An hour has passed as Will and Tara sat at home. Raye and Al were also sitting at the cushion though they had an irritated expression plastered on their face. Their minds were filled with the thoughts about the masked man who deceived Tara into chanting black magic. The sick mother wasn't there since she was finally emitted into the hospital and Amethia went with her to accompany her and help with registration. Suddenly, the door busted opened and Amethia was anxious.
"Are you guys alright? I heard that someone performed black magic an hour ago,"
Everyone sat in silence, still thinking about the masked man except for Tara who her head faced down as if she was depressed.
"Good grief, I'm glad that you guys are alright, Tara, what's wrong?"
Suddenly, a knock sounded at the door. Amethia went to answer it as Tara shook in fear. Raye noticed and lean in closer to Tara, shielding her from anything that is about to happen. Amethia opened the door to found a man well suited in a priest outfit, wearing black robes and a hat. Few guards stood behind the high priest as Amethia asked who were they.
"How may I help you?"
"We came here on regard of the latest incident that happened an hour ago,"
"You mean the one where someone performed black magic?"
"Yes, now would you excuse us, we need to enter your house for there is someone we suspect that was involved with the incident,"
The high priest and the guards then barged in without the consent of Amethia and headed where everyone is. Tara hid behind Raye as Raye moved his right hand to shield Tara.
"Greetings, I am Caelus Rivondre, and I'm here regarding of the incident that just happened an hour ago, we have our prime suspect in this house of yours,"
The high priest, Caelus Rivondre looked towards Tara who was just peeking from behind to then fully hid behind Raye.
"Little miss, don't mind if I ask you a few questions do you?"
Tara still holding onto Raye's hand slowly nodded and let go off Raye's hand and places her right hand on her thigh and her left hand grabbed a part of her right hand. The high priest sat at the opposite of Tara and Raye while others stood.
"Now then, were you present during the incident?"
Tara's eyes turned to Will who was standing beside the coffee table. He nodded softly while no one was looking at him.
"Y-yes,"
"..., did you saw anyone who were part who caused the incident?"
"N-no..."
"...,Then, were you the one who caused it?"
Tara's face instantly darkened upon hearing those cold words. She locked eyes with that calm, dead expression priest who was just waiting for Tara's response.
"Hey hey, how could you accused her just like that? Maybe it was the SUN Cult who caused it,"
Al interrupted their conversation who was then blocked by the guards. The high priest calmly raises his hand to signal the guards to stand back and reply Al.
"We had sent guards to research around the area and given the reports of the past few days and now, there were no sights of the SUN Cult anywhere,"
Caelus held up a stack of reports about sighting of the SUN Cult and all were negatives.
"Don't believe me? You can see it yourself,"
Caelus said it with a smirk and continued waiting for Tara's response.
"What's your answer?"
Will stand forward and retaliate with a question.
"What made you suspect that is her? It could be anyone but yet you suspect her?"
"We have proof,"
The high priest then took out an artifact from his pocket and place it on the table. It is a small, golden with ruby on it, shaped of a compact mirror artifact.
"We all know that those who practice black magic even just once will have their blood corrupted by it,"
The high priest then pointed at the artifact and explained it to them.
"This is a holy relic blessed by the gods to test if one have been corrupted by black magic, a drop of blood will determined it,"
The high priest then opened the holy relic and drip his blood into the film right below.
"It will turn blue if we weren't affected by the corruption of black magic and turn red if we were to,"
Will's face darkened as soon as he hear the high priest that they were going to test through blood. The film on the relic turned blue, revealing that the high priest isn't corrupted by black magic.
"Though at the scene, we found a blood and run a test, which it turned red,"
The high priest then took out a tube with blood in it and pour a drop into the holy relic. Slowly, the film on the relic turned red.
Tara's left hand grip tighten but she show signs of injury.
"What's wrong, you coincidentally have an injury?"
Al quickly ran towards Tara and tries to heal her but got stopped by the high priest.
"Tara, why didn't you tell us you had an injury,"
"Don't heal her, we are running a test right now,"
Al hesitated but reluctantly listened to the high priest.
"Now then, little miss, we didn't suspect you without proof, we had witnesses who said that they saw a little elven girl running trough the alleyway and flew out with a man,"
The high priest looked towards Will as soon as he mentioned 'a man'. Will replied with a cold gaze but the high priest just ignored him and kept looking at Tara.
"Our primary suspects are the both of you, though you are our first, since there aren't any elves in this city except for this house,"
"Now then, would you please, do drop your blood on the holy relic to prove your innocence,"
The high priest tilted his head and pushed the holy relic to Tara. Tara hesitated but decided to do as she was told. The film on the relic slowly turned into red, surprising the little elf's sister.
"That's not possible, Tara would never..."
Amethia covered her face because she was so flabbergasted by the situation. Tears started welling at her eyes and rolls down.
"We got our suspect, sorry little miss, you will need to come with us for further understanding on the situation,"
Will suddenly stepped forward and rebuked them.
"She's not going,"
"We all know that she was the one who caused the commotion, or were you part of this too, Will Beuratt?"
Raye reactively placed his right hand on his sword but didn't draw it out.
"..."
"No, big bro has got nothing to do with this! He was there to simply save me from the situation!"
Tara stood up and protected Will from also being taken into custody.
"He saved me from the bad guy, if he wasn't there I would have been deceived by that man!"
"Who's that man you're speaking?"
"Uh...a masked man wearing a funny outfit..."
"..., please little miss, hope you oblige with us for our questioning later on,"
Tara looked down but agreed to go with down. In the end, Tara was taken away from them.
Amethia dropped onto the ground sobbing. Will looked at the carriage being driven away.
"What now...?"
"We'll get her,"
"H-how?"
Amethia looked upward at Will who had a cold expression from the start. Will bends down and reaches out his hand to Amethia. Amethia grabbed it and climbed up. Will releases his hand and looked at them and said:
"By framing me,"