90 Everyone Loved the Moon (1/2)
Chapter 90: Everyone Loved the Moon
Translator: Kris_LiuEditor: Vermillion
The five night watchers were standing around the body like statues. Deep silence enwrapped everyone with tremendous pressure.
In the darkness, Clown clenched his fists with rage and slowly squeezed out a word through his teeth:
”Professor…!”
Taking off the black gloves, Salvador, the Canon Holder, put his bare hands on the chest and started to pray for the twenty-five deceased night watchers. His voice sounded very solemn, ”You gain when you give. You live forever after you die. Paradise is open to you.”
Then Salvador pulled out his white handkerchief and tied it on his wrist, ”The day that I burn Professor to death will be the day I take this off.”
Following Salvador’s suit, the grand knight Lend also tied on a white handkerchief and lowered his head, ”I’ll never forget this battle, my fellows. This so-called Professor will pay in blood.”
”Professor is on the top of my target list,” joined Juliana. Recalling the bitter battle, Juliana’s heart was still filled with fear. She suffered the pain of watching her teammates dying one by one right in front of her eyes. She remembered the desperation she experienced when her healing spells became useless when facing the dark power. Although Juliana did hate Professor to the guts, she was also subconsciously afraid of him.
”Bastard… You bloody bastard!” Clown could not hold himself back anymore, ”I’ll find you and torture you. Wherever you go, whoever you are, I’ll turn your body into my puppet and I’ll have your soul gnawed by the demons, suffering in hell!” Clown never experienced such failure since he joined the Night Watch. As a level five grand knight, his confidence was ruined tonight.
The forever-smiling clown mask on his face looked rather strange and horrible in the darkness.
”It was my fault. I was so close to Professor…” Minsk put on a white handkerchief as well.
Clown slowly calmed down, then turned around to the other four night watchers, ”Professor must be leaving Aalto soon. We should add Professor to our Cleansing List and search him all over the continent.”
”I’m afraid that the bastard is not qualified for this,” said Lend with a bit of hesitation, ”After all, the names on the list were all extremely powerful. Some of them are even capable of changing the situation of the whole world. Professor… he is only a level three or four sorcerer.”
The Cleansing List was shared by all the inquisitions on the continent. Every name was regarded as a great trouble to the Church and was continuously hunted by the most powerful pastors and night watchers from different inquisitions. However, the list had not changed for many years, since hunting them down was extremely difficult.
”Twenty-five night watchers died because of him,” said Canon Holder seriously. ”Although he’s not even of a senior rank, his cruelty and slyness should not be underestimated.”
”I see.” Lend nodded. ”We shall make a proposal to Cardinal Amelton, then. ”
”Let’s find our teammates… at least part of them,” said Salvador solemnly.
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It took Lucien a while to wipe out all the evidence, including the heretic’s body and his own torn robe, and he also cleaned himself a bit. Then he came to the other side of the manor through the woods and climbed over the tall wall of the manor.
Quietly and carefully, Lucien landed in the shadow of the three-storey house, covered by the tall, lush grass and bushes.
When Lucien stood up and was patting away the dust on his hands, his heart suddenly skipped a beat.
”Good evening, Lucien.” It was Rhine. He was only wearing a loose, dark red shirt, of which the top part was unbuttoned. His skin looked even paler than that of a noble lady in the moonlight.
”Go-good evening, Mr. Rhine.” Seeing that it was Rhine, Lucien was a bit relieved, but he still remained cautious, ”You’re still up?”
”So are you.” Rhine’s put on a meaningful smile.