After the incident with Eris, I put out a notice in the guild board. It reads:

"In a search for an archpriest. If interested, approach someone who is wearing a white coat and a white hat".

I doubt that there will be an archpriest here in Axel.

"Exterion!"

"H-hey wait! Don't do that!"

Iris was about to cast something on her sword that will not only destroy the paper but also the board itself.

"What do you think you're doing?!"

"Well, I don't want a new member, so I wanted to destroy that paper"

"If you're gonna destroy it, then use your hands!"

We were waiting in the guild for someone to come by. Iris keeps telling me to change my mind, but really, what can I do?

Someone then eventually came to us

"I heard that you were looking for an archpriest?"

"Yes we are"

The archpriest was this woman, just around my age.

"Oh well, I was thinking on joining"

"Ah well, then"

"Don't join"

"Huh?"

Iris then started to speak. She then stood up from her chair and went to the girl

"If you join this party, then disaster will come to you. You'll suffer and will regret it here. You'll lose your mind because of me if you joined here"

"Oi, what do you think you're doing?!"

Iris was putting the Calibur on the girl's neck. This is like a threat.

"U-uh, yes, I'll leave now!"

She then ran and went out of the guild

"You're insane! Do you even know what you did?! That was a threat!"

"Don't worry Onii-san, I'm sure she won't tell anybody"

"That's what you think!"

Not only will it hurt her reputation, but that will also hurt mine, and YunYun's.

Iris keeps on making threats to archpriests that approaches us. After half a day, I finally gave up on her.

"You win alright, you win. If you keep doing that, then no one will join us."

"Yay! Let's get Chris back"

Is it just me or is Iris acting more like a child now?

"Iris, do you know an archpriest?"

"We have an archpriest in the castle"

That's not gonna work. Iris then handed me a quest

"Onii-san, this says that an archpriest was kidnapped!"

"Huh? That's perfect! If we save her, then we get to keep her right?"

"Yes. It says here that a castle needs to be infiltrated. Ah! A thief might work! If only we know a thief..."

"You can't trick me"

"Um, Hiromasa, here's a quest that you might like"

YunYun gave me a paper. It reads:

"Prove yourself! You can prove your worth on killing these monsters! As a price, you'll get an archpriest, which is me!"

This is so convenient!

"Onii-sama, as a princess, I forbid you on taking that quest!"

"Oi, oi. You're too noisy, people might hear us"

Kill some monsters and get an archpriest? That's cheap!

It says to head in a castle that's very far from Axel.

"Wait, this castle looks like an undead's castle! How can am archpriest live here?!"

It was really shady. The castle creeps me out for some reason. Something has to be wrong, but I want that archpriest so we ended up going in.

"Onii-san, I'm a bit scared."

"Oh come on, I thought you wanted to be an adventurer"

Actually, I'm more scared than Iris herself. I'm literally shaking from fear! This castle is scary!

After walking for a bit, we were attacked by some skeletons. I thought this castle is owned by an archpriest?! Why are there skeletons here?! Not only that, but there were ghosts that were roaming around the castle! We can't damage them so we just ran.

"Why are there so many undead here?! That's not even possible!"

We were completely lost inside the castle. We took a rest for a minute.

"Onii-sama, I disagree when you said picking up Chris was your biggest mistake. I think going here is the biggest mistake!"

"Yeah, Hiromasa. If we didn't go inside here, this wouldn't happen"

"Don't blame! You were the who gave this quest anyways!"

This castle was really big. It looks smaller when viewed outside. We found this big door. It looks like we made it.

We tried to open the door but it won't budge.

"Did we come here only to see a useless door?!"

After that, the door started to open

"Ah sorry, for the door! Come in, come in"

What I saw inside, almost made my heart stopped.

She was standing in front of us, behind her was a throne. The throne is in the air, being held by piles of bones... What did I get in to?!

All of us were speechless at what we were seeing.

"Congratulations for finishing my trial! And... Why are your faces like that?"

"Why? WHY?! We went through this castle getting chased by ghosts and skeletons! This is such a big castle that we lost our track multiple times! When we entered here, we just saw you with a pile of bones! Also, what are you wearing?! That isn't something an archpriest would wear!"

She smiled at us and said

"Amusing. Really amusing. The three of you weren't affected by my spell!"

"Spell?" x3

"All of these bones are dead people! This has been my work for my whole life! Normally, I will cast a spell on people who were near my castle so that they don't see this scary castle, but a fun place to hang out with! With that trick, I killed a lot of people and gained energy by doing so! After some time, I started putting quests all around the world for people who are in search of an archpriest. After they get past this door, I will try to make them my friends, and when they lowered they guard, I'll kill them and suck their energy out!"

We were incredibly lucky. If that spell affected us, then we'll be dead right now. Like Eris, I have a really high luck stats. If I were to rank the luckiest person I know, then Eris is #1, Kazuma is #2, and I'm #3.

"So you're not an archpriest?"

"No. But I can heal the undead"

Heal the undead? Is that possible

"Enough talk, I can't let you go away after hearing what I said. If that gets out in the public, then that will be no fun."

"You're sick"

YunYun seems to be disgusted by the idea of that. She probably hates demon too like Eris, but only demons that did something wrong

"Premonition of Death!"

"Sacred Lightning Blare!"

The demon was trying to cast Premonition of Death to me, but Iris interrupted it by using some holy technique.

The entire room then suddenly turned to white.

"That thing... Isn't that?"

"Now that you know who I am, I need to kill you now"

"N-no wait! How?! Only a Belzerg knows that ability!"

"My name is Belzerg Stylish Sword Iris! And you demon shouldn't exist in this world!"

"H-how?!"

Iris then suddenly uses another holy spell

"Sacred Explode!"

"Ahhhhh!"

After that, the demon disappeared along with the castle

"Phew, that's my second time killing a demon!"

"B-Belzerg S-Stylish S-sword Iris, HAHAHA what kind of name is that!?"

I'm serious, what kind of name is that?! Who puts the word Stylish and Sword in a name?!

"Neh, Onii-san don't laugh at my name!"

We headed back in Axel. We didn't realize it was night time. I guess we were lost inside that castle for a long time.

"So Hiromasa, what are you gonna do now"

"Find an archpriest"

"Onii-san, haven't you learn anything?"

Actually, I have no idea what to do. I'm not gonna find another archpriest again after that. That experience was traumatizing. We ate our dinner then headed to the inn.

I was trying to sleep on my bed when Iris talked to me

"Onii-san, could you please just talk to Chris?"

"It's not that I don't want to. It's that I don't know how to"

"You forgot how to talk?"

"No, it's not like that. After what just occurred, I have no idea how to approach her."

"Onii-san, I know you are reasonable when it comes to talking, and Chris is an understanding person. I don't think it will make the situation much worse. Come on, let's head to Kazuma's tomorrow"

"Uh, well, but"

"I believe you'll make the right choice"

Iris then went to her bed.

Now, I don't have a choice. After Iris said that to me, I don't know if I can refuse to talk to her anymore... Well, it won't hurt to try...