact...there is a turn for the better?

Thinking of this, I asked a little eagerly and incoherently:

"I'm sorry...Miss Catherine, I don't know...but, that day, I saw, your companions, didn't all of them...are still alive? So, what happened afterwards?"

"Yes, Miss Leriya and the others did survive..."

The nun forced a smile very reluctantly and nodded.

"But, not all of them... only six of them survived..."

"Then... what about the others?"

I regretted it as soon as I asked this question.

Because the result is already very obvious... you don't have to ask about it at all.

And if I force the nun to answer like this, it is completely tantamount to forcibly removing the scar on her heart.

So, I immediately apologized to Miss Catherine and added:

"I'm sorry, Miss Catherine...I'm so rude, you don't need to answer this question!"

"No, Mr. Lindentu, you don't have to apologize to me... because this time, I originally planned to tell you everything."

The nun shook her head at me, with a sad expression on her face:

"Because this is the sin I committed, even if I don't face them...they will still exist as always, won't they?"

Hearing this, I was silent.

I know that at such times, Miss Catherine's narration cannot be interrupted by any means.

Because this is her own salvation.

It was something she had to face.

"That day... when Mother Oriya ordered me to raise the dagger to the hearts of my sisters and companions... I trembled with fright, shook my head desperately, knelt down, crying and begged those adults. ...Don't let me do such cruel things, don't let me hurt the lives of those companions who have been with me for more than ten years!"

"However, Teacher Oria just kicked me away, stepped on my hand, and said to me viciously: Little bitch, you are a cowardly and incompetent trash! You don't understand at all, as a knife holder. What a supreme glory! This is a gift from Heavenly Father! You dirty and shameless little prostitute, please dry your nose and stand up! Just now!"