Affection level? Lucien remembered the Affection Level he saw in his Character Chart. It was the only stat that had the highest value. The rest are probably 1, 0, or worse, negative.

Despite all this, Lucien felt happy. See? He probably won't die in this world because of the protagonist. As expected! Riding in the protagonist's coattails will help him survive without the protagonist doing anything. This halo concept is truly amazing!

He continued to fight the nun. He did not let his vigilance down. Nor did he let the nun get near to the six children he was protecting. This caused the nun to be repeatedly forced to stay in the vicinity of the children huddled together in the haystack.

Lucien's heart thumped loudly. Fearing the nun will harm them. Strangely, she didn't. She was lashed until she bled out insistent black blood, but she still did not harm the children on the haystack.

On the contrary, she begin to persistently attack Lucien, trying to get him out of his current position in order to attack the six children behind him.

Lucien finds this behavior questionable. Why specifically target them? What was it in the six children that wasn't in the rest of the children?

Lucien can't afford to think because another barrage of attacks has been launched against him.The nun is gaining speed. She walked in front of Lucien, her claws reaching out to rip off Lucien's face. At Lucien's side, Aiden could not take it any longer and ran over.

In his hand is the steel circle door that sealed the sewer underneath. The claws hit the steel door, and a clang filled the room. Lucien stared dumbly at Aiden. His eyes were singing silent praises.

This little guy is really impressive! Look at that face. The nun looked at Aiden and bared her ugly teeth with bubbling rotten yellow liquid. Aiden appeared to be unfazed. His eyes were fearless; it appeared he had lost his fear after watching the nun attack Lucien nonstop. There was a silent anger rising in his eyelids. Aiden only had the steel door as his weapon, but he looked very intimidating with it. Even the nun wavered for a few seconds.

Lucien silently rejoiced. Yeah, witch! That's what you get for angering the protagonist! Cannon fodders know better than to try to harm the protagonist and his friends!

The nun instantly recovered. She launched a surprise attack. Seemingly heading to strike Aiden, she changed the trajectory of her claws at the critical moment. It hit Lucien's wounds and ripped some chunks of flesh off.

The pain was unbearable – even for Lucien with + 1 flexibility and enhanced recovery. She did not stop there and struck again. This time, some of Lucien's bones were visible.

The five children shriek, horrified at the sight. Lucien took note of this scene. His eyes were glued not to the ugly nun's face but to the children bundled together in the haystack. He saw them staring blankly at him. Fear wasn't present in their blank faces. What was there…. Lucien did not imagine it this time — there was pleasure.The same expression Lucien witnessed in the nun and the Father.

Lucien struggled to stand up and cover the severe wound in his shoulders. His body is fairly weak and his constitute was unstable. Nonetheless, his presence appears to impose a new profound strength.

The anger flaring in Aiden's eyes is unmistakable. Aiden took the whip that had fallen out of Lucien's grasp. Using the whip as a weapon and the steel door as a shield, he raced to attack the nun.

At first, the nun was laughing at the little boy's recklessness. But when the whip slaps her in the arm and makes her clutch her skin tightly, Aiden gives it a hard tug and her forearm is ripped off.

Her entire arm, skin, flesh, and bone, fell to the ground still intact.

Lucien smiled at Aiden's strength. Aiden's attacks are completely different from the immature, talentless Lucien. Aiden is more aggressive and ruthless. It might be because of his nimble body that he was able to avoid getting scratched from the nun's claws.

Nah, Lucien immediately dismissed. It's the protagonist halo doing its work since it can't allow the young protagonist to suffer heavy injuries. Aiden was able to keep the nun busy.

This gave time for Lucien to take the five children to the far corner, where he found an inconspicuous hole. It was relatively small, but enough to hold five small children at most.

"Stay here and don't come out until I get you." The five children nodded. Because one of them was terribly wounded, Lucien gave the child one of his chocolates. Now he was showing signs of recovery and fragile vitality.

Lucien nodded in satisfaction before covering the hole. Seeing he still had time, he took out the letters in his jacket and scanned through them.

The system's special task of uncovering the secret in St. Lous Church and exterminating the demons. He was planning to do it alright. He had already secured the five children's safety. Because of the blank expressions he saw a while ago, he began to understand why the system requires only five children to be spared. Apparently, they are not ordinary children after all.

He began to realize, after scanning numerous letters exchanged from the St. Louis Church, that the other five children, like Lucien and Aiden, are not locals in town.

They were also found and then adopted around this time of year. The last trace he needs to look over is the demon suppression book he took from the nun's study.

Anticipation grew in Lucien's heart. This scene might be the extra behind the scene that he did not get to see in the anime. The real story behind the demons with human identities.

When Lucien flipped the book open, his anticipation quickly died down. The words written in the book are beyond his comprehension. He did not understand what language it was or if they were actually words he was seeing.