Shepherd Tantra

Chapter 28 The Two People Who Were in the Orphanage
When Oswald pushed Aiwass through the door, it wasn't just the family valet who greeted them.

Yulia stood quietly in front of the window in her pajamas, hugging her puppet.

She watched eagerly as Oswald pushed the wheelchair and came slowly along the path from the front door.Then he trotted to the door to greet him.

"Miss Yulia is waiting for you."

Oswald said softly behind Aiwass.

Aiwass nodded, and also lowered his voice: "I think Yuli is just a little lonely. After all, those children who are the same age as her play with their classmates in school. But the children of the same age that Yuli can see There is only me."

The old butler sighed and didn't say much.

He just closed the door when Yulia came up to meet her.Block out the harsh winter winds of the evening.

He frowned and said seriously: "Miss Yulia, it's cold in winter. Please don't get too close to the main entrance."

"……I am okay."

Yulia whispered stubbornly, "I've already taken the medicine twice."

"That's not OK."

The old housekeeper said without hesitation: "You are already weak, if you catch a cold, it will be even more troublesome..."

"...It's okay, Mr. Oswald. Now if Julie is sick, I can help her treat it."

Aiwass interrupted softly: "I think the sacred skills taught to me by Bishop Mathers should be used at this moment."

With that said, he took off his coat first.Show the sweater inside.

Aiwass put his hands into the sweater, trying to warm them with his own body heat.

He had just come back from the outside, and his coat and hands were covered with cold air.For Yulia, whose body temperature is higher than normal, it will be very uncomfortable.It's like people who have a fever are afraid of the cold.

This is also Yulia's old problem.

From a very young age, Yulia has been living in the body of the phantom of the immature ecology, the butterfly of the flame.

Those who are qualified to live with infant ecological phantoms in their bodies are called "Phantom Eggs".

Their mental strength, physical strength and even vitality will be continuously extracted and supplied to the phantoms in their bodies.When they die due to weakness or external force, the phantoms in their bodies will wake up and cause disaster.But if the phantom can be safely developed to a certain extent, it is possible to borrow part of the power of the phantom in the body without even embarking on the path of transcendence.

With the further development of the phantom, the strength of the phantom egg will gradually increase, and the nutrients required for growth will become higher and more demanding.When the phantom grows to obtain a complete personality, it is considered fully developed.At that time, they can choose to wake up forcibly, or become a symbiotic partner with their host.

The initiative to choose is in the hands of phantoms, not in the hands of the host.That's why the host is called the phantom egg - because the vast majority of phantoms choose the former.

But even if the phantom in Yulia's body has not yet awakened, it has already given her some power.It also gave her a higher burden.

Yulia's body temperature will be several degrees higher than that of ordinary people.

Specifically, it’s like perpetually being in a state of fever.Her body temperature is higher than ordinary people... when she was six or seven years old, it was half a degree higher than ordinary people; now it is two degrees higher than ordinary people.

The body temperature is around 38 degrees Celsius all the year round... If she hadn't received regular treatment from the church pastor, she would have died long ago.

And the most terrible thing is that this high fever has nothing to do with diseases and curses, so it cannot be cured by extraordinary means.Her nerves and organs can only be healed through lighting techniques, and potions can be used to help the body replenish the nutrients needed by phantoms.

Julia is not James' biological daughter either.Also his adopted daughter.

The reason she is very close to Aiwass is because they were in the same orphanage as children.

When Aiwass was four years old, his biological parents died in an accident.He was so young at the time that his memory is very vague.Don't know exactly what happened.

After that, Aiwass entered an orphanage and met Yulia.

At that time, Yulia was still an abandoned baby in her infancy.

Yulia, who is still a baby, has almost magical power, and often hurts the nurses.At that time, there were not many people who could easily approach her, only the dean's mother-in-law, Aunt Misu who was cooking, and Aiwass.So the job of taking care of her fell to the dean's mother-in-law... But when the mother-in-law got older, Aiwass, who was very sensible since childhood, would take the initiative to help.

Aiwass is only three and a half years older than Julia, but he is extremely mature.Not only does he not have the childish habits of his peers, but he is also extremely calm and never flustered in any situation, like a well-informed adult—if he hadn’t been as innocent as a child and didn’t really understand anything, I’m afraid someone would suspect him Another soul resides within him.

This is not impossible.

The preserver of the Way of Twilight, the amber craftsman, can insert a person's soul into another person's body.Aiwass was even abnormal to the point of being scary.

The orphanage specially invited the pastor of the church to test whether his soul belonged to him.

The relationship between the two children who are also abnormal is getting better and better.Yulia almost always sticks to Aiwass' side and never leaves.

At that time in the orphanage, their clothes were very thin.Yulia's body is like a stove, allowing Aiwass to live comfortably in winter. At that time, Aiwass could fall asleep peacefully by holding Yulia instead of shivering from the cold.

They were adopted by James Moriarty when Aiwass was six years old.

Here Aiwass remembers clearly——

In fact, at first James wanted to adopt only Yulia, not Aiwass.

But as soon as Yulia was ripped away from Aiwass, she cried very hard, heartbroken, and mentally unstable.Moreover, her strength at that time was extremely great—it was completely different from her weakness and powerlessness now, and she had an innate terrifying strength.

She was only three years old at the time, but even several adults couldn't hold her back.

Some people were even directly dragged to the ground by her, and the scene was in chaos.The entire orphanage was in a commotion for a long time, and many things were pulled down and broken by the crazy Yulia.

Later, James asked the dean's mother-in-law about something, and suddenly changed his mind, and packed the two of them away together.Only then did Yulia calm down.

And as Yulia gradually learned to read, her personality gradually became gentle and introverted, and the innate weird power gradually faded away.Today, her body is so weak that she is not even as good as a girl of the same age.Relying on priests and potions, he can barely maintain his life.

Aiwass has always been very grateful to Yulia in his heart.

It is because of her that I have the opportunity to change my original destiny.Born in an orphanage with no father and no mother, they must have completely different futures from the noble son surnamed "Moriarty".And he was not adopted originally, just Yulia's "additional head".As good as James was to Aiwass, he never forgot that he was unwanted in the first place.

For Aiwass, who lost his parents at a very young age, Yulia is the person he has really been in contact with the longest.Two years more than adoptive father and eldest brother.

And Yulia is also very dependent on Aiwass.

She has no affection for her biological parents.For her, who had no parents before she could remember, Aiwass was her true family.Followed by the dean's mother-in-law, Aunt Misu, James and elder brother Edward.

After Aiwass finished warming his hand, he stretched out his hand to signal Yulia to come over.

The weak girl with white hair and red eyes obediently hugged Aiwass' neck from the front.Her left knee knelt beside Aiwass's, careful not to let her weight rest on Aiwass.

"Don't worry, Yuli. I'm not that fragile."

Aiwass couldn't help laughing.

He stretched out his right hand and gently pressed Yulia's left back, behind her heart.

Inspired by a little fire attribute mana, a soft light bloomed from the palm of his right hand.

As the soft light leaked from Aiwass' fingers, Yulia's body gradually relaxed.The short and shallow breathing gradually became calmer—the pain was easily dispelled by Aiwass.

Although she has been ill for a long time, under the premise that James puts in continuous treatment, she is actually not seriously ill-because every time before her physical condition deteriorates, he will invite a priest to heal the hidden wounds everywhere.Aiwass only spent two points of light attribute mana to heal her body.

Immediately afterwards, Aiwass took his still shining right hand away from his back, and pressed it to Yulia's forehead.

As the light nourished her spirit, her sluggish mental state immediately improved a lot.This time Aiwass didn't even spend a little mana.

Yulia's body was still hot and hot.But apparently she was able to sleep well today.

"Good girl," Aiwass mouth slightly raised, "Let's go, go eat..."

And at this moment, Aiwass casually touched the "Shepherd's Tantra" on his lap.

His movements paused for a moment.

Because I have never touched Yulia's "Shepherd's Tantra" at all, but at this moment, I feel the same scorching heat as Yulia's body, and a strange feeling that is completely different from before.

It's as if Aiwass isn't touching the cover of a book.It was like touching the skin on Yulia's back.

Without the barrier of clothes, the heat was even better than the heat Aiwas felt when he touched Yulia just now.It was so hot that it was almost hot to the touch.

But the strange sense of disobedience made Aiwass look down.

The air did not steam, nor did its material change in any way.It is still the kind of cowhide-like material.

At this moment, Aiwass suddenly realized that it was so hot, but he didn't feel the heat on his legs.Only my right hand, which has just used the lighting technique, has this illusion, and even the left hand feels normal temperature.

So Aiwass quietly handed the scorching hot tantric book to Yulia: "Help my brother and put this book in my study, okay?"

"Ah."

Julia nodded slightly.

She didn't have any special reaction when she took the book.

It was as if he didn't feel its heat at all.

Aiwass asked with concern: "Does it feel a little cold? It has just been exposed outside for a long time."

"A little bit, but it doesn't matter," Yulia hummed and asked, "Where do you want to put it, brother?"

"Put it on the desk. This is the book that my brother will read after dinner."

"Ok."

Yulia nodded and left with the book.

Aiwass confirmed one thing.

It seems that only I can feel the changes in the temperature and touch of "The Shepherd's Tantra".

Interesting, he thought.

Let's study it after eating for a while.

(End of this chapter)