NOVEL NEXT Chapter 27
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Roger, who held me back behind him in silence, panicking at the crying girl elsewhere, lifts the girl hysterically.
And I stayed on my shoulder.
I didn’t seem to be the only one who was taken aback.
The child also opened his mouth on Roger and looked pokanned.
The girl who stopped crying looked happy this time
“Thanks, brother! Takai,” he said with a happy voice.
“Hey, who are you here with?
“Uh, sister and brother”
“Where did your sister and brother go?
“In front of the confectionery shop, I was watching the confectionery!
“Hmm? Yeah, you were watching confectionery”
“Yes!”
“Alone?
“Yeah, all of us. So I ran because I had a big fish.”
“You went from a confectionery shop to a fish shop?
“Yeah, then I was alone. I was sad.”
The girl frowned softly.
I mean, I left you with your sister and your brother at the confectionery store, but you fell off and got lost.
Still, I was surprised Roger handled such a small boy so well.
“Your brothers will look for you, you’ll be fine! You’d look good in a shoulder car like this, wouldn’t you?
“Yeah!”
Whether she was anxious by herself or slowly relieved as she spoke here, the girl became more and more chatty from herself.
And when I found the confectionery shop I was at before I got ripped off, I said, “Ah! There! Brother, let me down!” Tell Roger to unload his shoulder car, “he tries to rush out.
In a hurry, hold the girl’s hand
“Let’s walk away together,” the girl said, “Yeah!” He laughed happily.
From afar, I see a young man and several children screaming desperately for something.
I wonder what’s going on, and I stare at the girl next to me and I say, “Cleric! fingered.”
“Someone you know?
“Yeah, Cleric!
Dear Cleric, you must be from the Episcopal Church.
I wonder what this has to do with her.
With that doubt, it seems like they noticed this one and said, “Meena!” He approached me screaming.
And the girl said, “Hey!,” he ran unwavering my hand, hugging a young young man called a cleric.
The cleric notices us.
“Could Meena have taken care of you”
“This kid says Meena, right? I think I’m lost.”
“Really? Thank you so much.”
The cleric, with his dark blonde hair and a gentle eye with a slightly dripping purple eye, said he was from the church just beside the square where the market was open.
“Will you stay back?,” he told the oldest child who was on the spot, perhaps about twelve years old. Then the boy took a few of the children back to church.
Meena grinned and waved at me and Roger as she left.
“Um, those kids…”
“Yeah, they’re orphanage kids co-located in church.”
“Well, so is Meena earlier”
“Yes, he’s an orphan too.”
No…
Is that why you cried so hard?
I said to the detour, ‘What about your mother?’ Cause I heard what it was.
“… I would have hurt her, wouldn’t I? I asked her where she was.”
The cleric looks a little lonely in my words.
“Meena will know that it’s time for us to be different from the general family.
If you come to these places, you’ll meet a child as old as your father or mother took you. ”
“Right…”
“But they have to get over it.”
“Get over it… those little ones.”
“Because that’s reality. That’s why I’m trying to love, teach wisdom, and empower those kids so that they can stand up alone.”
I was struck in the chest by the word of the priest.
Indeed, it is easy to mourn and sympathize with the status quo.
But that’s not what they want.
But if you look at those children’s bright smiles and firm physical appearance, you can see that the clergy nurture them with great affection.
“Um, may I come to church next time, if you don’t mind?”
“Yeah, sure. Meena and the other kids will be delighted.”
The clergyman nodded gently with his eyes narrowed to my words.
And he said, “It’s time to go back. Thank you so much for today,” he thanked me politely.
to Roger as he watched the back of the departing cleric.
“You seem so sweet,” Roger nodded quietly, too.
“Still, you’re good at taking care of kids! Something that she totally missed too.”
“Yeah, I grew up in a church orphanage, too. It’s the job of the elderly to take care of them down there.”
and say sarah like nothing.
“Well, but I was raised by clerics and sisters as kind as that cleric. I don’t give a shit about birth.
The knights of this country can be scorned for orphans, but a sword doesn’t matter. ”
I’m even more surprised by Roger’s words.
He also said that churches often have orphanages together, but I didn’t know Roger grew up in church again.
“Yes. Thanks for talking to me, Roger”
“No.”
The Church’s orphanage is administered by the Episcopal Church, but financial resources are donations by the state and nobility.
In aristocratic territory, which is also keen for donations and condolences to the Church, clothing and accommodation can also be filled in orphanages and further encouraged to study, etc.
But at nobles who don’t, they leave everything to the church, and they can’t say the environment is good.
I wanted to go to church too.
However, it is also true that I was worried about whether I could be actively involved from myself because my current treatment is a matter for the State and the Church.
I think that’s why today’s encounter has become a very big one in the sense of taking a step forward.
“Shall we go to Theodore and the others?”
“Yes.”
Yes, I totally forgot.
About Samuel.
When I returned to the store earlier, one of Theodore’s men stood and waited.
“Oh, what about Samuel?
“It’s him, he kind of worships beans like a god, so I asked the shop owner to carry them all to the Lordship Hall for now.
Then I ran home unprepared. ”
“Run!?
“… I’m tired of boulders, too. Go home.”
“Yes. Good luck”
Apparently, we had a big meeting for Samuel, too.
This will also change my daily life and diet a little bit more.