Monster Hunters: Beat Grave and Erina Hell's Adventures.

Chapter 15: Saint Flinch

Beat and Erina go through the residential district until arriving to a big church that looked very old, it would be easily a gothic church. Erina looked the stained glass windows, there were several of them and had different things in them. One with a human with a crux showing it to the monsters and making them run, another with a pidgeon carrying a branch of a tree, and with different things.
A priest sees Beat and Erina entering the atrium, the entrance area of the church, and looks a little angry, but goes to greet them.
-Priest: Hello, today we are crying for the lost of one of our loyal believers. Could you leave and come tomorrow?
-Beat: Tomorrow will be late. (Shows his MH plaque) Beat Graves, monster hunter. Been a long time since I had to do this. Can we go to talk with the Father?
-Priest: Father Gribs is not in the mood of talking with a monster like you.
-Beat: Heh. Quite harsh no? (His hand starts going to grab the gun) Maybe I should have showed something else.
Erina grabs the hand of Beat and shows her plaque.
-Erina: I'm her companion, Erina Hell, monster hunter. I'm human, so please could you be so kind to leave me talk with Father Gribs? And well, Mr Graves is close to me so it would be nice to let him come with me...
The priest sees Erina grabbing the hand of Beat and smiles.
-Priest: Of course, if you want to redeem his soul and marry him, it won't be a bad thing to let you talk with Father Gribs..
-Erina: Thank you...
-Priest: I'll show you the way.
The priest starts walking and Beat and Erina follow him until arriving to the office of Father Gribs.
-Priest: Have a nice day, young couple.
The priest leaves.

Beat is surprised and looks Erina totally afraid.
-Beat: You know that we are getting in a trouble, no?
-Erina: Yeah. But a white lie with no harm for no one and without ending killing people goes perfect.
-Beat: You are quite smart girl. But shooting people will happen either way.
-Erina: Why?
-Beat: I don't think that Father Gribs will be happy to hear that we lied to talk with him.
-Erina: Well, I'll just have to tell him that we might have a lead.
-Beat: Okay. Let's try that, but I will start shooting as fast as someone starts getting ready to attack.

Erina and Beat enter to the office where a tall man with white hair, a scar in his left eye and his right eye is blue with the clothes of a priest was reading a book.
-Gribs: A couple that wants to marry? Beat, I expected a more troublesome entrance.
-Beat: (Relieved) For a moment I thought that your father was the Father of Saint Flinch. Nice to see you Adam.
-Gribs: My father was several times worse than me for you, Beat. Luckily he retired after losing an eye. I also lost one but well, I can do this job. And this beautiful woman is your new companion, Beat?
-Beat: Watch out your tongue. That I see where are you going.
-Gribs: You are always like that. Grumpy boy.
-Beat: At least I'm not the one with a murdered believer.
-Gribs: You have a lead in that case?
-Beat: Yeah. Maybe if you answer some questions, the lead is confirmed or not.
-Gribs: I'm really in bad mood but if it is to find the murderer of Jessamine, I'll answer. But today was the day when Jake was about to marry a friend of Jessamine.
-Beat: That starts giving a reason.
Beat shows the photo and points with his finger to the girl with green eyes.
-Beat: This lady... Is she a Succubus?
-Gribs: You think that because her appeareance?
-Beat: You know that I killed in these years around 190 Succubus, 4 Werewolfves, 6 Vampires, 10 Skeletons and 100 Ghouls. I wouldn't say that I would be wrong if I think that she is a Succubus.
-Gribs: She isn't as far as I know. But if what you said is true, we must destroy her. Church rules
-Beat: We take care of the Succubus.
-Erina: That Jake was about to marry that girl?
-Gribs: Yes.
-Erina: Hmmm... Then one of your theories don't work Beat. She wouldn't kill Jessamine.
-Beat: Unless it happened something else. Could you give me the name of the possible Succubus?
-Gribs: Her name is Cynthia.
-Beat: Thanks.
-Erina: One question before leaving. My instinct you would say find odd all this case, so let me ask you something. Jake confessed cheating on Cynthia, no? With Jessamine.

Adam Gribs looks surprised and for a moment he was afraid.
-Gribs: A terrifying woman... She could guess that.
-Erina: Beat, I have a theory. Let me ask two questions.
-Gribs: Before you ask... How you knew that? You have a power to look into people's hearts?
-Erina: No. But if Jessamine is in dices it means that it was about something personal. Someone was angry at her for something and not the usual because she's more beautiful. It was more of a girl stealing a boyfriend.
-Beat: Indeed. Luckily she's better at knowing how a girl would think than me.
-Erina: It was obvious.
-Beat: Obvious my ass. There are thousands of reasons to kill, each one stranger than the other.
-Erina: But for what you asked I could think in that question. Well, next question: Jessamine confessed that too?
-Gribs: She didn't want to at first but she did. The worse is that they... well, went together several times.
-Erina: Cynthia didn't knew that no?
-Gribs: Of course she didn't!
-Erina: Hmmm. Last question: where lived Jessamine? And where lives Cynthia?
-Gribs: I'll write it down.
Adam Gribs grabs a paper and writes two directions, gives the paper to Erina.
-Erina: Beat. We must separate. You go to Jessamine house to talk with her family. I go to talk with Cynthia.
-Beat: Go carefully, if she's a Succubus... She'll try to grab your life essence.
-Erina: Okay.
Erina and Beat leave saying goodbye to Adam Gribs and then Cynthia appears from a closet
-Cynthia: I must leave but thanks for the help Father.
-Gribs: Everything for you milady.
Gribs kisses the hand of Cynthia.

Gribs is helping Cynthia? What will happen to Erina? Until next week you won't know.
I hope you like this chapter!