CH 82

A subordinate was selected to go to Raniero to deliver Kendrick’s words.

Dien Horze.

He was the one who usually acted as Kendrick’s clerk.

Dien bowed his head deeply.

“Dien Horze, greet the Lord.” 

“Yeah, Dien.” 

Kendrick answered briefly, then tapped Dien’s forehead with his finger. 

Then, black shadows gathered around Dien quietly.

And.

Without hesitation, the shadows began to enter Dien’s shadow.

“You only have to deliver the letter and leave. You don’t have to do anything else, so refrain from unnecessary actions.” 

Dien responded politely to Kendrick’s words. 

Although Dien’s shadow staggered little by little as if it were unstable, it soon found its place.

Dien’s shadow was initially a little larger than his own, but it was barely noticeable unless someone looked closely. 

“Depart to arrive late in the afternoon. So that the shadows do not show through.”

“Yes, my Lord.”

Kendrick made sure Dien’s shadow listened to his commands one last time.

As he drew a circle with his finger, the other shadows inside Dien’s shadow scattered all over the place.

Kendrick smiled with satisfaction, then turned his finger again and returned it to its original state.

Then Dien and a few knights left the mansion.

By the time Dien got there, the sun had set, and Kendrick’s use of his ability wasn’t visible in Dien’s shadow.

Raniero couldn’t refuse Yekhart’s letter, so he opened the door to Raniero’s mansion.

“Please go this way and wait.”

Mrs. Bellin, the maid of the Raniero Mansion, personally greeted the guests. 

She took the letter that Dien had brought to Arthur Raniero.

And at that moment.

Whoosh—.

Dien’s shadow shimmered faintly, and soon black shadows escaped and scattered all over the Raniero Mansion.

Dien confirmed that his shadow had returned to its original size and secretly let out a sigh of relief.

Because the letter didn’t say anything important, Dien had to leave Raniero immediately.

Since the only plan was to send Dien to Raniero, it doesn’t come as a surprise that the letter doesn’t say much.

Dien left the Raniero Mansion, and Kendrick’s ability hid in the dark and looked everywhere in the Raniero Mansion.

Kendrick, who was using this ability, broke out in a cold sweat while locking the study door in the second house of Yeckhart.

It took a ridiculous amount of power to use this power in Raniero’s main mansion in the bird clan’s territory.

However, Kendrick focused his mind and used his ability to scan all over the Raniero Mansion. 

‘It’s nothing much.’

In fact, Kendrick had already inspected the Raniero mansion in this way several times before, so he had already grasped the structure of the mansion.

After looking around most of Arthur Raniero’s room, Kendrick wrinkled his brow.

‘There is nothing.’

The outbuildings were the same. It is said that Akim’s sister was fourteen this year, but the only fourteen-year-olds were Raniero’s children.

He carefully looked for the wolf family but couldn’t find it.

That moment.

Paat—! 

Kendrick’s ability was shattered inside the Raniero Mansion by some force.

Kendrick stared into the air with his brows narrowed.

“Is it because of the barrier…” 

Since the distance was absurdly far in the first place, he thought that the ability would only last for a while.

But.

‘I couldn’t find anything.’

The time was too short, and there was no result.

Kendrick sighed.

At this rate, Raniero would have tried to end this incident with what happened within the wolf clan.

If so—. 

‘The tips of the swords of the other clans also point towards the wolf clan.’

If he can’t prove Raniero’s crime, it means that the Giles Flower is circulating inside the Wolf Clan.

Then the other clans will think Giles flowers are spreading in the wolf clan’s territory, right?

They could have tried to station their troops in wolf territory under the pretext of uprooting Giles flowers.

Of course, there was a way to fight and drive them out by force—.

‘It’s impossible to fight all seven clans.’

Excluding Lamont, the lion clan, there were seven members of the blessed clan with ability.

Kendrick sighed.

Tomorrow, the day before the festival was over, there was the last meeting of the heads of each clan at the temple.

This meeting was held quietly inside the temple, not open to other beastman.

He has to talk then.

That the ‘Giles Flower’ had been rediscovered, and Yeckhart had been turned upside down by it.

If he doesn’t talk about it now, the other clans could hold the wolf clan responsible for any problems later caused by the Giles flower.

It doesn’t work.

Kendrick strode toward the dungeon where Akim was imprisoned.

“Ugh, ugh…” 

Akim was groaning on the floor as if his leg, which had been injured earlier, was in pain.

“Stand up.”

Kendrick said firmly.

A soldier grabbed Akim by the shoulders and held him up.

“A, argh!” 

Akim screamed as if someone was pressing on his seriously injured leg, but the soldier didn’t check on Akim.

“Akim, you lied.”

“Yes, yes? W, what do you mean….”

“Your sister was not at the Raniero Mansion.”

When Kendrick finished speaking, Akim’s face collapsed in an instant.

“What? W, what do you mean? My sister is definitely in R, Raniero….” 

“I checked all of Raniero’s mansions. There is no wolf clan in it.”

Something resembling a scream echoed from Akim’s neck.

Akim shed tears.

“How, how could that be….” 

Akim touched his face, which was very messed up, with both hands.

On his hand, the traces of the rope that had been tied when he was first caught were still intact.

“He said he would treat my sister with lung disease. He said she would get better soon if she was treated at Raniero, but she hasn’t gotten better for years….” 

Akim stuttered and looked like he was about to cry.

“T, that can’t be true. My sister definitely went to Raniero. It’s true, I’m telling you. Please use the commandments, Lord Kendrick….” 

Kendrick shook his head slowly. 

Because commandments can constrain behavior, but it can’t directly make something happen.

Not only is it impossible to tell the truth.

‘I used too much power.’

Kendrick was a bit drained from examining the Raniero mansion. 

Even stranger was if it wasn’t that hard to inspect another clan’s territory. 

Kendrick narrowed his eyes as he listened to Akim.

‘It doesn’t look like he’s lying.’

However, Akim’s sister couldn’t be found anywhere in Raniero’s mansion. 

So, has she been taken somewhere else already—?

Or, as was feared, they might have killed her already.

‘I’ll have to think again about how to find Akim’s sister.’ 

As Kendrick took a step back, Akim gave him a look as if the world had collapsed.

“L, Lord!” 

Kendrick left prison ignoring Akim’s anxious call.

The soldiers slammed the prison door shut.

***

“Temple?”

“Yes, the festival ends tomorrow. So today there is a meeting of the heads of the temple, and the Lord said that he would take the Lady and the Young Master too.”

Betty tied my hair up while talking.

But…

‘I think she tying to tied it for too long.’

Betty usually finished my hair quickly.

But this time, I was getting my hair done for a long time to the point of getting bored.

In addition. 

“…Betty?”

“Yes? Yes, Lady~” 

She used a brush to comb through my hair and really looked at it.

Feeling uneasy, I held the hand mirror tightly in my hand and glanced behind me.

Betty fiddled with my hair for a long time, then tied it back into two pigtails.

“Do you like it, Lady?”

“Ung, I like it.”

Betty put a pretty pink dress on me and put a little mini hat on top of his head. 

“Now, be careful not to mess up your hair.”

“U, ung. Okay.”

I nodded and headed straight to Arsene’s room.

Arsene had changed all his clothes and used his ability in his room. 

A small shadow wolf let out a long howl and came out of somewhere with a biscuit.

“H, huh? How did you do that?” 

“It’s amazing, this worked too.” 

Arsene shrugged his shoulders as he accepted the biscuit the shadow wolf had picked up.

And handed me a biscuit.

“Are you going out on the streets today?”

“Street? Uhm… Do you want to go out?”

At my question, Arsene shook his head.

Hehe, I replied with a smile.

“Then let’s not go out. We can just not go.”

“You can go out if you want to… because it’s dangerous…” 

As Arsene hesitated, the shadow wolf curled up his tail and let his head hang down as if he was uneasy.

I looked at Arsene while checking the condition of the shadow wolf.

“You don’t have to go out. I’m telling you, all I need is you.”

“…What?” 

“All I need is you.”

I shrugged my shoulders and said, and Arsene’s face instantly turned red.

“You… Don’t say things like that carelessly.” 

“Ung?” 

What do you say? Just as I was about to ask, there was a knock that could be heard all over the room.

We turned our heads at the same time.