Chapter 426: Proof of Existence (14)
0% Scenes drifted across a pure white field of vision.
Fragmented images flipped past like disorganized pages in a messy stack of documents. My breath came in gasps, my heart thumped erratically, and for a moment I briefly wondered if I was getting too worked up.
A voice came from afar, both clear and sweet. I felt I’d heard it somewhere before.
“......You had a younger sister?”
At those words, the world began to slowly regain its color. Inside a tent lit by flickering lamps, a woman sat across from me, with a bottle in hand. Her pale pink eyes were striking.
Her indifferent expression was tinged with irritation and regret. Even her gaze screamed annoyance.
As if life itself had become a tiresome chore for her.
Perhaps that was why she engaged in all sorts of bizarre antics. I remembered her being an exemplary priestess once, but the woman I saw again after so long was nothing like before.
Her notorious deeds reached my ears regularly.
She’d smashed a bottle over an archbishop’s head for reprimanding her drinking habits, assaulted a believer during confession, and had frequently gotten into squabbles with slum residents while supposedly there for charity work.
How had she fallen so far?