Vol. 4 - Chapter 28 - Hiding from the [Hermit]
Astraea was bitting at her nails at the information she didn\'t want to believe hearing from a puppet she received through torture.
Laguna\'s ox branch, One of the puppet organizations, was destroyed by a single black haired young boy. Anyway, it\'s just a puppet, nothing more than a small fry without any power, so it\'s fine. The problem was in that black haired young boy.
According to the puppet, the young man had fierce looks in his eyes that could make a child cry with just a glance, and a cross mark was engraved in his left eye. There\'s only one person who fulfill this peculiar characteristic.
One of the seven Brave 一一 Hermit. The right hand of the Greed and one of the council prided themselves on cleaning. Nine out of ten, he\'s an agent sent by the council.
"Repeat it once again"
She ordered the man before her eyes who was tied to a chair, blood dripping from whole body.
"Astr...... aea, next is...... you"
The man spins out her name after too much stumbling in a hoarse voice.
"He has so far confirmed that I\'m in the imperial capital. They haven\'t pinpoint to someone. Should I think so?"
There\'s no reason for them to hesitate in attacking. If they had learned about the details of Astraea, they would have attacked already a long time ago. Whatever the reason there is, it\'s only suspected that Astraea is hiding in the royal capital.
"Why the cleaner of council out of all...... "
Seven Braves are the council\'s final trump card and their pride. The seven pillars have long since stopped being human. For Astraea, a frontal collision with the seven Braves will not just end with a simple apology. Particularly the Brave [Hermit] is specialized in individual battle out of other seven Braves. The battle has to be set up under favorable conditions, even then there\'s still the need for luck factor to win. That\'s the kind of opponent he is. There\'s no doubt she has to fight with the preparedness to die in the battle.
"Dammit! Why out of all the places, the agent appeared in the imperial capital that\'s under my jurisdiction!? Normally, it should have been the kingdom or sacred country!!"
Anyway, making any move indiscriminately will have the opposite effect when stared at by Hermit. Without causing any upheaval, she can only observe.
"The problem is Grey...... "
In this half year, she carefully observed [Grey] and have only seen him using his ability once. She analyzed he\'s only a slightly stronger pseudo-Brave. Someone with that standard can be killed anytime. The top priority right now is to hide from Hermit.
The incident this time is most likely Hermit\'s causing it. If Astraea doesn\'t make a move in several years, he would misunderstood that he made an error in his guess by himself.
"Not lucky. My luck is out recently it seems"
While spitting out her complaints, Astraea left the bloody basement with quick steps.
Immediately after, a huge explosion echoes throughout the suburbs of the third district.