"This is a device to test if you are clean or not, if the sphere glows with blue of white light, that means you are clean enough to enter the town, if not you have to cleanse yourself before you are allowed to enter the town. Here, put your hand on here." said the guard, Maria did as he instructed and the magic crystal ball glows in white light.
"Oh my! I'm clean! Yes! I'm clean!" Maria exclaimed, rather excited.
The guard smiled and lead him to... Hold on, before that, let's turn back the time to before Maria departed to Quill Town.
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"Listen up Maria, this is an important operation, you need to get to Dominic's side and monitor every single movement of him." said Chris.
"Anything I need to pay attention to?" Maria asked.
"To prevent any unnecessary trouble, before you depart, please have this capsule made by Ben. It can give an illusion that you are cleansed inside out, even if they actually used their advanced devices, they would not notice it." said Chris.
Maria nodded, rather serious.
"Oh! And please wear this white robe that we never planned to return to the merchants who lend it to us." said Chris.
"Yes Sir!" Maria is super excited that he doesn't realize what kind of job Chris had given to him.
"One more thing, take a bath in the oasis in the basement before you go, make sure you are all clean." said Chris, and weirdly, kind of teasing.
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Present, Quill Town.
The guard led Maria to the cathedral and is greeted by Nathan at the front door.
"Are you the temporary assistant recommended by Brother Chris?" Nathan asked, as usual with no emotion.
"Yes I am." said Maria with a formal tone.
And so, Nathan led Maria into the cathedral, then the backroom where Dominic is located at.
"Hello, I'm Dominic, the mayor as well the high priest of Quill Town." Dominic greeted Maria in his formal tone.
"What? Is he an angel? Chris chan didn't tell me about that." Maria thought while glared at Dominic.
"Hmm... That expression of yours is similar to how Chris and his friends saw me the first time we met. Are you having any issues with angels before to have such a reaction?" Dominic asked, as if he could read Maria's mind.
Maria is a bit surprised by that sudden question from Dominic, he thought for a while and remembered that Chris had reassured him that he can answer any questions Dominic wanted to know as long as it's not confidential.
"Yes, we are indeed having bad experiences with angels, but doesn't mean that we hate all the angels, it purely depends on the situation." said Maria, this time it's Dominic the one that gets surprised.
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"Chris, why are you letting Maria go to Quill Town as Dominic's temporary assistant? You know he is the type that holds onto hatred so tightly and stubbornly, how is it possible for him to act as an angel's assistant? You must still remember how hysterical he was when that village been destroyed, right?" Sky asked.
"Hah! Don't worry, I believe once he knows Dominic's identity, he will go 'Ah... So you are Chris-chan's mother's old acquaintance! Then we are comrades, I shall call you as Domi-chan.' or something like that." said Chris, imitating Maria's tone, Sky burst into a short laughter after hearing that.
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Quill Town, Dominic's room.
"Oh my! You are actually Chris's mother's old friend! Then we are friends as well. Can I call you Uncle Dominic? " said Maria while excitingly grabbed Dominic's hand.
"Uh... Sure, I guess." said Dominic, a bit awkward and surprised at the attitude change of Maria.
"I heard from the entrance guard that you came here by riding on a phoenix, are you by any chance having any relationship with the Trinity of the almighty Kingdom as well? Like Chris and others." Dominic asked again.
"Hmm? I guess so?" said Maria.
"I see... Well, in case Chris forgot, please remind him to advise His Majesty on how harmful that drug could be to His body." said Dominic.
"Heh? Ah... Yes, I will remind him about that... Oh... Almost forgot. Since Chris-chan sent me here to take care of you and you look kind of tired, I guess you should put down your current works and have a good rest, I'll help you with it." said Maria.
"Hmm? He really told you to take care of me?" Dominic is a bit confused at Maria's words. "Yes, he did." No, he didn't...
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Secret Base.
"Hold on, now I started to regret about it, knowing how would he behave when he started befriended someone, who knows what kind of weird information would he split out to Dominic." said Chris, rather anxious.
"See? I told you so! You could have send anyone but Maria?" said Sky, with a sneer.
"Well... I was kind of caring about his mental health after all. Ah! Snap out of all these, Jason, can you please help to analyze all these samples." said Chris while taking out all the samples he collected from the dungeon as well as blood samples from town's residents that lost control the days before.
Jason nodded and about to take over the samples and heading to the lab.
"But before that, can you please make me some desserts and snacks? The past few days are a pure torture, those healthy foods have no soul at all." said Chris, which once again caused Sky to burst into laughter, same for Jason.
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*Something out of the story
Sky: "Dear readers."
Chris: "Hmm?"
Sky: "This chapter is meant to be released for webnovel.com."
Chris: "Oh! This matter. Yes, if you're reading this chapter on another platform than webnovel.com, know that it's an illegal copy diffused without the Writer's authorization."
Sky: "As what Chris said. Right now, this story is free on the authorized platform, so please read it from authorized platforms as mental support for the writer."
Chris: "Mhm... There are two authorized platforms. One is webnovel.com. And another one is that messy and half-dead Weebly site that she uses for draft and backup... But not recommended."
Sky: "Ah... Haha. Yes, as Chris said."
Chris: "But look out, those scums might change this note to their own website link. So, be cautious.
Sky : "By the way, if the cover page is the old cover page that shows two stickmen, stop reading it, it's cursed and might caused the writer to stop writing."
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