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Chapter One
Sunday mornings were always the same. Fruitless and tedious. As a priest he repeated the routine of hosting the Mass for a bunch of useless lazybones. Occasionally he would catch one of the faithful yawning or fiddling with their cell phones while he told the examples of the bible and about faith today.
'Calm down, Beelzebub!' he thought reciting his mantra 'Soon the mass ends and you can rest, you just need to continue for a few more minutes.'
But it felt like an eternity, for him and those listening.
"I'm so hungry! Eve do you have an apple in your bag?” Adam whispered to his wife
"No! I told you to go to bed early to enjoy breakfast, but you and the boys watched the game until late and we had to hurry so as not to lose the seats!" looking at the sons beside her, noticed that Abel could barely open the eyes, poked the yawn to him pay attention
"Just a few minutes!"
"Wake up! When it's over, you can sleep as much as you want at home!" She felt exhausted from having to put up with the mess of the three, wondering if she was the only one taking things seriously
Beelzebub witnessed the scene. At least there were still people committed to God.
"My children, next week the church is raising funds for the roof of the church, at the end of the mass, cakes and sweets will be sold for this purpose! If you want...." when was about to complete the sentence, the doors of the sanctuary were kicked with force, waking the sleepy faithful and drawing the attention of the young people, previously glued to their cell phones.
The priest recognized the man. Odin owned the Valhalla farm, a serious man of few words. At that moment could see the anger in his eyes, or rather, in the eye due to the latter having lost it in an incident in his youth. He was dragging his eldest daughter, Brunhild, on his way to the isle. Behind them the sons Thor and Loki followed. Odin was also holding something.
Confused, he remained calm.
"Good afternoon, Odin. What..." The man dropped the object and, without warning, threw a series of punches in the cleric's face. People screamed in terror at the scene. They did not expect violence in the house of the Lord.
At least the children held him to prevent further damage.
"Dad, what the heck! What got into you?" the redhead shouted
"Let me go!" With an elbow he got rid of the claw, quickly grabbed the priest by the collar and shouted "You got one of my daughters pregnant!!!"
The mass listeners sighed in surprise. The priest turned pale and Brunhilde's eyes widened.
"Old man, what the hell are you talking about?!" the girl screamed in horror at the accusation
"Shut up, Bhunhild! That is your fault and his!" picking up the object from the ground, people almost fainted in horror. Odin had brought a shotgun to the church.
"What?! I would never do such a thing!" defended herself while struggling not to run away in shame
"This is true?" Recognizing the voice behind her, the young woman turned around. And so found her boyfriend
"Hermes! What are you doing here?" It could only be a joke, at a time like this it was the last thing she wanted.
"I came to bring a package that my uncle asked to deliver. Brunhild, are you pregnant?" the boyfriend looked at her in disbelief, ignoring the situation and looking at her
"No!" She shouted in defense, but that only increased the public's suspicions.
"So explain to me why the child has his face?" the old man betrayed her
"Wait a moment the baby was already born?" Hermes was more surprised with each new information. First his girlfriend cheated on him with the priest, got pregnant and had a baby behind his back.
Alarmed, Beelzebub mustered up the courage to speak. If he kept quiet things would get out of hand.
"This is impossible! I never had and never would have had any kind of relationship with your daughter!"
"And how are you so sure you're not the father?"
"It's because I'm gay!" he yelled
The faithful in the banks sighed
"Ah, that's right you bastards!?" Forgetting for a moment that he was at the sight of a loaded gun pointed by a madman, turned annoyed to the heretics in front of him "When the mass is being said you sleep and when I am threatened and forced to coming out of the closet you have all the attention in the world! I'll report everything to God when I get to him!" if he died he would be like Judas and deliver each one of them
A cold touch on the yawn snapped him out of his rage. The madman demanded his attention.
"How can I know you're telling the truth?" Odin didn't believe it
"Simple!" exclaimed "I'm having an affair with that man!" pointed his finger at his lover
Unfortunately because of the beating, his eyelids swelled and he couldn't see properly and instead of indicating the man at the door of the church he looked at a certain blond man with his family. Adam forgot about the hunger as soon as everyone looked at him.
"I knew you were up to something!" Eve cried anguished as she stood up."You said you had extra work, but the truth is that you cheating on me!"
"Eve, wait! It's not what you're thinking!"
"I don't want to hear any more! Get out of my life and that of my children!" humiliated she ran out of the building, the youngest son followed her
"How did you have the courage to cheat mommy!" Cain shouted " You're not my father anymore!" and left him alone going after his mother and brother
Recovering from the shock Adam turned to the cleric. To say he was furious was an understatement. Killing was a sin, but if Odin didn't kill him, he would do it himself.
"Just saying you're gay and having a man as a lover doesn't make you innocent!" Hermes caught everyone's attention " You might as well be bi or pan and have had two affairs at the same time!"
"Three in fact!" the people turned to the mysterious man. It was none other than Qin Shin Yuang, the most eligible bachelor in town." Or is there more?"
"I don't care about this worm's love life!" the postman exclaimed "Brunhild, you betrayed me and that's unforgivable! From now on we are strangers, until never again!"
"Wait a moment!" Odin lowered the shotgun, getting embarrassed " It was just a dream!"
"What did you say?"
"'I had dreamed of the plot of a book that I borrowed from a friend!"
Confused, they looked at each other. Loki cleared his throat.
"What is happening here is that the old man has these super realistic dreams after a night of drinking and in the morning he has these outbreaks! This scene you saw was another example of that!
Now it all made sense, there was no way Brunhild could date the priest and hide a pregnancy and a child for all that time.
Hermes performing the bullshit he'd done stared at his ex.
"As you said, we are strangers now!" she was hurt
Beelzebub was the most shocked. Had he been beaten and exposed because of a drunk's dream? He asked God what he had done wrong to receive such punishment.
"Well, now you have to explain everything to the police!" Qin showed the cell phone in his hand 'They should be here soon!"
The priest passed out from both the injuries and the stress. Sunday was different this time. Not in a good way.