However, Faye had no idea just where to begin or what to say. If she was an officer and saw someone carrying the items she did, Faye probably wouldn’t even wait for any explanations. He was being very kind and patient just by listening to her story. And thus she told him all about Miller’s plans, making sure to throw in his unfortunate circumstances and motivation for doing such a thing.

“And that is why I need to be doing this, sir,” Faye concluded, sighing at the exasperated face the Rune Knight was making. He looked extremely displeased but not even after hearing all the story, he did not look surprised, as if he had come across such situations countless times.

“Where are you planning to pull this…trick?” He finally asked. The Rune Knight, too, seemed to sympathize, apparently knowledgeable about Miller’s circumstances as well. Surprisingly, he even agreed to let her continue with Miller’s plan as long as the whole ‘investigation’ stayed under the Rune Knight’s supervision. Faye agreed, finding no issue with that arrangement. In fact, that made her feel somewhat relaxed, no longer having to worry about being found out doing something like forging a fake crime scene. Although it didn’t change the fact that this was going to cheat a bunch of people, Faye guessed it was alright to do for the sake of an old man trying to regain his honor –even if it is by faking it…What they were doing was morally ambiguous, and even someone like her, a shut-in, could guess as much. She couldn’t tell exactly why the Rune Knight was even allowing it. Not just him but the old butcher too was okay with Dex doing such a thing. It was, Faye repeated in her mind’s voice, cheating people. This was not any simple prank or the like either, it was actually making others believe that some murderer is on loose. Was this not a violation of some sort of rules somewhere? Faye kept looking back at the Rune Knight in bewilderment.

But with all that being said and done, Faye moved over to where they will create their ‘crime’ along with the Rune Knight tagging along, this time, also carrying the bag of blood for her. Throwing the weapons around, Faye’s first objective was to spill the blood all over the place in a pool, mimicking a situation where someone had lost a lot of blood. She carefully opened the bag, half holding her breath so that she wouldn’t have to smell the foul, crimson blood, and spilled the whole thing on the ground, making sure to splatter it at the walls and over some of the weapons as well. Just the scene of blood pooling around the ground by itself was horrendous. Faye almost wanted to throw up from the strong smell. Why is someone like her, a puppeteer, doing something like this? She should have been out there trying to find Hana. Ever since her absence, Faye was forced to come out of the prison of her own making and actually converse with people on her own. She had to actually articulate everything and no longer had a puppet to hide behind. It was both exciting and scary. She guessed, even if she did get Hana back, she will probably continue to talk on her own. At this point, she truly wanted Hana for the sentiments she held towards the doll. That and the fact that she was carrying an actual demon inside her. Faye had not known Leviathan for a long time but just her momentary interaction with the once highly powerful demon had given her just enough clues as to how to handle it. It was, as it called itself, the demon on envy. It got envious at just about anything –both good and bad. Thinking about it, Faye also felt that it is a relief that she did not have to cater to that old demon anymore. She wouldn’t want to lose her consciousness to the selfish desires of something else…She did not want to be like her father. Instinct told her that Hana will return to her on her own. If that power that momentarily seized her was supposed to belong to her, then they surely will meet again. But for now, she had to survive, and she needed a lot of money and experience to do so.

Surprisingly but not so surprisingly, the Rune Knight was actually giving her pointers on how to create the crime scene because Faye apparently did not have any ‘experience’ with it. He placed the weapons around the scene, making it seem like someone had just tortured someone with a variety of tools. Once the scene was crafted, what was left was getting the attention of people. Faye had no trouble doing this with a couple of her magic spells. All she had to do was throw a powerful water-ball to one of the walls and create a good amount of commotion. Just as the spell connected, it exploded and even destroyed a very small part of the wall –much to the Rune Knight’s chagrin. Then, the blood soon started to spread out of the alleyway, slowly getting into the view of people walking around the street. It flowed like a river.

Orch, as busy as it is, there was no difficulty at all to make people notice of such a commotion. A woman noticed and her screams alerted the others. People soon gathered from all around crowding around the horrendous, bloody scene. They gasped and yelped at the sight of such a large amount of blood. A roar of chatter, questions, confusions, perspectives, conclusions, and stories suddenly arose. People were truly alarmed and scared of such a sudden situation. They soon made a crowded circle around the scene while Faye stealthily joined them. She looked around, trying to find Dex Miller but did not see him.

As Faye, using the distraction, bid farewell to the Rune Knight and snuck away, she finally saw Dex Miller at the opposite corner, smirking at the gathering crowd like he was ready to put on the greatest performance of his life. It oddly added something to Faye’s supposed character traits over him. Dex Miller was many things and he might seem somewhat insane, but he was actually a very smart person and perhaps even knew just what he was doing. It made her question where his moral compass really lied but seeing as whatever it does not come to the point of fatally wounding or hurting someone, Faye felt that perhaps it was just fine, after all.

She slowly pulled away, and Faye saw Dex push through the crowd and stepping into the center, a light shining over him as he put on his intelligent look and quickly addressed the Rune Knight. Dex was going to be happy, she guessed. It was practically coning people but perhaps it was fine if it hurt no one? She wasn’t sure why people came up with ideas like this.

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