Their eyes met, and Miquella’s face contorted into an ugly one marked with horror and hate.
"You devil!" Miquella’s shriek pierced the air.
Godfrey’s eyes narrowed. He certainly didn’t like being called a devil by someone whose life he spared.
She quickly unleashed her summoning voice. "Guilty!" It spoke like several beings spoke through it. As though a chorus spoke in unison. This wasn’t the judge Godfrey first met. This was a twisted version.
"I command the air around you to cease to exist." It declared.
Godfrey’s eyes went to the old man, who wasn’t far from him. He clenched his teeth, teleported, and grabbed Miquella’s neck.
She choked, so her summon had to retrieve that judgment, not that it had much effect on Godfrey anyway, but Miquella was like a feral beast that could see the actual truth despite being a judge.
She laughed. "Do you know how many summons I have fed on? I’m literally a god, a god!"
The space around them distorted as she spoke, and Miquella sat on her seat as the judge of this tribunal.
"Miquella..." A deep voice rang, and everything crumbled as her judge bled from its orifices.
Miquella grabbed Godfrey’s hand, struggling to release herself as she came back to reality, only to discover Godfrey had lifted her from the ground.
She stared into his Black-Out eyes and suddenly felt a chill that ran down her spine. Her breath quickened as she was running out of breath, fast.
"I warned you last time. I cannot be judged, not by the likes of you. You’ve repeated the same mistake twice, and you’re of no use to humanity now."
A gauntlet covered his arm as he tightened his grip.
Miquella clutched his hand, struggling yet failing. Her eyes trembled.
It couldn’t be.
She had fed on so many people, she had broken the law. She was promised to become a judge of gods, a supreme entity that the entirety of earth would respect in this new age.
"Mom."
That voice made Godfrey freeze.
He slowly turned his head and saw Sarah. She stood at the veranda with a terrified look, while Mountain was behind her.
They had just come out.
Miquella... was Sarah’s mother!
Godfrey let go of Miquella, who rushed toward her daughter. She embraced Sarah tightly, then cupped her cheeks.
"Who did it? What happened?"
"This knight saved me." Sarah said, while glaring at Godfrey.
He could already see that she hated him, but that wasn’t a problem. Godfrey wasn’t offended. He would also hate anyone who held his mother’s neck like that.
His time here was over. It was time to leave.
"Mountain."
Sarah’s eyes widened when Mountain left her, heading for Godfrey, while Miquella dragged her into the orphanage.
When she was out of sight, Godfrey looked at the old man.
"Is that woman really Sarah’s mother? You would have watched me kill her."
The old man was silent for a moment.


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