Chapter 45. Meeting (1/2)
Chapter 45. Meeting
“Where did she run off again? What did I tell you about paying attention to her, huh? Do you really want to be punished?”
“S.. sorry, big sis. I didn’t think she’d run again.”
“You think this would be all over just by saying sorry?”
The older sister out of two bodyguards, Rin (麟), was about to say something with an angry face, but just gave up and sighed.
“I told you not to be fooled by her innocent outer appearance. She’s always thinking about running away in the inside.”
“Uu, sorry, big sis……. I forgot.”
“Ugh, you idiot. You stress me out so much…. Go find her! You know what would happen if the higher-ups find out what happened, don’t you? We both get this.”
Rin made a slicing motion on her neck with her finger, and made a terrible face.
“S, sorry!”
“If you know that, hurry. She shouldn’t have gone far.”
“Ok!”
Two women in red clothes. They began to run around the castle urgently. How long did they search for? After a while, the younger sister of the duo, Ryung (鈴), opened her mouth with a terrified face.
“It doesn’t look like she’s in the castle. What do we do?”
“Did she get out already?”
That would be troubling. Outside the castle, the places the duo had access to would be a lot more restricted. It was even worse for the young lady they served.
A rare, precious position. If you add on the girl’s unique looks to that position, the girl became an existence that couldn’t be revealed to the public. After all, if the word of her existence spread, everything would really become troublesome.
“You go to the main auditorium. I’ll check the back.”
Ryung made a confused expression when her bigger sister said this.
“Not many people can go to the back part of the church, right? You said it was a dangerous place before…….”
“Don’t worry. I’ll get permission from the administrator of the place. And if the young lady really is there, things would proceed easier than one might think.”
“It would be good if it was really like that…….”
Ryung looked at Rin with a worried face.
“You think you have time to actually get worried about someone? Just go to the main auditorium. If the higher-ups find out before we find the young lady, we’re dead! Dead!”
When Rin sliced her neck with her finger again, Ryung began to run like a startled deer. Rin, looking at that, began to walk quickly.
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Grass Shoe Garden (草鞋庭). This was what the people called the forbidden garden. It was a place where not many could enter, and was also one of the most secluded place within the church.
(TL: Grass Shoe Garden…. is not a fitting name. But that’s what the translation ****ing means! Grass, ****ing, Shoe! Wtf?!)
(ED: Lol!)
At the same time, it was one of the most dangerous places in the whole church. Rin had reached the entrance a while ago, but was unable to get in. She bit her lower lip.
‘As I thought, this is too much for me.’
At first glance, it didn’t look like there was anyone there, but that wasn’t the case in real life.
Top-class assassins, hand picked by the church, were placed all around the garden, extending from the entrances to everywhere inside the garden itself.
Rin hesitated when she felt the dangerous energy these people were exuding. She had to choose here. Even for her, a peak expert, charging into the garden was suicide.
After hesitating for quite some time in front of the main entrance, Rin sighed and opened her mouth.
“I wish to see the Administrator of the Garden.”
“……..”
There was no answer. But there was a response. She knew that because all of the sudden, an overwhelming amount of killing intent began to pressurise her.
‘It gets important from here.’
She was crossing a dangerous line right here. Rin forcefully stopped herself from instinctively reaching for her sword, and quietly closed her eyes.
And when she opened her eyes again, she could see him. The man who had gray cloth draped over himself. The man who had his face, except for his eyes, covered in the cloth, was standing in front of the entrance.
When Rin faced the man, she became convinced.
‘This is the administrator!’
The administrator of the garden was a man that no one really knew about. No one knew of the man’s origin, nor did they know how the man learnt martial arts.
A strange martial artist whose face, age, and martial cultivation was unknown to the public.
Except for the Pope, even the Eight Guardians who boasted their great strength stayed quiet here. All that was because of the administrator.
Clop clop–
Rin could feel that with the appearance of this man, the killing intent around her vanished, as if it was just an illusion. The air around this man was strange. A strange feeling of disharmony surrounded the man’s body.
“What do you want?”
The man’s voice was unexpectedly young. When Rin made a surprised face, the man spoke again.
This time, the voice held no emotion whatsoever. It was only filled with dreadful coldness.
“I don’t say the same thing twice.”
Killing intent. Rin was brought back to reality at once when she got hit by the killing intent, which had been polished like a treasured sword.
“Ah! I, I am Rin of the Ruling Fire House (理火宮). I am the bodyguard of the young lady.”
Rin looked at the man with some sweat running down her back. She couldn’t sense the level of cultivation this man had reached.
‘What’s this? Could he be a harmonious expert?’
Rin shook her head at the thought. That shouldn’t be possible. Other than the two guardians and the Pope, no one else in the church had reached that state.
But Rin was feeling this powerful pressure emanating from the man’s eyes, since a while back. She had experienced such a feeling only a few times in her life.
“You came to retrieve the young lady?”
“Yes.”
Thankfully, the young lady seemed to be in here. Rin sighed in relief.
“May I take the young lady away?”
“That’s not possible.”
“Eh? Why?”
The man spoke with a cold voice, while looking at Rin.
“You cannot enter this place.”
Yes. But that was obvious. No one could enter this place without requesting to beforehand.
The young lady could get anywhere, as her existence itself worked like a free pass to anything, but that wasn’t the case for Rin. But that didn’t mean she was going to back down here.
“Please give me permission. If that’s too much, please at least send word to the young lady……”
“I refuse.”
A dry voice, void of all emotion. Rin’s mouth started to go dry.
“Administrator, this matter concerns me and my sister’s life. Please reconsider.”
Rin kneeled onto the cold, hard ground.
“Please, I beg you.”
Rin slowly put her head down. She threw away her pride a long time ago. As long as she came here, she would be unable to stop the rumors spreading.