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the next morning.
Easton, who attended the meeting, was bewildered.
‘I knew that Priest Ethan’s search team had found something new.’
Because of that, the atmosphere of the expedition last night was very chaotic.
It was also at that time that the unknown anxiety struck.
But when I heard the details during the meeting, I couldn’t help but be surprised.
“Have you really found a subspecies monster?”
Ethan nodded his head without saying a word.
Rather, Chloe and Charlotte, who were by their side, talked about what had happened yesterday.
But Easton didn’t seem to listen to the twins.
‘I think my mind has been sold elsewhere.’
Ethan looked at Easton like that and laughed inwardly.
Actually, yesterday, Matilda, who joined the search team, unconsciously uttered something to Ethan.
-Are you also suspicious of Easton?
-What?
– You don’t need to take it off. Actually, I was suspicious of him.
There was no reason to refuse to feed them information on their own.
Ethan chuckled roughly.
– But there seems to be no evidence.
-Right. But it’s almost certain that he’s a dark follower from the circumstances.
I couldn’t trust everything Matilda said.
However, seeing Easton shaken at the news that he had found a subspecies monster, Ethan slowly gained confidence.
‘Didn’t you know that you could find subspecies monsters so quickly?’
Again, the Dark Followers seemed to be moving apart from Matilda.
And it must have been an Easterner who received that order.
It was obvious to me that he forgot he was in a meeting and was shaking like that.
‘I’m slowly starting to feel it. Contrary to their original purpose, I found something there.’
Ethan’s eyes brightened.
It was clear that Ethan had discovered what the dark follower wanted to hide in time and place.
As Ethan was contemplating, Robert said.
“Since even subspecies of monsters have been found, if you follow the traces, there is a high probability that you will find something meaningful among the traces of the Dark Followers. So, I will reorganize the search team, which was divided into three groups, into one, and focus on searching with the tracking magic of Miss Chloe and Miss Charlotte.”
“All right.”
Everyone nodded in response to the proper instructions.
Suddenly, Robert looked straight at Ethan.
“I have one last question for you before we close the meeting.”
Contrary to usual, it was very strange to be steamed.
Ethan frowned.
Robert pulled out a white glove from his bosom and held it to Ethan.
It was the first white glove Ethan had ever seen.
It was even stained with old, discolored blood.
“What is this?”
Instead of answering Ethan’s question, Robert asked:
“Children, are you, by any chance, Stella’s disciple?”
“… … ?!”
Ethan’s mouth widened at the completely unexpected words.
‘No, why is that girl’s name here?’
And strangely, Ethan’s eyes clouded with those words.
The jet-black eyes were a harbinger of Ethan’s memories of the past.
‘Come on, wait! I don’t know what it is, but I never want to see it!’
But to no avail.
When he came to his senses, Ethan was standing in a village that had become a swampy field.
“What is it, where are you?”
* * *
Ethan looked around.
A huge fire horse was devouring the village.
That was then.
Someone ran over here with the child in his arms.
Ethan looked at the man’s face and was startled.
‘Maybe a saint?’
I thought so at first, but it wasn’t.
That person was Stella in her younger days.
‘Were you the owner of those white gloves?’
Stella’s appearance was completely different from what Ethan knew.
‘I’ve never seen such a bloody face before.’
Stella’s eyes sank deeply with anger.
The person who had always brainwashed Ethan with things like love, forgiveness, and peace couldn’t help but wonder.
“Ugh! Ugh!”
Stella looked back with an urgent face.
Ethan followed her and looked back.
What was there was surprisingly a subspecies monster.
Stella closed her eyes tightly as if she had made a big decision and then opened her eyes.
She set the lost child down on a flat surface.
“sorry. I will be back soon.”
And clenching his fists, he glared at the subspecies monster.
“You will never forgive.”
The vicious subspecies monster was a little different from what Ethan found in the swamp.
It was also slightly larger, and it was easy to see at a glance that more types of monsters were mixed.
‘He’s more powerful than that of the swamp!’
Stella, who was staring at the subspecies monster, soon blew up a new one.
‘Wait, just?!’
Ethan’s eyes widened.
Before jumping into the monster, Stella apparently cast a secondary divine magic on herself.
‘It is also at least level 6 holy magic.’
Ethan has always thought of Stella as an ordinary abbot.
However, the appearance that Stella has shown now has completely reversed the perception of the past.
It wasn’t just that.
bang!
Stella’s fist hit the subspecies monster’s belly and slammed it down to the ground.
Kwajik!
Surprisingly, the ground was later smashed by the second impact.
The impact was so wide that even the ground near Ethan was split.
“uh?”
Ethan made a squeaky noise.
If this had been the case, a cold sweat would have flowed down my back.
Someone superimposed on Stella’s figure.
It was Saint Eileen.
‘That woman, come to think of it, sometimes she has shown bizarre powers.’
Ethan swallowed dry saliva.
Stella’s appearance now was very similar to the image of a saint waving her fists during the Anti-Magic War.
Of course, it was extremely rare for a saint, a non-combatant, to show off her superpowers.
But sometimes, when he couldn’t calm his anger, he would show a startling power.
‘I thought it was just a coincidence that they looked similar?’
However, seeing Stella exhibiting her superpowers like a saint, it didn’t seem like a simple coincidence.
It was clear that there was a deep connection between the two.
Ethan let out a low voice.
‘Such a joke… … .’
His anger toward fate or God was intense.
At the same time, Ethan came to his senses.
* * *
“… … !”
When I returned to reality, a throbbing headache came over me.
Robert was still looking at Ethan.
“Can you answer me?”
Is it because of anger at fate’s playfulness?
The aftermath was still there, Ethan clenched his teeth.
“You mean Stella-sama’s disciple? please It is true that he grew up in Stella-sama’s monastery, but he did not form a priestly relationship.”
But Robert had a questionable face.
“okay? But I’m not making any guesses.”
“What do you mean?”
“I heard of a battle with a subspecies monster yesterday. A friend of mine told me that your fighting style resembles her a lot.”
Robert patted Jackson on the shoulder.
Ethan’s eyebrows twitched.
‘Looking at the way they fight, it seems like you’ve seen Stella fight firsthand. What kind of relationship do you two have?’
Stella’s own fight didn’t seem to have happened only in the past, seen through the jet-black eyes.
A country abbot who knows the white wolf, a famous mercenary on the continent.
He wouldn’t be an ordinary person.
‘But now, hiding the past and living as an ordinary priest?’
The more I listened to the story, the darker the shadow of Saint Eileen from Stella.
Ethan’s eyes widened.
‘crazy. Does this make sense?’
Ethan hated everything that had to do with Saint Eileen, whether it was the Saint or her grandfather.
‘It was awkward because they had similar faces, but things are going to get twisted up like this.’
Not knowing Ethan’s troublesome pace, Robert nodded to himself.
“After some incident, I heard that she is leading a quiet life in the monastery. If Stella asked me not to disclose about my teacher-disciple relationship, I would keep my mouth shut.”
“Is it something that only the general manager will keep his mouth shut? How many people are here now?”
In the first place, Stella had never made such a request.
But Ethan was startled by Robert’s stupid behavior.
At Ethan’s reply, Robert looked around.
“ah.”
Ethan’s fists trembled.
‘Oh, what kind of bastard do you know? You bastard, isn’t he just an idiot except for swordsmanship?!’
Second, there was another problem.
‘If you’re unlucky, Stella could be a descendant or a disciple of that damn saint!’
Saint Eileen was truly Ethan’s worst mismatch.
It would not be an exaggeration to say that he was next to the Demon King.
It was natural.
He was a human who tried to kill himself over and over again, and in the end threw ashes into his revenge.
Blood spurted upside down and his eyes spun round and round.
But Robert seemed more confident in Ethan’s words.
“I made a mistake. From now on, I will call you separately.”
Don’t you know that even saying those words here doesn’t work anymore?
“no. I am not a disciple of Stella-sama, so there is no need for that.”
“okay. For now, know that.”
Robert patted Ethan on the shoulder.
No one was listening to Ethan.
‘What has happened in a hundred years? Why do all humans have corks in their ears?’
Ethan was crazy and crazy.
Even thinking about it again, Saint Eileen was a really bad relationship.
* * *
that afternoon.
The search team formed into one was heading towards its destination using the tracking magic of Chloe and Charlotte.
And it was Robert the white wolf who led the search team.
He was one of the five swords that gained fame on the continent.
It is not so easy to rise to the position of the Five Swords.
The ranks of knights are usually divided into bronze, silver, gold, platinum, and gold medals, where they had to obtain at least a gold medal.
Only then will he be seated in the seat of the Five Swords based on a number of different criteria.
As most people know, it was not enough to wield a sword well.
But Robert was different.
Although he was a mercenary, he was a positional figure who rose to that position only through fierce battles.
Even the knights who ignored the mercenaries paid respect to him.
– You mean mercenary baboons use their swords really strangely? Where the hell did you learn such a third-class swordsmanship, Won?
– Not all mercenaries are weird. there is a white wolf
-right. The white wolf is an exception. If this was the time of the Anti-Magic War, wouldn’t it have been better to receive the title?
-If we meet once, I’d like to ask you to teach me, but is there any chance?
Even the knights of the sassy Miles Kingdom would say so.
Such Robert was staring at the boy now.
It was Ethan.
‘There are many things I want to ask, but I do not want to answer.’
Robert couldn’t contain his growing curiosity.
He eventually walked over to Chloe and Charlotte.
‘In the expedition, it seems that the twins are close.’
Meanwhile, Chloe and Charlotte tilted their heads as they saw Robert approaching with a stiff face.
“Why? We’re tracking it right now.”
“No, that’s not my business.”
“Then what?”
“Do you, by any chance, know that little boy, no, Ethan?”