Fake Princess
CHAPTER 95
While shouting, Devan jumped forward with a drawn sword. The monk jumped back, raising the staff to repel the attack. Devan did not attempt to attack the monk. Instead, Devan made a deceptive gesture to the side and poked the monk with his bare hands. The monk's wand split through the air as the man slumped to the side, but did not hit Devan. The monk hit the wall, and Devan followed him, pulling the stick with his sword. His wand fell to the floor with a clashing sound and landed near my feet, and I kicked him into the darkness.
The monk ducked on the wall but did not move, his eyes fixed on Devan's sword. “ I'm sorry,” Devan said, and hit the man's head with the handle of his sword. The monk's eyeballs snickered, and he fell unconscious.
“ Are you okay?” Devan asked after putting the sword into its sheath.
“ Yes,” I replied in a hoarse voice, my esophagus is dry. Benakku. We attacked a monk of the Nameless God…. The fortune-teller gave a false prophecy to the king and queen…. Had a monk heard something strange, enough to have him come to the cemetery to examine it, perhaps many other monks heard it as well …. The fortune teller conspired with Omar and Melani, but did not know which one…. We had to go before the monk woke up.
“ Amelia.” Devan has already grabbed my hand. “ Can you do something, a spell, to make him forget that we're the ones he found here?”
I realized my body was shaking, shaking like a small twig in the midst of a strong wind. However, I sighed deeply and tried to focus on Devan . “ Maybe,” I finally said. “ Paula, she's trying to teach me a spell to confuse. But I never managed to do it my— constantly made him forget everything we were doing, not just confusion.”
After nodding and handing Devan his paper and container, I crouched down before the monk and placed both my hands on either side of his head. I could feel the magic inside me like I had felt outside; it wanted to get out of me, running through me. But I can't just take it out like I did outside, or I can hurt the monk to the point of not being saved. So I concentrated, focusing my mind just to bring out a little magic from inside me.
You don't know why you came to this place, my inner self to the monk. You look around and find the shroud already open, but other than that there's nothing wrong. You're tired, so sit for a while and fall asleep.
I didn't know if the spell worked or not, but I ended up lowering both my hands as the pressure of the ever-peaking headache overshadowed the black dots. Whatever this monk says, the temple will not believe him; in the end one will realize that the key is forcibly unlocked. This monk might have noticed it when he got out of here. However, maybe that could give us time to leave, and hopefully our fake name will confuse anyone looking for the culprit.
I took the fortune teller's confession out of Devan's hand and rolled it again into a metal container. Then, while tucking it into my dress pocket, I said, “ Let's go from here ,”
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