Film and Television] The time of death

Valencia, a beautiful seaside city.Known as the "City of Sunshine", she bathes in the sun all day long and enjoys the blowing of the Mediterranean sea breeze.Not only is the climate pleasant, but Valencia, with many famous attractions, also attracts thousands of tourists to come here.

Whether it is high season or low season, Valencia is never short of excitement.

Today, in this city full of vitality and sunshine, a couple will usher in their happiest day—they will hold their wedding in a small church near their home today.

Although the church is not as grand as the Valencia Cathedral, it is important to have the support of relatives and friends.In the early morning of this day, relatives of the groom Kodo were waiting for the arrival of the bride Clara and his party at the church, while some of Kodo's friends and classmates rushed over early.

Although the wedding officially started in the afternoon and it is only morning, it did not affect everyone's enthusiasm and best wishes to the couple.

Belian "woke up" from his sleep, grabbed the vibrating cell phone on the bedside table, and saw a dozen missed calls.

"God, why are you answering the phone now?" Kodo's helpless voice came from the other end of the phone, obviously feeling confused about Belian's late arrival, "You haven't gotten up yet, have you?"

Belian glanced at the alarm clock on the bedside table showing "08:30", and lazily replied: "Yes, I forgot to turn on the alarm clock." Kodo gave up the idea of ​​continuing to question Belian, and asked another question : "Who told me that you must arrive at [-]:[-]? Why didn't Tajaribo call you?"

"He went foraging, how could he wake me up."

Although the fact is that he didn't sleep at all (he didn't need to anyway).

Kodo is clearly not happy with Belian's insincere explanation, and what's the weird wording for "foraging"?

"Okay, man... you can come over now, right?" Codo raised his wrist to check the time, and 10 minutes had slipped away during the time they were joking.

After the invitation was delivered, Belian had vowed to help on his wedding day.The day before yesterday, he called specifically to ask about it, but at 08:30 as agreed upon, neither of them was seen, and he almost thought that Belian and Tajaribo would not come.

Sitting up from the bed, Bellian happened to see Tajalib coming in with two suits, so he said to Kodo, "I'll be there soon", and hung up the phone.

"I hope..." Kodo shrugged helplessly when he saw the notification that the call was over.

On the other side, Belian took over the ironed suit from Tajaribo, and looked at the matching tie with some distaste: "Is it okay not to wear this?"

"Of course, it's fine if you're a willful groom." Tajalib's tone was very brisk, but his words made Belian feel at ease.

Both of them knew that Codo was notoriously averse to ties, but he had to dress properly as the groom on the big day, and he had complained about not wanting to wear a suit.

Bellian, who was choked up by Tajalib's words, said a little uncomfortably, "I'm not interested in Clara."

Belian and Tarjalib have been traveling around the world, but because of the chaotic timeline of the main plane, they haven't gone to another plane until now.Although it's a matter of time.

They met Clara and Kodo on the way of the "journey". The two people were in love at the time, probably because they met on the trip. Clara and Kodo thought that Belian and Tajaribo were also travel lovers , After going back and forth, I got so familiar with it.

Not long after that, Codo texted—he was marrying Clara.

While lamenting Kodo's speed, Belian and Tajaribo also received invitations from the couple, inviting them to come and send their wedding blessings on their wedding day.

So the two rushed from Bonn, Germany to Valencia, Spain, and within a week of arriving here, they had to attend Codo's wedding again.

"It's a pity...Kodo may not need our blessing." Belian tightened his tie in the mirror, looked at himself in the mirror, and said to Tajalib who was already dressed.

Tajaribo, who was sitting on a chair and flipping through a magazine, looked up at Belian in a suit and said, "You are more suitable for a demon form."

"Will you die if you say two nice words?" Belian curled his lips in displeasure, picked up the mobile phone on the bed and shook it at Tajaribo, "Let's go, the wedding will start soon."

The two walked out of the hotel one after the other and got into the car—of course they didn't condense the magic energy temporarily, but bought it.

The scenery outside the car window passed by quickly, and Belian looked at the time displayed on the watch, and couldn't help sighing: "The time will soon be here..."

"It's the countdown, right?" Tarjalib looked at Belian's not-so-sad expression, and didn't try to expose him.

"It existed three days ago. Although it was not caused by us, the devilish taste here-it's really strange."

Belian looked at Tajaribo puzzledly: "When you complain about others, you don't think about yourself at the same time. I'm ashamed of you for talking about other demons."

"Thank you for the compliment." But Takalib accepted Belian's words calmly, which made Belian very powerless.

There was silence in the car for two seconds, and when Tajaribo stepped on the brakes and waited for the red light, Belian finally couldn't help but said: "Don't you have a reason to survive?"

Tajalib's eyes were full of disapproval of Belian, and he said: "...reason? Are you used to living a human life so you want to go back to the abyss?"

"Okay, no." Belian, who knew that Tarjalib would misunderstand him, looked at his palm and sighed a little: "To be honest, after my soul was incomplete because of the seal, I hated you all the time, saying that I wanted to put It’s not an exaggeration to tear your body into pieces. How should I say it? During that time, the only belief that supported me to live was to find my incomplete other half of the soul and repair him. But now that I think about it, I didn’t think about my own after success future--

"The devil's time has no end, I thought I had enough time. But when my soul was about to collapse, I remembered the question I had been ignoring: What is the purpose of my so persistent search? To seek revenge from you? But in that What can I do after that? Get killed by you or lose both... Both outcomes seem meaningless.

"After reintegrating my soul, I saw you again, but I was not afraid but sighed. It's ridiculous for me to be dominated by strange thoughts... When you said 'we don't belong to any plane', I There was a sense of relief at last."

Tajaribo glanced at Belian, who was immersed in his emotions, and didn't make a sound to disturb him.

"We will never be able to touch | the truth of death... Even if you are the god of death, we have already been shut out by death. Dissociated in different planes, never having a fixed residence - this is us."

"At least you're not alone." Tajaribe pursed his lips and looked forward after finishing speaking, just as the green light was on, and he continued to drive regardless of Belian's gaze.

Belian stared thoughtfully at Tajalib's side face, muttering, "Isn't he alone..."

The two had different thoughts, and they didn't talk about other topics for the rest of the journey, and soon arrived at the destination chapel.

Kodo, who was dressed in formal attire, was chatting with people at the door of the church. When he saw Belian and Tajaribo arriving, he greeted them with a smile.

"You two! It's finally here!" Kodo patted Belian on the shoulder vigorously, and introduced them to his uncle, "Uncle Victor, this is my friend Belian and Takalib. Belian , Tajaribo, this is my uncle Victor."

"Haha, hello, young man full of vigor!" The plump Victor waved to the two with a smile on his face, and they returned the salute.

They said they came here to help, but they didn't do anything. Belian greeted Tajalib and Kodo and then wandered around the church.

"Hey! Belian, Takaribo!" Before taking two steps, Belian saw Adrian holding a DV in front of him—Kodo's little nephew walking towards them.

The young man looked very happy today. He even changed a memory card for Belian to take pictures of himself from the beginning to the present.

Regarding Adrian's fanaticism, Belian didn't comment too much: "Good job, young man." After that, he patted him on the shoulder decently, which made Adrian smile even more happily.

Adrian adores his uncle Kodo very much, so it is not surprising that he was excited at Kodo's wedding.

"It's a pity..." Seeing Adrian's leaving back, Belian sighed.

Victor and Adrian's fishy smell is particularly obvious. Although no one knows it now, this supposedly happy wedding is destined to become unrecognizable.

Tajalib coughed lightly, signaling Belian not to speak out quickly.After receiving Belian's dissatisfied stare, you calmly withdrew your gaze: "You should take back your energy, the wedding is about to begin."

Belian looked at the people entering the church one after another and Kodo who was waving at them, and naturally took Tajalib's hand and walked towards the church.

"...This is the first time you have touched me on your own initiative." After a long pause, Takaribo came back to his senses, and was led by Belian obediently to the church.

Trying to regain his unnatural expression, Belian said sullenly: "Don't talk nonsense, let me in quickly."

"it is good."

Tightening the clasped hands, Tarjalib really felt Belian's unnaturalness.

This time Tajalib didn't answer too much, nor did he ask Belian why he did this.

From birth to the unattainable "truth of death", there have always been only the two of them.

'That's all right. 'Walking to the church with Belian hand in hand, Targarib thought so.

"Let's go."

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The author has something to say: from June to now, neither long nor short.

The idea of ​​writing this article at the beginning was to see the last demon in "Night of the Dead" appear on the windowsill and was not killed, so I had this idea of ​​Belian.Later, I went to Baidu and found that the translation of Belian is not very commonly used (I watched it on interactive TV), but I used Bilie, which is another name for Satan, and the setting in the movie is the strongest death god.Then I thought - what if Reaper and Belian are different entities?Then it got out of hand.

This is my first article, the writing style may be immature, and the character description and plot arrangement may be unreasonable, I will work hard to improve in the days to come!

Because I will travel abroad later, I will seriously reply to your messages when I come back.

I also hope that you who have accompanied me through this journey can continue to accompany me.

Thanks again to my little angels who have always supported me!

See you in the next article.

New articles to be opened:

Daily life in a family restaurant: let no one cook properly!

Reborn West Fantasy Swordsman: Reborn

Fantasy Battle Direction Short Stories: Tower of Babel

Completed short stories:

A journal-like story: the drawbridge effect

☆, extra chapter

I don't know if I am responsible for so much pain and misfortune, God is dead, or if he never lived.

After the death of his wife and son, Joseph Crane has been living in a muddle. Even as a writer, he lost all his energy and inevitably encountered a bottleneck. Like rivers and rivers, it seems that there will never be a day of turning back.

He couldn't even get out of that shadow, so that in the beginning he lived in pain and self-blame all day long, didn't know what he was doing every day, and sometimes even forgot what he held in his hand.

Publisher Javier had also reminded him many times, but none of this could comfort Joseph at the time.

Because he did not have any religious beliefs, the relationship between him and his father and younger brother was estranged for a long time, and his wife and son who he cared about died in the fire, and Joseph suddenly became a loner.

However, such days did not last long. After attending a memorial service, he encountered an accident. The car that rushed out suddenly overturned his car. He was not admitted to the hospital for observation for a period of time.

This car accident pulled Joseph out of the swamp of depression and made his mind sober.Even though I didn't feel much about the car accident, Joseph still began to face up to his current life.

During the MRI examination of the skull, the doctor also joked with him, "Although I don't know what god you believe in, but you have to thank him very much", Joseph could only laugh at this.

He has no religious beliefs and has never prayed to the so-called God, so naturally he will not thank the gods.

Sadie, who met by chance, came to visit him in the hospital (the memorial service he attended belonged to Sadie’s husband), and then kindly sent him back to the apartment, which made Joseph, who had always closed his heart, feel a little warmth.

However, before he arrived at the apartment, his younger brother told him that his father was seriously ill in a phone call from his hometown in Spain—even though he had been away from home for many years, his father, Richard Crohn, did not want to see him for a while. Faith"'s eldest son, but he is his father after all, so there is no reason why I should not visit him at this time.In the end, Joseph decided to visit his father in his hometown of Barcelona, ​​Spain, and stay for a while.

My old companions have lost their allegiance, just as God forsaken me.

In a gloomy weather, Joseph came to the old house by the sea.

Still as lifeless as he remembered, Joseph strolled into the room.Unsurprisingly, no one greeted him at the entrance, even though he called his brother Samuel right after he got off the plane.A statue of an angel was placed next to the stairs at some point. Although he was completely unfamiliar with this kind of thing, the statue without a face gave him a chill in his heart, and he thought of his lost wife and son for no reason.

Shaking his head and quickly clearing these thoughts from his mind, Joseph secretly told himself to calm down, took a deep breath and walked up the stairs.

As soon as he arrived at his father's room on the second floor, Joseph could only hear the sound of the "didi" instrument, but what he did not expect was that there was a young man sitting next to his father Richard's bed. When he approached the bed, the young man happened to be Look straight at him.Joseph looked at the old father lying on the bed｜on it, thinking that the young man was a nurse, so he nodded slightly at him, and looked around the room after receiving the young man's slight nod in response.

It's just that before he could recover, the curtain suddenly opened behind him scared him back a step.

"You must be Joseph," an old lady opened her arms with a smile on her face, and gave him a kiss on the face enthusiastically, "[Hello!]"

Hearing the long-lost mother tongue, Joseph twitched the corners of his mouth stiffly, and said in an unskilled manner: "[Hi, may I ask you to be...]"

The old woman smiled indifferently at Joseph's unnatural response: "[Aunt Anna]."

Perhaps seeing Joseph's embarrassment, the old woman who claimed to be Aunt Anna talked to him in English: "I heard that you are a famous writer?"

Having received such praise, Joseph licked｜he｜ the corner of his mouth nervously.Although he received even more compliments than this when he was in the United States, when he came to his hometown, which can be said to be a stranger, he met a strange and enthusiastic old lady-although he did not know whether the other party was his fan, but Joseph still Inevitably feel a little embarrassed.

He replied with some hesitation: "Uh, I just..."

But before he could say anything self-effacing, Aunt Anna interrupted him: "I don't like your book, I only believe in one book."

'Well, it sure is. Joseph silently swallowed the words before he had time to say them, and curled his lips as he looked at the pocket version of the Bible in Aunt Anna's hand.

He knew that the ones who could be with his father must be people with the same beliefs as him... such as this Aunt Anna.

Thinking of this, he looked at the young man sitting beside his father's hospital bed again.From the very beginning, after Joseph entered the room and looked at him, the two of them had no communication. It seemed that the young man didn't care about his appearance.

Joseph secretly guessed in his heart that this young man must also be a believer.

"I will take care of your father until he dies," Aunt Anna looked at Richard, who had his eyes closed, and said to Joseph, "I will give you some time to spend with him, the boy next to him is Belian, I hope you We can have a pleasant exchange." After that, she winked at Joseph and left the room with a smile.

After Aunt Anna walked out of the room, he looked at the young man named Belian, only to find that he had no intention of talking to him, but just looked at the numbers on the instrument, as if in a daze.

The atmosphere in the room was a bit dull, Joseph coughed twice uncomfortably, and slowly approached Belian: "Uh, hello——I'm Joseph, Joseph Crane."

For some reason, Joseph's nervous palms were sweating.Even when he first met Javier and talked to him about publishing for the first time, he was not so nervous.

"Hello," Belian finally looked away from the instrument and looked at Joseph, "I think Anna has already said it, so I won't make any unnecessary introductions."

'……All right. Joseph sighed deeply in his heart, and couldn't help but lament how cold this bright-looking young man was.

In order to avoid falling into a stalemate with nothing to talk about again, Joseph said again: "Well, Belian, are you my father's churchmate?"

He wisely didn't use the word "nursing worker". Although he thought that the young man might be the nursing worker who took care of his father like Aunt Anna, he always felt that there would be no good results if he said it.

Belian shrugged, and the smile on the corner of his mouth seemed ironic to Joseph: "Of course not, it can only be regarded as a 'friend'. I don't believe in religion."

Unexpectedly, Belian was also an atheist, so Joseph was somewhat surprised.After all, my father hates people who don't believe in religion the most. Even his blood-related son was kicked out of the house because he didn't believe in religion, but at this time he has a friend who doesn't believe in religion. My aunt must be a believer like my father, but she didn't show the slightest dislike for Belian, which puzzled him very much.

Joseph, who couldn't think of a reason, could only temporarily use "personality charm" to convince himself, sat on an empty chair next to Belian, and was about to continue talking with him, but he didn't expect his father, who had his eyes closed, to sit down suddenly. Standing up in front of him, Joseph instinctively wanted to step back, but because he was sitting on the chair, he sank into the chair and stared at his father with a strange face.

"They're watching you, Joseph."

Hearing that his father did not blame himself, but suddenly uttered such a thoughtless remark, Joseph swallowed his saliva reluctantly, stood up slowly, and tried to distance himself from his father who seemed abnormal.

"They will come for him...you have to answer me," Richard grasped the hem of Joseph's clothes with his wrinkled hands, the blue blood vessels like earthworms were tightly wrapped by the shriveled skin, and said The horror that doesn't come out, "Are you ready to save him, kid?"

In this regard, Joseph could only prevaricate his old father: "I don't know what you are talking about." He cast a help-seeking look at Belian, hoping that the other party could temporarily appease his father who seemed a little abnormal.

Richard was still relentlessly approaching Joseph, he even straightened up from the hospital bed, wanting to go one step further with Joseph.

Belian, who had been sitting silently by the side, finally stood up, grabbed Richard's shoulders and sent him back to the hospital bed.

"Mr. Richard, I think you need a better rest now." Joseph couldn't see the expression of Belian, who was turning his back to him, but he could see his father who was originally excited after Belian's words. He lay down obediently and stopped talking, but those cloudy eyes were still staring at Joseph closely, as if he wanted to say something to him.

Weird, so weird.

Against the backdrop of the gloomy weather, the atmosphere in the room gave Joseph the urge to flee here, but he still held back the steps of retreating and heaved a sigh of relief watching his father close his eyes and return to the calm state of sleep at the beginning.

He hesitated and asked Belian: "Father, is he usually like this?"

"Probably because I felt something when I saw you." Belian tucked his quilt in, straightened up and turned his head to look at Joseph who looked uncomfortable, with a half-smile on his face.

"Leave first, let Mr. Richard be quiet for a while." Belian walked past Joseph and walked straight to the door.

"..." With lingering fear, Joseph looked at his father on the hospital bed, frowned and turned around to follow Belian and went downstairs.

Ever since his car accident, he felt a sense of urgency in his heart—as if someone was spying on him in the dark, which made people feel hairy.And this feeling was even stronger when he arrived at the old house. Coupled with his father's weird reaction, Joseph couldn't help but regret his decision to come to Barcelona.

This time visiting relatives, it seems that it is not as simple as he imagined.

God wanted to test Abraham, so he called him, "Abraham."

He said: I am here.

God said: Take your son, your only son Isaac whom you love, and go to the land of Moriah, and sacrifice him as a burnt offering on the mountain I will show you.

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