The Church of the Holy Child was quiet and dull in the afternoon, well, as if it wasn't like this at other times. This church, sandwiched between a funeral home and a prison, always looks abandoned. No one comes here to show their faith.
But the current Holy Child Church is indeed much better than before. It received donations at several funerals of people in the West End. It was also the blessing of the accident that all churches in Tobaton experienced before, and it also received repair care from the church. Oh, and there was a wedding. This place is already much more lively than before.
Of course, you have to ignore the demons who help the nuns sweep the floor and clean the windows, and the occasional words about the gates of hell and fallen angels that pop up in their mouths.
A nun walked into the priest's office accompanied by a certain demon, "Father, the flowers sent by Mr. Fisher have arrived. Should we arrange them now or wait until tomorrow before the funeral (Long's funeral)?"
Constantine glanced behind the desk, who looked absent-minded since arriving, and waved his hand, "Let's do it today. I don't want to be in a hurry tomorrow."
The nun left after bowing. Constantine looked back at Zach and pursed his lips, then continued the topic he was talking about, "... My research is only on demons. To be honest, I don't know whether it is applicable to other soul alien races, let alone It's the Incubus. If the soul alien race has the same 'population' management system as humans and our Holy Lord believe, I think the Incubus should be the rarest race in this world. Our understanding of them is far less than other alien races. I think …”
Constantine stopped talking, tapped his fingers on the desk surface, pursed his lips and looked at Zach, "Zach, are you listening?"
"Sorry." Zach apologized very honestly and adjusted his sitting position. "I was distracted."
Constantine shook his head helplessly, regained Zach's attention, and continued, "Now also add the Soul Walker, an equally rare, uh..." Constantine frowned. Race is not suitable to describe the soul walker. It is something that does not have a 'race' and cannot be a 'race'. "There is a small probability that it exists. I really don't think this is a good idea. Zach, I think we should just leave it like this and let them Self-generated…”
Constantine helplessly found that our vampire was distracted, "Zach. Hey, are you still here?"
"Sorry." Zach's apology was the same way he thanked others for their compliments. He casually said, "I was distracted by other things... something. Please, continue."
"There is nothing to continue." This is not Father Constantine's pettiness. If Zach had listened carefully, he would have known that there is really nothing to continue. "Let the soul walker, um, call him Sloan, right? Let him Come on, I can help him. Teach him, but I can't make any promises. Even if I don't consider whether my research is applicable to the dream demon, the unknown identities of those unknown people who are also tracking the dream demon will still be a hidden danger."
Zach nodded, still looking distracted, "Sloan returned to Barton to see Lip again. Exposing his identity that he has always hidden, this friendship is worthy of respect, and I just tried my best to help."
Zach showed a smile. Speaking of coming to Barton to meet someone, Father Constantine also had such a part. Didn't everyone forget Seth, "How is Mason lately?" Well, Zach's thinking is always ahead of ordinary people, and Seth's topic would be very heavy, so he asked about Seth's container.
"Absolutely." Constantine accepted Zach's thoughtfulness and smiled, "In the final analysis, demons, wizards, and hunters are all the same kind of people. It's just because they realize that there are other ordinary people in this world who ignore things. , trying to do what we can to be human, the so-called third type of aliens (people with special abilities) is just a label, we are still just human beings."
"Well, it sounds like..." Zach raised his eyebrows, "You think he's not talented enough." Isn't it, 'trying to the best of one's ability' and 'trying', the context is there.
"Haha." Constantine tilted his head, "Probably, or I'm just not a good teacher and have too high expectations for students." Constantine suddenly raised his eyebrows, "Speaking of teachers, Taylor has been a little irritable recently. .”
Taylor, a teacher from Holy Lord College with a background in the Western Military, and Kyle had a legitimate teacher-student relationship.
"What's wrong?" Zach was a little curious. It was said that the summer vacation was about to end. Kyle and Taylor had finished their so-called vacation practice and were supposed to go back to the college in the west. But Zach had also known from Kyle for a long time that the two of them would not go back and would stay in Barton. This was something they had planned since they first came to Barton.
It's just that at this point in time, Taylor was said to be a little irritable by Constantine. Could something have happened
"It's because of Kyle." The other party is always distracted when talking about business, but when talking about gossip, the other party is very active. Constantine could only follow Zach's inexplicable rhythm. "Something seems to have happened in the West End. Kyle's social practice has been hindered. There is something wrong with his name in the West End."
"In name?" Zach nodded immediately. Laura seemed to have mentioned that their children in the West District all had the title of honorary parishioner in the church, and the family would occasionally make donations in their names to maintain this title.
"Well." Constantine had nothing to say about this, "You should also know that after graduating from a religious college like Kyle, you will be assigned to a church to become a priest in the future. With his background, he will at least start as a priest. "
Zach tilted his head, and he began to guess what the problem was.
Being a priest is definitely not the path that the Barton family envisioned for Kyle, at least not the path that Kyle and Laura's father envisioned. You should still remember how Kyle, who once dreamed of becoming a rugby player and worked hard for it, embarked on this "exotic" path.
Kyle was sent to the religious training college in the west for punishment and control! Not for Kyle to know about witchers, vampires, demons... these things! Well, the elders of the Barton family probably don’t know that these things exist, but they definitely don’t want the Barton family to produce a servant of faith!
"Did the Barton family do something?" Zach asked tentatively.
"They withdrew the donation in Kyle's name and forced the church to be expelled." Constantine also used a gossipy tone.
"Uh..." Zack blinked, "Can they do this? Crowley allows this to happen?"
Constantine waved his hand, "This has nothing to do with Crowley's permission. She controls the church, and to the people in the West End, the Church is just a place where people give money in exchange for a false name. If the people in the West End refuse to accept the false name that the Church can give, Can Crowley put honor in other people's faces?" No.
Zach frowned. Constantine's words were so straightforward. Is the honor given by faith a false name? It's so straightforward that I'm embarrassed to look at the priest's attire he's wearing...
Constantine sighed and crossed himself. To 'atone' for what we just said, we won't investigate the sincerity. "I heard from Taylor that the Barton family used very..." a weird tone, "'evil' means. Kyle's sister Lola, you know about the nursery project." of."
Zach nodded, he knew too well.
"It is said that for this charity project, the families in the West District did not provide financial assistance to these children. They only asked for resources from their own families. The only funds were spent by Kyle from the church."
Zach pursed his lips and thought, this is the case, Laura mentioned it several times.
"I heard that someone commented that the Barton family was cheating by putting money in the church, and then their own family would use it to do things. The church donation, which existed in good faith, became a way for the West End family to evade taxes. , and means of working capital. It is blasphemy.”
Zach's eyebrows were raised, no wonder Constantine's tone was weird. Is the Barton family trying to darken themselves for their own purposes? Is it necessary to do this
"Barton, it can't be like this." Zach glanced at Constantine and said something very familiar.
"I won't know." Constantine made the sign of the cross again, "But it has already happened. The Barton family withdrew their funding for the church and used the reason of eliminating suspicion. Ask the church in the West District to remove the Barton family from the church. The honor in the competition, proving herself, or something else, this has already happened. After all, Taylor is still a teacher in the college, and her student's future has such a problem. She is very, well, anxious. She has been running around the West District these days, trying to fix it Something."
From Constantine's tone, he seemed to have little expectations for this matter.
Zach thought of other things. Why did Kyle have such a thing? Laura didn't mention it. Soon, Zach shook his head helplessly. Remember, Laura was the first person to oppose her brother becoming a clergyman! She is probably happy that this happened! But I feel that this is not a good thing after all, I’m just embarrassed to say it!
"You just said 'review'." Zach raised his eyebrows and caught another important point, "Where are the reviews? The reports about the nursery project in newspapers and news are all positive. I have not seen such negative content. ah?"
Constantine nodded, "I also support this charity project very much. I feel relieved when I see some reports in the news. Laura is a good girl." The priest sighed, "I heard Taylor mention it. The comment was a rumor, said to have spread among the guests at a West End banquet."
banquet.
"Fortunately, it's a banquet in the West End." Constantine's expression could not be said to be one of relief or the opposite. The matter was inexplicable, and when the truth was unclear, people's attitudes became vague and ambiguous, "Rumors can only Being restricted among people doesn’t mean it will be put on the table.”
There was a short silence, both of them thinking about something.
Constantine smiled and broke the useless thinking for both of them. It was just a piece of gossip, "I've pretty much told you about the situation here. What about you, neighbor? Haha, do you have anything interesting to tell me? Me? Well, except for Incubus and Soul Walker, haha."
Constantine started thoughtfully, "For example, the security company in the cemetery. I was a little upset by their harassment a few days ago."
Zach was a little confused, "Are those security guards bothering the church?"
"Haha." Constantine waved his hand, "It's just a joke. I'm glad that Grande has become more and more disciplined. It's just that now I want to visit the tomb area occasionally and have to register. I'm not as free as before."
"Yeah." Zach actually shook his head, looking like he was thinking, "I found it too." (Matthew and Sloan were asked to register) But what Zach was really thinking about was not this, but another A somewhat uncomfortable thing, Sloan said, there will be an accident in the place where Saidil Security cooperates, and then make room for Aix Security Company. Think about it, this is a very uncomfortable thing for the owner of Grande.
"You're distracted again." Constantine smiled helplessly, okay, this conversation can't go on. The guy who is a guest only pays attention when the host is gossiping. As soon as the topic comes to the guests, he loses focus. How can he continue? "I believe you still have a lot of things to do, so I won't leave you alone." Constantine stood up with a smile. Naturally, he didn't mind Zach's mind being occupied by other things. As a neighbor, he knew Grande's attributes. Such a 'home' would be doomed if the owner had nothing to think about.
Zach stood up apologetically, "Sorry, a lot of things have happened recently, and I'm really a little distracted."
Constantine shook his head and comforted with a smile, "It's okay. Oh, by the way, the nuns asked me to tell Louise that she rarely comes here recently. You can come and sit down when you have time. Sometimes they are surrounded by demons every day and need some privacy. chat."
Zach smiled with a strange expression on his face, "Louise, well, Louise may not be able to go out these days."
"Well?" Constantine had a look of concern on his face, "Are you sick? I can ask the nuns to visit..." Seeing Zach's face getting weirder and weirder, Constantine blinked, "Oh! I got it." Then it turned into a smile, "Congratulations."
Zach also showed a grateful smile, "Thank you, you are the only one who congratulated me on this. I am very grateful that you, a priest, are willing to give such a positive comment."
"It's nothing." Constantine made the sign of the cross, "I am just a priest, not a holy master who decides what is negative." Yes, Constantine is the one who opposes the self-righteous judgment of the demon hunter on behalf of the faith! His research aims to recreate the trial process of faith and return the judgment of the devil to the Holy Lord, instead of carrying out lynching as a demon hunter!
So for vampires, Constantine will not judge vampires as a punishment for the Holy Lord's faith. All he recognizes is -
"Louise is a nice girl. I can't imagine her just being a human being in the Grande, carefully fighting for her own foothold (Louis is new to the Grande, and she only has the feeling that she is 'Zach's woman'" Identity, everything she has in Grande including her job and Old Hank’s respect are all earned by herself). This is not fair to her, haha, you know she deserves better. Now, at least she has a new starting point .”
Zach smiled sincerely, "Oh, Father, it's so nice to talk to you."
"Humph." Constantine smiled and shook his head, no longer caring about Zach, "It will be more enjoyable if you don't get distracted. Okay, let's go, I'm going to check out the preparations for tomorrow."
Zach nodded helplessly, yes, it would be fine if he didn't get distracted. But… (.)