Chapter 92 – Reunion (3)
“What in the world… what the hell happened to you?”
Laura asked with an expression of half concern and half surprise.
Aria’s appearance now.
Tousled hair and tears welling up in the eyes.
Besides, before.
Even the appearance of Xian covered in sweat.
There was an absurd delusion floating in Laura’s head.
I wonder if the two of them did that.
However, since there are things that can be seen, it cannot be denied.
“Certainly Confucius Xian didn’t do anything strange, did he?”
“huh? no like that Rather, I did something strange.”
“······ yes?”
Arya’s answer made Laura really want something.
Did Arya do something weird?
So, it wasn’t Xian, it was Arya who attacked…
“What is that…”
Laura couldn’t hide her confusion.
What kind of dog delusion is this?
Laura wondered if this was really true.
First of all, there was no way that Aria, who didn’t know anything about being a man, would do such a strange thing.
Even if Arya did such a strange thing.
By the way, Xian’s appearance that I just saw.
reject it?
Laura couldn’t answer.
I just blinked my eyes.
An unspoken silence fell.
Laura as Laura.
An aria is an aria.
I had nothing to say.
And just then.
smart smart
There was a knock on the room door.
It sounded rather urgent.
Want something for a while.
-Gee, now…! The saintess’ guest and Archbishop Lahir…!
A panicked voice came from outside the door.
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Xian looked at Lahir in silence.
The priests who had just burst out of the room said Lahir ‘Archbishop’.
Xian didn’t know much about the Holy Empire.
He knew that being an archbishop was a fairly high position within the Holy Empire.
Line descending from popes, cardinals and archbishops.
In terms of the Charlotte Empire, it could be said that he was in the same position as the Marquis.
Of course, it won’t be exactly the same.
It was undeniable that he was in a position comparable to him.
Lahir’s grave eyes turned to Xian.
And the title of Archbishop was not won by gambling.
It’s the momentum that comes out, and the atmosphere that you can feel.
It was not something that could be easily dealt with.
Xian contemplated Lahir’s appearance while concentrating.
But not really…
Other than that, I didn’t feel anything else.
To be precise, the priests who were frightened by the side and were falling apart.
The strangeness felt in them was not felt in Lahir.
He could only feel the aura of powerful divine power.
Although not as good as Arya.
Still, it was a very powerful force.
In a word, it was the energy of a clear priest.
Xian looked at Lahir and slowly opened his mouth.
“There seems to have been a misunderstanding. I was just passing by and stopped for a moment when I heard a horse.”
“I was passing by and stopped for a while…”
Rahir repeated Xian’s words once more.
“This is a place where even the priests of the Holy See do not go often. But you were passing by this place for no reason?”
“I got lost because it was my first visit to the Holy See. There is no particular reason.”
Rahir looked at Xian in silence.
Xian also looked at Lahir.
eye contact.
“You mean you didn’t overhear?”
“As I said, I heard a voice and stopped and hesitated. but···.”
how will we do it.
Xian thought for a moment.
It would be best to pretend not to know, but…
Like the strange aura I feel from the priests.
The conversations heard from inside were also suspicious.
To be precise, it means the completion of the vessel.
I wasn’t quite sure what it meant.
However, the indolent Nurbia that Xian faced in the past.
and the devil’s vessel.
Sian secretly decided to try Lahir.
“I’ve heard the word vessel for a while…”
That moment.
Rahir’s gaze changed.
The priests next to them also changed their momentum sharply.
strange tension.
The atmosphere turned grim.
and.
Rahir glanced at the priests, glancing at them.
At the same time, the priests moved their bodies.
A strange tension flowed, and the atmosphere turned violent for an instant.
Xian raised his nerves and put his hand on the inventory.
Right then.
“Oh, Confucius Xi’an. You are here.”
A soft voice came from one side.
I feel like my ears are clear with just your voice.
In an instant, the tense atmosphere became bright.
the place you looked at.
There, Arya was slowly walking toward us.
“I was very worried because he suddenly disappeared.”
Arya approached Xian.
Seeing that, Lahir opened his mouth again.
“I said it was the first face I saw. He must have been a guest of the saintess.”
Arya nodded and said.
“I was in the middle of guiding you because you wanted to see the Vatican. But he suddenly disappeared, and I was in a panic.”
Aria smiled and replied.
talk, and atmosphere.
It was completely different from Aria, with whom Xian was bickering.
Literally, a saint.
Rahir raised his eyes and said.
“I know that the saintess seldom invites in outsiders.”
“It’s just that I rarely take it. It is not at all.”
Arya and Lahir looked at each other.
A strange war of nerves going back and forth between the eyes.
Then Lahir gently turned his head.
The gaze that meets Xian again.
Rahir opened his mouth with an expression that could not guess what was inside.
“The Holy See shouldn’t go around like that. I understand your curiosity, but it may disturb the priests’ pious Mass.”
“I will be extra careful next time.”
Sian slightly lowered his head.
And the eyes of Lahir, who glanced at it, were like.
Since the saintess stepped forward, I will step back this time.
But there is no next.
It seemed like he was saying
“Saintess, please be careful too.”
Lahir went back into the room with the priests.
“Gongja. Let’s go too.”
Arya then spoke to Xian.
Aria smiled and smiled at her gaze.
The lines of her gentle eyes were so beautiful.
‘Woo-wook…!’
Xian was only confused inside.
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Xian followed Aria through the corridors of the Vatican.
And whenever he met priests and holy knights, they all bowed their heads.
The priest who looks quite tall also bows his head to Arya.
It was a look that could tell at once what level Arya was.
In fact, Xian takes it lightly.
The status of a saint was never light.
After walking for a while, I came back to the room.
Arya couldn’t say anything.
It was a confused expression filled with various emotions.
Laura, who was next to her, stabbed Arya in the side.
Then Aria flinched and trembled.
Arya said, avoiding Xian’s gaze.
“are you okay···?”
“It’s not okay.”
Xian shook his head at once.
Because that was really not okay.
It was because he met Arya again before he could calm down.
Besides, Arya is so close again.
The dizziness was setting in again.
Sian slightly distanced himself from Aria.
It was because it didn’t seem like the dizziness would end this time.
And Aria, who was watching Xian.
Seriously… why does he hate me so much?
Other men are eager to see my face at least once.
Did I really make it ugly for him?
So much so that you don’t even want to be this close?
Arya, I don’t know why.
I felt really sad.
silence for a while.
Arya opened her mouth again.
“Are you really not a demon?”
“You said no.”
“So the detector is broken?”
“no. It’s not even broken.”
“…?”
Arya’s head tilted.
Isn’t it broken?
Doesn’t that mean that Xi’an is the devil?
Xian let out a small sigh.
how do i explain this
Xian thought for a moment.
But the trouble didn’t last long.
Arya knew that, too.
The other day, I entered the Arnaise Hall together with Xian.
He knew everything that had happened in it.
That Leah is Charlotte’s younger sister.
The fact that Sian is related to Kyle to some extent.
Arya knew everything.
Sian glanced at Laura next to Aria.
“Oh, I had something urgent, but I forgot. Talk to the two of you.”
Laura noticeably avoided the seat.
At this point, it was like only the two of us were left in the room again.
I have already heard that all of that absurd delusion was a misunderstanding.
There was no hesitation in Laura’s actions.
Laura left the room like that.
Cyan related to demon detectors.
And he gave Xian a brief explanation as to why the demon detector had been triggered.
“That, that…!”
Hearing Xian’s words, Arya opened her eyes in surprise.
And again.
Arya didn’t think Xian’s words were a lie.
It must have been something I saw in the hall.
“So then…”
Arya was silent for a moment, as if in shock.
Xian said to Arya.
“Anyway, I’m not a demon. And if I were such a demon that you wouldn’t even notice. You are not safe now.”
A demon that Arya doesn’t even notice.
In other words, it meant the 7 demon lords.
A demon that Cyan, Leah, and all of Ruben’s forces clung to and could barely handle.
It wasn’t even in perfect condition.
So no matter how much Arya was, she couldn’t control the 7 Demon Lords by herself.
“by the way···.”
Sian slowly opened his mouth.
“Who are those priests?”
To be precise, priests who can feel the energy of demons.
Aside from suspicious conversations.
It was an energy that priests should never have.
“They are the Priests of Twilight.”
“The Twilight Priest?”
Xian tilted his head.
Arya then let out a small sigh and said.
“Actually, our church is divided into two factions. It’s easy to explain when you say denomination, but this is actually—”
“for a moment.”
Xian cut off Aria’s words.
“I hope you don’t do it if you’re explaining the complex relationships involved in your church.”
Well, Xian knew about it.
It is said that they are those who serve a holy god.
This holy empire was, after all, a place where ‘people’ lived.
To put it simply, the element of ‘politics’ had to intervene.
Here too, there must be a composition where factions are divided and confront each other.
However, there was nothing particularly good about finding out about the political interests of such a church.
If I got tangled up in it, it would only hurt me.
Above all, isn’t Xian a member of the Charlotte Empire?
There was nothing good to know.
More than anything else, I was bored listening to explanations.
“So, if you really need to explain, please give me a brief summary.”
“·······”
Arya stared blankly at Xian.
It was an expression that seemed to have all these guys.
After a while, Arya let out a deep sigh and spoke.
“There is a sect of dawn and dusk in our church. You can think of dawn as coming and twilight as radical. Just now, they are priests of the Cult of Twilight, and Archbishop Lahir is the representative of the Cult of Twilight. it’s okay?”
“Perfect.”
Sian nodded his head in satisfaction.
Didn’t you understand the rough situation with this short explanation of about 3 words?
Complicated explanations only made my head hurt and bored.
“So is it just him?”
“that person? who? Archbishop Lahir?”
“uh.”
“What do you mean all of a sudden?”
“Is he the one you’re sure is the devil?”
Then Arya flinched and shivered.
“Did you know…?”
“Because there’s no way a kid who doesn’t even know how to use a demon detector can say it’s broken.”
Arya let out a laugh.
Then he slowly shook his head.
“no.”
“No?”
Arya nodded.
“It’s true that he’s a bastard… Wait a minute. Could it be that Archbishop Lahir is the Devil?”
“no. it wasn’t the devil Then who do you think is the devil?”
“that is···.”
Arya didn’t speak easily.
I lingered for such a long time.
“… Cardinal Rachel.”
Arya said in a low voice.
“Cardinal Rachel?”
Xian’s head tilted involuntarily.
I hadn’t heard of the name Rachel.
However, the word cardinal attached to it.
A cardinal was a clergyman second only to the pope.
He was a candidate for the next pope.
In fact, he was the core of the Holy Empire.
Is such a cardinal evil?
“What nonsense are you talking about?”
He must have been a cardinal, after all, a high priest.
In a word, a body full of divine power.
Would the devil use such a body as a vessel because there is no one to use it as a vessel?
It made no sense in many ways.
but.
“I know it’s hard to believe. But the power he showed at that time was evident…”
But Arya didn’t seem to think so.
You see…
It seemed that he had seen a cardinal named Rachel use strange powers.
To be precise, it seemed that he had seen the use of demon-related powers.
Arya seemed convinced of this.
The demon detector didn’t seem to work.
So now there is no suitable way.
“So, can you help me out?”
Arya asked Xian for help.
“hmm···.”
At Aria’s words, Xian thought for a moment.
The cardinal is evil.
If this were true, it was a pretty serious matter.
Cardinals are candidates for the next pope.
I don’t know what the current pope’s age and life expectancy is.
After that, he could have taken the position of Pope.
Maybe assassinate the pope and take his place.
Then the entire Holy Empire was swallowed up by demons.
But the cardinal is the devil.
Maybe if you just listened…
Xian would have dismissed it as nonsense.
In fact, the moment the demon detector didn’t work.
It should have been over with that.
Even if the Demon Detector reacts to a stern person like Xian.
Because it also clearly reacted to the devil.
That’s why it didn’t catch on the detector.
It was not the devil, but the spring was correct.
But there are some things that just can’t be done.
First of all, that’s why Arya is so sure.
It was none other than the strange energy that the priests had shown earlier.
Evil and not evil.
You can’t even call it a demon.
It was never human energy.
A strange energy that can never be seen as a priest.
There were many awkward corners to just pass it over.
Xian thought for a long time.
The reason Xian came to Arya was simple.
It’s none other than the story-linked quest, ‘The Truth Kyle Faced’.
It was to find Muriel’s ruins and uncover the secrets hidden within.
And Aria knew the information about Muriel’s ruins.
This was the decisive reason Xian came to Arya.
But it wasn’t just for this reason alone.
The second reason Xian came to see Arya.
“how much.”
It was to make a lot of money!
Knight training center Lv.5 worth 4 million gold.
‘Achievement: For the Best Weapon!’
It was a situation where a total of 14 million gold was needed.
The gold Xian has now is…
[Current Gold Coins] – 19,950 G.
It was only about 19,000 gold!
Bondi had 20,000 gold, but it was Xian who spent 50 gold to come to the Holy Empire quickly.
About 5 months left.
Because I had to move quickly.
“…?”
Arya’s spirit briefly escaped.