Your Mightiness

Investing in a pope someday in the future is one of the life routes that Raphael has planned long ago.Both Father Joe and Archbishop Giuliano were Rafael's investment candidates. Later, as Father Joe became more and more useless, France was taken down by the Black Prince, and Raphael focused on Julian who lived in France. promise.

The cardinal did not disappoint Rafael either, and gave Rafael unlimited surprises in just two years.

"Tell Giuliano that my people are going to speed up the plan." It is impossible for Raphael to leave August, and August is actively preparing to go to Cambridge for university, and it is unlikely to leave England for the time being. Therefore, the person who conveyed this kind of news to Archbishop Giuliano that might make everyone finish playing together was decided on the idle Father Joe.

"Because you all only trust me?" Father Qiao suddenly felt a sense of responsibility. He didn't expect him to be trusted so deeply.

Raphael gave Father Joe a half-smile look.

Obviously Raphael didn't say a word, but Father Joe always had the feeling that Raphael had expressed his dislike heartily enough.

Except for August, Rafael did not trust anyone, and sent Father Joe only because Father Joe was the only intermediary in the common social circle of Raphael and Juliano who could barely compromise with each other.For the sake of the late Innocent VIII, Giuliano felt more at ease with Father Joe, the brother-in-law of the former Pope; Raphael felt that Father Joe was more in control than Giuliano.

Yes, although Rafael's plan temporarily chose Giuliano and gave up Father Joe, but it was only temporary.

Father Joe is not as good as Giuliano in everything, but there is only one thing that is enough for him to have the last laugh, and that is youth.

Raphael, who is used to doing things tens of steps forward, is already considering the issue of Giuliano's candidate after becoming Pope.

He meant that after all, Giuliano was born in the Franciscan order, one of the important branches of the beggar brotherhood, and he would definitely not please the type of order that August liked.The opponent's ideological and religious cognition is indeed a bit extreme. It is only suitable for being a good knife, but it is not suitable for sitting in the position of the pope all the time.

Father Joe is the exact opposite of Giuliano. He can't do great things, but he is very suitable to enjoy the results.

"What do you think of witch hunting?" Raphael asked Father Joe bluntly. Father Joe's next answer will determine the degree of Raphael's investment in him in the future.

"What do you think?" Father Qiao was puzzled.

The reason why Raphael dared to ask so bluntly was because Father Joe was a fool. He had no idea what Raphael was going to do, nor did he plan to.

"For, or against?"

"Uh..." Father Qiao frowned in embarrassment, and after a long time he had the courage to ask, "Does this matter have anything to do with me?"

Father Qiao has always been too lazy to think about things that have nothing to do with him. He doesn't have any thoughts, good or bad, he doesn't care very much.Let's put it this way, whether or not the witch trials exist will not have any impact on Father Joe.He doesn't stop it, he doesn't push it.With that thinking time, he might as well think about how to catch up with John.

Raphael was thoughtful. Although this answer was not the most satisfactory to him, it was still acceptable.So he asked again: "What about Protestantism?"

"Damn it, I got it!" Father Qiao seemed to be enlightened in an instant, "You don't want me to be a Protestant priest, do you?!"

Raphael: "..." Sorry, I still overestimated your IQ.

"No, no, even if you kill him." Father Qiao shook his head like a rattle, destroying the rare sense of sanctity that belonged to the priest all over his body.

Although Father Qiao had no right to choose his future career since he was a child, he actually liked it quite a bit after becoming one.This is the only thing he thinks he can do well, preaching and enlightening people, he likes the feeling of eliminating the sins in people's hearts.Of course, a Protestant clergyman could do these things too, but Father Joe didn't want to change his family for it.

After resolutely opposing it, Father Qiao remembered that Raphael in front of him seemed to have never expressed his true religious position. If the other party actually supported Protestantism, wouldn't he have offended Raphael thoroughly?

Father Qiao hurriedly remedied: "Uh, what I mean is that Protestantism is not bad, and I also support some teachings, but, Protestantism is not suitable for me, do you understand what I mean? I insist on believing in Catholicism, not necessarily How much I love this, and I know there are a lot of problems within the Vatican, but it suits me better. Do you understand?"

Raphael understood and was satisfied.Father Qiao's attitude towards religious issues is actually still in the state of having nothing to do with me, and I have no idea.

He doesn't care, doesn't care, doesn't matter.

It’s just...

Raphael's most perfect interpretation of the puppet pope.

Raphael supported neither Catholicism nor Protestantism, and he only wanted to use the Reformation to his own advantage.Father Joe's impartial attitude will make it easier for Rafael to make troubles in the future.

When August saw Raphael at night, Raphael was in a good mood playing with marionettes in front of the curtain, one in each hand, full of skills.Raphael liked to play this kind of game of being a manipulator when he was a child. As long as he wanted, he could make his puppet do anything.But when Raphael grew up, he got tired of the marionettes, because he found that humans were more fun.Now it is rare to regain childhood.

August didn't say anything to disturb Raphael. Instead, he sat in front of the curtain with great interest and watched Raphael dub his marionette.

The blond-haired puppet was happily chatting with the black-haired puppet, telling each other what they did all day.

The blond puppet said in a happy tone: "I went to see the knight commander's training this morning. He is so powerful, so handsome, so great!"

The black-haired puppet had a cold face for a second: "Don't look!"

Blonde Puppet: "Okay, okay."

The black-haired puppet smiled reservedly.

The blond puppet talked about other happy things: "I played with my cousin for a day later, he grew up so fast, he really deserves to be my cousin! I like him very much!"

The black-haired puppet changed face again: "Don't like it!"

Blonde Puppet: "Okay, okay."

The black-haired puppet laughed in satisfaction.

The blond puppet shared the happiness again and said: "After I left my cousin's bedroom, I received bread from the red hair again. It's delicious!"

The black-haired puppet snorted: "Don't eat!"

Then, there was no more, August deliberately ate the croissant Anne sent in front of Raphael, bite by bite.

Even if Auguste is a fool, he can tell which play Raphael's marionettes are singing.

Raphael sighed, so although humans are more interesting, sometimes he still wishes to turn all humans into marionettes, so that he can do whatever he wants.

The black-haired puppet and the blond puppet sat side by side in front of the curtain.

The black-haired puppet asks, "Do you love me?"

The blond puppet leaned forward and kissed the brunette in reply.

The black-haired puppet was not satisfied, and insisted again: "I love you, I love you devoutly with every second of my life, do you love me?"

I don't want you to look at others, I don't want you to talk to others, I don't want you to take anything that others give you... But I can't say it, because I love you so much, I don't want you to be unhappy because of my constraints.

In the end, August still couldn't meet Raphael's eyes. He stepped forward and hugged Raphael from behind, resting his head on the opponent's generous back, feeling the increasingly hot body of the opponent. Temperature, after hugging enough, he said: "Rimbaud said, my eternal soul, watching your heart, even though the night is lonely and the day is burning."

"Rimbaud is a gay poet who will appear many years later. An actor I like very much played Rimbaud in a movie. I didn't know that there was such a person in this world. I actually didn't read I don't understand his poem, but I remembered this sentence, and I planned to tell it to my future lover at that time. I want to tell him that maybe I don't know what the real meaning of this poem is, but I think it's saying, I fucking love you, shit."

Then, they almost fucked up.

cough.

When August was lying on the carpet enjoying the aftertaste, he told Raphael the truth: "I don't want you to look at others, I don't want you to talk to others, I don't want you to take anything that others give you... because You should only belong to Lao Tzu from the inside to the outside!"

"You only have me, and I only have you." As soon as Raphael thought of this possibility, he became hard again.

August laughed: "Then we will become the two loneliest psychopaths in the world."

Raphael turned over, put his hands on August's ears, and looked down at him, his eyes were full of madness that couldn't be hidden, and his deep and hoarse voice showed the master's not-so-good mood: "You In no mood?"

August stretched out his hand and put his arms around Raphael's neck: "If I didn't want to, I wouldn't have proposed to go to Cambridge."

Then, they did what they had just done again, with a strong emotion that devoured each other.It's not so much that they're kissing, it's that they want to swallow each other up like beasts.

These days, Raphael is really suffocating. First Richard II, then the Black Prince, and then various things happened. They haven't been able to really relax together for a long time.Obviously he and the others have only started dating for a short time, but they have already lived like an old husband.It is already incredible that Raphael can endure until today before breaking out.

At the end, August said those three words seriously: "I love you."