strokinit Chapter 577 Punishment
Chapter 577 Punishment
Chapter 577 (Revised from the previous chapter) Punishment
the second time?
The Fool's abrupt statement startled Audrey, the Justice.
As an extraordinary being using the "spectator" pathway, she quickly composed herself and began to observe everyone's reactions, and then speculate.
Hmm, Mr. Fool said this while looking at Ms. Hermit, and Ms. Hermit seems a bit off. Ever since she stepped into the gray fog, she's been acting like she's afraid of something. Wait, could she have offended Mr. Fool again?
Audrey suddenly remembered that when the Hermit first attended a Tarot gathering, Temperance discovered he was spying on them with his special eyes, and as a result, he was punished. If that was considered the first time, was Mr. Fool trying to say that the Hermit...
Has the woman overstepped her bounds once again?
With this guess in mind, she looked at the figure with purple eyes at the same time.
The Hermit's figure tensed, stiffened for a few seconds, and then slowly relaxed. It wasn't the relaxation that came from relief, but rather the acceptance that came from having already prepared for the worst and seeing things actually develop this way.
"Mr. Fool discovered it, He really did discover it..."
After the initial shock, the already worried [Hermit] Cattleya suddenly calmed down. She had guessed that she would be discovered for leaking information about the Fool, but she hadn't expected it to happen so quickly.
"I wonder how Mr. Fool will punish me. Will I die? Or something worse than death...?"
In that instant, the melancholic and profound face of the "Mysterious Queen" Bernadette seemed to flash before her eyes. The woman she considered her mother in her heart had been trapped by Roselle's affair her entire life. Now, she had the possibility of helping the Queen resolve this problem, and although she knew the danger was immense, she secretly revealed it to her.
"never mind."
Cattleya sighed inwardly, "She raised me; consider this repaying her with my life..."
This, this is...
[Justice] Audrey was surprised, interpreting the [Hermit's] behavior—she seemed fearful, but already prepared to face whatever came her way... Who could it be that made the [Hermit] willing to offend a god without regret?
The inner monologues of the two women, though complex, actually lasted only a few seconds. The other members of the Tarot Club also heard the Fool's words; the Hanged Man and Temperance had some guesses, while the Magician, the Moon, and others clearly didn't understand.
"Mr. Fool, what are you saying to Ms. [The Hermit]?"
"The Sun," Derrick said, puzzled. He was probably the one who understood the situation the least.
Klein glanced discreetly at Audrey, who was still in a state of surprise and showed no intention of explaining. He had no choice but to speak himself, chuckling, "The Hermit has done something inappropriate again. She leaked information about the Tarot Society to Bernadette, the owner of the 'Dawn'."
There was a moment of silence above the gray fog, after which everyone reacted in different ways.
The owner of the "Dawn"...the Mysterious Queen! Heh, you really are the "Admiral of the Stars." It seems the rumors of discord between you and the "Mysterious Queen" were completely fabricated...
"The Hanged Man," Alger thought, half satisfied with solving the puzzle and half with schadenfreude. He leaned back in his chair, intending to watch how the other man would struggle.
Emlyn felt a similar sentiment, thinking that the Hermit was truly overestimating herself. The Fool was an equal to their vampire progenitor, yet she dared to try to deceive him.
"The Hermit Lady actually did such a thing... It's outrageous! But, for the sake of the Mysterious Queen," was it really worth taking such a huge risk...?
Audrey thought to herself, feeling both angry and somewhat confused.
Among this group, the most surprised should be [Temperance] Luze.
At this point, he finally understood why the Queen had told him to help the "Star Admiral" before she left.
The "Mysterious Queen" Bernadette knows about my connection to the "Fool" because the "Hermit" revealed information... Her true identity is "Admiral of the Stars," Cattleya! The Queen begged me to help her and spare her life, not because she was worried I would attack her if we met at sea, but because she was afraid Mr. Fool would unleash his wrath on her!
Having figured all this out, Lu Ze was utterly speechless.
Bernadette thinks too highly of me, asking me to plead with a true god on her behalf?
Do I really have that much influence?!
As everyone's emotions surged with complex feelings, Klein maintained his inscrutable demeanor, turned his gaze to Cattleya, and slowly asked, "Is there anything else to explain?"
Cattleya took a deep breath.
"I'm very sorry, Mr. Fool."
She said, with an almost resigned composure, "I just asked her for the potion recipe for Sequence 3 of the Mystic Path. But deep down, I knew that it might lead her to deduce some things, so I brought it up myself."
"I admit it was my mistake, and I will not complain no matter how you punish me."
[The Hermit] Gadriya did not offer any explanation for her actions, but simply stated what she had done and why she had done it. Then she bowed her head to the high-ranking being at the head of the long table, adopting a posture of letting the other party do as they pleased.
For a moment, the atmosphere above the gray fog seemed to freeze.
Behind the long table, Klein thought for a moment, then held up a finger toward Cattleya.
"boom!"
The originally calm and soothing gray mist suddenly became extremely violent in an instant, sweeping in from under everyone's feet, enveloping Cattleya's body, and suppressing her heavily.
"Bang!"
Cattleya heard the sound of her eardrums exploding. Countless noisy, overlapping, and hysterical words came from the gray fog, constantly flooding her mind and bringing her intense mental torment.
At this moment, her pain was beyond measure.
This feeling is a hundred times more terrifying than the knowledge imparted by the "Hidden Sage"!
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[The Hermit] Gadriya couldn't even make a sound; she just lay on the long table, convulsing violently. Her pain was so real that it was reflected in the eyes of everyone present through her blurry figure.
—Klein has successfully advanced in the sea of the God War Relics, becoming a Sequence 5 "Puppet Master". His control over the gray fog has increased even further, and he can now easily apply contamination in this way.
Around the long table, the other members all saw the current state of [Hermit] Gadriya. No one made a sound. The only sound was the rustling of her clothes as she struggled, which echoed faintly and continuously above the gray mist.