Talina Is Loyal

"An exam? You daemons... Forget it, I shouldn't have asked." Kaiser Whitefang waved a hand, feeling that he had asked a stupid question on instinct.

"Yep, I was assigned here after passing an exam," Talina said as if it were only natural. "Our master wanted to give the lord a surprise, so he sent down us daemons who passed the humanities exam to lend a hand or something."

Wodhaus frowned. "To help with the 13th Black Crusade?"

"I don't know about that. Anyway, the Keeper of Secrets who assigned me just told me to keep an eye out for heretics and kill them."

The word "heretic" sounded extremely strange coming from a daemon's mouth. Suppressing his discomfort, Wodhaus continued, "What exactly counts as a heretic? Cultists?"

"More or less. There used to be a kid named Maletof in this regiment. The Blood God had fried his brain. If I hadn't discovered him early enough, this regiment would have become his long ago."

"Then why didn't you report it to the higher-ups of the Imperium?"

"Report it? To whom? An Inquisitor? He'd probably kill me first and investigate slowly afterward. That would be far too boring."

So his actions had nearly killed a loyal regiment commander? And a loyal Slaanesh daemon adjutant? Realizing this, Wodhaus felt even worse.

"Then where did this body come from? Did you devour this girl's soul?" Kaiser Whitefang asked, pointing at Talina's body.

Talina twisted her body. "This one? The original owner of this body was killed by her father the moment she was born. In Vostroyan culture, having a girl as the firstborn was considered unlucky. After all, their minds were filled with thoughts of offering their eldest sons to the Emperor for military service and such. So Talina's father tossed her into the backyard