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It was only after a day that I was able to regain my senses, having shed tears of sadness all day as if I was letting out all my anger.

Even then, Ilen was waiting quietly at a distance from me.

I walked closer to Ilen and asked.

“… What is the state of the church now?”

“There is a lot of talk about the main culprit who attacked the church. Fortunately, thanks to Kariel, no one died and the buildings are back to their original state, so I don’t think there will be any major problems. The Pope doesn’t have a big problem with this incident either.”

Fortunately, nothing was known about Arina, but in fact, it was only a matter of time.

Because there is a cardinal alive who wants to be torn to death at any moment and who can be said to be the culprit of the current situation.

‘… ‘I’ll have to deal with it.’

A high-ranking priest of the church.

Killing a person as high as a cardinal would cause many problems no matter how much of a country he was.

But once there was a cause, there was no problem.

‘There is only one reason worth killing a person as high-ranking a priest as possible.’

That was when I was tied up with demons.

And coincidentally, demons were involved in this incident.

‘If you have demon energy, you won’t even be able to set foot within the church, so it’s probably not directly related to demons. In that case, it must be seen that the transaction was made without knowing that the other party was a demon.’

Arina also did not know and was not aware that she was related to demons.

Considering these things, it can be said that the demons created the current situation by cleverly moving the high-ranking priests of the church, the cardinals, and the sun clan, Arina, to their liking without revealing their true identity.

‘Did you meet the devil in the first place while chasing a guy who was involved with bandits?’

It had to be seen that the demons were behind the newly arrived force that Ilcheon and Icheon had mentioned.

So, if done well, there was enough justification to get rid of the cardinal.

The problem is that before that, you can start fluttering your lips for no reason.

There was a way to prevent that too.

“Ilen. Go tell the paladins. Arrest the cardinals I saved. Lock them up for the crime of being related to demons. I will find all the circumstances and evidence somehow. Keep him in prison as long as possible. Because I will take all responsibility.”

“Then where are you going, Kariel?”

“I should go to Lena first.”

Lena must be especially worried about me.

I couldn’t have predicted how surprised they would be after hearing my news.

I had to show my face so I wouldn’t worry.

Of course, there is a reason why Lena’s abilities are needed now.

“Ilen. You go straight to the church and implement what I said.”

“Yes.”

Ilen quickly disappeared without any further delay.

If Ilen ran at full speed, he would arrive at the church in no time, so there was no major worry.

‘Let’s go to Lena first.”

I got into the carriage again.

After telling the driver to go to the capital of the empire, I took a nap for a while.

***

Arriving at the capital of the empire.

I immediately got off the carriage and headed to the building where I originally lived and where my office was located.

Entering a building that had the appearance of a guild on the outside, I left behind the employees and the guild visitors outside and went inside without being noticed.

Because I had to work without my identity being discovered, I created a normal guild and did normal activities while staying here.

However, since her skills in managing the guild were not good, Lena was handling guild-related matters instead.

‘Once again, I feel like Lena is amazing.’

Originally, I thought he was amazing, but considering his resourcefulness in handling other tasks quickly while working in the guild, he was a talented person.

Raising Lena five years ago was close to a stroke of luck.

“Hmm?”

I arrived at the office and opened the door with curiosity as I heard a mysterious sound.

thud! thud! thud!

When I opened the door, what I saw was a view of the office that I had not seen in a long time.

The only difference was that Lena was banging her head on the desk with lifeless eyes, as if she had lost her mind. It wasn’t being fucked that hard, but it had been like that for so long that it left some bruises.

I quickly approached Lena and stopped her.

“Lena. What’s wrong!?”

As I was confused because this had never happened before, Lena’s eyes slowly turned to me.

“… I see nothing. Why is Kariel here?”

Lena said that she must have thought I was dreaming and tried to hit her head again.

Then I held her tightly to prevent her from hitting her head.

“Lena. It’s not a dream, it’s me, so come to your senses.”

“… ”

Life gradually returned to Lena’s dead eyes.

She touched my face here and there and then burst into tears.

“Ugh… You were worried… ”

Lena bursts into tears.

I was a little embarrassed to see her crying sadly as she hadn’t cried even once in 5 years, but she immediately came to her senses and opened her mouth.

“I’m sorry. Don’t cry because I was wrong.”

“Bad person… Hmm… bad… person… ”

We were able to have a proper conversation only after comforting Lena, who was crying bitterly for a long time.

“Sniff.”

Of course, being able to talk didn’t mean that Lena’s anger had gone away.

Lena still looked at me with angry eyes.

“Sniff.”

“Wouldn’t it be okay to cry or get angry, if that’s the case?”

“… Be quiet.”

“Yes.”

Since it was clearly my fault, I had no choice but to keep my mouth shut.

To be honest, there were some things that were unfair, but I wasn’t tactless enough to bring them out in the current situation.

After keeping my mouth shut like that, Lena spoke.

“Ha… So what’s going on?”

“You don’t know the right situation?”

“I don’t know. platform. Because that also happened in the center. All I knew was that Kariel had collapsed.”

“I see.”

Since this clearly happened in the center of the cult, they must have been controlling it to prevent information from leaking to the outside world.

It wasn’t that strange that Lena didn’t know.

I explained what happened before.

Lena reacted with even more surprise because she knew what kind of life I lived when I used the pseudonym Kael.

After that, Lena looked at me with worried eyes.

“… Are you okay?”

“… ”

I couldn’t answer easily.

Because honestly, it’s not okay.

Because the shock of her death has not yet gone away enough to bury it in my heart.

I was just suppressing it because I had something to do now.

Since it’s in that state, I can’t say it’s okay.

However, it was clear that saying it wasn’t okay would cause even more worry, so I thought about it for a while and then spoke.

“You know it, but it’s not okay. Who would be calm and okay with leaving their family behind? But I have work to do now. It’s the same as it was with Master. It was just as difficult back then as it is now, and I overcame it in the end. Just like Master said. So I think it will be like that this time too.”

“… I also think that Kariel will overcome it.”

“Thank you.”

The atmosphere became heavier for a moment.

I smiled mischievously to lighten the dreary atmosphere.

“Anyway, to get back to the main topic, we need to find evidence related to demons. But I have something else to do. Can you do it?”

“Of course. I will move all those who can move and find them. Information about new forces entering the outlaw zone. If the leader there is a demon, there will be a part where its tail gets stepped on.”

“Please do me a favor.”

I decided to leave the evidence to Lena, and all that was left was to catch the demon.

Since my body had not fully recovered yet, I was thinking about leaving it to the main character’s party to help him grow.

bang!

Someone came in with a strong kick on the door.

I wondered what kind of crazy person he was, but I couldn’t help but smile when I saw his face.

“You came?”

In the original work, Elon was called the Slayer and was a being steeped in murder.

Since you haven’t been here for quite some time, I thought you were doing something somewhere.

It was surprising that he appeared at exactly this time.

“That must be true.”

Elon asked this out loud.

It was probably because of the last words I left to him, saying that if you come here, you can achieve what you want.

When he asked me to answer right away, I smiled and answered.

“Of course.”

“It looks like there is something you want from me. What is that?”

“You have a very impatient personality.”

Elon frowned as he looked at me slyly.

“Strange guy.”

“Whether it’s strange or anything else, close the door first and come in. Our captain will be angry.”

I pointed to Lena, who had a cruel expression on her face.

He must have been quite angry with Elon’s attitude.

Since I know his personality, I don’t think much of it, but issues about me are bound to have a very negative connotation, especially to Lena, who is sensitive.

“Do you think you know who this person is?”

“What are you?”

Despite Lena’s criticism, Elon responded with an emotionless expression.

Lena gritted her teeth and answered.

“This is Lena, who is assisting Kariel. And since you are not the type of person to dare to speak informally and call someone like that, it would be better to change your title and tone of voice before you tear it down right now.”

“What are you?”

Lena, who was rather enraged by Elon’s shameless appearance, slammed the desk.

“You could say that he is a person who has the power to take your head whenever he wants.”

“Hmm? Before that, I would have cut your throat first.”

“If you can, try it.”

I stopped the two of them as the atmosphere became violent, as if a fight would break out at any moment.

“Wow. Calm down. Lena, you are so excited too. I’m fine, so please do what I asked. You just follow me.”

After taking Elon out to separate the two, I headed to another room that was fairly well insulated.

Only after entering there did I begin to talk in earnest.

“First of all, what you want is to quench your impulsive killing intent and thirst for slaughter. Right?”

“… Yes.”

“There is a solution to that. There’s a party I’m sponsoring. Go in there. And go together. Then it will be okay.”

Elon frowned as if he could not understand what he was saying.

“You can barely do that?”

“If you don’t believe it, stay there and then come out. Because I won’t stop you.”

Elon has no choice but to accept it.

Since you want to control your own life and murderous intent, even if you don’t believe it, you will accept it as a straw.

“Good. I accept it.”

As expected, Elon accepted my offer.

I held out my hand as a wish to do better in the future.

Elon looked at my hands and held them together.

“Let’s do our best.”

The path forward has been decided.