"Why... why..." This was not only Hilmirya's question, but also the question of everyone present.

The leader of the Water Shrine would not refuse to save someone. With this doubt in mind, everyone waited for the leader's answer.

However, the one to respond to this question was not the leader, but Alexander who had arrived.

"What... what happened?" The leader still did not respond, just looked at Cyclone and said in a mocking tone, "It hasn't been long, but your troublemaking skills seem quite impressive, don't they?"

Although Cyclone raised his hands in a gesture of innocence, the leader had already ignored him and gestured towards Alexander.

"This?!" After seeing the gesture, Alexander walked over to the two nuns who were supporting a woman and pushing a child.

"You... please move aside for now," Alexander forcefully requested the two nuns to leave.

"But sir..."

"Please move aside," Alexander cut her off. Alexander had his back to Cyclone, so Cyclone couldn't see the expression on his face. But from the repeated remarks and the reactions of the two nuns, it seemed that the situation was much more complicated than Cyclone had imagined.

"Sir, before we leave, I would like to know one thing," one of the nuns asked, trying to control her trembling body.

"Will the sir save that mother and child?" Alexander hesitated for a second before replying, "Hard to say."

"This..." The nun covered her mouth in surprise at Alexander's response. But before waiting for her reaction, Alexander pushed both her and the other nun out of the room and closed the door.

Inside the room remained Cyclone, the leader, Alexander, Hilmirya, the unnamed old man, and the injured mother and child. Alexander, standing in front of the door, looked first at the old man.

"Did you bring this mother and child here?"

"It seems you all understand the situation, but I don't care about the Water Shrine's affairs. I just want to save this mother and child," the old man replied.

Alexander glanced at Hilmirya, then back at the leader. "They're just werewolves, right? Is it necessary for you to avoid them?" Instead of guessing what he was thinking, Cyclone's direct statement drew everyone's attention to him.

"Werewolves..." Hilmirya was stunned. All she saw were an ordinary mother and child. But Cyclone, who saw with eyes that saw the truth, immediately recognized the true identity of the injured ones.

Cursed beings that turned into werewolf monsters on the full moon night, the most typical killers among many creatures. However, the old man shouted, "They are not monsters! This woman can control herself!"

"So what?" It seemed Cyclone had already spoken, and the leader had no intention of avoiding the issue, speaking directly in front of Hilmirya. "So... what..."

"Hmm? Why can't we save them?" Cyclone was not quite clear, hence a question mark popped up over his head.

Hilmirya slowly moved behind Cyclone and explained, "In our Water Shrine's history, werewolves are unforgivable beings. The legend of the werewolf originated as a punishment from the Water Goddess to a certain evildoer."

"Oh... so it's that evildoer's problem, nothing to do with this woman, right?" Cyclone thought he had found a loophole, but the leader sighed. "Do you think we, the Water Shrine, would refuse to save someone for a reason like this Tiny's?"

"Isn't it?" Cyclone sweated, looking at the leader.

"Before, when your master was still around, I referred many werewolf surgeries to him," the leader said, piquing Cyclone's curiosity even more.

"If that was the case before, why not now? I am still..."

"You're not there yet." The leader anticipated Cyclone's words and cut in.

"But... I thought you were different. Why don't you give it a try?!" In this suffocating atmosphere, Cyclone did not answer the old man.

"I... I understand..." without anger or complaint, the woman just bowed her head, trying to push away Alexander's support. As if accustomed to it, being rejected now was a foreseen outcome.

"And... that..." Different from Cyclone, in this atmosphere, someone actually wanted to break the story's direction. It wasn't Cyclone, nor the leader or Alexander.

It was Hilmirya, hiding behind Cyclone, who surprisingly bravely said, "I... I think we can still try to save them..."