Little Priest's Cat Diary

Although it was already late at night, nearly a thousand outsiders—especially the arrival of the famous and prominent Emperor Sardis, made this small forest town stand ready.

In order to avoid misunderstandings by the Portoyas people, the elders had already arranged for the clansmen to take their families back to their respective tree houses early.

The entire forest town was unprecedentedly quiet, and the town was empty, except for the Hitaya warriors who had been arranged to guard in advance, there was no ordinary person stranded outside.

The tree houses stayed quietly in the dark night, and many houses were not even lit.

The adults put the children to bed early, and then stayed quietly in the house by themselves, looking at the empty street outside the window with some anxiety.

Although the elders have told them that they will vote under the command of the Great Sardis, so there will be no war, let them not worry, but their hearts are still very uneasy.

Can the peace talks really proceed smoothly?

Would the said to be terrible Emperor really promise not to interfere with the Hitayans?

Also, why did the emperor, who was clearly unattainable, come to their small town in the forest?

Everyone was just thinking wildly in their respective rooms. After an unknown period of time, suddenly, the sound of chaotic footsteps came from a distance in the forest of the neighboring town.

Everyone was shocked.

They raised their eyes and looked across the small gap in the open window to the direction of the sound.

Several elders who were waiting in the open space at the entrance of the town had already led a group of soldiers to greet them.

Without anyone's introduction, that great emperor is so conspicuous and outstanding that everyone's eyes can't help but focus on him.

The other party's understatement glanced over, making everyone's chest tremble.

It was obvious that the two sides were standing on the same piece of land, but the emperor stood there without even riding a horse, so he gave people a condescending and unoffensive feeling.

His aura alone overwhelmed the mighty might of the golden and iron horses who followed him with nearly a thousand elite cavalry gathered together.

Like a lion that looks down on all heroes, it is entrenched on the earth.

No matter who it is, in front of that young emperor, they will unconsciously feel small.

His light sweeping gaze made the several elders who met his gaze for a moment startled.

In that world, I am afraid that no one can be the enemy of that Majesty.

The elders subconsciously had this idea in their hearts.

Fortunately, the Hittayas did not choose to be hostile to them.

Otherwise, the day of genocide is just around the corner.

The leading elder stabilized his mind and hurried forward.

"Your Majesty, I welcome you on behalf of the Hitaya family."

Under Sardis' gaze, he unconsciously lowered his head slightly to show his respect.

"It's too late now, why don't you rest for a night, and then tomorrow..."

"No need."

Sardis said bluntly, "Take me to those children."

The elder was startled, and after realizing it, he nodded quickly.

"The children of our family from one to five years old have gathered in the temple. The children are not sensible, and they are probably already asleep by now. Otherwise, you should rest first..."

The old man's words were interrupted again.

"take me."

Throwing these three words, Sardis didn't even wait for the elder to lead the way, and walked straight to the three giant wooden towers in the center of the town.

Apparently he had already determined that that was where the temple of the Hittayas was located.

After the elder came up to meet him, Fanaya, who stood quietly aside without saying a word, frowned, and immediately followed closely.

The burly personal guard general who was following Sardis was obviously not surprised by this, turned around and gave a few instructions to several knight commanders, and then followed with a hundred of the most elite guards.

The other soldiers quickly dispersed throughout the town under the leadership of their respective leaders, and took control of all the key positions in that town in a very short period of time.

After the initial astonishment, the elder who was thrown off shook his head dumbfoundedly, and then hurriedly followed.

He really didn't understand why that Emperor Sardis was so anxious to see those children.

It can only be said that extraordinary people do extraordinary things?

I don't understand.

The guard general who followed behind Sardis with a straight face glanced at the bewildered old man out of the corner of his eye.

Well, it's still the same situation and the same expression.

It's right if you don't understand.

It's not just you, I've been following His Majesty all these years and I still don't understand.

Why every time I conquer a place, I am always eager to find the newborn child in this territory.

At the beginning, it was a child who was just born, and then it was added year by year, and now it has been added to five years.

It seemed, he thought, that His Majesty was looking for someone among these children.

It's just... time and time again, His Majesty never seemed to find the person he was looking for.

Although the Luna Temple of the Hitaya people is not as majestic as the temples outside, it is uniquely and ingeniously combined with three giant trees. The architectural style that is integrated with nature is unique and extremely rare.

However, Sardis didn't take a second look at the peculiar temple, walked up the steps quickly, and stepped into the gate of the temple.

From the room on the side of the temple came the cry of a child.

Fanaya arranged for someone to come early to wake up the sleeping children.

These children, who are less than five years old, are still ignorant of the world, sleeping soundly, but they are forcibly woken up, and naturally they are crying so hard that they cannot be comforted.

Especially when a dozen or so children gathered in one room, the cries together were deafening.

The elder who followed Sardis into the room heard the cries one after another in the room, and glanced at Sardis nervously.

He was afraid that the cries of these children would anger Sardis.

But Sardis didn't seem to hear the harsh cries of the children at all, but just scanned the children in the room with scorching eyes.

Read it again.

Watched it again.

The originally scorching eyes of the young emperor dimmed little by little as he glanced over and over again, just like the originally shining stars in the night sky were hidden behind the clouds.

The already thin lips were tightly pressed, and they became sharper.

If you look carefully, you can faintly see a trace of pain from the sharpness.

——It’s just that no one has ever dared to look directly into the face of the young emperor.

The general of the personal guard stood upright behind Sardis, and out of the corner of his eye, he saw Sardis' hand clenched and then slowly released, and sighed silently in his heart.

That time, His Majesty still couldn't find it.

It's been five years...

Is the person His Majesty is looking for really still in this world?

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Your Majesty has been searching so hard...don't you feel tired?

Even when his ignorant personal guard just watched from the sidelines during those five years, when His Majesty came here again and again with hope, but left disappointed again and again...

Before he knew it, every time he was disappointed, he felt as if he felt the same pain...

Looking back from the crowd of crying children, the golden hair fell down, and the shadows covered Sardis's strange eyes.

The deep eye sockets shrouded in shadow made it difficult to see the expression in his eyes at the moment.

His expression was light, as if he had no emotion.

Then, he turned and strode out of the noisy room.

The elder was startled, and quickly followed out.

"His Majesty?"

"It's okay, Your Majesty has already seen it." The guard general said, "You can send those children back."

The elder was confused.

"This, this is all right?"

Such a big fight, and even ran over in person, just to take a look?

Why exactly?

At this moment, the old man only feels that the life experience he has accumulated in the past 70 to [-] years is useless.

The elder still wanted to say something, but looking at Sardis who was striding towards the gate of the temple, he could clearly feel the strong sense of oppression emanating from that figure.

So his opened mouth was finally closed, and he just turned around and ordered people to send these children back to their respective homes.

"You stay and discuss with the Hittaya."

The boots had stepped out of the gate of the temple, Sardis said to the general of the personal guard without looking back.

Although he couldn't see his face, and although his voice sounded calm and calm, his whole body seemed to be exuding a heavy sense of oppression uncontrollably.

That kind of depression made the air around him lifeless, almost frozen.

He said, "I'll go back first."

The boots stepped on the steps, making dull footsteps, and Sardis walked down.

Hidir stood on the steps at some point.

The two looked at each other.

Sardis glanced over, he didn't speak, and walked straight past Shidir.

Just as the two passed by, Hidir sighed, turned around, and spoke to Sardis's back.

"In the middle of the night, I think it's better for you to just rest here for one night."

Sardis didn't answer, and continued to walk forward.

"Even if you don't care, Your Majesty, the soldiers who have been on the road with you for two days and two nights still need to rest."

Shidir raised an eyebrow.

"Do you still want them to drive back with you without sleep?"

"........."

Sardis paused.

Then he turned and walked back down the steps.

"You go to arrange for the soldiers on duty, and the others rest."

He said this to the guard general standing at the gate, and walked into the gate of the temple again.

The elder who had just asked Fanaya to escort the crying children back turned his head and saw that His Majesty had returned, so he hurried up to meet him.

Hidir, who walked in after him, smiled at the elder and said, "It's too late, Your Majesty will rest here tonight."

"Then please follow me, the residence arranged for Your Majesty is..."

The elder wanted to take Sardis out of the temple and lead him to the residence they had arranged outside.

But Sardis raised his hand and waved it lightly.

"No need."

He said coldly, "I'll just stay here in the temple for one night."

Without waiting for the elder to answer, Sardis went straight up the spiral wooden ladder on one side and walked to the second floor of the temple.

He is in a very bad mood now, and he is really impatient to walk around again.

Anyway, there must be rooms in the temple, so he just chooses one to deal with for one night.

The elder watched the young emperor walk up to the second floor, opened his mouth, but couldn't stop him.

In the end, he could only sigh, shook his head, and continued to arrange follow-up matters.

Sardis went up to the second floor, and after walking for a while, he randomly opened a door in the corridor and walked in.

The room is not big, and the furnishings are very unpretentious.

He didn't care either, he walked into the room absent-mindedly, pulled the cloak off his shoulders and threw it on the table beside him.

Sardis sat down on the wooden chair in the room, and the moonlight slanted on him from the open window.

His eyes stared at the air in front of him in a daze, as if he was looking at something, but he didn't seem to see anything.

The slightly messy blond hair that he fiddled with casually fell before his eyes. It was bright golden, but left a gloomy aura on his face.

He was sitting in a chair, leaning forward slightly, with his elbows resting on his open knees.

The clasped hands clenched little by little.

Under the moonlight, his fingers gradually turned white due to excessive force, and the crackling sound of his finger bones could even be faintly heard in the silent air.

In front of everyone, the expression of the young emperor who was as powerful as a lion and as dazzling as the sun gradually disappeared from Sardis.

He stared at the void in front of him, revealing a deep shadowy look.

He seemed to be trying his best to suppress something, resisting the terrifying aura that was about to surge out from the depths of his body.

There was a deep gloomy look on the side cheeks illuminated by the deserted moonlight, and a storm was brewing in his eyes.

At this moment, he is like a churning magma deep in the ground, it will erupt at an unknown time, devouring everything——

Sardis clenched his hands tightly.

He himself knew that he had gradually become abnormal.

He felt that his whole body was slipping to the edge of madness little by little.

five years.

Can't tell how many times.

The disappointment again and again made him fall into the abyss of despair little by little.

His emotions are gradually on the verge of collapse.

... No, maybe he is already a madman by now.

Where to find it—how to find it—to find his lost treasure—

With a soft snap, Sardis suddenly raised his head.

A familiar figure lightly jumped into the room from the window sill, and the moonlight illuminated the person's long fiery red hair.

When he looked up and saw Sardis's decadent appearance at the moment, Xidi was stunned for a moment.

After all, it was the first time he saw Sardis like this.

Sardis didn't bother to hide it, just stared at him coldly.

"I said... I see that you are doing these things, you are not looking for... the reincarnation of 'him'?"

"........."

Sardis didn't answer, but the cold stare at Hidir made Hidir widen his eyes in astonishment.

"Are you really looking for the reincarnation of 'him'?"

He was dazed for a while, then shook his head.

"It is said that after death, people will be reincarnated on the earth again, but does it really exist? It sounds really unbelievable. Don't you think it's stupid for you to do this?"

The red-haired Phantom Thief said so, but smiled wryly in his heart.

He said that Sardis's search for reincarnation is stupid, but how clever is he who has been tracking various ancient ruins for five years for an incredible idea?

Just as stupid.

After all, it is an obsession.

"Since you've done this, keep looking."

He sighed and said,

"Maybe one day, I can really..."

"Who--"

Sardis, who had been staring at Shidir coldly, suddenly gave a low shout.

His piercing eyes were fixed on the balcony.

On the balcony protruding outside, there was a long shadow slantingly reflected on the ground.

Obviously, someone was standing by the floor-to-ceiling windows in the next room.

The light in that room just reflected the shadow of the man standing by the French window obliquely on the balcony of Sardis' room.

Following Sardis' low voice, the shadow suddenly froze, looking as if it was frightened.

Hidir glanced outside and immediately understood.

"Your Majesty, you are very good at choosing. You choose a room that happens to be next to the room of the little priest."

The little priest had been staying in his own room, but the two of them ran to the next room to talk, which surprised him.

In fact, it is their fault.

"The little fellow next door is the successor of the priest of the Hittaya."

Sidir thought that they were wrong after all, so he lowered his voice and casually explained a few words to the little priest who couldn't speak.

"He's still young and dumb, so he can't speak, so he probably didn't mean to listen to us."

After all, you choose your room.

He shrugged his shoulders and said, "If you are a dignified emperor, don't bully others."

After finishing speaking, Sidir jumped out from the window sill and disappeared into the night.

Sardis didn't care about Shidir's departure, his eyes fell on the shadow on the balcony.

Although it was stretched obliquely by the flames, it could be seen that it was a thin boy.

For some reason, when he looked at the shadow, the originally irritable mood in his heart gradually calmed down.

"Are you the next priest of the Hittaya?"

The shadow on the balcony seemed to hesitate a little, and then nodded slightly.

That appearance, looks a bit timid.

"The next little priest..."

Sardis murmured in a low voice.

He stood up and walked forward.

The firelight cast from behind him, and reflected his shadow on the balcony, just barely touching the shadow of the boy in the next room.

Perhaps it was because Sardis yelled at him just now, or because he was frightened by Sardis' sudden approach, the shadow on the balcony immediately shrank back.

It seemed that the young priest felt scared, so he wanted to retreat into the room.

Sardis stood still.

"Don't be afraid, I won't go there."

he said softly.

Seeing that the shadow cast by Sardis on the balcony did not move forward, the shadow of the boy who was shrinking back also did not move.

The night was quiet.

It was also very quiet in the two adjacent rooms.

The firelight from different angles in the room will cast the shadows of the two people in different rooms on the same balcony.

The two shadows seemed to be about to touch each other, but there was still a slight distance between them.

They swayed slightly with the firelight, but they still failed to touch each other.