Crushing Hell certainly had a lot to say.
"—Shut up!"
The words slipped out before she could stop them.
But Assassin Paraiso's body trembled uncontrollably, as if she had fallen into an ice cellar.
—It's happening again!
Again.
This feeling.
Crushing Hell had not spoken a single word from the very beginning.
Crushing Hell had remained beneath the railing the entire time, her mouth never once opening.
The voice she had just heard—it came from the curse.
The curse that boiled and burned whenever she faced Crushing Hell.
"What's wrong? I haven't said a single word, you know?"
Crushing Hell turned her head and looked at Assassin Paraiso with a smile.
"Even I can do nothing about that curse, Miss Assassin Paraiso."
"I don't know the slightest thing about what you see or hear, you know? After all—I haven't said a single word from the start."
"I never intended to bully you, you know."
—I know!
Assassin Paraiso gritted her teeth and glared furiously at Crushing Hell.
—I know all of it!
But even so—still!
Her soul was already filled with Karma, so why—
Closing her eyes and regulating her breathing for several dozen seconds, Assassin Paraiso finally calmed down.
". In the letter sent to the Matsudaira residence, I wrote only Princess Matsudaira's name."
"But I absolutely will not kill only the princess."
"Sacrifices. There must be more."
Having forced out those words through clenched teeth, Assassin Paraiso vanished from where she stood and departed.
Only Berserker remained in the entire hall, wearing a faint smile and saying nothing, a meaningful glint in her eyes.
"Please wait a moment. Lord Tajima-no-kami and Lady Kiyohime will be here shortly."
"Lady Kiyohime was very pleased to hear that you had come to visit. However..."
The female official serving in the castle