"Stop, it's not a weapon. You should be more composed."
The Knight's deputy was about to draw his sword but was immediately held by the old Knight, who pushed the sword back—what he received was merely a thick stack of paper documents.
"Actually, I already know most of what I wanted to know. Those are the Unification Sect documents I collected for you. There must be information in them that interests you."
Picking up the large and small bags from his shopping trip, Goki gave the old Knight a thumbs-up, then took Skadi's small hand.
"Oh, and by the way, please tell old Mr. Mars Ling Guang that I'm currently staying at his precious granddaughter's house. Margaret is an excellent Knight. If I have time in a few days, I'll pay him a visit—oh, and add this: if he really comes knocking with a gun, Margaret will definitely hate her grandfather."
Pulling the happily eating Skadi to her feet, Goki also waved to Gravel nearby.
"Alright, Nona Gravel, let's go. If you want to be a Knight, I have a way to make it happen later—first, let's get something to eat. I'll pretend you never kissed me."
Today's outing had yielded enough; the prey Goki had long pursued had already revealed its presence.
Those cultist sorcerers all used stellar Spells that invoked Divine Power through gestures, and the Spell runes in the blood sacrifice site used several ancient runes developed by the Choir, as well as ancient Terra incantations—a combination of powers from two worlds, awakening an ancient and mad will.
And the direction these blood sacrifice sites' powers led to—Goki only needed to defeat all these places, and he would naturally find where the Director's former burial place was.
"Eh, just leaving like this? These are Security Knights. Can we just leave after such a big incident? And I still have to follow you? I'm still considered a slave, right? Is that okay?"
Cenomi was startled, her clear brown eyes darting left and right. She looked at the surrounding Knights with some confusion, finding that none of them stopped them.
"Then let me be a slave owner for a while. Let's go, Margaret's house is quite big—you said you could do anything, right? Let's go home and change into new clothes first; I bought quite a few."
Tossing Gravel a pork floss bun, Goki walked straight out of the room, while the Knights remained in place, not intending to stop them—unfortunately, she missed watching Margaret's match live today.
"Uh, I can't do everything! Cooking and washing are fine... but that kind of thing is absolutely not! Absolutely not."
Cenomi subconsciously clutched her chest, then caught the pork floss bun. She stared blankly at her old trench coat before finally following along.
Based on her years of experience as a slave and a wanderer, she instinctively believed... Goki was not a bad person.
"Is it kissing? It's not that you can't kiss Goki, but you can't use your tongue, and the number of kisses must be less than mine—"
Hearing Gravel's words, Skadi suddenly perked up, hugging Goki tightly. She stood on her tiptoes and leaped, giving a fierce kiss on the spot where Goki had just been kissed by Gravel—also bumping Goki's gums.
"I wouldn't kiss him! That was just an accident, an accident! I have no interest in your man at all—if I had even a shred of interest, I'd run naked on my hands in front of you two!"
As Cenomi wagged her pink little tail and swore oaths, the three of them grandly left this bloody slaughterhouse.
"Knight Captain, just like this—"
"Yes, let them go just like this. If these two wanted to, we couldn't even transmit information—we can only be grateful that they are our allies."
Gaixski breathed a sigh of relief, looking at the blood-stained stack of documents in his hand.
Some of the names were already marked with an "X". From bottom to top, those names were very familiar to this elderly Knight of the May Tree Family; they were all young Knights who had recently gone missing or died accidentally, and they were also the reason for this cleanup operation.
"We should have more important things to do; my old friend is being targeted."
At the top of the documents, above the name "Gaixski," another familiar name caught his eye.
Mars Ling Guang.
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"It looks like... we'll have to find another way."
On top of the residential building, Platinum confirmed that no one was pursuing them and finally breathed a sigh of relief.
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"Three consecutive victories! Let's congratulate today's champion—Margaret Nearl!"
In the arena, Margaret suddenly felt an inexplicable pang in her heart.
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"Shining... the reaction from another blood sacrifice site has disappeared."
In a dim basement on the other side of the city, Shining was shaking the blood from her rapier with a look of disgust. Around her, every cultist had died exceptionally peacefully.
Nightingale, nearby, was kneeling in the center of a blood-drawn Spell circle, treating the only surviving severely injured slave.
Hearing Nightingale's words, Shining's brown eyes widened, her expression somewhat puzzled.
"Are there... others?"
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