Auriel was staying alone in his room and he was looking at the door that Clint stormed off.
He didn't expect that Clint was really a good, caring brother. He just thought that Clint would be a little warmer to him because, in all of the lives that he watched and narrated, nobles were benefit-oriented maniacs who didn't care about siblinghood or something like that.
So, seeing Clint, who was angry and panicked after seeing that the brother he loves so much lost his memory, was strange for Auriel.
Although it felt weird for Auriel, he was actually happy about this situation, because as of right now he knew that he could now use Clint, who was currently a Grandmaster and a Transcendent in the future.
Auriel thought that it was an easy job to make Clint warm to him more than the original Auriel, as the original Auriel was an unlikable piece of shit.
But there was a slight worry in him that he couldn't deceive Clint as he thought so.
However, before continuing to this train of thought, 3 people entered the room.
One of them was Clint who had towered over the other 2 people with his height of about 6'2.
One of the other 2 people was a woman with long blonde hair, big yellow eyes, average but cute face. She was about 5'4 and was wearing a silky black robe that dragged on the floor with all of her steps.
And the last one was an attractive young woman with shoulder-length white hair, sharp dark red eyes, shapely brows, a small nose, and rosy lips. She was taller than the blonde woman but smaller than Clint as she was about 5'9. She was wearing a tough blackish-red uniform with black pants, boots, and lastly a black cape, which was hanging over her shoulders to her thighs.
Then this woman took a glance at Auriel and turned her head with contempt as if she was looking at trash.
But Auriel didn't think too much about this as he knew that this young woman was Celeste Weaver, the adopted sister of Auriel and someone who had been probably harassed by the original Auriel.
Though Auriel didn't know the complete identity of the blonde woman. He knew that this blonde woman, who was in a black robe, was a priestess of Afterlife Church. The Afterlife Church worships the God of Afterlife was the main religion of the Macien kingdom.
That is why, he turned to Clint for the answer to his question and looked at him with a confused expression.
However, Clint didn't give the answer Auriel wanted, and slightly pushed the blonde woman from her back.
After that, this blonde woman came to Auriel's side with slow steps and touched his forehead with her pale index finger.
The tip of her index finger let out a white light that gave Auriel a tingling sensation in his body. He assumed that this blonde priestess was searching through his body with her ability.
But something weird happened, the tingling sensation disappeared from Auriel. An immediate second later, the blonde priestess coughed blood and dropped onto her knees. She got into a coughing fit, as blood dripped from her lips.
Cough cough!
Clint looked at the blonde priestess for a second and shook his head.
Celeste's reaction was also the same as Clint's as she shook her head after seeing the dying priestess. After that she glanced at Auriel for a second and an unknown glint momentarily shined on her red eyes, then they widened for a second and returned to normal.
Celeste poked Clint's waist with her elbow and pointed at Auriel with a small head movement.
"His ability is too malicious. It is better to not touch it for the time being and wait." She said calmly. Her voice was soft and sweet in contrast to her tough looks and sharp gaze.
Clint hesitated for a moment but eventually nodded his head and got out of the room, leaving Auriel alone with Celeste.
Auriel wasn't worried or scared that Celeste would kill him because he knew that Celeste wouldn't try to kill him like this, and even if she did, he still wouldn't be scared as he lived with Gods for 40 years under the threat of eternal suffering, and dying by the hands of a beautiful woman was better than eternal suffering in the hands of that bored deities.
"You…" Celeste let out but didn't continue her sentence and went to Auriel's side.
Then she pressed her forehead onto Auriel's and looked into his eyes.
After that, she lifted her face and pressed her index finger onto the middle of his brows.
"Do you not remember me? Or else are you just playing around to save your sorry ass from me?"
Celeste's cold mockery reached Auriel but it wasn't enough to scare him or break his pride to stop acting.
"What are you talking about, beautiful lady? I don't even know who I am, why would I remember you?" Auriel asked with a confused expression as he pushed the finger of Celeste from his head. Then Auriel added with a smooth tone and smile.
"But I am sure that I would be happy to know a gorgeous woman like you."
Slap!
However, this smooth-talking didn't work and he received a powerful slap that turned his head 90 degrees to the right.
"You are still same. Disgusting bastard!"
After saying this, Celeste stormed out of the room without looking her back, leaving Auriel alone with the corpse of the blonde priestess.
Auriel knew that his relationship with Celeste was bad from Daisy. However, he wanted to take Celeste on his side for the future because she was going to be a Grandmaster in the future. Hence, he thought that he could warm her up to himself like this, but in the end, he just received a slap on the cheek.
Anyway,
'How did she even die?' Auriel thought while looking at the corpse.
He didn't know if this priestess died because of his malicious ability and powers or because of something different.
But he didn't care too much about it as he needed to do too many things and there was no time to ponder about this.