Quick Transmigration: Help! What to do when my husband is obsessed with love?

Chapter 258 Paladin 22

The Pope coldly stared at the twisted, dark shadow: "Aren't you the same?"

If the previous pope possessed the ability to see into people's hearts, then the soul in this body would not be his.

Unfortunately, he didn't.

In the final moments before his body was taken over, he expelled that aged and decaying soul from his body.

It is likely that no one in the world knows that the Pope in the Papacy has always been the soul of one person.

The person who founded the Papacy may have been a loving priest in his youth, but everything changes the moment his body ages and his soul becomes clouded.

He began to covet the bodies of young humans, and when the papacy was passed to the Holy Son, he took over his body and became the new pope, continuing to rule the papacy he had personally established.

This cycle of reincarnation continued for more than a dozen popes until he met Dulles Cayce, a commoner who came from the slums, was raised by the pope from childhood, yet still remained incredibly wary.

He sensed the danger the moment the Pope's soul invaded him, and using the advantages of the body's original owner, he drove out the aged soul and imprisoned it in this sanctuary revered by countless people.

Unfortunately, the one who defeats the dragon is not necessarily a hero; it could also be another dragon.

During a moment of spiritual turmoil, Dulles Cayce learned the truth about the Pope's immortality and instantly betrayed him.

He also desires immortality, and he also desires to raise a holy son who knows nothing, just as he did in his youth.

However, he wouldn't be foolish enough to breed a wolf born in the slums. He would instead look for a pampered pet dog from among the lower nobility, whose parents are still alive and whose family is happy.

Such dogs do not require much training; as long as they are given enough benefits, they will be willing to give everything for their owners.

But disappointingly, it wasn't a good dog.

He rebelled against the corrupt rules of the Church, and being completely unprepared for him, he actually let him run to the Demon Realm.

The Demon Realm...

A flash of madness crossed the Pope's aged face, but it ultimately turned into dejection.

That place is a legendary land of terror, a place where everyone is warlike and barbaric, and it is definitely not a place that the Vatican, with its current lax military preparedness, can attack.

He probably won't have the chance to become the next pope, but that doesn't matter. He can simply possess a child and then enter the Papacy to seek the opportunity to become the next pope.

Although there are almost no upward mobility channels within the Papacy now, this only applies to ordinary people. For him, the Pope who knows the Papacy's thousand-year-old secrets, none of this will be a problem.

But now is not the time to think about these things; he must first repel the demons' attack.

Otherwise, people would all become slaves, and even if he reached the highest position, he would only be a slave leader. What would be the point of him being the pope then?

Would it make them easier to be enslaved?

The sordid affairs within the Vatican were not in Elsop Norma's memory, so Ling Yi naturally knew nothing about them either.

She was walking toward her residence in the Papacy, and passing knights would step aside to make way for her, a privilege reserved for powerful paladins.

The moment she opened the door, a black tail wrapped around her wrist.

Ling Yi continued closing the door without stopping, her movements so natural that no one could detect anything amiss. Only then did she say helplessly, "Why are you here?"

Is it really okay for the Demon King to appear so openly in the Holy See?

Sereos declared confidently, "I missed you!"

He hasn't been away from Yi Yi for this long since they started dating, and he's not used to it!

And in this world, what could possibly make the Demon King feel ashamed?

Of course he wanted to do whatever he wanted, so he came straight to their door!

Ling Yi touched his smooth, deep purple hair, feeling the cool touch and appreciating its fine texture.

This color could easily become unconventional, but it looks so good on this guy.

"That old bastard is disgusting." As she drifted off into thought, a look of disgust flashed across Sereos's handsome face: "How about I help Yi Yi kill him?"

Ling Yi: "?"

What did the Pope do to offend you?

Sereos did not try to eavesdrop on the conversation between Ling Yi and the Pope; he only noticed the two decaying souls after entering the radiant Papacy.

One was so old it was almost gone, while the other, though young, was filled with an aura that made him nauseous.

He was certain that this was the position of the Pope.

Ling Yi raised her eyebrows slightly as she listened to his description.

In the original storyline, Lucius, with the support of the Lava Lord, fought his way back to the Papacy and killed the Pope.

Ling Yi didn't feel anything was wrong when she was looking at the expansion pack, but after meeting Lucius and understanding his personality, she felt a strong sense of incongruity.

Someone who doesn't care about anything and doesn't feel any discomfort even in that godforsaken place of the Demon Realm seems to lack such a strong desire for hatred.

If it wasn't out of hatred, then why did he specifically choose to kill the Pope?

Connecting this strange behavior with Celeos's aversion to the Pope, everything seems to make sense.

A holy son who was taught the light from childhood and whose heart is truly pure, and a pope whose soul is corrupt and who is definitely a villain. Their war seems to need no further reason.

Perhaps it was precisely because he knew that eliminating that corrupt soul would bring peace to the world that the Holy Son, hiding in the Demon Realm, was unafraid of conflict and returned to the human world.

Ling Yi stroked her chin and murmured, "Thinking about it this way, I guess I really am a villain."

Following the villain's orders to hunt down the protagonist, he ended up losing his own life instead of his own. He doesn't even sound like a villain; he's just cannon fodder at best.

"One by one?" Sereos had no idea what strange plot was going through Ling Yi's little head again. He only knew that:

"If Yi Yi is a villain, then I can be one too!"

He was eager to try: "Yi-yi, why don't we destroy the world!"

"Stop!" Ling Yi quickly snapped out of her whimsical thoughts, pressed Sereos's head down, and forced him to put his little trick back down.

What has the world done to offend you? Are you going to destroy it?!

Sereos's brilliant idea was ruthlessly rejected. It gave a pitiful "oh" and wrapped its tail around Ling Yi's waist, its pink heart swaying back and forth: "Then what do you want to do, Yi Yi?"

I don't want to destroy the world, it's so boring.

Ling Yi blinked: "Destroy...destroy the Pope?"

If something must be destroyed, then let's destroy the Pope.

As the object of the Demon King's destructive desires, isn't the Pope also saving the world in another way?

As the faith of humanity and the pillar of the Holy See, the Pope must surely be willing to sacrifice himself for world peace!

It's decided, he'll be the Pope!

Dulles, you'll suffer the infamy!