In Terra, she is a hunter and a bad woman.

"I'm not going to change my opinion."

Maria stood up silently, turned her back, and prepared to leave.

"Giant beasts... they shouldn't exist in this world!"

Maria knew that Father Agnel's words were not what people in this world thought, but...even so, she felt annoyed.

Did the giant beast help humans?

ridiculous!

Behemoths never care about humans.

The so-called help is just the aftermath that spreads out after they have achieved their goals.

When humans finish eating food, they leave behind residues. Do the ants that get these residues have to thank humans for it?

This is obviously impossible.

So, after Father Agnir expressed his attitude, Maria didn't say much, but just stood up and prepared to leave.

What others think is their business. For hunters, all they can do is hunt...

Slaughter those giant beasts...completely!

"This……"

Noticing that Maria was about to leave, Father Agniel breathed a sigh of relief, but when he heard that Maria still wanted to fight the giant beast, the priest's face turned ugly again.

From a personal point of view, he did not want to offend someone like Maria, but... at the same time, he did not want ordinary people to be involved in a battle that did not belong to them.

Just as he chose to leave the Lateran and come to Syracuse to establish the Grey Hall with the Lady of Sicily, his purpose from the beginning was to ensure that everyone could live their own life within their own scope.

He does not stop fighting, he only stops the fighting between one group of people from affecting the weaker ones.

Competition among those of the same level is their own right, and life or death is their own choice... but for those who are weaker, it is an unprovoked disaster.

And once Maria engages in a head-on battle with the behemoth... he really doesn't know what to do.

He could only struggle to speak after hesitating for a long time.

"This fight... is it necessary for you to do it?"

"..."

Maria didn't answer.

In the dim candlelight, they could only see Maria's hazy back.

She walked towards the church door step by step, unwaveringly.

Perhaps the people in this world have become accustomed to the existence of giant beasts, but for hunters, coexisting peacefully with giant beasts is absolutely not part of their creed.

The war between the hunter and the behemoth is destined and will not be affected by anything.

"Is there really no room for easing the tension?"

Father Agnel was also extremely depressed at this time.

He knew that it was impossible to stop Maria with his own abilities... As for the giant beast, he couldn't persuade it either.

He can only do his best to protect the safety of others.

"...If you want to evacuate others, you'd better do it quickly."

Maria turned around and stared silently at the corner of the church through the darkness. The warm yellow light could only illuminate a small area, and Father Agnir was sitting within the range of the yellow light.

At this moment, he truly has the temperament that matches his appearance and age.

An old man.

"That behemoth possesses the ability to control others... I'm not sure how it does this, but there's no doubt I won't show mercy to those people."

"...Even if the other party is just a child who poses no threat to you?"

"Even if the other party is just an embryo in its mother's womb."

After Maria finished speaking, she looked deeply at the pale-faced Father Agnel, and then left the church completely.

Maria's cruelty runs deeper than he knows...

During their conversation the previous night, Maria's easygoing nature had clearly given him the illusion that she was someone he could persuade...

"Ugh……"

The priest silently raised his head and looked at the ceiling of the church.

On the gray ceiling, beautiful relief paintings tell the story of salvation.

Agnier couldn't help but think of the conflict between his family and the Gray Hall, which might suddenly break out at any time.

A huge crisis is brewing in the darkness.

"The disaster of Syracuse has come."

He closed his eyes and couldn't help murmuring.

……

The night passed quickly.

When she woke up the next day, Cellinina found Maria resting with her eyes closed in a chair.

I was squatting in the corner wrapped in a blanket, but before I knew it, I was lying on the bed...

Because Lavinia's room was not very big, and she herself obviously did not expect that three people would live here one day, so there was only one bed in the entire room.

Cellinina thought that she had just arrived and did not want to trouble others, so she wrapped herself in a blanket and squatted in the corner to sleep. But she did not know when Maria came back and put her and Lavinia to rest together.

After hesitating for a few moments, the little girl got up from the bed and carefully picked up the blanket beside her.

She wanted to cover Maria... After all, the weather in Syracuse was still quite cold, and Maria would easily catch a cold if she rested like this.

But obviously, even if Maria was just sitting, the girl was still not tall enough for her to touch Maria's shoulders.

As a last resort, she could only stand on tiptoe and try to raise her hand to Maria's shoulder.

However, this action led to Maria's awakening.

The gray eyes just stared at the girl.

"..."

"..."

The two of them just stared at each other without saying a word.

After a moment of stiffness, the girl hesitantly picked up the blanket.

"Um... do you... need it?"

"Thanks, but I don't need any of that, girl."

Maria shook her head.

After noticing that Lavinia was still sleeping, she said nothing, motioned for Cellinina to follow her, and took the girl out of the room.

Maria remained silent during the journey.

Little Celinina stared at the girl blankly. After hesitating for a long time, she asked carefully.

"You're not in a good mood..."

Maria paused.

After a moment, he shook his head.

"This has nothing to do with today's training."

After saying that, she continued to lead the way quietly.

When the girl next to her heard this, she hesitated for a moment and then fell silent.

The two continued to move.

Near Lavinia's house, there is an undeveloped hill. There are many plans on the edge of the hill, but the interior is still sparsely populated.

After Maria brought Cellinina to an obviously artificial plain, she turned around silently and looked at her.

Taking a deep breath, Maria shook her head silently.

"I'll ask you one last time, Celinina. You really want to learn my hunting skills, don't you?"

"Yes!"

Celinina nodded seriously, without a trace of hesitation in her words or in her eyes.

After receiving such a response, Maria closed her eyes and took a deep breath.

"In my opinion, I still hope you can refuse, but... since you said so."

Maria said, raising her hand and placing a string of strange blood bottles aside.

While Cellinina was still watching all this, Maria had already arrived in front of her!

Those grey eyes... no longer contained any tenderness...

"Oh!"

A heavy blow instantly landed on Celinina... She felt as if her body was hit by a meteorite, and the powerful and terrifying air wave was transmitted to every inch of her body almost instantly!

She could even hear the sound of her bones breaking!

The fear of death spread throughout her body almost instantly!

To die...

I'm really going to die!

I...can’t withstand this attack!

"Your first lesson, girl, is to understand death..."

Looking at the girl flying out like a tattered doll, Maria had no mercy at all. She just walked forward slowly, accurately found the place where the girl fell, and looked down at her.

"Forehead……"

The poor girl could do nothing at this moment. She could only stare at the tall Maria with wide eyes.

Just one hit...

It was just an ordinary blow, and her body completely lost its ability to fight.

She couldn't help coughing and spitting out the blood inside her, but this action only squeezed the broken bones and continued to hurt her already ruptured internal organs.

And judging from Maria's expression, did she hold back just now?

In an instant, Cellinina truly saw the absolute gap in the power wielded by the two people.

That's a distance even more terrifying than the abyss of heaven...

She even thought that Maria wouldn't kill her...but what she felt at that moment was death...

She could feel the blood flowing uncontrollably in her body, the roaring in her ears grew heavier, her eyes could see less and less, and she felt increasingly fragile...

"Feel it all and... remember it with your body... girl."

Maria squatted gently in front of the girl, looking at the poor girl with her chest heaving and her eyes wide open. She lowered her eyes slightly and placed her hand on the girl's abdomen.

Ended her suffering.

Then...

"Pfft!"

With the cold penetrating sound, Celinina's thoughts quickly sank into despair.

I... just died like this?

Cellinina was stunned...

She had a lot of things she wanted to say, but in the end, she just pursed her lips and opened her mouth wide.

"..."

"..."

"…I…am not dead?"