Chapter 1 Episode 19: Assassin.

　How did this happen?
　The assassin Landwell wept, curled up in a tree, unable to move.
　The exclamations of his colleagues echoed in front of him.

　Landwell and his team were assassins who had never failed before.
　Any and all targets had been killed with meticulous research and careful preparation.

　It was supposed to be the same this time.

　They were asked to kill a lone priest hiding in the forest of sacred beasts, and the first question they asked was whether the priest was indeed safe.
　Where did he hide?

　When he entered the forest to investigate this, the head of one of his companions vanished.

　Looking around without understanding what it meant, he saw a girl in a cute one-piece dress standing there smiling at him.

　That was the beginning of the nightmare.
　The girl manipulated a tree.
　The trees controlled by the girl killed his companions mercilessly, one by one.
　They have targeted the human vital points so precisely that the assassin himself snarled at them.

　Some were pierced through the heart.
　Some were beheaded.
　Some were pierced through the brain.

　What the hell! ?
　I've never heard of such a large-scale magic being done even by a magician of the Black Tower, which is said to be the pinnacle of magicians! ?

　Landwell was frozen in place, unable to move due to the movement of the treesーー

"Apparently, you're the leader of this group."

　With that said, a silver wolf landed in front of him.
　That's when Landwell understood.
　He felt that they had picked a fight with someone they shouldn't have fought with.

　Yes, with Cyril the Silver Wolf―― the Saint who protected the forest of Eldia.


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『Defeated! Defeated! ! Riese awesome! ! ! 』

"Aa! Aaー！ Aaー！ "

　After defeating the assassins, Libelle happily ran around with Riese on her back, gleefully.
　Riese was also happy to be carried by Libelle, and was unabashedly happy to circle around the corpses excitedly with Libelle.

　Riese and Libelle looked at Cyril as if they wanted to be praised, so she praised them, and they were happy and giggling again.

　Cyril, watching the scene, sighed in her mind.

　――The saints are the guardians of the land and the sacred tree.
　Therefore, anyone who tries to harm the sacred tree must be killed without mercy, even if they are of the same species. What Riese did was the right thing for a Saint.

　But― humans tended to be reluctant to kill their own kind.
　Women and children were particularly prone to this tendency, and even when their own lives were in danger, they could not kill a human being.
　Because they decided that the act of killing one's own kind was evil.
　And yet, what about Riese?
　She has killed people without hesitation.
　
　When instructed, she did exactly as she was taught, and was not even afraid to look at the dead bodies.

　Riese did not possess a sense of morality.
　There was something wrong with her as a human being――Cyril could see that, but she was also a beast in her thinking.
　Even after being asked to explain what exactly was wrong, there was no way she could understand the rules of human beings.
　People, in particular, changed their way of thinking from country to country, era to era, and even gender to gender.
　Even the ethics were very diverse among the same people.
　There was no way for Cyril to know the standards of such a person.

　If the knowledge Cyril taught was incorrect, Riese would have a hard time correcting it.

　Cyril thought.

　When that human priest wakes up, I'll just throw the whole thing at him……

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