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11. Intermission - The Monster's Successor!
12.  
13. For Eliza, it had been a week of nightmares.
14.  
15. The Thirteen Night Swords had been murdered one after another, and in the end even her own father had not come home. The Darkaigan family assets had been seized “for investigation” by one person after another, and in the end she had even been ejected from her family home.
16.  
17. As time went by, all of Eliza Darkaigan’s friends and money left her. That much was painfully obvious to her.
18.  
19. “What is this bullshit!!”
20.  
21. Eliza yelled in the temporary home she was currently occupying.
22.  
23. She threw the glass which held the drink she had just finished into a wall and glared at it.
24.  
25. “And they were all sucking up to us right until recently…!”
26.  
27. Why did she have to go through this? At this rate, the courts would probably rule against her too. Many nobles had already abandoned the Darkaigan family.
28.  
29. “I’m not done yet, this isn’t over yet…”
30.  
31. However, not all the nobles had chosen to leave her.
32.  
33. The families which made up the Night Swords were all in the same boat. The bonds between them could never be broken.
34.  
35. Their families had all lost their masters and were under investigation. They were all having difficulties. But that was what would unit them.
36.  
37. “I’ll unite the next generation of Night Swords… I won’t let things end like this, I swear!”
38.  
39. Everything would be fine. She had dirt on the knights and the judges.
40.  
41. If the next generation of Night Swords could join up to exert pressure on them, the situation would be easily reversed, Eliza believed.
42.  
43. “Gather the Thirteen Night Swords for a meeting! Go and find them!!”
44.  
45. Eliza yelled her orders to the subordinates waiting next door to carry out hr will.
46.  
47. However, nobody came no matter how long she waited.
48.  
49. “Hello! Is anyone there?”
50.  
51. She opened the door to the adjoining room ,a look of shock on her face.
52.  
53. There was nobody there.
54.  
55. The window was wide open, letting the cold night air in.
56.  
57. “DId they go to the bathroom… I’ll have to punish them properly later on.”
58.  
59. THere was a cruel smile on her face as she said this.
60.  
61. Just then, she heard a strange sound from behind her. It sounded like footsteps which went pecha.
62.  
63. “So you were still around. Where did you…”
64.  
65. As Eliza turned around, her words died in her throat.
66.  
67. A bloodsoaked clown stood there.
68.  
69. “Ah, ahhhh… Jack… Jack the Ripper…”
70.  
71. Eliza’s face was frozen in shock as she stumbled back reflexively.
72.  
73. Pecha. The bloodsoaked clown drew closer.
74.  
75. “Aiiieee… Stay, stay back!”
76.  
77. She threw everything within arm’s reach at him.
78.  
79. However, the bloodsoaked clown did not stop because of them, and Eliza was pressed up against the wall.
80.  
81. “I, I’m very sorry… I’ll apologize to you, is there anything you want me to do?”
82.  
83. Eliza put on the most ingratiating smile she could manage, which twitched a little.
84.  
85. “Say, what is it that you want, I’ll obey you no matter what it is…”
86.  
87. She raised her chin, trying to sound as pleasant as possible.
88.  
89. She lifted her thin negligee, exposing her pale skin.
90.  
91. But Jack the Ripper continued staring right at her.
92.  
93. In response, Eliza further exposed herself by pulling aside her nightgown.
94.  
95. “Ufufu…”
96.  
97. His gaze fell on her pale chest.
98.  
99. And then, he drove a knife into it.
100.  
101. “Ah…”
102.  
103. Fresh blood dripped onto her bare flesh.
104.  
105. “AAAAAAAAAAHHHHHH!!! HOW DARE YOU!!”
106.  
107. Eliza used all her strength to swat Jack the Ripper away, but then she fell to the ground, clutching her wound.
108.  
109. “How, how dare you ahhhhh…”
110.  
111. She coughed up mouthfuls of bright red blood as she glared hatefully at Jack the Ripper.
112.  
113. And then, Eliza held her breath.
114.  
115. “You, you… Why is it…”
116.  
117. His mask was on the ground. It had probably been knocked off when Eliza tried to fight her off.
118.  
119. “Why, how could it be…!”
120.  
121. Jack the Ripper’s face belonged to a student that Eliza knew.
122.  
123. “Why is it you, Christina!!”
124.  
125. Standing there was Christina Hope.
126.  
127. She was looking down coldly on Eliza.
128.  
129. “Koff… I, I didn’t think you were actually Jack the Ripper…”
130.  
131. Eliza squeezed those words out in a shocked tone.
132.  
133. The blood from her chest spread across the ground, soon touching the mask.
134.  
135. “No.”
136.  
137. She picked up the mask as she replied.
138.  
139. “What do you mean, no?”
140.  
141. “I am simply his successor.”
142.  
143. “Succ- successor?”
144.  
145. “Indeed. He showed himself before me, and I finally realized why.”
146.  
147. “Hah…”
148.  
149. “He showed me his mission, the bloody road upon which he walked.”
150.  
151. “What, what are you saying…”
152.  
153. “This country is rotten to the core. The sword of justice is useless against it. To fight evil, one must become more evil than the evildoers. He was asking me if I was prepared to do so.”
154.  
155. And then, Christina put on the clown mask, a twisted smile on her face.”
156.  
157. “That is precisely what I was hoping for.”
158.  
159. Saying so, she grabbed the dagger that was lodged in Eliza’s chest.
160.  
161. “No, stop…”
162.  
163. Those were Eliza’s final words.
164.  
165. Christina twisted the knife, then wrenched it free.
166.  
167. Frothy blood spewed forth.
168.  
169. “Cough… gurgle…”
170.  
171. As she looked down on Eliza’s cooling body, Christina took out a poker card.
172.  
173. She inserted it into the wound on Eliza’s chest
174.  
175. “My name is Jack the Ripper… who slays the sinful with a blade of sin…”
176.  
177. The card was a joker.
178.  
179.