New law of Beast Taming

"Hmmm…hmmmm"

Lily whistled and hummed as she walked through the hallways of the monastery. She was happy since she had managed to survive a close encounter with a monster. How that happened, she was not even sure.

And once Lily would reach the common room, she would truly be safe. No monster would come close to a group of sisters since most of them could use holy magic. Lily was the unfortunate one who could not use any magic.

"Lily, what are you doing here? I thought I asked you to take care of our guest."

Lily almost had a heart attack and she turned around. Head Sister Karen was standing behind Lily and she breathed a sigh of relief.

"Head sister, you scared the crap out of me. I thought you were the monster I saw earlier. By the way, I think something is wrong with the barrier in this place. A monster managed to slip in here and…"

"Sister Lily, you need to know when to keep your eyes closed and your mouth shut. You could end up in some serious trouble one of these days."

Lily's mouth went quiet suddenly. She looked at the sister in front of her with a supposed expression.

"What do you mean by those words, head sister? Did you know that there was a monster inside the walls of the monastery? If so, then why did you not tell everyone else?"

Lily asked with a panicked voice. Various possibilities of what was happening ran through her mind but she could not believe them.

Or rather, she did not want to believe those possibilities and ended up rejecting everything else.

"Sister Lily, do you know that this monastery has a secret we can never tell to outsiders? Do you wish to know what it is?"

Head Sister Karen asked this question in a rather ambiguous voice. Lily took a step back as she felt the head sister's aura expanding.

The feeling Lily had from the head sister made her scared. Her instincts were telling her not to respond to anything Head sister Karen was suggesting to her.

"I-I don't think I should consider your offer. I-I need to head back to the common room and meet everyone else…"

"Sister Lily, I think you misunderstood my order as a suggestion. I am not giving you the option to decline my offer."

Lily gulped whatever was in her throat and followed Head sister Karen. Otherwise, she was sure that she would die.

The head sister leads her down into a corridor Lily had never seen before. The only window during the whole route let Lily know that she was being led underground and into a basement.

"I never knew that this place has a basement."

Lily voiced her observation, only to get a chuckle as a response.

"This place is…special. We do not advertise it to outsiders for obvious reasons. Now, I hope you keep your mouth shut about this place, sister Lily."

Lily opened her mouth but closed it just as quickly when she felt something falling on her shoulder. The texture on her body felt familiar.

The tentacle traveled all around Lily's body and covered her mouth. She opened it to yell but the tentacle forced her to gag.

Head sister Karen pretended she did not see anything until then. But once she did turn around, she had a huge smile plastered on her face.

"Rejoice, Sister Lily. You are one of the few chosen ones who had been allowed to come down here. And now, I will have you become another foundation for us."

Lily's body was dragged down the stairs and into the clear liquid. Head sister Karen looked down at the pool and the various female bodies floating inside the pool.

All of these were the poor sisters who had the unfortunate fate of finding out the truth about this monastery. As per the orders of the overlooker, they could no longer be kept alive. And yet, Head sister Karen had no heart to kill them.

"May you all find your way back to the creator's embrace. I shall pray for all your souls."

Head Sister Karen clasped her hands together and prayed. Then it was time for her to get up and head back. The rest of the sisters would be looking for her soon and Karen also needed to find an excuse to give them regarding Lily's disappearance.

What head sister Karen did not notice was that someone had seen her coming out of the basement. And that someone was Amane.

She had been rather restless and had decided to take a walk. She had not know where she was until she looked out the window. From there, she could see the reflection of the head sister closing the door behind her.

'I need to be patient with Head sister. I have a feeling that she is no ordinary lady.'

Amane has the head sister a few minutes before she made her presence known. She purposely made her footsteps louder and watched as the head sister tensed up.

"Head sister, what a coincidence to see you here. I was trying to look for Lily to help me with something, but I cannot find her anywhere. Do you know where Lily is right now?"

Amane looked at the head sister with a searching expression on her face. She could tell that the head sister was startled by Amane's search.

'This person knows where Lily is. But the question is - would she tell me or not?'

Amane waited for the head sister to speak first. The head sister looked a little uncomfortable at first, but her brain slowly cooked up an excuse to give.

"Sister Lily has gone outside to fulfill some urgent tasks. She will be back a little later so I am afraid that she cannot help you out. If you want something urgent, then I can help you out."

Head sister Karen's voice took on a suggestive tone. She had not missed how ruffled Sister Lily's clothes were and what could have been the cause behind it.

And Head sister Karen knew she was a good-looking person who was not afraid to use her body when needed to use it. And she was perfectly content to use it right now.

"So, you want to help me out, head sister? Sure, but not right now. I need to get a good night's sleep if I want to be functional tomorrow morning."

Head sister Karen could only look at Amane's retreating with a shocked expression on her face.

She had never expected to get rejected, never mind this hard.

'This guest has no manners or etiquette. How dare she decline an offer from my side. No, isn't this beneficial for me overall? It would help me conceal my secret in the long run.'

The head sister suddenly reached an understanding.

.......

Amane was attacked twice that night but she had set up a shield for herself. That kept her safe and shredded her attackers into small pieces.

The green parts were still half-alive and moving around a bit when Amane reached out to touch them. She rubbed one of the still moving parts with her hands and it got squished.

"AHHHHH!"

Amane looked up, only to see the face of a terrified sister. The sister was one Amane had not seen before and she quickly let the tentacle in her hand go.

"Hey, it is alright. This beast managed to sneak up into my room last night so I was just dealing with it. There is no need for you to fear me."

Amane tried to calm the sister down but she could tell that she was not as successful as she had hoped.

Somehow, the sister managed to close her mouth and keep her scream inside her throat.

"I…I see. Have you told the head sister about this? Head sister Karen usually deals with the beasts and enforces a barrier to protect us all. If something managed to crawl in here, then we need to tell her."

Slowly, but surely, the sister came around and calmed herself down. She looked at the sticky tentacle-like thing again to make sure it was dead.

"Well, I did run into the head sister last night but I did not have a chance to tell her what happened."

Amane told the sister and she could see suspicions enter the sister's eyes. Slowly, the sister took a few steps back from Amane and maintained her distance.

"You, remain here for now. I will go and call for the head sister Karen to look at this. She will decide what will happen to you next."

Amane closed her mouth and let out a big sigh. She could tell that the sister had decided Amane to be the culprit of what happened here. The sister also seemed reluctant to hear anything else.

The head sister seemed tired when she came down. Amane sympathized with her at that moment as she watched her struggle to open her eyes. Experience tales with empire

Karen looked around the room before her eyes fell on the green tentacles on the ground. She frowned before taking a step back.

"Ah, I was afraid of this happening. It seems like a few beasts have managed to slip past the barrier I created and decided to wreak havoc on our monastery. No wonder sister Lily disappeared yesterday night. It seems like she was killed by these beasts."

The other unknown sister gasped out loud as soon as she heard those words.

The news of sister Lily's death hit her hard and she collapsed.