Alien Knights

　　 "What did you say?! Get up at four in the morning and have to take seven classes?!"

　　 Holding the plank that Huggins handed him, Todd's hands were shaking.

　　Listening to the long list of course titles reported by the man in front of him: grammar, rhetoric, dialectics, arithmetic, geometry, astronomy and...music? Todd's heart was bleeding.

　　 You are a group of pure-hearted monks who just want to recite the scriptures. Why do you have to learn so much in a mess? !

　　 "Music teacher, wouldn't it be you?" Seeing the big Slavic man shaking his head, the boy felt a little rested, and finally heard good news.

　　 "But you can also appoint a master, I am quite confident in music."

　　 Hearing Huggins's offer of himself, Todd shook his head like a spring.

　　 The looking disappointed man asked the boy to rest early. At the last moment when he stepped out, he left a thoughtless sentence: "At night, no matter what sound is heard, don't go out of the room."

　　 The door slammed shut.

　　 Todd, who has the ability to see through through the closed wooden plank, reluctantly looked at Hudgens who had just walked out of the room with the door attached to his ears and looked probing.

"I can see you!"

　　 The Slav man straightened his waist without shame, and left the aisle angrily, still muttering, how could I forget this kid's ability...such words.

　　 I can finally enjoy the peace.

The boy turned around and looked at the empty room, the dark walls, the cracked slate, the wooden shutters on one side, a narrow wooden bed for one person, and a creaky single person that has been used for years. Tables and chairs.

Gone.

　　 Yes, that's it, no more.

　　 I probably guessed that the nightlife after crossing would be boring, but I really didn’t expect it to be so "desperate".

　　 can't bear even a candle!

　　 Looking at the setting sun outside the window, Todd remembered what Huggins said to him this afternoon.

　　『Little guy, Master Miles really valued you. He gave you a single room with the best conditions and arranged the best master for you. 』

　　 If the conditions in the "best single room" that you live in are all like this, then don't you know how bad the living environment of those practicing monks will be?

　　 Maybe you can think of ways to improve it?

　　 Lying on the wooden bed, his mind was full of miscellaneous thoughts. Todd didn't even realize that this was the first time he slept on the bed peacefully since he traveled to this world.

　　 He thought of his past life for a while, and the future for a while, so he fell into a dreamland groggy.

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　　 late at night.

　　 The bluestone floor of the room was trembling, and the man’s painful wailing and frantic roars faintly floated in his ears, awakening the sleeping Todd from his sleep.

　　 After tossing and turning on the bed for a long time, Hudgens' warning still echoed in his mind, but the curiosity of the scientific researcher in the soul of the past life finally prevailed.

　　 crept out of the bed, gently opened the door, and just walked a few steps outside, he heard a gloomy voice behind him.

"Where are you going?"

　　 "Fell in a trough!" (Chinese)

　　 Like a ghost, Edgar, the little kid pacing slowly out of the darkness, frightened Todd and sat down on the ground, and a Chinese sentence came out of his mouth.

　　 was expressionless, and looked at Todd coldly: "You better listen to Uncle Harkins and go back to bed."

　　 Listening to the other party's admonition very unhappy, Todd returned to his room with no other choice. The screams of men still came from time to time in his ears, he could only cover his ears and force himself to think about other things and divert his attention.

　　 Maybe half an hour has passed, maybe half of the night has passed. The screams and tremors gradually subsided, and everything returned to calm. Looking at the "distortion" that he imagined in the darkness of the room, Todd couldn't sleep anymore.

　　 This awakening lasted until the moon sank and the sun did not rise.

　　 It hasn't arrived at four in the morning.

　　 Someone knows that they beat their waist clock to remind all monks to get up for morning classes.

　　 Todd didn't sleep well all night, put on the monk's clothes on the wooden table, opened the door and walked through the long side corridor, joining the marchers.

　　 I don’t know when, Hudgens also came to the team, looked at the dark circles on the boy’s face amusedly, and said, "About once every three days, just wait for you to get used to it."

What?

　　 When Todd wanted to ask more, he saw the man disappear at the end of the team.

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　　 Half of the sky is stained by the sun below the horizon, half of the sky is still shining with stars, and all the monks have gathered in the main hall of the monastery.

　　 Everyone consciously divided into several teams, occupying different areas of the main hall, and reciting the church's admonitions in unison.

　　『The heavenly father of all living beings, the only god, brought us from the swamp and the bitter ground into the dust. You should remember the precepts, in this world, all the thoughts, the total order of all things, are unique to you...』

　　 Todd followed the monks and read the teaching aloud, and the more he read, the more he felt an inexplicable sense of familiarity.

　　 The religions of the past and the present are indeed similar in many places, but they are different.

After the morning class was over, I watched the monks scattered around one after another. Some people began to study the morning homework. As an assistant, the boy stood in the empty main hall, touching his groaning stomach, completely dumbfounded.

I say.

　　 How about breakfast?

　　 I got up at four o'clock, and after chanting for so long, you European monks, don’t you plan to fill your stomach in the morning?

　　 In desperation, he poured cold water indiscriminately, and Todd, who had nothing to do, had to sit on the steps of the side corridor in a daze.

　　 Fortunately, Hudgens found him.

　　 After walking with this little guy for a few days, the Slavic man, who knew his work and rest habits, secretly stuffed half of rye bread into his arms, and then took him to Master Myris’s class.

　　 When he arrived in the old man's classroom, Todd realized that Hudgens said yesterday that he was "valuing", and he was right.

　　 Next to the wooden shelves piled with books, there is a one-meter-square desk and two wooden chairs standing opposite each other.

　　 Today is actually a one-on-one class between Master Miles and Todd.

Signaling that Huggins can leave first, the old man took out a stack of yellowed pages from the bookshelf, sat down opposite the boy, pointed to the letters drawn on it, and said: "Considering that you don't have any educational foundation, I will spend a morning Time, teach you the basic reading of the holy text."

　　 Grabbing the edge of the desk, the new student glanced at "Aa, Bb, Cc, Dd..." on the page

　　 secretly said in his heart.

　　 Sure enough, the official language of religion here is Latin.

　　 Three minutes later.

　　 When the farmer’s child read the alphabet without obstacles, Master Myris’s wide-open eyes were like a beacon in the night, shining with strange light.

　　 Todd moved the chair under him back, feeling a little uncomfortable.