Volume 4 Chapter 42 Epilogue： The Worst Sign (I)
The day after killing Dominic and saving Saria.
Rai, dressed in black armor, headed to the Holy Church headquarters after being summoned by Saint Stella.
Of course, the "short vacation" that Curtis had mentioned was canceled.
In the end, due to some fighting along the way, it turned into a very short vacation of just one and a half days.
Well, Rai himself felt he had rested enough.
But from my perspective, he was definitely a workaholic.
No, to be precise, it might be more like a revenge addict.
"Excuse me."
As Rai said this, he stepped into the familiar garden.
He muttered to himself that it had been since the incident with Adachi Haruka that he had come here.
"Hello, 'My Rai'."
In this place he hadn't visited in a while, Saint Stella was waiting for him, looking just as she always did, like a re-showing of a movie.
Her elegant figure, relaxing at a tea table, felt eerie, mixing the danger of recent missions with her own mysteriousness.
"What do you need?"
After bowing to Saint Stella and sitting down, Rai quickly got to the point.
He was cautious not to let her take control of the conversation.
Saint Stella, noticing he hadn't touched the tea served to him, continued without mentioning it, unlike last time.
"Thank you for your hard work yesterday. I'm sorry for interrupting your day off."
Rai barely swallowed the words, "Which mouth says that?"
She had helped him while fully understanding his actions, yet her reaction felt too insincere.
At this point, it felt more like a performance than just insincerity.
"Will your broken arm take long to heal?"
"No."
When asked about his injury, he moved his arm lightly.
Surprisingly, it didn't feel worse despite what he had done yesterday.
"Actually, it seems like I'll be fine in about 2 weeks."
──Normally, a broken bone takes more than 2 months to heal.
But, in this case, Rai himself is not lying.
He recently realized something: this body heals *unusually fast*.
Come to think of he, he remember when he was injured during a mission with Rize, he recovered quickly and got back to the front lines.
"*I knew it*! You're truly 'my Rai'!"
Saint Stella clapped her hands lightly, beaming with a big smile.
"If it's just for 2 weeks, that's just right."
──Just right for a one-way trip.
Somehow, he started to see the main point of today's discussion.
"I have a new job for 'my Rai.'"
Rai received a new mission.
Because it was directly from her, not from Curtis, Rai braced himself and sat up straight in his chair.
"I need you to go as reinforcements to the trading city."
The trading city and reinforcements.
Hearing that made Rai recall something.
Before the trading city, he and Noah had been assigned a mission to go to Count Eltor's territory while 3 Purge Knights went to a different mission at the same time.
The 3 Purge Knights were the second-ranked Belta di Zeguel, the third-ranked Alfonso Gladstone, and the 8h-ranked Rize Howell.
Normally, sending so many people would be overkill, but they're sending Rai as extra reinforcements?
Did Saint Stella notice Rai's puzzled expression even through his helmet?
She chuckled and picked up her teacup. After taking a sip of tea to wet her mouth, she said to Rai:
"Rize is already──*well, you know, not good*──so I need you to go as a replacement."
"──Huh?"
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