She Chooses To Destroy the World

Chapter 5: A feast.

After the future **** disappeared, Alice was a little bit startled for a while.

What happened just now… was it real?

She still remembers the conversation with the God of the Future, and the information about the Undead Roma was clearly stored in her mind. These things never appear out of thin air.

She stood up in a daze, shook her for a while and almost fell down, only to realize that her legs were already kneeling numb. She stood by the wall for a while, feeling a little refreshed, and then she opened the door of the small prayer room and went out.

The temple outside was empty, and the rest of the children had already completed the ceremony, and followed the temple apprentices to the feast of the gods. Only Master Etienne stayed here, standing next to Bertrach’s idol, seemingly waiting for her.

She lowered her head:

“Sorry, I came out late.”

“It’s okay.” He heard her voice, raised his head and asked, “Did you meet Bertrach? His blessing—”

Master Etienne hadn’t finished asking that sentence, suddenly his expression changed:

“You didn’t become a believer in Beltchi…who did you meet?”

Master Etienne showed unprecedented sternness on her face, and Alice became frightened, and she took two steps back, leaning against the door of the small prayer room.

She doesn’t know how a person will change after becoming a believer, but obviously clergymen have their own way of judging. Thinking of Master Etienne’s attitude towards the God of the Future, Alice instinctively realized that she could not tell the truth to Master Etienne.

But what should I say?

She is just a child and has no experience in dealing with such incidents. She is still hesitating, but Etienne doesn’t allow her to think about it. He stepped in front of her a few steps and bent down to stare at her:

“Look into my eyes and say, what the **** is going on.”

Alice couldn’t retreat, she could only listen to Master Etienne and look into his eyes.

In normal times, Lord Etienne and the children keep their eyes parallel to make the children feel at ease. However, at this time, the face that is too close makes Alice feel particularly oppressed. It is not easy to see Master Etienne lying in his eyes. Even though he is gentle in nature, he is still a priest in this temple. There is considerable majesty in it. His particularly eye-catching blond hair and blue eyes looked like a **** in Alice’s eyes at this moment. It was even more daunting than the future **** who didn’t show his face to her. She was nervous and scared in her heart, tears came up uncontrollably, and while sucking her nose, she said all the things that had happened in the small prayer room just now.

Master Etienne frowned and looked at her, as if facing an extremely difficult choice. He looked at her for a long time, tried to say something a few times and then gave up. After a long silence, he finally made up his mind and sighed:

“…Fortunately, the person you met today was me.”

Alice didn’t understand the meaning of Master Etienne’s words, she didn’t dare to ask questions, she just looked at him with her lips pursed. He looked at her eyes seriously and put his finger on his lips:

“No matter who asks what happened today, don’t tell the truth. Absolutely, absolutely not.”

Alice nodded instinctively and stiffly like all children who didn’t know what she had done wrong. Seeing her reaction, Master Etienne’s expression became a little gentler, and he took her hand:

“Don’t be afraid, come with me.”

Alice didn’t know where he was going to take him. Under normal circumstances, she should go to the feast of the gods like other children. But Etienne didn’t seem to be planning to take her to the venue of the Feast of the Gods at this time. Where is he taking her? Alice was afraid to ask.

Etienne’s hands were very warm. Although it didn’t mean anything, it still made Alice feel at ease. At this moment, she had no help but to hold Etienne’s hand tightly.

Etienne took Alice through the dark corridor to a door. He cleansed his face and knocked respectfully. An old man’s slightly dumb voice came from the room:

“Come in.”

Etienne opened the door. Inside was a spacious office. An old man with silver hair and fat figure was sitting at the table reading a book. The sunlight came in through the window behind him, leaving his face completely in the shadow. When he raised his eyes to look at them, Alice felt a little frightened when he noticed that his gray-blue eyes cast sharp gazes like falcons.

She instinctively flinched behind Master Etienne.

Master Etienne did not pay attention to her small movements, but saluted the old man:

“Master, the ceremony is over.”

The chief priest is the most powerful person in the temple, all priests and temple apprentices, no matter what appears in the ceremony

The chief priest did not pay attention to Alice, but raised his head and asked Etienne:

“Etienne, what happened?”

Etienne grabbed Alice’s arm and pulled her to the master priest:

“The child’s prayer in front of the God of the Future is wrong. No **** wants to choose her as a believer.”

The priest shrugged:

“Although this kind of thing is rare, it’s not completely absent…Poor child, what would her parents say?”

Although he used the word “poor”, there was no sympathy in his tone. This sentence was not addressed to Alice. Ordinarily, she shouldn’t have answered, but I don’t know where the courage is weird. , Prompting her to say:

“I have no parents.”

The priest glanced at her, and the gray-blue eyes showed some kind of compassion, but the compassion was also fleeting. He immediately raised his head and looked at Etienne again:

“Let’s go, take her to the feast of the gods. The gods are merciful, even if they don’t want to accept her as a believer, they won’t spare such a meal.”

Since the master priest said this, it means that this matter is over, and he is not prepared to take it too seriously. Although Alice didn’t understand the meaning of this, she could feel that Master Etienne’s body suddenly relaxed.

So it should be… all right?

He bowed to the priest and was about to take her away. Just when he turned around, the priest stopped him:

“Etienne, wait a minute.”

Etienne turned his head and looked at the priest, the priest’s eyes flashed with a light called wisdom:

“Although the God of Guangming teaches us to be compassionate, you will be the person who will be the chief priest in the future, and you will be too soft-hearted to do well.”

The master priest seemed to have something to say, Etienne tried very hard to control his emotions and nodded:

“…Thank you for your teaching.”

The priest lowered his head, continued to read his book, waved his hand to let Etienne go.

Etienne breathed a sigh of relief when he came out of the master priest’s room.

“It’s okay, let’s go. Remember, don’t tell anyone what happened before!”

Even if Alice didn’t understand anything, she could vaguely understand that Master Etienne was shielding her. She was so grateful to Etienne in her little heart, she didn’t know how to express it, so she could only squeeze his hand.

Etienne took her to the feast of the gods.

The feast of the gods is the climax of this ceremony. It is said that at this time, the gods will come down from the sky and enjoy delicious food with the children who have just become believers. Therefore, the banquet is always as rich as possible, even exceeding the lord’s table. The recipes for the Feast of the Gods are basically fixed. The dishes are provided by several well-known restaurants in the city, and the bills are paid by the nobles in the city in turn.

The children from the poor are like people who have been hungry for several months at sea, desperately eating and drinking, enjoying these unseen delicacies, and fighting for three days after eating this meal without having to eat. Although human intestines and stomachs do not have such storage capacity, they are still doing their best to do so. The apprentices of the temple have already retired from behind the scenes at this time. They have to wait until the feast is over to taste the rest, so they sincerely hope that the children who participate in the feast can eat less.

After Etienne sent Alice to the empty seat at the end of the long table, he stood in front to maintain order. As the host of this ceremony, he needs to stay here until everything is over.

Alice knew that she might have been a little lower, but who could be lowered by looking at the delicacies in front of her? You know, even in her dream, she had never seen so many delicious things on the same table. It is always difficult for young children to be pessimistic, especially in the face of so many unseen delicacies, all the sorrows in the sky will be thrown out of the sky.

She decided to enjoy the banquet. She did. When her unsatisfied stomach and intestines were stuffed with meat, bread, and sweet desserts, all the things about the gods were forgotten.

She suddenly remembered what her friend Burke had said to her the night before:

“There will be a lot of food left at the banquet of the gods. If you can take a little away, there will be something delicious to eat the next day!”

Burke just said it casually, but at this time these words kept circling in Alice’s mind, and he couldn’t easily ignore it.

With so much food, no one will pay attention even if a little is taken away secretly.

Even if only one piece of bread is hidden, it can be worth one or two meals, and it is still quite a good meal.

Alice’s heart was about to move, but she still hesitated a little and never did it. It wasn’t until she saw that the last cake of the banquet was about to be served, and there would be no chance if she didn’t do it. Then she picked up a piece of bread, quietly received it under the table, and prepared to hide it in her pocket.

At this time, everyone’s eyes were focused on the big cake that was about to be carried over. Alice thought her actions were very secretive and no one could see, but Master Etienne was standing in front and could actually see the whole table. He quickly noticed Alice’s small movements. At this moment, Alice was looking around nervously, her eyes meeting him.

She was startled, holding the bread in her hand, wondering if she should take it out. At this moment, Etienne came to her, took her arm, put the bread back on the plate, and whispered in her ear:

“follow me.”

Passively caught a force on the spot, Alice’s feet were soft.

Master Etienne was very kind and even helped her just now, but she didn’t believe he would be soft on the criminals… She must be chopped off for making such a mistake.

Left hand or right hand? I hope it’s the left hand, she usually is more agile with the right hand. But even if she just cut off her left hand, she couldn’t do anything like washing clothes for others.

She just thought about it, and was taken out of the hall by Master Etienne, through many corridors, to a small room. The structure of this room is similar to that of the master priest, except that it is more than half the size. There is no couch or tea table for guests. Only a high stool without a backrest is placed in front of the desk. There was a huge pile of parcels piled on one side of the desk, it looked precarious, and it seemed that it would fall to the ground when touched.

Etienne let her sit on a high stool, turned her back, and sorted out the pile of packages.

Alice looked nervously at the back of Etienne-sama, mustered the courage to move her lips, but she couldn’t make a sound. Until Etienne sorted the package, glanced back at her, saw her lips trembling constantly, and asked:

“What did you say?”

Alice’s breath is weak:

“Don’t chop my hand…”