The Lady was still agonizing over whether she should pursue the truth to the very end.
Perhaps she already had the answer in her heart, and she was merely trying to convince her rational self.
At the same time, she was waiting for her two main assistants to gather at this location.
It was somewhat strange… Although the four of them were weaker in overall strength, they had been there for a long time.
However, the duo of Amisa and Arthur had yet to arrive.
Ileya did not know what those two had encountered, and she was starting to feel subconsciously worried.
But… there was no need to wait now.
She had just received news from Holly. That girl had actually tried to be a hero and went out alone to face the so-called Evil Cult.
Ileya really did not know where Holly got her confidence from.
Despite her complaints, Ileya did not hesitate to follow the Ratman to check on the situation.
She hoped she would still be in time…
However, when they finally reached the location and summoned Insmouth and a group of Skeleton Soldiers to clear the debris from the collapse, Ileya’s face could not help but darken.
The cave passage was currently covered in bloodstains. The thick crimson on the ground indicated that a quite bloody battle had just taken place here.
She just did not know if this blood belonged to the enemy or to their own Miss Holy Sword Bearer.
“Holly!” Ileya shouted toward the passage in front of her.
Earlier, the little Mouse Person named Palin, who had remained here, had explained the situation.
It seemed that Holly had been ambushed after she went in. There were sounds at first, but then everything went silent…
Whether it was the enemies or Holly, there was no sound at all.
Because of what had just happened, Palin had been clutching his mouth in a panic, not daring to make a sound despite his worry.
Therefore, he did not know what happened afterward.
“Holly!!”
With Insmouth guarding her side, Ileya called out once more into the dark passage ahead and slowly stepped forward…
“L… Lady! Is that you?!” Just as the Lady’s heart was beginning to sink, a nervous voice drifted from ahead.
That was Holly’s voice! However, it sounded a bit strange right now…
Ileya did not let down her guard. She simply frowned and stared into the darkness.
“What are you doing? Come out here!”
“Huh? Um… it’s a bit inconvenient right now. Lady, can you… come over here?”
Holly’s voice… even if Ileya might have misheard, she felt it sounded slightly bashful.
The Lady raised her eyebrows slightly. After thinking for 2 seconds, she did not go over herself.
Instead, she sent a Skeleton Soldier into the darkness ahead.
Sharing the vision of this weak Undead, Ileya finally saw the situation in the darkness.
On the ground directly ahead lay two… no, it should be one corpse.
However, this corpse had been sliced in two vertically, and the cut was neat and smooth.
It was likely the work of Holly’s Holy Sword.
‘Could it be… that the cult members who attacked Holly weren’t Transcendents?’
Ileya raised her brow slightly and controlled the Skeleton Soldier to continue its exploration.
“H… here! Lady!”
As the sound of footsteps approached, a small hand reached out from behind a large rock in the cave.
In the next second, a small head peeked out.
“Lady… I… huh?!”
Holly, who was originally happy that reinforcements had arrived, was startled by the Skeleton standing nearby and staring straight at her!
But she soon realized that this was likely a scout sent by the Lady.
Seeing Holly’s current state, Ileya subconsciously opened her mouth in surprise.
Now she completely understood why this girl was hiding behind a rock.
Her skin, which wasn’t particularly fair, showed a healthy wheat-colored tan.
However… if one looked closely, they would realize the wheat color was merely a “disguise,” because the girl’s neck, armpits, and inner thighs… all showed the fair skin a young girl should have.
So, that wheat color was less of a natural skin tone and more like tan lines from the sun.
As she looked at the dazed Skeleton, Holly had no idea that the person watching through the Skeleton’s eyes was currently admiring her still somewhat underdeveloped body.
If she grew for another 3 or 4 years, this Miss Holy Sword Bearer would likely reach the peak of her youthful state.
But still…
“I didn’t think… you had this kind of hobby,” Ileya teased with a hint of laughter in her voice.
“Eh?” Hearing the Lady’s words, Holly’s face instantly turned bright red!
“It… it’s not! It’s not what you see!!”
The girl’s long legs instinctively pressed together, and her hands once again covered her “secrets”!
Though there wasn’t much to see anyway.
“It was the enemy… their ability was too… too much of that! I don’t know what happened… and it just ended up like this!”
Listening to the girl’s instinctive complaints, Ileya’s main body slowly walked past the Skeleton and reached the Miss Holy Sword Bearer behind the rock.
A faint smile played on her face as she looked down at the girl.
“Uh? L… Lady?”
‘Could you… not look at me like that… Ugh! Appearing completely naked in front of someone!! I want to die! I just want to die!’
“It looks like… it was a hard-fought battle?”
Seeing Holly’s cheeks turn completely red and white steam seemingly rising from her head, Ileya smiled as if she had achieved her goal and untied her hooded cloak.
“A hard-fought battle… I wouldn’t say that…”
‘Even though I killed the opponent instantly, they managed to strip all my clothes off…’
How could she say something like that out loud?
“Oh?”
Holly’s reaction was quite interesting… ahem, not just because of her naked state.
Rather, did she think it wasn’t a hard-fought battle?
There were two possibilities.
Either the enemy was truly weak, only at the level of a mountain bandit lackey.
Or… the enemy was extremely countered by the Miss Holy Sword Bearer and couldn’t even put up a fight.
This still needed to be verified.
But for now… looking at the blushing girl staring at her piteously.
An unfriendly smile appeared on Ileya’s face.
“We’re both girls, what are you so shy about?”
Saying this with a smile, the Lady draped her cloak over Holly’s shoulders and took the opportunity to pinch the girl’s crimson cheek.
“Um… th… thank you, Lady…”
The girl lowered her head and bit her lip, her heart collapsing as she thought…
‘In this situation, wouldn’t it be more abnormal not to be shy??’
However—if the level of suggestiveness just now was only at 80%…
Now… wearing only a cloak with her small feet turned inward from embarrassment, while glimpses of beauty could be seen through the gaps in the fabric…
It had to be said, it probably reached 120%!
‘Hmm… I arrived a bit too early. If I had left her for a bit longer… her reaction might have been even more…’
Ahem.
“Not bad.” The wicked woman patted the pure girl’s shoulder, smiling with deep meaning.
Holly did not seem to understand the subtext of those words.
She simply felt that the Lady was expressing approval of her battle results!
“Mm! I… I will keep working hard!”
Holly was quite happy about this approval.
It proved that her hard work and the training she had undergone were not in vain!
She was one step closer… to her revenge!