Chapter 28 Two People Who Were Once in an Orphanage

When Oswald pushed Aiwass into the house, it was not just the male servants who came to greet them.

Yulia was wearing pajamas and holding her doll, standing quietly in front of the window.

She looked at Oswald pushing the wheelchair and slowly coming from the front door path. Then she trotted to the door to greet him.

"Miss Yulia is waiting for you."

Oswald said softly behind Aiwass.

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

The old housekeeper sighed and said nothing more.

He just closed the door when Yulia came to greet him. The cold winter wind in the evening was blocked outside the door.

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

"...I'm fine."

Yulia said in a stubborn voice: "I've taken medicine twice."

"That won't work."

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

"...It's okay, Mr. Oswald. If Yuli gets sick now, I can also help her treat it."

Evans interrupted in a gentle voice: "I think the sacred skills taught to me by Bishop Mathers should be used at this moment."

As he said, he took off his coat first. Revealing the sweater inside.

Evans put his hands in the sweater and tried to warm his hands with his body temperature.

He had just come back from outside, and his coat and hands were covered with cold air. For Yulia, whose body temperature is higher than that of ordinary people, it would be very uncomfortable. Just like people with fever are afraid of cold.

This is also Yulia's old problem.

Since she was very young, Yulia has been hosting a young phantom demon, the Flame-Butterfly.

Qualified people who have young phantom demons in their bodies are called "Phantom Demon Eggs".

Their mental strength, physical strength, and even vitality will be continuously extracted and supplied to the phantom demons in their bodies. When they die due to weakness or external forces, the phantom demons in their bodies will wake up and cause disasters. But if the phantom demons can be safely developed to a certain extent, they can borrow some of the power of the phantom demons in their bodies without even embarking on the path of transcendence.

As the phantom demons further develop, the strength of the phantom demon eggs will gradually increase, and the nutrients required for growth will become higher and higher and more demanding. When the phantom demons grow to gain a complete personality, they are considered fully developed. At that time, they can choose to wake up forcibly, or become symbiotic partners with their hosts.

The initiative of choice is in the hands of the phantom demons, not in the hands of the hosts. That's why the host is called the phantom demon egg - because the phantom demons who choose the former account for the vast majority.

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

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

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

Her body temperature is around 38.5 degrees all year round... If she had not been treated regularly by the church priest, she would probably have died long ago.

And the most fatal thing is that this high fever has nothing to do with illness and curse, so it cannot be cured by extraordinary means. It can only be healed by illumination magic and her nerves and organs, and magic potions can be used to help the body replenish the nutrients needed by the phantom.

Yulia is not James's biological daughter either. She is also his adopted daughter.

The reason why she is very close to Aiwass is because they were in the same orphanage when they were young.

When Aiwass was four years old, his biological parents died in an accident. He was too young at the time and his memory was very vague. I don't know what happened specifically.

After that, Aiwas entered an orphanage and met Yulia.

At that time, Yulia was still an abandoned baby in swaddling clothes.

Yulia, who was still a baby, had a great power that was almost demonic, and often injured the caregivers. At that time, there were not many people who could easily approach her, only the director's mother-in-law, Aunt Misu who cooked, and Aiwas. So the job of taking care of her fell on the director's mother-in-law... But the mother-in-law was old, and Aiwas, who had been very sensible since childhood, would take the initiative to help.

Aiwas was only three and a half years older than Yulia, but he was very mature. Not only did he not have the childish habits of his peers, but he was also very calm and never panicked when encountering things, like a well-informed adult - if he was not really innocent like a child and really didn't know anything, I'm afraid someone would suspect that he had another soul in his body.

This is not impossible.

The conservators and amber craftsmen of the Way of Dusk can put a person's soul into another person's body. Aiwas is even abnormal to the point of being scary.

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

The relationship between the two equally abnormal children became better and better. Yulia almost always stayed by Aiwass's side.

At that time, their clothes were very thin in the orphanage. Yulia, whose body was like a stove, could make Aiwass very comfortable in winter. At that time, Aiwass could only sleep peacefully by holding Yulia and not shivering with cold.

Until Aiwass was six years old, the two of them were adopted by James Moriarty.

Evans remembered this very clearly -

In fact, James wanted to adopt only Yulia at the beginning, not Aiwas.

But when Yulia was taken away from Aiwas, she cried very hard, heartbroken, and her mental state was very unstable. And her strength at that time was extremely huge - completely different from the weakness now, she had an innate terrifying power.

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

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

Later, James asked the director's mother-in-law about something, and suddenly changed his mind and took them both away. Only then did Yulia calm down.

And as Yulia gradually learned to read, her personality gradually became gentle and introverted, and the innate strange power gradually subsided. To this day, her body is so weak that it is even worse than that of girls of the same age. Relying on priests and potions, she can barely maintain her life.

Aiwass has always been grateful to Yulia.

It is because of her that he has the opportunity to change his original fate. Born in an orphanage without a father or a mother, he and the nobleman named "Moriarty" must have completely different futures. And he was not adopted originally, just a "surplus" of Yulia. Although James was very good to Aiwass, he never forgot that he was not needed at first.

For Aiwass, who lost his parents at a very young age, Yulia was the person he had the longest contact with. Two years more than his adoptive father and elder brother.

And Yulia was very dependent on Aiwass.

She had no feelings for her biological parents. For her, who had no parents before she could remember, Aiwass was her real family. The next ones were the director's mother-in-law, Aunt Misu, James and the elder brother Edward.

Aiwass warmed his hands before he stretched out his hand to signal Yulia to come over.

The weak girl with white hair and red eyes obediently hugged Aiwas' neck from the front. Her left knee was kneeling beside Aiwas's leg, carefully not letting her weight press Aiwas.

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

Aiwas couldn't help laughing.

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

With a little fire attribute mana as an inducement, a soft light bloomed in the palm of his right hand.

As the soft light seeped out from Aiwas's fingers, Yulia's body gradually relaxed. The slightly short and shallow breathing gradually became smoother - Aiwas easily dispelled the pain.

Although she had been ill for a long time, under the premise of James' continuous treatment, her illness was not serious - because before her physical condition deteriorated every time, he would ask the priest to treat various hidden injuries. Aiwas only spent two points of light attribute mana to heal her body.

Then, Aiwas took his right hand, which was still shining, away from her back and pressed it on Yulia's forehead.

As the light nourished her spirit, her sluggish mental state immediately improved a lot. This time, Aiwas even spent less than a little mana.

Yulia's body was still hot. But it was obvious that she could sleep well today.

"Good girl," Aiwas's mouth corners slightly raised, "Let's go, go to eat..."

And at this moment, Aiwas casually touched the "Shepherd's Secret Sutra" placed on his knees.

His action paused slightly.

Because he had never touched Yulia's "Shepherd's Secret Sutra" at all, he felt the same scorching heat as Yulia's body, and a strange feeling that was completely different from before.

It was as if Aiwas was not stroking the cover of the book. But he was touching the skin on Yulia's back.

Without the obstruction 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 scalding.

But the strange sense of disobedience made Aiwas look down.

The air did not evaporate hot air, and its material did not change at all. It was still the same cowhide-like material.

At this time, Aiwas suddenly found that it was so hot, but he did not feel the heat on his legs. Only his right hand, which had just used the illumination technique, had this illusion, and even his left hand felt normal temperature.

So Aiwas handed the scorching hot secret book to Yulia calmly: "Help your brother put this book in your brother's study, okay?"

"Yes."

Yulia nodded gently in response.

She did not have any special reaction after taking the book.

It was as if she did not feel its heat at all.

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

"A little, but it doesn't matter," Yulia hummed and then asked, "Where should I put it, brother?"

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

"Okay."

Yulia nodded in response, and left with the book.

Aiwas confirmed one thing.

It seems that I am the only one who can feel the changes in the temperature and touch of the Shepherd's Secret Sutra.

Interesting, he thought.

I will study it carefully after dinner.