The Found Little Girl (Super Large Chapter, Please Vote)

The Found Little Girl (super large chapter, Please Vote)

Bright radiance spread evenly across the magnificent cathedral hall.

Creak--

The enormous, heavy Stone Gate was slowly pushed open. Amid the dazzling radiance spilling through the widening crack, a lean man emerged from the light and appeared in the hall flooded with brilliance.

He wore a white robe embroidered with golden patterns and round frame glasses with gold rims. A kind, gentle smile rested on his lips.

Soft footsteps echoed through the empty hall. The man slowly walked down the broad aisle between two rows of wooden pews, following the bright path cast by the light through the doorway until he reached the hazy glow shining at the very back of the hall.

The man slowly bent down and gently pulled open the door of the wooden cabinet beneath the hazy radiance.

"Found you, little cutie."

The trembling figure of the Little Girl, covered in vivid red, and the white Paper Butterfly with its wings folded passed through the pitch-black space, reflected in the round frame glasses gleaming faintly.

Creak--

The heavy Stone Gate suddenly slammed shut.

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Inside the silent storage cabinet, He Ao watched as the Smile Mask Man slowly approached the Secondary Bedroom door.

"Die, you lowly heretic!"

The instant he reached the doorway, a figure clutching a sharp curved blade burst out from behind the door and slashed at the Smile Mask Man like a phantom.

Judging from the brief burst of power he displayed, he was a strength-type C-rank no weaker than the Long Hair Man He Ao had encountered before.

And at the exact instant he leaped out, the Smile Mask Man turned his head and looked at him.

The entire world seemed to freeze at that moment.

Pfft--

It sounded as though a sharp