Chapter 16: Do You Wish to Be Deceived Forever?

Vivienne’s voice was very soft, like a whisper in his ear, but it made Lynn shudder violently.

He slowly opened his eyes.

**[Vivian Blackening Value: 100%]**

**[Alicia Blackening Value: 100%]**

Two bright red, shocking values hung over his head like two Swords of Damocles.

It exploded.

Everything had exploded.

In Vivian’s golden eyes, there was no longer any emotion, only a hollow, terrifying calm.

She slowly lowered the greatsword on her shoulder, the tip of the blade thudding against the ground with a crisp “clang”.

“Lynn, say it one more time.”

The smile on Alicia’s face had completely vanished.

For the first time, a cold, undisguised expression appeared on her face, which was usually as holy as an angel’s.

She withdrew her hand as if Lynn were something filthy.

“Lord Lynn, do you know what you are saying? Are you making a confession to me?”

‘Confession? I think you’re trying to send me straight to heaven!’

Lynn screamed frantically in his heart, but on the surface, he could only grit his teeth and hold on.

He knew he had no way out.

“I… what I said is true.”

He did not dare to look into anyone’s eyes and could only stare at the ground.

“I… I have fallen in love with someone. Just recently.”

“Who is she?”

“What is the name of that impure creature?”

Two questions rang out at the same time.

Vivian and Alicia, who were irreconcilable enemies just a moment ago, showed a surprising amount of tacit understanding at this moment.

Their focus was completely identical.

“She…”

Lynn’s brain worked at high speed, and he began to fabricate this non-existent virtual character on the spot.

“She is a very ordinary person. You don’t know her.”

“Ordinary?”

Vivian let out a short, mirthless breath.

“A person you could fall in love with would be an ordinary person?”

“You have been deceived, Lord Lynn.”

Alicia’s tone carried a sense of pity, as if she were looking at an incorrigible fallen soul.

“That is certainly not a person. It is a succubus disguised in human form, a lust-demon lurking in the shadows. She has polluted your soul.”

They didn’t believe him at all.

Or rather, in their logic, the option of “Lynn falling in love with someone else” simply did not exist.

The only explanation was that Lynn had been deceived and seduced.

“What does she look like?”

Vivienne pressed, her hand already gripping the hilt of her sword again.

“Tell me her physical characteristics,” Alicia’s voice carried the tone of a judgment.

“I will have the Templar Knights turn the entire Academy — no, the entire Royal Capital — upside down. I will drag out that sinner who profaned God’s grace and tie her to the stake.”

Lynn felt the cold sweat on his back soak through his clothes.

He hadn’t expected the effect of his self-destructing lie to be this good.

“It was too good!”

Instead of attacking him out of jealousy, they had instantly formed an “Anti-Third-Party Alliance”!

“She… she has long black hair, and her eyes… are red…”

Lynn could only bite the bullet and describe Lilith’s appearance with slight modifications.

After all, she was the only template he could think of that fit the image of a “Witch.”

“Black hair, red…”

Vivian muttered those words, a dangerous light flashing in her golden eyes.

Alicia closed her eyes directly, seemingly activating some kind of Divine Art to perform a search.

“Found her.”

In just a few seconds, she opened her eyes.

In her azure pupils, a scene was reflected that made Lynn’s soul almost fly out of his body.

“First-year freshman, Lilith. From a fallen noble family on the border. Black hair, red eyes. Magic Affinity rating: Dangerous.”

‘How could she know!’

Lynn’s heart skipped a beat.

‘Is the Saintess’s intelligence system that terrifying!’

“Lilith?”

Vivian had obviously heard the name before.

“The Top Freshman who almost blew up half the Martial Arts Arena during the entrance exam?”

They glanced at each other.

At this moment, the invisible wall between the Imperial Princess and the Saintess completely disappeared.

They reached a consensus.

“Target locked.”

“So it’s her.”

Vivian nodded slowly, a smile appearing on her face that could only be described as ferocious.

“Very well, it saves me the trouble of looking for her.”

“I will personally take action to purify that bedbug clinging to Lord Lynn’s side,” Alicia said calmly, yet her voice contained a hidden storm.

“They… they were going to find Lilith!”

Lynn completely panicked.

He just wanted to fabricate a non-existent enemy to divert the fire.

How could he have dragged the innocent Lilith into this!

Although that woman was no saint, her crimes didn’t warrant death!

“It’s not her!”

Lynn shouted hurriedly.

“You’ve got it wrong! It’s not Lilith!”

“Oh?”

Vivian turned her head and looked at him with great interest.

“Then who is it?”

“Are you still making excuses for that monster, Lord Lynn?”

A look of disappointment filled Alicia’s eyes.

“Your kindness is being exploited.”

They didn’t listen to his explanation at all.

In their minds, they had already decided that Lilith was the “vixen.”

Looking at the way they were united against a common enemy, Lynn experienced for the first time what it meant to shoot himself in the foot.

Lynn’s blood was almost chilled to the bone.

He watched helplessly as Vivian and Alicia, these two women who had wanted to kill each other a second ago, reached an incredible united front because of a common “enemy.”

The killing intent in their eyes was no longer aimed at each other, but converged into a single force, pointing distantly at that unlucky Top Freshman, Lilith.

“No!”

“Absolutely not!”

He couldn’t drag an innocent person down because of his own stupid lie.

“Wait a minute!”

Lynn’s voice changed its pitch.

He rushed forward a step and spread his arms, blocking the doorway of the changing room and standing in their path.

This movement left him directly exposed in the center of their two auras.

Vivienne stopped in her tracks, her golden eyes glancing over coldly.

“Move.”

“What are you doing, Lord Lynn?”

Alicia’s smile returned to her face, but there was no warmth in it.

“Are you protecting that blasphemer? Or have you been so completely corrupted by her that you can no longer distinguish between good and evil?”

**[Vivian Blackening Value: 100%]**

**[Alicia Blackening Value: 100%]**

The values didn’t drop at all.

In their eyes, Lynn’s obstruction was solid evidence of him protecting the “other woman.”

This made him even more certain of how foolish his decision to self-destruct had been.

“I’m not protecting her!”

Lynn was sweating profusely with anxiety.

He knew they wouldn’t believe anything he said now, so he could only scramble for a reason.

“I… I mean, you can’t just leave like this!”

“Oh?”

Vivian advanced a step while carrying her greatsword, the immense pressure making Lynn’s breath hitch.

“Give me a reason not to kill her.”

“That’s right, Lord Lynn.”

Alicia also followed, sandwiching him between the two of them, one on the left and one on the right.

“Please tell Alicia, why can’t we go and purify that source of pollution immediately? Do you wish to be deceived forever?”