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After several questions were asked, Stella smiled.
“Thank you for being friends with a blunt kid like Ethan.”
The twins were relieved then.
Stella had finally lifted the boundaries between them.
Chloe and Charlotte also sneakily revealed their true colors and squealed.
“Thank you. It’s even better that we’ve become friends with Priest Ethan.”
“We know that they may be blunt on the outside but not so on the inside.”
“Right! That’s what I wanted to say!”
It was a rather exciting accent.
Stella put the teacup down on the table.
“I asked what had happened while I was away from the monastery, but the boy did not answer. It looks like he’s hiding it on purpose because he’s afraid of me. That kid is really deep.”
Chloe’s eyes twinkled at those words.
“Stella, can I tell you about that? At least I know what happened in Velium!”
“Oh, then thank you.”
Chloe and Stella had a friendly conversation.
Charlotte was puzzled to see Chloe like that.
‘If it’s not about magic, why is a kid who used to be so active?’
After talking for a while with Chloe, Stella revealed a new curiosity.
“Then, who is Priest Nyx?”
* * *
A luxurious room.
Matilda was living here.
square square.
Matilda was sitting at her desk, writing a letter.
It was a letter to the family.
Matilda wrote a relatively detailed account of what happened in Central.
Although it was nominally a greetings letter, its main purpose was to report information.
“Is this enough?”
After sealing the letter in the envelope, Matilda sighed.
I looked out the window and saw the sun was setting and night was coming.
A significant amount of time was spent in the process of properly deriving the information to be reported.
‘Not too incompetent, not too detailed. Only then can we gain trust again.’
As a result of what happened in New York City, Matilda had lost the trust of the organization.
But I wasn’t terrified yet, so I had a chance.
Matilda did not want to be brutally put at the hands of the organization.
Ethan also hoped that Matilda would continue to bring information from within the Dark Followers.
Both interests coincide.
– Then do this. Only spill information on that side of the line I allow. But, do you know what will happen if we steal this key information?
Matilda forwarded information to the organization with Ethan’s permission.
‘This is quite high-quality information. It doesn’t look like he’s acquired a lot of information, though.’
It was disguised to look like it was struggling to regain its lost position.
This letter will be of great help to the dark follower.
It was only natural that the members of the Dawn of Graben had died in the southern swamps.
The advanced information from inside Central disappeared in an instant.
‘And I’m aiming for that gap to regain my position.’
It really was like scratching the itchy part properly.
Matilda waved the bell on the desk.
with daughter.
Then the door opened and a servant came in.
“Lady, did you call?”
“Send this letter home.”
“All right.”
“Oh, and… … .”
Ting!
Matilda bounced the gold coin and dropped it at the servant’s feet.
“Please be generous with your report on me. got it?”
“yes?! uh, what do you mean by that… … .”
“You think I didn’t know anything?”
“… … .”
“I’m not asking you to make up a lie. All you have to do is go ahead and tell me what I’m trying to say.”
“All right.”
The servant bowed deeply and disappeared.
‘You must have been very surprised.’
He must have been secretly reporting Matilda’s every move under the orders of the family.
Of course, she didn’t figure this out alone.
– Oh, and watch your surroundings.
-yes?
– You must have at least one or two ears to hear.
It was thanks to Ethan’s words.
After that, Matilda carefully looked around her.
As a result, I realized that the servant was suspicious.
The other servants were busy keeping an eye on her when she was in trouble.
But that servant man somehow seemed to be observing her.
For this reason, Matilda was especially careful about her actions in front of the servant.
But today, Matilda revealed to the servant that she knew who you were.
It was just to prove his abilities.
‘If you belong to an organization and you don’t know any eyes or ears around you, your evaluation will go down.’
Even so, the credibility was lost, so it was obvious that the evaluation would hit the bottom.
So Matilda made the best choice based on Ethan’s advice.
Perhaps the servant will report favorably on Matilda.
And he would have said that Matilda had discovered her identity.
That alone was a huge benefit to Matilda.
“It has become clear from last time. Surely he will win.”
Matilda muttered a little.
Up until now, he had only been watching Ethan for fear of dying.
But from now on, he decided to stand on Ethan’s side with his own will.
‘It was about blocking the attack on Central, and about rectifying it. It’s definitely not an ordinary bet.’
Matilda realized.
That the Dark Followers are of no avail.
Ethan was evidently at the top of the dark follower’s head.
* * *
Ethan opened a small note.
After checking the contents of the note, he crumpled it and put it in his pocket.
Now he was in a treatment center with a lot of wounded people.
“Priest Ethan, please help me here!”
“I am going now.”
Ethan used divine power to heal the wounded.
I suddenly had faith, so of course not.
It was because of the protective barrier.
Thanks to the behemoth’s heart and the magical powers of the loot, the imbalance between divine power and magical power was alleviated.
However, the phenomenon of amplifying the divine power is still there, so it could be dangerous if you did not consume the divine power consistently.
Because of this, Ethan was consuming divine power through healing the wounded.
As they approached the bed, another priest was concerned about Ethan.
“Are you all right these days as you continue to receive treatment?”
“yes. it’s okay.”
“There really is no one like Priest Ethan.”
Thanks to this, Ethan’s reputation at Central grew day by day.
It was cumbersome, but there was nothing wrong with it.
‘It’s not the time to be concerned about that.’
Ethan shook his head.
Then, pretending to focus on treatment, he looked inside the treatment center.
It was because of the contents of the note that Matilda had sent.
– Rumor has it that one more high-ranking person has been dispatched to Central.
If it had been just a rumor, Matilda would not have even sent a note.
Ethan was convinced that Matilda’s information was grounded.
‘It was a good thing I saved him back then.’
Thanks to you, aren’t you getting so much information from the Dark Followers?
‘If you are newly dispatched here, you will come to check me first.’
That’s why Ethan cares about his surroundings.
Conspiracies and schemes begin with identifying the opponent.
Guys with extraordinary brains do not trust others well and do not completely trust the reports of their subordinates.
‘If you have risen to a high level in that organization, you will definitely come here to see me.’
That was then.
A girl passed by Ethan.
The energy emanating from the girl was somehow familiar.
Ethan turned his head.
There was no girl there.
However, the lingering fishy smell of blood irritated Ethan’s nose.
It was then that Ethan realized the girl’s identity.
‘Is that kid here?’
It was Riley, the contractor for the magic sword that I saw in Velium.
* * *
A quiet night has come.
There was barely silence in the treatment room of the temple where many wounded people came from the attack of the Dark Followers.
“Okay, that’s it. You may go now.”
“thank you.”
“Take a little look at the bandage tomorrow and come back if the wound has healed.”
Nick said kindly.
The citizens of Central were moved by the kindness and kept their heads down.
Ethan was watching him silently.
“Ethan, is something wrong?”
The Knicks were puzzled by Ethan’s actions.
Even when Nyx was healing in the temple, Ethan was always watching him from nearby.
Ethan disappeared from the treatment room neatly after his usual work was done.
Thinking about it now, the behavior was something strange.
“what?”
“You must be tired, but I am worried that you are still here.”
“it’s okay. It’s just that I’m doing this because I’m comfortable with it.”
“Is that so?”
Knicks stared at Ethan.
Ethan’s words and actions were subtly different from usual.
So Ethan’s words alone did not solve the question.
But the Knicks knew better than anyone.
Although blunt on the outside, Ethan is a priest with a warmer heart than anyone here.
‘A lot has happened lately.’
The Knicks recalled the recent raid on Central.
Just thinking about what happened back then made my heart ache.
Thousands of people have lost their livelihoods and lost their families to depend on for the rest of their lives.
It happened so quickly.
Without a moment to say goodbye, they were forced to lose their lives in the chaos caused by the Dark Followers and monsters.
Thinking about it, Ethan’s actions made sense.
‘At that time, I almost lived in a treatment center.’
Nick nodded to himself.
After the raid on Central, the Knicks spent the whole day in the ward.
He did his best to treat the critically ill and to find families separated from each other in the chaos.
lodging?
All I could do was hold the child’s hand and fall asleep in the temporary tent.
‘You’re still suffering from that time.’
It was a big event for him too, and because of that, Nix was still sleeping through the night.
So it was not surprising that Ethan showed such weakness.
“I am going to clean up the treatment center and go home now. What will Ethan do?”
“I do the cleaning.”
“yes? Today is my original day, isn’t it?”
The Knicks always took the lead in everything he did.
It was impossible for the Knicks to procrastinate.
But Ethan’s attitude was firmer.
“There are a lot of things that other people say. When they say that they will do it, they say that they will receive it and leave immediately.”
Ethan waved his hand.
“… If that puts your mind at ease, I will.”
Nix nodded obediently and left the treatment room.
Silence filled the treatment room.
Ethan muttered as he saw Nyx exiting the temple.
“For some reason, you just leave without saying anything.”
Ethan laughed lightly.
It was Knicks who worked hard in other people’s work as well as their own.
That’s why I thought it would be difficult to drive out Nyx and stay alone in the temple treatment center.
Surprisingly, however, Knicks obeyed Ethan’s advice.
For Ethan, things turned out better than expected.
Ethan, who was left alone like that, started cleaning up the temple treatment center.
First, the bed was kept clean.
Next, I cleaned up the messy herb compartment, and cleaned up any herb residues or bandages that had fallen on the floor.
After that, I looked around lightly.
“Is nobody there?”
It was late.
There were very few people, both inside and outside the temple.
The temple was not completely empty.
But it was enough if there were no people in the treatment center.
“It would be safe to check them all.”
Ethan looked down the bed, one by one.
Not only that, he tried to find out if there was even a slight magical power or a microscopic device by concentrating on his senses.
So how far behind?
It was when Ethan found no traces within the temple’s healing chamber.
bum bum.
Footsteps were heard in the hallway.