[The Twilight Saga·Carlyle] Hidden God

"It's not what you think. It's not like that, Ed." Carlisle said, "Forgive me. The reason I said that is because I don't want you to blame yourself too much for the 'death' thing .——Actually, I didn’t even think about “thank you”. This matter itself has nothing to do with Edward and Bella. Really, I really didn’t have the heart to think about them at the time... this sentence It's fake. It's just a wrong idea on my part that's causing you to be very angry right now."

"What did you say?"

"Forget what I just said?" Carlisle begged softly, stroking Edmund's dark hair, "I didn't actually think about it that way, Ed, I really didn't."

"So... you were lying to me just now?"

"That's understandable. —I'm sorry."

The boy showed a strange expression, looking very puzzled.

"...you, you got me mixed up.—You mean, you didn't want to thank me for saving Bella? Or...you didn't—"

"I never thought about it that way, Ed. The only thing I care about is you. - If Bella really leaves in this accident, then I can only try to enlighten Edward, as far as I am concerned , maybe there is no other emotion except a little regret and self-blame. But if you are the one who left... Sorry, I can't imagine how it would be if I could never touch you again, the feeling of being alone The pain was too much, I just felt it for a few months and couldn't take it anymore, I think if you woke up a few months later, then there is a real possibility of hearing that I am gone. Sorry Ed , I really can't bear the feeling of losing you.——If you leave, it means that you have taken away everything from me. Even if Carlisle Cullen is dead, he is gone, just like a walking corpse remaining in this place No matter what happens, there is no joy in the world... Please remember, Edmund Cullen. No matter what happens, you are the most important thing to me, and nothing can replace you.— Friends, no; family, neither."

Edmund stared at Carlisle's face for a long time, and then he lowered his arms around his chest as if he breathed a sigh of relief. ——It turned out that Carlisle's strange expression a few minutes ago was because of this. ——It seems that this "thank you" is so inconsistent that even this vampire who has lived for more than 300 years feels uncomfortable.

"If you had to tell me how I really felt at the time—" Carlisle said softly, looking into the boy's cat's eyes, "I'd tell you.—I'm angry. I've never been so angry. I'm angry You're so stupid, mad at Bella for hurting you, mad at myself for showing up so late and putting you in danger again, and—"

"I see, I'm sorry, Carlisle." The boy hugged the blond vampire's waist, rubbing his head on the other's shoulder, "I'm sorry.—I shouldn't get angry... Please believe that I am not Made you say that on purpose. Being a newborn is getting a little out of my control."

"I know...if I can, I really want to punish you." Carlisle put his arms around the boy's back, leaned his head slightly and touched the boy's forehead with his lips, "but I found that I couldn't do it. ——I Just please don't leave me now."

"I won't.—Well, that seems like too much to say..."

"Did you just find out, Ed?—you've said that to me a hundred times."

"But I never really left you, did I?" Edmund raised the corners of his mouth and made a face at his parents, "Look, I'm still standing in front of you! —— You are still big!"

Carlisle shook his head helplessly, and pulled the boy to sit on the soft carpet again.

"Don't leave me, Ed." Carlisle said with his arms around Edmund, "No matter what happens, the first thing you think of must be me."

"I promise you."

The boy turned his head and kissed Carlisle's graceful chin, and took the other's arm to hug himself tighter.

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"Shall we continue talking?" Carlisle continued after a long silence.

"I have some little secrets to tell you." Edmund said softly, half lying on the blond vampire's chest, looking at the clear night sky in front of him, "Do you want to hear it?"

"All ears."

The boy took Carlisle's hand and told him about seeing Peter.

"Do you think it's amazing?" Edmund asked softly while playing with the other's slightly cool fingertips, "We are both so special."

"Yeah, maybe I can guess a bit.—did he mention the 'witch hunt'?"

"Correct."

"So you've heard of the 'Holy See'?"

"Of course.—Although the history is not very good, the word is not unfamiliar to me at all."

"The Holy See developed from the ancient Roman bishop's office and had no fixed organization at first. It was the central administrative body of the Catholic Church, assisting the Pope in handling the affairs of the entire church. ——After the fall of the Western Roman Empire to the fifteenth century AD, Europe entered the so-called In the Middle Ages, during the millennium-long dark period, Catholic theology was the only ideology at that time, so the idea of ​​the devil was prevalent, thinking that everything in the world was created by God, and whenever disasters occurred, it was believed that evil forces were at work. people will violate social norms or religion, and it is also believed that because they are possessed by demons or they are wizards. This kind of thinking continued until the 17th century. Before the 17th century, hundreds of thousands of people were accused of Die at the stake or other torture for 'heretics', 'witches'..."

"This passage is completely copied from my "Modern European History"." The boy smacked his lips, "I have recited this passage before, but I have almost forgotten it now. ——When did you recite it? down?"

Carlisle touched Edmund's head, but did not answer the question.

"While 'hunting' wizards, the Holy See will also slaughter other dark creatures...vampires, werewolves, ghouls, goblins and the like are also included."

"That's why you were bitten then."

"Yeah, because I was unlucky enough to trap an actual vampire." Carlisle chuckled. "Don't interrupt, my boy? You keep distracting me."

"Well, well!—I'll listen carefully! Never interrupt you!"

"...People nowadays almost think that dark races such as vampires, werewolves, and wizards do not exist, but they are all wrong." Carlisle lowered his head and kissed Edmund's hair, then continued to use the velvet-like warm The voice said, "As far as I know, among these three dark races, the number of vampires is about tens of thousands, and the number of werewolves may be a little less than the number of vampires, only about 1... and wizards, they They spread almost all over the world before the 17th century, but after the witch hunt, they became extinct. ——Of course, the Holy See as a hunter also died out at that time.”

The boy showed a puzzled expression, pursed his lips and poked the blond vampire's waist with his fingers in silence, urging him to speak more quickly.

"Wizards, vampires, werewolves.——Each of these three races is stronger than humans. So I think you should be wondering, how did humans exterminate a race?"

"The answer lies in the Holy See itself."

"The Holy See in the 16,17th and [-]th centuries had very powerful powers. - some of them were born with powers similar to the dark talent. Some people can control fire, some people can make objects levitate, and some People can even control other people's brains...so that they almost have the ability to compete with other races."

"Wizards and the Holy See have waged a war that lasted for more than a century, and both sides lost more than half of their strength. One day after that—according to the records of the Volturi, it was a cold winter day—the only remaining forces of both sides Fighting on the snowfields in northern Europe, after that, neither the wizard nor the so-called 'Son of God' in the Holy See have appeared again."

"It's been about half a century, which is the time I lived in. ——The people inside the Holy See are all ordinary human beings. Yes, I can also be regarded as one of them."

"So... I might be a descendant of the Holy See in the Middle Ages? Or a descendant of wizards?" Edmund couldn't help interrupting Carlisle, "That's impossible!——Haven't both sides perished? Even There are only one or two who survived, and the only way for them to leave offspring is to intermarry with ordinary humans. But it is already the 21st century! No matter how powerful they are, in my generation, their genes The special part of the human body should also be completely assimilated by ordinary human genes!"

"I have some information, which I took from Volturi earlier." The blond vampire touched the boy's back, "It says that human beings are creatures that are good at 'integrating and inheriting'. —— Vol Turi once saw such a human... When he was transformed into a vampire, he showed a very strange state of "fake death". The heartbeat stopped, the pulse disappeared, the pupils dilated, and his whole body was cold, but his body would not rot. It wasn't until a few months later that he fully turned into a vampire and woke up. The situation described above is almost exactly what happened to you, Ed."

"And then? That man, the vampire, what happened to him?"

"He has a very astonishing dark talent, but the Volturi don't describe it in detail. They only say he has 'god'-like powers.—But unfortunately, this vampire is very Hating immortality, he died at the age of 60."

"How did he die?"

"Ask a werewolf to kill him."

"...It's a pity.—But that doesn't mean he has anything to do with me."

"It was only later that the Volturi learned that this vampire had something to do with the Holy See at the time. —His grandfather was a cardinal."

"...The clergy of the Holy See should not be able to get married, right?"

"It wasn't so strict during the prey movement.—Because the Holy See needs to retain some 'divine power' to fight against the dark elements... and now, the uniqueness shown on you is very similar to that vampire, so I think I It can be assumed that—”

"You think I'm a descendant of the medieval Holy See?"

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So Edmund is a descendant of the Holy See, hmmmm.

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