Devil's Bible

Because of their bestial nature, the soldiers were able to understand these words to some extent.

Seeing this, the soldier realized his opportunity and brazenly appeared on the street.

The appearance of the tall and ferocious beast immediately attracted the attention of many people.

The mayor was even more startled.

The mayor is a high-ranking official appointed by the king of the kingdom, and is himself a nobleman.

Although he was not a king, in terms of status and position, he was actually more noble than the kings of those small principalities.

After all, he is the mayor of the kingdom.

The soldier's interruption immediately frightened the men, who scattered and fled.

The statue has not been removed for the time being.

By the time the guards arrived, he was already gone.

At this moment, the swallow also came to the soldier's side, and the two began to talk.

The soldier learned the truth from the swallow.

It turns out that the statue of the prince was not erected by these citizens.

The prince was known as the Happy Prince, who possessed the blessing of bringing joy to all. It was said that a greedy monster had appeared near the city, causing the citizens to suffer from hunger and thirst.

So the Happy Prince went to fight the monster.

The monster possesses witchcraft that turns people into metal statues.

The Happy Prince played music that brought joy to the monster, but the monster was turned into a metal statue.

The monster felt remorse upon seeing this, and then used witchcraft to adorn the prince with gold leaves and jewels.

The prince did not actually die, but rather remained attached to the statue, observing the city.

It was only then that the prince realized that the Greedy Monster was not a bad person.

He was merely a monster born from the greed of this city.

Everyone in this city is pursuing wealth, and they have an unusual fervor for gold and silver treasures.

They greedily seize every bit of wealth, and then through this seizure, they endlessly deprive others of their living space.

The monster was a little blacksmith.

He loved music, and his happiest moments were when he would stand in front of an old newsstand, listening to melodies drifting from afar, staring at the guitar in the shop window next door.

Back then, he was burning coal, hammering horseshoes, and calculating how many copper coins he needed to buy a guitar.

However, his nightmare began precisely when he bought that guitar.

Nobody in this city appreciates music, and after he bought the guitar, he discovered it was a cheap, low-quality product.

He went to reason with them, but was falsely accused of extortion.

Not only did he have his leg broken, but he also ended up owing a lot of money.

His body became a tool for those people to make money; he watched helplessly as parts of his body were removed and used by others to exchange for money.

The body was mutilated, ugly, and repulsive, emitting a foul stench.

Those who profited from his body, on the other hand, possessed vast wealth and lived in luxury, seemingly unaware of their moral failings, appearing as great philanthropists.

Unwilling to accept defeat, he transformed into a monster in his desperate situation, mastering the sorcery that turned his body into metal.

Thus, it became the so-called greedy treasure, a monster that threatened the safety of the city and caused hunger in most of its inhabitants.

After the Happy Prince was transformed into a statue, the mayor regarded it as a treasure of the city and placed it in the city center.

Since it is a treasure of the city, it is also a treasure of the mayor.

The Happy Prince then discovered that the lives of the lower classes were miserable.

Their wealth cannot be retained at all; they can only maintain their morality and create value by relying on a sense of happiness derived from moral principles and laws.

But these values ​​will soon be stripped away. Swallows that were originally going to migrate to other places for the winter are left behind because they have fallen behind.

Just then, the prince discovered that he could communicate with the swallows that were perched on him, so he asked the swallows to take some of the gold leaves off his body and give them to the poor.

Then a little boy came crying to the Happy Prince and asked for help.

It turns out his parents grew fruit trees, and the little boy was originally able to get apples from the fruit trees because his parents were blessed and could exchange their physical strength for apples, and they also had a big apple tree.

However, his parents recently fell ill, and he was unable to produce apples.

So all the branches of the apple tree were cut down to build houses, and the trunk was taken away to make boats.

Without the apple tree, his parents would starve to death.

After seeing this, the Happy Prince asked the swallow to give the ruby ​​from his sword to the other girl.

This ruby ​​can cure the other person's illness.

Then the swallow bid farewell to the Happy Prince, for it was getting cold and it had to leave.

At this time, a little girl got lost. She had four older brothers, and their father sent them out to find gems.

They must be driven out of their home; they can only return home if they find the gem.

However, her four older brothers did not want another girl to share the food in the family, so they blinded the girl, which is how she got lost and ended up here.

Upon seeing this, the Happy Prince asked the swallow to give one of his eyes to the girl.

The girl was thus able to heal her eyes and find the world's finest gemstone.

Then it snowed, and the swallows said goodbye to the prince statue again, heading to the warm south.

But a little girl selling matches collapsed by the roadside at that moment and was about to freeze to death.

She hadn't sold enough matches to go home.

So the Happy Prince asked the swallow to give its only remaining eye to the little match girl so that she could go home and not freeze to death on the roadside.

And so the Happy Prince lost his last eye.

It has been transformed into this bare metal statue.

The swallow was extremely vulnerable at this moment. With the arrival of winter, the heavy snow made it drowsy.

At this point, it should have left and stopped paying attention to the prince's statue.

But it voluntarily stayed behind to stop those people from tearing down the statue.

At this moment, the swallow is also asking the soldiers for help to bring out the statue of the Happy Prince.

We must not let those people melt down his statue.

In that case, the Happy Prince would really be dead.

Upon hearing the swallow's words, the soldier was somewhat at a loss.

According to Yanzi, one of the two eyes was given to the blind girl the night before last, and the other was given to the little match girl last night.

If I go after them now, I might still have a chance to win them back.

However, if I were to try to take the prince statue away, I would first have to fight the city dwellers, and taking it away and settling it in would waste a lot of time. In that case, I might not be able to get either of the two gems.

The soldier seemed somewhat hesitant at this moment.

However, he soon saw the statue.

"How can I judge the gains and losses simply by considering the benefits?"

"The Happy Prince was willing to share these things with the poor."

"If I were to abandon him here and let someone melt him down just for the sake of the gem."

"Then what's the difference between me and that mayor or other officials?"

At this point, the soldier made up his mind. (End of Chapter)