Although it is a bit shabby, this heroic spirit is super strong

"Sister, please pay attention to your appearance. You're drooling."

"Eh?! Rose, you bastard."

Lucy frantically wiped the corner of her mouth, but found nothing.

"Hehe, sister is still so easy to fool."

Lucy felt a little annoyed by Rose's evil smile, so she bumped into her lightly with her body.

Instead, Rose took advantage of the situation and took Lucy's arm.

"Mature onee-sama, you wouldn't mind my little joke, would you?"

After hearing this, Lucy couldn't refute anything.

"Hey, you guy. Come on, let's catch up with Sister Crystal and the others."

Lucy saw Crystal and Sera walking away, and quickly pulled Rose to follow them.

"Here, some for both of you."

"Thank you, Sister Crystal."

Lucy happily took the skewers that Crystal handed over, but Rose was slightly stunned.

"This is delicious, Sister Rose."

Sera thought Rose didn't like skewers, so she tried hard to recommend them to her.

"What's wrong Rose?"

"No, I just felt something strange. Maybe it was just my imagination."

Rose took the skewers handed to her by Crystal and rubbed Sera's head to show that she didn't hate the skewers.

"Do you need to find a place to rest?"

Lucy was very worried when she saw that her sister's expression did not ease.

"I'm fine. Oh, Brother Xiao, that guy didn't even say he'd come to accompany us."

"Well, the celebration feels half as fun now that guy's gone."

Crystal felt very sorry.

When she was studying in the imperial capital, she was often shown affection by her older classmates at the empire's New Year celebrations.

I clearly thought that this time I could also experience the sweetness between celebrations and lovers...

Crystal suddenly looked at Lucy and the others beside her and realized that she probably wouldn't be able to experience that feeling anymore.

"Any questions?"

"without…"

"what!"

Just as Crystal was awkwardly avoiding Lucy's gaze, a scream was heard from the noisy crowd.

The crowd, confused about the situation, immediately fell into chaos after a brief silence.

Crystal and the others surrounded Sera to prevent her from being pushed.

"Be careful, there seems to be a monster in the city."

Rose warned the others with a complicated look.

"Warcraft? But just now..."

Lucy also noticed the unpleasant smell and was very confused.

"I don't quite understand what's going on, but let's get out of here first."

"But even so... Sera, close your eyes!"

Crystal saw something flying from the sky and immediately covered Sera's eyes.

"Eh?"

A corpse with only the upper body left was thrown into the air and landed near Crystal and the others.

"Tsk! These guys."

The people around became even more panicked and tried desperately to escape from the corpse.

Now it is difficult for Crystal and the others to leave the scene.

"What should we do? Should we fly away from here now?"

"No, I won't. Once I get up there, I'll become a target for that thing."

Lucy looked at the vine-like thing that suddenly appeared not far away and rejected Crystal's suggestion.

"Woo, ah, ah!"

"What happened this time?"

Suddenly, a girl in the crowd around Lucy and the others screamed in pain, holding her abdomen.

As the girl fell to the ground, several vines with sharp barbs emerged from her body and began to attack passers-by.

"This kind of thing is really bad taste."

Lucy stood in front of the three people and drew her dagger for self-defense.

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"Tsk, what the hell are these things?"

Lucy cut off the attacking vines one by one, complaining about the amazing regenerative ability of these ghost things.

"I'm ready, Lucy, get out of the way."

Crystal reached out her hand towards the corpse in the center of the vines, and flames immediately spurted out, turning the corpse into ashes.

These vines are so tenacious that ordinary fire magic cannot even cause any damage.

"Tsk! How many people have become like this?"

Seeing more vines rising into the sky in the distance, Lucy was very angry.

"I don't know... I hope Rose and Sera are okay."

Crystal and Lucy asked Rose to take Sera to shelter first.

Although Sera was also very powerful, no one wanted her to witness the miserable deaths of these unfortunate citizens.

"Lucy, be careful."

A group of soldiers emerged from the alleys in the street and surrounded the two men.

"What do you mean, Guardsman, why are you surrounding us instead of dealing with those monsters?"

Lucy knew that they had ill intentions, and questioned the leading guard angrily.

"You actually called Master Tianshu's apostle a monster! You will be punished by heaven, little girl!"

A weird middle-aged man came out from the ranks of soldiers, pointing at Lucy and cursing.

"Ms. Crystal, the Brave Lord has ordered you to assist in the investigation."

"Even if you're a hero, you shouldn't have the power to force ordinary citizens to assist in an investigation, right?"

Crystal signaled Lucy not to act rashly and to negotiate with the other party cautiously.

The captain of the guard looked at the middle-aged man beside him.

"Mr. Tianshu Cult's agent, please excuse me."

The captain of the guards said this coldly without any respect.

"It's the Pope! I'm the same as your Pope Sant'Tess, an agent of God!"

Although this statement made the captain of the guard, a member of the Santates religion, very angry.

However, due to the occasion and the brave man behind the Pope, he did not attack directly.

"Sir, please hurry up. If the hero gets anxious, I won't explain for you."

"Tsk! So you, the followers of the Santetes religion..."

While complaining, he took out an exquisite black box.

"Great Heavenly Tree, please forgive my disrespectful behavior in bringing back a part of the evil Flame Demon to the world."

Speaking in a very Riddler-like manner, he opened the box.

Inside was a very beautiful red feather.

When the box was fully opened, the feather immediately floated towards Crystal as if being pulled.

"What's happening here?"

"Sure enough, this girl is the Flame Demon's follower!"

The Pope watched the feathers float towards Crystal and immediately pointed at her and shouted.

At some point, a group of people in civilian clothes came from all directions.

Crystal speculated that they were most likely followers of the Heavenly Tree Cult.

"What do you mean? What flaming demon?"

"Ms. Crystal, we suspect you are directly involved in the crisis in Pierre-El. Please come with us."

Chapter 66 Nakamura's Trick

"What do you mean by take a trip? She's a devil's minion, why not just kill her directly!"

Suddenly someone started to make a noise and the crowd immediately fell into chaos.

"Tsk, that bastard Nakamura actually played this trick on me."

Crystal realized that she had fallen completely into Nakamura's trap.

If they escaped or clashed with these soldiers at this moment, Nakamura would definitely accuse himself and Akatsuki of a bunch of false charges.

Even if it was a false accusation, with the reputation of a hero as a backing, Crystal and the others probably had no way to clear themselves.

Although Crystal didn't mind being on the run with Akatsuki, that might cause trouble for Lucy and the others.

“These guys…”

The crowd burst into unbearable abuse against Crystal, which made Lucy very annoyed.

"Lucy, I'll create an opportunity for you later, so you leave first."

Crystal ordered softly.

"But…"

"Silence! Do any of you intend to go against the decision of the Brave One?"

The commotion of the crowd made the leader of the guards somewhat unhappy, and he loudly questioned the crowd that was making trouble.

"Mr. Tianshu Cult's agent, please don't do anything unnecessary."

He looked at the Pope coldly and warned him.

"I, I didn't do anything. These are the inner wishes of the believers."

"Ms. Crystal, please..."

The leader of the guards decided to ignore the Pope who avoided his sight and quickly completed his task.

He was interrupted by the sudden appearance of thick smoke.

"Come on."

"Sister Crystal, be careful."

"Miss Crystal, what do you mean?"

When the smoke cleared, the captain of the guards looked warily at Crystal who was still standing there.

"It's nothing serious, but isn't that bastard Nakamura looking for me? Please lead the way."