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A woman with short black hair is sitting in the middle of the room. She is Yuri Petrova, the one who murders Gracia. Around the room, there are several candles and a lot of torn posters. All of the posters show the murder victim from the last five years. One of them is Dominik's poster, while the other one is Gracia's poster.

The woman grabs Gracia's poster and then stabs her knife on her face several times and says,

"You disappoint me a lot... Why didn't you fight me with full power..."

Yuri continues to stab the poster and says,

"The Smiling Angel of Death becomes a weak girl like this... You shouldn't have taken away your old days..."

In the end, Yuri rips off the posters and throws them away to the burning candles. She then throws away her knife at one of the walls. Not long after that, she gazes towards the door.

Yuri could hear several footsteps moving towards her room. Most of the footsteps are heavy, but she is sure that one of them didn't wear any armour as it sounds lighter than the other.

She then looked at the door and could hear someone knocking on the door. She then says,

"The door is already unlocked..."

Yuri immediately hides several daggers behind her robes. She then smiles and says,

"Come on in~"

The moment the door opened, she could see one noble with several guards behind him. That noble is Reginald Lawrence.

Reginald looks around the room and closes his nose using a handkerchief. He then says,

"Your room as filthy as ever,"

"Why should you care about my room if the ones that you are after are my skills?" replied Yuri

"Sharp as ever..."

"..."

"But, you should clean your room. As a noble like me will always come here to pay a visit,"

Yuri chooses to keep silent for this one as she knows it is useless to retort with any nobles.

She then chooses to stay where she sits and let Reginald walk around the room.

Reginald observes the room and notices the poster in the room. He then comments,

"They are..."

"Your hit list," replied Yuri

"Don't say that..."

"..."

"In official record, they are the victim from the most elusive serial killer at Lerwick,"

"..."

"And that was you, Shadow of Lerwick,"

Reginald looks down at Yuri and smiles at her. Yuri knows that Reginald looks at her with condescending looks.

Reginald then continues,

"What I can't believe is... Alma Taylor let you go,"

"Why you should care about that?" asked Yuri

"Maybe... Your burn mark holds the secret about it..."

"You scoundrel..."

"You are talking with the Lord of Lerwick!" scolds one of the soldiers

"Then what?" replied Yuri at the soldiers

"If you..."

"If I continue to do it... What you even could do?" said Yuri at the soldiers as she takes out one of the daggers.

The soldiers immediately stop with fear after hearing that. Reginald immediately stops them and says,

"It's fine..."

Yuri gazes at Reginald and puts down her dagger. She immediately says,

"Then what do you want here? Another target for today?"

"Oh no... Not for today," replied Reginald

"Why?"

"All of my targets are on high alert, but later I want you to exterminate all of them,"

"All of them..."

"Yes. I will inform you later and hopefully, you exterminate all of them before the end of the week,"

Yuri looks closely at Reginald and heard him says,

"Are you up for this mission?"

"..."

"When it has done, I will pardon your action,"

"Not like your soldiers could do anything against your target,"

Reginald smiles at Yuri and then orders one of the soldiers to give her the target list.

Yuri immediately reads the target list and then looks surprised. She then says,

"Oh my... If he becomes your target, I wonder how the Empire react later on,"

"Don't worry... I will blame someone else," replied Reginald

"Is that so... Are you going to blame Sir Kirk?"

"No... Wait..."

"Or maybe Sir Andros? Or Lady Beatrice?"

"You..."

"Don't worry... It's just my assumption~"

Reginald looks at Yuri for a moment and then scoffs at her. He then starts to walk towards the door and says,

"Just wait for my signal, I will inform you when to act,"

"Alrighty~"

Reginald then leaves her alone in the room. After Yuri is convinced that Reginald and his guards leave her alone, she reads the list given by Reginald again. She mumbles,

"Helena Petrov, Romain Ambros, and Volya Portar. Aside from Helena Petrov, I never heard of the other two..."

She then sits on one of the chairs and says,

"For that scoundrel make the three of you as the main target, especially Volya Portar... What kind of person are you?"

She then reads the rest of the list,

"Markos Luis, Alfred di Manfredi, Anna Frederikstand, Valeria Asimov, Frida Vargas, Miklos Kovac... They are a well-known adventurer from Ostonorid,"

And then the last name in the list,

"Thomas Gill... The hardest target from this list. He wants to do something without any distraction, yet he targets Thomas Gill... How short-sighted he is..."

Yuri then throws away the list and says,

"That wretch, act all high and mighty around Lerwick. The reason why the people of Lerwick tolerate you, it's because your late father, Alexandre Lawrence, bring Lerwick to prosperity,"

Yuri stands up, looks outside the window, and says,

"I wonder what would happen if the villager knows what you have done to your father using my hand? I think I will do that later on~"

She then looks again at the list and smiles. Later on, she says,

"Well... Let's just focus on this first. Hopefully, some of them could put up a fight just like you Smiling Angel of Death... No, Gracia Ravelli... Ahahahahahaha"

At the same time, Reginald is walking through the corridor with his guards and could hear dissatisfaction from his guards. He then says,

"All of you don't need to worry when the time comes... You could punish her severely,"

"Is that so?" asked one of the guard

"I don't care what you do to her... But, make sure none of the villagers knows what happens,"

"Sir, yes sir!" replied the guard

Reginald smiles at them and mumbles,

"Lord Gyallos will love this, ehehehehehe..."