Mystery: The Last Shepherd

Chapter 353 I Don't Plan to Go to the Rescue
"Dear Mr. Fool, I just met a friend of mine, and his condition has subtly changed."

After reciting the name of the Fool, Audrey continued to recount her recent experience:

"If it weren't for the extraordinary item I was carrying, I might not have recovered until the incident was over. That extraordinary individual was likely a high-sequence powerhouse with emotions and psychic abilities. His presence in the Upper House was very likely to assassinate Duke Negan!"

After reporting the situation, Audrey lowered her head even further. "Revered Fool, I beg you, I beg you to send your chosen ones to save my friend. He is young and should not meet such an end."

A spiritual intuition told her that the person who appeared before her was Cons, but for some reason, he was being controlled by a more powerful extraordinary being.

It's true that Constance's condition is strange, but there might still be hope for him!
Without a doubt, the extraordinary being sent by the church will prioritize eliminating the threat. If you want your friend to have a chance of survival, you can only ask Mr. Fool for help!
"However, such a request would expose my relationship with Cons, and Mr. Fool's followers might find out who I am because of it."

Audrey thought to herself. But because it involved lives, she couldn't worry about such details. After hastily ending her prayer, the carriage arrived at the Hall family's villa and was brought to a stop by the driver.

"Why are you driving in such a hurry? What if you fall and hurt the young lady?"

She heard her personal maid come out to greet her and expressed her displeasure with the coachman's "reckless driving".

“Annie, I told him to drive it like that.”

Audrey helped the coachman out of the predicament, and then helped him out of the carriage.

"Miss, where are the other two?"

Anne was naturally asking about Hugh and Fors.

"They had an emergency. Anne, are the esteemed Earl and Lady in?"

"Madam has gone to a tea party, while Master is at home entertaining guests."

Is it in the meeting room?

After Audrey found out the details, she sent Anne away and went to the reception room alone.

Although she had already arranged for Hugh and Fors to report to the Fool, she was still unsure and planned to go to her father again to tell him what had happened!
Sigrún has taught at the Iceland University of the Arts as a part-time lecturer since and was Dean of the Department of Fine Art from -. In – she held a research position at Reykjavík Art Museum focusing on the role of women in Icelandic art. She studied fine art at the Icelandic College of Arts and Crafts and at Pratt Institute, New York, and holds BA and MA degrees in art history and philosophy from the University of Iceland. Sigrún lives and works in Iceland.

Meanwhile, in the East District, the area effectively controlled by the Lehman Brothers.

"One day, the Lord was passing by a house when He heard a wall complaining to Him."

Inside the auditorium, hundreds of lambs gathered together, listening to Luzer's sermon.

It was the factory's break time. After finishing their morning work and having lunch, they gradually gathered here. The lambs came here not out of necessity, but purely voluntarily.

It was afternoon, and everyone had eaten their fill. Logically, they should have been sleepy, but they all kept their eyes open, trying hard to listen to Lu Ze's voice on stage.

Because, Your Excellency the Missionary, what you said was truly interesting.

Unlike the obscure and incomprehensible sermons of pastors in orthodox churches, and unlike the intimidation and seduction of followers of various heretical gods, Your Excellency the Missionary simply tells you many vivid and interesting stories. These stories are intriguing at first listen, and upon closer reflection, they seem to contain some truths.

Just hearing these stories made them feel much smarter and less likely to be deceived like they were when they were homeless.

Luzer on the platform was still preaching:
“The wall said to the Lord, ‘Great Lord, look, these nails that are driven into me are causing me great suffering. They are burrowing into my body and causing me pain all the time. Please punish these nails!’”

"Then the Lord looked at the nail, and the nail spoke. The nail said, 'Lord, I am also a poor, wounded man; my head was struck hard by the hammer.' The hammer also argued that it was manipulated, and that people only hurt the wall because they wanted to hang pictures on it." After telling this story, Lu Ze looked at the audience and said:
"The wall's suffering stems from people, yet it only sees the nails that directly harm it."

Just like your difficulties, the root cause comes from the emperor at the very top, not just the police and thugs who are tormenting you.

He didn't say the second half of the sentence aloud, but only thought it to himself.

The audience reacted differently; some simply listened to it as a story, while others seemed to be deep in thought.

"Om-"

Just as he was about to continue speaking, a phantom voice suddenly rang in his ears, followed by an endless gray mist that spread out. At the center of the gray mist, an image appeared, bowing its head in prayer.

"Wow—"

The tidal wave within his body reacted automatically, but Lu Ze pressed it down.

"Alright, that concludes today's sermon. Everyone, go and rest."

He spoke calmly to the crowd, then focused intently on the prayers of the figures emerging from the gray fog. Soon, the message conveyed in those words surprised him.

Is the Duke of Negan about to be assassinated again?
Is the Assassin a high-sequence Extraordinary?
And this female voice, isn't that "Justice"? Why does she look so familiar?

As Lu Ze listened, he frowned. He observed the figure's attire and felt a sense of familiarity from the distribution of color blocks, quickly connecting it to someone he had seen that morning.

Audrey Hall!
So, she is the embodiment of "justice"!?
An unexpected fact suddenly appeared before him. He recalled more details from the gathering and their offline meetings, becoming increasingly convinced of this truth. However, [Justice] had already anticipated being exposed by revealing his relationship with a specific person in reality during his prayer.

Indeed, he heard Audrey's subsequent request and learned that she hoped Mr. Fool's chosen ones would intervene to save her friend.

The prayer ended quickly, and Luze heard the Fool's deep, resonant voice again:

"You can think about it before making a decision; it's not something you have to accept."

Clearly, Mr. Fool also knew that Luze was only a Sequence 5 and would have little chance against a high-Sequence Extraordinary.

Luze's decision was as follows:

"I don't plan to go and rescue them."

What a joke! The forces that want Duke Negan dead are incredibly mysterious and terrifying; there's no need for me to provoke them. More important than that is preaching to the lambs and quickly digesting the Shepherd's Potion.

As for Miss Audrey's friend, I'm afraid there's nothing I can do about it.

Besides, Mr. Fool certainly has even more powerful followers. Even if he doesn't take action himself, other, stronger followers will, and the effect will be better than if he did.

Having figured these things out, he felt even less burdened.

After finishing his sermon, Luzer took a carriage, intending to travel to the Georgewood district to see Klein. The strange murals he had seen in the Amon Tomb had puzzled him, and he planned to ask his colleague, who was knowledgeable about history, about them.

Joewood is on the other side of Backlund, far from Queens. A murder that happened in Queens wouldn't possibly affect me.

(End of this chapter)