The Girlboss Begs For Remarriage

"Such a shame."

Mobius sneered under the moon's glow, wiping the blood off his lips.

Then, searching and taking the spiritron vein from Mr. Shrode's body, he nodded in satisfaction. "Along with the Bloodcrane Spiritbloom that Huub Droitner mentioned, my master will transcend mortality." "Guh..."

Mr. Shrode was glaring from the floor even as he watched the spiritron vein being taken away. He raised a shaking hand to snatch it from Mobius' grasp...

That was when it happened.

-

Feeling a numbing sensation in his neck, Mr. Shrode strained himself to lower his gaze and found a swarm of black bugs crawling out of his chest.

It was a harrowing sight, and when Mr. Shrode saw it, he realized that they had entered his body when he drank Mobius' wine.

"Guh..."

chewed through. He could only watch helplessly as more of those bugs crawled out

less than ten minutes, nothing was left of the living, breathing person on

Early next morning...

ones who told the Martial

Frank was shocked.

breakfast, when she told him that she came

member of the Martial Alliance and had considerable influence. As such, a tip from them had to be taken seriously, even sending out their chief to investigate.

was neutral toward the Lionhearts, Frank considered them his mortal

in turn made Frank suspect that this was a ruse that the

him and

the Lionhearts' style, which was why he and Silverbell must stay on

You've really come, Mr.

Silverbell were having breakfast, a smiling blond foreign businessman approached