My mother's love song

Staring at the stern little girl's back, Rhodes felt deeply moved.

When Karen was picked up from a church in southern Europe, she was still a kid with hollow eyes and shabby clothes. Now, six years later, the girl is as beautiful as an angel descended to the earth.

Especially after the age of 8, girls' growth can be described as rapid.

Every time Rhodes saw Karen, he would find that she had grown up a little compared to the last time they met, and this time was no exception.

It makes me happy that I will be mocked by this arrogant and sharp-tongued little girl in front of me again.

"……what."

Before I knew it, the music that was flowing gracefully in the room had gradually died down.

Rhodes was immersed in the feeling of not wanting to finish yet, and before he knew it, the girl stood in front of him.

"Good afternoon, Kallen. You play very well."

He looked up and clapped while sitting on the bed.

Karen said, "Thank you very much. Is Rod interested in music?"

"Music?"

The boy pretended to be very mature, narrowed one eye arrogantly and said: "This matter depends on the person. If it is Karen's performance, I feel that I can listen to it until the end of the world.

That's great, it's really great, it's worth the money I spent on you learning a musical instrument. Oh, I'm really happy. "

"…………"

It seemed that Rhode's flattery had worked. Karen nodded as if accepting it.

"He was obviously not paying attention at all."

Kallen pouted her lips cutely, revealing a hint of dissatisfaction.

"Oh, were you discovered?"

"……snort."

Making sounds through her nose, Kallen sat down next to Rhodes, with her feet slightly off the ground.

"What are you doing here? Elsa isn't home today? She's on a business trip to Yokohama and won't be back until tomorrow morning."

Since she hasn't appeared in nearly 200 million words, let me explain that Elsa Saijo is Rod's mistress and the adoptive mother who has been responsible for raising Kallen.

“I always feel like time passes quickly.”

Rhodes reached out his hand and stroked Karin's soft hair. The girl did not resist but just raised her head slightly and looked directly at Rhodes with her golden pupils.

"That's nothing. It's irrelevant. You don't think that speaking like this makes you look particularly mature and profound, do you?"

"……hiss."

Rhodes' shoulders trembled.

It's incredible. There's an inexplicable pleasure in being looked down upon by little girls.

Three years ago, Elsa often received complaints from neighbors that her children would deliberately bully their own children.

When Elsa asked her why she did that, Kallen replied "Because I like to see children's crying faces."

Although she is only 11 years old, Kallen's twisted and sadistic personality inherited from her father has already begun to show, which makes Elsa very distressed.

However, this little devil [angel] hit a wall with Rhodes.

At this moment, Rhodes' brain was thinking quickly about what to say next to make Karin even angrier and continue to humiliate him.

Karen frowned cutely, “Isn’t Rod thinking about something very rude?

If that's the case, I'm going to be angry. Did you come here just to make me angry? "

Rhode smoothed the messy hair on her shoulders and said with a smile: "...Although, this is my house. Do I need Karen's approval to come here?"

"That's right. This is the house that Rhodes bought, and I am the woman that Rhodes robbed, so you can come anytime you want."

"……woman."

Rhode glanced at the girl's flat chest and thin thighs, and sneered, "I don't know what TV show you learned this from, but it's still 10 years too early for you."

"whispering sound."

Her expectation of seeing Rhode's embarrassed expression was dashed, and Karen showed a bored expression.

The conversation ended like this, and the room was surrounded by silence again.

Karen just sat motionless on the bed, letting Rhodes stroke her hair.

After a long while, Kallen jumped off the bed and took out poker cards and a board game board from the drawer.

"...Play with me."

"it is good."

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The Fourth Holy Grail War had passed a long time ago, and Rod had not told Kallen until the very end that her father had died in Fuyuki.

No, actually Kallen didn't know who her father was.

The church that adopted Karen said that the mother who was terminally ill gave birth to a child by a man who happened to pass by like a prostitute.

It would have been fine if she had given birth to a child with a man she had only met by chance, but she actually betrayed God's teachings and committed the unforgivable sin of suicide.

One can imagine how Karen was treated before she was picked up by Rhodes.

The priest who adopted her was full of love for the Lord, but he did not give any love to the orphan.

He kept her upbringing but did not allow her to go to school. Instead, he made her do manual labor as a laborer in the church.

The birth of a girl is a sin in itself.

Baptism was not given at birth, and until the baptism of childhood came, the girl could not receive the love of the Lord.

In this way, Kallen will not be recognized as the Son of God, the priest said.

The very strict priest had doubts as to whether leniency was needed in baptizing orphans.

The priest had two reasons for not allowing her to get an adequate education.

First, in order to save unnecessary expenses, she was prevented from gaining wisdom.

Second, wisdom cannot be given to the children of wild beasts.

That is the first step to evil, and thinking about things brings all kinds of inconveniences, more than anything else.

If any bad resistance is made and bad things are talked about by people, it will affect the reputation of God's House.

The only thing the woman was allowed to do by the priest was to "pray".

You just have to keep giving yourself to the Lord, that's what she had been taught.

Until Rod took her away from that church.

Walking on the moonlit night road,

"From now on your body does not need to be dedicated to God, but to me."

The boy held her hand and said so, and the girl nodded like a broken machine.

At that time, Rod also secretly made up his mind not to let Kallen become a twisted person like her father [Kotomine Kirei].

Judging from the results...it seems to have failed.

It is really difficult to change the power of blood.

Oh, I never thought that the little girl at that time would grow up to this extent.

Rhodes collapsed to the ground and threw away the cards in his hand: "I give up!"

"You're so useless. You're obviously an adult."

Karen stared at Rhodes coldly, with a happy expression on her cute little face.

"Huh...Okay, it's almost time."

Rhodes glanced at the sunset outside the window, stood up from the floor, and looked at the girl who was packing up the cards and chessboard.

"..."

Kallen looked up, stared at his face and nodded.

"understood."

She put down what she was holding and sat on the edge of the bed.

One by one, he slowly unbuttoned the buttons on the front of his home clothes.

Bathed in the magnificent sunshine was a petite body wrapped in bandages.

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Two years ago, holy marks began to appear on Kallen's body as promised.

Hurt alone, bleed alone, heal alone.

Occasionally, for unknown reasons, mottled wounds would appear on the girl's skin, which was as white as jade.

It is a medium method used by high-level mediums to sense the spiritual substance floating around and materialize it in the real world with their own bodies.

【The tortured medium】

It is something that is innate and cannot be cultivated through practice. It is a very rare and precious supernatural power.

In the original work, Kallen relied on this special power to leave the church, enter the monastery to receive agent training, and eventually become an exorcist.

Since then, Kallen has been working as the church's exorcist weapon.

Humans cannot see demons.

If a person is possessed by a demon, even the person himself will not be able to detect it.

A true demon will cleverly conceal the fact of possession, and do its best to suppress spiritual barriers before they develop so as not to attract external enemies.

Unfortunately, the church has no way to exorcise demons that have already developed.

What an exorcist can do is to detect and exorcise them before they develop.

Once they become demons, they can only be physically destroyed by the agents in charge of the Inquisition.

Therefore, how to find the undeveloped demon that is hiding its true form has become the biggest problem for the Holy Church.

Even for a skilled exorcist, identifying demons often involves taking risks.

This is the value of Kallen's ability.

Her special physique will involuntarily react to obscene things such as demons or evil spirits around her, causing her own special physique to become spiritually blocked.

In fact, Karen is considered a kind of "heresy" in the church's eyes.

Originally, it was useless and had a poor physique that was harmful to life, but thanks to a certain point, it played a revolutionary role.

That is to say.

Kallen can report the location of demons by bleeding, just like a biological radar.

When a demon appears, scars appear on the girl's body.

Cut wrists from the inside, destroy legs, rip open abdomen.

The bright golden eyes will gradually lose their sight, and the throat like a silver bell will probably become hoarse.

The last part of Kallen's job as an exorcist is to endure the ongoing disintegration of her body and lure the group of men possessed by demons.

Accept the violation silently, and when it is over, the possessed demon will disappear along with the desire.

Karen Aldessia did something similar to the work of a prostitute [Mary Magdalene].

By the way, although the teachings of the Holy Church are strict, they are not cruel and ruthless, and she has the right to refuse the job of exorcist.

Kallen does all her work voluntarily. She accepts her masochistic nature calmly and takes things as they come, believing that it is all fate.