(luna father's p.o.v)
(one week before the events of the last chapters)
a divine dream is a message a god sends to his followers in a dream .
i had recieved it a couple of times before .most of the times it would show one a scene from the future that the god of fate and fortune paragon would wants you to see . the first time it was when i was leading the battlefront at the south against the elven kingdom, i saw myself in it being attacked and assasinated by a fellow knight i trusted . i didnt give it much care and almost died because of that . with a poisoned knife he attempted to pierce my heart , if i didnt bend my upper body in the final second i would have been a goner as the poisoned dagger was only a hair from piercing my heart . i was saved at that time by my wife.
the thing is i had recieved a divine dream last week . in it i saw a young brat defeating my daugther in a single hit . i would have laughed at it and forgotten it if it was just a regular dream, however scenes seen in divine dreams can never be false .
the rise of another genius is something normally to be celebrated however i had recieved another divine dream right after that one or rather it was a nightmare . in it, that same brat killed my daughter ...
i fell into panic when i woke up and was about to go look through the whole kingdom lest i can find and kill him before he kills my daughter but then i recieved an unexpected visitor .
i thought it was just some random priest wanting to build his church in my land at first when i saw his robe i could also tell that he was one of the followers of paragon .the god i recieved these two bothersome messages from
it then that i saw his face. it was a face that caused me great shook . the guy i thought was some random priest was actually a pope of a church . the pope of 'the followers of paragon'
I was bewildered as to why would a person with authority surpassing that of the king himself visit a simple fuedal lord such as I. Perhaps? My daughter? I guess nothing can be hidden from the eyes of paragon.
In fact over the years due to their ability to know almost anything 'the followers of paragon' became the most authoritative church having more authority than the churches of the war gods and that of the God of holy light.
And basically the big boss of the biggest church out there is here in the house of a small landlord of a medium size kingdom not even a superpower.
Thinking about how I received these two dreams before. I can't think of this as a simple coincidence .in what kind of scheme have i gotten into i wonder.
"to what do i owe the honor .pope xytar"i asked the sly old man
"we have heard from somewhere that you wife can make the finest tea. So we came to take a sip." he said while making a light hearted laugh
"cough. Cough. I'm afraid that you have been provided with false information your honor." i made wry smile when i heared his explanation, 'I dont won't to remember what disaster came from the last time my wife went to the kitchen..'.
"fufufu. Forgive us if our joke reminded you of anything you had the wish to forget.Now we see that you have calmed down from your earlier panic so we shall speak as to why we came here"
"Is this about my daughter? "
"correct. We know who your daughter truly is. In fact we knew so before you did, but refrained from acting to allow her to properly to attain her fate however something unexpected happened. Or rather someone who shouldn't have existed appeared."
"are you talking about that kid?"
"yes. He... It doesn't belong to this world nor should it have existed. In fact it doesn't even belong to our line of fate, and if not dealt with properly might lead us to the end of this world." the old man spoke in a serious tone
" i see, if so . what am i supposed to do according to your collective wisdom" i asked
when i said so the old sly pope made a sly smile as he looked at me
" that. would take some time to explain"
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(hakuro p.o.v)
is it just me or am i like truly unlucky ? no , how many times must i reprimend myself , there is no such thing as luck . i only didnt prepare enough . if only i went to another guild i might have gotten away from here . there were many things i could have done but didnt . thats why im here . its absolutly has nothing to do with luck(absolutely not cursing deeply inside) .
sigh....
as i was busy sighing my time away a woman or rather a young girl approached me
"are you only going to keep sighing ?" she asked me.
" what did i bother you ? miss lu- loser ?"as I was too bored I decided to crack a joke
" son of a... cough!cough... me ! a loser? look at the mirror you fool! i aint the one all chained up in prison "she almost cursed but retorted as well as she could .
" a mirror ? did i hit you on the head? Or maybe I hit you too hard, that you turned into a fool ? how can i get a mirror while I'm chained up like this ?"i retorted instantly but got depressed when i remembered where i was .
yes right . i forgot to mentiong but yesterday .after i got cought due that basterd guild master i was jailed in a dungeon owned by the landlord a.k.a the fuedal lord a.k.a this litle girl father .
speaking of which i never met this daughter con basterd who made all that trouble to catch me just because i defeated his daughter .
now that i think of it . why did he put me in the dungeon . there are two types of jails around here . one for those who made light crimes like theft and those who make a racket in front of the guards .
meanwhile a dungeon is for those who need further investigation or those who committed heavy crimes such as murder or rape...
"hey are you the one who asked to put me here?" I asked in a cold tone while I gave her shilling cold stare. Actually due to that the room(or rather the cell) went a few degrees colder due to me, but I would only notice that way later.
"I swear to God that i —"
"swear to me!" (author note :batman reference)
It was in the early years in the orphanage when I built chess and checkers and played them on my own. One day I found them destroyed and in my 'rage' (or should I say 'chunni state') I turned into batman.
"what?" she had this puzzled look since she didn't understand the reference
"ah sorry, force of habit. So you were saying"
"you... You can't just ruin the mood like that then go 'so you were saying?' why the hell did I make all those preparations for?"
"for me to ruin of course" i retorted.
"how shameless." she pouted
"thanks. Well enough jokes. Tell me. Who is keeping me here?"
"dad. I'm not sure why but I can think of three theories."she said as she raised three fingers.
"I can only think of two"
"hehe you go first then" she said prideful that she had more theories than me.
I rolled my eyes as I stared her "well first of all do you know what does this pale skin of mine means. Note that no matter how much I stayed under the sun it didn't get any less paler"
"hmm I read about this in a book."
"care to share your knowledge? I only had useless books from where I came from"
Well I would say useless since thanks to them I learned how to read and write in this language but they only talked about tales of legendary knight and if compared to the light novels I know they could only be noted as lacking.
"well it's been like a year since my mom brought me that book. It was about ancient and divine curses in history . It said that when one one receives a curse from any God of the pantheon they would lose their divine blessing and have their skin turned ash pale... Wait! No way. Don't tell me you have a divine curse. " she looked at me with wide open eyes.
" maybe. Don't tell me you are going to avoid me too just because I'm cursed"i said as I looked at her expression which showed mixed emotions
"why would I? just because someone is cursed doesn't mean he is bad. More importantly when did you receive the curse and what sin did you commit to get cursed anyway?"
"my sin?hah! My greatest sin Is that I was born into this world, I got this curse when I was born. Or else why would my parents banish me to an orphanage." I said while looking down on the ground.
"I'm sorry, perhaps I shouldn't have asked." she sincerely apologized.as she made a regretful face
I looked at her in New light as I thought 'this brat got a good personality, hope she doesn't get corrupted in the future'
"there is no use crying over spilt milk. What happened to me back then doesn't matter. What matter is now." I said trying to act cool "anyway remember how I said I had two theories this is my first and most probable one, is that I am being held down here because of my curse." i explained.
"ah I see. That makes sense. Hmm then what about the second theory?" she asked
Well should I tell her my thought that 'because your father is such daughter con'?
"well if it wasnt because of me ,then im here because of you ."i explained
"..."
"hey dont make that face ,im not blaming you here or anything . what i meant is that im here because your dad is angry that i hurt you."
"well ,actually i had thought of that as well . its a bit awkward having to say so myself but dad does dote on me quite a bit since i am his only daughter ."
"well thats all i could make out of this situation lets hear you then." i said as i made a face saying 'im all ears'
"well. if i had to say then you would be here for three reason .well discarding that last theorie of yours then i can think of two more reasons ." she said then she made a question" well did you know that is a great swordsman and is the leader of a chivalric order ?"
"hmm nope ,first time hearing this."
"well ,dad is an amazing person in fact the king chose him to lead a battle front to the south a decade ago when we were invaded by the elves." she explained with an expression filled with pride
hey your nose would grow long if you keep acting that way,i wanted to shout . but elves huh . so they do exist here, i wonder if they are like the elves i know from earth's stories and games .
"so you say that he thought that i was sent by forces that were jealous of him ?"
" well kinda , he might've thought you were some assassin who failed or a spy or something of that context , i still remember a few years ago when i was kidnapped by orders of a certain organisation executive . dad and mom litteraly destroyed the whole organisation from the head to the smallest grunt ."she explained still wearing that innocent proud look.
" well that's ... emm i'd understand it if they dealt with all the higher ups but why must the grunt who is forced to his job even if he doesnt want to be punished for the mistakes of those who order him ?"
"eh ? isnt it logic that because he got into this kind of job that he must be punished ?"
" sigh you.... arent actually wrong .. well enough crap the chapter is almost over ."
" ah ok well you see as you have said earlier dad might have thought that you were working for someone else thats why he might be keeping you here to investigate who you might be working for ."
"if not ?"
" then i could only think of one thing. you see this last week i had heard from the maids that a certain priest came and had a talk with dad . well i didnt see the priest myself but ever since that day dad started acting wierd . you know how train me with the sword each day ? ever since last week he started upping the toughness of the training , also although he tries to hide it , but i sometime notice that he has that pained look when he sees me . but !do you know what is the most disturbing fact ? its the identity of the priest ." she explained then gave me a serious look unlike that she showed me before.
" who is that priest ?" i asked
" well what is important is not ,'who' is that priest but rather what matters is from which church he came . from what i heard from the maids , the priest wore a robe of ' the followers of paragon' " she said still maintaining her serious expression
" paragon... who ?"
when i made that question her expression crumbled as she held a troubled smile on her face
" paragon is a god you see . he is the god of fate and fortune and his church is basicly the strongest out there ." she explained
"wait . what ? the church of the god of faith is the strongest ? not that of the god of holy light ?" i asked seriously . i mean of all the novels i read . humans and most races would almost always follow the shining one not the useful one
" well its true that the church of holy light has the greatest fighting force amongest all the churches but its influence and authorities are way too lacking compared to the church of the god of fate .its said that things were diffirent back on the days of the holy war, however the god paragon assisted his followers to become holders of great positions by showing them shards of their fate and established his authority all over the world during the peaceful eras."she explained
" hmm so paragon can show his followers the future huh ? " i said as my expression darkened slightly" if so then what kind of future did you father see i wonder "
" i asked him but he kept avoiding me by saying ' you dont have to worry about it ' but that only made me more worried , well in fact thats one of the reasons why i came here today" she explained
" i see. so you are worried that i would kill you ? well sometimes we are forced to takes certain actions by circumstances just like how you came today down here . maybe one day in the future i will be forced by the circumstances to kill you . however now that we know of such future we can always try to avoid it ."
" even if the one who said so was a god ?" she asked
"hahaha! even more so because it might have come from a so called god ! i mean arent you here right now ,trying to prove what i said ? or else you might as well prepare your life for me if its that unavoidable" i explained
" pffft! true , well but you better not overestimate yourself just because you cought me off guard last time . if you were to come for my life then i wont be the one to die " she said as if challenging me me .
" girl .even a god predicted that i would win , go hide somewhere lest you want to end up beaten once more "i said as i made a loud laugh
" oi not even funny , you just got lucky last time , i didnt even use one tenth of my true powers ,i just held back because i thought you were but a spoilt brat ." she explained as she pouted
" ha! if that was only one tenth of your full power than you need to get a hundred times stronger before you even think of even breathing the same air as me "i bragged
and so time passed as we each kept bragging to the other....