R-18 (The following scenes contain insinuation of child abuse and R@pe. Caution is advised when reading the chapter. Remember to seek out the proper authorities in both cases if possible, or a close friend or relative to ask for help. You don't have to face all this alone)1
Levi who was in a peaceful and dreamless sleep was awakened by a slap on the face, he woke up stunned and thought that the abbey had been attacked by bandits.
It was not uncommon for bandits formed by heretical gypsies to attack abbeys far from the capital or even small chapels to smuggle gold and silver to sell on the black market.
Of course, these Gypsies relied on their dark arts to face the holy knights, which showed that not even wanderers in this world could be taken as common people and be underestimated.
Unfortunately, it wasn't bandits or gypsies, it was Levi's worst nightmare that woke him up.
"Hello son" the female voice sounded slightly loving. A person from the outside could see the affection the woman had for Levi.
However, what Levi felt was the sheer terror that made him open his eyes wide and stare at the resplendent image of his mother in her most glorious beauty.
So different from the still, pale, fetid corpse he remembered as her last memory.
Levi felt suffocated, he couldn't speak and could only keep looking, his body was so heavy from the medicine, he couldn't run or call for help, trapped in front of that person that even the demons seemed better than her.
"Won't you say hello, son?" the woman asked again, bringing her hand to Levi's face, stroking lightly.
In the intruder's vision, a strange scene unfolded a young man walked in in a feminine manner like a noblewoman she once knew when in disguise, but it was strange when a big man did that.
The way she sat up as if she were a wealthy young lady and smiled charmingly at the sleeping patient, before she shockingly slapped him across the face, startling him awake.
What unfolded later was even stranger, the big muscular man who was the patient seemed to have become a small helpless little boy, trembling in front of a monster, but all there was a novice acting like a woman and speaking in a prim way.
The woman was even more surprised by what the man acting like a noble lady did by scratching the patient's face.
Warmblood ran down Levi's pale face, touching the white sheet that resembled his sickly skin, but Levi remained motionless as if he didn't feel any pain and looked very scared at his mother.
"Did you miss your Mom?"
She said kissing the side of Levi's clean face, her warm, wet lips touching her son's cool skin. So kind that from the outside it looked like a good mother greeting her child, only Levi knew that the kinder the mother acted, the crueler she would be to him later.
"Won't you say hello, son?" The woman continued to call him affectionately.
On the other hand, Emery woke up with only Arabeth beside him, Giovanni was nowhere in the room, which quickly worried him.
"The angel lord took the human with him" Bao warned seeing his master agitated looking around.
"Took him where?" Emery asked already shaking off the drowsiness with worry.
"They went to investigate the two murders," Arabeth said, suddenly rolling over on her bed in a lazy way.
Emery was surprised by the information and it didn't make him any less worried, he stood up and placed his robe on the cleric.
"You better not go there…" Arabeth started to warn only to receive an angry glare from Emery.
"Master, Giovanni was disguised in the appearance of the master. If the master leaves now it will make everything more complicated." Bao said and bit Emery's clothes trying to stop the human from leaving the room.
Emery stopped and took a deep breath. He looked at Arabeth who only confirmed what Bao had said.
"What was Azarphy thinking?!" Emery complained softly, but no one could tell him what the fallen archangel was thinking.
Was Emery going to stay in the room waiting for the two of them to come back?
Of course not!
"Arabeth, could you disguise me too?" Emery asked a little more excitedly.
"Yes, I can and much better than that feathered bird!" Arabeth said proudly.
In the forgotten hut Bryan was touching his belly that was making noises of hunger, today Mattias did not appear which made the dark elf apprehensive. After changing the bandages as best he could and cleaning the wounded places, he felt very lonely.
Bryan hadn't meant to act so rudely to Mattias, but he was startled when he woke up and saw him so close to him. It was inevitable that he would have these reactions after everything he'd been through in that dark room he'd been trapped in for so long.
Mattias was in a terrible mood for having just finished his services, now he was in the cafeteria for dinner. However, he was concerned about the dark elf's state and after seeing a priest of supposed prestige like Rutger act like a pervert, he imagined countless times if anyone found out about Bryan it would happen too.
"Take some more," the cook spoke with a rare lapse of kindness. Mattias who was worried didn't notice the cook's gaze on himself.
Mattias happily took some more, he was going to take the food to Bryan, then with a smile, he thanked him and quickly disappeared from the cafeteria under the gaze of his curious colleagues.
"Didn't he get the signal?" one of the colleagues said with pity to one of the friends.
"Last month it was Andrea, now he's trying to attack Mattias…" another fellow commented with pity as well.
"What about poor Andrea?" another asked curiously, they didn't see the 16-year-old boy who was much taller than most of his age.
"He was transferred," another colleague responded regretfully.
The colleagues were talking about it, but only one of them thought he should say something to Mattias, but the others shied away from the responsibility of notifying their fellow novice.
Luca Santero was a senior novice, he was somehow lucky to have a good family supporting him, but he was very aware of his luck and with the good moral education given by his mother and older sister, the boy didn't could see such a thing happen and do nothing.
The other time he was silent about Andrea's case because they had no one to turn to for help and they themselves would eventually enter that nest of darkness and be destroyed by the abbey staff.
Mattias's case was different in that there was the holy knight Giuliani who was sort of Mattias' mentor and protector, so Luca went to see Giuliani for help with the perverted cook who tormented the novices from time to time.
In the third-floor hallway, Lee Fei was wearing a cloak that covered his entire body, including part of his face with the fabric shadow.
"Are you sure about looking like this?" Arabeth asked again, he was standing next to Emery looking like Giovanni.
Emery already asked to have his old look, Lee Fei, looking at himself in the mirror with his black hair and narrow eyes with long dark lashes, the longing for the modern world hit his heart hard, making him a little sad.
"I already said yes. I can do whatever I want without worrying about the consequences." Lee Fei said with more confidence than usual. He suppressed the sadness so he could act in the now.
"Young Master Arabeth… We're going to get in trouble…" Bao lamented to Arabeth just thinking about what the angel was going to do to him for letting Emery out in that way too brave to get in trouble outside.
Bao remained a small dog in Arabeth's arms as they escorted Lee Fei down the hall.
Inside Levi's room things got worse, Forneus put the man on his stomach and mounted him, the man's big body trembled and the tears seemed to fall unconsciously as Levi's mind was no longer the adult it is now, but the child of that time.
Letting himself be dominated by the hands of the mother who should have taken care of him, but was hurting him even after death.
"Levi such a bad boy for not saying hello to your own mother" the woman's voice was so gentle it sounded like honey dripping from her lips.
Ah, but it was the sweet poison he couldn't have avoided taking as a child.
"I'm sorry…I'm sorry Mom" Levi finally seemed to respond, but it was still the child inside him screaming those words.
"No, I cannot forgive such bad behavior. I must educate my baby well, right?" the woman said with a warm laugh, but Levi's body tensed and he closed his eyes awaiting punishment.
The intruder looked on in horror seeing the man's clothing being tossed aside, while the man impersonating a woman lifted his tunic to show off his erect member. Bad memories came to her mind, anger took over and she resolved that she couldn't just watch such a terrible thing happen. She would be no different from the damn bastards she had killed.
Forneus who was enjoying the whole situation felt excited seeing the submissive Levi below him, how pleasurable it must be to do this now with this human. However, he was surprised to have his body thrown away by the power of death.
The power of death was colorless much of the time so Forneus was taken aback, he couldn't feel the power or see, but when he got up he found himself facing a woman in black clothes and a glowing gaze like torches in the dark.
"Witch!"
"Tsk, shameless demon" the witch spoke in disgust, spitting aside with a rude and silly countrywoman, but the power of her hand was no joke.