blogombal Chapter 317 The Priest and the Nun
Chapter 317 The Priest and the Nun
Chapter 317 The Priest and the Nun
Seven years is not a long time, but for Broly, who only stayed for a few days when he first came here, Fuyuki City is still an unfamiliar modern metropolis.
"Where are we going?"
After flying aimlessly around the city at high speed, Broly finally asked the question.
"Oh, shouldn't you have asked that sooner?"
Rin Tohsaka's girlish face showed surprise, and then she made a sarcastic remark.
"You only told me to take you away, away from your father's observation range, but you didn't say where you were to take you."
Broly began to argue.
"That's absolutely right..."
Rin Tohsaka pressed her hat down with her hand, turned her head to look at the boy who had asked her to stay, and a smile inevitably appeared on her face.
Seven years have passed since we parted, but there seems to be little sense of estrangement, as if we had only known each other for a short time.
What are you laughing at?
Broly was somewhat puzzled by the meaning behind Rin Tohsaka's sudden turn of her head and her smiling gaze.
"I wasn't laughing at anything, I just suddenly thought of something. Um, Broly, let me ask you something. If I asked you to come with me right now, and I need to go to the bathroom, would you come with me into the bathroom?"
Rin Tohsaka asked the question.
"Sister, what kind of strange question is that?"
Sakura, who was standing nearby, was a little confused and asked directly.
"If you need to use the restroom and need me to come with you, then I will go in with you."
Broly didn't understand why Rin Tohsaka asked the question, but he still answered her strange question honestly.
"What if I don't tell you, and I need you to come with me to the bathroom?"
Broly: "..."
He lifted Sakura onto his shoulder, then freed one hand to touch Rin Tohsaka's forehead.
What are you doing?
Rin Tohsaka's forehead was touched by Broly's little hand, and this time it was her turn to be puzzled by the boy's behavior.
"I just wanted to know if you're sick."
"I'm not sick."
"If you're not sick, why would you ask such a strange question?"
"Just tell me, are you going to follow?"
"I'll stay outside the toilet."
"Well, you're much more common-sense than when I first met you."
Rin Tohsaka confirmed.
"So, sister, you asked Brother Broly this question because you wanted to confirm that he has more common sense than before."
Sakura asked.
"I guess so, but I'm more interested in how much he's changed compared to before."
Rin Tohsaka nodded, but then said something else.
"Just how big is the change?"
Sakura asked out of curiosity, wanting to know the difference between how her older sister saw the boy now and how her older sister saw the boy in the past.
"Not that big, he's the little classmate I met who transferred to our class."
Rin Tohsaka said with absolute certainty.
"You've changed quite a bit."
Broly said sincerely that Rin Tohsaka now seems to have a bit more... well, Broly doesn't quite know how to describe it, but it's like a well-behaved child suddenly becoming mischievous, that kind of frivolous temperament.
"Girls change a lot as they grow up!"
Rin Tohsaka said with a smile.
"Sister, you're only fifteen, not eighteen yet."
Sakura's spot-on commentary.
"This is just a colloquial way of saying it..."
After a pause, Rin Tohsaka suddenly asked the boy, "Broly, do you think I'm prettier now than I was when I was a child?"
"almost."
Broly carefully examined the other person before giving his answer.
"Compared to when I was a child, I've changed so much, how could I possibly be the same?"
Rin Tohsaka grumbled somewhat discontentedly.
"It's pretty much the same, at least the lecturing tone hasn't changed much."
Broly said seriously.
"Pfft~"
Sakura, perched on his shoulder, couldn't help but laugh out loud, while Rin Tohsaka, held in Broly's hand, blushed visibly.
"So, where are we going, or are we just going to float in the sky like this?"
Broly, oblivious to the situation, asked again.
"Go to the Holy Church in Fuyuki City; it's quieter there."
Rin Tohsaka said somewhat irritably.
"it is good."
Broly nodded in agreement and took to the air again.
But after flying a short distance, it immediately stopped again.
"What's wrong now?"
"The Holy Church, where is that place again?"
Sakura covered her mouth and chuckled, finding Broly's older brother quite adorable.
"there."
Rin Tohsaka's lips twitched, and she pointed in a direction in the air.
Broly then led his men and flew in the direction the girl had pointed.
However, they dared not fly too fast, as they still needed the girl's guidance.
. . . .
Inside the small chapel of the Fuyuki City branch of the Holy Church, a vinyl record was slowly spinning, and from the large speaker of an antique record player came an ethereal female humming voice. This was a classical piece called "Ave Maria," which plunged the entire church into a somewhat ethereal state.
In the courtyard, the priest, sitting in a wheelchair with his eyes closed, was lost in thought as his thoughts, accompanied by music, soared into the sky, filled the clouds, and turned into raindrops falling to the earth when a sudden gust of wind swept through the courtyard.
The snow that had melted just two days ago had now turned into splashing puddles, which hit the priest's face with a cold, hard touch, wetting his black priest's robe and his slightly curly long hair.
Wiping the water off his face, the priest looked at the person who had caused all this in the courtyard.
Rin Tohsaka, back on the ground, stumbled slightly, her steps unsteady, before the boy helped her regain her balance.
She also looked in their direction, and noticing the man's gaze, asked, "Senior brother, did you just take a shower?"
"Do I look like I'm taking a bath?"
The priest asked a question in return, his gaze already fixed on the boy beside the girl.
"I apologize to you on his behalf."
Rin Tohsaka put her hands together and said.
"No need, just get me a clean towel."
Rin Tohsaka ran off to get a towel.
"Sorry, I didn't notice you when I was falling."
Broly took the initiative to apologize.
The priest in front of me had a very restrained aura, much like a small rodent.
There are many more auras like this within his perception, but he usually ignores them.
"It's alright. By the way, haven't we met before?"
The priest asked the question.
Have you seen it before?
Broly frowned, carefully recalling the people he knew in this world, but he couldn't recall the person in front of him.
"I'm sorry, I don't have a strong memory for people who aren't connected to me, and I don't recall any impression of you."
Broly shook his head, speaking very honestly.
"It's alright. We only met once before, but I just have a stronger personal memory of you. Um, please allow me to introduce myself."
"I am Kirei Kotomine, the current priest presiding over the Fuyuki City Church, and also Rin Tohsaka's senior, having studied under her father for a period of time."
The priest in the wheelchair introduced himself.
"I am Broly, a Saiyan."
Broly then introduced himself.
"What is your relationship with Rin?"
Kirei Kotomine was somewhat curious.
She is my wife.
Broly answered honestly.
"Huh?"
Kirei Kotomine subconsciously exerted force with both hands, causing his body to lean forward slightly.
"I've never heard her mention before that she already has a boyfriend."
Before Broly could speak, a rolled-up towel was thrown forcefully from the side, hitting the face of the priest who was showing his expression of curiosity about the story behind it all.
"This is my personal matter, please don't pry into it, senior brother."
Rin Tohsaka then quickly walked over.
"Rin, throwing things so forcefully is not something a noble lady should do."
After wiping his face with a towel, Kirei Kotomine spoke.
"It is not something a priest should do to pry into other people's private affairs."
Rin Tohsaka retorted to his words.
"Indeed, but please forgive my curiosity as a disabled person who is paralyzed from the waist down. Now, all I can experience are stories I've read in books or heard from others."
"Nothing special. He saved my sister and me back then, and now he's my fiancé. It's that simple."
Rin Tohsaka said succinctly.
Does your father know about this?
Kirei Kotomine, somewhat curious, pressed for more details.
"I didn't tell him, but I feel that he shouldn't be interfering with my rights in this matter."
Rindo Tohsaka.
"Did you have another argument with the teacher?"
Kirei Kotomine then asked.
"no."
The girl denied it.
"That means they had an argument."
The priest nodded.
Rin Tohsaka always comes here for roughly the same reason.
I remember the last time was when she wanted to join a school club, but the teacher rejected her application.
The teacher believed that she should spend more energy on magic training.
The fact that she was gradually drifting apart from her ordinary friends made the girl feel sad.
"Senior brother, if you don't welcome me here, I'll go somewhere else."
"Okay, I won't lecture you anymore."
"Could you spare this space? We need to have a chat."
"Go to the church lounge; no one will bother you there."
"Sorry to bother you."
Sakura said something very politely before entering the church.
"May I ask about your relationship with him?"
"I'm the same as my sister."
The three went to the lounge. Kirei Kotomine sat by the courtyard for a while, and only after feeling a bit cold did he push his wheelchair to the record player and stop it.
A soft murmur of conversation drifted from the lounge, and Kirei Kotomine's ears twitched as he vaguely overheard some amusing anecdotes about adventure.
It seems the boy has been adventuring in other places over the years, encountering many interesting people and things, which he is now telling Rin and Sakura, the two sisters.
However, the other party seemed to have some urgent business, and the story didn't last long before they appeared to be preparing to leave.
"Squeak~"
The church doors were then pushed open.
"Father, why are you here instead of over in the courtyard, listening to your soul-purifying music?"
A girl walked in from outside, came up behind the priest, and asked a question.
We have guests today.
Kirei Kotomine was answering his daughter's question when the door to the adjacent lounge opened.
"Who's here to visit? It's Aunt Lin!"
The little girl dressed as a nun, carrying a supermarket bag, greeted Rin Tohsaka very politely upon seeing the people in the lounge.
"Little Karen, if you don't know how to call out, you don't have to. No one will think you're mute."
As soon as the title "aunt" was uttered, Rin Tohsaka's face darkened visibly.
"This is Father Kotomine's daughter."
Sakura introduced the girl's identity to Broly.
"Her name is..."
"Karen Ordesia".
Before Sakura could even utter the name of the white-haired, golden-eyed little nun, Broly had already spoken the other's name based on the information displayed on the Crystal Palace panel.
"Um?!"
Upon hearing this, the people around were somewhat surprised and all looked over at once.
The white-haired little nun herself also looked over.
Upon seeing that the speaker was a boy who looked about seven or eight years old, she asked, "Little brother, do you know me?"
Karen Aldesia, who was taken back to her father's side seven years ago, did not undergo the trials of the original Destiny Line Convent, which made her more like a normal girl.
At least, there was a look of doubt on her face right now.
"We didn't know each other before, but now that we've met, we know each other."
"You have an interesting way of speaking."
The little nun looked at Rin Tohsaka.
"Aunt Lin, is this a relative of yours?"
She asked.
The next moment, her cheek was pinched by the girl who stepped in front of her.
"I told you, don't call me auntie."
"Isn't this what you told me to call you before? You're my father's junior sister, so naturally you're a generation older than me. It's only right that I call you 'Auntie'."
"I told you to call her 'sister,' not 'auntie.'"
Rin Tohsaka pinched the little nun's face until it turned red, which finally made the little nun start calling her "older sister."
"Sister, you should have gone easier on me."
Sakura leaned over to rub the little nun's reddened cheeks, and then started to complain a little.
"Sakura-neechan is so nice."
Karen Aldesia enjoyed the girl's hands as she massaged her face.
However, she is actually two years younger than Sakura.
"If you stop calling me 'aunt' and stop calling me 'sister,' she won't pinch your cheek."
"If she didn't pinch my cheeks, then Sister Sakura wouldn't have gently rubbed my cheeks, right?"
Karen retorted.
Sakura looked somewhat helpless in response.
Both she and her sister knew Father Kotomine's daughter, but for some reason, Karen always liked to provoke her sister, but was closer to her.
"So, is this child a relative of yours?"
Karen asked again.
"They're not relatives."
Sakura denied it.
"He's my fiancé, so according to your logic, you should call him 'uncle'."
Rin Tohsaka teased from the side.
Broly, suddenly given a seniority: "..."
"So, you've finally awakened your 'shota fetish' tendencies, already gone so far as to abduct a young boy, and are now preparing to commit further crimes against him?"
Karen took a deep breath and asked the question, but she had already taken out her phone, looking as if she was about to call the police.
Rin Tohsaka: "..."
"Ah, no, that's not true. Broly just looks young, but he's actually older than me."
After some explanation, Karen realized that the boy in front of her, who looked younger than her, was probably the future husband of her two older sisters, that is, her brother-in-law.
"Nice to meet you. I am Sister Karen Aldesia from the Fuyuki Church. It's a pleasure to meet you."
The young nun straightened up, lifted her nun's robe, and gave the boy a slight bow, making a very formal gesture of greeting as she earnestly introduced herself.
"I'm Broly, may I ask you a question?"
"Of course, please ask."
"Would you be willing to be my friend with the ultimate goal of becoming my wife?"
"Huh?!" ×4
(End of this chapter)