New law of Beast Taming

By the time dinner had come around, Helen had not made her decision on what she wanted to do with her life. Amane did not pressure her a lot as well since she knew that this was a life-changing decision for Helen.

She headed down for dinner and sat down at the table.

For the first time since everything started, Amane looked down at her phone with a frown on her face. She had received no message from Sakura so she had no idea what the situation back home was.

The only thing that Amane knew right now was that something bad had happened back home and Sakura had to leave.

But as soon as Amane had entered the vicinity of this monastery, she had forgotten to ask Sakura what happened.

"Phones and other electronic devices will not work in the monastery perimeters. We have tried a few times to make them work but nothing happens no matter how hard we try."

Helen finally came back and sat down in front of Amane. Her hard eyes looked as if they had finally decided.

"Oh, so no technology works inside this place? How sad and lonely it must be. Don't you feel suffocated here?"

Amane asked as she put her phone down. It had not been long since she had learned how to operate a phone and other devices, but she had gotten addicted to them all in the short amount of time she had used them all.

She could not imagine someone currently who could live without all the luxuries of life.

"Well, it's not like we have much of a choice in that matter. The head sister tried everything to make the technology work. She used to be a scientist so we counted on her to help. But since even she failed to do so, we all had no choice but to give up."

Helen explained and Amane instantly knew that the head sister Karen had just not tried her best to make the devices work.

Either that, or she was a fraud of a scientist and that's why she had been laid off from her previous post.

"Anyway, I wanted to tell you that I have decided on what to do next. I want to follow you and find out the truth about this place. I cannot keep on living my life in fear and Lily…she would have wanted me to find out the truth behind her disappearance."

Helen seemed determined when she looked at Amane. But before both could decide on anything more, Helen felt someone push her head down.

"Lily would not have wanted you to go ahead and sacrifice your life to avenge her. You need to think about your actions more before you make them. You would have made Lily so sad if you had said these words in front of her."

Sister Camellia spoke from behind Helen as she forced Helen to bow her head and look at the table.

"C-Camellia, let me go right now. This angle is uncomfortable and my neck is beginning to hurt. And I am not doing anything dangerous here. I just want to know what happened to Lily."

Helen tried to push her head back up but Camellia seemed to not be listening. She still held Helen's head down and looked at Amane with a challenging gaze.

'Hmm, this female has so much negative emotion that it is making me dizzy. Are these unconscious actions on her part? Or does she know what she is doing?'

Amane looked back at Camellia right in the eye and refused to back down. She watched as Camellia bit her lip in agitation before looking away. She could not maintain the eye-contact with her.

"A-Anyway, both of you need to be careful. We do not need to have more missing people here. It would be disastrous if more of our people were to fall to the monsters. It would be even worse if our people are the ones calling for these monsters."

Camellia blamed Amane very subtly before she left. Her words left an impression in everyone's brain and they could not help but unconsciously blame Amane as well.

"Camellia, what the hell? You cannot just blame someone for something they did not even do. That is not fair."

Helen seemed upset on Amane's behalf but Amane did not care to get blamed. She was busy looking at the circumstantial evidence of what.

"Tonight, let's look around for what this place is hiding. I will come to your room so that we can move around together."

Helen offered and Amana agreed to this deal. She knew that it was better to count on a local than to have everyone else try and cause her problems.

"Here, takes this necklace. I don't know when the monster might attack you, but the smell of herbs in this necklace must keep it away from you. Do not lose this necklace."

Helen grabbed the necklace with a cautious look on her face. She was not sure if she wanted to trust Amane or not. After all, this girl could very well be trying to truck Helen into letting her guard down.

'No, don't think like that. You decided to trust this person so let's stick to that plan. I do not want to be in doubt anymore about my choices.'

Helen grabbed the necklace and hung it around her neck. She could not smell anything coming out of it.

But soon, Yoko Tsurugi retreated to her room and Helen had some work to do.

For some reason, whenever Camellia tried to approach Helen, she started to feel sick and turned toward the other side. According to her, Helen's smell was making Camellia sick.

The only thing that could cause this to happen was the necklace Helen had received from Yoko. But that necklace was made to repel monsters, not humans. So, Helen had no idea what was going on.

Once the time was up, Helen grabbed a cloak and went out of her room. The hallway was dark tonight and it had a lot of scary shadows. Helen did not know if it was her unconscious mind that was making things scarier than they needed to be, or if it was just her that saw things differently tonight.

But there was something different about this monastery tonight.

"Sister Helen, what are you doing tonight? I don't think it is safe to move around in these corridors alone."

Helen looked toward head sister Karen as well as Sister Camellia. The latter still looked sick and unconsciously took a step away from Helen.

Head Sister Karen looked a little confused when Camellia burrowed her head into her beck and inhaled her scent. That action startled her enough to turn around and ask Camellia what was wrong.

"I think I should hurry up and leave now. Sister Camellia has been feeling sick every time she saw me. I do not know what is wrong with her."

Head sister Karen looked confused to hear these words. She tried to feel what was making Camellia so restless but Camellia hissed and pulled her hand back.

Then, Camellia dragged Head sister Karen away from Helen and left her alone in the hallway.

"What the hell just happened? I cannot believe that Sister Camellia acted so rude to me. How could she do it to me like this?"

Helen looked back at where Sister Camellia had been standing just minutes ago. But then, Helen decided to brush this encounter off her mind and quickly went to find Yoko.

The faster they solved this case, the better it would be for them.

Once Helen reached Yoko Tsurugi's room, she did not bother knocking on the door and opened it. Inside the room, Yoko Tsurugi seemed to be holding a part of the monster hostage. The green tentacle-like object in Yok Tsurugi's hand tried to pull itself back to safety. But Yoko just pulled it back.

This small tug of war lasted quite a while before the monster retreated and broke off its tentacle limb from its body. That left Amane with a useless thing she could not use. So, she threw me behind her back and decided not to think about it.

Something about that monster fascinated and disgusted Helen at the same time. So, she turned her head away from that thing as well and she turned to face Yoko Tsurugi instead.

"I have what we need for tonight. Is there a place you specifically want to check out first?"

Helen asked Yoko Tsurugi, but she did not expect to hear anything from her at first.

But surprisingly enough, there seemed to be a few places Yoko Tsurugi had in mind and she quickly mapped them down. Helen looked down with a surprised expression on her face as well.

"Are you sure you want to check these places out? This corridor is not something we normally use. In fact, it had been abandoned for some time now."

Helen told Amane and that interested Amane even more in that place. It was a perfect corridor to have your secret room in. and Amane wanted to check it out.

"Let's check it out first before we decide. I think I've seen your head sister Karen head toward that direction a few times. It makes me curious what else that corridor has hidden from all of us up until now. I am sure we will find something of importance in there."

Amane's curiosity was dangerous and she was doing to follow through until the very end to sate it.