‘Erengium was…a bait?’
Astroa assumed that the masked man that cut off his arm and ran off with the disposed product during the early morning must be someone from Erengium House because Astroa found the badge in the laboratory.
However, now that Astroa’s anger had receded a bit and his head was cool, after thinking hard about it…Astroa felt that it was probably not right. His eyebrows started to wrinkle slowly.
‘Ugh what a bonehead… What am I doing right now… it's… How am I any different from a lab rat trapped in an experiment box?’
Astroa realized that he got too used to the peaceful life, so he had overlooked something he should have been suspicious of.
Astroa realized that he totally fell for it like a fool. He gritted his teeth.
“Huh?”
It was when he was shaking his fist in fury.
One of the homeless who was hiding and watching the scene made the noise.
Soon, along with the sounds of footsteps, the presence of numerous people approaching could be felt.
Judging from the sound, it sounded like people wearing plate armor were approaching.
“S-Solia Holy Temple bastards?”
“The bastards from the Holy Temple? Why here…”
The priests and holy knights from the Solia Holy Temple usually didn’t want to have anything to do with the people of Lower Solia, claiming that these homeless people had abandoned god.
However, this time, there was a mob of them that showed up.
“Holy sheet. It’s the priestess…”
In middle of priests and holy knights, there was a girl with a veil, who was relatively shorter than the rest, standing in front of everyone.
Watching her obviously walking toward Astroa, the homeless people of Lower Solia opened their eyes wider than when Astroa made his entrance. The homeless murmured,
“What?”
“P-Priestess?”
“Priesia? Is it the real deal?”
“That’s crazy. Why would Priesia come here…”
Hearing the homeless people’s voices, Astroa also opened his eyes wide and stared.
‘She is the priestess from the Holy Temple. Just what business does she have here that she had to march all the way down here?’
Astroa could not think of many possibilities.
“Astroa, sir.”
“…”
And soon, in front of Astroa’s sight, there was Priesia’s veil.
With priests and holy knights standing behind her, Priesia took a step forward and continued,
“Recently, I received a report about obscene occurrences.”
When she finished, at the same time,
Baaam!
The holy knights wearing plate-armored boots stomped their feet on the ground and put forth their shields and swords.
It was an unspoken threat toward Astroa. They were demanding Astroa to answer honestly to the priestess.
“Can you please answer?”
At the priestess’ question, Astroa flinched his face and asked back,
“About what?”
“About narcotics…and unethical human experiments.”
“…”
“Are you involved with them?”
Priesia asked as she sharpened her eyes under the veil.
Her gaze was fierce. It was unbelievable that it belonged to a girl.
“Ha…”
Astroa shrugged a little.
It looked like he coughed out a word to express his amusement for no reason, but he slowly turned his body away and started to murmur something.
Upon listening to it carefully, it sounded like he was murmuring a spell.
Most likely, it was going to be the Teleport spell to escape the scene.
“…Spell Cancel.”
However…
Before Astroa could finish casting Teleport, the spell was canceled. It was because someone interfered with his spell.