Chapter 27: A New “Angel”

Chapter 27: A New “Angel”

Seeing Frank’s smile, Cattleya felt rather complicated for a moment. She then withdrew her gaze and looked toward the fishing village near the harbor where the Future was docked.

No one would have imagined that this place was an important stronghold of the Moses Ascetic Order.

In order to avoid a possible pursuit from the Aurora Order, Star Admiral Cattleya and her fleet had remained here for some time recently!

She was not in a hurry to set sail. Instead, she planned to go ashore and use the facilities inside the fishing village to contact her subordinates who had remained in Bayam to monitor Craftsman Sharf, so as to confirm the situation and prepare a plan.

Only with that premise would the Future set off for Bayam, the capital of the Rorsted Archipelago, several days’ voyage away.

…

In July, dawn came exceptionally early in Backlund, but the overall temperature was not particularly hot. It did not even exceed thirty degrees Celsius.

Using his top hat to block the sunlight that pierced through the layered clouds, Emlyn stepped down from the carriage and entered Harvest Church.

With a single glance, he saw Father Utravsky, wearing a brown clerical robe and a clergyman’s soft cap, standing like a mountain before the Sacred Emblem of Life, preaching to several believers who had come to pray in the morning.

Emlyn did not look for long. He went straight to the rear of the church, entered the room that belonged to him, and changed into a clerical robe with practiced ease.

While wiping the candlesticks and other objects, he waited for those believers to leave. After around twenty minutes, he finally found an opportunity. Sitting down beside Bishop Utravsky and gazing at the Sacred Emblem of Life, he spoke as though to himself:

“Father, I have a question I would like to ask you.”

Bishop Utravsky, whose eyebrows were sparse, whose eyes were pale blue, and whose wrinkles were obvious in several places, responded with a smile,

“Speak.”

Emlyn paused for the span of one breath, then said the words he had repeatedly considered the night before:

“If, and I do mean if, a distant relative deceived you, causing you and your friends to fall into danger and nearly lose your lives, and this matter was not suitable to bring to court, how would you punish him?”

Even while seated, Father Utravsky was like a small mountain. In his deep and gentle voice, he said,

“First, you need to determine whether that relative was careless and made a mistake, or whether he deliberately deceived you and guided you into a trap. If it was the former, then what you need to do is admonish him, remind him, and teach him, rather than only think of punishment. If it was the latter, you must also confirm whether this is his usual style of conduct.

“If it is, then eliminate him. Otherwise, he will inevitably harm others and harm innocents. Ending his life, sending him back to the earth, and restarting the cycle of rebirth is a kind of mercy and a kind of purification…”

…Eliminate… Father speaks of killing even more calmly, naturally, and peacefully than The World! The muscles on Emlyn’s face twitched, and he quickly interrupted Father Utravsky’s answer.

“No. He usually does not behave this way. It was only because of certain reasons that he targeted me this once. I… I do not want to kill him because of that.”

The moment he finished speaking, Emlyn froze there. He seemed, probably, perhaps, to have revealed that the victim was himself, and that this matter was an internal issue of the Sanguine.

Father Utravsky turned his head to glance at him, revealing a gratified smile.

“Not bad. You have already come to understand the preciousness of life.”

Emlyn forced out a smile.

“Then how should he be punished?”

Father Utravsky looked toward the Sacred Emblem of Life ahead and said,

“I do not advocate solving problems through violence. You can bring him here, let him listen to my sermons, read the scriptures, comprehend the…