Ariadne was worried that Lucrezia would attempt to make excuses like ‘I got involved while trying to clean up what was in Ariadne’s room’. Outside, it was an era where the heretic inquisitor’s proclamation and blade were rampant.

And this house was the residence of the archbishop who oversees the San Carlo Diocese and St. Ercole Cathedral, one of the highest clergy of the Holy See. If one gets tangled in any way, even a tiny bit, it wouldn’t be a good sight.

But the foolish Lucrezia couldn’t make any excuse at all.

Strictly speaking, the reason Lucrezia couldn’t make an excuse wasn’t only because she was a fool with slow reflexes. Lucrezia was caught so blatantly that she had no room to make excuses.

“When Nicolo gave me a hint, I thought Nicolo was making a bad joke!”

Lucrezia’s confidante, maid Jiada, was scared when Lucrezia really tried to perform black magic inside the house, even though she had incited Lucrezia.

So she sought her sister’s husband, the butler Nicolo, under the pretext of consulting about her troubles. She rang the bell a few times, and as Lucrezia’s magic performing date approached, she blurted it all out.

She told Nicolo everything except her own wrongdoing, just before Lucrezia was about to cast the black magic.

The butler Nicolo, who had heard the whole story, decided that this was not something he should keep to himself. He immediately informed Cardinal de Mare of what he had heard.

If Cardinal de Mare had confiscated the related items from Lucrezia’s possession before the black magic was actually performed and stopped all this, everyone would have been peaceful.

Lucrezia’s use of black magic would have stopped as an attempt, and the frog’s blood would have remained unused in the flask.

The ivory carpet of the lady’s room would not have been dirtied with rotten blood, and perhaps it could have been dismissed as an absurd happening and moved on.

But maid Jiada’s resolution was too late. When Cardinal de Mare hurriedly ran to find Lucrezia, she had already begun.

What Cardinal de Mare found was a reckless, foolish, unbelievable pentagram drawn on the floor of the Archbishop’s residence and his wife sitting next to it.

“Do you have something called a brain at all?”

As Cardinal de Mare, it was such an unbelievable thing that he wasn’t even angry immediately after witnessing it. The main emotion dominating him was astonishment.

“This is the house of the archbishop, the highest clergyman who serves God. I am the spiritual leader of the San Carlo diocese, the foremost diocese of Etruscan, and one of the thirteen apostles right after Pope His Holiness.”

He pointed towards the bloody pentagram drawn on the floor.

“And something like this comes out in my house? Do you want to see our entire family burned at the stake in front of the heretic inquisitor?”

Lucrezia, who was beginning to realize what she had done and what was happening, started to shiver all over.

“I didn’t mean to do it, Your Eminence…”

Lucrezia wasn’t entirely without a word to say. The reason Lucrezia was caught drawing a huge pentagram so sloppily on the house floor was because the Gypsy fortuneteller didn’t give a proper, detailed explanation.

The Gypsy fortuneteller told Lucrezia, ‘Put the object that requires purification in the center of the pentagram, draw a pentagram with frog’s blood, place burners at each vertex of the pentagram, and burn frankincense and myrrh, and the evil energy will disappear.’

Of course, the Gypsy fortuneteller thought that Lucrezia would ‘draw’ the pentagram very large, with each vertex of the pentagram outside the building.

One burner was to be placed in front of the stable, the second burner in the corner of the backyard garden, the third burner on one side of the servant’s vegetable garden. There was little risk of being caught if the burners were placed this way. The points didn’t need to be physically connected by blood.

This was like common sense among those who used black magic.

In addition, there was never any curse on the socalled ‘cursed jewel’ from the start. There was no need for the pentagram to be drawn precisely anywhere.

Whether it was crooked or slanted, whether it became hexagram instead of pentagram, it naturally didn’t matter, so she felt no need to be detailed and careful about how to draw the diagram.

However, Lucrezia, who was ignorant of black magic, firmly believed that a small pentagram drawn with blood should be placed around the safe. Lucrezia looked eagerly for an opportunity when Ariadne’s room was vacant, but she could not catch a good chance.

Today was the last day of the ‘Serpentarius’ constellation. So, in the brief moment when Ariadne’s study was vacant, she executed her plan hastily and ended up in this situation.

It was a situation created due to a massive communication error, but she could neither properly explain this to Cardinal de Mare, nor did it seem that explaining would appease his wrath.

Cardinal de Mare’s rage, which had begun to ignite, was just beginning now.