Netori: Stealing The Hero's Party!

'What in tarnation is happening here?' Hearing the commotion going on inside the church, the pale ghost of the vengeful spirit made her way down the tower. She'd already witnessed the murder of the pirates and enjoyed every moment of it, but what never could've expected was to see those very people who'd killed them to be in such a battered state inside the church.

"There's a spirit by the stairs, Erika can you cleanse it?" Being sensed instantly by Asmodia, however, her eyes widened and turned to the devil. However, with Erika still struggling to get up, nobody but Liliyana and Linkle paid any mind to Asmodia's comment.

"It's decrepit building, let the spirit be, who cares we have more pressing matters to worry about," said the witch while concocting some medicine in a small mortar that she'd brought.n/ô/vel/b//jn dot c//om

"Matters we wouldn't have to worry about if you weren't with us!" Liliyana complained, staring at the witch, her heart full of contempt.

Staring back at the fae, Linkle wanted to rebut, however, after everything being interrogated about what happened at the inn, she no longer had the energy for yet another argument.

"Erika? You feeling better yet or not?!" Cutting in between their quarrel regardless, Asmodia called out to the priestess–the only person capable of cleaning spirits.

Although her head was still spinning, the priestess picked herself off the ground and through half-opened eyes looked towards the stairs leading up. Concentrating her mana into her vision, she saw a faint outline of the spirit staring back at her with a single eye poking from behind the thick hair.

"F-fine, I'll handle it…"

"Nononono!" As Erika tried to stumble her way closer to the spirit, the girl screeched so loud it made the priestess fall face first.

Her voice rang in everyone's ears even after she'd stopped screaming, but it also got everyone's attention to turn to her at once. Most of the party members couldn't see a thing, but those who did like Erika, Asmodia, and Linkle, wanted it gone that instant.

"Fucking thing!" Screaming in rage, Erika looked up at the spirit once more. "What did you do that for?! I'm trying to help you move on, you idiot!"

"I don't want to, you idiot!" The spirit complained back.

"What the fuck is going on there?" Asmodia whispered in the background, her mind too focused on healing Will-O to focus on what Erika was fighting the spirit over.

"We don't have time for this, Erika just cleanse the spirit," Liliyana asserted, however, as Erika got to her feet and moved closer, she noticed something odd about the spirit that made her stop her quarrel with it.

"Hey didn't you guys say that two girls died here tonight?" Her eyes moving across the many bruises on the spirit, Erika wondered if it was the same was the same girl who'd been raped and murdered tonight.

Reminded of the women murdered the very night, Liliyana's eyes dropped to the floor and her mind began to flounder. Still struggling to come to terms with what had happened, she couldn't bring herself to speak, thus recognizing that hesitance on her face, Amedith slightly turned his gaze towards Erika and responded with a raspy throat.

"Y-yea…t-two women d-died," feeling a sharp pain in his lungs, Amedith clenched his teeth once again and squeezed around his heart. "F-fuckk…T-that hurts!"

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"S-stop moving!" Pulled out of her trance by the pained voice of her lover, Liliyana tended to him again while Erika decided to enquire further with the spirit.

"Soooo, are you one of the victims from tonight?" She asked, and taking note of Erika's compassion, the spirit almost said yes to her.

However, as the thought of someone finally learning her story crossed her mind, the spirit shook her head in denial and began unraveling everything about her life. From the fall of her father from a pirate to a spice merchant to their death at the false hero's hand, she blurted out everything as if her mouth had been sealed so far and had only been opened just now.

What surprised Erika the most, however, was not related to her, but how she painted the church's inhabitants like a cult. Locking the nuns into their room at night, not letting them leave with the priest being the only one allowed outside, and the fact that they accepted the false heroes so quickly, nothing about that was adding up in Erika's mind.

"T-they're dead?"

"Yes, at least Gunther and Amber are, I saw their bodies half burned inside that inn before I teleported here." Informing the spirit about the heroes' death, Linkle stared at the spirit eager to know how she would respond to her tormentors being gone. "Only Baylee remains, although we're not sure where she is currently."

Standing still staring at the ground, the spirit couldn't believe what she was hearing even though she'd dreamt of their demise. Somehow, unable to see it, it didn't feel real. There was satisfaction in the mere knowledge of their deaths, after all, she could've simply waited for them to age and die if their death alone was enough to make her feel content and move on.

"You robbed me of what little I wanted to do in this world…" She whispered to herself before slowly lifting her gaze back to look at Erika.

"And what was that?" The priestess asked.

"TO WATCH THEM SUFFER IS WHAT I WANT!" Screaming at the top of her lungs, the spirit had finally let her presence be known to the nuns awoken by her voice.

It only took a few seconds before the cloaked women began banging on the locked door to their chambers, and although the door wouldn't budge, the sound of them gnawing like a pack of angry goblins.

"What the hell is that?" Finally rising from his table, Raven sat upright and glanced over to the door on which the women were banging. "Those are zombies, right?"

Looking around at everyone getting up as well, he was met with many concerned faces that thought the same way as him. Beyond that door was not a group of nuns, but for some reason a pack of zombies trying to take down the door.

'This fucking island, how many secrets is it hiding?!' Tired of surprises the island kept throwing at them, Raven got off the bench and headed for the door.

"Let's end this and get the fuck out of this place!" He exclaimed, already tired of the place. As for the others? They couldn't agree more.