The Dark Mage

Chapter 25: Fr. Victor's Ordination

   After having spent some time with friar Victor exploring the closest places to where Victor would be stationed, Metropolitan Onesimus and Victor returned to Saint Nicholas monastery. And while there, the whole assembly, composed almost entirely of catechumens, was invited and anyone who wanted to spectate. Many people were there, including but not limited to: queen Inari, Blondie, officers of the Bureaus of Finance and Investigation, the two priests Onesimus originally sent to Victor's monastery with their families but likely to get restationed after the ordination service, Todd and Vixie Reddington, Dixie, and Souzun Yako with the Yako family. There were also personal enemies that hated Victor for different reasons such as the priests of okami Inari in their vestments as a statement a second Great Burning of 1284 will not happen in their country, heads of Kitsune corporate conglomerates who saw friar Victor's influence on the Kitsune youth to live more simply as a reason for their reduced profit margins, and deranged Tanuki sectarians who wanted to find any "canon" in attempt to invalidate Victor's ordination because their internet personalities told them to do so having even the most absurd theories that friar Victor was a: freemason, Jew, pagan, atheist, Communist, eccumenist, and a radical "God-hating feminist" for letting his sister become empress.

      But things were continuing as normal until some of those people that hated friar Victor and Metropolitan Onesimus started shouting racial slurs towards the bishop and to get out of thier country. They eventually agitated the crowd so much that it almost turned into a physical confrontation. But before a fight could happen, the fox queen gave the hand signal to her Protogens to grab the agitators by the neck and drag them out of the church. Then things continued as normal as if the agitators were never present.

      And eventually the prayers of friar Victor being ordained to the priesthood were beginning in the sight of the whole assembly. And with Metropolitan Onesimus's stole over Victor's head, the whole congregation shouted, "worthy" as friar Victor was officially ordained to the priesthood, even if Fr. Victor subjectively didn't feel worthy of his vocation. But nonetheless, out of obedience to his bishop, he accepted it with Fr. Victor dawning his new vestments for what he was about to do.

     Metropolitan Onesimus then stationed Fr. Victor at Saint Nicholas monastery as his parish where Saint Nicholas first taught him the ways of life. And with it, it would become the beginning of a new age of enlightenment to the Kitsune clan, even if Fr. Victor didn't realize it yet.

*******After the Service

      After everything had occurred, Souzun Yako was about to return home until Inari noticed him with an elated heart and asked, "Yako? Is it really you?"

     And seeing that he was seen for who he really was and couldn't lie, Souzun answered, "Yes."

     "Look. I understand if you don't want to come back or don't believe a word I say because of the way I treated you, but you're welcome back to live in my palace any time. And I do enjoy your company. You're free to do as you will, but I'm genuinely happy you're not dead. That way I can truly say to your face that you don't owe me anything and are free, and I mean it."

     Souzun then said with a snicker in his voice, "I guess someone close to me has been a good influence on your."

     Inari stared intently at Yako finding his willingness to tell her the truth despite her high position over him attractive and not just finding him physically attractive either. Then she tried to suppress her feelings for him thinking... It's like a like your or anything... b-b-baka! Then Inari said to Yako, "As a matter of fact, my brother has been. And honestly, you and he are the reason I'm changing for the better. I have nothing more to say. So, do whatever it was you were going to do today."