Day after day, year after year.

For the needs of research, my father kept reading all kinds of books, and more and more books were piled up at home. Even the aisles were placed so that there was only room for one person to pass.

But her father's research was not going well, and the girl could sometimes even see her father smashing books crazily in the studio.

One night, when the girl was getting up and passing by her father's studio, she found that the door of the studio was not closed as usual, and a trace of light came out from the crack in the door.

Driven by curiosity, the girl peeked in through the crack in the door.

At some point, a stranger wearing a black hooded cloak appeared in my father's studio. Looking at the stranger, my father's face was filled with impatience and unhappiness.

"Oh, my dear Chief Alchemist of the Holy See, please don't be so unhappy. Although I know that my uninvited entry is really rude to you. But you have been waiting for a long time.

I have never accepted any more invitations or meetings. My abruptness was entirely out of desperation. Please forgive me."

"Hmph! Since you know I won't see guests, why are you coming here? You're not welcome here, get out of here! If you want to kill me, then take action!"

"Please rest assured that I will not do anything detrimental to you or your family. The only purpose of my coming here is to make a deal with you."

"Deal? Humph! You can get out now, I won't make any deal with you!"

"Well, please don't be so arbitrary. In fact, I heard that you have been looking for a way to resurrect your dead wife, right?"

"...Yes, so what? What does this have to do with you? If that's what you want to say, get out of here right now!"

"Please don't worry. Of course, this still has something to do with me, but can I ask you, have you found a method in the secret books of the Holy See? I hope you can tell me clearly?"

"...You know so much. It seems that you have a very high position within the Holy See!"

"Well, let's not talk about this for now. I just want to know if you have found a method. This is very important for our next transaction."

"Humph! I really disappoint you! No!"

"Oh! No, no, no! In fact, you haven't found a way. This is what I expected. But you really haven't found any feasible way?"

"...To tell you the truth, so what if there is? What if there isn't? Do you think I would tell you about a guy who behaves suspiciously?"

"Oh! This is my oversight, please forgive me. Do you know the meaning of this ring?"

"The truth..."

"Oh! Since you know it, that's all. There's no need to say the following."

"I didn't expect... you would actually find me..."

"Of course, judging from your ability, you are a talent that we can't stop praying for!"

"You should give up this idea! I will never join you!"

"Of course, we will never force you to join, so I said today I am just here to conduct a transaction with you. Then let's continue the topic. Have you found any solution?"

"...Yes, there is, but..."

"But what?"

"Great prophecy..."

"Oh! Great prophecy! That kind of miraculous power that only God can possess can indeed bring your dead wife back to life, but..."

"Yes, I think you... No, you should also know. God had already taken back the power of the great prophecy a long time ago, and the current Holy See can no longer reproduce what it was like when Moses opened the sea.

It’s a miracle...not to mention resurrecting the dead..."

"Well...but what I really want to ask is whether you have found any method in your professional field, that is, alchemy."

"Alchemy? Are you talking about refining the human body? No, nothing can be refining except monsters. Besides, even if the body is refining, what about the soul? What can be used to refining the soul? There is no way in this world.

There is nothing equivalent to a soul..."

"Well, I understand. That means you haven't found any way to resurrect your dead wife yet, right?"

"……Yes."

"Then we have the prerequisite and necessity to conduct transactions."

"What do you mean?"

"Please take a look at this..."

"This, where did you find this?!"

"This is an artifact excavated from an ancient ruins. Unfortunately, the best alchemist there can only see the function of this, but has no idea how to use it. That's why we thought of coming to you, but

Judging from your devotion to the Holy See, you will definitely not allow us to complete this. Therefore, I would like to express my sincere apologies to you for taking advantage of us now."

"You are crazy! You know what this is for, but you still do it? To make gods? Do you think gods will allow humans to do this? Gods will definitely punish you!"

"Well, if you don't do it, how will you know the result? Besides, isn't this a good way for you now? Only God can resurrect people, so you can create a god to resurrect your dead wife.

Already."

"... You are really crazy... But I guess I am also crazy... I actually have some agreeable thoughts in my heart... Please go and let me think about it..."

"You will definitely figure it out. You must know that if you succeed, not only will your dead wife be able to resurrect, but you will definitely become the greatest alchemist in the world!"

"Stop talking! Let's go! Don't bother me again before I think about it!"

"Okay, Your Excellency. Then I will leave this with you. You must also want to study the possibility of this."

"..."

"Then, please allow me to take my leave."

After saying this last sentence, the stranger in the black hooded cloak jumped out of the studio window. The father was left alone looking at a stack of drawings on the table in a daze.
Chapter completed!