The Great Masquearade: Greed

THOSE TIRED EYES KNOWS THE BEST

"Alright then, I'll try to be careful about this. But still... I'm telling you, that's her! I know it's her!" Marcus got pity on Blythe's current situation. To get the latter feel at ease, Marcus replied.

"I'll take her to the Akaibara's secret room. We'll keep her here."

He picked up the woman and Blythe accompanied them. Blythe then followed behind Marcus with her hands behind her back, as she couldn't help but to feel relieved when she heard that they would be keeping the woman in the secret room of the Akaibara. The lady's taunting and her disrespect towards the deceased Mono has really made the woman's blood boil inside of her, and she was glad to see that justice would be finally served upon the assassin lady.

She suddenly fainted because of exhaustion. Blythe opened her eerie eyes, and saw her puppets A-yeon and Yu-chae in a disgusting show who was runned by a heiress.

"M-master Blythe! Y-you're okay?" Her puppets crawled slowly up to her, both are treated awfully by the big men in the place who raped them. The woman's expression became somewhat worried and scared, when she saw that her puppets were in serious danger and being treated in a bad way. Her emotions immediately ran on high, and she became very agitated again, which caused her anger to also intensify as well.

"What the hell is going on here? Who's doing this to my puppets? I will not allow this to continue, or my rage is going to explode like a volcano..."

"M-mizuki did it... The white haired lady with pink, black and white mask..." Her puppets finally admitted the toxic lady who killed Mono, appeared in her show and rped her innocent puppets. The girl's words immediately caused the hostess'  eyes to widen, as she was suddenly shocked and furious upon hearing the toxic lady's name. A lot of things have been happening to this month, from the death of Theo, Mono, the appearance of the assassin lady during her show, to this. And all of this time, it was the so-called "White-haired lady in the pink, black and white mask" that has been causing the mess all along.

"So this is the white hair lady with the mask? I will make her pay for all of her crimes and actions..."

The woman became almost unrecognizable from how furious she was now. "Ma'am calm down...."

*Within a few seconds, the Manager of Akaibara came with a bat, special designed bow from the Aisê City and arrows filled with Wisteria Poison. Janghoon. The boy helped the two.

"Here's your bat, ma'am Blythe! Please use it now!"
The woman quickly took a deep breath to calm herself down, and she took the bat from Janghoon. The hostess then nodded at Janghoon, and then she proceeded to aim her bat towards the lady with white hair, and she swung the bat with a great amount of power. The bat managed to hit the lady's stomach, which caused her to fall to the ground, leaving her in a defensive position as she tried to recover from that attack.

"Did you really think I can be beaten down so easily?"

Mizuki laughed, spitting blood on the porcelain doll who suddenly turned into the  mysterious Goddess of the light. Fukutomi, who was now corrupted by Mizuki's poison.

"Kill her."

Fukutomi charged an attack on Blythe. Luckily, a human bait saved the latter. She dodged the light attack and tried to swing her bat towards the lady one more time, this time aiming for her face. The woman couldn't help but to be shocked at the sudden appearance of the goddess who got corrupted, and she tried to focus on both her and the lady at the same time. Since the human shield took the hit for her, she took advantage of the sudden turn of events and she tried to attack the lady again.

She needs to erase the corruption contained on Fukutomi, to get a help.

"Corrupted. Corrupted. Thou myself can't release from this disease." The goddess uttered subconsciously. The lady's sudden utterance was enough to catch the woman's attention and she saw the goddess's corrupted state. She looked back at her puppets who were also attacked badly, and they needed her protection as well. The woman became even more worried about her puppets and about the goddess, as their health and safety were truly at risk here.

"Damn it... Everyone in here needs help."

The hostess thought of an idea quickly and she looked towards her puppets, seeing that they needed her intervention to protect them. So, the woman proceeded to use the wisteria poison effect, and she used the ability towards everyone in the room except for herself.

Unluckily, the poison was inevitable for Mizuki. She was immune.

"Are you boosting my full potential, weakling?" Mizuki uttered in a mocking voice. "I'm not trying to boost your potential..."

The woman replied back to her in a more angry tone, as she was still trying to figure out a different kind of solution in protecting the goddess. The lady then looked at her puppets, and tried to find if there was a different approach in curing the goddess from being corrupted.

The goddess was completely healed and she teleported Blythe into a safe place.

"Harper, thou shall not overuse your human strength, for thy self has consequences if overused for greed."

Fukutomi uttered, healing Blythe's wounds. *The woman was surprised by the sudden teleportation, which was something that she wasn't expecting at all and it shocked her a bit. But soon, her thoughts were immediately focused on the goddess' healing abilities, which could prove to be very valuable for her later on.

"Thank you, goddess." Blythe replied, feeling grateful for her safe place and for the healing of her wounds as well. Now that she is safe, the woman started to feel more calm and composed as she realized that her puppets are also fine.