Witch’s Night: Chapter 44 Legendary Nun?
Ten was considered barely enough…?
Anna’s expression flickered, and she craned her neck slightly, looking at the maids behind the head maid.
Each maid had a polite smile on her face, and upon noticing Anna’s gaze, they immediately curtsied and said in unison,
“Good evening, Miss Anna.”
“Good evening…”
Anna immediately retracted her head, hiding behind Luo Yan with Cecilia.
She really hadn’t experienced this kind of treatment before and felt a little shy.
Although Anna was a typical Westerner in both appearance and bloodline, the only civilization she had come into contact with was Yan City in the East.
And Yan City wasn’t a very traditional Eastern mega-city. Having only been established for a few decades, it still retained a strong pioneering spirit.
The nobles, or rather, the prominent families in Yan City, mostly advocated frugality. Even Young Master Liu (the one… you know), his entourage when traveling was insignificant in the eyes of true nobles.
Other children of prominent families only had one or two personal servants, and having more than five could be considered extravagant.
However, for nobles from other established mega-cities, having only ten accompanying servants could already be considered low-key.
But to Luo Yan, this seemed quite normal.
After all, in Natalie Manor, there were only Mrs. Natalie and Little Tini, while there were at least a hundred servants, including Luo Yan.
What Luo Yan was more concerned about was another point.
“Is this the standard treatment for representatives?” Luo Yan looked around, then turned her gaze back to the head maid. “Or is it special treatment just for me?”
“…Miss Luo Yan, you’re overthinking it. We treat every representative of every mega-city with the same level of importance. Regardless of whether your mega-city is rich or poor, everyone is treated equally in the Ten Cities Council.”
The head maid smiled politely, though a hint of awkwardness was present. Her unwavering eye contact with Luo Yan made it seem like her words were indeed sincere.
Clearly, this head maid wasn’t a maid in the ordinary sense. She should be someone Noah specifically sent to assist the mega-city representatives attending the Ten Cities Council.
At least, these beautiful, diplomatic words shouldn’t be spoken by a maid, even a head maid.
However, she didn’t seem to know about Luo Yan’s special identity, otherwise she wouldn’t have said these things, because among these people, only Luo Yan wasn’t a mega-city representative…
Luo Yan naturally realized this, but she didn’t intend to expose it and just nodded,
“Mm, I understand. May I ask how I should address you?”
“Xinya, that’s my name.” The head maid pushed up her glasses and smiled brightly. “As for how Miss Luo Yan wishes to address me, it’s up to you.”
“Alright, Miss Xinya, please come in.” Luo Yan stepped aside slightly. “We’ll be troubling you these next few days.”
“You’re too kind.”
Xinya bowed slightly, lifted the hem of her skirt, and entered the mansion.
The maids behind her also followed, without wasting any time. After entering, they immediately went to their respective posts as if they were familiar with the place.
But for some reason, Luo Yan felt that they were intentionally or unintentionally looking at her.
After entering, Xinya didn’t go to work like the other maids, but stood next to Luo Yan.
When Luo Yan entered the residence, she followed closely behind.
Just as Luo Yan had guessed, Xinya’s actual job was “assistant.” She would guide the representatives of other mega-cities throughout the Ten Cities Council.
Every mega-city representative would have such an assistant, otherwise just the complicated roads of Noah would be enough to confuse these outsiders.
Moreover, for such a large-scale council meeting, even with simplified procedures, it would still be quite cumbersome, and it was easy for chaos to occur, so professional guidance was needed.
But Xinya stared intently at Luo Yan’s face, her smiling expression hiding her thoughts.
“Is… there something on my face?”
Luo Yan rubbed her cheeks and asked.
“No.”
Xinya replied with a smile.
“Then why do you keep looking at me?”
Luo Yan looked directly at Xinya, but Xinya still met her gaze frankly, seemingly not embarrassed by this questioning tone.
“Because you’re beautiful, so I can’t help but look a few more times.”
Xinya replied without any hesitation, and a faint murmur of agreement came from beside them.
“Beautiful people always bring joy, and Miss Luo Yan is especially so,” Xinya’s tone made it seem like she was quite serious, although her words sounded a bit frivolous. “If Miss Luo Yan really dislikes it, I’ll try not to let you notice when I’m looking.”
“…As long as you like it.”
Luo Yan said helplessly and then put on a straight face.
Why were the people in Noah like this? The nun, Marytis, just now, and the head maid, Xinya, as well.
Their personalities were quite open, unlike the reserved people in Yan City. Luo Yan wasn’t used to it.
But speaking of which…
“Xinya, I want to ask you something,” Luo Yan remembered Marytis and asked casually, “Is this place specifically designated for receiving mega-city representatives?”
“Yes, because this is the area closest to ‘The Ark’.” Xinya replied skillfully, and because “The Ark” was mentioned, she added a few more words,
“Legend has it that the Saint had a premonition that the Calamity Tide would come again, and at that time, all of humanity would be in danger of destruction. So she instructed the Saints to build a super-large barrier that could protect human civilization during the Calamity Tide, that is, ‘Noah’s Ark’.”
Xinya paused, maintained her smile, and continued, “Of course, Miss Luo Yan, there’s no need to worry. The purpose of the Ten Cities Council is to prevent the Calamity Tide from happening again.”
Clearly, these were words meant to comfort the mega-city representatives. Luo Yan knew the true situation of this disaster better than anyone, and Xinya’s last sentence sounded a bit like self-deception to her.
But this wasn’t what Luo Yan wanted to ask. She frowned slightly and said,
“I mean, do only mega-city representatives live here? What about the original residents?”
“Ah?”
Xinya didn’t expect Luo Yan to be so uninterested in “The Ark.” This was what mega-city representatives were most interested in.
It concerned the chance of survival when the Calamity Tide occurred; these important figures naturally wouldn’t miss it.
“You don’t know?”
Luo Yan raised an eyebrow.
“No… there are no original residents,” Xinya seemed a little uncomfortable. She didn’t expect Luo Yan to be more interested in this. “Because this place was originally where the workers who built the Ark lived, but the Ark has been completed for a long time now, so it’s been abandoned for a long time.”
Hearing this, Luo Yan’s pupils constricted. She clearly remembered that Marytis said she lived nearby, but she had also clearly told Luo Yan that she wasn’t a representative of any mega-city.
There couldn’t be a second person in the same situation as her…
“But it can’t be said that it’s only mega-city representatives,” Xinya continued. “Not far from here, to the southwest, there’s a Noah Holy Church, and some clergy live there.”
Did clergy also like to visit their neighbors?
Luo Yan’s expression turned strange. Xinya, being observant, noticed this and immediately asked,
“Who did you meet?”
“It was a very strange nun…”
At this time, Cecilia popped up, her small brows furrowed,
“She gave Cecilia a very, very strange feeling, Cecilia felt very uncomfortable.”
“What’s her name? I happen to have a good relationship with the nuns in the church.” Xinya’s smile seemed a bit more sincere. “They are all lovely girls, especially when they deliberately put on a straight face, they are even cuter.”
Miss Luo Yan with a deliberately straight face.jpg
“Marytis.”
Luo Yan replied.
“Marytis?” Xinya’s smile instantly froze, then she seemed startled. “Are you saying, a nun named Marytis?”
“Do you know her?”
Luo Yan said in a deep voice, Xinya’s unusual reaction making her wary.
“How could I possibly know her,” Xinya said with a wry smile,
“Sister Marytis is the greatest nun in Noah’s history, known as the mortal closest to the Saint. She was personally received by the Twelve Saints and even had the opportunity to see the Saint’s remains as a mortal. Sister Marytis wasn’t even an ability user, just an ordinary person.”
“Wow… so amazing?”
Luo Yan was a little shocked this time. Although she would also be seeing the Saint’s remains sometime later, it was precisely because of this that she understood the significance of this.
The significance was that Marytis had the opportunity to face the truth.
But she was just an ordinary person, how could she achieve this, or rather, why would the Saints let her do this?
Luo Yan recalled the Marytis she had just met. Besides liking to tease her, there didn’t seem to be anything unusual about her, except for the feeling of closeness she brought.
“Sister Marytis still has many legends surrounding her. She was gentle, pious, and could even move the most vicious criminals with just a few words, making them lay down their butcher knives and willingly go to jail.”
Xinya, who had a good relationship with the nuns, knew Sister Marytis’s stories very well, and there was a hint of admiration in her tone as she recounted them to Luo Yan.
“It should… just be someone with the same name.”
Luo Yan said awkwardly, still finding it hard to associate the nun she just met with the Marytis that Xinya mentioned.
“Impossible, the Saint has issued a decree, forbidding anyone from taking the name Marytis.”
Xinya shook her head and said, “So the Marytis you met most likely didn’t want to tell you her real name, and took advantage of your ignorance of history to use the name of this great nun.”
“But is it possible that it was her?”
Anna, who was listening to the story, suddenly raised her hand and interjected.
“That would be even more absurd. Marytis was a figure from three hundred years ago.” Xinya looked at Anna as if to say “Are you kidding me?” “Even a ‘Peril’ level ability user would have almost reached the end of their lifespan by now, let alone the fact that she was just an ordinary person.
“Moreover, Marytis participated in the War of the Witch of Absolute Death as an ordinary person and died heroically in the end. The news of her sacrifice made the entire Free Federation weep.”
Xinya said with emotion.
The War of the Witch of Absolute Death again.
Luo Yan frowned upon hearing this. More and more things seemed to originate from the War of the Witch of Absolute Death, making her even more interested in this erased history.
Unfortunately, even the Saints didn’t know the details of this period of history.
“However, for a nun to dare to impersonate a sage is a very serious matter.”
Xinya’s tone was filled with displeasure. Every Noah citizen respected the legendary nun, Marytis, because she was the pride of ordinary people.
“Miss Luo Yan, if it’s convenient, could you please tell me what she looks like?” Xinya bowed slightly. “I’ll ask the Abbey to thoroughly investigate this matter and see which disrespectful nun dared to commit such an act that insults a sage.”
The Abbey referred to the organization that managed the churches in the parishes under Noah’s jurisdiction. Its highest leader was the Archbishop, who, along with the Cardinals of the Cardinal Council and the Pope, formed the management of the Noah Church.
“…Forget it.” Luo Yan thought for a moment, then sighed and said, “It’s not a big deal, perhaps she just wanted to play a joke on me.”
Mm… judging from the personality displayed by this “Marytis,” it seemed quite possible.
And “Marytis” hadn’t done anything to Luo Yan; she had just come to visit her neighbor.
“If that’s the case… then let it go.”
Xinya nodded and didn’t pursue the matter further.
However, she still secretly made a note of it, intending to tell her nun friends about it when she had the opportunity, and ask them to be more vigilant.
The people of Noah valued heritage very much, which could be seen from their worship of the Saint and what she represented, the beginning of the New Era.
“Speaking of which, Miss Luo Yan, there’s something I’m very curious about personally, why did Yan City send you as their representative? Yan City is an Eastern city.”
Xinya relaxed a little and started some small talk,
“This little girl looks like she’s from Mosa in the far north of the West, and the other one looks a bit like a Catesian from across the shallow sea… a mixed-race?
“And you, to be honest, besides your name being Eastern, nothing else about you seems Eastern. Having a group of outsiders form a delegation is quite surprising.”
Luo Yan thought for a moment and said, “I don’t know what kind of person I am either, I guess I’m mixed-race.”
Her life came from “Luo Yan” and the “Witch of Absolute Death.” This… should be considered mixed-race, right?
“As for being a representative, you’ve misunderstood, I’m not Yan City’s representative.” Luo Yan said, pointing at Anna. “She is.”
Anna, who had been fiddling with something, looked up. “Ah?”
Xinya’s eyelids twitched.
