Chapter 86:Urns

When Ace finished the prayer and saw that everyone had made the prayer posture he just nodded.

Just at that moment multiple men wearing blue garments with the symbol of the Lord of Storms on the back came out of both aisles that were on the sides of the podium.

All of them were carrying beautiful funerary urns, they were a beautiful navy blue and had several waves drawn all over their bodies.

"The souls of our loved ones are already on their way to the kingdom of the Lord but their bodies were left behind, the body is not worthy of entering the kingdom of the Lord because it is dirty and now those bodies have turned to ashes and you will be in charge of taking these ashes to the sea where they will be scattered and join the sea, which is the domain of the Lord" he explained in a loud voice and the people only nodded as they received the urns of their loved ones.

Adryan watched as the people who received the urns were leaving the Cathedral, but then he turned his gaze to the side.

He saw how a man was receiving an urn with a tired and sad expression, the one who handed him the urn just gave him a hateful look he barely hid and quickly left.

This was a somewhat pale man with brown hair and gray eyes wearing a black suit, he had on circular glasses and he could see that he had dark circles in his eyes.

Embracing his right arm was a blonde woman dressed in a black dress and with a bulging belly showing her pregnancy, the woman also had a tired and sad face.

Standing behind them was a couple, a man and a woman.

The man was already showing signs of his age, his black hair had several white parts, his blue eyes were tired and he also had dark circles under them, he was also wearing a black suit.

The woman had her black hair well combed not letting any of it fall on her white forehead, she was a woman around 40 years old but she kept her beauty quite well, she was also wearing a black dress.

Sighing, Adryan took a quick look around and seeing that there weren't many people around he approached this group from the side.

"It's been a while Charles,Isaac." the redhead said with a small smile.

His voice made the 4 of them turn to look at him, some looks were scared, another uncomfortable and another of slight surprise and relief.

"ADRYAN" the man with glasses said with extreme relief as he quickly walked towards the redhead and gave him a big hug,being careful not to move the urn too much, the hug surprised Adryan for a few moments but he just returned the hug with a soft smile.

He thought that Charles would be somewhat afraid of him after seeing what he saw, that's why when he arrived at the Cathedral and saw the 4 of them, he avoided being seen by them to avoid making them uncomfortable.

For a hunter avoiding being seen is as easy as breathing, and he is sequence 7, if he wanted the 4 would never have known he was here.

But instead of doing that he decided that when it was all over it would be a good time to greet them because if they were uncomfortable they would only have to put up with him for a few moments.

But that wasn't the case, Charles even hugged him as soon as he saw him and this made him feel more relaxed.

"It's a relief to see you're okay Charles" Adryan said as he patted his trembling friend on the back and then he looked at the 3 people ahead.

Charles's wife when she saw that the redhead was looking at her she just gave him a small smile as she nodded gently, Adryan returned the nod as he shifted his gaze to the older couple.

"It's good to see that you're okay too, Isaac" the redhead said and Isaac just gave him an awkward smile as his wife hid behind him.

"It's good to see you too Adryan" the man said with some discomfort and this made the redhead let out an internal sigh.

Before he could say anything Charles pulled away from him and his gray eyes had tears falling from them.

"Adryan I'm really sorry for what happened at the police station, I was scared and told what happened, I beg you to forgive me" asked Charles to which the redhead only gave a small laugh.

"All is forgiven Charles, I know how the interrogators are there, it's good that you spoke before they took stronger measures" he said as he gently patted Charles on the shoulder who only nodded.

Looking around him and seeing that the Cathedral was more empty than before, he turned his gaze to the group.

"We should talk somewhere else before they kick our asses out" Adryan said calmly ignoring the looks he was receiving.

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As they walked through Cherwood Borough, you could feel the discomfort in the air but this came mainly from Isaac and his wife.

Adryan was in the front talking to Charles and his wife, while Isaac and his wife were further back looking at this uncomfortably.

"Charles, are Viktor's ashes in that urn?"

At Adryan's question, Charles, who had the urn in his hands, nodded sadly while sighing.

"They are his ashes, I will take care of throwing them into the sea"

"The Church of the Lord of Storms has the custom of doing this with their dead, normally it would be a Bishop who is in charge of praying for the dead but Mr. Dutch paid a lot of money to the church so that Archbishop Ace Snake is in charge to do it"

"He did the same so that one of the 13 archbishops of the Church of the Evernight Goddess would pray for the dead and Archbishop Anthony Stevenson was in charge of praying for them." Charles explained to which Adryan only nodded while raising an eyebrow.

"Why would you be the one in charge of throwing away the ashes?" asked the redhead to which Charles sighed as he spoke with clear sadness in his voice.

"I have to leave Backlund and go back to Lenburg"

This made him raise his eyebrows in surprise and he spoke in confusion.

"What do you mean by going back to Lenburg? Besides, what is it that you have to leave Backlund?"

Charles just looked around and seeing that the street was somewhat crowded, he returned his gaze to Adryan.

"It is better that I explain this in a place with less people, I know a cafe around here that separates the tables with booths"

This answer made Isaac quite uncomfortable, who stepped forward and grabbed the gray-eyed man's shoulder.

"Charles, are you sure about this, now you don't have your permission." Isaac spoke in a low voice and Charles only separated the blue-eyed man's hand from his shoulder as he responded with a serious expression.

"It's alright Isaac this is my last day in Backlund if the police find out it will be when I have already left this city"

Charles's wife whom Adryan now knew to be called Luna looked at this with a solemn expression, it was obvious that she had already discussed this with her husband and agreed with this, all she did during that talk was go to the side of the Isaac's wife who was shaking from being alone.

Whereas Isaac's wife, whose name was Lisa, always stayed away from Adryan, and when she looked at the redhead it was with clear fear in her brown eyes,when Luna got to her, Lisa hid behind her and always kept her eyes on the ground.

Luna looked at this with a sad look in here eyes but didn't say anything, she just extended her right hand to the woman who took it and squeezed hard, this seemed to calm the black-haired girl a lot but she refused to look up.

Adryan used the corner of his eye to see this interaction but didn't care about it, it was obvious that Lisa was terrified of him and he didn't blame her.

He understood why that was since after all he killed a person in front of them, on top of that it was one that it was possible that she knew.

The fact that Charles and his wife who saw the same thing but had no other reaction was incredible.

As that scene played out behind them, Charles and Isaac's argument seemed to finally end and the older man reluctantly returned to his wife, Luna returned to her husband and stood by his side.

"Let's go to the cafe and I'll tell you what happened"said Charles as he adjusted his glasses.