Chapter 16: Coming to the Door

But I absolutely did not want to let him off so easily. This guy had to be taught a lesson!

"Let's just chop him up!"

Nicola was filled with rage and wanted to go all the way.

"Ah? Is that necessary to be so cruel..."

I felt somewhat reluctant seeing this. Killing magical beasts was one thing, but killing a person, I didn't quite dare to try. Besides, did the landlord really deserve to die?

"What's there to be afraid of? We definitely won't continue staying in this rented place anyway. Also, angels have a special status in the Astralrealm Kingdom. Even if we kill this fellow, it probably won't cause too huge of a problem."

Unlike me, Nicola was the victim. She held much more resentment and didn't heed my dissuasion, insisting on taking ruthless action.

I didn't forget that King Galahad was a follower of the True Church. For ordinary folk who dared blaspheme angels, this country definitely wouldn't make a big deal out of it. So if the landlord was killed by Nicola, probably nothing would really happen.

But just as Nicola was about to take action, ignoring me, we suddenly heard many voices speaking outside, including someone shouting.

"Is the owner of this bookstore here? Anyone home?"

"Crap! What do we do now? They must have been alerted by your loud kicking just now."

Deep down, I actually felt relieved. After all, I didn't want things to end so cruelly by our hands.

"Let's go out and see first!"

Nicola stared at the landlord on the floor, her expression fluctuating. She hesitated for a long time before finally not making a move. Her original intention was to finish him off and immediately flee.

"The landlord isn't here, what's the matter..."

She signalled to me and had me go placate Cyra, while she herself responded loudly and walked out from the inner room. But she had barely gone out when her tone suddenly changed.

"What, it's you?"

"Huh? Who could it be? Sounds like Nicola recognizes them."

The commotion in the bookstore made me feel strange. I wanted to follow her out and take a look. But before I could, a scream came from outside!

"Wah, Lady Nicola! Didn't expect to meet you here. When did you come back? Why didn't you let me know earlier!"

"Selene?"

Well, didn't even need to see to recognize the voice. Way too familiar. But how did she get here?

I walked out from the inner room with a puzzled look. Indeed! At the entrance stood two or three people dressed in True Church attire, with Selene as the leader.

"Feliciana? You two are together!"

Seeing me, Selene immediately waved happily. After all we had gone through a lot together in the Dark Continent, my relationship with her had unknowingly grown closer.

"Looks like those mysterious holy waters must have been created by you two!"

"Huh? Holy water?"

Hearing this, I instantly understood. I really didn't expect that they had come on behalf of the True Church for this matter.

"That's right! Why else do you think a bunch of us would run to a place like this in the middle of the night?"

Selene promptly nodded and explained.

"This evening, I received a report at the church saying someone was selling high quality holy water in the city at low prices, using very malicious means, and the quantity was extremely huge. It's suspected to be an antagonistic force deliberately creating competition to disrupt the income of our church in this area!"

"So the bishop sent us to investigate. We visited many families before finally hearing that the place selling holy water was here. For a moment I thought the bookstore owner was a hidden light element mage!"

"Looks like the direct sales ruckus you made this afternoon was too big, attracting the main characters here..."

Nicola gave me a wry smile, then explained to Selene.

"Actually I'm not involved in this matter. It was something stirred up by Feliciana and another angel."

"Another angel? Could there be another angel here?"

Hearing this, Selene immediately perked up and glanced behind me, but didn't see anything.

"She's inside! Speaking of which, we're currently tangled up in some troublesome matters..."

Thinking of Cyra's current state, I couldn't help sighing. Perhaps Selene had more experience with such situations and knew how to advise her.

"Come with me, help us take a look at her condition..."

But I had completely misunderstood!

When we entered the inner room again, we saw a completely different scene.

"That's what you get for forcing yourself on me, you toad lusting after a swan! Who do you think you are? I spit on you!"

I saw Cyra had already gotten off the bed and was continuously kicking the landlord's tools with her feet. To avoid accidentally kicking him to death, she had specifically hidden her wings to enjoy the kicking more fully.

And it seemed the pain had just woken the landlord at this time. He was covering his lower body with both hands, crying out and begging for mercy. The scene looked very inappropriate.

"They are..."

Selene was naturally dumbfounded coming in to see this situation. When her eyes caught sight of the landlord's exposed lower body, her face turned even redder in shyness as she quickly turned her head away.

"Fleciana! How can you do this? You couldn't have intentionally wanted me to see that!"

"No! You misunderstand, of course not!"

I quickly positioned my body between her and the landlord, flustered by the misunderstanding. I had wanted to sell misery, how did it suddenly turn into reverse violence? How could I still play the sympathy card now?

Alright, I admit I was overthinking things. How could someone like Cyra feel sad like an ordinary girl? Besides, the landlord hadn't succeeded after all!

"That girl should be the other angel you mentioned right? Why is she doing this?"

Although her view was blocked, Selene could still see Cyra's frenzied abuse behind me. As for angels hiding their wings, she had witnessed it several times already and could identify it skillfully in a glance.

"She's Cyra, an angel who came out from Edenmere like us. As for the man on the ground..."

Nicola had no choice but to cut in and introduce for me. But before she could explain the context, we were interrupted by the True Church followers.

"What did you say? She...she is Lady Cyra?"

"The holy angel has finally descended!"

Seeing Selene's followers get extremely excited, I could only smack my forehead. I had totally forgotten! The name Cyra carried great weight in the True Church too, explaining would be very troublesome.

Now this was good, the room was already chaotic enough from the landlord's wails. And now add to that the clamor of the church members, it felt like a huge mess in an instant.

"Calm down first, let me ask clearly before saying more!"

In contrast, Selene remained unflustered. She turned and stopped her followers' actions, then casually asked me.

"She wouldn't happen to be that angel with the same name mentioned by the angel legion commander before right?"

As expected, Selene still remembered the conversation between us and Serena before going to Edenmere. She had gotten pointlessly excited once already after all.

"That's right, it's her!"

I nodded and took the chance to concisely explain what had happened here.

"The man lying on the ground is the owner of this bookstore, as well as our landlord..."

"I see. Although this Cyra isn't the holy angel, any angel that intends indecent acts against an angel, such behavior is still unforgivable in the eyes of our True Church!"

After hearing my account, Selene glanced behind me and said.

"Since it's inconvenient for you to deal with him, just let us handle it!"

The surroundings finally quieted down again. Cyra had kicked tired and been pulled to sit on the bedside by Nicola. As for the landlord, he had curled up and fainted again.