Chapter 103 - Problematic Character

Arabeth and Azarphy realized that Emery didn't want to talk about it anymore, although they were curious they let the subject drop.

Of course, Azarphy read Emery's mind, but he was also confused by the crazy assumptions the human was conjecturing and he thought a good part of them was Emery's excessive imagination.

Does the weak human have a split personality? Okay, it's possible but unlikely. A split personality shows different characteristics in the soul, which Azarphy could see.

However, Giovanni still has his soul intact.

Rebirth is not possible by the laws of the human dimension. Because that would require going back in time, then breaking time and space. Azarphy would have noticed if something similar had happened. Furthermore, if there were rebirth then parallel worlds would not exist, if someone was reborn they would not be reborn in the same timeline but in a parallel world, with the luck that there was a "vacant body" for the soul to be reborn.

A soul fragment from a parallel dimension is now inside Giovanni's body or fragments from a far-future were somehow sent to the human's soul... These theories were even more absurd.

However, Azarphy was more inclined to believe that Giovanni had such a legendary item which is the fragment of a soul. According to the spirit of light, Anael, this was the most possible theory, albeit absurd.

Azarphy was watching Giovanni more closely thanks to such a legendary object and wanted to know the reason for throwing the innocent to Emery.

In case both Azarphy and Emery are right, Giovanni now has a legendary item, but he also has something similar to split personality and there was even something similar to rebirth.

Of course, it will take them a while to unravel this mystery.

In the end, Azarphy and Arabeth would remain invisible and observe things from afar.

Emery with a clearer mind went back to his room, it was already past lunchtime, he touched his flat stomach and felt quite hungry, he was slightly worried that Giovanni was also hungry or worse than the young novice had gone to adventure outside the bedroom.

"Do I still have to feed this Naill guy?" Emery thought suddenly. He left his room and went straight to the room where Naill was.

Emery intended to leave the food there and talk briefly with Naill so as not to frighten the young man with the whole situation. Unfortunately, there was no way the boy could not be scared after all.

"Bishop Darcy?" Naill asked a little shakily, his brown eyes were a little wet, his hair also looked wet, the young man's face was reddened and his lips pale to violet.

"Is it so cold around here?" Emery asked felt the frigid air in the room, he noted that the lights were off, the curtains drawn and the fireplace not crackling.

"Arabeth" Emery called the thought. The fireplace needed some charcoal as it was also a magic item that only needed a little fuel to burn, whether wood or charcoal.

Of course, being a low-quality magic item I still needed something to burn. A higher-level item only needs to be fed a little mana at a time.

Azarphy turned on the lights which made Naill's image become even smaller inside the big dusty room, he looked a little ill.

"Clean" Emery said holding up his hand and the MANA even stronger than he had previously handled emerged in a colorful light from his fingers and spread across the room.

Naill who had his vision getting a little blurry little by little felt a little sick, he didn't know if it was the dawn adventure or if it was because of the horrible weather that he had to go through the musty and dusty room.

However, seeing Bishop Darcy arrive literally scattering light and cleaning the room was something very magical and no one would believe the bishop's kindness if he told his classmates.

Bishop Darcy's fame was quite notorious for how much he despises those who are inferior to him and how arrogant he was enough not to even go to the cafeteria to eat with others.

Well, Naill couldn't think about it anymore and let himself sit on the bed, now cleaner, he felt quite cold and his limbs were shaking, he wanted to show himself more polite to Bishop Darcy, but his body didn't respond to his commands.

"No need to fight sleep, I'll take care of everything for now… You can rest." Emery helped Naill to lie down and covered him with a warm blanket.

Naill struggled a bit until he felt his head caressed and like a child who has been soothed by his parents, he finally fell asleep with heavy breathing.

Emery used the energy of nature to probe Naill's body to discover powerful sacred energy that was severing the chakra veins and causing the nerves to spasm.

"Azarphy?"

"I just used my powers to heal him, when I left him here everything was fine" Azarphy spoke up and denied any involvement with the situation.

"Where is this Anael?" Emery questioned as he used the energy of nature to heal the chakra channels while guiding the sacred energy to circulate more gently through the body until he gathered the sacred energy in Naill's heart.

A small flower appeared in that space that holds the sacred energy, of course, that was Emery's visual image of the sacred energy that permeated the heart of the weak novice.

The next step was for him to heal the weak nerves and restore everything to its proper place, Emery even helped to strengthen Naill's body with the energy of nature, but how did he know how to do that?

Emery was surprised by this new knowledge that was in his mind, but when he tried to investigate where that knowledge came from, he felt a pain in the back of his neck and the doubt seemed to have been swept under the mental rug.

Naill's appearance became much better, he now breathed softly and had a more relaxed expression.

"He should sleep for a while," Emery said getting up only to see a man with almost transparent white skin, long platinum blond hair, and gray iris eyes with a bright white pupil tied around his neck with a golden luminous rope.

The man was very handsome with delicate features and full lips with a deep shade of pink, but his expression looked distorted and fearful which greatly diminished the beauty of his face.

"Is this Anael?" Emery asked Azarphy, the man looked at him coldly and disdainfully, only for the rope to send out a shock wave that made him shiver.

"Yes, the fault of the weak human being like this is his"

"What did he do?"

"He tried to steal the portal key to paradise. As we suspected the keys really are parts of the guardians' bodies, in Naill's case the key is in the heart"

Anael disloyally tried to get the key, but he couldn't kill Naill directly, so he overloaded the human's body with his power of light, luckily with the blessing and healing that Azarphy had given Naill the power of light alone. strengthened the sacred power in the body of the young novice.

However, Naill's body that did not undergo the refinement of the church's blessing could not handle so much sacred energy in his body that it caused him to become ill.

"So what are we going to do with it?" Emery asked nonchalantly. He generally behaved in a kinder and more understanding way, he came from a modern world and was highly educated, but when it came to heartless beings who want to kill young innocents he wasn't that good.

Anael was also not helping by behaving disdainfully toward Emery, but it was inevitable that a spirit with such high pride would disdain a human.

Emery saw Anael barking something at Azarphy but in a language unknown to him.

"What is he saying?" Emery asked not caring about the cold look Anael received.

"He's saying that a high status being like me is a shame to be with a person like you and that I should get rid of worms like you," Azarphy said very calmly, but he felt irritated, after all, he chose to be around of Emery, so he had chosen poorly who he interacted with?

So he was inferior to the little spirit of light?

Don't play with him!

Azarphy watched Emery's silence and was curious again as the bishop's expression didn't change anything, he looked as calm and distant as ever, what was Emery thinking?

On the other hand, Father Rutger was in front of the novices' dormitory, at that moment there was little movement as the novices were still reorganizing the mess left by the night battle and there were people missing, bodies to be taken away and analyzed by the abbey doctors.

So the novices were very busy after lunch, so there weren't many people around. Those around greeted Father Rutger with fear in their hearts.

There had been nasty rumors circulating for two days about how Father Rutger assaulted a novice and how Bishop Darcy had also taken the same novice to his room, which sparked even more terrible gossip about the two clerics.

"Hello brother, do you know where brother Giovanni is now?" Rutger asked very softly as if he was really a good person, pairing that with his good looks made it a little easier for the few novices to feel less fearful, but caution was in the eyes of each of them still.

"Father Rutger, Brother Giovanni hasn't been back for three or four days," replied the novice, a little braver than his colleagues.

"Has he not been going to classes? And to work?" Rutger inquired some more.. The rage building inside him, he well knew that bitch was offering herself at that moment to Bishop Darcy.