Chapter 256
Chapter 256
Seeing people stare at him, Liu Ye stuffed the bread, as large as his head, into his mouth and swallowed it with a gulp. Then he stood at attention.
“I didn’t steal any food!”
The Priest and his assistant: “…”
Could you wipe the grease off your face before saying that?
Liu Ye then looked at the suckling pig beside him and swallowed.
“I asked before I ate it, and you said yes!”
The Priest and his assistant: “…”
What nonsense! When had they agreed?
Liu Ye pointed behind them. They looked over and saw a monk bobblehead meant as a car ornament.
“I asked him if I could eat it, and he nodded! I didn’t steal anything!”
Liu Ye proudly raised his head. Brother Guiwa had taught him that children must be polite and always ask before eating at someone else’s home!
The Priest and his assistant: “…”
The Priest quickly recovered and addressed the crowd below with excitement.
“Everyone, the god Asa has sensed our devotion and sent down a divine child to lead us! Behold, this is our divine child!”
The assistant hurriedly wiped Liu Ye’s face with a handkerchief, then picked him up.
Everyone in the real world fell silent. John looked curiously at the celebrity they had arrested beside him.
“Did this happen back then?”
The celebrity hurriedly shook his head. Back then, they had held the ritual party after dinner. There had never been any divine child!
Watching himself applaud excitedly in the video was unbearably humiliating. How had he believed them so easily?
“Yuelang, that Priest is a half-Fiend.”
“A half-Fiend?”
“Yes. Like Jiang Yuan and her sister, part of his body is a Fiend. His words can influence others, and even weaker Fiends will instinctively obey him.”
John immediately sank into thought. He was not pondering the Priest, but the world’s worsening situation. Since half-Fiends had abilities like these, then… what about them? After all, only Fiends could fight Fiends… Brother Liu excluded, of course.
In the video, the Priest told the crowd to rest while he took Liu Ye backstage.
He stared coldly at Liu Ye.
He had never expected a complication like this at such a critical moment.
He had fooled the crowd for now, but what came next would be difficult. Since he had already declared the boy a divine child, Liu Ye would have to appear again.
With that in mind, he decided to educate Liu Ye.
“Little friend, you ate Uncle’s food, and now Uncle is having a little trouble. Could you help me?”
“Sure! Uncle, just tell me what you need. Little Ye will definitely do it!”
Liu Ye thumped his little chest with conviction. He was a good child who loved helping others!
The Priest nodded approvingly, then took out a sheet of paper and swiftly wrote something on it.
“Little friend, later you only need to read what’s written here. You don’t have to worry about anything else.”
Liu Ye stared at the paper, his little face scrunched up.
“Uncle, I can’t read!”
“That’s all right. Uncle will teach you!”
The Priest did not consider it a problem. Children matured early these days, and six- or seven-year-olds learned quickly. He had even met children that age who could memorize an entire book.
“Come, repeat after me: O great god Asa!”
“O great god, you Asa!”
“Yes, that’s right. Now say it by yourself.”
“The flying Galaka!”
Liu Ye looked excitedly at the Priest.
“Uncle, where is Galaka flying? Are you bad at it? I’m really good at Galaka! Want me to teach you?”
The Priest: “…”
He took a deep breath and told himself it was fine. Children were forgetful. A few more repetitions would do.
“Not Galaka. Asa! Great Asa!”
“Asa!”
“Yes, yes, exactly. Now say it again by yourself…”
“O… O great…”
“Yes, keep going!”
“A…”
“The last syllable!”
“Achoo!”
The Priest: “…”
The Priest took out his handkerchief and silently wiped the spittle from his face. It was fine. Failure was the mother of success. They had missed by only one syllable.
“Let’s continue. Glory shall shine upon you…”
“Glory shall shine upon you.”
“Yes! Very good! Now connect it to the previous line and recite it!”
Liu Ye blinked, then stared at him blankly.
“I forgot!”
The Priest: “…”
“How could you forget?! I just taught you! It was one simple sentence, and you forgot it?!”
“Priest! Priest! Calm down! The people outside can hear you!”
The assistant clung tightly to the Priest, trying to restrain him.
The Priest regained his senses. Right. He had to stay calm. His followers were still outside.
He struggled to compose himself. He refused to believe that a man with three doctorates, in psychology, education, and business administration, from Meilijia’s Foha University could not teach one child to read.
“Sit properly!”
Liu Ye obediently sat in front of him.
“Now look at these two characters. Repeat after me: great.”
“Great!”
“Yes. Great means omnipotent. It means our god Asa is incredibly powerful and can do anything!”
“That powerful?” Liu Ye exclaimed in surprise.
The Priest nodded approvingly. Education could not be rushed. There were no students who could not learn, only teachers who could not teach.
“So, do you remember those two characters?”
“I do! But Uncle, I have a question!”
The Priest grew even happier. The boy had a question; he was learning to draw inferences!
“Go ahead!”
“Then can Galaka eat poop?”
The Priest: “…”
It’s Asa! But he immediately covered his mouth. The question had trapped him. If he said yes, would that not blaspheme his god? What proper god ate feces? But if he said no, would that not deny his god’s omnipotence?
At the thought, his heart suddenly seized and he spat out blood. Indeed, he had blasphemed. As the self-proclaimed messenger of his god, he had first doubted the god’s omnipotence, then profaned the god by imagining the god eating feces. The god he worshiped had punished him.
“Uncle!”
Watching from the real world, John said in admiration,
“As expected of Brother Liu. He made a man who earns his living with words cough up blood with a single question. What brilliance!”
Frog gave him a sidelong glance. Wasn’t he idolizing Brother Liu a little too much?
Still, many parents empathized with the scene. Before homework came loving parents and dutiful children; afterward, the whole household descended into chaos!