The Eternal Debauchery's

katherine's shyness

"It's weird" I said and released my hand from the elves with a frown.

As soon as I stopped touching their foreheads, the two elves collapsed on the ground, dead.

“C-Claus!?” Katherine was shocked when she saw that. "Did you kill them?"

I shook my head, but I didn't explain anything. Instead, I was lost in thought.

Just now, while I was investigating the truth about the elves' plans, their souls were self-destructed.

It's not so strange in itself. In many of my lives, I have seen countless methods of keeping secrets against soul reconnaissance, and most of them relied on some sort of self-destruction.

What was strange, however, was the fact that their self-destruction was successful even when I tried to stop it.

Something like that should be impossible for two elves like them.

After all, with my understanding of the soul, few people can bring out something like that in front of me.

And someone who is capable of doing that must be—

"Immortal."

Who with a good enough knowledge of the laws of the soul.

Someone immediately came to my mind.

"Is it related to his plan?" I muttered to myself. “Is he planning to arrive in this world using elves rather than daemons? Was my guess wrong?”

“Klau?” Katherine looked at me confused. "What's going on? Are you okay?"

I shook my head. "I'm doing fine. I just found something interesting.”

"Interesting?" Katherine tilted her head in confusion.

"Yes. Death-related information at the academy.”.

Katherine furrowed her brows. Immediately, his expression turned cold.

"Did you find any clues about the man?"

I'm nodding. "I thought I'd find a clue about him with the daemons, but I never expected his plan to be related to the elves."

Yes, if my guess is correct, he manipulated the elves to bring him to this world.

According to the memories of the two elves I captured, they were on a mission to gather back information about the Arcadian Empire and further pass this information to the daemons.

However, the purpose of the elves was not to destroy the Arcadian Empire or anything like that.

No, their goal is to make a mess.

Other than this elf team, there were several more teams on other missions around the world.

Some of them tried to incite daemons to fight against humans, some of them tried to cause civil strife between human countries, and some of them tried to spread the plague on the ground.

Their only purpose was to cause chaos and death.

And after that, they would use an unknown method to gather the souls of the dead and then use these souls to give strength to something.

All to reach the 'oldest dream' of the elves.

No matter how I looked at it, they were fooled by the immortals to bring it to this world.

Unfortunately, I was unable to learn the specifics of the elf plan.

Part of the reason was because the two elves didn't know much about it, but most of the reason was when I tried to look at the memories related to the specifics of the plan, which was, I triggered something that caused the destruction of their souls.

Yes, just like when I found the Immortal seed for the first time.

This time, however, the self-destruction technique was slightly different. That's the reason why I can't stop it now.

But I'm sure if I were to face the same situation again, I would be able to stop the self-destruction of their souls.I'm not self-proclaimed as the best in terms of souls for nothing.

But before that, I have to take care of other things.

According to the information I saw in the minds of the elves, the daemons knew everything about our convoy.

How many soldiers are there, who are the generals, the strength of the soldiers.

They also knew that I, Prince Claus, was part of the convoy as well. Shit, they even know about the deal we did with the Carmell family just now and the set of military supplies we have.

In other words, there is a high probability that we will be attacked before reaching the front line.

Very enticing.

I explained the situation to Katherine, putting aside some small details.

"In other words, the elves are the ones behind this war?" ask Katherine astonished.

I'm nodding. “Not completely, but they fan the flames behind the scenes.”

I thought for a moment before answering. “I think I will find an opportunity to visit the Elf forest and investigate the situation. And if need be, I'll stop whatever the man plans.”

Katherine was silent for a moment. She then bit her lips and looked at me with a worried expression.

“Claus... Is it true that the world will be destroyed?”

“So you finally asked about that,” I said with a wry smile.

Last time, when the Immortal descended after killing 2 thousand people in the Institute, I told the goddess about the Immortal's plan to destroy the world in front of my woman.

I did not tell him the complete truth and instead mixed some truth with lies. But the fact that he was planning to destroy the world was true.

And Katherine, Dina, Rose, Evelyn, Alice, and Daisy heard about it.

However, all this time, none of them had asked me about it.

That was partly because the opportunity never presented itself, but also partly because most of them knew that they would be of little use against such an enemy.

Only Rose and Evelyn knew a little about the enemy, but even they remained silent, choosing not to talk about the topic.

However, it seemed like Katherine finally could not stay silent.

"What do you want to know?" I looked at him and asked while sighing.

“... How strong is that person? you said something about him being an Immortal. ”

I thought for a moment about how to answer it.

In the end, I decided to tell him a little truth.

"He's very strong. Stronger than the Goddess of Order. Much stronger than you think.”

Katherine's expression turned a little pale.

"But I'm stronger" I said suddenly.

Katherine stupefied.

“B-REally?”

"Of course." I walked towards him and grabbed his hand with a smile. “Don't worry too much. Even if the man plans to destroy the world, I will stop him. I do not want to boast, but this man is very strong.”

A slight red hue appeared on Katherine's face. But he then put on a stern expression and looked straight into my eyes.

"Claus, if you need help, tell me."

Hm?

“The woman said that we were useless, that we were just a burden. Klaus, I love you. And I want to help you. I know I'm not strong enough yet, but even so, I will help as much as I can. ”

I smiled wryly. “You should not care about Ysnay's words. He's a psychopath.”

“Although so, I–”

“Ssst.” I said and put a finger on Katherine's lips. “But even so, I'm glad to hear your words. Also, this is the first time you've told me that you love me. ”

Katherine stupefied. He then became extremely red and lowered his head timidly.

I chuckled and raised his chin, implanting a soft kiss on his lips.

"I love you too."

A confused expression appeared on Katherine's face.

After a few seconds like that, he turned red and looked at the ground with embarrassment.

“K-You know, I have no business tonight, so if you want, you can come visit me..”.

Mm?

Is this an invitation?

Happiness comes so suddenly!

How troublesome.I already have plans with Aunt Dayana for tonight.

However, Katherine rarely took the initiative. I don't want to waste this opportunity.

How about this…

“I have to investigate a few things about the plans of the elves tonight, so I will be busy after this. How about this? I'll go to your tent after midnight. What say?"

Katherine blushed and nodded.

"I'll wait for you."