Bloody Moon

Elizabeth and Morgan walked down the path dotted with some smooth stones around the edge of the road, Morgan's eyes referred to the mansion building that looked quite old but classy, her eyes continued to trace every curve of the magnificent and large building. Their steps stopped in front of a large pillar with a large gate in the middle.

"I have come to accept your invitation Mr. Vakorys" Elizabeth sang in her voice, her brown eyes staring at the gate with an intimidating gaze.The gate opened on its own and revealed the contents of a room that was all blood red.The two women stepped through and entered the mansion.

Elizabeth took out a gold-colored cigar from under her coat sleeve, she smoked the end of the cigar "An interesting welcome" she said, the end of the cigar emitted smoke even without being lit. Elizabeth let the smoke out of her mouth and continued to walk towards the meeting room.

Morgan who was walking behind her was fixated on some unique ornaments and paintings of people her didn't recognize on the walls.

"Yuuna, do you hear me?"

"I hear Morgan."

"Analyze the entire building, if possible the entire area that encompasses this place."

Yuuna was silent for about two minutes and began to give her analysis.

"There seems to be some unknown places, in the deeper places there are stairs that lead to the basement...then in the backyard of this mansion, just walking into the forest there is a small elongated hut. I also feel the presence of quite a lot of magic surrounding this mansion"

"Well then, this person has been surrounding us since we stepped into this place, smart too" Morgan grinned with a small glint in her eye, who knows what has changed from this woman since being trapped in this world.

"Yuuna, I want you to look for an opening."

"Loophole?"

"Listen to me."

Morgan fell into her own thoughts as she chatted with Yuuna secretly, while Elizabeth herself focused on smoking her cigar.

Arriving at the meeting room Elizabeth sat on the bench that had been prepared, there was also a long table with various types of food that had been decorated there. Morgan stood next to Elizabeth while looking straight at the young man with a blond mane sitting straight in front.

Elizabeth crossed her legs then leaned back on the bench and took another puff of her cigar. "So Vakorys, what did you want to talk to me about? I don't want to waste my time on your useless words later," Elizabeth said in a teasing tone.The man named Vakorys chuckled and replied to his guest's words casually and calmly.

"Of course, I don't want to play around with a terrible woman like you Eli" he said while sipping a glass of warm coffee that was available in front of him. "What I want to talk about is something quite personal, can you tell your maid to come out first?" The man in red said while pointing at Morgan's face.

Elizabeth found Vakorys' words quite offensive and gave the man an annoyed look. "I understand" Elizabeth then looked at Morgan's face and motioned for the blonde girl to wait at the front door,Morgan nodded and walked out of the room.

"Yuuna, how is it?" Morgan was still walking towards the outer door while looking around her vaguely. "In the backyard there is a tree that is quite strange to me" Yuuna said in a hesitant tone.

"Strange?"

"There's one big tree in the backyard with a tall size, it has many eyes around its trunk...and also the roots growing around it look very sharp"

"Eyes-?"

"Behind that tree is the small hut I mentioned earlier, don't tell me you want to check out that place"

"What did I tell you to analyze this place for?"

Morgan walked out of the mansion and closed the gate again, she stood still for a moment while looking around and then continued to walk towards the backyard which was quite far away.

Morgan started running to shorten the time, her eyes caught the figure of the tree Yuuna was talking about earlier, "That tree" Morgan stepped faster and jumped over the spiked fence installed in the backyard of the Mansion.

"Morgan, someone is following" Yuuna said in a panicked tone.

"Ah, I can't dodge"

"Eh-?"

A white spear shot from the sky and pierced through the trees, hitting Morgan's right hand and impaling it on a tree trunk.

Morgan furrowed her brow and gave a sharp look towards the sky, she knelt down to ease the pain in her wrist and created a Blood Sword in her left arm. Without further ado she immediately cut off a part of her right wrist and stood back up with her dress dirty from blood splashes.

"It's cheating to attack someone blindly, what are you, a coward?" Said Morgan in a mocking tone, she was still holding her sword and staring at an unknown figure wearing a worn-out robe.

"It's rude of foreigners like you to behave so casually in a noble residence." The robed man said and created another white spear in the air,Morgan grinned and chuckled as she made a stance to attack.

"Sorry but I don't want to waste time with trash like you."

Elizabeth took the cup of tea that had been provided and drank it with an uneasy feeling. "What's wrong Eli? Are you sick?" Vakorys said while supporting his head with his right arm.

"Get to the point Vakorys" Vakorys laughed loudly and got up from his stool.

"It's about your mother, my family and your mother made a cooperation agreement to import the harvest of vegetables and also some other foodstuffs in exchange for goods that we need from your city. Of course the results obtained by both parties will be divided in half, but you know Eli? Your mother only received and did not give us reciprocity, even though we really needed the goods so that they could be used by villagers in need."

Elizabeth was silent with a worried face, she never expected this at all and pondered over the words of the man who looked at her hatefully.

"...On behalf of the Antoinette Family I apologize for the way you treated me-"

"It's too late to apologize Eli" Elizabeth gasped and looked at Vakorys in surprise.

"I just want redress in this case, or I could spread the word to other countries that your mother is a selfish, barbaric queen."

Elizabeth's forehead furrowed and she bit her thumb while thinking hard, "But Vakorys...I always pay attention to my mother's work, indeed sometimes she is very careless...but I make sure myself that she does not cause any problems here."

Vakorys gave Elizabeth a hateful look and walked over to the woman sitting in front of him.

"There seems to be a misunderstanding here Vakorys, I think my mom sent you the things you wanted, but it seems like there was a robbery or something while it was on the way. If it's still not too late I can get you back the things you- agh...?!"

Elizabeth stopped talking, her body petrified at the sight of the long sword piercing her chest "Va...korys?!" Blood flowed from her mouth and Elizabeth gave a mixed look to the man before her at the moment.

"Haah...my plan failed miserably, since you're useless I'd better kill you, princess, right?" The man changed the shape of his face and clothes, leaving Elizabeth glaring and speechless with the incident that had just happened to her.

"I'm sorry, Princess, I'm not the Vakorys you mentioned."

The man's appearance changed completely, a green mane with bright golden eyes, he was dressed like a general. The man laughed at Elizabeth's state and pulled his long sword from her chest.

"I'm sorry, I'm not good at role-playing" He sat back in his chair and let Elizabeth's body fall and sit on the floor with blood constantly flowing from her chest. "Maybe, that man named Vakorys I killed? I don't know...I don't remember the names of unimportant people"

Elizabeth was getting more and more emotional but she could not move, all she could do at the moment was to sit still while covering her own wounds.

Not long after that there was a loud crash to the ground from the direction of the courtyard outside, Elizabeth's brown noses were fixed on the origin of the sound and she was getting worried about something out there.

"Morgan..."

Morgan bounced quite far from her location and hit the trees very hard, her body collapsed on a pile of crushed tree trunks.

"You are so rude to a woman" Morgan got up slowly from the pile of shattered tree trunks and cleaned her dirty clothes while letting out an annoyed sigh, her right hand that was cut earlier had been restored. She created a sword that was even longer than her own body, emphasized gravity and at high speed moved from above and sent the first slash at the robed person.

Her attack was stopped by the protective magic and made Morgan choose to jump back. She changed the shape of her sword into a katana and darted back to attack the cloaked person with multiple attacks.

"I have no business with you" Morgan continued to attack relentlessly while looking for blind spots.

"And I was only assigned to guard this place" Morgan furrowed her brow and sighed in annoyance, she kicked the man's body and made him hit the ground until it shattered creating a sizable hole.

"Sorry" Morgan stabbed the unknown person's heart and let his body slowly decompose, Morgan refocused on running towards the back forest, she jumped over the barrier and used the tree branches as the fastest route.

She looked up to confirm the location of the tree in question, Morgan jumped high and landed smoothly on the green grass with a view of the large tree in front of her.

"...What is this, disgusting" Morgan's expression clearly did not like the sight in front of her, the tree trunk. filled with twitching eyeballs made Morgan dizzy and took her eyes off the disgusting tree.

"Yuuna, what tree is that" She massaged her temples, the blood balls began to float in the air in large numbers like rainwater.

"These trees...seem to have been given forbidden magic, the eyes on the tree are real eyeballs from the human body..." Yuuna's tone sounded like someone who wanted to vomit.

"...Never mind, will it be dangerous if I destroy it?" Morgan looked back at the tree with beads of blood floating around her body.

"I suggest not touching it, you could be exposed to instant death."

"Agh-? what's that...great too" Morgan gave the tree in front of her an incredulous look.

"Then just don't touch it, right?"

Morgan jumped back and cast a special spell."

"I have killed many people and I also remember all the feelings of hatred, change it...Bloody Moon"

An eyeball-sized blood droplet floated in the air, Morgan's index finger moving to slice through whatever was in front of her, in a matter of fractions of a second, the entire forest that covered the scope of the Mansion was cut and shattered in the air, including the demon tree.

Yuuna was speechless in awe, feeling as Morgan cast the spell like someone who was very calm and free.

"Morgan, there's the hut" Morgan immediately rushed towards the junkyard hut and stood for a moment in front of the hut's door.

"What a strange smell" Morgan broke the door with her foot, much to the woman's surprise when she saw a pile of corpses piled up with no eyeballs. "Huh..." Morgan was stunned to see the condition of the corpses and tried to get closer, the bodies of the corpses still looked new and had not even paled. Morgan took a moment to pray.

After finishing praying for the corpses, she saw a necklace with a beautiful blue pendant hanging on the wooden walls, without further ado Morgan immediately picked it up and put it away.