I laid Alice in bed, fainting, and put the knife I had in my reach, and lit a candle on a nearby candlestick, with a flint stone.
And I'll have a sedative herbal tea for two and wait for her to wake up.
Meanwhile, as I read through to reading, my voice leaked from her.
"Ugh..."
"Good morning. How are you feeling?
"... what are you going to do? I thought you were gonna stick it out to the Knights."
"I'm going to stick it out. I just wanted to talk to you today or so."
"You might get away with it one of these days, huh?
Alice gets up with a suppressed belly and a sarcastic grin on me.
And I took a sip of the herbal tea I keep nearby.
"You're bold. Didn't you think it was poisoned?
"If you were in there, you'd already be killing me. I had a chance to kill him."
"It doesn't matter anymore. I just wanted to talk to you."
"Talk to me?
Round your eyes if my words were unexpected.
I put a book on her side like that and shifted the chair towards her.
"Mr. Alice. Just one thing, may I ask you something?
"Fine. It's no use hiding anything."
"... how many years ago did you start killing children?
Breathe into my words, Alice.
Her unusual behavior this time, maybe his... Dahlia has something to do with it.
Of course this is speculation. But I wanted to believe it.
"Four years ago, I guess. All of a sudden in me, my desire to kill them increased."
"... four years ago, when the Sage's Law appeared?
"Maybe that's about it"
In her response, she gives me the look of a scuffled bitter bug.
There are people here who haven't solved her technique even now. Then it means she might be alive.
Because magic is obliterated by magic, it is extinguished when its magic is lost.
No, it will be absorbed by the Demon Nucleus before then.
"... ok. Will you come to Sophia's tomorrow?
"Bettenburg... Wasn't it? Now what the hell are you doing?
"... I can't say much because I don't have any certainty that the Pope of the Wise Men's Law may still be alive"
"Of the Law of the Wise, the Pope...?
I hold my head and think back to the Devil's Nucleus I saw during the day.
Maybe the witch isn't gone. Demons are incomplete human beings who mix magic with magic.
This means that Demon Nucleus is still producing magic... witches.
But from now on, they'll be closing and paying the front door for me to head to Isel.
Even more so if the gatekeeper is being coached by a serious zar.
As I was starting to summarize what I just thought into my notebook, the sound of a knock suddenly came in from inside the house.
"Mr. Alice, can you get out?
"Fine, but can I? You might get away with this, huh?
"You can run if you want to. Because that herbal tea contains sleeping pills."
"What, lie!?
"It's a lie."
I'm just a little grumpy about my words, Alice.
With a bump, she opened the door, where a grey-haired big man stared down at Alice, characterised by a bandage-wrapped naked eye.
"... you're Alice, aren't you? Have them come with us."
"Is it the Knights? I can't believe Lazareth already called it in."
"No. We're not the Knights or anything. Our purpose is to rebuild the law of the wise."
I doubted the man's words for a moment.
The Resurrection of the Sage's Law? No way, this man is a witch......?
I pull through the dagger I had, and I turn to the man.
But he grabbed the blade tip of the dagger with his bare hands and threw me in the back of the house.
"... Ga... ah...!
The shock wave caused by being thrown by a man is just as damaging, and as destructive as Charlotte's fist experienced four years ago hits my body.
"There's nothing for you. There's no place for you in the Sage Act we're launching."
"What do you mean...!
"We already have a wise man. It's not a defect like yours, but someone with great popularity."
I manage to get up consciously, but in this body, which was already exhausted, I can't accept so much shock and get on my knees.
"We create equality in our hands. The wise lend such wisdom to us, the wonderful."
With an unchallenged voice, the man keeps talking and comes up to my house.
But I don't have the strength to refuse it. That's all I had, like what I could do.
I squeeze my final strength and throw Alice's knife in the direction of the man.
But I'm avoided after being laughed at with my nose, as if to say that's a prospect.
But I'm glad.
I put out the fire I threw on the candlestick candle behind me and created a dark room.
And the moment I disappear, I run out towards the exit and down the road to Isel.
And by dawn, I couldn't find them anywhere.