Bab 171: A Gift from an Avenger (Part Ⅱ)

"Devil!" Alicia took out her two-handed sword and stood in front of Mira.

"... devil?" The witch sounded cold, showing no emotion. "What about you church people? You send orphaned and abandoned children to cloisters and pick witches out of them? What should I call you?"

"Nonsense!" The woman warrior retorted. "The church accepts and raises the kids out of kindness of deities. If it's not for cloisters, how many of them will be able to reach an adult age? Ubiquitous demons corrupt the weak-minded ones and lead a small number of them astray now and then, but the church will solve all the problems at once when finding a devil witch among them. You're distorting reality."

Hearing the word "solve", the witch's golden pupils suddenly dimmed. She raised her giant sword in just one hand and said, "I'm not very interested in arguing with a dead woman, so that's it."