Shepherd Tantra

Chapter 864: The Gift of the Twin Mirror
Star Antimony, Leipzig.

While Aiwas of the Theocracy was still selecting entries, Aleister, who was leaning on the soft sofa chair with his eyes closed, had already undergone a strange change.

Her body quickly lost its color, gradually petrified, and turned into a grayish-white stone statue.

Lily appeared in the room almost instantly.

"What happened?"

She looked at Aleister, who was petrified on the sofa, in astonishment, and her anxiety reached its maximum: "This... Could it be..."

"—Don't worry, little maid."

Suddenly, a low and hoarse voice sounded.

Lily turned around and saw a pitch-black crow standing quietly on the coat rack like a decoration.

It opened its dangerous scarlet pupils and looked at Lily: "She just returned to where she should be. This is a good thing."

"Miss Aleister... should be where she is..."

Lily muttered to herself, and suddenly realized, "Could it be that...she has already--"

"Yes, they have merged again. The body of this Moon Child lacks a soul, so it naturally turned into a stone statue. Just like every dead Moon Child."

The Night Demon Vignes replied.

Upon hearing this, Lily laughed excitedly: "Finally... Is the young master going to change back?"

To Lily, neither the separate "Pope Aiwass" nor "Miss Aleister" was the "Master Aiwass" she was familiar with.

The one who would take her to college, fulfill her wish to study, help her gain extraordinary powers...bring her promotion, and help her complete her revenge.

Her benefactor.

If she was just "Lily", she would be unable to do anything. She might even be killed by that man before she could take revenge.

It is because of Aiwass that she is able to survive and is where she is today.

That is not only a favor of recognition, but also a life-saving favor.

Now Aiwass has no use for her power at all, let alone wanting to "buy" her loyalty - he has become the most powerful man in the world, but in order to help her clean up the remaining consciousness of Gray Tiansi in her body, he traveled thousands of miles to Xingtan and even intervened in these troublesome matters for this purpose.

That was the person she really wanted to serve for the rest of her life.

She didn't know what the "tail-cutting method" was - she only knew that even if a lizard was forced to cut off its tail, the cut-off tail would still have no consciousness. If the lizard's tail also had some consciousness of its own, then would the lizard with its tail cut off still be the same lizard?

Therefore, even though the appearance, features and personality of "Pope Aiwass" were more like the original, Lily always believed that it was not the complete Aiwass.

It's like a good friend who suddenly turns evil one day - although rationally, I know that he is still my friend, just a little different. But the person I knew and became friends with back then is not the person I am now...

Because of this, she has been feeling a little depressed during this period.

now……

They are finally together again!
Hearing the noise, the little lamb Selene, who had not yet fallen asleep, also rushed over.

She listened to the conversation and realized what was happening.

Selene raised a question, “But…what about Aleister?
"——What about Leviathan?"

Although Selene's birth was closely related to Aiwass, and one could even say that she was Aiwass' half-daughter... However, the monster "Leviathan" she created had nothing to do with Aiwass at all.

That child inherited Aleister's blood and was only related to Aleister.

Because of this, Selene became the person who paid the most attention to Aleister among these people.

"...As a child of the moon, if I put myself in blood, I should be able to be resurrected."

Selene said stubbornly: "I have a lot of blood - I can provide that blood."

"What'Aleister' is missing is her soul. If you don't want a new, ignorant, baby-like consciousness to be born within her body and take over her name, it's best not to act rashly."

The crow-shaped Night Devil said coldly: "The master has his own ideas. Who among you has a deeper feeling for Aleister than the master?"

Vines was also quite unhappy.

She is a real jealous beast, and it is natural for her to be jealous of the birth of a new colleague.

Everyone knows that "Aleister" is aiming for the position of the beast of sin - without a doubt, her position should be the beast of "lust". The original Aleister can still be considered a part of Aiwass. It sounds too strange for one part of oneself to become the pet of another part of oneself.

But now, Aleister is just a consciousness created by Aiwass that belongs entirely to him. She is no longer a part of Aiwass.

But she possesses all of Evans' memories, and her personality is completely born from Evans' memories and a part of his Taoist impulses. She then uses Evans' flesh and soul as materials for refining... It is a brand new phantom demon that has been cultivated, just like a spiritual guard created by a necromancer.

The only difference is that the necromancer uses "other people's souls", while Aiwass uses his own soul.

In a sense, this behavior itself should also be considered as the "tail-cutting method". It's just that after Ashley and Aiwass separated, Aiwass hated Ashley out of his own will, while Aleister fell in love with Aiwass out of his own choice.

Bone of bones, flesh of flesh, soul of soul... With strong desires, he calmly accepted his new life and freed himself from the constraints of ethics. Nothing is more suitable for the great sin of "lust" than this.

After all, she herself had committed that great crime.

If the other deadly sin marks came from the conspiracy or behind-the-scenes manipulation of the Fallen Angels, only the "jealousy" mark and the "lust" mark were what Aleister deserved.

——Because of this, Vignes was somewhat unhappy with her.

Originally she was a part of Aiwass, but what is she now?
And Lily also keenly sensed Vignes' dissatisfaction.

So she didn't ask any more questions, but instead asked directly what to do: "So what should we do?"

"Break the stone statue into pieces, put it in a box and take it away."

Night Demon replied: "Take it to the Narcissus Principality - the master will go there later. Let the Xingtan people handle it first..."

"...Can the young master leave the Church?" Lily frowned and questioned.

"Almost. Almost."

The crow laughed and turned into black smoke and disappeared: "The day of liberation is coming soon..."

At this time, Aiwass had already woken up, and the Night Devil was recalled instantly.

On the other side, in a port city far away from the royal capital, Lalo suddenly opened his eyes.

He received the gift of the twin mirror, and this gift made him a little unbelievable...

...I'm afraid this twin mirror is not a funny person, right?

Lalo, who was wearing rags, had just completed the promotion ceremony and received the power from the dream world. He rushed to the next door without having time to test it.

He immediately saw the eldest princess lying on the bed, dying like a corpse.

The cracked skin on her body was almost healed, but her body was covered in blood, and a bloody human figure appeared on the bed, which looked particularly scary.

Princess Noelle, who was unable to move at the moment, saw Lalo and immediately showed a smile from the bottom of her heart: "You succeeded, Lalo..."

"Your Highness, are you okay?"

Lalo put his hand on the eldest princess' neck without hesitation, and then pressed her forehead, chest and lower abdomen.

He breathed a sigh of relief: "Fortunately, Sizhu Cibei...it's just that your soul is a little torn. I can heal this level of injury, and it won't affect your chances of promotion in the future. But you...can't use your extraordinary powers in the next two weeks."

"That doesn't matter, Lalo."

The princess blinked slightly, moved her pupils, and said vaguely without moving her lips, "I have gained the courage.

"Compared to that... let me see, what kind of power did you get from the dream world? This is a ritual performed by the twin mirrors... Also, what happened after I quit?"

"Um……"

Lalo hesitated for a moment, but finally agreed.

For some reason, he was no longer singing exaggerated poems like a clown as usual.

"Please wait."

He said politely, walked to a floor-length mirror next to him, and chanted in a low voice: "I worship the Twin Mirrors! The God of the Holy Number Two, the God without eyes and self, the God of pure beauty and flawlessness——"

"I am you..."

As the mirror began to glow, the image of the person reflected in the mirror changed.

Another female voice overlapped with Old Lalo's: "You are me—"

As old Lalo walked towards the mirror.

Another "her" walked out of the mirror.

Princess Noelle opened her eyes slightly wide in disbelief.

Because at this moment, old Lalo...

It turned out to be herself.

——She became "Princess Noelle"!
“That’s the power I got.”

"Noel" bowed slightly to Noel on the bed, with a complicated expression: "I can now become your appearance, and it is unrecognizable. In other words, I can become the appearance of the 'master' I choose... and become the mirror substitute of the other party.

"...This is the...gift of the Twin Mirror."

(End of this chapter)