72. The One Who Possessed the Stigmata and the One Who Did Not. 

As soon as Davey faced Alice straight on, the holy knights stood in a single line behind her. They all had stern expressions. They looked like they were trying to protect her from Davey.

‘She rejected me when she didn’t need me, but look at her now.’

Once the situation did not look good for her, Alice turned the situation around to put herself at an advantage once again. She wanted to be able to order people around. It was quite a cunning move.

In fact, if Davey actually were to slip up and play the wrong move here, it was clear that the arrows of criticism would fly his way. As such, there was a need for him to be absolutely clear.

“People are dying every single day, but you would rather watch because you are too stubborn. If that is not demon-like, what is?”

“Isn’t it too brazen of you to say that when you threw the solution out the window to protect your petty pride? I did say that I would help if you just apologized,” Davey pointed out.

Alice frowned. “Your role is to simply support me with your large storage of holy power. You are arrogant just because you have received the stigmata. It hasn’t even been a year since you have learned holy power. On the other hand, I have been learning holy magic ever since I was five! Did you think that just...