I left the sacred cathedral after having a chat with Clifth
He had brought me up to date with my best friend's life, he had given me a confidential book and also...
He made me promise to take care of his wife in all the ways that entails...
shit...I hadn't planned a talk like that but Clith trusts me to do it, the truth is I never thought he would be the one to bring up the topic...
The mere idea makes me very uncomfortable....
"I guess Elinalise is now too, huh?" I murmured as I left the sacred cathedral towards its exterior gardens.
hmmm now I'm unintentionally creating a harem...
My younger self would have gotten anxious at the mere idea, but now I realize that having more than one partner is one of the most complicated and tedious things, but it's okay as long as there's love, right?
hah...who am I kidding...the idea of a harem still excites me even though I practically already have one...
I passed through the middle of the gardens, they are the most beautiful gardens I have ever seen in my entire life, I won't lie, but now I just wanted to return home.
I touched a part of my tunic, it felt hard.
the book was hidden there
It is not very big but it is just as big and thick as a dictionary
It seems to be more of a diary than anything else, I want to get home and read it.
..
I left the sacred cathedral and took out the golden flute that Orsted lent me when I decided to return.
I played the flute and as always no sound came out, I waited a few seconds and Almanfi appeared in front of me.
"You played it out of tune," he told me dryly.
sorry?
"How will I know if it doesn't make a sound?" I asked, looking at it.
He didn't answer anything and gave me the golden bar and disappeared at the same moment.
"Idiot, what's your problem..." I muttered.
I looked to the sides and I could see some deacons and civilians who looked at me in amazement.
Shortly afterward I felt the already pleasant sensation of being teleported and in the blink of an eye I appeared in the Chaos Breaker.
To my surprise my wives and my brat daughter were there waiting for me with Orsted, but they all had tense expressions.
"Did something happen?" I asked worried.
-Paul just contacted us and...someone broke into the house- Roxy said.
..
We quickly return home using the teleportation circles
Orsted accompanied us just in case, I saw the house in the distance, at first glance it didn't seem like anything was out of place but for some reason Paul called us...
As we approached the house, Paul came out of it and approached us.
-Grandparents...it's good that you are here- he said.
"Eh? Don't you say hello to your aunt? How rude," Lara said in a playful tone.
Paul rolled his eyes at Lara and shook his head.
-Aunt...I think this is not the time for jokes...-Paul murmured.
-hmmmp, I'll just let you go because of the situation- Lara said with a pout as we walked to the house.
At first glance nothing seemed out of the ordinary, the Bit tree seemed intact but was now leafless due to the winter, he greeted us and opened the door like a doorman.
We entered the house and there was nothing strange...
We went into the living room and...
-Anne?!, what happened here?!- Sylphie said in shock as she ran towards the now destroyed automata.
our robot maid now lay on the ground, decapitated, broken in half and missing an arm...
"Who could have done this..." Roxy murmured, analyzing the destroyed pieces.
Nananhoshi just watched the scene in silence.
The truth is, seeing something identical to you in that state shouldn't be very exciting.
Orsted and Lara had unreadable expressions on their faces.
I decided to approach the now destroyed Anne and analyze the damage
start with the head first
the neck has a very precise cut
I went to the torso and the arm, all of these had similutes, precise cuts...
"These are sword cuts," I said.
Sylphie and Roxy looked at me in shock and then looked at the cuts.
-b-but how is it possible? Anne had the strength equivalent to a saint rank swordsman- Sylphie said
Wow...I didn't think our maid robot was so strong...
"So...this was done by a swordsman of advanced rank or saint, not just any thief...and it seems that he fixed everything before leaving...but what did he take?" I murmured.
After saying this we decided to search the entire house for missing things.
After hours of searching we didn't notice anything out of the ordinary, but I felt chills when I saw all the rooms in disarray.
It seems that this thief searched the entire house before fighting with Anne and leaving.
But then why didn't he take anything?
Perhaps he was a masked avenger with the sole objective of ending all the Annes and the motto
"a good Anne is a dead Anne"....
But joking aside, what would be the goal if it's not money or possessions?
I went out to the patio of the house and noticed some stone protuberances in two areas of the patio.
They were no more than 30 cm high and were almost entirely covered by snow.
From their circular shape I deduced that they were stone pillars
one was located to reach the window of Lara's room and another was attached to the fence of the house.
It seems that that's where I escaped...
It seems that our thief is a wizard knight huh?...
I informed my wives and Orsted of my discoveries.
We couldn't have a clear idea about what had happened.
but we had ideas
someone powerful who entered my house looking for something more important than money...
Suddenly something clicked in my head...
I immediately looked at Orsted with open eyes and he looked back at me with a raised eyebrow.
but it didn't take me long to understand
"Are you sure?" he told me.
"Yes, there is no other explanation, right?" I responded with a grimace of a smile.
"What do you mean, Rudy?" Sylphie asked.
-I mean he could have been an apostle of Hitogami, there is no other explanation, a swordsman of holy rank?, who does not steal anything, who enters this house knowing that it is backed by two world powers?, or who did this? very stupid or is he blinded by false trust towards Hitogami- I said seriously
Sylphie and Roxy looked at me seriously and then nodded.
-So...that means that Hitogami already knows that you came back...-Roxy murmured..
The atmosphere in the room became heavy.
"So it seems..." I murmured.
"So it was an apostle I was looking for?" Sylphie asked.
look at Orsted at this
He started to think for a few moments
-The protection of the house, he should have sent one of his apostles to destroy the protection of the house- Orsted said as he entered the house.
We followed him to the front yard and he stopped in front of it looking up at the ceiling pointing to a place.
-Rudeus, near the window of your room is a symbol of the dragon race, please check if it is broken-Orsted said
I rose through the air with gravity magic until I reached the symbol
This thing has a size of about 50 cm
but now it seemed superimposed...
I took it and looked at the symbol.
On the outside she looked normal but looking at her on the inside...
was destroyed
What appeared to be a magic circle was now split in half by a stab from a sword.
I went down quickly and gave it to Orsted.
-hmmm, this was definitely the work of a Hitogami apostle- Orsted said seriously.
"And what are we going to do now?" I asked with some panic.
-The same thing we have been doing all these days, but now we will be more cautious- Orsted said with a smile.
"And don't worry about the protection, I will create a more sophisticated one, invisible to the eye," Orsted added.
From now on we will have to increase our level of caution to a higher level and discover who the apostle could be....
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