"I need to know what happened in the Levinstone Kingdom… if what you said was true, then that means the temples are doing some dangerous thing to the townspeople…"

Evelyn looked up and she slowly closed her eyes and mumbled.

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"I'm not sure what method they're using but they might have been sacrificing some people to attain an artificial source of black mana."

Gil, Chrisfold, Bern, Alisha and Cathy become speechless and look at each other like their eyes are talking with each other while Evelyn's eyes are closed.

Evelyn thought about something else.

'I only want to avenge my mother but what is with this nationwide calamity scale?! What is the Temple planning to do?!' She thought and pinched the bridge of her nose.

She sighed and opened her eyes and looked at everyone in the room.

"Now, there's something that I need you guys to do after we came back to the mansion… I also need to talk to my father and Edickart. I can't hide something this big from them, beside this is their jurisdiction. I only want to avenge my mother and get to know where her soul is."

That's right. Evelyn simply thinks about what she can do, amidst that, the circumstances won't let her be and she will be pulled into the chaos that will strike the kingdom.

***

The next day, as usual, Evelyn saluted to Silvester as she walked inside his room. However before that Evelyn nodded a little to the priest that was outside waiting for the Crown Prince of the Perspiru Kingdom.

She tilted her head a little when she was inside the room.

'Why is a priest here so early in the morning? He also has some holy knights with him…' she thought.

Walking inside the minimalist guest room where Silvester was staying, Evelyn marched and stopped in front of him.

"I assume that everything's alright?"

"Yes. your highness…" Evelyn replied and Silvester continued to watch his cousin thinking about why she's suddenly formally speaking to him.

"There's a priest outside waiting for you, your highness…." Sir George informed him.

"I see… that's why." He glanced at her who was leaning against the white wall.

Evelyn smiled.

There is no barrier inside the room of Silvester that can seal the sound of their voices and minimize the noise that the outsiders can hear.

That was why Evelyn formally greeted him. She didn't want the priest to hear that a female knight is being intimate with a higher noble such as the Crown Prince.

"Is it time for a tour inside the temple?" Silvester asked.

"Yes, your highness…" Sir George replied.

Silvester looked at Evelyn and she nodded. Her nod means that she will be with him during the tour. Well, Evelyn was already prepared, she tucked in the necklace with an emerald hue jewel inside her pocket.

She will use it as means of communication to the elementals and as well as make them spy for her.

"Let us go…" Silvester beckoning to Evelyn and Sir George.

While he passed on Evelyn's ear, he whispered.

"Don't do anything for today… the temple seems to be watching us more than yesterday."

"Alright…"

They decided to refrain and watched first. Evelyn knew that Cassandra's enchantment spell would work, what she's not sure is what the temple will do in the days that are left in their stay.

"Your highness, did you have a good night of sleep?" The priest asked.

Silvester saw the two holy knights beside the priest. He glanced at them before he gave his signature businesslike smile.

"Is this the famous holy knight of the Temple of Light?"

The Knights nod as a sign of respect and the Priest was the one to answer Silvester's question as he stepped aside to let the knights shine while he introduced them to him.

"Yes they are, your highness… This is the proud holy knights of our temple. They keep us safe from the monster invasion as well as represent our Light."

Silvester tried hard not to raise his brow against what the Priest said. He only gave the businesslike smile to humor them.

"It's an honor to see them personally. However, why are they here? Is there something wrong?"

"Oh no your highness… there isn't something wrong. They are mainly here to escort us." The Priest gave a benign smile but evidently there is a sweat forming in his forehead.

"Is that so…? That would be an honour for me… well then, shall we?"

Silvester decided to let the temple do what they want. He needs to know if his assumptions that they are being monitored and that there was something that the temple was trying to hide from them are correct.

The priest begins to talk about the temple of light's life teaching while they tour the place and walk around.

He teaches them about the culture of the temple, the rules, as well as the gods that they are serving. Of course, Silvester has known about it as he already has the information about them.

Nonetheless, Silvester let him be, because he was observing the patrolling guards that were circling around the facility of the temple.

They take a break in the promising garden of the temple of Light where the white roses scattered around the area.

Evelyn and Sir George stand a meter away from the pavilion. When the priest of the temple and Silvester sat, she immediately poured a very small amount of her mana to the necklace.

The priest left as he was called that he said was something important for him to do.

'What's more important than accompanying a Crown Prince?' Evelyn thought

She then whispered.

"Listen… and follow him..."

The elementals that heard her small almost non-existent voice, knew what she was trying to request from them.

They quickly replied.

"Leave it to me!"

"Easy peasy!"

"I'll listen to your request and learn some human gossip…"

"Mana!!! Food!!!"

Evelyn tried hard not to block her ears by the cheerful voices of the elementals.. After a while, Elise came with her white robe that swept the green grass of the garden.

The chirping of the birds, the swaying of the white roses as the cold air hits them, the petals that come off from it that made a certain background befitting the crowned Saintess of the Levinstone Kingdom.

Her pure white dress seems to represent Elise herself as she was the current holy saint. The pink hair that was leisurely tied and braided in her back with decorated small white asters clinging to some strands made her look like a descended goddess.

Evelyn watches her slowly walk to where Silvester is. She remembered what her cousin told her with a scowl on his face.

"Well, the "woman" was making moves…"

Evelyn, dressed as the female knight Adelyn wants to know what kind of moves she was doing that can make a dent on her cousin's armored expressions.

"It's been a while, Sil…"

Silvester gave a businesslike smile, masking his irritation to the way she calls him.

"Saint Elise… may the Light shine upon you…" Silvester just greeted her with formality.

"You're still stiff, Sil… just casually act around me just like before when we were in the Academy…" Elise said as she sat and took the cup of tea that the temple trainees gave to her.

Silvester didn't even look at her and just sternly replied. "I can't do that, your holiness…"

Evelyn, who was hearing this first hand, tried hard to maintain her poker face, though her face was covered with her mask, she was amused by how Elise was trying hard to be close to her cousin.

"Remember that time when you helped me when one of Lady Evelyn's supporters pushed me and I slipped to the fountain. You were so gallant, reaching your hand to help me…"

Evelyn's chestnut eyes budged, still her eyes weren't directly looking at Elise's back and she was staring into space. She shut her eyes gently.

'Something like that happened? Oh… right, one of the events in the nobel of "A Happy Ending" and since when do I have supporters in the noble society?'

Evelyn waited for Silvester's reply.

"I can't remember such things…"

With his charming and businesslike smile, Silvester replied. However, Elise was thick skinned and told another old memory.

"Then, do you recall that time when I ran into you because I was running away from Lady Evelyn's lackeys? You unexpectedly held me tight and helped me get away from them" she said with a cheer while she blushed.

'Wow…' Evelyn exclaimed internally. She then glanced at Sir George where his eyes were reflecting his amusement to Elise's story.

"I told you, Saint. I don't remember such things… I have selective memories. Besides, if what you said is true, then I must have done it to every woman that was in the same situation as you…"

"Really…? Still, I can't believe that Lady Evelyn will do such a thing to me…"

"Pardon?" Silvester was baffled as to why Elise was bringing Evelyn's name when she already got what she wanted and became the Crown Princess of Crown Prince Edickart.