Little Priest's Cat Diary

"Cough! Cough-cough-"

Mia coughed violently after being choked up by the shouted words from the Xitayan who rushed in.

Fortunately, the man's yelling also disrupted the originally quiet hall, so Mia's cough was not very noticeable amidst the noise.

Fanaya was frowning tightly, with a serious expression on his face. When he heard the coughing sound of the young man beside him, he immediately got up and went over, patting Mia on the back to help him breathe.

He comforted Mia while patting.

"Don't worry, the Portoyas won't come over so soon."

What you have in front of you is a Portoyasian!

Mia's face turned red from holding back, but fortunately, in the eyes of others, it was the redness caused by severe coughing.

He managed to catch his breath, and when he raised his head, he heard a snap.

The priestess tapped the table.

The sound was not loud, but it made the chaotic hall suddenly quiet down.

Everyone raised their heads and their eyes fell on the priestess.

"My lord priest."

An elder said hurriedly, "The patriarch has been bedridden recently, and it happened at such a time that the great emperor attacked."

He asked worriedly: "What should we do?"

The priestess raised her head and looked at the night sky through the open skylight in the outer hall.

Her gaze was deep and far away, although her gaze was looking ahead, it seemed as if she had crossed an infinite space and looked at a distant place that no one could see.

After a while, she withdrew her eyes from the night sky outside, turned her head, and her eyes fell on the young man not far away.

The moonlight fell on the moonstone bracelet on the young man's wrist, causing the milky white jade to emit a glistening blue light.

The moonlight changes, and the refracted blue light shakes with it, as if there is sea water slowly rippling in it.

She watched Mia silently.

"I've said it before."

she says,

"That child will replace me and lead the Hitaya clan to a new path."

The ten people present were all shocked.

Although they knew from the announcement outside the temple in the afternoon that the young man had been chosen as the successor by the priest, they felt that the priest was still in his prime and it was impossible to step down so quickly.

At least ten years later, he will train the young man before handing over the heavy responsibility to the young man.

But listening to it now, it is obvious that the priest intends to directly entrust all the responsibilities of the Hitaya clan to that boy.

"My lord priest, we are not questioning your decision."

A middle-aged man stood up, frowned and said, "It's just that the child is still too young to take on such an important task...is it a bit embarrassing for him?"

Another person followed up and said: "Yes, my lord priest, if it was an ordinary period, it would be fine, but now is the most dangerous time, if you are not careful, our family will be wiped out. Anyway, please first Lead us out of trouble before..."

"I have said so."

The hoarse voice of the priestess interrupted everyone.

"The future of the Hitaya tribe is up to him to decide."

Her deep eyes swept across the group of people, revealing a meaningful expression.

"Don't forget, what is the purpose of our Hitaya clan sticking to this place for thousands of years?"

"Don't forget, what is the meaning of our clan's existence."

Her voice seemed to fill the noisy hall.

She hummed, repeating the ancient prophecy engraved on the mural on the stone pillar.

"【Thousands of years later, he will return from the sea again】..."

The entire hall suddenly fell silent, becoming silent again.

Everyone here is a respected elder in the clan, and they naturally understand the meaning of what the priestess said.

They set their sights on the boy almost at the same time.

They stared deeply at the boy.

Their gazes were all focused on the young man's azure sea-like eyes, like the blue light of the boundless ocean shining from the milky white moonstone on the young man's wrist.

Thousands of years ago, their ancestors made a vow with the gods on the blood-red sea.

【The Great Davia】

[I am here to make an oath to you. 】

【We will watch here from generation to generation. 】

【...until the return of 'him'. 】

……

Everyone's eyes met in one place, and they all understood each other's meaning.

After a while, everyone here got up.

Under the astonished gazes of only the younger Fanaya and Shiva here, the elders of Hitaya bowed down.

Facing the direction of the young man sitting there, they knelt down on one knee, raised one hand, and pressed it between the eyebrows of their lowered heads.

Then they got up.

After bowing sideways to the priestess on the other side, they turned and left.

The priestess closed her eyes for a while, then opened them again, looking at Fanaya who was still beside Mia with a thoughtful expression, and Shiva who was on the other side with a confused expression.

"Fanaya, since you escorted him back to the clan, you and Shiva will assist him in the future."

Her eyes fell on Mia.

She said: "The Xitaya family, I will leave it to you."

After speaking, she got up and left.

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In the bedroom on the upper floor of the temple, someone wailed.

"Go, go, go, just kidding!"

I thought I was just going to have a dinner with Mia, but I didn't expect Shiva to be dumbfounded when he encountered such a big event.

He looked at Mia blankly.

"I said, are you still a child?"

"Entrusting the lives of more than 2 people from the Shitaya clan to a single child? Are you kidding me!"

He held his head and howled.

"Emperor Sardis is about to call, the priest is unreliable, and the elders are going crazy too?"

"Shiva!"

Fanaya let out a low shout, telling the unrestrained Shiva to shut up.

He thought about the words that the priest said, staring at the youth's blue eyes, thoughtful.

"Mia."

He looked at Mia who had been thinking, and asked softly, "What are you thinking?"

From Fanaya's point of view, after the priest entrusted her with the heavy responsibility, Miya was surprised, but she didn't seem to panic.

"To be honest, it was so sudden that I don't know what to do now."

Mia looked up at him and smiled.

"After all, I don't even know each other very well, Fanaya, can you tell me in detail first?"

Ignoring the friend on the side with the expression of 'we are absolutely dead', Fanaya nodded.

He looked around the room, took the paper and pen from the bookcase, spread the paper on the table, and drew a rough topographic map.

A long and narrow bay is sandwiched between two huge peninsulas.

That is the bay known as the Cursed Sea.

The forest on the peninsula below is the habitat of the Hitaya people.

"Although that bay is the holy land of my family, it is a cursed sea area to outsiders."

Fanaya said,

"Especially the seaside is barren, making it difficult for people to survive. Therefore, the surrounding countries are not interested in that area."

"Although our Hitaya tribe is small in number, we are extremely powerful in fighting in the forest."

Almost everyone in the Xitaya family, who have lived in harmony with nature since childhood, is a natural marksman, and they are even more comfortable in the forest.

In the past, it was not that no country wanted to occupy that huge forest area, but cavalry and other large troops could not enter the forest, and sending a small number of infantry to attack was not at all the opponent of the Hittayas, so they had to give up in the end.

Anyway, as long as they don't go to the forest to make trouble, the Hitayas won't come out to make trouble for them.

If they insist on attacking the Hitayas, they will weaken their own strength and give the neighboring countries an opportunity.

As a result, the nearby countries all acquiesced that this forest area and sea area were the territory of the Hittayas.

"So, after so many years, we have reached a delicate balance with the surrounding countries."

"But now that balance is broken by one person."

"Emperor Sardis."

Miya looked at the rough topographic map drawn by Fanaya, and suddenly noticed something.

Separated by several kingdoms and tribes below, how does the extremely vast country below look like... the territory of Portoyas, Gaston, and Menggast plus fragmentary small countries?

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This……

"The Portoyas Empire."

Fanaya continued, pointing to the empire that was extremely vast compared to other countries.

"It was only a kingdom."

Mia watched as Fanaya drew the outline of the Portoyas Kingdom that he was all too familiar with in that huge territory.

Suddenly, he understood something.

"Five years ago, the Great Sardis drove away the invaders and succeeded him as King Portoyas."

"In the first year after he succeeded to the throne, he annexed the country of Ston there."

"In the second year, he swept across the small countries in the north and the sea in the southeast."

"In the third year, he occupied the Kingdom of Moncaster."

"It was in that year that he officially proclaimed himself emperor, and Portoyas became an empire."

"But that was not the end. In the next two years, he continued to expand his territory to the west or north."

"Not so long ago, he conquered the two kingdoms to the south of us, so we are next."

Fanaya frowned tightly.

He knew very well that the reason why the Hitaya tribe could always be peaceful was because they maintained a delicate balance surrounded by several kingdoms.

But now, those kingdoms have been conquered by Emperor Sardis, so it is impossible for his own family to be spared.

But it is impossible to resist. The mere 2 Hitayas will not have the slightest power to fight back against the hundreds of thousands of soldiers of Sardis the Great.

...Emperor Sardis...

Hearing that, Mia lost consciousness for a moment.

It turned out that five years had passed since I 'died'.

In those five years, Sardis had followed the path his destiny was supposed to take.

Sardis the Great.

He finally stood on the highest ground as he expected, and was looked up to by all.

Presumably in the future, he will also be able to conquer the entire continent, establish a huge empire that has never been seen before, and achieve a glorious cause that will last forever.

My task is completed.

Fortune has returned to the right track.

The torrent of history rolls down without deviation.

……

It's just... for some reason, Mia felt that she was not as happy as she imagined.

He has completed the set task, and it is impossible for him to appear in front of Sardis again.

Because he's already 'dead'.

If the 'Mia' who has 'dead' reappeared, it is very likely that history will be disrupted once again.

Then everything he did would be meaningless.

It is impossible for him...to meet Sardis again, let alone let Sardis know that he is still alive.

That being the case, why was he sent back to that world?

Why can't he go back to his original world?

Moreover, he should have died completely. After all, even his throat had been cut at that time, and there was absolutely no possibility of him surviving.

But now...

Mia touched her throat.

The place where the fingers touch is smooth without any marks.

He looked in the mirror, and there was only a faint red line that seemed to be painted on.

come back to life.

The only people who can do this are...

"Mia."

Fanaya's cry awakened Mia from her contemplation.

"Did I speak too quickly?" Fanaya asked. "Need I say it again?"

"Do not."

Mia shook her head.

"I understand very well, Fanaya, thank you, now I want to be alone and think about it."

Fanaya and Miya looked at each other for a few seconds, then nodded to show that they understood.

Then, he dragged Shiva out who still wanted to say something.

The door was closed, and Miya was left alone in the bedroom.

He sat quietly for a while, then raised his head and looked at the full moon in the night sky.

The bright moonlight shone on the young man's face, casting a faint brilliance on his fair skin.

Luna... Devia...

Is she really...

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At the same time, under the same night sky, under the same bright moonlight.

Across the prairie to the south of the Great Hitaya Forest, there is a small city mainly engaged in planting.

Because the city is on the edge of the grassland, it is not prosperous, and the population living in it is not large.

But that day, the small city became extremely crowded.

Because there are nearly [-] troops stationed here, and because the city is too small, some of the troops can only be stationed outside the city.

In the center of the city, the City Lord's Mansion, the most beautiful building in the entire city, lives at this moment with an existence whose name resounds throughout the continent.

Although it was already late at night, nearly a thousand imperial guards were still closely guarding the surroundings of the City Lord's Mansion, protecting it so airtight that not even a bat could fly in.

On the top floor of the City Lord's Mansion, footsteps sounded in the corridor.

The silver-white boots stomped on the wooden floor making a dull sound. The great emperor whose name was feared by countless kings walked quickly in the corridor, his long cloak flying behind him as he walked.

Just before he reached the room at the end of the corridor, the guards following him stopped in the middle of the corridor.

The young Emperor went on and entered the room.

A group of personal guards will guard the corridor and forbid anyone to approach that room.

Raising his hand and pulling it, he pulled off the cloak around his shoulders, and threw it on the table beside him.

The young emperor raised his head.

The floor-to-ceiling windows in the room were open, and the night wind blew in from the outside, stirring up the long golden hair of the young emperor.

He stood still, his piercing eyes slanted, staring at the side of the French window.

The young emperor stared at that place so coldly without saying a word.

After a while, that side seemed to be just the shadow of the dancing screen moving.

Someone stepped out of the shadows.

The man's face was still hidden in the shadows, but the moonlight illuminated the man's fiery red hair.

"I haven't seen you for five years, Prince Sardis... No, I should call you His Majesty now."

The red-haired phantom thief who had disappeared for five years raised his head and looked at the young emperor with a mocking smile.

"Why, you don't wear that mask anymore?"