Chapter 539 The Truth About Lady Sathan

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Erika's mother was more devastated than we thought, but nobody could quite find the words to say to her for a while. This all became too personal for everyone else to comment on without sounding disrespectful.

However, I wasn't afraid.

"Sathan seems to be aiming for the throne of the Kingdom using her children, as I remember, it said that only the grandchildren of the king could participate for the throne, is it not?" I asked Erika's mother, as she nodded.

"Yeah, it was a rule set by father so we wouldn't fight for the throne against one another. We thought it worked but… it only lend to some of our siblings to go fall even more from grace. To think Sathan would aim for the life of mere children, and my newborn, no less." Cattalina said.

"Was Aunt Sathan, really a bad person?" Asked Erika. "We've fought other cultists that weren't actually… Too bad at the beginning, but they were manipulated and brainwashed by others to go further and further into a dark path they could never come back from."

Erika was a person that often tried to find the good in anybody. Perhaps this led her to seek my friendship, despite how grumpy I used to be when I was a child, she sought my company and ultimately helped me open up to her and my family with her friendship.

I suppose it was the same. I know it must be hard to believe her own aunt wanted her dead before she could even reach a year of age, it is a gruesome truth, she must had been thinking about this for years since she learned this.

"I've never had a good relationship with her but seeing her all happy with her children always made me think she had a good side to her that treated her family fairly, and that she was simply jealous of me at the end or something, but that she was actually still a good person." Her mother sighed. I guess the mother is just the same as the daughter in that regard.

"But to think she was… a rotten bitch that would kill a baby just so her children would have a higher chance to inherit the throne! I…" Cattalina's eyes began glowing with purple and pink light, her powerful Spiritual Aura started to surge from within her body. "I cannot forgive her anymore, family or not, if she really was the one behind your death. I cannot rest easy while she's alive. Perhaps how many other children she has killed with her tricks and cunningness. The cult must have helped her greatly."

"Mom… Calm down." Erika sighed, holding her mother's hand. "You're not like this…"

"Erika…" Her mother sighed, hugging her daughter. "I am sorry… I am sorry for being so foolish to not have seen such a thing coming. I was naïve, too naïve."

"That's on the past now… I am alive now and that's what matters, right?" Her daughter said. "Thinking about the past and stuff… It's not going to help us keep moving forward."

Her mother's eyes opened in surprise by the surprisingly mature words of her little daughter.

"You're right…" She sighed.

"Well, the factor about the cultists is there as well, and the cult must be the same that has been threatening this place, the Cult of Beelzebub. Now, I'll tell you something that happened just some hours ago as we were having a meal in that cafeteria." I said.

I quickly explained them about the spies I killed using my spirits abilities, and I even showed them the corpses I had stored inside my Grimoire. I also showed her my three spirits and everything.

"T-Those are cultists?!" Asked Erika's mother, shocked to the core. "Y-You killed them… s-so fearlessly? For your age…"

"We've fought them before." Said Erika. "Blake has… no, we have already taken the lives of other people…"

"That's not really something that should matter, scum like this doesn't deserve any mercy. As someone that is a victim of their schemes, you should know this very well, right? Lady Cattalina?" I asked.

"I… Yeah. I didn't wanted to say this but alongside my companions, we've killed dozens of these fiends. They're all criminally insane people that only seek destruction, they've been wronged by the world and then brainwashed to desire the "demise of the gifted" or something. They adore demons as their gods." Sighed Cattalina. "To think four of them were about to do all of that…"

"Indeed, we watched them from afar, milady." Hendrick said. "These foul people were going to not only attack and attempt to assassinate the young lady, but they were also going to free demons from these stones."

Hendrick showed a red and purple-colored stone with red marks on them.

"D-Demon Summoning Stones?!" Cattalina was once more surprised. "This is bad… We need to quickly tell more of my colleagues. We can't let these bastards go around the town, even less threatening the lives of all of us."

"I'll keep these stones sealed inside my Inventory Skill." I said, quickly storing them for future recipes. "They also planned to blow themselves up. Their special marks are able to burst into demon flames of immense power, if they failed at conventionally killing Erika, they would had blown themselves up in front of her, killing her on the spot."

"Insane… bastards. But why? Why do they want to target her so much?" Sighed Cattalina.

"Maybe because… of Aunt Sathan? Now that it is widespread that I am alive, she probably know about this and sent those people to kill me." Sighed Erika.

pαпdα-ňᴏνê|·сóМ "But did her really had such an authority over them to order them to do something like this? I thought she had merely commissioned them… Unless…" Cattalina realized the truth at long last.

"Yeah, I had figured it some time ago but… Sathan, your sister, is probably already a member of the Cult of Beelzebub, if not a Cult Leader if she has such authority over others." I declared.

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