on Monday. Zach is waiting for Sibella's husband, Corden, to discuss the details of the funeral.
Before anyone arrived, Zach had some time to himself, soaking up the sun on the back porch. A rolling 'dark cloud' drifted into Barton from the direction of Newton.
Zach raised his eyebrows and waved his hand to Roy, who was also sunbathing next to him. "Look, has the number decreased a lot?"
That dark cloud is the fallen angel, yes, the republican 'angel'.
"Don't make any noise, I'm counting." Roy also said very consciously, "65, 66, 67." He counted very quickly, "It's gone."
"Wow, Angel Newton's attitude is clear enough." Zach sighed, "Haha, Crowley doesn't like her way of running heaven to be questioned~"
You can understand what happened - the Newton Angels killed some of the republican 'angels' who were causing trouble!
"This is the process you want, right!" Roy was just confirming, "Let the angels of Newton and the 'angels' of the Republic entangle each other for the nature of heaven, and we can deal with our own troubles in reality with peace of mind! "
"Of course~" Zach narrowed his eyes as he looked at the sky and smiled.
A black cloud fell away from Grande. Roy was a little nervous, "They can't possibly hear it!"
"Don't be nervous Roy, it's just Mike." Zach's black ball fell into the backyard and waved hello, "Hi Mike, long time no see~"
Black quickly gathered the humanoids, but he did not bring a container. The humanoids were just for the convenience of communication. "Yeah, long time no see." Mike floated to Roy first, "Zimixi, hello."
"Yeah." Roy glanced at Zach, too lazy to speak and continued to bask in the sun.
"Where's your container?" Zach looked at Mike.
"Snatched by Crowley." Mike walked over to Zach, "I stole her soul in Newton some time ago. She was angry and couldn't do anything to me, so she took my container away. . I am originally a low-level demon. Without the blessing of a container, even the Cerberus ignores me and cannot steal Crowley's soul."
Zach smiled and said, "Father Dance from the Holy Child Church is still worried about you. You should go and tell him that he is safe."
"Really?" Mike looked a little surprised, "I didn't expect Dance to care about me."
"Me too, but he cares." Zach smiled and shrugged, "You also surprised me, how dare you go to Newton to harass Crowley."
"It's nothing." Mike said in a casual tone, "I know she doesn't dare to do anything to me." When the topic changed, he raised his head in the black mist and looked at the dark clouds in the sky that had drifted out of the southern district, " But now I know what Crowley looks like when she's really angry." Now we can subtract 1 from Mike from 67. The 'Angel' of the Republic was 'deceived' by Zach yesterday to learn about the journey to heaven. In just one day, he lost nearly half of his money!
This is what Crowley would do when she's really angry!
Roy suddenly interrupted the conversation, "What does it look like when angels and demons fight?" After finding Zach and Mike looking at him at the same time, Roy felt a little embarrassed for a moment, "What's wrong! Can't I still be curious!"
"I'm also a little curious." Zack took Roy's side. "As vampires, we rarely witness battles between alien souls. Let alone the battle between angels and demons."
Mike obviously accepted Zach's explanation and nodded slightly, "Actually, this is my first time watching it, I don't know how to describe it..." Mike showed a thoughtful look, "Disaster?" Mike curled his lips, "They The battle was like a disaster.”
Such a description is too ambiguous. Zach asked, "A disaster for others or a disaster for both sides of the battle?"
"For both sides of the battle." Mike accepted Zach's addition and continued calmly, "Even the lowest-level demons know that once a battle occurs in this world, the first thing to do is to occupy a human body to give full play to its own strength. "Mike began to shake his head, "The 'angels' in the Republic don't know."
Completely as expected by Zach, Mike didn't finish his sentence, "I don't know how angels fight, and I've never seen it before, because without the oracle of the Holy Lord, angels basically won't take any action in this world. . But Crowley’s angels obviously don’t care about the Holy Lord’s oracle at all. They fight in the same way as demons. They possess believers. They appear in front of ordinary people and tell the citizens of Newton that demons are stopping them. The road to heaven…”
Is this a mockery of reality? Mike let Zach and Roy feel it for a while, "Crowley even called down a few Indian souls from heaven and used witchcraft to attack the 'angels' of the Republic."
That's it. in conclusion. The disastrous part of this battle for the 'Angels' of the Republic is that their identity problem makes them do not know how to fight as demons. As for the angels on Crowley's side, their disaster is that the way they fight has nothing to do with heaven.
Mike's description is quite insightful. disaster.
However, the result of the battle was obvious. The Republic's Angels, who didn't know how to fight, were completely defeated by the Newton Angels who did everything they could.
"Hmph!" Roy interjected again and glanced at Zach, "The hatred in heaven is finally settled as you wished!" This is very objective. After experiencing such a failure, the Republican Angel Angel Dayton’s recognition has definitely hit rock bottom! Even if Zac now brings Gangro before the 'angels' of the Republic and asks them to use the key to the door of heaven to return to heaven, these 'angels' will not return to such a paradise controlled by the Newton angels!
Zach was very satisfied with the result. His only small question was, "Newton has received the souls of Indians. I know this, but shouldn't these Indians be ordinary Indians who do not belong to the wizard family and have no witchcraft talent?" Really? How did they learn witchcraft?"
"Crowley asked the black witches to teach her." Mike answered Zach, "It is true that most of them are not talented, but there are a few who are talented, but they are not cultivated by the family." Mike paused and looked at Zach, " Because Revro was dissatisfied with Crowley's acceptance of Indian souls, and you didn't solve this problem when you were in Newton, Crowley found the black witch herself to help cultivate those talented Indian souls to deal with thunder. Fro makes trouble from time to time. Otherwise, as you know, it would be too easy for a vampire to harm an angel. Those Indian souls have no ability to protect themselves."
"Oh." Zach shrugged at Roy, meaning that it was necessary to use Roy's Sabbat identity to order Revro to ignore the disputes between the angels in advance. And the reconciliation of the future relationship between vampires and angels is indeed a problem that vampires must face.
"Then you go back to Barton this time..." Zach continued to ask Mike, "Are you still going to Newton? Jessica is back. You don't have to mess with Crowley anymore."
"Well." Mike probably didn't want to harass Crowley anymore. After all, he saw Crowley really angry, "But I still want Jessica to help get my container back."
Zach smiled and said, "Jessica may not have time to help you get the container now." The reason for laughing is that Zach can imagine the 66 republican 'angels' now 'attacking' Jessica in Mary's Church.
Don't understand why the republican 'angels' would 'attack' Jessica
Oh, Jessica and Crowley are the same creature in a certain sense, aren't they? Do you think the republican 'angels' who still can't admit that they are devils will be considerate enough to understand that the essences of Jessica and Crowley are different
No, they won't, they'll blame Crowley on Jessica for turning Heaven into this. They are also very likely to say, "No wonder you are a fallen angel who was abandoned by the Holy Lord early! Jessica! This is what angels will do in heaven if you continue to do it!"
Therefore, give Jessica some time to deal with those republican 'angels', "You'd better go to the Church of the Holy Child to report to Father Dance that you are safe."
"Well..." Mike thought for a while, "Good idea." It turned into a black mist and floated away.
As soon as Mike left, Roy said, "You know you have a very strange relationship with Barton's demon, right?"
"What's weird? This is called a coexistence agreement. It was an agreement that Benjamin, I, and Anthony, the mayor chosen by the Sabbat, reached when Jessica first came to Barton."
Roy is used to Zach's words always being so precise, but the point he wants to express is, "But you also understand that if the relationship between vampires and holy master soul creatures reaches an irreversible point in the future." We have discussed this. There are many, heaven and hell need human souls, and vampires will either corrupt the souls or send these souls to purgatory that heaven and hell cannot touch! This is the point of no return. "Your current relationship with these demons will only be an obstacle!"
"Then do you have any good ideas?" Zach asked Roy sideways.
"Me?" Roy was stunned for a moment, "What ideas can I have!"
"Yeah, you have no idea." Zach stood up, Corden came, and finished his words to Roy, "Since you can't help, just stay aside honestly and quietly, and stop showing your presence. Thanks."
Roy's face became gloomy and he stopped talking.
Zach asked Hank to meet Corden with him. Entering the office, Mr. Corden's first words were, "Is Sibella here?"
"Not here." Zach told the truth.
"Very good." Corden handed a big bag to Zach. "She hates these clothes the most, but these are the best clothes I bought for her." They need to be used to sort out the remains. "The police station informed me Yes, the body will be sent to Grande in the afternoon."
Zach didn’t comment. Apparently Sibella’s suicide was not fully approved by her husband.
Corden took out another pile of things and gave Hank a drawing first, "The pattern on the coffin."
"No one graffitied on the coffin." Hank took it and took a look, "This is disrespectful!"
"It's disrespectful to you colonists, but to the Indian tradition, we have our totem." Corden did not want to argue with Hank, but just told him, "The money will be given to you, just do it. .”
Hank pouted and prepared to leave.
"Wait a minute." Corden threw another big bag to Hank, "It's a real soul-inducing grass, embedded in the coffin."
Hank took it without being angry, "Is there anything else?!"
"You go ahead, I thought of telling you." Corden didn't pay attention to Hank's words, and didn't even look at Hank. He just waved his hand to dismiss it.
Hank snorted heavily and walked out.
Zach also made some preparations. He had already held the traditional Indian funeral process in his hand, and before he had time to hand it out, Corden spoke again, "I tried to contact Ravenci and ask him to attend the funeral, but I can not reach him."
Zach had a bad premonition, not because he mentioned Ravenqi, but because the other party mentioned Ravenqi, he would definitely mention it—
"And Ryan." Corden looked at Zach, "I thought at least one of my sons would be able to attend their mother's funeral, but now I can't contact anyone."
Zach twisted his lips. Ravenqi's whereabouts had nothing to do with him, but Ryan, uh, had already told Sibella about this yesterday. As a result, we all know that Sibella committed suicide. Although there is no causal relationship between these things, but... it is not auspicious words after all, right...
Corden looked at Zach, just looking at him, and did not continue to speak, as if he wanted to kill Zach with the embarrassment of silence.
Zach took a step back and said, "I can publish the obituary. If your sons see it, if they want to come to Sibella's funeral, they will come." Zach was expressing tactfully - don't blame your family problems. On me.
Corden looked away, uh, changed the subject directly, "You should tell me the funeral process."
"Yes." Zach also knew when to give it up, opened the process record, and began to tell the process of the traditional Indian funeral "..."
The entire discussion process did not last long. This process has already been implemented once in Grande. The biggest difference from ordinary funerals is that the priest’s blessing in the church is omitted, and all ceremonies are performed in the tomb area.
"I want a wake ceremony." At the end, Corden suddenly made a request, "Instead of being at home and hosting some friends I don't care about, I want to be in the cemetery. I want 7 days. I can stay in the cemetery. , keeping vigil next to my Sibella."
This... Zach pursed his lips, "Mr. Corden, you know that Sibella is not really dead. Her life is really active somewhere now..."
was interrupted, "I know." Corden looked at Zach, "And you are right, my wife, Sibella, is somewhere now, very active and alive. But do you know, Mr. Vampire?" Den didn't use a particularly serious tone, but Zach knew he had to listen seriously: "She is no longer living by my side. Obviously, as my wife, living in our common home can no longer meet her expectations for her life. . So she chose another life form. But no matter what life form she chose, or how she is active now, she is no longer mine, my wife, my Sibella I need to say goodbye to my Sibella." Mr. Corden's head shook slightly, "This funeral is Sibella's, she wants it, and her Indian attitude is sworn in. , the way for her to start a new life. It’s not what I want. I, I want to keep a wake for 7 days to say goodbye to my Sibella. Can you meet this request, Mr. Vampire?"
Zach closed the process, "I can."
I know that we have been optimistic about death in this story - another form of life, a new birth... But, it turns out that for those who live seriously, there is nothing to be optimistic about here. Death is death. (To be continued)