"What? The curse of Oath?" Evelyn mumbled then Gab asked.

"Then, how about the other one? Is he alive?"

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"The one that attacked Evelyn? He got bruises and his bones are wrecked but in total he's fine." Chrisfold answered with a sharp look on his eyes.

"So, he's still breathing?" Evelyn asked.

"Yes…"

"Then, let's go. Lead me to where the dead assassin is" She said.

Evelyn and Gab looked at each other before they left the room and went to the basement where the assassins were imprisoned.

The underground basement was one of the features of the house that Evelyn decided to buy. It was because the family that live here before have a torture room that they use for entertainment. And right now, Evelyn and her company decided to use it to get information from the assassins.

The cold wet floors and the stench of blood lingers in the air as Evelyn, Gab, and Chrisfold take each step towards the confinement.

The assassins were assigned in different prisons in the underground basement where a minimum of five rooms that were used as jail can be found here.

"It's here" Chrisfold said.

They stopped at one of the rooms that has iron bars where the inside is dark and the sound of their footsteps was the only one that could be heard.

"Eve, I think you shouldn't see this…" Gab said as he pulled her hand when Evelyn was about to walk in the prison cell.

"It's fine, I needed to confirm something."

Evelyn went inside without letting Gab pull her again. Chrisfold followed as well as Gab. Gab mumbled a spell and a fire was lit under his palm.

"Thank you…" Evelyn said and she crouched down when he saw the dead body of one of the assassins who sneak in at the ground floor and was beaten up by Chrisfold.

She looked at the body that was still wrapped in black, just like what you would expect in an assassins outfit. Evelyn wondered if there's anything that can lead them to the culprit. Even though she has the idea who it might be.

"Did you find out anything before he died?" Evelyn questioned.

The assassin's mask was thrown off and his face was exposed to them. A light brown hair with a scar on his cheek and a mole under his eyes. His eyes were opened as well as his mouth. He was also clutching his chest like he was clinging for air.

"He died from the curse of oath, you say?" She continued to ask.

"We didn't get to have any information from him… I beat him up enough for him to surrender however the moment that he was about to speak up the curse swallowed him and he was clutching his chest… like he was having a heart attack."

Gab also crouched down to observe the body and saw a black mark under a round ear in a shape of a skull.

"I see… so they were really under the curse of oath." Gab mumbled.

The curse of oath was something that was used during the first war of the five kingdoms that happened hundred of years ago. It was the humans who used it as a countermeasure when one of them held captive.

It was so that no information could be leaked from the enemy and when they do decide to betray their master then their life will cease to exist.

At that time of war, it was a defense and a sign of loyalty to their nations and master, however right now it is restricted to only a handful of people who have the highest position in a Kingdom.

"We can limit the people that we can consider the mastermind behind it… but what do you think, Eve?" Gab asked.

"I think I know who it is…"

"Is it the one that I was thinking, Eve?" Chrisfold asked.

Evelyn stood up to look at Gab before she turned her head to Chrisfold.

"Well, she's one of the people who have a grudge against me" She answered.

Chrisfold nodded and stepped aside for Evelyn to walk out of the prison cell. Gab also stood up and followed the two.

"What do you mean? Who is she?" Gab asked.

"Where's the other one?" Evelyn ignored Gab's question.

'He will know it when we see the other assassin.' she thought.

One of the prison cell creaks and the iron door opened and a man walked out from it. The grey hair that was tied in a ponytail swayed in the dark lit hall and his sharp smokey grey eyes met them.

"You're here…"

Evelyn gulped down in nervousness. She never saw Gil in this light where his warm gaze became cold and sharp like a dangerous beast.

"Let's go inside." she said as Evelyn avoided his sharp observing eye.

A man tied inside the cell and his battered face was what welcomed them. He looks young but because of the purple bruised and dried blood in his face, they can't really say that he was young.

"Oh…" Chrisfold exclaimed as his brows went up high.

"I never expected this…" he continued.

No one expected the nice Gil to be this violent, especially Evelyn who has been by his side ever since she remembered her past life.

"Let's wake him up. Everyone step back first..." Evelyn strictly cut her thoughts and snapped her fingers.

A big ball of water gathered up in the air and Chrisfold, Gil, and Gab stepped back. Another snapped of her fingers was heard and a couple of fireballs were created into the thin air to light up the dark room.

A swing of Evelyn's finger and the water that was gathered up splashed with a sound and left the assassin wet and cold. He also woke up and saw the people that gathered up inside.

When he saw the silhouette of the man with grey hair, his whole body shivered.

'What the hell did Gil do to make a grown man shiver this much' Evelyn thought.

She then started to approach the assassin.

"Eve…" Gil strictly called him.

"Don't worry too much seriously…!" she replied and stopped in front of the assassin who was looking at her with shock.

"What? You saw my face earlier, right."

The assassin avoided her chestnut eyes.

"Why not take a look at me… I knew your master's orders."

The man didn't heed what she said and still his eyes were looking somewhere else.

"Is this really an assassin? I mean how can the temple hire someone like this?"

The man twitched and slowly looked at Evelyn. He saw the sunset pair of eyes looking at him and the chestnut hair that slowly became black and the tip was silver-blue.

"What the- how can you…"

The assassin was shocked. He never thought something like changing hair color was possible… especially that hair color was something that is unique to their origins.

And the hair color of the woman in front of him was more rarer than what she used to have.

"That hair color- that… Emsworth… Gasp!"

"Seriously, you really are a curious one huh…" Evelyn replied to the stuttering man.

"Tell me… the order was from the Saint, right? Elise said to kill the one who looks like the dead Lady Evelyn, am I right?"

The assassin shivered at her words that didn't even have the hint of hesitation. Like she was sure that it was the Saint who did order them.

"I don't know what you're talking about."

"That's not the answer that I would like to hear." She smiled.

However, the smile looks evil and cold for the assassin who witnesses it. 

Chrisfold, Gab, and Gil were silently listening to Evelyn's ramblings of the suspects name.

"You can't fool me… She's the only one who would rushly do something so stupid as this." Evelyn said.

Chrisfold, Gab, and Gil's sharp eyes glowed behind Evelyn's back and it sent shivers to the assassin who were tied up to feel a murderous aura solely focused on him.

Evelyn continued to interrogate the assassin who likely made up his mind to not speak. She chuckled.

"You know even if you didn't tell me it's fine… I know what she really intended to do. I'm sure that you were just pawns for the holiness that was ready to be discarded in any moments. And in the first place, Elise didn't really think that you would go back to the temple."

"What?"

'Oh… he took the bait.' she thought and continued to entice him.

"You don't need to talk about it now. I already knew that she just wanted to confirm if I was the Evelyn that had vanished in the sea of fire… and if I was not her, then she would just have killed an innocent life and tell the people that it was the will of the light." Evelyn smirk.

The assassin's brow twitch.

"How convenient, isn't it? I bet that your comrades' life was also discarded just like that and Elise will give you a pathetic reason that it was the will of Light. Yes… your life was only a puny sacrifice that can be discarded like trash." 

Evelyn said as she folded her palm and looked at her manicured nails. Her sunset eyes slowly went to the man and she sharply gazed at him who was stupefied. She knew that she must have looked like the villainess Evelyn from the novel if people saw her like this.

"Do you want to be saved?" she asked.

The assassins round eyes looked at the haughty look of Evelyn that she was displaying.

"Huh?! You think I would believe you?" The assassin asked. EVelyn knew that he would react like that. She then continued.

"I can save you from the curse of oath, of course with the right compensation. What do you say?"

Silence filled the room. Chrisfold, Gab and Gil were also shocked at what she said. They haven't got the slightest idea that Evelyn would gladly give the man an option to be saved.