Chapter 60

Chapter 60: Lucien in Suit

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Although this was not his original plan, Lucien nodded, “No problem, Mr . Victor . ”

As long as no one would suspect him of being involved with sorcery or heresy stuff, Lucien did not really care if some people would accuse him of plagiarizing .

In many of the religious books in the library, music was compared to a treasure that God gave to people, the most powerful weapon that people had in fighting against all the difficulties . Thus, music was always regarded as a symbol of light and hope, having nothing to do with darkness and evil .

Besides, from the books he read and the conversations among Lott, Felicia and Herodotus, Lucien noticed the barrier between the church and the nobles . Although the nobles still revered God, the idea that religion and government should work separately started emerging in Aalto, the city where the church dominated almost everything . .

Therefore, Lucien was pretty sure that the church would not easily suspect a new musician from the association, which had a close relationship with both the nobles and the church .

Lucien’s only concern was that he might need to go through security inspection in the future, when being invited to attend concerts or evening parties . However, Lucien believed that if he could be relatively famous, there would be rare or even no security inspection toward him .

Rhine took up a pile of paper and a quill from the desk and handed them to Lucien .

Lucien grabbed the quill . Before he had the chance to write anything down, he suddenly sneezed . His hair was still wet, and several drops of water fell onto the paper .

Victor just noticed that Lucien’s clothes were still wet, “You didn’t bring an umbrella?”

Felicia’s face slightly blushed, since she could see Lucien’s fit body underneath his wet shirt .

“I did . But the rain was too heavy . I ran all the way,” answered Lucien .

Victor was moved, “Let’s find you some dry clothes first, Lucien . I got several suits here . Some of them should fit you well . ”

“I can do part of the work for you first, ” urged Rhine . He took away the quill in Lucien’s hand, “Go and change your clothes . ”

At that moment, Rhine’s fingers touched Lucien’s hand . Lucien surprisedly noticed that Rhine’s hand was even colder than his .

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In the changing room, Lucian dried his hair and put on Victor’s white shirt, black coat, pants and leather shoes . By then he looked brand new―black hair, black eyes . In the mirror stood a good-looking young man .

“Look at you, Lucien! You look really good in this suit!” Victor nodded with satisfaction .

Seeing Lucien in this decent suit, Felicia, Lott and Herodotus felt somehow Lucien looked more reliable now .

Judging a person by one’s appearance did not only happen on Earth .

“Lucien, come and check if this part Mr . Rhine just wrote down is correct,” asked Victor .

When Lucien passed Lott, the latter said to him in a low voice with his standard, polite smile, “Hope we can exchange our ideas more often in the future . ”

“Sure,” replied Lucien politely as well .

Hearing their conversation, Felicia bit her lips with her white teeth a bit and made a tough decision, “Lucien, you have my apology . I am sorry that I was being really mean to you because of my prejudice . I hope we can get along well and help each other in the future . ”

Her face blushed again .

Only Herodotus was still standing on the other side, his head lowered and his eyes staring at the feet, without saying anything .

“Not a problem, Felicia . ” Lucien nodded and then walked toward Rhine and Victor .

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Three o’clock in the afternoon, Felicia saw that Baron Othello’s coach stopped in front of the association building .

Victor looked very pleasant, “Great work, everyone! We are such an efficient group, aren’t we? The excitement I felt from the music is still lingering upon my mind . Although the rewriting hasn’t been finished yet, the rest of the work is pretty detailed . I feel like it’s ready to be registered with the association now . And I don’t think changing the list will be a problem either . ”

Lucien knew that his playing just now was still not very skilled, and thus he believed that it was his emotions infused in his playing that moved his listeners .

Followed by Victor, Lucien came to one of the rooms on the third floor, where an elder gentleman wearing glasses was sitting there .

“You got your work done, Victor?” asked the elder man .

“Joseph, not me, it’s my student, Lucien . We want to get his great work registered,” Victor answered and then introduced him to Lucien, “This is Mr . Joseph, a very experienced senior music critic . Mr . Joseph knows most of the music works in the world, including those of other nonhuman species like elf’s music . At the same time, Mr . Joseph is also a pastor in training . He can tell if you are plagiarizing or it’s really you own work . After that, Mr . Joseph will register you work with a time mark using his pastor power . Any work that comes afterwards which is similar to your work will be regarded as plagiarism . ”

“How long have you been learning music after Victor?” adjusting his glasses, Joseph asked, “A pretty promising young lad, uh…”

“Well… about… three months . ” Lucien felt a bit embarrassed .

“You must be kidding me . ” Joseph’s eyes were full of surprise, “Three months?”

“Take a look at it first, please . ” Victor did not say anything else, but stood there with a smile on his face .

“All right . Let’s see what are we looking at here . ” Joseph felt like it was somewhat a joke .

Soon the smile on Joseph’s face was replaced by a serious look . His left hand was beating time when he was humming the music notes, as if he entered into a whole new world, or a fascinating story .

About ten minutes later, with a long sigh, Joseph told Victor with excitement, “What a great work! It reminds me of the years when I was helping the knights fighting against the evil creatures in the Dark Mountain Range . Oh those years, with courage, with faith and with hope…”

“I told you, Joseph . ” Victor looked proud .

“I… I still cannot believe it . You said it’s your student’s work… from this young lad?” Joseph’s glasses were slanted on his nose .

“Lucien’s a young lad who knows about tough life,” said Victor . Then he shared some of Lucien’s stories with Joseph .

“Well… I guess our association’s gonna have another gifted musician then . ” Joseph was very impressed, but still found it unbelievable . He turned around and said to Lucien, “If you want to further prove yoursef, keep working on new music themes . About every two years, you gotta have something new to prove yourself . ”

“In two years… I would have left Aalto already . ” Lucien thought to himself, while watching Joseph leaving a time mark with his pastor power on the music sheets .

“Does your work have a name? It’s sort of a trend now . ” Joseph raised his head .

“Fate . ”

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After Victor and Lucien finished the registration, they came to the Director’s office .

Before entering the office, Victor suddenly smiled .

“I can’t wait to see Mr . Othello’s reaction to this . ”

Lucien realized that it had been a couple of months since he last saw this bright smile on Victor’s face .