I Don’t Want This Bad Ending

Chapter 113: SHE KNEW: PART 4

Adelyn, Gil, and Cassandra have arrived at the kingdom of Levingstone, two weeks before the celebration of the foundation of the kingdom. And a few days before Silvester and the rest of his envoys will arrive.

Adelyn saw a lot of statues. The mini-figurine that stands two feet tall in every front of every house seems to be familiar with her, and so, she decided to talk to one of the locals. An old man was near her and she decided to ask some questions.

"You must be travelers, well the statues are given by the temple of light. The figure is our saintess which is the loveliest lady I have ever seen. If you saw her, you can feel the divinity and the holiness surrounding her as she is the purest and kindest saint we have ever seen. Of course, our kingdom has the new saints after a hundred years of not having one, surely the lord has blessed this land again."

Adelyn knit her brows into a frown on how enthusiastic the old man explained it to her, then Cassandra who also wears a black cape approached her and whispered to Adelyn's ears.

"The statues seem to be surrounded with black mana, it's faint but people without tolerance to black magic can be affected." she said.

Adelyn no, as Evelyn she was shocked again. Those despicable people who dress themselves in white and have the audacity to fool the citizens just to have more influence in power have the guts to corrupt the people's mind?

She gritted her teeth. She will not let those fools do this again.

They bid their farewell to the Old man and move on. She felt the urge to vandalize and kick the statues whenever she saw one. It almost made it look like the temple of light is not a religion but a cult.

Well, in her opinion, the temple of light is pure b*llshit.

"Let's find an inn first and split to do what we want." Adelyn suggested. Cassandra and Gil nodded their heads.

"Sounds like you need to go," Cassandra mumbled.

Well, she knew how Adelyn, the girl she knew for the past three years works. When she says that they will split to do what they need to do, usually it means that she has a task that she must finish as soon as possible.

Adelyn nodded. She doesn't know how Cassandra found out that she will leave immediately after they got to the inn, nonetheless, she was thankful because she didn't ask any questions as she felt that she can't really tell that she will go to get the payment from someone.

After they have situated in their rooms in the inn that they found, the rest do their chores. Gil served as the merchant and build partnerships to the locals, his identity that he acquired when they are in the Corora town helped them to familiarize themselves again in this kingdom. While Cassandra will go to the pharmacy and herbal shops to acquire different kinds of herbs. And Adelyn? No, Evelyn? She needs to use her magic enchantments to use strengthening and speed magic.

The second city that they arrived at is near the borders of the South gate of the St. Prisch Academy. She needs to get there as soon as possible and come back to the inn.

For one day, Adelyn no, Evelyn used all her strength to run as fast as she can so she can arrive on time. She also has the ring with her that she got after the talk with Silvester. It was technically hers, and Silvester can't do anything with it unless he goes again to the ruins.

She saw the forest the lushes green trees that she hadn't seen for a long time. But she didn't approach it immediately. She will need to wait for the night to come, and she also knows that Chrisfold has already noticed her.

He is her another contracted spirit. He will know when his contractor is around, heck they know if their master has died.

The thought of their first encounter comes to her mind, Evelyn that time felt like the young man that looked around twenty was too strong to achieve a position to protect the west gate of the Academy.

Everything clicked to her after she got her memories. Chrisfold is actually the guardian of the west. If Gil is from the east as Cierzo the Wind Guardian, then Chrisfold is the protector of the land of the west, known as Chetri. 

The first time that they met, he blushed and was so happy and the time that he approached her and said that he will help her to escape, and Gil saying that he can be trusted and thus she included him in the plan and the result was of course her having the quiet life for the four years of hiding.

And she also knew why Chrisfold was here all along, it's because he was here guarding something. Though what he just told him when she was young was that he was protecting a key, the young Evelyn that time shrugged it off as it didn't concern her.

Surely, Chrisfold will help her to get inside the school. But if he can't he can always find a way in. She knew the Academy at the back of her hand.

Because Dauchess Monica, her mother, was once a professor in this school, and she was with her all the time. She was technically having class along with the other students that were older than her. But no one complained as they thought that she was too young to know the formulas and the equation of the magic enchantment.

They were wrong though.

Anyways...

The night falls and it's almost the middle of the night. Evelyn knows that the protectors of the South Gate will change for the night watch. She can sneak in then.

She decided not to wait anymore for her contracted spirit, Chrisfold.

After she enters the forest earlier, she already takes her mask off and also changes her clothes into all black and she now looks like a ninja. While waiting for the nightfalls she has scouted how many protectors are there and as expected, they only have the minimum protectors but a lot of guards.

Evelyn sneaks in and arrives at her destination after her meticulous, quiet, and painstakingly invading the guards that station outside and patrolling.

She went into the balcony of the headmaster's room at the farthest end of the second floor of the castle located at the back of the administration building.

Its actually a castle only for the headmaster, well, perks of being the leader of the prestigious school, St. Prisch Academy.

She silently entered the room and saw the sleeping Casillion on top of the bed. Evelyn actually hides her presence and her mana, a thing that she learned when they are on an adventure to not provoke monsters and just see them as a passing wind.

It never occurred to her that she will use this for a person.

Carsillion felt that someone was staring at him while he was asleep and slipped his hand underneath his pillow where there was a dagger.

He opened his eyes and only saw the darkness around his room, Evelyn had already become one with a wall, she was actually blending in with the surrounding. Who would have thought that his room was colored in black and white?

White for the furniture and black for the walls. Well, she was thankful that his taste helped her.

She watched him stand up from his bed and went to the table where the candle stands are. But before Carsillion could light a match, he saw the spinning ceiling along with his body falling.

He was scared as an assassin capable of hiding its presence means that the assassin is much more skilled than him. But who? Who did he offend that someone would dare to do this?

As he thought that, his consciousness had already left him and his body made a loud thud to the cold floor.

Evelyn then tied him to the seat with all force and gagged him with a cloth that she found lying on the floor and placed him in the corner of the room where the moonlit shone while she hid herself to the darkness near the bed. 

She splashed him with cold water that she got from the bathroom and moments later, she heard a groan from the man who betrayed her.

"Ughh! Mmmpphhh!!"

He was struggling but Evelyn already made him drink Cassandra's potion where it can disable his powers for three hours. Well, that's enough for her to interrogate this man.

"Shall we start the questioning?"

She threw a dart on his shoulder. And another whimper was heard.

"Do you want to know a secret that I know you also considered a secret?" She said, amused at the man who was glaring at her.

"Carsillion, the headmaster of the St. Prisch Academy and the youngest to have been proclaimed as one, the illegitimate child of King Augutus of the Kingdom of Perspiru"

"Mmphhff!!!"

Evelyn ignored him and continued to utter words that he always kept within himself.

"...And also, the crazy bastard who tried to covet his half-sister from her husband, Duchess Monica because he fell in love with his own half-blood sister,"

"Mmmphhhfff"

"The one who also schemed against her family and kidnapped her daughter. How are you? Carsillion Erick von Bonega"

He looked at her and glared, his eyes were saying who the hell are you as Evelyn still continued to talk and expose him.

"...It's time to pay your overdue debt." she said as her dyed chestnut eyes glowed dangerously in the darkness.