The movie ‘Léon: The Demon’ was already approaching its end.
The Prophet rubbed her eyes and yawned. ‘Léon: The Demon’ did not manage to acquire a single drop of tear from her eyes. But, she must admit that this movie was very fascinating.
It had managed to make her spend over two and half hours sitting there watching it.
Compared to the Prophet’s calmness, her four apprentices have been trapped by the movie script. The ups and downs of the movie were dreadful.
Take her apprentice seated to her left, perhaps because he was a half succubus, he was extremely perceptive to emotions.
Ever since the moment Mathilda’s family was massacred by the law enforcers, his emotions have been shifting between weeping tearfully and being covering his mouth in pleasant surprise.
The Prophet did not remind her apprentices to maintain composure as demons before the humans. After all, all the audience present were focused on the movie screen.
“Teacher... Léon... Will Léon die?” The apprentice suddenly asked the Prophet with a quiet voice.
“He will.”
The Prophet replied in a brief and cold manner. Even though it was her first time watching this movie, she was already able to guess the various tricks employed in this movie.
In order to make this movie even more brilliant, the death of the protagonist was inevitable. If Léon managed to survive in the end, she felt that the evaluation of this movie would decrease.
Tragedies were always much easier for one to remember than comedies with happy endings.
The final outcome of the movie ended as the Prophet predicted. When the demon hitman Léon fell to the ground covered in blood, the Prophet could imagine her apprentices were all drenched in tears and sorrow.
“Do not weep with sound, you will attract others’ attention,” said the Prophet.
“I... I understand, teacher.”
Even though her apprentice said those words, he was unable to control his emotions at all. But, the Prophet could hear sobbing sounds coming from around her. When the ending song appeared, the sobbings gradually increased.
Faced with this, the Prophet sighed.
“So this... is a movie created by our Third Prince?” Her apprentice finally managed to regain his composure. Following the ending song, the credits started rolling. Practically a third of the end credits were credited to Joshua.
Whether it be the director, the engineering and the producer, they were all listed as Joshua. All of these were reminding the demons that this movie was not ‘made’ by humans. Instead, it was made by their respected Demon Prince... Joshua Annerlaude.
The Prophet nodded her head slightly to confirm her apprentice’s question.
Originally, the Prophet had thought that their Third Prince would attempt to infiltrate into Norland’s business world or mage circles. She did not expect that he would choose to take root in the arts.
Furthermore, with how outstanding the movie ‘Léon: The Demon’ was, with how there were countless people coming to the Weissenasche Theater to watch it, the Prophet felt like Joshua’s achievements in the field of arts cannot be described with merely ‘taking roots’ anymore. Instead, he was a leader in the field of arts!
“I can now understand why teacher’s attendant was so popular at the Klia Stage Station,” The Prophet’s apprentice recalled the poster for ‘Demon and the Beauty’ he saw on the hallway here.
“If Léon is to appear before me, I will also become extremely excited... I believe His Highness must be planning to use this sort of method to let the humans live harmoniously with us.”
Hearing her apprentice’s naive remark, the Prophet pondered momentarily. She started observing the nun seated to her right.
“Indeed, His Highness Joshua has influenced how a portion of the humans viewed our race through the use of movies. But, their opinions of us have not changed that much. Personally, I believe that His Highness Joshua had done... something much grander than having humans accept us.”
In the end, the Prophet could only describe what Joshua accomplished in Norland with the word ‘grand.’ After saying that, her eyes were focused on the nun seated next to her,
That nun was still sitting there. It seemed like she was not planning to leave. It was instead the middle-aged man who was seated furthest away from the Prophet who stood up all of a sudden.
“What else did His Highness Joshua do?”
At this moment, the Prophet’s apprentice asked her curiously. After having only watched ‘Léon: The Demon,’ this young half succubus became a fan of the main characters.
Naturally, he also felt admiration for the movie’s director. Most importantly, the director of this movie was their demon race’s honorable Prince.
“About this...”
The Prophet’s gaze was fixed onto the middle-aged man.
This middle-aged man was someone who followed the nun into the theater.
The Prophet felt like he was the most dangerous person among them, that he was not an ordinary human...
As matters stood, she knew that he already knew her true identity to be a demon. A faint amount of light had gathered in his hand. Evidently, he was planning to eliminate the Prophet, a demon, from this human city.
“Teacher...”
The Prophet’s apprentice also noticed the overflowing Holy Light power in that middle-aged man’s hand and realized that their identities have been exposed. But, surprisingly, he did not escape and instead gathered his courage to face the middle-aged man.
“You don’t have to do anything. You only need to stand aside and watch.”
The Prophet stood up and looked straight at that middle-aged man. She showed no fear at all.
“Watch?”
“The other thing His Highness Joshua did in Norland.”
“But...”
The templar was not at all concerned about the whispers between the two demons. But, when he was about to use his Holy Light to purify the two demons, he was stopped by the nun.
“Stop. To do something this barbarous, are you trying to smear the image of our Holy Church?”
The Saintess Herolia wiped away the tears at the corners of her eyes with her handkerchief. Then, with a very stern voice, she ordered for the templar legion commander to cease his hand.
“Smear...? They’re demons. The citizens of Norland will definitely wish for their purification,” said the man.
“That’s the case in other cities.”
Saintess Herolia cannot deny that if it was any other human city, demons would be viewed as enemies. Openly killing demons on the street would not be any issue at all. Instead, the ‘righteous’ demon hunters would even be praised by others.
But, the situation was completely different in Norland now. The secrets of the Heresy Tribunal have been exposed to the Mage Forum. Because of that, the Nation of the Holy Church’s influence in Norland had sharply decreased. That also indirectly created a change in Norland’s citizens’ opinion of the demons.
As such...
“If you are to attack them here,” Herolia took a glance at the Prophet and her apprentice, “you will be arrested as a murderer and charged with willful homicide. Furthermore, one of them is a little girl, it’s likely that your crimes will be increased too.”
After hearing Herolia’s dissuasion, the templar legion commander clenched his fists. But, in the end, he abandoned the thought of killing the two demons on the spot.
“Let us leave this place,” Herolia stood up. As she prepared to leave, she smiled at the Prophet, “I think that we will soon meet again, little lady.”
“Mmhmm, that’s my thought too, old granny,” replied the Prophet with an ice-cold tone.
Then, under the gazes from the Prophet and her apprentice, the group of three from the Nation of the Holy Church left the screening theater. Standing behind the Prophet all this time, her apprentice lost all strength and powerlessly sat onto the ground.
Earlier, he was truly under the impression that he would be killed.
“This... is also caused by His Highness?” The apprentice looked to the back views of the three people from the Nation of the Holy Church. He never would’ve imagined that the Nation of the Holy Church would let a group of demons slide by them.
“Correct. Destroying a belief is much easier than creating a belief. I believe that is also what His Highness thinks too,” said the Prophet.