Don’t Be Holy! - Chapter 155

“Damn it. This isn’t the time for me to be like this.”

Chrome writhed to check if the spell binding him had loosened.

To explain how he ended up tied like this, one couldn’t leave out his family history, but to mention just the most decisive factor, it could be said that the matter with Eir had been discovered.

After parting with Eir, while persistently trying to contact her again, he was suddenly captured by other witches. Perhaps his tail was too long to avoid being caught, or maybe his mother Freidis had been paying more attention to him than he thought.

She had thrown him away once before, yet now she had even assigned people to observe his every move.

‘Did you think I wouldn’t know about your sinister intentions to keep Hecate’s spell all to yourself! How dare you pretend to cooperate with my work while stabbing me in the back so treacherously! And to do this to me, Freidis of all people!’

Freidis said this while slapping Chrome’s face after his capture. Chrome was dumbfounded. It seemed she had completely forgotten the fact that Chrome himself had brought all this information to her in the first place.

If he hadn’t had connections with Hecate, how could the Alphadem side, which had exiled her, have learned that Hecate was creating such a spell?

But this place was like that.

A place where anything could be sacrificed for the greater cause. When someone’s life was often sacrificed, arguing about the source of information seemed rather meaningless.

And now, Chrome wasn’t bitter because “it should be mine” either. He was genuinely worried about Eir.

Chrome had tried to extract the spell while Eir was still alive, but the other witches wouldn’t do the same because.

‘Anyway, there’s no way to extract the spell once it’s inside that woman.’

When Chrome said this, Freidis snorted and replied.

‘Once she’s dead, the magic circle inside her body will rise up anyway.’

‘If you do that, you won’t get the complete spell.’

‘If I can just see what the magic circle looks like, I can quickly recreate it. If Hecate made it, there’s no way I can’t make it too.’

With that, she ordered the witches to kill the woman as soon as they caught her.

Whenever his dark powers returned, Chrome sent warning letters to Eir. He considered using that power to escape instead, but he feared that foolish woman might get caught and have her head chopped off before he arrived, so he chose to send letters instead.

No matter what ceremony Rubel Shinote was holding, she would surely stay somewhere safe if her life was in danger.

But what was this uneasy feeling? Chrome noticed the ringing in his ears again and realized it was time to be submerged in the water. He tightly closed his eyes and held his breath.

As he was slowly being lowered toward the water’s surface, he heard someone hurriedly running. She was rushing forward with her center of gravity shifted forward as if about to fall, when she suddenly grabbed the dark rope suspended in the air.

The very rope that stretched at set intervals to dunk Chrome into the water.

But it seemed too difficult for a woman to support a man’s body with just her two arms, as she let out a groaning sound from the effort.

“Ugh.”

Who is it?

Chrome tried to identify the woman helping him through his blurry vision as water streamed down his face. She was a witch with a plain appearance and no distinctive features.

She didn’t seem to have any connection to Chrome.

“Something terrible has happened!”

The woman, struggling to hold him up, spoke first.

“What is it?”

“Uldir has been captured! By the priests!”

Only then did Chrome recognize the woman. She was someone he occasionally saw when visiting Uldir.

Only after seeing her did he realize that Uldir had friends other than himself.

Uldir was a witch specializing in mental distortion who often carried out missions with Chrome. The pairing of Chrome, who could change his appearance at will, and a mental distortion witch was effective at confusing people, but there was actually a bigger reason.

Uldir had helped Chrome when he was abused as a child, and knowing Chrome’s emotional weakness toward Uldir, Freidis had deliberately paired them together.

Of course, it wasn’t because they got along well. When telling Chrome that he would be paired with Uldir, Freidis made one thing clear.

‘If you kill Uldir, I’ll acknowledge that you’ve become a true witch.’