Julius (6)

As soon as the woman brazenly admitted to having Riko abducted, we placed Marquis Grimwald and his daughter under arrest.

The marquis obeyed quietly, his face pale, but his daughter kept screaming that she didn't understand what was going on.

With the royal family's cooperation, we immediately seized the marquis's people who had followed this woman's orders and forced them to reveal where Riko was.

"You struck her on the head to knock her out, stuffed her in a burlap sack, and abandoned her in the monster forest...?"

The justice-minded Theodore looked as if he couldn't believe it, while rage boiled in my gut.

Even if Riko were a commoner with no ties to anyone in power, abandoning a helpless young girl in a monster forest filled with miasma would be insane.

It was an emergency, so we immediately decided to send out the knights. Edgardo and I went with them.

The unexpected part was that the Saint came along.

The Saint still couldn't use her Purification Skill properly. Honestly, I thought she'd only get in the way, but...

Ignoring Theodore's warning that it was dangerous, the Saint fixed us with a glare...