Chapter 707 Miss Aleister's Triple Identity
The honey badger frowned tightly.
She naturally knew what Aiwass meant. Setting aside the details, this method was often used by Hawkeye, and it wasn't particularly sophisticated or dark.
But... where did His Holiness the Pope find a spy of this caliber?
A Moonchild who completely betrayed their race? Is that even possible?
The honey badger looked at the little girl carefully, but only felt a chill down his spine.
The girl was like an abyss, quietly absorbing all the light around her. A pure, terrifying evil thought nearly stung her pupils.
At this moment, the crow perched on the girl's shoulder suddenly turned around, and its ruby-like eyes met the honey badger's.
The honey badger's fur instantly exploded—an intense feeling of fear and murderous intent gripped her heart. The overwhelming force made her body numb, and she instinctively retreated into the shadows...
But what frightened her even more was that her shadow, which she had tamed and could be transformed into a passage to another world at any time... like a shadow that could transform between solid and liquid at will, seemed to be solidified by that scarlet gaze!
She really couldn't suppress the fear in her heart just now, and had used shadow stealth - but her shadow rejected her!
The last time she felt this spine-tingling sense of threat was when she was facing a perfect person!
——No, even a perfect person is not as good as that crow! Far from it!
Although the perfect man had a terrifying aura like a dragon, she knew he had no experience as soon as she started fighting.
However, the combination of this little girl and the crow is exactly the opposite - it looks ordinary, but the more you look at it, the more it seems unfathomable.
A rather frustrating thought came to the honey badger's mind:
A monster like this...does it really need my protection?
He was clearly a fifth-level assassin master, a top assassin who could even assassinate monarchs of other countries without taking into account the ban of the Theocracy. However, at this moment, he couldn't help but doubt his own abilities. If Hawkeye's colleagues knew about this, they would probably think he was dreaming.
When the honey badger's hostility and scrutiny were replaced by fear, she saw the girl raise her head and smile sweetly at her.
The honey badger suddenly felt a chill in her heart - she realized that her thoughts were almost defenseless in the eyes of the other party.
...Can the Moon Child read minds?
"How should I address you?"
The honey badger's Adam's apple slid up and down with difficulty, and he asked cautiously in a slightly hoarse voice.
Although using honorifics to address a Moon Child was against her principles—however, since both parties were now serving the same master, "principles" could be adaptable to a certain extent.
"—Aleister Crowley."
But at this moment, the girl said a name that made the honey badger's eyes widen.
The honey badger subconsciously looked at Aiwass.
Although Aiwass may not know it, in Iris... Aiwass's gossip has long been compiled into various stories by playwrights.
The people of Iris are not afraid of the drama that the people of Avalon dare not perform - they are just the "ministers without responsibility" and the real prime ministers of Avalon! They dare to criticize the monarchs of other countries, even the monarchs of their own country. What is there that they dare not write about!
In all the stories about this young official, there is always an inseparable ambiguous lover...who is as famous as Isabelle, who has now become the Queen of Avalon.
——That is "Miss Aleister", who is as loyal and mysterious as the other half of Aiwass!
Some say Miss Aleister is a demon native to Avalon. Others say she is the immortal child of the moon, a wealthy tycoon who survived the imperial era. Some say she is a fallen angel wearing a widow's black dress, her body burning with the flames of hell. Still others say she is a noble girl from the stars, or even a spy who was bewitched and betrayed by Aiwass's charm...
But no matter which identity, there are always some counterexamples - even the "third daughter of the Crowley family" recognized by the Star Antimony people, and the demonologist who contracted the Shadow Demon... Honey Badger didn't completely believe it. Or rather, she didn't believe it at all.
That was essential common sense for her as a transcendent walking in the dark: someone who joined the Army's 1st Special Operations Unit couldn't possibly have such a complete record outside of the organization. It was even more impossible for her to specifically note that "General Leo Carl of the Carl family was her mentor."
If this was truly an accidental leak, then there were at least five or six possible mentors. And the Crowley family, along with their extended families and relatives, and even civilians and foreigners with the surname "Crowley," would all be included. It's impossible to simply state this was "the third daughter of the current head of the family."
The information was so complete and so real that the honey badger felt it was fake at first glance.
Now, she met this "Miss Aleister" for the first time.
She knew immediately that the rumors were all false.
Only a sixth-level demon could give her such a sense of oppression... and only a sixth-level demon could transform freely and possess such a sinister aura. Meanwhile, Miss Aleister herself posed no threat to her at all... suggesting that her true form was at most a fourth-level demon.
A fourth-level demonologist could tame a sixth-level demon. There was only one explanation.
——"Miss Aleister" must be a god or an apostle who descended from the dream world!
Only they can get the protection of the completely loyal and world-class extraordinary people or phantom demons when they are weak enough!
The honey badger vaguely remembered... the dream intelligence they bought from the black market some time ago said that several apostles of the Path of Love had been out of contact for many years and might have been reincarnated.
One of them could be Miss Aleister, the Child of the Moon!
Looking at the honey badger's fearful and cautious eyes, Aleister suddenly laughed: "Of course, this is my real name...
"Besides this, I have some other identities. For example..."
As she spoke, a black mist spread from bottom to top, enveloping her entire body.
The next moment, she turned into Aiwass.
But she was different from the holy and noble Pope beside her... Perhaps it was because her pupils flashed with the scarlet light of the Tao, the Aiwass she transformed into always had an lingering arrogance and evil spirit.
“…A substitute for Aiwass.”
Aiwass spoke in a gentle voice, using the same tone and intonation as the real Aiwass: "And..."
As the black mist rose again, she transformed into another form.
An image of a honey badger that he had seen in an Avalon newspaper while searching for intelligence.
She was an adult woman with a dignified temperament, wearing a dark red, maximalist-style long dress from the Hellas Empire period.
She had long, straight, somewhat wiry hair that fell to her waist, and wore glasses. Her emerald green eyes gave her a cold aura.
A black crystal cross hung on her chest, and beneath her skirt were black silk stockings made of elven mercerized cotton. On top of the stockings, two profound mottos were written vertically in silver alchemical script:
"The sun is the father and the moon is the mother."
"Nurtured by the wind, nurtured by the earth."
"In this identity... my name is Bayard."
The woman took off her glasses and let her hair hang loose like silk.
Her pupils were already soaked in the power of the Moon Child, turning into a dark red like venous blood and red wine.
"—Baroness Vignes-Émile Zola Bayard. While on Star Antimony, I will primarily operate under this identity. As for the other person I asked you to bring with you, I'll take you to see him later.
"We are sailing to Leipzig, the city of knowledge—the tickets are booked and we leave tonight."
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