One Against A Thousand

"That's what happened. I escaped from that place and went into hiding, but they kept on coming. I decided to distance myself from others. Then..." Sinclair paused for a while and looked at the child beside her before continuing.

"During that specific night, while I was busy shaking away those assailants of mine, a trail made of strange light appeared in front of me. I ignored it at first, but it wouldn't disappear from my sight wherever I went. So I followed it; this led me to a secluded place, and it happened that it was this child's secret playground," she said.

"That path of light, that's what Sherise's doing if I'm not mistaken," Zeno uttered upon hearing the woman's statement.

"Sherise? Do you mean the Deity of Kindness?" Sinclair replied, surprised.

The demon nodded at her and looked at the woman lying beneath a tree.

"Then what about her?" He asked.