"Your Old Man Rom is fine for now. Now, be a good girl and hand over the item, otherwise I can't guarantee he'll remain fine later," Fujino said with a smile, lightly tapping her finger to release the restraint on Felt's body.
With her mobility restored, Felt hurriedly pulled the witchs stone she had stolen from Emilia out of her bosom and tossed it directly to her. She then looked at Fujino and asked, "Is it okay now?"
Fujino smiled and nodded, stepping aside to make way behind her.
Seeing this, Felt quickly ran toward the loot cellar where a hole had been smashed. However, as Felt ran past Fujino, a dark shadow lunged rapidly toward her.
"Fujino!"
Seeing the dark shadow attacking Felt, Emilia hurriedly shouted a warning.
Armament Haki instantly covered her fist as Fujino swung it out with an unmatched gale. The dark shadow was hindered by the strong wind and its body stiffened, revealing its form.
It was a woman with a beautiful face wearing rather revealing clothes, holding a pair of curved daggers that emitted a cold, glinting light.
The Elsa Granhiert—a notorious mercenary who enjoyed using daggers to slice open her targets' bellies just to admire their intestines. A complete pervert.
Not only that, the Elsa Granhiert was also Felt's employer. She was the one who had hired Felt to steal Emilia's witchs stone. However, Felt clearly didn't know the item she stole was the witchs stone; she thought it was just an ordinary badge. If she had known the target was the witchs stone from the start, Felt would never have dared to take the job.
Fujino's fist had already reached the Elsa Granhiert's face. Suppressed by the gale brought by the punch, the Elsa Granhiert couldn't move at all and could only watch as the fist, radiating a terrifying aura, drew closer and closer to her head.
Poof!
There was no scene of flesh and blood exploding. Since Emilia was still present, Fujino naturally wouldn't let such a bloody scene occur.
However, having taken a full punch from Fujino—even if it was less than a thousandth of her power—under Fujino's control, it completely pulverized everything inside the Elsa Granhiert's body.
Such technique in controlling force could be described as reaching the absolute peak.
The Elsa Granhiert, whose bones had vanished, collapsed softly onto the ground like a sponge, her entire body caving in due to the lack of skeletal support.
"What a weakling!"
Fujino waved her hand, dispersing the Armament Haki. Although the Elsa Granhiert had some vampire blood and could resurrect, it was useless against Fujino's absolute power. She was killed so thoroughly by that one punch that she couldn't be any deader.
Then Fujino looked at Felt, who was shivering beside her due to the Elsa Granhiert's sudden attack.
Felt now recognized the Elsa Granhiert as her employer, and it was obvious her employer had just tried to kill her. Having lived in the slums for many years, Felt knew quite a bit about the darkness of the world. It was clear her employer wanted to silence her! Obviously, the item she was hired to steal was extremely unusual; otherwise, why would so many terrifying people show up one after another?
"It seems you've realized it too," Fujino said, looking at Felt. "The thing she wanted you to steal is the witchs stone. I don't think I need to tell you what the witchs stone is, and Emilia is the one acknowledged by it."
"What!" Felt was shocked to hear that the item she stole was actually the witchs stone. She knew what it was—the proof of a Dragon Carrier! That was the pass to participate in the Lugnica Royal Selection!
She had actually stolen something so important. Once the knights of Lugnica found out, the consequences for her were unimaginable.
"Alright, now that you know, make sure to investigate your tasks thoroughly in the future, or you won't even know how you died," Fujino said, turning around to walk toward Emilia.
At that moment, Felt's voice, as faint as a mosquito, came from behind:
"Thank you."
Fujino simply smiled and waved her hand with her back to Felt, signaling her to leave quickly.
Felt nodded behind her, then hurriedly stepped over the Elsa Granhiert's corpse and ran toward the loot cellar.
"Fujino, is she dead?"
Looking at the approaching Fujino, Emilia asked timidly.
"That's right," Fujino nodded. "Lia, don't worry about it. You should know that person was the notorious Elsa Granhiert. Her death is a blessing for humanity."
In Fujino's eyes, Emilia was good in every way, except she was too kind. However, Fujino didn't hate it; at least Emilia wasn't a total 'holy mother' yet. She could slowly help train Emilia out of it later.
"She was actually the Elsa Granhiert!" Emilia had heard of the Elsa Granhiert's name. Hearing that the person lying dead on the ground was actually her, Emilia was surprised. But she was even more surprised that Fujino had easily dealt with the notorious Elsa Granhiert with just one punch.
"By the way, Lia, I found something interesting. Do you want to take a look?" Fujino looked at Emilia with a meaningful gaze.
"Something interesting? What is it?" Emilia's curiosity was piqued by Fujino.
"Lia, you don't know, do you? Why Felt wanted to steal your witchs stone," Fujino smiled slightly at Emilia's confused look. "It's the Elsa Granhiert."
"The Elsa Granhiert? Fujino, what's going on?" Emilia frowned and asked hurriedly.
"The Elsa Granhiert hired Felt to steal your witchs stone, Lia. Felt didn't know the item she was stealing was the witchs stone at first, otherwise she wouldn't have targeted you. But the reason the Elsa Granhiert hired Felt to move against you is because the Elsa Granhiert accepted a commission from someone else."
"There's another person?" Hearing this, Emilia became a bit confused. She originally just wanted to find her lost item, but she didn't expect so many complicated things to be behind this matter.
"Lia, do you want to know? This might have a huge impact on your future."
Fujino looked at Emilia quietly, waiting for her answer.
The mastermind behind this was that pervert Roswaal. And that pervert Roswaal was currently Emilia's supporter. Once Emilia knew the Elsa Granhiert was hired by Roswaal, she would realize that everything she had encountered—except for Fujino, the interloper—was within the plan of that pervert Roswaal.
Once Emilia learned the truth, a huge rift was destined to form between her and that pervert Roswaal. Especially Puck, who would surely strike at Roswaal directly for his 'daughter' Emilia. After all, although Roswaal acted as Emilia's supporter, everything he did was merely to exploit her. It had been that way from the beginning, and there were many subsequent plans that even threatened Emilia's life.
So Fujino was waiting, waiting for Emilia's answer. This would be an important choice in Emilia's life.
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