Chapter 1029
The Perfect and Elegant Maid
Miss Hawkins’ forehead was instantly covered in cold sweat – at some point, three bladeless knives had silently appeared in the shadows before her.
Just one moment, and those three daggers would have pierced her eyeballs!
Miss Hawkins naturally recognized them.
—These were the throwing knives used by the assassins of Eagle Eye!
Normally, they flew out of nowhere and directly pierced her or her colleagues’ bodies… this was her first time seeing a throwing knife that wasn’t thrown. Fortunately, she had dodged in time…
But as she thought of this, Miss Hawkins’ body suddenly stiffened.
Had she…
…really dodged?
She felt the area behind her had suddenly become exceptionally quiet.
There was an enemy, yet there was no movement at all…
Realizing this, Hawkins felt sweat pouring down her back.
She didn’t dare to look back.
But the more she thought about it, the more she feared, the more she was curious.
Finally, after an unknown period of silence… Hawkins couldn’t help but look back.
—Just a single glance.
She felt her blood almost freeze—
Her former companions were now torn apart and evenly distributed.
They were intertwined. Their bodies, now slender to about one square centimeter… their height had also reduced from one meter seventy or eighty to one centimeter.
—When exactly were they killed?
Miss Hawkins’ teeth chattered, and sweat ran down her back.
—Just a few seconds ago, hadn’t they just completed the barrier?
Why were they all dead in an instant?
“We need to leave someone alive – ask everything that needs to be asked first, Miss Hawkins.”
Mimicking the words of “Lord Zeller,” Lily said slowly.
A maid in a black and white maid dress, with her eyes closed, exuding a gentle and serene aura, gradually emerged from the shadows.
Her right hand was clenched into a fist, with three handleless blades held between her fingers.
“Surrender.”
Lily slightly opened her eyes and gazed at Hawkins. “If you surrender, you can live.”
“I… I surrender! I surrender!”
A disheveled Hawkins cried out without hesitation.
Her voice was almost a wail, showing none of the cruelty and arrogance she had displayed towards Zula earlier.
But at that moment… grey spider silk condensed in the four corners of the room’s ceiling and suddenly sprang out, suspending Hawkins!
“Speak,” Lily’s voice was cold and chilling, “What did you come here to do?”
“We… we came on the orders of the Count!”
The black-haired Child of the Moon girl, suspended in the air, did not hesitate to betray her master.
“What did you come here to do? Which Count?”
Lily’s voice held a hint of displeasure. “Don’t make me ask sentence by sentence.”
“It’s Count Rogers! Lord Dio de Rogers…”
This Miss Hawkins, a Child of the Moon, spilled everything like a bamboo tube pouring out beans: “Lord Zeller… I mean, Elan Zeller was tracking a key that allowed one’s physical body to enter dreams. Later, that key was taken by the phantom thief Arsen.
“This afternoon, after Elan Zeller reported to the Count, the Count ordered us to come and take the key… preferably to make Phantom Thief Arsen get lost in the Dream Realm. To achieve this, one only needed to kill the dreamer’s main body. If he lost his beacon to return to the Material Realm, he couldn’t stay in the Dream Realm for long.”
“In other words,” Lily repeated, “you hoped to kill Miss Mia, so that Arsen, who entered the Dream Realm through the Key of Entering Dreams, would get lost or even die. Am I correct?”
“…Y-yes, that’s right…”
Miss Hawkins was very uneasy. “I, I’ve told you everything… I’ve already surrendered, Master! We can talk things through…”
From her obedient appearance, one couldn’t see that a minute ago she was clamoring to skin Zula.
But in the next moment, Hawkins’ eyes widened.
Lily lightly touched the air in front of her as if playing a piano, and her body gradually felt a sense of separation.
“W-wait… My Lady… Please… I told you everything… I told you everything… You promised…”
Hawkins spoke incoherently, her voice trembling and desperate. But there was not the slightest hint of elegance or composure to be seen.
“Ah.”
Lily said leisurely, “I lied to you – you deserve to die.”
In the next moment, Hawkins’ body was cut into pieces by countless shadowy threads.
Under the adhesion of the grey spider web, they sprayed out in all directions like a fountain, exploding. However, these small pieces of flesh were perfectly preserved into ruby-like blocks, attached to the spider webs, with only a small amount of blood seeping onto the ground. It looked like a melted portion of red ice.
“All right, you are safe now, Miss Zula.”
Lily looked at Zula, who was cowering under a blanket, her voice calm and gentle.
She bowed slightly to Zula, like a maid greeting a guest. But her face showed no humility from a servant, only charming composure and confidence. “It’s best not to have any admiration for these monsters; they are merely a pack of man-eating beasts.”
“Miss…”
“My name is Lily.”
“Miss Lily…”
Zula hesitated for a moment, then pulled her blanket tighter and said seriously and politely, “Thank you. I will keep your words in mind… I will no longer be deceived by the Children of the Moon…”
This was from the bottom of her heart.
Ever since she had witnessed the depravity and madness of these Children of the Moon… and saw how ugly they looked before they died, Zula suddenly felt that becoming a Child of the Moon was not that great. What she had once ardently pursued now seemed mediocre… leaving her feeling empty.
“Don’t think too much about it; I was just protecting my young master.”
Lily’s tone was gentle yet somewhat distant, but even so, every word she replied was extremely serious. “You don’t need to live for anyone. You just need to live for yourself – that’s how my young master educated me.”
“—Really?”
Eivass’s voice, full of laughter, came from the inner room. “I don’t recall saying that.
“However, I’m very glad… you’ve really grown a lot, Lily.”
In the next moment, Eivass and Arsen pushed open the door.
Seeing Eivass return safely, Lily’s face immediately brightened, and her eyes became even more radiant.
But Sherlock was nowhere to be seen in the room.
Had they failed, or…
Lily scanned the room and then looked at Eivass.
“—We succeeded.”
Eivass replied simply, “But Sherlock’s soul isn’t here – he’s returned to his own body. We need to make an urgent trip to Duke Vendome’s Mansion, and we might not be back for a day or two. There isn’t much time left, so I’ll try to resolve everything within two days.
“We’ll take the key with us, but there might be some ill-informed individuals who will continue to come here. Lily, you stay here and protect the two ladies – and these dolls we brought back. Be careful not to damage them. We’ll contact you through Little Crow anytime; if you need anything, just call me.”
“Understood.”
Lily nodded and gave a brief reply. “I’ll stay here and kill anyone who comes.”
In her words, there was the beastly killing intent, sheathed but still sharp.
The once timid and insecure maid had now gradually become elegant and confident.
And Arsen, who had been like a comic relief character in the Dream Realm, quickly stepped forward to comfort the crying Zula. He looked calm and reliable now, and soon lulled Zula to sleep.
After wiping away the tears of his little lover, Arsen quietly held her and returned her to her room to sleep.
When Arsen came out again, there was still a hint of worry on his face… Clearly, he regretted the trouble he had caused with this matter.
If not for Eivass’s help, he might have really gotten lost in the Dream Realm. His two lovers might have died because of his reckless actions… Even so, he couldn’t have saved Sherlock.
Fortunately, Eivass was here.
“Let’s hurry and rescue Sherlock,”
Thinking of this, Arsen said softly to Eivass, “Delay will lead to trouble… It would be bad if he were trapped in the Dream Realm again. Then we might have to search all over again…”
“He won’t,” Eivass replied leisurely, “Duke Vendome won’t do that.
“—Because I’ve already arrived at the Iris Flower. He’d better not.”
(End of Chapter)
