When Oswald pushed Aiwass through the door, it wasn't just the family's valet who came to greet them.
Yulia was wearing pajamas and holding her stuffed doll, standing quietly in front of the window.
She watched eagerly as Oswald pushed his wheelchair slowly through the front door. Then he jogged 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 of the same age as her play with their classmates in school. But Yuli can see only children of the same age.
I am the only one left."
The old housekeeper sighed and said nothing more.
She just closed the door when Yulia came to greet her, blocking the cold winter wind in 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 have taken medicine twice."
"That's not OK."
The old housekeeper said without hesitation: "You are already weak, and it will be even more troublesome if you catch a cold..."
"...It's okay, Mr. Oswald. Now if Yuli gets sick, I can help treat her."
Aiwass interrupted gently: "I think the sacred skills taught to me by Bishop Mathers should be used at this moment."
With that said, he first took off his coat, revealing the sweater underneath.
Aiwass put his hand into the sweater and tried to warm it with his own body temperature.
He had just come back from outside, and his coat and hands were covered with cold air. For Yulia, whose body temperature was higher than that of ordinary people, it would be very uncomfortable. Just like a person with a fever would be afraid of the cold.
This is also Yulia's old problem.
Since she was very young, Yulia has had a young phantom demon, the Paraflame Butterfly, living in her body.
A qualified person with a young ecological phantom living in his body is called a "phantom egg".
Their mental strength, physical strength and even life force will be continuously withdrawn and supplied to the phantom demon in their bodies. When they die due to weakness or external force, the phantom demon in their bodies will awaken, causing disaster. But if the phantom demon can be safely developed to
To a certain extent, you can borrow part of the power of the phantom in your body without even embarking on the path to 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. They have reached
You can choose to be forcibly awakened or become a symbiotic partner with your host.
The initiative to choose lies in the hands of the phantom, not the host. That's why the host is called the phantom egg - because the vast majority of phantoms choose the former.
But even though the demon in Yulia's body has not yet awakened, it has already given her some strength. It has also given her a higher burden.
Yulia's body temperature is several degrees higher than that of ordinary people.
Specifically, it was like being in a perpetual state of fever. Her body temperature was a little higher than normal people... When she was six or seven years old, it was half a degree higher than normal people; but now it is two degrees higher than normal people.
Her body temperature is around 38.5 degrees all 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 disease or curse, so it cannot be cured by extraordinary means. Her nerves and organs can only be cured through lighting, and magic potions can be used to help the body replenish the nutrients needed by the phantom.
Yulia is not James' biological daughter. She is also his adopted daughter.
The reason she is very close to Aiwass is because they were in the same orphanage when they were children.
When Aiwass was four years old, his biological parents died in an accident. He was too young at the time and his memory is very vague. He does not know exactly what happened.
After that, Aiwass entered an orphanage and met Yulia.
At that time, Yulia was still an abandoned baby.
Yulia, who was still a baby, had almost magical strength and often injured the caregivers. At that time, there were not many people who could easily get close to her, only the mother-in-law of the dean, the cook Aunt Misu and Aiwass. So they took care of her.
The work fell into the hands of the dean's mother-in-law... But since her mother-in-law was older, Aiwass, who had been extremely sensible since he was a child, would take the initiative to help.
Aivas is only three and a half years older than Yulia, but he is extremely mature. Not only does he not have the childish habits of his peers, but he is also extremely calm when things happen, never panicking at all, like a well-informed adult - if not
He is indeed as innocent as a child, and he does not understand anything. I am afraid some people may suspect that there is another soul residing in his body.
This is not impossible.
The preserver of the Twilight Path, the amber craftsman, can put one person's soul into another person's body. Aiwass is even abnormal to the point of being scary.
The orphanage specially invited the church's pastor to verify whether his soul belonged to them.
The relationship between the two children with the same abnormality is getting better and better. Yulia almost always sticks to Aiwass' side and never leaves.
In the orphanage at that time, their clothes were very thin. Yulia, whose body was like a stove, made Aiwass very comfortable in the winter. At that time, Aiwass could only sleep peacefully by holding Yulia in his arms.
, instead of shivering from the cold.
Until Aiwass was six years old, the two of them were adopted by James Moriarty.
Aiwass remembers this very clearly——
In fact, at first James wanted to adopt only Yulia, not Aiwass.
But as soon as Yulia was taken away from Aiwass, she cried very hard, heartbroken, and was very mentally unstable. Moreover, her strength at the time was extremely huge - completely different from the weakness and weakness she has now.
An innate power of terror.
She was only three years old at the time, but even several adults couldn't lift her.
Some people were even dragged to the ground by her, and the scene was chaotic. The whole 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 then suddenly changed his mind and packed them both away. Only then did Yulia calm down.
As Yulia gradually became literate and her personality gradually became gentle and introverted, the strange and innate strength gradually faded away. Today, her body is so weak that she is not even as good as girls of the same age.
Priests and magic potions can barely sustain life.
Aiwass has always been grateful to Yulia.
It was precisely because of her that he had the opportunity to change his original destiny. Born in an orphanage without a father or mother, and a noble son named "Moriarty", they must have completely different futures. And he was not adopted originally.
It was just Yulia's "addition". Although James was very kind to Aiwass, he never forgot that he was not needed in the first place.
For Aiwass, who lost his parents at a very young age, Yulia was the person he had real contact with the longest. Two years longer than his adoptive father and eldest brother.
And Yulia is also very dependent on Aiwass.
She has no feelings for her biological parents. For her who has no parents before she can remember, Aiwass is her real family. Followed by the mother-in-law, Aunt Misu, James and her eldest brother Edward.
Aiwass finished warming his hands and then stretched out his hand to signal Yulia to come over.
The weak girl with white hair and red eyes obediently hugged Aiwass's neck from the front. She knelt on her left knee beside Aiwass's leg, being careful not to let her weight press on Aiwass.
"Don't worry, Yuri. I'm not that fragile."
Aiwass couldn't help laughing.
He stretched out his right hand and gently pressed the left side of Yulia's back, behind her heart.
Using a little fire-attribute magic as an inducement, a soft light bloomed from the palm of his right hand.
As the soft light seeped out from Aiwass's fingers, Yulia's body gradually relaxed. Her short and shallow breathing gradually became calmer - the pain was easily dispelled by Aiwass.
.
Although she had been ill for a long time, as long as James invested in continuous treatment, she was actually not seriously ill - because every time before her physical condition worsened, he would invite a priest to treat various hidden injuries. Aiwass only
It only took two points of light attribute mana to heal her body.
Immediately afterwards, Aiwass took his right hand, which was still shining, from his back, and pressed it on Yulia's forehead.
As the light nourished her spirit, her depressed mental state immediately improved a lot. This time Aiwass only spent a little mana.
Yulia's body was still very hot, but it was obvious that she could sleep well today.
"Good girl," Aiwass said with a slightly raised corner of his mouth, "Let's go and eat..."
At this moment, Aiwass casually touched the "" on his lap.
His movements paused slightly for a moment.
Because I had never touched Yulia's "", when I touched it at this moment, I actually felt the same scorching heat as Yulia's body, and a strange feeling that was completely different from before.
It was as if Aiwass was not stroking the cover of the book, but touching the skin of Yulia's back.
Without the barrier of clothes, the heat was even greater than the heat Aiwass felt when he touched Yulia just now. It was so hot that it was almost hot to the touch.
But a strange sense of dissonance made Aiwass look down.
The air did not emit heat, and its material did not change at all. It was still the same cowhide-like material.
At this time, Aiwass suddenly discovered that it was so hot, but he did not feel the heat on his legs. Only his right hand that had just used the lighting technique had this illusion, and even his left hand had a normal temperature when touched.
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So Aiwass calmly handed the hot tantra book to Yulia: "Help me put this book in my brother's study, okay?"
"Um."
Yulia nodded slightly and responded.
She didn't have any special reaction after taking 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 been exposed outside for a long time just now."
"A bit, 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."
"OK."
Yulia nodded in agreement, took the book and left.
Aiwass confirmed one thing.
It seems that only I can feel the changes in temperature and touch.
