Chapter 263 – Marie
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Marie pondered for several days.
Originally, it was correct to immediately report Chloe’s betrayal. However, she was troubled by this, and she was confused as to why she was the way she was.
After pondering for a while, she belatedly moved her heavy steps.
Shopping mall.
Passing through the secret passage in the dressing room of a crowded clothing store and entering Cerberus’ hideout, I was constantly worried.
Marie in the end.
Michael, her onetime colleague of hers.
He stood in front of Alan’s office, now head of Cerberus.
Marie paused as she tried to knock on her door.
Even when she came this far, she was troubled.
But in the end she knocked.
-Smart.
“Who is it.”
A familiar male voice was heard from inside.
“This is Marie.”
“Come in.”
For some reason, she took a step that did not fall.
Even when Marie came in, Alan didn’t take his eyes off the papers.
“I’m a little late with this report.”
“…Sorry.”
“Has anything happened?”
Marie hesitated for a moment before opening her mouth.
“…Chloe betrayed me.”
Alan’s hand, which was busy moving over the papers, stopped. His brow furrows.
Alan put down the papers he was looking at and only then looked at Marie.
In his eyes, he saw Marie standing neatly in a maid outfit.
Marie’s maid outfit suited her better than she thought.
But she didn’t like it.
It was because he knew that the outfit was worn because of the transcendentalist’s taste. But she didn’t let that complaint out of her mouth.
“…Chloe betrayed you?”
“Yes that’s right.”
Alan, who was silent for a moment, opened his mouth.
“If it was your ability, it wouldn’t have been difficult to deal with it…”
Mari is an elite among agents.
That’s why she rose to a somewhat higher position than the other agents.
“…Sorry. Her ability was better than I thought, so it failed.”
Marie reflexively hid that she and Chloe had awakened the aura.
Then her mind was confused by her own incomprehensible behavior.
“Hmm… Unexpected. Was Chloe that bad? There’s no way. Marie, your mission will end as of this time.”
“Yes?”
Marie was taken aback by her abrupt end to her mission.
When Alan saw Marie questioning her, her eyes shone sharply.
“Didn’t you hear?”
“Then… Chloe…”
“Chloe? She’s in the Transcendental Mansion. What do you mean to deal with it? There’s no way to do it now. It’s only right to aim for later. If Chloe betrayed, it would be right to think that the agents in the mansion were also caught. Depending on the situation give up on them too.”
“Ah…”
Alan did not miss the subtle change of emotion that appeared on Marie’s face.
“Is there any problem? Marie… You dragged on for too long despite the order to evacuate. Could it be that you, like Chloe, had a different mind?”
“No…No. Well then, please give me a moment. Chloe said she hasn’t revealed everything to Master yet. I will take responsibility and sort it out.”
Alan put on an expression of absurdity at that behavior that was not like Marie.
“Apprentice? Master? Marie, do you know what you are talking about?”
“Yes? What do you mean?”
“Marie…Your master is me, the head of Cerberus. That Transcendent is just a mission target. Plus, you’re going back to that place where the traitor has already come out? You’re insane.”
If it’s normal Marie, she doesn’t have such nonsense thoughts.
It is not a normal judgment.
Alan realized that Marie’s brainwashing was almost done.
‘Still, I managed to come here and report it.’
It was also a story that traces of her brainwashing were still left.
Alan secretly summoned his men.
-Szeuk.
Two gang members dressed in black appeared out of nowhere and blocked Marie from behind as if besieging her.
Mary’s face hardened.
“What…What are you doing?”
“What have you done? Marie, you’ve disappointed me several times today. I said I was ending the mission. You showed signs of disobeying that order. Get some quiet time and cool your head.”
Alan intended to imprison Marie and try brainwashing her again.
Unlike a child, it is difficult to brainwash an agent who has already been brainwashed.
Originally, the ‘disposition’ was confirmed at the time the brainwashing was lifted.
However, the reason why he tried to ‘recycle’ again was because he still had a lingering attachment to Marie.
Marie realized that Alan had no intention of letting her go.
“…Okay. I’m going to self-restraint.”
Marie bowed her head in her meekness and took her own steps. As the agents watched, she followed behind her.
Seeing Marie come out of Alan’s room as if she were being taken into custody, the Cerberus agents outside take on a different color.
Marie didn’t care and moved on with her steps.
She descended the basement stairs and entered a rather dim passage.
The place she was going was the confinement room of this hideout. It was usually used for confinement or cruel interrogation of abducted humans.
‘… To break up with the master like this?’
The moment Mari thought that, her heart sank. At the same time, her body moved like lightning.
Her body rotated rapidly and her elbow struck the chin of the gang member behind her left.
– Whoops!
Without being able to react, her jaw shattered and she lost consciousness as his eyes rolled over.
There is still one guy left.
From her skirt, shapely legs wrapped in black stockings stretched out.
She used the spinning power to kick the temple of the agent next to her.
– Jump!
There was a very unpleasant sound, and the agent hit his head against the wall and fell down.
Originally, it couldn’t be dealt with so quickly. Because she had awakened her aura, she was able to subdue it so easily.
Marie started to run away.
Surprised by her escape, the agents tried to stop her, but she was no match for Mari, who had already awakened her aura.
Marie quickly overpowered the agents blocking her and escaped from the hideout.
Suddenly, a maid burst out loud from the dressing room with a secret passageway, and people in a crowded clothing store stare in surprise.
Marie ignored them and moved on.
Coming out of her clothing store, she involuntarily stopped her steps.
‘Oh, where…’
Her head naturally turned to Unho’s mansion.
When I go back, my steps do not fall.
Betrayal.
Betrayed the master.
As Marie’s mind ate away, she couldn’t help but take her steps in that direction. She bit her lip and took her steps to her back alley where the slums were.
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“You ran away?”
Alan was dumbfounded.
There seemed to be a commotion outside, but Marie ran away.
“It seems that he has awakened his aura.”
The subordinate lowered his head and reported.
“Huh… Auror awakening?”
No matter how good Mari was, it was almost impossible to subdue the agents in the hideout and escape.
But if you were an Auror Awakener, the story would be different.
It was not enough for the subordinates who did not know how to use the aura.
‘Marie has awakened her Aura.’
Alan clenched her fists.
How easy will Aura awakening be?
It is almost impossible unless you learn the aura vision of the noble family.
– Eww!
‘Did you come to that transcendental bastard with your legs wide open and learn by gaining even a vision? .’
No matter how much I thought about it, that was the only way for Marie to awaken her aura.
“Where is Marie?”
“It appears to be hiding in the slums.”
For some reason, she didn’t go to the Transcendent Mansion.
It was fortunate in misfortune.
She would have been in trouble if she had run that way.
“Fast track. I’ll be with you on this chase.”
“Yes, I understand.”
Even though she has awakened the God Auror, she is already professionally trained as her agent.
There was a feeling that it was difficult to catch her with only ordinary agents.
Even if they catch it, there will be quite a bit of sacrifice from the agents.
If she didn’t want to consume her agents, this was something she had to do herself.
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Marie was quietly hiding her body in an abandoned house in the slums, avoiding Cerberus’s eyes.
A cow in a neat maid outfit that didn’t match her place was crouched down in her corner, downcast.
‘I betrayed the master.’
Marie was unwilling to go back to her mansion, so she wandered through the slums.
‘Should I go back?’
I wanted to go back.
But…
‘Will Master forgive me?’
She seems to be able to forgive.
No, I don’t know.
I was anxious.
‘What if I can’t be forgiven?’
Just thinking about it made me feel desperate.
It was at a time when her head was so confused with such constant conflict.
Marie is weak, but she senses her strange smell.
It was a smell she knew well.
It was the incense she often used when on a mission to kidnap people.
‘Already?!’
Marie quickly caught her breath and ran out of her lungs.
And she had to stand tall.
The empty lot in front of the lungs.
Alan stands under the bright moonlight.
And the agents of Cerberus were besieging the surroundings.
“Marie, is it because you live a comfortable life in the mansion? Your senses are dead.”
She said as if Alan was pitiful.
She did as he said.
I made a mistake.
She didn’t notice while she was surrounded like this, her head filled with thoughts of her master.
