The Strongest Daughter-In-Law Of The Black Lion Family [EN]: Chapter 142

Black Lion Family’s Strongest Daughter-in-Law (142)

#142.

Hisscliffe’s words made both Ella and me serious.

I already knew the Sarban family head had secretly assigned spies. That’s why I shook them off after sensing their presence.

There were more?

“I didn’t sense anything at all.”

Did they add more spies?

“Shall I shake them off?”

As Ella tried to step forward, Hisscliffe stopped her.

“Who knows who they are for you to step up.”

“Then shall Chersea step up?”

“What I mean is…”

Hisscliffe frowned and trailed off. It was obvious he was worried Ella might get caught up in something dangerous.

On the other hand, Ella didn’t seem to care about being bait.

I could feel Hisscliffe taking extra care of Ella more than before.

Maybe it’s because his memories are gradually returning.

It seemed like the speed of recalling memories had increased even more after Ella provoked him.

‘Why am I stuck between a couple?’

It was already stressful enough that Jerakiel had been ignoring me lately. On top of that, those two were acting like that, which made me feel annoyed.

The first thing to do was to shake off those who were following me. I left the two still arguing and placed my hand on the floor.

At that moment, Jonathan opened the entrance as if he had been waiting.

It was a shortcut that Jonathan had been diligently digging since we came to Sarban territory.

Ella blinked when she saw this.

“Chersea?”

“Let’s move here.”

“But wouldn’t this make it easier for the opponent to counterattack…?”

“Don’t worry. If we get rid of the entrance, even the most skilled person won’t be able to follow us.”

“Is that even possible?”

Hisscliffe looked dumbfounded. Usually, if you block the entrance, the person inside would die from lack of oxygen.

But Jonathan wasn’t an ordinary mole; he was a Guardian [a being bound to protect their owner]. Until now, his abilities were limited, so he was just digging holes.

In fact, he was a much more versatile mole.

As the owner of the Guardian, I shrugged my shoulders.

“Ahem, this is all thanks to our Jonathan’s abilities.”

The good thing about me becoming an adult is that the Guardians’ ability restrictions have been lifted.

It was the same principle as how Tae-bi used my unawakened power to purify Zachari’s pheromone poison in the past.

The stronger the owner of the Guardian, the more limitless the Guardian’s abilities become.

Now that I’m an adult, the Guardian’s power is incomparably more stable than before, as long as there are no pheromone clashes.

“Let’s go.”

When I slipped into the hole and gestured, Ella and Hisscliffe entered the hole in turn. And before anyone could follow, the hole disappeared.

* * *

The moment Chersea’s group disappeared through the hole.

Those who were secretly following her were flustered.

“Where did they disappear to?”

We sensed they were here until just now, but they disappeared in an instant.

It was as if they had soared into the sky or sunk into the ground, leaving no trace.

‘Monitor their every move.’

These were a direct shadow group moving under the orders of the Butterfly Cult leader.

Originally, they were people who should have died because they had no pheromones, but they were given new life by the mercy of the cult leader.

Having been resurrected, they have no memory of the past and are only loyal to the cult leader.

At that time, Nahid, the leader, joined the shadows who were panicking. Nahid, who touched the floor, opened his mouth. A faint divine power was felt.

“It’s a Guardian.”

“I’m sorry. It seems like we’ve been found out.”

“What should we do?”

The shadows looked at Nahid. Chersea Zabis was a beastman that the cult leader was keeping a close eye on.

The target had never left Sarban Castle until now, but this was the first time she had gone out.

To lose such a target right in front of their eyes.

The Zabis group was stirring up the north, so they were not free to move. It was almost impossible to chase after them any further.

“Let’s go back for now.”

It was the moment Nahid ordered a retreat and turned around.

Suddenly, a shadow fell over them, and the neck of the person next to him was cut off.

“!”

Before they could be embarrassed by the sudden attack, the situation quickly became serious.

Nahid felt a sense of paralysis all over his body and felt a chill.

Before long, most of the shadows were unable to move.

Nahid rolled his still free eyeballs and looked to the side. Someone was standing there in the blink of an eye.

Black hair and golden eyes. Even the sharp murderous aura surrounding him.

“!”

Nahid recognized the opponent as Jerakiel Rune Zabis and trembled.

Jerakiel moved to the front of the frozen opponent and muttered.

“If I had known this would happen, I would have caught you like this from the beginning.”

“Well, if it were the young master as usual, he wouldn’t have dared to think of using Chersea as bait.”

“Hmph.”

Jerakiel lightly ignored Ivan’s words and grabbed Nahid’s chin. Even though he was close, there was no unpleasant pheromone smell at all.

“Is there no pheromone?”

A pheromone that even he, who is exclusive to other pheromones, could hardly detect.

An organization composed of beastmen specialized in tracking, as their existence itself is faint.

“Is that why it was difficult to track?”

At that time, Ivan was horrified by Jerakiel’s words.

“Eek? No pheromones? How are they alive? Usually, they would die before they even become adults. …Gasp! A, are they ghosts?”

“I can’t feel the scent of pheromones at all. It’s like they’re dead.”

“Heeek! Why do you keep saying scary things?”

Ivan shuddered and crossed his arms in an X shape and stepped back. Jerakiel, who looked at him with pity, gestured at the corpse lying on the floor.

“If you’re going to talk nonsense, clean up that corpse first.”

“You always make me clean up.”

“Then should I do it?”

“No, what I mean is… it’s difficult to handle it in the market, so please don’t kill them next time.”

“Why are you blaming me for those guys being weak, Ivan Kali?”

“Yes, yes, of course.”

Ivan pouted his lips and began searching the beheaded corpse.

Of course, Jerakiel these days doesn’t accept more than one verse, so he was just muttering silently with his mouth.

These days, Jerakiel was not in his right mind enough to guarantee the life of his aide, if anything happened.

Jerakiel stared intently at Nahid.

He only freed his eyeballs so that the opponent would not volunteer, so his eyes were very sharp. But strangely, it was a familiar face.

“Hmm, where have I seen him before.”

Jerakiel never forgot someone he had seen once. If he looked familiar, it meant he had encountered him once before.

It was when Jerakiel was seriously examining the other person’s features.

Ivan, who had checked the belongings from the corpse, said.

“Here is the Butterfly gang’s symbol. The color of the pattern is yellow, so it seems to be a low-level member.”

Zabis had not been in vain for the past three years.

He had already secured the Butterfly gang’s organization chart and was tracking the executives when he came to the north.

Their organization had a hierarchy that increased in the order of yellow, blue, orange, red, and black. Yellow was the lowest group, mainly informants in charge of collecting information.

Most of those caught by Zabis so far were also yellow.

It was always a failure to chase them down because they would just cut off the tail if they caught it.

Now that they were able to freely enter and leave the center of the north, it was time to catch something more than that.

“It looks like the guy you caught is the leader. Shall we check the symbol?”

Ivan approached Jerakiel and began searching Nahid’s frozen body.

At that time, Jerakiel smiled seductively.

“Ah, that’s right.”

Jerakiel muttered in a low voice, finally remembering where he had seen the man in front of him.

“Yes. I saw this guy in the picture that the white ferret was carrying around.”

At that very moment, Ivan shouted, holding up a blue badge from Nahid’s body.

“Oh, a big catch!”

The first blue badge after three years of tracking.