He Did It to Protect Us

"Stopped, huh?" She said as she came within a few meters of him and stopped midair, floating some distance away.

"Madam, what do you want with me? Did this junior happen to do something he shouldn't have?" He asked in a nervous tone.

"What are you doing in this region? It's not common for Spiritual Saints to stay in those areas... You didn't seem to be just passing through." 

As he heard this, he carefully observed the woman in front of him, mainly her red clothes, which had a small symbol of seraphim at the height of her left breast.

'Damn it!'

'A Patriarch of the Spiritual Church!'

'What bad luck!' He cried out in despair in his mind as he recognized the uniform Margot was wearing.

"I... I was traveling through the region. I was going to Elves Island, madam. It just so happened that I smelled a strong scent of blood nearby and went to see what it was." He used part of the truth to lie.