Back at the guild.
"A wendigo? This is not good."
"Thank lord! The princess and her knight are safe but there is nothing for us to do at this moment beside prepare for retreating"
"They better pay us well for the escorting"
At the table of the six, consists of Black Sheep members, the princess and Narva.
"How can you be sure that wendigo is her?" - Polwil glares
"That beast has the aura of her holiness. Do you think knight training is vain?" - Narva pants
"Another thing to note is that I can sense the trace of Red Desire around her. Someone or something had injected her." - the princess holds on her left eye
"Do you think… " - Tiary is hesitant
"Yes, that presence of that day. It was her holiness. Thankfully, she did not recognize you as suitable prey. That is why many had scouted and died. The wreckage was the first outburst place. We found the tag of the captain knight who had escorted her." - Narva shows the scratch marked tag
"So what is our job?" - Polwil sighs
"Get to the northeast" - the princess stands up - "Escort the people. Until the incident is over, I will be watching over."
"So be it. Whether it is man or devil. One day, I will crush them all." - Tiary suddenly has a twisted smile
"Is she alright in her head?" - Narva looks at Polwil.
"We can trust her and the other her. We accept your quest. Say, your highness, what is your plan to do?" - Polwil stares
"Fortify at the northeast town. We must call for reinforcements. This time, we shall call upon a group of high ranked adventurers. Dragon Lance." - the princess clenches her fist.
"But still, is there a way to cure her?" - Darvic raises his hand
"In common sense, it should be much easier to kill her than capture her alive. However, she is an important figure despite such horrendous transformation. There is a research for curing such things. We have samples of those wendigos in the past but yet, we haven't gotten any breakthrough. We know there are certain people who are immune" - the princess scratches her bandage on her wounded eye.
"Tell us then" - Mawra closes her book
"Those who have enough holy divine power. But in this case, she is only the daughter of the church, not a saintess. Her rank might be not high but she has an amount of holy power almost to a saintess or a saint. Secondly, this might sound really opposite. People who are already in madness. You cannot break a mind that is already broken. That is why I see Tiary as one of those immune. So you three, better on guard for who are suspicious. The Red Desire might not be easy to procure, it is very difficult. That is why they must choose the targets carefully, they might target me, my father, my knight. But right now, my mind was already broken by this scar. So it is useless to inject me." - the princess taps Narva.
"Can holy magic repel the effect before it takes over the host?" - Mawra glares
The princess looks at Mawra and smiles
"If the magic is strong enough to cleanse such evil. Or there are two other alternatives. Kill or drive one to the maddening state of no return" - The princess turns her back.