Section 163: An Audience with the Pope

  "No!" Father muttered like a child who had done something wrong!

  "Get back to your room at once! Don't come out without my permission!" Grandma said.

  "Yes!" I hastily followed the donkey down the slope, and together with my father, we replied in unison! Planning to get through this! Because I feel that her arrival is suspicious, at this time, someone of her status should be by the Pope's side, how did she end up here?!

  "Stay here!" My grandmother shouted at me! It was indeed to find me! With a gloomy face, I could only smile wryly and stay behind to listen.

  "Mother!" Father hesitated and said: "He was chased out by me this time, don't blame him, it's all my fault!"

  I was deeply moved in my heart! I hastily smiled bitterly at my father and said, "Dad, I know your kindness, but it seems that grandma is looking for me for another reason! You go back first! I'll be fine!"

  "Nothing's wrong?" But grandma scolded: "What were you doing running to the top of the Pope's palace? Are you stuffed from eating too much?"

  "Is there?" The poor Taoist looked bewildered and said: "How could I have forgotten?"

  "Really? He's been with us all along?" The father chimed in!

  "Shut up!" Grandmother glared at Father and said, "You looked like you wanted to kill him just now, so why are you defending him all of a sudden?"

  "Ah! He's still my son after all? I owe it to him from my past life!" The father said angrily.

  "Alright! You go back first!" Grandmother said in a soft voice to Father.

  "And him?" Father pointed at me!

  "This damned kid, this time I'll make him learn a lesson!" The grandmother gritted her teeth and said!

  "He's always been with us! What has he done wrong? You?" My father still wanted to make excuses for me!

  "You're still talking nonsense!" Grandmother said angrily: "Look at this!" She somehow managed to pull out two helmets from somewhere and threw them on the ground!

  "Reporting to Granny! This is a helmet! Made by the dwarven blacksmiths, cast in one go and then forged, it's sturdy and durable, with beautiful patterns, good quality and not expensive, it's the standard equipment for knights! Reporting done!" The poor Daoist said cunningly.

  "Little rascal, who asked you that?" Grandmother couldn't help but laugh and said: "I let you see the mark behind the helmet!"

  His father curiously took a look, only to see that the back of his head had been chopped with a palm print by someone! He exclaimed in surprise: "What great strength, what accurate technique!"

  "The key is the size of the hand!" The grandmother said: "Such a small hand, smaller than a woman's, is simply a child's! You say! On this sacred mountain, apart from your son, who else can chop off a helmet like that?"

  "Ah! Your dragon - Miss Katsuragi!" I said with a straight face: "She's quite strong, you know!"

  "That's right, so if she did it, this helmet wouldn't have any marks at all, but would be shattered directly!" The grandmother said: "When are you going to stop making excuses!"

  "You idiot!" His father also scolded: "Ambushing others and leaving such obvious clues, not like my son at all!"

  Whoa! At that time, I was so excited that I forgot about this one! So I had to say to my father: "I don't believe it, when you sneak up on people, didn't you leave any clues behind?"

  "Don't believe me? Ask your grandma!" Father blurted out!

  "Hum! You may have left no trace, but which time did you sneak up on someone and I didn't catch you to give you a good scolding?" The grandmother said angrily: "Do you know why?"

  "I don't know!" Father shook his head and said: "I've been wondering all along?"

  "You idiot! Who else but you would dare hit a teacher at the age of twelve!" The grandmother yelled: "Get out of my sight quickly, or else!"

  His father was so scared that he ran away immediately! It seemed as if there was a tiger chasing after him!

  "Come with me!" said Grandma!

  "Grandma! Father seems to be very afraid of you?" The poor Taoist asked with a smile as he followed behind her.

  "Alas!" Grandma sighed, "He's got a screw loose! And to make matters worse, he's a martial arts fanatic. He's got skills, but all he does is get into fights everywhere! From the children of high-ranking officials to street thugs, there's no one he doesn't dare to beat up! Even the current Emperor of Great Han was beaten by him until his nose was blue and his face was swollen when they were young! His father has been away leading troops for years, what can I do but teach him a lesson?"

  "Haha! So he had such a wonderful youth?!" The poor Taoist laughed and said: "And what about the sneak attack on the teacher?"

  "He didn't like going to class, especially etiquette class, so he often skipped school and was severely punished by the teacher! He harbored resentment in his heart, prepared a stick, and beat the teacher's back on the way home! When she said this, her grandmother couldn't help but laugh too. She said: "He thought he was flawless! But unexpectedly, someone came to his door soon after! That etiquette teacher is highly respected and never quarrels with others, the only one who has ever offended him is him, do you think he wouldn't know it's him?"

  "He was only 12 years old that year?" Poor Dao asked with a smile!

  "Yes! But compared to you, I just realized that he can be considered a lovely good baby!" The grandmother said: "You say how you can cause so much trouble? Others have hundreds or thousands of troubles, but none of them are more than yours!"

  "What's going on there?" The poor Taoist's weak tone!

  "Why are you not staying on the balcony today, but instead ran to the rooftop to do what?" Grandma asked.

  "Isn't the balcony hard to see from? I ran up there to get more of God's glory!" said the poor Taoist 'Piety'!

  "What's wrong with you, knocking someone out?" Grandma said discontentedly. "Don't you know it hurts? You're just like your heartless father!"

  "I won't be dizzy anymore, they don't want me to stay there?" The poor Tao is innocent!

  "What's your excuse now?" Grandma asked gruffly!

  "Haha!" The poor Taoist chuckled and asked: "This little thing shouldn't need to trouble you, should it? Is there something else?"

  "I don't know! The Pope specifically asked me to find you, saying you were on the rooftop! I was so scared that I didn't dare call out for you. Where are you now? Aren't you disrespecting the gods?! Luckily, the Pope said you had other circumstances and wouldn't pursue it, or else I would have been worried sick! When I went to the rooftop, I didn't see you, but I saw those two fallen guards, so I knew it must be your doing. I guessed that you'd already returned, which is why I came here to take a look!" The grandmother suddenly spoke in anger: "Luckily it was me who came, or else you two would have had a big laugh! What exactly is going on between you two?!"

  "Heh heh!" The poor Taoist smiled and said: "Father was very angry about my disappearance, when I went back, he saw me and hit me! I just entered the door without noticing it was him, seeing someone attacking, subconsciously fought back!"

  "What happened next?" Grandmother asked, seeing me stop.

  "I accidentally lost control for a moment and kicked him in the head!" The poor monk said with embarrassment!

  "Who are you?" The grandmother asked incredulously: "I didn't expect you to be so formidable? Can the Sword Saint really kick you down? Who do you think you're fooling?"

  "He didn't expect it?! And now he's still in a weak state, the aftereffects of that big move haven't even ended yet!" I said!

  "But didn't he look very spirited just now?" Grandmother said in puzzlement: "Although it's clear that he hasn't recovered to the level of a Sword Saint, he still has the strength of a high-level Golden Warrior! How could you let him beat you up!"

  "Don't you think it's because he was furious and suddenly burst out?" I smiled and said.

  "It's possible! I saw him walking away and he seemed much weaker!" Grandmother said: "You, you're really something, even your father beats you up!"

  "I said I didn't see clearly, it was an accident!" The poor Daoist hastily made excuses!

  "May you meet the Pope and explain clearly how you were mistakenly injured by the person on the roof?" said Grandma.

  "Haha! Then it's not a misunderstanding!" The poor Taoist said with a smile.

  Grandma didn't scold me this time, because we had already arrived at the destination! This is a small living room inside the Vatican Palace! There were not many people inside, except for the Pope and two cardinals who served him at any time.

  "Your Holiness! I have brought him!" The grandmother curtsied to the Pope!

  "Your Majesty, good day!" The poor monk also followed with a bow!

  "Alright! You all go ahead and continue preparing for the coronation ceremony! I'll have a good chat with my grandson!" The Pope said with a smile.

  "Yes!" The three of them exclaimed in unison. They all left one after another, with only Grandma giving me a warning glance as she was leaving, telling me to be careful how I handled things!

  "Sit down, young man!" The Pope pointed to a chair beside him!

  "Thank you, Your Majesty!" I said after expressing gratitude and sat down calmly!

  "Do you know why I'm looking for you?" The Pope asked with a smile!

  "I don't know?" The poor Tao also smiled and said!

  "I want to know what that angel on the rooftop said to you!" The Pope's eyes bore into mine!

  "She said that she and I seem to have met before!" The poor Taoist replied with a naive face: "I also have a very familiar feeling about her! But I don't think I've ever had the chance to meet an angel? Do you think it's strange?"

  "Really?!" exclaimed the Pope!

  "Really! I dare to swear under the witness of the gods!" The poor Taoist said in a pretended urgent tone.

  "Haha! Don't get me wrong, I didn't mean to question your intentions!" The Pope explained hastily as he saw me getting anxious.

  "So how did I get a familiar feeling with her?" I continued to ask!

  To reveal less of yourself in a conversation, the best way is to ask more questions and answer fewer! I threw this doubt back at him, letting him come up with his own judgment. No matter what he thought, I just went along with his conclusion and kept helping him verify it step by step. Hehe, that's how you deceive someone!

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