Hey all its Ry again and this is the fourth chapter… sorry it's a bit late, it's been a busy day. Again as always I hope you enjoy and leave a comment,Ave Imperator.

There is no such thing as innocence:

For Idol it's just another night like any other… doing his pastime of trying to break the almost dead girl in his cells and watching in glee as she is nearly broken but he feels something watching him, something dark.

So when he changes and crawls into his overly luxurious bed he sees something in the shadows that terrifies him, a pair of red eyes glowing in fury as the owner of the eyes steps out the shadows and into the moonlit room his terror grows "Tell me Idol… how does it feel to be a scumbag even the wolves won't eat a piece of shit like you?" Said the presumed assassin as the black hand covers her shoulder. Idol tried to get up and run but in that moment all he could now see was the rageful crimson eyes right in his face, all before he could say anything a sword plunged into his neck and caused him to choke on his own blood and as he bled to death he could see the satisfaction in the eyes of the monster in front of him "Demon" was all idol could sputter out.

Celestine now done with her contract walked down to the basement cells and found a near dead body of a Demi-human, 'trying to nurse her back to health would just kill the poor girl' Celestine thought and then it clicked and she leaned down to the girl "Do you want to live?" All she received was a weak nod "you won't feel a thing until you wake back up" she gave a gentle smile as she leaned into the very thin neck and sank her fangs into it.

With Naofumi:

"So you made a contract with them?" Naofumi clearly exasperated "and you ordered the death of one 'Idol Rabier'?" We got a nod and what seemed to be a bit of regret.

And out of nowhere a clearly female figure in a black robe appeared. "Hello Raphtalia… the contract is complete." Before vanishing as quickly as she came, Naofumi still had no clue on how they did that but clearly Celestine found some help.

Then once more it was a poof of black smoke but there clearly stood Celestine in what seems to be far more ornate armour and a vicious looking sword at her hip with the gem sitting there like all legendary weapons "you know I don't know how the hell you do that" naofumi said "trade secret" came the humoured response, celestine turned to Raphtalia "you should have came to me sooner, I would have killed that bastard for free but what I did find was someone who is sleeping the now but I'm sure she will be happy to see you after shes back to full health again."

Raphtalia smiled and cried tears of joy and Naofumi stood there confused but accepted he doesn't know everything however "so what are you going to do when the wave appears?" Asked Naofumi and before celestine answered another dark robed figure appeared and whispered into celestine's ear "Sorry Naofumi I'll try and get in contact again soon but it appears my guest is awake and hungry so I'll attend to that" and with that both vanished again.

With the king:

"Honoured heroes I would like you to see this" the king spoke as he stood over a pile of letters and notes but what stood out was a few letters had the now notorious black hand "what are all these?" Itsuki asked "Threats and what's been found on the bodies of the dead" answered the king and Motoyasu's solemn nod "what concerns me is the growing number of assassinations, how is this possible? How does she get the contracts? Until I found this book lying on a table in the halls" the king pulls out a purple covered book "it's called sweet mother and it describes a ritual to contact the aforementioned assassination group" he gestured to all the letters "and it also tells me of what this 'mother' is and how she links to the assassins" he presents the book to the two others in the room "read this over please and put a stop to these crimes"

With celestine:

Celestine arrived back at the sanctuary to find a scared girl now grown to a teenager hiding in a corner in fear, Celestine kneels down and pulls down her hood and mask to show her face to calm the girl "Hello young one, would you like to follow me and I'll give you something to drink and some proper clothes?" The girl slowly nodded seeing this was not Idol or his schemes, standing up celestine held out a hand motherly and walked the girl to her room to sit her on her bed and pulled out a dress for her with a red bottle "tell me young one, what's your name?" Asked celestine in a gentle tone "Rifana" said the girl mutely, her throat dry and painful "here drink this" celestine opened the red bottle and for Rifana it smelled like her Mothers cooking before she snatched the bottle and drunk every last drop of what was inside, in her bliss she didn't notice Celestines saddened look or the crimson dress that laid next to her.

Celestine always loved children but due to her curse or blessing depends on her mood she couldn't have her own so in a way saving this girl from Idol was her maternal instincts flaring and that's why she gave him such a brutal death "I will be outside Rifana, just ask anything of me once your properly dressed and clean, okay?" All celestine received was a nod before she stepped out into the main hall of the sanctuary where she could see Vallarie pouring over some papers as the contracts grew, celestine was hunting for more recruits when she was told by the night mother about Idol where she found Rifina barely clinging to life and a fat noble laughing over her, of course she was going to be angry and murdered the man promptly not even wanting to satiate her bloodthirst on him, it sickened her how people like him exist in this world.

She would be the cleansing from the shadows, there is no such thing as innocence, only varying degrees of guilt.

Aaaaaand we are finished for today.I hope you enjoyed it and please leave a comment on your thoughts. Ry out for now