CHAPTER 259: REPENTANCE (5)

I follow Anriette until she enters the place where I saw Claire's armor. But as I enter, I find Anriette completely immobile, like she is frozen. Why? Even her aura... there is nothing more about her that indicates the will to fight.

"W-why? How?"

There are no bodies in the room. Only a chair with so much blood on it it cannot have been the blood of only one person.

"So they were brought here after all."

"What?!"

She turns to me and grabs me by the collar of my tattered costume. Her cheeks, her once beautiful cheeks completely ruined by the liquid, letting her teeth appear outside.

"After you disappeared, I went by their house but they were missing as well."

"Impossible. She said there was no need to involve them since they had nothing to do with this."

"And you believe her? That woman is evil itself. She could stab you with the smile of a baby."

"No!!!" Anriette falls to her knees and her tears start melting the ground.