“No matter what! We, the people of the Tribunal, need a reasonable explanation from you!”
The stern-faced Tribunal nun slammed the table, causing the mountain of documents to shake and the ancient solid wood table to creak in protest.
Facing such a brutish woman, the Cardinal’s usually intellectual and calm face couldn’t help but twitch a few times.
“That night in the hospital blood bank, we confronted that vampire directly! I even participated in the subsequent interrogation and torture of that blood kin! That kind of monster, abnormal inside and out, with a twisted mind, is a special envoy from the Holy See? And you even arranged for her to enroll as the Holy Saintess’s sister?”
“Are you completely disregarding the safety of the students?”
“Have you considered what the outside world would say about our convent if something went wrong!”
“Are you trying to destroy the centuries of reputation accumulated by St. Carona Convent!”
Sister Mabel’s voice was filled with barely suppressed rage.
Not to mention the sudden order last night that made her work an overnight shift…
Anyway, she had originally planned to get some good rest that morning, but then her subordinates informed her about the vampire’s enrollment…
This executive of the First Division of the Tribunal, who was originally known for her resolute and unyielding character, was now on the verge of a mental breakdown.
Did these people, who sat in their offices all day and didn’t go out on field missions, truly not know how powerful that vampire was?
That day in the hospital, as one of the Tribunal’s most powerful elite squads, they were instantly annihilated in front of that vampire!
They couldn’t even use any of their abilities…
When they confronted that vampire directly that day, whether it was the blessing of sacred runes, the containment artifacts they carried… or even the contractual agreements to sacrifice themselves and exchange power with dangerous entities…
Everything failed.
It was as if the world rejected them at that moment.
Even Saint-level powerhouses, when facing these fully armed and organized supernatural squads, wouldn’t dare to claim they could defeat them so easily.
And that vampire…
She was even toying with them, as if for amusement.
So when the others rescued them from the tentacles and slimes in the basement and said they had caught the vampire, Mabel couldn’t help but feel a shiver of fear.
How many Tribunal sisters had to be sacrificed… just to capture that vampire alive?
But when Mabel saw the vampire twisting her body and teasing them, the Tribunal nuns, in the interrogation room of the containment facility…
She understood.
That vampire was still toying with them.
Even if they apologized to the bloodkin girl, saying they had arrested the wrong person and were willing to offer compensation to have this formidable being leave the convent, the little vampire princess completely ignored them.
She even told them to act like first-class train attendants, respectfully presenting her with the sweetest and most delicious virgins!
She even targeted the convent’s students multiple times, using it to provoke the Tribunal.
Those students who were violated by the vampire, for some inexplicable reason, claimed they were willing…
Even though no mind-control spells were detected on them.
The last time Lilith and a female student were rolling naked in the grass, it was Mabel who stumbled upon them.
Every time Mabel saw that vampire these days, she felt like she was about to have a brain hemorrhage…
Finally, she was truly unwilling to give up, thinking that since this vampire was already in their hands, how could she be allowed to be so arrogant?
A few days ago, she went alone into the depths of the containment facility, holding a holy artifact unique to the Tribunal, intending to stab the vampire.
Then she was stripped naked and tied up by Lilith, thrown onto the cold ground, and had her soft, fair feet stepping on this strong Tribunal nun, humiliating her severely.
All of this seemed to tell Mabel that in front of that vampire, she could only be as helpless as she was that night when she was hung by tentacles, waiting for the vampire to spank her.
If Mabel hadn’t been steadfast in her faith and strong in character…
After such humiliation, she would have surely thought of taking her own life.
That damned vampire, in the past half month, had made countless nuns who went to interrogate her cry.
Many pure and kind nuns… after being humiliated by that vampire…
Felt themselves to be unclean, unworthy of continuing to serve God, and wanted to retire.
Unforgivable!
The Cardinal watched Mabel, seething with righteous indignation, and sighed, adjusting the monocle over her left eye.
“Since you put it that way, there’s nothing I can do.”
“I’ll just have to show you what leadership bullying looks like.”
“This is a direct order from Her Royal Holiness, the Saint, and the Central Holy See! Sister Mabel, listen carefully! This is an order! Are you defying the Holy See’s orders? Am I to assume you are no longer loyal?”
“…”
Mabel scoffed, clearly amused, at being accused of disloyalty.
She hadn’t expected the Cardinal to resort to such an unreasonable display of power.
But as one of the leaders of the Holy See’s enforcement agencies, she wasn’t one to be easily pushed around.
“Your Eminence, have you considered this! If anything goes wrong within the convent at this stage, you, as the interim leader, will bear inescapable responsibility! Her Royal Holiness is not in the convent right now!”
“Of course I know that!” The Cardinal’s hand, gripping a blank document, trembled slightly.
She knew perfectly well that if the Saintess wasn’t here, she would be blamed for anything that happened in the church.
But if the Saintess were here, these people wouldn’t dare question her… they would only faithfully carry out her orders.
They’d think the Saintess’s orders surely held deep meaning…
“Sigh… even though the positions of Cardinal and Saintess are actually equal in rank, people generally don’t treat the Cardinal with the same reverence as they do the other Divinely Chosen.”
“Nominally, the Cardinal acts as a supervisor of the same rank as the Divinely Chosen. But who dares to supervise those Divinely Chosen ones…”
“Just like her, daring to oppose what Her Royal Holiness wants to do… she’d probably lose her position. Divinely Chosen ones are hard to find… but is it hard to find someone who wants to be a Cardinal?”
“Didn’t she know that vampire was dangerous in the academy?”
“This is the will of the Saintess and the Central Holy See.”
“I don’t believe in that vampire’s sudden status as a special envoy! How could such a vulgar and dangerous being have any connection to the Central Holy See and the impeccably virtuous Her Royal Holiness, the Saintess! And even if Her Royal Holiness were here right now, I would question her!”
“You’re truly brave, then…”
Others might not know, but as a Cardinal… as someone who had watched the Saintess grow from an ordinary executive nun into a Divinely Chosen one, she knew perfectly well what kind of person the Saintess truly was behind her outer appearance and dignified, impeccable behavior—someone who did things her own way.
So the Cardinal continued to repeat herself.
“This is the will of the Saintess and the Holy See.”
“If she’s truly a special envoy of the Holy See, why didn’t she reveal the holy seal and her identity as an envoy from the very beginning!”
“The will of the Saintess and the Holy See…”
“And as a Holy See envoy! Why would she do such things to the nuns and students of the convent! Even if she really is an envoy! I will report her to the Holy See! If Your Eminence doesn’t do anything! I’ll go to the Central Holy See’s basilica with a sign and appeal!”
“The will…”
“I accuse Your Eminence of succumbing to the vampire’s allure! Distorting the orders of the Saintess and the Holy See, and disregarding the safety of the students and nuns in the convent!”
“Will…”
“As God’s envoys, we are the voice of God on Earth! Even if we can’t defeat that vampire, we cannot yield! Your Eminence!”
“You damn it! Are you ever going to stop!”
The Cardinal finally snapped!
“Can’t you just consider it as the Special Envoy! Checking our purity as nuns?”
“The Special Envoy! Is merely supervising whether we have protected the chastity of the students!”
“Is there anything wrong with that?”
“And just let her look! Did it cost you a piece of flesh?”
“You’re so capable! Go ahead and gather people yourself to drive that vampire out of the convent!”
“Let’s see if Her Royal Holiness and the Central Holy See will remove you from your post when they find out!”
“Don’t come here and shout at me!”
Seeing the Cardinal, now heated and speaking such shameless words, Mabel was speechless for a moment.
The Cardinal decided that today, no matter how far-fetched the reason, she would legitimize the vampire’s identity.
This brutish nun from the Tribunal simply didn’t understand!
Both the Saintess’s orders and those from the Central Holy See were real; she wasn’t deliberately covering up or distorting facts.
That vampire was truly not someone to be trifled with! Even she, who currently controlled the convent’s barrier… not to mention whether she could win a fight!
The main thing was, if they actually fought that vampire, the entire convent would be flattened! That would truly be disregarding everyone’s lives!
And that bloodkin truly had deep ties with the Holy See!
“If you keep nagging!”
“I’m going to show you the Cardinal’s iron fist!”
“I’ll punch your head crooked!”
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