Chapter 110 - Karma And Secrets About Theo's Origin

However, the two kept walking and nothing happened. Emery thought it was just his imagination. Was he too cautious and afraid of all men for being a Dark BL?

"You are not wrong to be cautious. He actually thought about dragging you into one of those rooms, but he knows the knights' patrol will be passing by soon, so he's ruled out doing that." Azarphy's voice rang in Emery's mind. His voice sounded grim and had a bit of anger.

Emery was scared twice, scared because of that death flag and scared that Azarphy would do something like kill, especially when it was just him and the other person, how would he justify himself if the Leader of the Knights died suddenly or disappeared when was taking it just to see the administrator?

Everyone would think he was in league with the demons, he could be dragged to prison, Louis would still take four days to get back. Until then he could face the same fate as Giovanni, be whipped to death and thrown out by the Abbey, and then lie about his death to his powerful father.

Or worse they could say I get away with some beauty or something like that, given the not-too-clean reputation of the body's original owner that wouldn't be all that weird.

"Neither of you two can kill him.. At least not while I'm interacting with him." Emery mentally warned Arabeth and Azarphy.

"I understand," said Azarphy in somber humor. He really didn't know why he felt agitated seeing the thoughts of this holy knight. It was as if this human named Levi Mulder was defying him.

Arabeth, on the other hand, was only a little aware of what was going on, he just felt a little helpless because he couldn't kill the human. Even if he wanted to kill, he would have to use other means to kill this knight, such as influencing someone else to kill or forging some natural disaster, as the law of the Human Dimension is quite strict.

Powers like Azarphy, whose human dimension exerted a looser restraint, were as rare as the existence of good people in Dark BL novels.

Fortunately, nothing happened on the way and they arrived at the administrative office of Abbey Matteo. Emery walked into the office alone and Knight Mulder waited by the door so the cute red-haired kitten wouldn't run away.

Father Marino already knew about Bishop Darcy's request, as there was an internal communication stone that Abbot Eurico had to be able to send orders to all important places in the abbey. So the process was quick and the parchment was still sealed with the data and several papers sealed in an envelope were handed over to Bishop Darcy.

These papers had the transference documents and Giovanni's documents, as identity, if he is of the nobility there are the titles and status of the family, if he is an orphan there are the documents of the orphanage with the circumstances of the person and his behavior when developing.

"The document arrived yesterday, but as Bishop Darcy knows there was a lot of confusion with the death of a priest, a lightning strike that fell on the great sacred fig tree, and even more with the demons attacking our territory," Father Marino said while observing the Bishop Darcy's serious look over the still-sealed documents of his new pupil.

In fact, Emery was relieved that it was still sealed—it meant he could get Giovanni out of the country without having to worry about interference from the abbey or Duke D'Lucas's family.

"I would also like to ask about a first-year novice, who was accompanying my butler to the village yesterday. I want to take him to become one of my people"

Emery called Theo's name and described it to see if Father Marino could find Theo's documents.

"You must be talking about Count Bianco's bastard son, I've already looked at his papers and it's okay if you want to take him. It is the luck of this boy that Bishop Darcy wants him to be one of his people "

Emery was surprised by the new information, he didn't imagine that Theo had such a past, very similar to Giovanni's.

"I thought Theo was an orphan," Emery said without changing his expression. But inside he was wondering if Theo had lied to him if the 14-year-old had some kind of evil plan.

It's a Dark BL novel, which could lead to making Theo a psychopath or a Yandere character, which wouldn't be good for Emery's good health.

"The boy doesn't know the truth. He was raised in the orphanage that has part of its income from the sponsorship of Count Bianco, in addition to this boy, there were 5 other children who were bastard children of Count Bianco. The boy was the most talented of these 5 children, considering his family background, he may have a better future than his siblings"

Father Marino spoke a little more about the conduct of Count Bianco who was cruel and pursued young villagers for pleasure, some women killed each other for dishonor and others received monetary compensation and left their children in the orphanage fleeing to a place far from that monstrous noble to start a new life.

"As expected from a Dark BL novel set in a world between fantasy and steampunk, a world without law and order," Emery thought as he listened to all the stories, gossip, and rumors about Count Bianco.

"You'll have to wait a while I'll process the boy's waiver documents. However, Bishop Darcy from now on your Excellency will be responsible for the boy's housing, food, clothing, and welfare, he will not be able to eat the communal food or use our facilities freely, Your Excellency will have to pay for a room for him and for his expenses"

How Theo will stop being a novice; Matteo Abbey wouldn't have to deal with him anymore, of course, that for a person like Bishop Darcy to play the little boy or follower wasn't much, so Emery quickly agreed with what the administrator said.

While the files were being processed, Theo and Giovanni's teachers with the priest responsible for the care of the novices were notified to attend and sign the documents placing Theo and Giovanni under the tutelage of Bishop Darcy, exempting any responsibility under Matteo Abbey over the fate of the two young men.

Abbot Eurico did not need to sign, as Father Marino had the seal to dispatch the important files, which showed how important that priest was to the abbot because of the high level of trust between them.

When the teachers from both novices arrived and the priest in charge of the novices' dormitory arrived there was some commotion outside the room, then it fell silent and the teachers entered with a strange look, which left Emery curious about what happened outside.

"That knight left after seeing a blond priest," said Azarphy, feeling intrigued by Knight Mulder's attitude.

"That priest is Father Rutger, the damn hypocrite who took advantage of the novice," Arabeth told Emery a little angrily. It cannot be forgotten that Arabeth until yesterday had his fate intertwined with Giovanni and had always been watching the young man from afar.

There was no change in Emery's face, but he was surprised by the news, he didn't know that Rutger and Knight Mulder had any relationship between them.

Was this the butterfly effect?

Technically if Emery hadn't caused a stir last night, Knight Mulder wouldn't have had to go back to Matteo Abbey now and he wouldn't have found Rutger there.

It took at least another hour with the documents and of course, Emery took some money to make up for Father Marino's service, of course, asking him to keep the existence of Theo a secret from Count Bianco and Father Bianco.

"Okay, it's not like Count Bianco cared about the kid anyway. If one day he comes to investigate, I'll just take a death certificate from the great pandemic and say that Theo was among the victims and didn't survive"

In this way Emery felt a little relieved that things were working out somehow, he put all the documents inside his space bag, and as he was about to leave the administrator's room, he was approached by Father Pietro:

"Bishop Darcy, I will become bold, but I must ask…Does the bishop know where Brother Naill a transferred novice is? Can Brother Giovanni know where he is?"

"I don't know and Giovanni is recovering in the bedroom since the day I pulled him out of the kitchen wounded," Emery lied to the priest without blinking.

Of course, when Emery said this the priests felt uncomfortable as they knew what had happened in the kitchen that morning, or at least there was gossip and many rumors about Giovanni's nefarious behavior. However, they wouldn't dare say anything in front of Bishop Darcy.

"This is going to be troublesome, I just received a letter from Brother Naill's older brother, he has taken over the family and wants Naill to come back with him to help stabilize the county," Father Marino said suddenly upon hearing the conversation from Emery and Father Pietro.

"That's unfortunate, but I don't know about Brother Naill," Emery said still keeping his expression immobile, the other priests can only sigh and start looking for Naill, who could probably just be a dead body right now.

"Father Ricardo is also missing… Could it be that…" another priest began to comment with consternation.

"It's possible that they do, but we still have to look for at least the corpse," Father Marino said, ending the morbid conversation.

Meanwhile, Emery just left the admin room.