Arnold also extended an invitation to Angus who was standing next to him, which made Angus look up suddenly and look at Arnold and Mother Karma with hope in his eyes.
At this time, Mother Karma showed an embarrassed expression and said,
"You can only take two children at a time. This is the rule from above. How about Reverend Arnold come back in three years?"
Arnold remembered a secret and slapped his head and said,
"I would have forgotten if you hadn't told me. I will be away from Umr for a long time. I'm sorry, little guy. I can only let you wait for your destined person."
Aengus shook his head and said slowly,
"It doesn't matter..."
Aengus was also alone before he met Jobtran and Tristana, and their departure had a huge impact on Aengus.
The formalities were completed quickly under the care of Aunt Karma, so Arnold thanked Aunt Karma and left the orphanage with the two of them.
Everything seemed like a dream to Angus, and he soon woke up and returned to his lonely life;
But before leaving, Jobtran said something to Angus, "Take good care of yourself, maybe we'll come back to visit you in a few days?"
These words left a thought in Angus' mind.
Time passed quickly. More than half a month had passed since the day when Jobtran and Tristana were adopted by Arnold.
Jobtran had thought he would be doing odd jobs under Arnold, but Arnold didn't care about daily life at all.
Arnold gave the two men two tasks that sounded simple but turned out to be difficult in practice.
1. Memorize the entire Holy Light Sutra. 2. Run ten kilometers every day.
In Arkham Welfare Home, reciting the Holy Light Sutra every day is one of the daily homework, but memorizing the Holy Light Sutra completely is a very difficult task.
The Holy Light Sutra has sixty-six volumes of scriptures, each of which has at least several hundred words. This is as difficult as asking you to remember how many leaves there are on a tree and where the leaves are distributed. Some of the scriptures are relatively difficult to understand. If you do not memorize them over and over again every day, you may not be able to remember the first two volumes of scriptures in a short period of time.
This task was also a challenge for Jobtran, who was naturally fond of learning, but he had completed the recitation of the first five volumes of scriptures after using some mnemonics and tricks; while Tristene had difficulty reciting the first twenty verses of the Book of Genesis, which was already a remarkable achievement for him.
Another task was to run ten kilometers, which didn't sound like a big number, but Jobtran and Tristanne were just teenagers.
Although Arnold's original intention was for the two to exercise through running, they were exhausted after a whole day of reciting. After running ten kilometers, they both came back collapsed on the ground like a pile of mud.
Arnold would always make himself a pot of tea and sit by the Danube, watching the sun slowly set while waiting for the two little ones to return to his position along the river.
The two little guys dragged their tired bodies back to Arnold, and Jobtran panted and said,
"Run... I'm done..."
"Well, have some tea, take a rest, and add another kilometer tomorrow."
After hearing this, Tristene covered her face and cried out in pain, "Ah, I can't do it anymore. I can't run anymore."
Jobtran glared at Tristenay who was complaining and said,
"Mr. Arnold, it's for us to exercise. Look at you, your arms are full of fat."
"Okay, okay... Then I'll eat two more pieces of bread at night!" Tristenay said, with her hands on her hips.
"If I don't eat enough, how can I have the energy to run?"
Tristana's righteous look made Arnold laugh.
As an exorcist, Arnold had never considered the issue of having children, but during the time he had been in contact with these two boys, he had already treated them as his own children.
"Okay, the bread will fill you up." Arnold said with a smile.
Elsewhere in Arkham Asylum, Angus resumed his solitary daily life.
"I heard that there will be new books delivered to the library today. It would be great if they were cute picture books."
Paulie said to her friend.
Xisa, the living committee member at the side, smiled.
"Why don't you go and have a look yourself later?"
Baoli's eyes lit up, and she nodded and said to her friend,
"Let's go after we finish our lessons! Okay?"
"Okay." Several children responded.
Angus listened quietly to the lively discussion of his classmates in the classroom and sighed.
He missed the boy with short silver-gray hair and the greedy dwarf.
Thinking of this, Angus walked out of the classroom alone, crossed the playground and returned to the tree where they first met.
It is already late autumn. The leaves on the trees have all fallen, leaving only bare branches, and there are no more birds singing in the trees.
Everything seems so desolate and lonely.
A bone-chilling chill came to Angus from the bleak wind.
Angus sat under the tree, in a daze.
On the other side, Mariner seemed to have calmed down after being whipped, but he was actually waiting for an opportunity, an opportunity for revenge.
Hearing that the library seemed to have some new books, Mariner decided to go and take a look and borrow a few to relieve his depressed mood.
Under the guidance of the librarian, Mariner found the corner where the new books were placed. The books there had not been sorted out yet and were piled up messily in the corner. They could only be sorted out after some bookshelves were vacated the next day or the day after tomorrow.
Marlin then flipped through it, first some ordinary children's books, and then some literary works.
"It looks like there aren't any good books left, so I'll just pick one at random."
Marlin thought gloomily.
Marlin pulled out a book from the bottom of the pile without even looking at the contents. He then told the librarian,
"I want to borrow a book. Do I need to go through any formalities?"
After hearing this, the administrator adjusted his glasses and glanced at the spine of the book. There was no label on the spine saying that the book had been put into storage, so he said impatiently,
"This book has not been put into storage yet. You can read it here and leave after you finish it."
Marlin shrugged helplessly and said,
"Okay, okay."
After saying that, Mariner found a corner, squatted down, and opened the book that changed the fate of many people.
The cover of the book looks very ordinary, but the slightly different thing is that the author's name is not marked on the cover.
The name of this book is "Vatek". Unlike other children's books, this book does not have too many pictures, but more text descriptions.
This is a novel that accidentally got mixed up in the children's book collection, a Gothic novel that should have been burned long ago, but it miraculously appeared here.
The strange and terrifying content of the novel made Mariner unable to put it down. He just sat quietly in the corner reading it, immersed in the fictional yet extremely real world.