Chapter 45 (2/2)

His expression instantly hardened upon hearing roup’s march came to a halt in the e Charlotte woke up fro with Harman, stayed very close to me as I made my way forward

“This is a Yalua fruit! It’s only worth five bronze coins!”

“Oi, littleespecially for you, so please buy it!”

“Hahaha! That’s right! I really did it! I confessed to her and she said yes!”

The hter-filled streets as Harman, Charlotte, and the other Paladins approached hness, did so happen…?”

Harman cautiously asked

Soon, we stepped into an alleyway that branched off fro around here Various articles of laundry and drying sheets were hung between the narrow alleyway’s walls

Despite it being in the ht day, the shade cast here was pretty dark It was also quite gloo

This whole area felt far removed from the lively marketplace found just around the corner

I stopped walking here, and with aze fixed to our immediate front, I spoke up “…And what could that be?”

There was a beautiful woman

A rapturous expression was etched on her face, while her eyes were tightly closed with tears streaeround

I carefully studied the arrangeaze upwards There it was, a headless body that I suspected to be hers dangling along on the clothing lines

It resembled a dried-up mummy as if all of its blood had been sucked out The headless body danced around in the winds blowing up there

Har of…?!”

Charlotte averted her gaze at this sight The Paladins following us from behind also stood still with hardened expressions, their jaws dropping to the floor

A heavy silence descended in our ed to escape from the shock of this scene However, the first one to break this silence by opening her lips was the woman’s severed head

-Kkiiiiaaaahk!

‘She’ suddenly opened her eyes, and her eyeballs began frantically searching about the area When it spotted our group, it then began screeching out The body-less head was repeatedly opening and shutting its mouth

It was an undead; to be

I placed my hand on the wo down and turned into ashes that scattered away, leaving behind only the bleached skull

Since the disgusting stench was still lingering around here, I hurriedly shi+fted aze to scan our vicinity The creature that killed this woman and turned her into a zoot up and dashed out of the alleyway

“Your highness!”

I suhtly

Before long, I found st all the crowds bustling about, led out the back of a certain individual, aset of red hair

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He alking a the crowd, and yet, he flinched in surprise for soaze behind him I could see his lips bob up and down briefly just then

-Looks like I’ve gotstench thinned out, and just like that, the odour of death vanished into the air As for the man, he too vanished without a trace within the crowd

I stood there as if in a trance fro roaned loudly “Ahhh… I’m so screwed”

The only reason why I caot myself mixed up in a bizarre event, instead…