Chapter 153: Keep An Eye On Him (3)

Perseus POV

The letter from the demon lord is your usual formal invitation letter, so I won't go into too much detail, but it's written in expensive ink and everything, anyway, I'm being invited for tea with the demon lord and to discuss some personal matters.

"...at my earliest, huh. I can put off my afternoon investigation and go meet him now if you want...why are you scrunching your eyebrows?"

"Can I test something?" Lilith asked

"Uh test what?"

She came to me and kissed my cheek before turning to look at Lilith who is doing nothing.

"I knew it..." she muttered "You 2 did it last night, didn't you?"

"Did what?" Leilah asked

"You know what I mean, your killing tendencies came from your pent up frustrations, and now you no longer have it."

That's where her killing tendencies come from? That's new and I've known her for so long, so if I don't want to die...I have to...and how does she know about that and I don't? They only met through me and it is fairly recent as well, girls are different species, I guess.

"So demon lord? When can I see him?"

"If you want this afternoon, I can arrange it." Lilith replied

"Why do you look annoyed? Do you guys have this afternoon booked? I can always do this another day since you guys used a lot of effort to get here."

"First my mother and now my sister, I really want to kill you."

"Wait, you realized?"

"Doesn't take a genius to figure that out." she rolled her eyes "Wait for my call and dress appropriately, he'll be expecting informal language since it's you, so you don't need fully formal clothing, just don't wear your usual one."

"Alright then, see you later."

*****

Lilith then left the room and I would say that it gave me a sigh of relief, but damn she found out and it was quick too. If shew knew, she could've just kept it to herself, I even dried my hair and used magic to clean the room and everything, all that effort for nothing.

"She came at the wrong time." Leilah muttered

"I'm half glad she did because you would've pushed me down in the shower if it went on for any longer."

So for the morning, before meeting the demon lord, I use the little time we have to investigate the people coming in and out of that cathedral, Buddy is doing things his way and my way is to literally hide in the shadows and move from one person to another in hopes of hearing any conversation that can benefit me.

But it was really useless as it was all things I already know, so I'm gonna do what I do best, killing. I already got some names from Zach who I hired to investigate this thing, they're priest in regular people's eyes, but they're leaders of slave rings and other terrible things behind the scenes.

Killing one will just lead to a regular investigations and news of an innocent priest dying will be spread, but if I kill a number of them, someone will start asking 'are the victims connected to each other somehow?' or 'is the killer just killing the victims at random?'.

And to know that, a large scale investigation will launch search even in the trenches for an answer, and the connection will be found, nothing is perfect, even an organization doesn't know all its flaws and can't always rely on corruption to keep everything hidden, and when that happens, their movement will be slowed down. Especially the cardinal's and the yellow rose.

People should know that I'm here after I called them out right after the kraken incident, and I should make it known that I'm serious as well, so I then got out my 4 star wires in order to kill a few of the priests here.

But you're now wondering, last time, the heroes were sent after me, and this time, the same killing method is being used, they will know it's me and this time, I will not be let off easy, well there's one thing I'm willing to bet on, it's my pride.

Everyone in this world knows that I'm pretty arrogant and prideful, and so I will use a different enchantment on these wires. Before, I made them sticky, but this time, I'll remove that and tie the wire around something to hold them instead of sticking the edge of each wires to the wall.

When questioned, I'll just act offended and say that they're disrespecting my craft as I won't use such inefficient ways to kill a person and put the blame on a copycat, and unlike me, no one can tell whether someone is telling the truth or not.

It waste slightly more wires and it's definitely not as efficient since I now have to tie the wires onto strong nails that I'll hammer onto the walls. I wouldn't do something like that and that should be enough to get me out of the suspect list. A copycat who's trying to frame me, that's pretty good for me to get away.

Besides, I'm starting to use my 5 star wires now, I have an excuse that I no longer have any possession of the 4 star one due to the fact that people can't know whether you emptied your storage spell or not in the case of them checking.

I know where they live and that morning, hidden in the shadows, I went to their place of living and set the traps, now it'll just take time for them to kill themselves.

*****

And I got an alibi, the café that I'm meeting the demon lord in have a lot of undercover demons, and they can provide me my alibi of where I've been all afternoon while I talk to their lord. I head to the VIP room and can see 3 demons, 2 generals and the demon lord himself.

"Well, didn't think I'll meet you this early."