Little Priest's Cat Diary

The moonlight scattered in the forest one by one, passing through the dense branches and leaves, fine and mottled.

Huge trees stand densely on the ground, and it has been like this for thousands of years.

The town hidden in the verdant forest lay in the night, the wind passed over the town, hovering in the rare open space in the forest, making a whining sound.

Sardis listened to the whistling sound of the wind coming from outside. The outer walls of the temple surrounded by three giant trees were covered with branches, leaves and vines.

Standing in the room and looking out the window, you can see the green branches and leaves shaking gently, as if dancing in the night wind.

On the balcony surrounded by green branches, two shadows, one big and one small, lay there quietly.

Normally, Sardis had no patience to talk to a strange boy.

But that night, maybe the moonlight was too soft, or maybe it was because he was exhausted physically and mentally after being hit by a huge disappointment again—the countless negative emotions buried in his heart for five years corroded his body little by little like venom A big hole came out, empty, and the cold wind leaked out, and nothing could be put in.

This night, he was more confused than ever.

So, he suddenly wanted to talk to the boy next door.

Anyway, he will leave this place early tomorrow morning, and it is very likely that he will never return here in his lifetime.

And the young man who can't speak, as the next priest of the Hittaya, must stay here quietly for the rest of his life.

After tonight, he and that boy will never have any interaction in this lifetime.

And those words he said today will not be known by anyone.

He's just... tired.

"You don't need to worry about anything, I'll leave early tomorrow morning."

Sardis said,

"I promised before that I will not interfere with the life of your clan, and I will keep my word."

He walked to one side.

His shadow moved with him.

The boy's shadow cast from the next room moved slightly, probably because he was a little scared and wanted to shrink back when he saw him move.

But seeing that his shadow didn't move forward, but moved sideways, he didn't retreat, and still stood quietly on the spot.

Sardis walked to the wall and sat down with his back against the wall.

He had one leg straight on the ground and one leg bent.

His right arm rested casually on his bent right knee, his head was raised, and the back of his head was leaning against the cold stone wall.

The young emperor just sat against the wall without any manners, talking in a low voice.

"I have a very important person who is about your age... No, it was about your age at the beginning, but now..."

There was a pause in his voice.

"Now... I don't know..."

Don't know where he is.

What has become of it.

"He is a little priest like you."

Sardis spoke in a very low voice, if it wasn't for the silence around him, he wouldn't be able to hear clearly through a wall.

In fact, rather than saying that he was talking to others, it would be better to say that he was just talking to himself.

"I've been looking for him."

He threw his head back, messy blond hair falling from his cheeks.

He looked at the night sky outside the window with confusion in his eyes.

"only……"

Have been unable to find.

The moonlight shone coldly on the golden hair, and Sardis looked at the night sky absently.

How long do you have to look for?

he does not know.

Can he really find it?

He didn't know either.

Perhaps from the very beginning, what he was looking for was destined to be nothing.

But he couldn't stop.

Once you stop looking, it's like telling yourself that he really lost him forever.

—he would not admit it, never would.

Therefore, no matter how exhausted he is, he must persist in looking for it.

keep looking.

The young emperor closed his eyes, and a little bit of light fell on his light eyelashes, as if jumping in them.

At this moment, the corners of the eyes of this powerful man, who was as daunting as a snow-capped peak on the battlefield, were stained with a trace of loneliness and exhaustion from the moonlight.

The corners of the thin and sharp lips reveal a trace of fragility.

"He and I quarreled before we separated."

He said he didn't see him.

Later, it was really never seen again.

Countless nights, he woke up from his dream.

Scenes of the past flashed through my mind, even though five years had passed, it was still as clear as if it happened yesterday.

The hot touch of the blood splashed on his face seemed to still remain on his face.

The once angry words have become heart-wrenching words.

"...I really want...to see him."

Talking in a low voice that was almost whispering, Sardis fell asleep without knowing it.

The room was completely silent, only the sound of low breathing could be heard.

At this time, the shadow of the boy who had been silently reflected on the ground finally moved a little.

The shadow slowly shrinks.

It wasn't because the boy shrank back because he left, but because the boy sat down, he looked half shorter.

In the next room, Mia sat slowly on the ground against the wall.

With his hands on the ground, he raised his head and leaned against the stone wall behind him.

Where he leaned against the wall happened to be where Sardis leaned against the wall.

The two are so close.

A wall separates people on both sides of the wall.

unable to meet.

Can't meet each other either.

Even the shadows cast on the ground by the lights cannot touch each other.

Mia sat against the wall, listening to the low breathing sound across the wall.

He bent his knees slowly, wrapping his hands around his knees.

He lowered his head and buried his face in his arms.

Light blonde hair fell over his shoulders.

Sadie...

He read the name softly from the bottom of his heart, but he couldn't come out of his mouth.

Because he can't make a sound.

【I really want...to see him. 】

[I really want to see you. 】

Mia lowered her head, her face was deeply buried in the back of her hands, and she couldn't see his expression.

He clenched his fingers tightly around his arm, and the fingertips sank deeply into the slightly pale skin, leaving conspicuous marks.

One day, I will leave again.

And what will bring you at that time will be another pain.

So, goodbye.

Time will heal all things.

…………

When the bright sunlight shone on his face in the morning, Sardis, who had been sleeping all night against the wall, opened his eyes.

The sunlight was a little dazzling, and he was in a trance for a moment when he opened his eyes just now.

Fell asleep?

He actually slept all night?

Sardis was surprised.

It never occurred to him that he would be able to fall asleep.

Because every night of disappointment, he would lie on the bed with his eyes open, looking at the roof in the shadows in the silence until dawn.

No matter how tired his body was, he couldn't fall asleep.

There seemed to be a cluster of fire burning in his body, and there seemed to be a surge of hostility in his heart, which made him frantically want to vent it.

Nadia had told him that it was best for him not to see anyone at such times.

Because at that time he looked like an evil ghost, sinister and terrifying.

But last night, for some reason, his mood was unprecedentedly calm.

Later, he fell asleep in a daze, and slept for a whole night.

Sardis stood up, raised his hand to brush up the messy blond hair in front of his eyes.

He subconsciously looked at the stone wall beside him.

He thought of the shadow reflected on the balcony last night, the boy who was quietly listening to his words on the other side of the wall.

Perhaps it was because he had poured out something to that young man, his emotions were no longer as depressed as before, and his whole body was relieved a lot.

He thought for a while, opened the door and walked out of the room.

When he came to the door of the next room, Sardis knocked on the door.

Following his knock on the door, there was a slight sound in the room.

Sardis put his hand on the doorknob, and was about to open the door and go in.

Suddenly a hand suddenly stretched out from the side, blocking Sardis in front of him.

Sardis' hand stopped, and the door stopped abruptly as soon as he pushed it open.

"Offended, Your Majesty."

Fanaya bowed his head deeply, but his arms were still firmly in front of the door.

He said: "Our priest is very afraid of strangers, afraid of meeting strangers, if you have anything to say, I can pass it on, please..."

He stopped halfway through his speech.

Sardis looked at Fanaya who was firmly in front of him, and he heard the slightly rapid breathing of the boy in the room coming from the crack of the door, as if frightened, quite disordered.

He withdrew his hand.

As he let go, the door that was pushed a crack closed gently in front of his eyes, separating him from the teenager in the room again.

Sardis took off a ring and threw it to Fanaya.

"I owe him a favor, tell him, if you need anything in the future, you can take this ring to me."

Fanaya caught the ring, looked up and saw that the other party had turned and descended the spiral staircase.

He exhaled lightly.

Although he rushed up to stop him in a hurry, the sense of oppression that His Majesty gave was too great.

Just staring at him lightly with a pair of eyes made his nerves tense to the extreme.

It's just... what's the matter with owed a favor?

Sardis went down the spiral staircase, walked through the main hall, and walked out of the gate of the temple.

His personal guard generals had already been waiting outside the gate, and when they saw him coming out, they immediately went up to meet him, and reported to him in a low voice that a group of cavalry had lined up in the forest town and were ready to leave at any time.

And he will stay here temporarily, and has arranged for a hundred cavalry to stay here with him.He will return to the army with the letter of surrender from the Hitaya people and present it to His Majesty after having a detailed discussion with the Hitaya patriarch in these two days.

Sardis nodded casually.

He strode down the steps and walked forward.

When he was about to leave the temple surrounded by three giant trees, for some reason, he glanced back.

He saw a shadow standing there on the side of the second floor of the temple, it seemed to be looking at him, it came out of nowhere, and he was inexplicably moved.

It's just that the sunlight was too dazzling. Under the backlight, he was so shaken that he couldn't see clearly at first sight.

By the time he narrowed his eyes and adjusted to the strong light, the figure had disappeared from the balcony.

He turned back and continued on.

He didn't have time to stop.

He still has to go to a wider land, travel to places he hasn't been to, and look for the person he wants to find.

And there, he won't come again.

……

Mia stood quietly on the balcony.

The familiar figure gradually drifted away under his gaze.

In the end, it completely disappeared from his sight.

The young man slowly closed his eyes, under the bright sunlight, there was a faint shadow of eyelashes on his cheek.

That's all right, he thought.

That's... just fine.

………………

..............................

Unlike the sunny ground, the underground is dark and dull.

At this time, the red-haired phantom thief was walking slowly in the dark stone corridor.

The reason why he ran to talk to Sardis last night was because he wanted to determine whether Sardis would leave today.

Then, while the attention of the Hittayas was on the matter of Sardis's departure, he sneaked into the underground temple secretly.

After several days of secret investigation, through some clues, Shidir found that the place he wanted to find was originally underground in the temple.

Under the temple on the surface, there is an underground temple that is exactly the same as the one on the ground.

He tried some Xita Ya without a trace, and found that even they didn't know the existence of the underground temple.

He guessed that only the priestess who never showed up in the population of Hitaya knew of its existence.

As for whether the dumb little priest knew... Well, the little priest can't speak, and even if he knew, he couldn't get the other person out of his mouth.

While everyone's attention was on a certain emperor, he seized the opportunity to sneak into the temple, and came to this deeply buried temple through the secret passage he found.

I don't know if the underground temple is because there are few people cleaning and maintaining it, or because it is eroded more severely because it is underground, it looks much older than the temple on the surface as a whole.

The stone bricks on the walls have many cracks, and most of the stone bricks on the ground are covered with moss.

The whole gives a very dark feeling.

Hidir was walking in the stone corridor, feeling a faint sense of oppression lingering around him.

Even though it was midsummer, the air in this underground temple was extremely cold.

Walking in it, the body seems to be eroded by this coldness a little bit, and the limbs gradually become cold.

It seems that there is an invisible force repelling those who come there.

The sound of footsteps echoed in the empty corridor, and Hidir, who knew that time was limited, quickened his pace.

Soon, he came to the center of the underground temple.

It is also the place where the priestess of the temple on the surface never shows up, the place of prayer of the temple.

Reaching out and pushing the dilapidated door open, as soon as Hidir entered the cylindrical room, he saw three stone pillars standing in the room.

In the darkness, the translucent milky white stone pillars exude a faint blue luster under the firelight.

The three tall stone pillars were all carved from precious moonstones.

Such a huge and transparent Moonlight Stone Pillar, any one taken out would be invaluable.

But the phantom thief who has always loved treasures has no time to care about the value of the moonlight stone pillar at this moment. His eyes are fixed on the lines of ancient characters carved on the stone pillar.

The ancient text of the moon god.

[Everything comes from desire. 】

[Human desires are endless. 】

[They made this land full of evil. 】

【Man is the root of all evil. 】

【The only way to end human desires and cleanse the evil on the earth——】

Sidir's fingers slowly slid down the ancient characters carved on the moonstone pillar.

【... Hope is gone...】

[…………When hope returns………]

[The Temptation's Daughter Comes to the World... The Earth Falls into Disputes Again...]

After reading it a little bit, for some reason, the more Hidir looked at it, the more frightened he became.

This is simply-

【Flames gushed out of the earth... the earth trembled endlessly...the blood-red water will cover the earth...】

【revenge……】

【... Judgment... comes to the earth again...】

Boom!

Suddenly there was a loud noise.

Sidir shook violently, and almost hit the moonstone pillar by surprise.

He raised his head sharply.

The surrounding stone walls were shaking, and the ground under his feet was also shaking.

Cracks appeared on the stone bricks, and dust and gravel rolled down amidst the shaking.

Boom-!

It was like the sound of heaven falling apart.

…………

In the temple above the surface, the priestess who had been quietly staying in the prayer room stopped praying.

She opened her eyes, looking through the window towards the bay with deep eyes.

Only dense trees could be seen in front of her eyes, but her eyes seemed to have penetrated the forest and saw the bay where the storm was howling.

"The day has finally come..."

Her hoarse voice echoed in the room.

The ground was shaking, the room was shaking, the whole temple was shaking slightly.

But she didn't seem to notice it, just staring at the direction of the bay.

……

Across the forest, a storm raged over the bay.

Under the gloomy sky, the original azure blue water turned blood-like bright red at a speed visible to the naked eye.

A huge blood-colored wave roared up.

Overwhelming and surging towards the coast!

…………

"what happened?"

"earthquake?"

"it's dark?!"

The forest was shaking, the storm swept in, broke countless branches and leaves, the frightened birds scattered away, and the horses walking in the forest neighed in panic.

A group of cavalrymen were trying their best to hold and comfort their mounts.

Tightening his restless mount tightly, Sardis frowned and looked towards the place where the storm hit.