A peerless killer possessing a cat girl assassin from another world

That's really true, not surprising at all....

"I've never heard Professor Karen mention this before. It seems you only found out about it recently..."

"That's right. Before this, Lord Karen had never even heard of the existence of the Faceless Society... If it weren't for what you said, the Faceless Society suddenly started causing trouble recently, we probably would never have known about it in our entire lives."

"Back then, I thought the Shadow Order was the best they could do in this field... Sigh, I was so short-sighted."

"Ha, Zora, aren't you including me in that conversation?"

A sudden sound rang out in the secret room.

Zora's tail fur stood on end.

"Kaka, Lord Karen? That's not what I meant!"

Karen's slender figure emerged from the wall.

"Teacher Karen."

Wuyue immediately bowed.

"It's been years, and you're being so polite now?"

Karen smiled, smoothed Zora's ruffled fur, and then whispered in her ear:

"Go out first, I have important business to discuss with Wuyue."

"Yes, I'll go right away."

Zora turned around stiffly with a sigh of relief and fled the secret room.

......

"How old are you? Still so impulsive..."

Karen shook her head helplessly, not believing it was her fault at all, and still smiled as she looked at Wuyue:

“I heard everything you just said.”

"By the way, is Bai Ye here? He must be, after all, you two are literally 'inseparable'."

Now that things have come to this point, it would be inappropriate for Bai Ye not to show up.

Seeing Bai Ye appear as Shay, Karen was taken aback at first, then smiled wryly:

"...Well, you don't need to worry about my feelings. I know they won't come back, and I've already let it go."

"But you haven't completely let go, have you? Otherwise, you wouldn't have asked me if I was there when you already knew the answer..."

Another bitter laugh followed, which was taken as an admission.

"Ahem, well, Professor Karen, let's get down to business..."

The conversation about not seeing the moon gradually went astray, so someone immediately stepped in to smooth things over.

"Is what Sister Zora said earlier true? Is the Faceless Society really...?"

"Yes, I only found out recently. When the cult was in its final stages and about to be destroyed, the Faceless Ones played a very secretive and difficult-to-detect role in pulling the strings..."

"And that's not all. The Faceless Society's influence can be seen behind almost every organization, including the Eye of Insight and many similar organizations throughout history..."

......

Let's turn back the clock to over a hundred years ago, to the time when the Shadow Order still existed.

At that time, Karen was having a headache because of the mess left behind by the Order after the departure of Shadow Three and others.

"Where are Shadow Six and Shadow Eight?"

Karen went directly to Ophelia, the only one still at the Order's headquarters, and asked her questions.

"Oh? You're looking for him too? But didn't the others say he went to complete the task you gave him?"

"When did I...?"

Suddenly, a strong sense of foreboding rose in Karen's heart.

This had happened several times before: a member of the Ten Shadows Society would get separated from the group, and then bad news would follow...

"Oops."

"Shadow Six, follow me immediately. We must stop Shadow Eight."

"No problem, we can do it now."

......

On the way, Karen continued to ask:

"Has Shadow Eight revealed the mission's objective or location?"

Although she knew that even within the Ten Shadows Society, communication between members was rare.

"That kid didn't say, but we've made very few enemies lately, mainly the local nobles of Dorok, and... the Papal States..."

When the Papal States were mentioned, Karen immediately began searching her memory for possible candidates.

Who is the person in the Trust Alliance, the financial backer behind all the actions against the Order?

Or is it that wicked cardinal archbishop of the church?

But whoever it is, it is definitely not someone that Kagehachi alone can deal with.

Even if I were to personally take action, I might not succeed...

Doesn't that child have his own judgment? Just because someone impersonates him and gives him a task, does he have to complete it?

He secretly resented Yingba's stubbornness, but his movements couldn't help but quicken.

“Shadow One, we absolutely cannot catch up with him by land. We must take another route.”

"Then how can you be sure he's not taking a different route?"

That's right, nobody can say for sure.

Karen could only take the fastest sea route to the Papal States and travel there with Shadow Six...

Along the way, Karen couldn't help but recall every little detail about Shadow Eight.

His name was Alfonso, and he had no surname because he was an abandoned orphan that Karen found in the Papal States. He chose his own name.

Adhering to the church's mission to help the weak, Karen decided to adopt him and bring him back to the church to raise him well.

Alfonso was exceptionally gifted, awakening his profession at the young age of seven. Among the Ten Shadows, in terms of innate talent alone, Alfonso was arguably the most gifted, without exception.

At the age of fourteen, he joined the Ten Film Society, becoming Film Eight.

Aside from Shadow 3, Karen has the highest hopes for him, hoping that one day he can take over the mantle of Shadow 4.

Alfonso's feelings for Karen are very complex; she is his mentor, his mother, his superior, and his friend.

But no matter how he viewed Karen, one thing remained constant.

Alfonso always listened to her and never disobeyed her.

Unexpectedly, this became his fatal weakness that the enemy exploited...

It would be impossible to devise such a divide-and-conquer plan without a thorough understanding of the Ten Shadows Society's internal workings.

There is no doubt that there is a traitor within the cult.

......

With mixed feelings, Karen and Shadow Six arrived at the port outside Rekel City.

But we were still a step too late...

The boy's body had already been hung on the outer city gate...

Karen looked up hesitantly at the body covered in wounds, and for a moment, she didn't know what to think.

Colleagues...family members, one after another, died, and she seemed to have become completely numb.

Shadow Six was different; he immediately rushed forward to snatch the corpse, but was stopped by Karen.

"Shadow will give him an explanation; everything will be repaid..."

......

That night, the body disappeared silently right under the noses of the many guards.

At the same moment, an unprecedented fire broke out at the headquarters of the Trust Merchant Alliance, and all those involved in the massacre were reduced to ashes.

“Until recently, I thought that Faren had given false instructions... which led to his death.”

“But I was wrong. Faren readily admitted to other crimes, but he never admitted to this one.”

......