Beta Stride, who was working for Asta, approached him and said, "I ordered the guards to keep a watchful eye on the road and to report to me if the police come."

I chose to ignore them and instead made my way cautiously approach the corpse of the woman who had been killed. My very first experience with a dead corpse laying on the ground was the one I had just described.

The appearance of the woman's face was eerily ghostly. Her eyes seemed to bulge out of her head as she became more terrified. Present was no one there to put a stop to it. It's possible that she...