Chapter 53: Pious Hyde and Mad Women (3)
It was difficult to study nerves and the mind in the Middle Ages.
Tourette syndrome, which causes tics, began to be discussed around the 19th century.
In this world where there is still no decent artillery, Tourette Syndrome may have felt like the work of a devil or a ghost.
"Sex! Chase!"
Pink-haired girl Lucy Emma.
She was spewing out vulgar words from her lips that did not suit her edgy appearance.
When the nuns saw this, they trembled and said, "You're possessed by a demon!" And crossed themselves.
Is this the work of a ghost?
I thought not.
"It's just something wrong with my brain. If I were to compare it, it's like a hiccup. "Once you start having hiccups, you can't stand them, and they come out as you please, right?"
Tourette Syndrome was simply a series of permanent mental hiccups. However, Mother Superior Midnar seemed to have understood my words differently and grabbed her whip in her hand.
"Are hiccups also the work of devils and ghosts?"
No.
Don't attribute anything to the devil.
In their long lives, pastors would encounter a 'demon-possessed person' at least once.
In times like these, pastors must have the discernment to distinguish between people suffering from 'mental problems' and 'those who are truly possessed by demons.'
Fortunately, I, who was more pious and intelligent than anyone else, had such discernment, but the nuns on this stone island did not seem to have that luxury.
"Sex! Mating! Hmm…"
It's a terrible sight.
I can't believe how someone can say something like that so casually.
But the one who suffers the most is the person involved.
Zech─.
At that time, someone grabbed my arm.
It was Psyche.
"Don't you feel so sorry for Miss Lucy? Hyde, according to what you said, you have to force yourself to say something like that even if you don't want to… ! It's a complete trampling of dignity… !"
That was actually the case.
Among the sisters in my orphanage, there was an older sister with Tourette syndrome. She had a very pretty face and a kind personality.
However, she had severe symptoms of the disease and remembers having a hard time due to a lot of stress.
I remember how difficult it was to improve Tourette's even with modern medicine in the 21st century, so I quietly thought about what I could do in the future.
At that time, Milione said.
"This is a curse! The curse of Rust! The terrible and vicious Sinister Rust sacrificed Lucy Emma in order to spread her lewd demons in this convent!"
Milione, you crazy bitch!
I am really innocent this time!
However, this story was so plausible that the nuns who were watching this scene trembled or were scared.
"The curse of Rust?"
"… "I heard he was an incredibly terrible man."
Did Rust's notoriety spread to this convent that had little interaction with the world? Soon, Mother Superior Midnar asked Milione.
"Who is Rust?"
"You don't know Rust? Name the most famous man in the United Kingdom these days? What is the name of the man who murdered Archbishop Coramdeo and burned the basilica? It was Rust who raped Milione!"
When did I murder Archbishop Coramdeo?
It wasn't me who burned down the Great Sanctuary.
And I never raped Milione!
It will spin.
Still, this story seemed to have had a great impact on Sister Midnar. She furrowed her strict and stubborn eyebrows and muttered to herself, "I can't believe there are men like that."
Dang dang dang ─.
Then someone rang the bell.
When Mother Superior Midnar and her nuns heard this, they started heading somewhere, but their sudden steps embarrassed me quite a bit.
I asked Psyche.
"Where are you going?"
"From 5 to 6 p.M. Is silent meditation time. "No one is allowed to speak in this convent for the next hour."
Is it silent practice?
The nuns entered the large chapel.
It was a chapel that seemed to have been carved out of a large rock on this stone island, and the atmosphere was very solemn, dark and eerie, and had a place that overwhelmed the audience.
The nuns now knelt on the stone floor and began praying with their hands together.
Zek-.
Psyche kneeling next to me.
"I'm bored," Was Milione's response to this situation, but she kept quiet because the other women noticed her with their sharp eyes.
"Fuck!"
But there was a problem.
The words created by Miss Lucy Emma had spread to such an extent that it was obvious over the silence in this chapel.
Can't we take Lucy somewhere else?
That's what I thought, but Psyche wrote on my palm.
"It's a prayer time when everyone must participate, so I can't leave Miss Lucy alone."
I see.
It was a time of prayer that deepened my worries in many ways.
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After an hour of prayer, we had dinner.
There is a large restaurant, but since I am a man, I had to eat alone in my room, and my lovely wife, Psyche Agarpe, brought me food.
Bread and soup.
It's a very simple meal.
I asked as I accepted the food tray.
"I guess it was because of Miss Lucy Emma that His Holiness Gregory sent me to this stone island. Psyche, do you know anything about Miss Lucy?"
Tourette's is also hereditary.
Knowing your family history and living environment may be helpful in providing basic treatment.
At my question, Psyche made a snoring sound as if she was lost in thought and said.
"Miss Lucy says he has lived on this stone island since he was born. He must be an orphan who was abandoned at a young age. Because there were so many wars in the kingdom."
I see.
There were clues in many ways.
A complete cure is impossible, but symptoms may be improved.
"Psyche, I think we should take Miss Lucy off this island."
"Yes? Are you taking me out?"
"The symptoms and severity of brain disease are closely related to psychological state. The closed and strict environment of this island is really driving Miss Lucy Emma crazy."
She lives on a stone island from the time she is born until she dies and is treated like a person possessed by a ghost due to an unwanted syndrome and is even whipped.
If a life like that were to be lived, even a sane person would go crazy.
The only person I know who could endure such asceticism was I, Hyde, a perfect ascetic.
I could really endure it, but it would be harsh for Lucy, who is only 18 years old.
However, Psyche trembled.
"My master would never allow it, right? She warned the nuns that Miss Lucy should never go to the mainland!"
"She can never go out? Why? Is there a reason?"
"I don't know about that, but—."
Knock-.
At that time, someone knocked on the door of my room.
Soon the door swung open, and a woman with serious burn scars on her face came out and spoke to Psyche.
"Psyche, you lewd thing…" ! Don't you know that on this "Stone Island" It is forbidden to talk to men after 6 PM…? !? I guess I should get whipped… ! There are 5… !"
"Ah, Sister Anemone… !"
It was forbidden to talk to men after 6pm.
Anemone, the woman with a burn on her face, seemed like a powerful figure in the Amai convent.
Is it a role like a military squad leader?
Soon she grabbed Psyche by the neck and led her somewhere, muttering loudly.
"This island is no place for a man! "It would be best to go away!"
You shouldn't talk to men.
Is it okay to mutter to yourself like that?
There are some really absurd rules.
I am now alone.
I had nothing to do in a windowless room, so I just prayed and slept.
And the problem occurred in the morning.
"Aaaaah!"
The woman's scream was something that really caught people's attention. Startled by the scream, I woke up and soon saw a terrible sight.
"Sex is the meeting of a cock and a pussy."
Someone had written the above words in red letters in the convent garden! Blood? The fishy smell was like blood.
Looking at it hardening, it looks like it happened in the early morning.
"Lucy! Four years! "You can't believe you're doing something like this!"
Anemone, the head of the convent's military base, was very angry. Lucy, who was looking at this scene, said, "It's not me! I shook my head violently, saying, "I didn't do it!", But no one seemed to believe me.
I believed Miss Lucy.
"This is not what Miss Lucy did. Milione did it!"
The only person who would do something crazy like this is Milione.
But Milione stopped yawning and looked at me with a puzzled expression.
"Me neither? But it's fun starting in the morning. Since when did this Grande Convent become such an interesting place?"
Milione's mouth twitches as if he's really having fun.
It didn't seem like it was his fault.
Then who does this?
Soon Abbess Midnar spoke.
"Put Lucy in solitary confinement!"
"Whoa, Director! I really didn't! I really didn't! Furthermore, I hate solitary confinement! Heehee! I really didn't! Heeeee—! Not me! I rather saw it! I saw the criminal! Last night… !"
Lucy Emma was struggling as if she didn't like being alone. But the nuns dragged Lucy Emma away and all that was left in her place was silence.
Zech─.
Mother Superior Midnar holding her own forehead.
"The same goes for the 'Devil Island' that was discovered yesterday. After you arrived, problems suddenly began to arise in this convent."
The gray eyes that said that looked at me.
It was as if you were actually the culprit of all these incidents.
Of course, I was not guilty in this case.
However, I felt like I knew what kind of place this Grande Convent was.
There is also a loach hiding.
"Abbess, it seems that there are heretics in this convent. From now on, everyone is a suspect except me, Hyde, the most pious priest of all, and my wife Psyche."
There is a culprit in here.
However, Milione frowned.
"I was locked in my room all day yesterday to train, so why aren't you taking me out of the list of suspects?"
Why are you excluded?
It's probably more than 70% your fault!
Of course, I didn't forget the 30 percent possibility.
"Miss Lucy said earlier that she saw the criminal, right? I'll have to listen to what you have to say. Where is the solitary confinement?"
Zek-.
I tried to go to where Lucy was trapped.
Looking at me like that, Midnar said mockingly.
"Lucy, most of what she says is nonsense and just hiccupping without memory. Okay, hiccups. Nice expression. "What would you ask a guy like that?"
"It's the truth."
Zek-.
I headed to the cell where Lucy Emma was held.
I could hear a whimpering sound coming from inside, and it was very pitiful.
Knock-.
I knocked on the door and asked.
"I am Priest Hyde. Miss Lucy Emma, you said you saw the criminal, right? Could you explain the situation in detail? If we find the culprit quickly, we may be able to release Miss Lucy from solitary confinement."
That was when I asked that.
The whimpering noise became more frequent, and I felt someone standing in front of the iron door.
"I always walk along the beach on full moon nights… ! Although lights out time has passed, the lights of Veneto are clearly visible across the sea on full moon nights… Without the director or other nuns knowing…"
"I see."
"But when I was about to go back, I saw someone doing something on the wall! At that time, I didn't know if I was writing, but… That person must be… That person…"
"Are you by any chance Sister Anemone?"
"Well, I couldn't see her face, but I could smell her. The smell of the burn medicine ointment that Sister Anemone always applies… !"
The voice heard through the iron bars was very surprising.
How did you get it right? It looks like.
Military flag anemone.
People like her who say things like it's the law and her rules and say things to others are often the worst people.
Yesterday she beat the blameless and spotless Psyche five times with her whip.
Already guilty.
Now the judge… Should I do it?
"This is the medicine! Take a sniff!"
Zek-.
The hand reaching out outside the cage felt particularly white.