The atmosphere was a bit awkward.

Vivian blinked at Gray, hesitated and said for a long time: "You... are saying 'thank you' to me?"

"Yes." Gray replied softly.

"Okay, I understand. You mean that the Paladin owes the devil's favor, won't he pay back? I understand. I don't mean to ask you for favors."

"But I just said thank you, there was no other meaning."

"You don't have to be afraid that I want you to repay favors. Let's just tell the truth. The Demon Lord hopes that your existence can split the Holy See and let the Holy See appear on this continent with two different principles. So... I have to be responsible for maintaining your sacred faith and ensuring that your identity is not exposed. This is my mission, and I will not ask you to repay favors to me at all."

"But I just said thank you."

"Don't you understand?" Vivian shouted loudly: "I'm telling you that you don't need to say thank you!"

"But I still think I should say thank you..." Gray whispered to the excited Vivian.

Suddenly, like the last straw that crushed the camel, Vivian's nose became sore, her eyes turned red, and tears fell down.

The black cat was shocked.

She shrank to the ground like an ordinary little girl, covered her face with her hands, and started sobbing.

"What's wrong?" Gray asked in a low voice.

"Don't ask!"

"What's wrong?" Gray asked again.

"Tell you don't ask!" Vivian cried, "Don't touch me either!"

"Okay." Gray had to shrink his hand that had reached over, stood quietly, watching Vivian squat on the ground and sobbing.

In the setting sun, the wind blew gently, Vivian wiped her tears over and over again, muttering in her mouth: "Bad bastard, they are all bastards, bastards..."

Gray put down the black cat he was holding and stretched his neck to look carefully.

"Really... can't you tell me? You even told me the Demon Lord's plan."

"Aren't you angry with me? The Demon Lord's plan." Vivian asked with a sob.

"Why are you angry with you? You're just trying to complete the task."

"Then do you thank me?"

"Because you saved me."

With a "wow", Vivian rushed towards Gray, directly knocking Gray, who was already shaking to the ground, hugging Gray, and cried even harder.

The black cat watching next to him was frightened and began to weigh the pounce. Gray had to break a few bones.

"I'm homeless..." Vivian sobbed and said, "I can't go back to the abyss, and I can't go back to it anymore. The Demon Lord said that I would allow me to violate the agreement and protect me, but... But I must go back to the abyss myself. I can't go back at all. They refuse to come out to save me... Demons and angels are the same! Liars! They are all liars! There are only one or two angels chasing me, the entire judging team is here! Dozens of angels! They will find me soon! I'm finished!"

"What happens if they get caught...?"

"I will be sent to the court, most likely I will be executed and completely destroyed... I will not even have a soul left. I don't want to die... I don't want to die..."

Gray hugged Vivian tightly and whispered: "Don't worry, I'll save you."

"You can't save..."

"I can't save it, can I not save it?"

Vivian raised her head and looked at Gray with tears in her eyes: "You stupid lich, you can't even protect yourself, and you still want to save me? The four guardian angels are looking for you everywhere..."

"Then... let us work together to overcome the difficulties."

Vivian smiled bitterly: "Does the desperate succubus, join hands with the Paladin to overcome difficulties? It sounds like a bad drama."

"Didn't this sound like a bad drama when the Paladin was injured by his own robes, but was rescued by the succubus?"

"Then is your divine faith still there?"

"exist."

"The Holy Spirit has not come to save you. The Holy Spirit is doing this to you, so why do you have to stick to it?"

Touching Vivian's head, Gray whispered: "Faith is our own. Why do we give up our own things because of other people's faults? I never felt that sticking to faith is to get anything. I sticking to faith is just because I think it is right."

"Then can I stick to my faith with you?" Vivian asked, wiped her tears.

“You want to accept the divine faith?”

"If...I mean if." Vivian sobbed, "If I could become a saint like you, maybe the Angels Judgment would let me go..."

Gray straightened Vivian, sat up, lowered her head and prayed devoutly: "My Lord, your Paladin Grey, here I pray to you devoutly, I wish to forgive all the sins committed by Vivian, the succubus, I will keep her guard until she becomes a saint. Although... although my authority may not be forgiven, I am willing to do so. If you have to conduct judgment, please bear the punishment she deserves."

After praying, Gray devoutly cut a cross on his chest.

Vivian looked at Gray blankly, staring blankly: "Maybe... will die."

"I know that the lich is not afraid of death, the knight is not afraid of sacrifice. And I am both."

With a "wow", Vivian hugged Gray and cried even harder.

"So what's wrong with you?"

"I'm a little unaccustomed to you who are so nice to me..."

"I'll get used to it slowly."

"But I don't want to get used to it..."

Vivian was so angry that she couldn't breathe.

The black cat squatted aside and sighed helplessly.

...

The wind blew gently, and the leaves in the woods rustled.

As night came, Gray lit a fire in the cave, inserted it with branches, and roasted the fish he had just caught. Vivian curled up and hugged his knees and lowered his head.

"Do you want some fish?" Gray asked Vivian.

"Hey! That's my fish! I haven't eaten fish for a long time!" The black cat started yelling quickly.

"I'll bake it for you later, and there are still many more you can't finish it."

The black cat stared at Gray with a look of anger.

"I don't eat it, the succubus can't eat these things." Vivian replied in a low voice.

Gray held the grilled fish and advised him again: "You may feel better when you eat something, after all, the black cat is in a good mood every time you finish eating."

"I don't want to eat it." Vivian replied with a pout, "I want to keep my figure."

"Actually, I envy you for your ability to eat. They all say that it tastes, but there is no taste in my magic perception. I can't eat either."

Looking at Gray, Vivian finally stretched out a hand: "Okay, look at you, I promise you. Just eat one."

"Yes." Gray reached out and handed the fish over.

The dim red fire shone out from outside the cave. From a distance, it looked like a lonely star falling from the dark mountains.

Far away, two angels flapping their wings were quietly staring at their direction. One of them was Abold, the male angel who started working on a mission with Catherine to monitor Gray.

“Finally found.”

"But the problem is that the two of them are together... what should we do? If we arrest Vivian, Gray will probably stop it." Abold said softly.

Another angel thought for a while and replied, "Perhaps we can tell Julian that they are looking for Paladin Grey. If they take Grey away, no one will stop us."

"Are you kidding? The Holy Spirit does not allow anyone to interfere in the matter of Gray."

"Is it considered interfering if I miss a little bit of news?"

"Don't it count?"

"Okay, I'm just giving a suggestion. Don't be excited." The angel spread his hands and said, "There's really nothing to do, so I can only tell the presiding judge. It's crazy. Our own paladins are fighting a civil war, one of them is defeated and rescued by the succubus."

Looking at the other angel, Abold asked, "Who do you think is right?"

“What is right?”

"I ask you, both sides of the Paladin Civil War, who do you think is right."

"You are asking the wrong person. I am a member of the court. I will not just evaluate who is right before the resolution is made. Right or not, it should be the presiding judge."

Listening to this unforgettable official speech, Abold's temper rose and shouted, "Why are there so much nonsense? I'll ask you personally who is right!"

"Personal feeling?"

"Yes, no responsibility for speaking."

After thinking about it, the angel touched his chin and said, "I think this is a bad debt. You and Catherine brought back this Gray, right? A Lich who is a Paladin, may have been a mistake at the beginning. This is still a Lich who advocates absolute light, and the problem is even greater. I think the Holy Spirit is making things difficult for the Holy See. They don't know how to deal with their relationship with the new Paladin, and the new Paladin doesn't know how to retreat. Collisions are inevitable. What I am surprised about is how Julian and the others took action to support this collision... It's simply incredible. Well, this is what I think."

"I've finished speaking? So you support the Holy See?" asked Abold.

"No, I won't support the Holy See. We all know what the Holy See looks like. The faith is almost twisted by them." The angel spread his hands and said, "I think it's good to make things difficult for the Holy Spirit to make them difficult, so that they can't be full and full."

"You said this as if you didn't."

"Then just pretend I didn't say it. I'm just responsible for pursuing fugitives. The trial is not my own. By the way, I would like to remind you that you were seconded because you knew Gray."

Abold sighed and continued to stare speechlessly in the direction where Grey and Vivian were.

"You are here to watch me, I will inform the presiding judge."

"I thought you would ask you to stare here, and then I'll inform the presiding judge."

"Why?"

"So you can let them go."

Looking at the angel, Abold said softly: "I can't do this kind of thing. If I could do this kind of thing, Catherine wouldn't be his guardian angel. If I became his guardian angel, he wouldn't have lost this battle."
Chapter completed!