The cold-faced earl doesn't want to trigger the plot

"can."

After getting Liber's consent, the maid lady's face softened a lot for a while, showing a gratified smile.

...

...

Not long after, Riber, who drank the sleeping black tea, collapsed.And Claire carried him to the owner's room on the third floor.

Even the owner's room, which he hated so much in the past, was willing to live there.This shows that he really gave up sacrificing himself.

While feeling relieved, Claire felt lonely for a while.

She knows it.In the evening, Riber went to see Melueita once.

Therefore, it is undoubtedly only her sister who can make Riber, who was so "firm" in her will, make a change.

"As expected, Melita is more important to you..."

Talking to herself in a low voice, Claire's footsteps froze for a while.

But when she stepped on her feet again, a relieved expression appeared on her face.

fair enough.

Claire thought so.

After all, from now on, she will live forever in the shadows where the light cannot be seen.Even, there might not even be a place for her in the shadows.

Volume 29: Chapter [-], Planning Begins

late at night.

When it was close to midnight, Melueita, who was waiting nervously in the dungeon, suddenly heard a voice calling her along the underground passage.

After confirming that it was her sister's voice, she got up quickly, carried the small backpack on her shoulders, and ran to the entrance of the tunnel, where she saw Claire.

"Sister! You are!"

After seeing Claire, Meluetta almost exclaimed.

Because, on Claire's left arm, she saw a deep claw mark that seemed to tear it apart.

"Even if it is a sneak attack, some people are not so easy to deal with."

Claire said with a blank face, as if the bloody wound hadn't caused her the slightest harm,

"In short, get ready to go. What's the situation outside? I don't see anyone else in my field of vision, but maybe there is a blind spot."

Claire continued to ask cautiously.

Meluetta swallowed forcefully, looking at Claire's injury, she remembered how dangerous the Scourge Church is.

Melueta, whose heart was beating non-stop, forced her composure to close her eyes, and then confirmed that there was no one else around.

"There's no one outside. Sister... You, you didn't kill them all, did you?"

"Only killed three."

Claire replied with a dissatisfied tone.

Of the three she brought down, one of them was the dungeon guard who was with her at this time.The remaining two were the ostensible mansion guards who were in charge of the night watch.

In addition to these three people, Jeff the gardener, Black Crow, the person in charge, and two of Black Crow's direct subordinates were still in the mansion.

Black Crow and his two subordinates are usually very mysterious, so Claire didn't think about them from the beginning.But Jeff, Claire wanted to try it, but because he was injured, he would be aware of the bloody smell if he approached Jeff, so he didn't take the risk.

In addition, Claire also tried to find the butler Sebastian, and also made him powerless.That way, it might be possible to save the mansion from being set on fire.

But it was a pity that, as usual, Sebastian stayed overnight in the phantom beast lair around the mansion, with his two Pegasus.As a phantom beast, Tianma is extremely sensitive to the aura of the same phantom beast.Therefore, Claire, who can transform into a phoenix, can't get around them no matter what.

"Sister, don't you mean they..."

Meluetta asked Claire a little bit tangled, and carefully wiped her neck.

Claire shook her head.

"I didn't kill them, I just made them incapacitated. It would be very troublesome to kill the members of the Church of Scourge. Because the 'perfect cube' on the members will be activated when the members die."

"Is that so..."

Melueita patted her chest and made a gesture of relief,

"Not only today, but in the future, my sister can't do things like taking other people's lives casually. You are no longer a member of the secret organization!"

Listening to Meluetta's advice, Claire actually disagreed in her heart.

She wanted to tell Melueta clearly that this world is cruel, so she would have to eat herself back sooner or later with her naive thoughts.

but...

"Well...I see."

When her words came out, it became like this.Even his tone of voice became softer.

"Next, when the mansion is on fire, you flee towards the woods in the northwest direction. When you flee..."

"Even if my sister is in danger, don't look back. Then, if you're being chased, call for help, right?"

"Ah."

Claire nodded.

To this day, Claire doesn't know what Ribel valued about the "ordinary" boy he deliberately looked for the day before, and he is even less willing to trust that kind of stranger.

But she is now willing to believe in Shane.

...

...

Five minutes past zero.

Bursts of thick smoke floated from the direction of the mansion.

Sebas, the housekeeper who stayed in the phantom beast's lair, or in other words, the stable hut, was woken up by a scream from a distance.

"Fire—fire—!"

fire?

Sebastian, who was wearing simple pajamas and a nightcap, recognized that the voice came from the chef girl of the mansion.

He was startled, and ran out of the hut barefoot, and then saw the main building of the mansion surrounded by smoke.

However, after taking a rough look from a distance, Sebas felt that the fire in the mansion was not that big.

So what the hell is this woman screaming?

There are no ordinary people in the mansion, so why not just put out the fire?

And the next moment Sebas was thinking about it, he saw a burst of blue flames, rising wildly in an instant, spiraling up, enveloping the entire mansion in raging flames.

"Ah, ah... ah ah ah! The mansion, the mansion left by the master and wife, the mansion of the young master ah ah ah—"

Sebastian started screaming while holding his head, and even subtly resonated with the voice of the chef girl in the distance.

"Go! Anne, Berta, hurry up! We're going to fight the fire!"

Still holding his head, Sebas yelled at the two pegasus sleeping on their stomachs in the stable next to the hut.

The pegasus, named Annie and Berta, first gave Sebas a sideways glance impatiently, then snorted helplessly, and finally stood up reluctantly.

...

When Sebastian flew around the mansion, a group of people just happened to gather at the gate of the mansion.

Two extremely tall men stood like wooden stakes in front of the burning mansion, wearing two extremely eerie black crow masks on their faces.

And the big crow with red eyes, standing on the shoulder of one of them, no longer disguised himself as an ordinary bird, but questioned loudly.

"Why are there only a few of you? What about the others?"

At this time, outside the mansion, including Sebastian, there were five people plus one bird.

They are the two people in the black crow mask, Jeff, Sebastian and Chef Girl.

The members of the Church of Scourge tacitly ignored Sebastian and the Chef Girl, and then found that the members they gathered were less than half of the mansion.

"Where is the young master! Where is the young master!"

Before the pegasus fell to the ground, Sebas, who jumped off it, staggered on the ground for a while, grabbed Jeff beside him and questioned sharply.

"Let go, old man. How do I know where your young master is?"

Jeff, who was not pretending to be a hunchback, spoke angrily, trying to move Sebas's hand holding his collar.But he didn't expect that Sebas's strength was not at all like what a white-headed old man should have. He tried a lot of strength but couldn't move Sebas's hand an inch.

Just at the right time, under the ferocious flames, a wall on the side of the mansion collapsed.

Then, everyone present saw it.

On the third floor of the mansion, there is a room covered with walls of light curtains.

And right in the center of the room, the owner of the mansion was sitting on a seat with his back facing them, sleeping peacefully.

Volume 30: Chapter [-], The Crow

"Master—"

Amidst Sebastian's inexplicable and stern roar, the eyes of the black crow on the side became deeper.

"Go, check the location of the dungeon."

It ordered to the two subordinates.

"Wait, you can't leave! The young master must have encountered something if he didn't escape from the burning mansion! You must rescue the young master first!"

Sebastian turned his head abruptly, preventing the two tall ravens from leaving.

As for the black crow, he didn't want to pay attention to Sebastian at first.Because, it has quickly analyzed that this is a conspiracy against them.Moreover, Riber, who was trapped in the mansion for unknown reasons, was also trying to contain them.

No matter what the details of the conspiracy are, as long as they don't fall for it, the other party's plans will naturally come to nothing.

but...

"Master, he is the only blood relative of 'madam'!"

Sebastian added.

Crow also heard that the "Madame" in Sebas's words was not Riber's mother, the former countess.It was the woman who was well-known in the entire organization of the Scourge Church.

"Okay, then I will go to the dungeon myself. You stay and are responsible for rescuing the count."

After hesitating for a moment, the crow glanced at the two raven-faced men and Jeff the gardener.Then, without waiting for Sebas to attack again, he spread his wings and flew towards the northwest side of the mansion.

...

Dungeon entrance.

The black crow, which flew towards him at a high speed, hovered in the air, and after scanning the surrounding area, he realized that the Saintess of Light had escaped.

In other words, that girl planned this conspiracy?

impossible.

The black crow judged in an instant that Melueita did not have the ability and conditions to arrange these.Therefore, she must have at least one assistant in the mansion, and that assistant is likely to be a member of the Church of Scourge.

And just as the black crow continued to deduce who the traitor was, a blue flame formed a line in the sky, galloping out of the surrounding forest like a sharp arrow.In an instant, it penetrated the black crow's body.

The flames only burned in the sky for a short time, and then disappeared completely as the black crow's body was completely reduced to ashes.

It was at this moment that the sneak attacker appeared from the forest.

That was Claire who had exhibited a pair of bird wings and could fly in the air.

After confirming that the black crow had indeed ceased to exist, Claire's expression did not relax in the slightest, but became more vigilant.

Although the position in the Church of Scourge is not determined by the strength of power.However, because of the blessings of the gods, the upper echelons of the Scourge Church generally have various abilities and will not be killed easily.

Therefore, there must be something strange when things go wrong.

Claire looked around, and found that the surrounding scene really began to become unnatural.

From high in the sky, heavy snow suddenly began to fall.And if you look closely, you can find that these "snowflakes" are actually pitch-black feathers.