Lady Invincible

Chapter 76

When Hilise was finally caught in it, a curious sensation flowed in through the contact.

(It's a thrill, and it's a strange twist of satisfaction, and I've been searching for it for a very long time.)

She screamed like that, as if it had caught her ear.

'...What's wrong with you?'

Hilise, who was held on Axion's arm, looked back and looked at her.

'Tomorrow.'

Axion slowly took off his lips, looking down at Hilise.

'I will go to Inoaden to meet you.'

A low voice resembling a whisper came to her ears with the night air. It penetrated Hilise from the front like a brand.

Hilise knew why he had foretold his visit to the mansion.

'Tomorrow is the day we promised to go to the four seasons of the forest, so let's visit at our usual time.'

There was no answer of acceptance or rejection from the tightly closed mouth of Hilise. But she stared at Axion silently for a while.

Then, Hilise's arm slipped out slowly.

Axion inadvertently applied strength to his grasp and slowly relaxed his grip on her thin arms.

The warmth that was filling his hands finally completely disappeared. Again, the reddish hair in the field of view was just like before.

Axion stayed long behind the blinding back of Hilise.

'The heir of Berzet!'

A short time later, Amelie's chief stumbled over to Axion, looking carefree. She made a mockup just before she was mesmerized.

Axion frowned on his forehead. But he didn't want to be seen with Hilise for now. Axion's eyes fell on the body of the devil on the side, that was still seething with dark red mud.

The sight was squeamishly disgusting. But Axion's face was faintly wrinkled for some other reason.

The body of the burned demon he saw in the basement's warehouse came to his mind.

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Heliona, who had to deal with the situation outside, was very stunned.

Osmond rushed to her and looked at her condition from afar. His face was pale as if he lost all his blood in his body.

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'Gabriel...! Gabriel!'

Ricardo, who arrived in the garden around the same time as Osmond, had been looking for Gabriel since earlier.

The mournful voice touched the ears of Axion. Ricardo wandered through the garden with a paler face, and was soon asking the people he encountered to see Gabriel.

'Well, if you're looking for Lady Gabriel, she went back to Inoaden in a carriage.'

'Is that true? Did you see any injuries?'

'I don't think so. She left long before the accident.'

Then there was an employee who knew Gabriel's whereabouts, and so Ricardo was informed. Ricardo seemed relieved after hearing Gabriel was safe.

'Some people think that the only person who was at the party today was Gabriel or something.'

Then, a sardonic voice cooled Ricardo's heated head.