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Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter 77

Retribution

“Elphisia Luminel!!!”

Snap!

The servant snatched a fork from a nearby table and brandished it menacingly. He then charged forward with violent fury, his eyes blazing with rage.

“Huh…!”

“Eek?!”

The man’s sudden action elicited screams from bystanders. The malice of attacking an unarmed lady in a light dress was enough to spread terror. However, Elphisia Luminel remained internally calm.

‘I’ll dodge and subdue him appropriately.’

Even a rotten fish is still a fish - Elphisia was the head of a martial arts family. The servant’s clumsy ambush seemed as slow as a crawling ant and as awkward as a child’s first attempts at writing.

It’s an insignificant commotion.

Just as Elphisia made that assessment.

The assassin, honed by rigorous training and obsession, slipped between the attacker and the target like a gust of jet-black wind.

- Slash!

A brutal slicing sound followed.

Simultaneously, the servant’s head flew into the air. Warm, damp blood sprayed like rain.

“…Huh?”

As Elphisia let out a gasp, thud! The servant’s body slumped lifelessly to the floor. It twitched briefly before all signs of life vanished completely.

“You, you…?”

Elphisia pointed accusingly at the assassin who had intervened. His jet-black hair and eyes, barely concealed by the hood, revealed his identity unambiguously.

Glen Baskhill.

The man who admired, pitied, and hated Elphisia stood there.

“You…! What are you doing?! Why… How could you kill someone so easily?! You know full well this level of ambush isn’t a threat!”

“…Pardon?”

Meanwhile, Glen’s expression hardened as if faced with a difficult math problem.

Then he spoke, as if stating an obvious fact.

“You ordered not to spare assassins previously, so I acted accordingly. If I’ve made a mistake, I’ll gladly accept punishment.”

“I… ugh.”

Elphisia was unable to argue.

Who was it? The one who conditioned Glen through brutal punishment?

Who was it? The one who forced torture upon a tender child who refused to kill?

…Who was it? The one who regarded the boy as nothing more than a convenient tool?

All questions pointed to a single person.

Elphisia Luminel herself was the culprit who had trampled on an innocent child’s humanity.

“Ah… Aah…”

Had she been intoxicated by a midsummer night’s dream?

She had forgotten. Her own true nature.

Drawn by Harte’s purity, she thought she was becoming more like him. She deluded herself into thinking she was atoning for past sins by occasionally sprinkling good deeds she’d never done before.

Unless time could be completely rewound, the seeds of evil left in the past were steadily sprouting, blossoming into the lotus of karma without her realizing.

“Haa… Haa…”

Elphisia’s breaths produced a rough, grating noise. Glen could only flounder, unable to act as he witnessed his master’s unsettling state.

It was at that moment a woman’s cry dredged up Elphisia’s past.

“Aaaaaaah…! Lukren!”

She was an employee - hired for today’s charity event along with the attacker - Lukren.

When she glared at Elphisia with murderous intent, Elphisia was able to recall the name Lukren from deeply buried fragments of memory.

“Lukren… Lukren Melton?”

“Hick…”

Judging by the sobbing woman’s silent glare, it was the correct answer.

“Why is he here…?”

“Do you really not know…?”

The woman immediately responded to Elphisia’s vague question.

Soon, the female employee desperately trying to tend to Lukren’s corpse began to scream, choking back tears.

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