Translator: Dj2203
Editor: Dj2203
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The next day, Anos knocked on Luo Mi’s door with a thick stack of printed reports: “Your detailed blood test report is out.”
Luo Mi looked at the unfamiliar data and asked, “Can you summarize it?”
“Some malnutrition, but generally there’s no problem.” Anos’s worry was hidden deep in his eyes, and he didn’t show it too much. “Also, I called the research institute and found out that the next blood moon will be in about five days.”
Luo Mi nodded: “What should I do?”
“I was planning to have you register with the Church, but now I am considering postponing it.” Anos put down the reports, his eyes full of regret, “For a short period of time, I can only ask you to stay in the Church as my servant.”
Luo Mi had no objection to this. He felt from the beginning that it was too naive of Anos to allow a demon to enter the Church. Even if Anos was the Son of God, the Church would not allow him to act recklessly.
Anos took out a small box from his pocket: “This is for you.”
Luo Mi took it and opened it with some surprise. Inside the exquisite wooden box was a small bracelet, made of a few pure white feathers, with a light golden silk thread as the base, and dotted with faint sapphires.
Anos smiled and said, “This bracelet has several useful magic arrays fixed on it. It is powered by my feathers and can last a long time. Well, it will be more effective if you wear it on your left wrist.”
Luo Mi took it with surprise, put it on his left wrist and took a look at it.
The size was quite suitable.
Recalling that Reinhardt measured his wrist before leaving Losa City, Luo Mi seemed to understand something and wagged his tail happily: “Thank you, Anos, but I didn’t do anything worthy of getting such a gift.”
Anos couldn’t help but laugh: “We are friends, I don’t need a reason to give you a gift.”
The more Luo Mi looked at Anos, the more he liked him. He fiddled with the soft bracelet, and some thoughts flashed through his mind, such as “How much would this bracelet be worth if Reinhardt sold it?” But then he rejected himself and said: This is a gift, I can’t sell it!
He fiddled with a blue gem on his bracelet, and the wings and tail behind him suddenly disappeared.
This was the magic that Anos had cast for Luo Mi before, which could hide his demon identity and avoid trouble.
Anos touched his head and said, “One day, I believe that even if you show your wings, you will not receive hostile looks.”
Your Highness, this idea of yours is really dangerous… Luo Mi did not point this out, and asked: “What are your plans next? Are you going to deal with the affairs of the Holy See?”
Anos shook his head and said, “There is nothing in the Church that needs my attention. I mainly provide energy for the barrier, explain the Bible to the believers, and so on.”
Ah? Luo Mi frowned: “You don’t care about secular affairs?”
The Pope should not be completely in charge of government affairs. Could it be that the Pope was worried that Anos would seize power, so he deliberately arranged it this way?
Anos shook his head again: “Spreading the glory of God is more important than government affairs. The College of Cardinals also thinks so.”
Luo Mi suspected that this innocent Son of God had been deceived by the Pope, and thought: Isn’t this a perfect opportunity to make Anos doubt the legitimacy of the Vatican? Even the top leader was caught up in the struggle for power, how could the entire Vatican’s faith be considered clean?
So Luo Mi hinted tactfully: “But if you don’t worry about government affairs, what will you do when you take over the position of Pope in the future? Your Holiness is not young anymore, and he shouldn’t be so tired.”
“There is a College of Cardinals.” Anos did not understand Luo Mi’s hint and answered truthfully, “In fact, even the current His Majesty does not do everything personally. And there are also cardinals who will report to me on the affairs of the Holy See, but I usually don’t get involved…”
Just as he said this, the doorbell outside suddenly rang.
Anos smiled and said, “It just so happens that he is here, you can also meet him.”
….
A middle-aged cardinal who was probably less than fifty years old was already sitting in the reception room, neatly dressed in a bright red bishop’s robe – this was why cardinals were usually called red cardinals.
Seeing Anos coming over, the bishop stood up and said, “Your Highness, the Holy Son.”
Anos’s expression brightened a lot, and he said to the cardinal in a gentle voice: “Father.”
Father? Luo Mi was shocked: Isn’t it said that senior members of the Holy See cannot marry?
Anos introduced: “Father, this is my friend Lian.”
He then introduced to Luo Mi, “Lian, this is my godfather, Bishop Thomas Crean. It was he who found me when I was adopted by my adoptive parents and took me in as his godson and brought me to the Vatican.”
Luo Mi breathed a sigh of relief: It turned out to be the Godfather, he scared him.
Bishop Thomas smiled and said, “This is God’s revelation, not my credit.”
Luo Mi respectfully performed a not-so-standard salute.
Bishop Thomas bowed slightly in return and made the sign of the cross from top to left, bottom to right: “May God bless you, my child.”
When he straightened up and looked at Luo Mi, Luo Mi’s heart suddenly skipped a beat.
This cardinal, who also had the last name of Crean, had a pair of azure eyes, as vast as the sky… and Luo Mi had only seen such eye color on Anos before.
He couldn’t help but ask the system in his mind: “Could this Bishop Thomas be Anos’s biological father?”
The system flipped through the book:
[The original book did not mention this. But the Vatican’s propaganda says that angels are sent directly to the world by God, not by men and women born from original sin.]
Luo Mi carefully observed Bishop Thomas and found that his hair was not a bright light gold like Anos, but a natural silver-white. He couldn’t help but breathe a sigh of relief: “Maybe I’m overthinking.”
Bishop Thomas’s attitude towards Luo Mi was neither close nor distant. He kept the usual distance between a bishop and a layman. After a brief greeting, he looked at Anos and said, “You have been away for so long, there have been some changes in the Vatican.”
Anos asked Luo Mi to sit down as well: “What changes?”
Bishop Thomas glanced at Luo Mi and continued, “The empire sent a delegation of envoys, led by the second prince Pearl Pelant and the third princess Charlotte Pelant. They nominally hoped to listen to God’s will up close, but in fact they came to discuss the taxation issue of the Holy See.”
“Tax?”
The bishop nodded. “The Empire said that the natural climate has been irregular for two consecutive years, resulting in poor harvests in the Empire’s fields. In addition, there are some other reasons. They hope that the Holy See will adjust the religious tax.”
Anos groaned for a moment and said, “I remember that the Empire and the Principalities send such letters every year.”
“But this time is a little different. The Imperial Family needs concessions from the Holy See to silence anti-secularists like Archduke Krenzo.”
Anos’s expression became a little more serious: “The imperial nobles were at fault in this matter.”
Bishop Thomas nodded. “But Grand Duke Krenzo used the reason that the Holy See had no right to directly execute a count to force the Holy See to publicly apologize and even asked His Highness to go to the Empire to pay homage to Balk Sheen.”
Not to mention the people from the Vatican, even Luo Mi felt that this was a bit too much.
However, he adhered to the principle of listening more and talking less, and he held a plate of fragrant baked nut cookies and ate them “crunch crunch” without expressing any opinion.
He had felt strange about Anos burning Balk to death: according to the character Anos had shown before, he would not kill nobles casually.
Anos pursed his lips and said, “I was impulsive.”
Bishop Thomas smiled and said, “Grand Duke Krenzo is just taking advantage of the situation. Your Majesty sees it clearly. You don’t have to blame yourself. We will naturally handle the dispute with the Imperial Envoys, but you need to entertain the prince and princess from the Empire during this time.”
Anos was startled: “Pearl Pelant, Charlotte Pelant?”
Bishop Thomas reminded cryptically: “Among the three children of Her Majesty Caroline II, the first prince is useless, but the second prince and the third princess both have their own supporters. The future emperor of the empire should be among them.”
Anos’s expression was still a little confused, but Luo Mi already understood.
And Anos was the future Pope for sure, so both sides had sufficient reasons to deal with each other in advance in order to determine the relationship between the Holy See and the Empire in the next few decades.
Luo Mi’s eyebrows moved slightly: It seems that Bishop Thomas is indeed considering Anos.
Anos didn’t quite understand the relationship between the two princes and princesses. He just thought that the two princes and princesses were of noble status and needed to be received by the Holy Son himself, so he agreed and said, “No problem.”
The smile on Bishop Thomas’s face relaxed a lot.
He once again talked about some things within the Vatican, such as the financial deficits of the Vatican in recent years and the pro-Pietist ideas of some cardinals. Such that even Luo Mi felt that the biscuits in his hands were losing their appeal: Was this something he could listen to?
No wonder the cardinal came in person to give a verbal report instead of making it into a document!
Anos listened to everything without commenting. He only stood up when Bishop Thomas finished his farewell speech and said, “Thank you, father.”
Bishop Thomas was obviously used to Anos’s behavior: “I will tell the imperial envoys to arrange a time for confession.”
Anos smiled and said, “I’m available anytime… By the way, if you have time, father, you can help me retrieve some information.”
“What information?”
“Everything related to ‘heretical alchemy’ from twenty-four years ago.”
Bishop Thomas’s dark brown eyebrows trembled slightly. “Why do you suddenly care about this? Have you encountered the remnants of those heretics? Your Majesty has banned and even burned all the relevant materials.”
“I really didn’t find it in the White Tower yesterday, so I hope to ask my father for help.” Anos said, “I just suspect that Lian may have suffered from alchemy.”
Bishop Thomas glanced at Luo Mi and hesitated for a moment: “I will try my best, but I may not be able to find it.”
Anos bowed slightly: “Thank you, father.”
….
After Cardinal Thomas left, Luo Mi put down his empty plate: “Bishop Thomas seems to be very close to you.”
“Of course, my adoptive parents were very poor. It was my father who gave a lot of help to the family after he adopted me as his godson, so we didn’t starve to death.” Anos seemed to remember something warm, and the corners of his lips rose. “My father taught me how to read and led me into the glory of God, just like my biological father.”
Hearing what Anos said, Luo Mi couldn’t help but murmur in his heart: “Why does it sound so wrong…”
He asked, “So you took Bishop Thomas’ last name?”
Anos nodded: “My adoptive parents didn’t have a surname, so my godfather gave me his surname – but now my adoptive parents also have their own surnames, have become small nobles, and live a rich life.”
“Your eyes are very similar to Bishop Thomas’s.” Luo Mi said tentatively, “At first glance, I thought you were his biological child.”
Anos laughed and said, “Some people have said that before. But I am an angel created directly by God, and I don’t have any biological parents… Well, of course, angels themselves are not human-shaped. When God created me as I am now, he must have referred to the people of today – perhaps it is because of this that God gave my father revelation.”
There was really no way to disprove this reason. Luo Mi then asked: “Then what should we do now?”
Anos thought for a moment and said, “If we want to entertain the prince and princess of the empire later, we may not have time. Let’s go to St. Peter’s Monastery now.”
Luo Mi was curious: “What are we going to do?”
“On the one hand, it will allow you to test whether your faith is still pure through practice, and on the other hand, it will allow you to meet your friend.”
Luo Mi was confused: “Friend? Who?”
Anos looked at him disapprovingly: “John, you don’t remember?”
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