105 – The Prophet
Estelle has the trait of selling without hesitation when she is wearing a mask, but when she is not wearing a mask, she is so shy that she can’t even talk to men. It was a character to become.
And that setting must have been the same, as Estelle muttered, lowering her gaze with an embarrassed expression.
“Give me back, stone…” .”
Where did the cheeky appearance from a moment ago go? Seeing Estelle instinctively draw out the sadism of others, I smiled and greeted her pretending not to know.
“Nice to meet you. I am Ross.”
At my unexpected greeting, Estelle wiggled her fingers under her table, glanced at me from the side of her eye, and murmured softly.
“Me, I am Estelle….”
The thought of wanting to be teased lingered in a corner of my mind, but I had to figure out why I came here first.
“Since we agreed to cooperate, please help me with one thing first.”
“Uh, something… ?”
“Princess, we have to keep an eye on Bella.”
At my words, Estelle tilted her head up. As if noticing, Estelle sneaked out and met my gaze and asked in a cautious voice.
“Kill, kill?”
I shook my head. What I wanted was the opposite.
“We have to help Bella not get killed by the cult or the devil’s followers.”
As if Estelle didn’t understand what I was saying, she tilted her head cutely like a kitten.
“There is Ro, Roel by Bella’s side, right? The reason I keep an eye on Roel… It’s because of that….”
“Because the relationship between Roel and Bella has gone bad right now. So, you have to be prepared for the unexpected.”
“Al, okay… !’
As Estelle nodded her head vigorously and smiled with satisfaction, I got up to go back to her academy, and Estelle stuttered her words in embarrassment.
“Eh? Ah, ah, that, sleep, wait… ! Me, I also have something I want to ask… Boo, I have a favor to ask….”
“Ah, that will come later.”
As a test of how obedient Estelle would be after taking off her mask, Estelle bit her lip in tears.
When she was having such an evil thought that she would push for that appearance on the condition that she would meet without a mask from now on.
Suddenly the door opened and a woman wearing a cat mask entered her room.
“Wait! Lily, isn’t this too much?”
I didn’t look very good when others saw it, so I shrugged my shoulders with a calm expression and sat back down.
“Just kidding. Did I really want to go?”
“Yes. I can be sure.”
The woman cut her off.
Estelle nodded her head tearfully, and the woman wearing a mask glared at me with her arms crossed, and she scratched her head in embarrassment.
Is it because I am quick-witted like an information guild, or is my image bad? I have no particular desire to know the answer.
“Since the guild leader has revealed his identity, I will also reveal his identity. My name is Amber. I am the deputy guild leader of Modist.”
The woman who took off the mask had an ordinary impression. A hazy impression as if she had seen her passing by on the street sometime.
“You trash! They tried to use me! Fool, pervert!”
I sighed when I saw Estelle spit out harsh words again when she stole Amber’s mask. There’s no easy way to go.
“If there is anything you want to ask, ask. In exchange for doing your favor, I will answer you diligently.”
Speak as if you were being kind. Amber glared at me, squinting her eyes in disgust, but I maintained a nonchalant expression.
“There is something I’ve been curious about.”
Estel’s voice as she rushed off with those words was full of seriousness without being playful.
“I wonder where the information you sold to Modist came from. It’s strange that an academy freshman, and a loner with only one friend, knows such information.”
At Estelle’s question, I frowned involuntarily. She thought it would stab right through her core.
I had already finished my thoughts before coming to Modest. To some extent, I was thinking of revealing the truth about me mixed with lies.
Following the advice from a book I read the other day called [How to Take the Initiative When Talking to People], I deliberately kept silent.
When there was some silence, I opened my mouth in a low voice.
“If I told you I knew what would happen in the future, would you believe me?”
At my words, Estelle and Amber visibly flinched. Seeing Amber’s expression of doubt, I leisurely raised one corner of my mouth.
“… How much do you know about that future?”
To Estelle’s extremely serious voice, I answered vaguely.
“It is fragmentary, but the important part is to some extent….”
At my words, Amber asked with her eyes full of anticipation as she put her hands on her chest.
“Do you know what will happen to us?”
I shook my head at Amber’s question. Estelle’s story was discarded. That is, they do not appear in the novel.
The academy is destroyed by the demons’ attack, and what happens to Estelle, Rosalyn’s friend… Does not appear in the novel.
Since Estelle was scrapped, she was in fact an extra who was sometimes referred to as Rosalyn’s friend.
“Really… I don’t know? Are you sure?”
Estel’s voice sounded menacing. The reason she pushes me so hard is probably because of her clan.
“Estel, Amber. I don’t know their future. All I know is the future with Roel. But I can promise you one thing.”
I didn’t deliberately wait. However, the eyes of the two people looking at me were hot, so I just swallowed dry saliva for a while.
“If you are with me, you can destroy the Church.”
At my words, the atmosphere in the room calmed down. To be honest, I had no positive thoughts that I would trust my words right away.
Because it was not easy for anyone to suddenly believe in someone who claims to know the future and claims to be a prophet.
“We… you need to be sure Can I trust you?”
At Estelle’s words, I looked at Amber. If Estelle’s discarded setting remains the same, Amber’s younger brother will of course be there as well.
Use this opportunity to erase one of the names of the murderers and save Amber’s younger brother.
“I don’t think the church should exist for everyone. So I used the information I learned about the future to create a killing club. I intend to kill the people related to the cult and the demon lord before they become active.”
I raised my hand and took out a small notepad from the space warehouse. As I unfolded the page and put it on the table, the eyes of the two women turned to the notepad.
“West of the continent. The ruler of Ludwig, the city of pleasure. Undead Roman.”
As I pointed to the name written on the kill book, I looked at Amber and said.
“Your brother. Amy is being his slave.”
In order to destroy the unity of Estelle’s clan, the cult leader forcibly dispersed them. Some, like Estelle, were recognized for their abilities and became leaders of the Church, but those who did not were sold into slavery or died.
The fact that this world’s best assassin group created the information guild Modist avoids the eyes of the church. It was also to find the clan scattered across the continent.
As soon as I finished my words, a thick silence settled in the room.
Amber didn’t respond and just stared at me with his mouth closed, and Estelle was wearing a mask, so I didn’t know what expression she was making.
“If this is a lie, you die. And with my own hands, very painfully.”
At some point Estelle was pointing a small knife at my neck. Even though I was watching Estelle, I couldn’t keep up with her speed. Indeed, he is the successor of the assassin group.
But my words were true, and they needed me. Knowing the ‘future’ is a great power, and running an information guild, he couldn’t have known it.
Also, I had to hold hands with them. From the moment I thought of Modists, I planned to use them.
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Now I needed a force outside the academy to help me.
“Trust me.”
I deliberately got close to the knife at my throat. His skin ached from the sharp blade, but he looked at Estelle without showing it.
The blood that flowed down the blade soaked Estelle’s hand. Drip drip. Drops of blood falling on the table awakened the silence.
“Because I will definitely destroy the church.”
***
Ross left, and the two remaining in the room were locked in silence.
“My younger brother, who never spoke. Given that you know Amy’s name… It may be true that you can see the future. Or, maybe he really is his apostle….”
Amber was smiling, but the smile was somehow bitter.
Estel took off the intrusive mask and placed it on the table.
“First of all, let’s check if what Ross said is true. Sending people to the city of pleasure…. No, Ember. Go directly.”
“… May I vacate my seat?”
At Amber’s cautious voice, Estelle twisted her head to meet her gaze.
“This is the family I have been looking for for a long time. I understand what you want to do.”
It was a blunt voice, but Amber noticed the heart in it and shed tears.
“I really wish Ross was a prophet. I want to believe that.”
At Amber’s words, Estelle lowered her gaze to see Ross’ blood on her palm.
The blood that dug between the palms began to harden.
Scratching it with her finger, Estelle muttered to herself.
“Right, I hope so.”
If you are not a prophet, but an apostle of the one prophesied by the religious leader….
Because he will kill Ross no matter what he does.