Chapter 20 (1/2)
Published
at 18th of October 2019 07:33:18 PM
Chapter 20
The skies had turned dark when Flamm arrived at the church in the Central District
Enveloped in the shadow of the building, Flamm observed the situation
The atmosphere of the church is terribly unusual
Even if they still have knights posted at the gates, their expressions too looked gri with each other orries on their face around the entrance of thethem
Was there an incident, Flamm wondered
As she brooded over if she should directly ask them about it, a 20-year-old or so nun clad in white robe similar to Sarah’s passed in front of her
“Hey Sister, can I ask you so?”
Flamm instantly called out to her
The wo of her pale pink-colored hair, she turned to say “What ht it be?” with a smile
Flahts can’t see and asked the nun frankly;
“Do you know of a girl called Sarah?”
“Y-You know her!?”
As she did, the nun suddenly asked her the question back, grasping on Fla the nun’s desperate expression, Fla had definitely happened to Sarah
“Ah…I’m sorryAn unexpected incident happened, so we are a bit disordered…”
The woroceries
Perhaps she was asked to go and buy soht, so happened to her, doesn’t it?”
“…Before that…can I ask you how you are related to Sarah?”
“My name is FlammSarah is—”
Even before Flamm could finish her explanation, the nun interrupted her and started speaking
“Aah, it’s you! The kind person that Sarah said made her delicious foods!”
Seems like Flamm is well known already
It’s truly just like Sarah to talk about food
“I haven’t introducedin the church with Sarah since ere s Sarah had told her
Sarah used to tell her a lot about the “family” she had in the church, and Tina was one of those people
“Then I think it would be fine for me to talk about this with youAn announcement came down from the Church earlier today…they said that they have excommunicated Sarah”
“Excommunicated!? Why so suddenly!?”
“It seems that…the reason is that she had been involved with demonic worshi+pI heard that the ed to the Court of the Church”
The Court of the Church is an institution separate frodomIt was made specifically to punish the members of the church that broke their internal rules
It’s an institution that was said to punish the rulebreakers by imprisonment, torture, or even execution
Obviously, it is a violation of the laws of the Kingdo with the tyranny of the church, and instead, they even gave the church the authority to make decisions to maintain the public safety of one entire district
In the end, ittaken to the church’s courthouse would be treated as a criminal
“Of course none of us believe that she was involved in deether with her after all”
She was under a false sentence
Flaly from her irritation
Sarah was supposed to be a talented, precious asset of the church
Then perhaps Ink and whatever exists in the church in the West District was so to throw the girl away
“Hey, Fla treated like this!?” Tina asked, her voice shi+vering
As if she’s trying to push back the e her to cry
Yet Flamm herself came to the church to ask that question
“I…only heard that she said she’s heading to the orphanage in the West District because she had sohts there, so she said she could ask theot to be Ed and JohnnyAs I thought, they aren’t unrelated after all”
“Did sohts too?”
“Just today they were suddenly transferred away to a rehts unless there’s aabout it, and they already left the capital by the ti them directlyThey were very friendly with us when they were posted here in the Central District, so normally they should have called out to us if they were transferring away” Tina explained, feeling uneasy as she wrapped her arms around her body
Frustrated, Flamm fiddled with her shi+rt
Clearly, they are atte their powers to bypass the laws
However, why did they excohts away?
There should be ain that discrepancy
Was it because Sarah was a nun and the hts? No, excommunication was supposed to be the heaviest punishin
If the church wanted to drive thehts exco them into court as well
Naturally, Flamm could only think that there’s a reason that they had to transfer the theI heard that there are witnesses that says that they saw a blond-haired girl in nun habits”
“Wait…wasn’t that the place where we found the corpses?”
Tina silently nodded
Afterwards, despite knowing that she wouldn’t be able to gain an answer, as if taking a gamble on her last hope, Tina asked;
“Was Sarah’s excommunication and the case of the corpses…connected?”
Fla, the situation, and the conjectures made from the church’s past conditions, Flaot so to do with the church”
Tina’s red eyes widened
Along with her surprise, soht; I called it
“I had thought that those deht have been deadThat’s why I think their transfer is an attempt to conceal their deaths”
“Then what about Sarah?”
“They haven’t found her body yetMaybe she’s still on the run, so perhaps just in case she appeared again, they declared her excommunicated”
“What is it that the pope wanted to hide so o that far…?”
“That’s…”
If she told her, there will be no co back
AdvertisementThus, Flamm bit her lip and shook her head
“…I’m sorry, I can’t involve you in thisIf I do, what they did to Sarah ht not have been related by blood, but she’s one of our family member!”
“But If she’s on the run even now, then I also think that it’s one of her wish to not let any of you involved”
“…even so…even so! How irl…!”
Tina’s words showed hints of her vexation
But Tina wasn’t the only one that was frustrated
Sarah would’ve relied on theth to solve this problem
But she didn’t
The two realized their oerlessness
“What should I do? If we just beat up the pope would she coht…people like us can’t simply make enemies of the pope—”
“No, not thatI didn’t mean it like thatThe church itself is…”
“The church is…what? It’s fine to just tell ht? I’ve steeledsoht have a deeper suspicion towards the church than an outsider
At the very least, she’s not the popes that Fla between the upright nuns and priests
In front of the wo she knows
“…Whatever caused the “incident” this time…it’s possible that they couldn’t control it”
“Incident?”
“The results of human experiments”
“Human experiment…!? T-Then…Sarah is involved in it?”
“PerhapsNot with the experi to do with its product, and they’re trying to erase her to conceal it”
Perhaps she was erased already
Tina held her head as she staggered
That’s how far the truth shocked her
Yet even if Flamm is someone Sarah kneell, Flamm herself feels that the woman couldn’t trust her whom she had just o to the church in the West District”
“You said that she had so thereI’ve been there before, and I can see the children living well”
“Yeah, so it’s likely that the research is not conducted at the orphanageMaybe they used the children to conduct their research somewhere else”
That hat Flamm had taken assuh considering that Sarah was taken out in the West District, the institution should not be that far from that area
“But then after or when she talked with the two knights, she was attacked by the eyes¹ that created those grotesque corpses”
“Eyes?”
“That’s what the witnesses reportedThe victims were attacked by a lot of eyeballs, and their bodies swelled until they turned into what they look like now”
“What…what do you mean? Eyes? Only eyes attacked the creatures are in the capital…? And that’s the result of the human experiment?”
Tina sed her saliva
She hadn’t seen what they look like, but she shuddered thinking that such monster is currently hidden somewhere in the capital
“But ere they attacked at all? Ed and Johnny are ordinary knightsThey shouldn’t have known anything about the research”
“I don’t know about that, but the fact is those knights had sacrificed themselves to allow Sarah to run awayThen she ran away to a place with no people around”
Flaht of herself in Sarah’s shoes
She was attacked by o with her friends
Her friends died to cover for her
She ed to run away, but she continued to be pursued
She continued to run as she kept being attacked by the eyeballs
However, at that point, the girl rotesque appearance and the ti must have led her to believe that this is the result of the research that the church wanted to hide
“After that, she separated herself from the district wallShe assus froht, those eyeballs wouldn’t come out in front of a crowd of people,involved²That’s why you said that they couldn’t control it”
“YeahPerhaps the church is being impatientOtherwise they wouldn’t have hts or exco Sarah and instead make some sly excuses like they usually do”
The two fell into silence
They couldn’t confirm Sarah’s safety
They did not know the true nature of those eyes, they could not stop the church’s tyranny, and nothing had progressed
“But…there’s still hopeSarah is still okay, right?”
“Possibly”
“That inforhI’ll talk to soet yourself too deeply involvedWe can’t be sure who or when they’ll go after next”
“That’s even betterI can get to Sarah quicker if they’re after h at that joke
She was there to witness corpses who had lost its shape as a huh at it
“Thank you for telling me a lot”
“No…Likewise, thank you very ain if I can confirm Sarah-chan’s safety”
“PleaseI will also contact you if we find her”
Tina and Fla, they waved at each other as they parted ways
She had ed to obtain irl looked up to the violet sky and heaved a h
“Sarah-chan…I hope you’re fine…”
Just i with htly figure made her nauseous
She had to find Sarah as soon as possible and destroy the institution Ink was in…but it is still unclear if the “eyes” will stop at that point
For now, she had no choice but toto the West District froe man’s in front of her
…it was Dain
“Yo”
He pasted a disgusting grin on his face as he called out to Flamm
About 20an army
Perhaps because they were just back from a worshi+p in the church, or perhaps because their face is as expressionless as a doll, Fla, which only nore theh, but then,
“Hol’ upYou’re lost thinkin’ about that lil’ brat gone, right?”
Fla those words
The men behind Dain turned to look at Fla down her spine
“They irl next time”
“Dain, you bastard!”
In response to that clear provocation, Flarab his collar
However, the man fearlessly smiled and replied;
“You sure you wanna do that? We’re the church’s believers, ya’ know? We’re Origin-sas ya’ know? Hyahahaha!”
“And so you chose to throay the last shred of your allaring atable to catch an asylus h”, said Dain, shaking free fro two steps back
“My client…no, my current boss told me to keep my hands off of Flamm ApricotWell if they went that far to say that, we can only acceptLow risk high return, you know”
“What are you talking about?”
“Heheh, you’ll seeOi, you lots! Let’s go!”
With his orders, the men moved completely in order
Their movement seems as if they are lifeless machines
Now she understood the reason why Iira hated the current Dain