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Translated By Arcane Translations
Translator: FusionX
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What is the difference between a duel and an assassination?
In the case of the former, it could be defined as a fight to compete for victory under the explicit or implicit agreement of both parties.
In the case of the latter, the two individuals are divided into the victim and the perpetrator from the start.
Unlike a duel, it is a secret killing act, and acting in secrecy is the principle.
However, here.
For the madame holding the black parasol, the boundary between a duel and an assassination was ambiguous itself.
That’s why from a certain point, she didn’t carelessly judge or distinguish between them.
Standing in front of the enemy and fighting boldly was close to a duel, but giving death without the opponent even noticing was closely related to assassination.
This time was no different.
Taking a person’s life was so taciturn that it felt like a kind of loneliness to her.
The purple line flew softly, drawing a picture, and flew towards the black-haired girl first.
“……”
The girl barely threw herself onto the bed and avoided being assassinated.
Ares Helias, who was standing right next to her and was consumed by fear towards the madame, not only didn’t react at all but also didn’t understand the situation.
Tap tap.
The madame tapped the old, faded dark brown floorboard with the tip of her parasol.
“……”
“Ares, get ready to run.”
Black energy flowed from Rin’s pajamas.
It began to dampen the room like a street after rain, and for the first time, it made the madame’s eyes tremble.
“Authority?”
‘She knows about this.’
She had sensed that she wasn’t an ordinary person, but to recognize it right away.
Rin took a deep breath to hide her tension while closing her pajama collar.
‘Why is she targeting us?’
At first, she naturally thought the madame had followed Ares.
She had followed him to silence him because he knew a secret he shouldn’t know.
But looking at it that way, there were parts that didn’t make sense.
The information Ares Helias knew was ‘the nun of Helios murdered the nun of Demeter and is on the run.’
But he added this afterward.
The cathedral side had no intention of hiding this incident and seemed to plan on announcing it as soon as tomorrow.
‘It’s strange that she tried to silence Ares over something that everyone in Batian would know by tomorrow anyway.’
In this coercive and unfair violence, Rin wanted to say something to buy time and gather information, but it didn’t seem easy to get anything through conversation with that woman who had a creepy smile on her lips.
“Why the hell are you doing this to me!”
But sometimes, acting before thinking is the right answer, rather than keeping thoughts in your head.
Like Ares Helias right now.
Perhaps his resentful voice served as a bit of amusement.
The madame smiled slightly and answered.
“Just as you and that child have the unique ability of divine authority. I also have a slightly special sense. I call this the sixth sense.”
“…… Sixth sense?”
Basically, when a person is born, they have five senses: sight, hearing, smell, taste, and touch.
Of course, Rin had read in a book that other senses were being discovered beyond this, but that wasn’t important.
Usually, the sixth sense referred to a kind of supernatural ability. And the madame casually declared that she possessed such an ability.
“My sense told me that if I followed you, I could get some clues.”
“Clues?”
“Yes, it was quite fortunate to meet a child with Helios’ mark. It was rather wise not to go directly to the nun.”
The conversation seemed to be going off track, so Ares’ expression hardened for a moment, and the madame didn’t miss it and slowly frowned.
“You don’t know.”
Even though he didn’t say anything, she sighed as if she had grasped everything.
“You don’t know anything about the escaped nun of Helios. Was it really just that a child with a mark visited the cathedral? But……”
The madame kept tapping the floor with her parasol as if organizing her thoughts.
It rang in the ears of the two students like a warning sound telling them not to move and wait.
But the two of them weren’t going to just stop here.
They were in a situation where they had no weapons.
Rin gathered mana, loaded it into her fist, twisted her body, and threw herself out the window, shattering it.
‘If I stay in that spot, I’ll end up dying.’
She didn’t seem like she would leave, apologizing for the misunderstanding.
They would somehow be silenced.
As soon as Rin landed on the street, Ares followed right behind her, as if they were childhood friends.
They looked at each other as if they had connected and tried to run right away.
“Huh?”
Something popped out of Ares’ thigh.
It couldn’t be seen clearly, but Rin could catch a glimpse of a purple butterfly in her eyes.
“Aargh!”
Ares Helias rolled on the ground, clutching his thigh.
Blood was pouring endlessly from his right thigh, which had a clean hole pierced through it, as if a faucet had been turned on.
“I quite enjoy night walks too.”
The madame, who had jumped out of the hotel window without a speck of dust on her and not a single wrinkle in her clothes, approached the two with leisurely steps.
“I didn’t intend to, but I’ve gained more than I thought. To think I would get two people with divine marks.”
“Don’t think it will be that easy.”
Black energy now began to pour out from her entire body.
Rin’s bare hands trembled, but she clenched her fists tightly to hide it.
“I admit it’s definitely a great power. If you were a little more skilled at wielding that power, I might have had a hard time too.”
The madame smiled, covering her mouth with a hoho.
“But beautiful lady, at night. Especially on a night with such a thin crescent moon.”
The purple line began to move again.
Rin deflected it with her black energy, soft and flexible.
“You’re more likely to be captivated by the clear light.”
Kwak, kwak.
Two newly appeared lines that pierced from behind accurately penetrated Rin’s thigh and shoulder blade.
“Ugh!”
Rin tumbled forward, unconsciously exhaling as if vomiting.
The swirling black energy immediately began to envelop her to protect its owner.
“In the pitch-black darkness, the thing you should be most wary of is light, lovely girl.”
A faint purple light clearly revealed itself in front of Rin.
What was originally one soon became three. And it soon became squared.
Before she knew it, it had become a swarm of butterflies.
Numerous purple butterflies fluttering around as if to protect the madame taking a night walk.
In the midst of it, the madame smiled like a crescent moon, receiving the moonlight pouring toward her.
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“Ugh, ugh.”
Unfortunately, the place where the nun of the sun god woke up was a cold and dark room where she couldn’t feel any of the mercy of the god she so believed in and worshipped.
Lifting her heavy eyelids forcibly, Sister Lucia tried to reach out her hand to check her surroundings, but she realized that something was restraining her limbs.
She slowly looked around, but the surroundings were still pitch black.
Even if the gag in her mouth interfered with her breathing, Lucia took slow deep breaths and waited for her eyes to get used to the darkness.
Not everything was clearly visible, but the outlines began to come into her eyes faintly, as if drawing a rough sketch of a picture.
‘Ah……’
Recalling what had happened to her, Lucia shed tears as if she had been waiting.
Someone supporting the nun who served the goddess Demeter had sent an assassin after her.
Thanks to a reliable friend named May, she was able to return to the cathedral and was about to confront the nun of Demeter.
‘But she was already dead……’
That wasn’t all.
The priest who had been with her all her life had drugged a handkerchief and made her faint.
It was creepy and she didn’t want to believe it.
The person she trusted, followed, and relied on the most had betrayed her.
What kind of situation was this?
In this situation, she thought it would be more appropriate to find a way to escape while doing something rather than simply being afraid.
But Lucia couldn’t move at all.
Although she had shouldered the grand title of a saint candidate, she was actually just an ordinary village nun.
In other words, she could be called an ordinary country girl.
In a coercive and violent situation, she could only cry and couldn’t resist at all.
With a creaking sound, an intense light entered.
A lantern gently illuminating the priest’s face from below.
“Umph! Umph!”
Lucia struggled to beg for mercy, but the priest only smiled slightly and made the sign of the holy cross of the god Helios.
“Lucia, you must have been very surprised.”
“Umph!”
“But this is for the sake of God. You are becoming a martyr now.”
“Umph!”
“I will explain it to you slowly. If you listen, I’m sure you will fully sympathize and understand.”
“Umph!”
“Shh!”
Lucia felt a violent impact on the back of her head, and her view that had just become a little brighter began to shake again.
In her shaking vision, Lucia could see the priest grabbing her mouth with his hand and slamming her head against the wall.
“Shut up, Lucia. It’s hard to endure because you’re noisy.”
“Ugh……”
Lucia tried to say something, but she was afraid that if she did, her head would be slammed against the wall again, so this time she didn’t make a sound.
“Good, very good. First of all, the nun of Demeter you killed. In other words, the nun you were falsely accused of killing was a close confidant of the 1st Prince.”
What is he talking about?
I killed her?
I was falsely accused?
Lucia couldn’t understand at all, but the priest continued without any consideration for her.
“How can a mere dog of the royal family bear the noble name of a saint? Isn’t that right, Lucia? That’s why you sacrificed yourself. You murdered the whore of Demeter and burned your body to give us warm light.”
Like Helios.
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Perfect *sigh
What a crazy bastard