Chapter 15: Magic circle! This is all your fault!!!

With that nobleman taking the lead to strike up a conversation, others who had been watching from the sidelines also began to approach Liyami.

The scene suddenly turned chaotic, gradually forming a circle around Liyami with her at the center.

“Miss! Come with me…”

“No! Come with me! Come with me…”

“What are you all saying? She’s mine!”

Liyami looked at the scene, completely dumbfounded.

She knew she was a pretty young lady, but was she really that beautiful?

Seeing others try to approach her, the nobleman tried to have his accompanying guards stop them—only to realize the guards themselves were also flirting with Liyami.

“Don’t worry, beautiful lady, I will protect you. Come with me to my home first…”

At that moment, Liyami sensed something was off.

She looked around and noticed that all those approaching her were men—there wasn’t a single woman among them.

Nearby, the women were all staring anxiously at Liyami’s side, and some had already gone to call the city guards.

But when the guards arrived, they too began to approach Liyami with ill intent.

Not only that, the situation around her kept escalating.

Some men even ignored their wives and daughters, fixated solely on getting close to Liyami.

Others had drawn weapons, ready to fight for possession of her.

Even the nobleman who had been polite at first had now grabbed a man trying to approach Liyami and started wrestling him.

Liyami dodged a man trying to grab her.

With her strength, no one here could actually touch her.

Though she didn’t understand why this was happening, seeing the chaos around her made Liyami realize she couldn’t just sit and wait to be trapped.

She quickly cast “Presence Reduction” on herself, but only the women outside the circle became confused.

The men surrounding her were completely unaffected.

Liyami’s expression turned serious in an instant, and she used “Shadow Step” to leave the circle.

But no matter where she went, new suitors immediately appeared, forming new circles around her.

So she resorted to “Shadow Veil,” hiding within the shadows until the confused suitors had dispersed, then slipped back to the Mansion.

Once back at the Mansion, Liyami first observed her surroundings and breathed a sigh of relief when she found she was alone.

She sat on the sofa, frowning as she recalled the earlier abnormal events.

The entire ordeal had started from that nobleman approaching her—or rather, from the moment she stepped out of the shop.

From that moment on, every man nearby had their eyes on her.

But why? She didn’t believe beauty alone could cause such behavior.

She was certainly beautiful, but not to the point of stunning everyone in an entire district.

If anyone deserved to be called breathtaking, it was Lavinia from their squad.

Even Lavinia, when out, might get approached, but it would never cause an entire block to go mad like this. This wasn’t simply about beauty.

“Could it be because of the Silver Mark? No, that can only take effect when paired with something foreign—this situation just isn’t possible under normal circumstances. Or…is it magic?”

Liyami pondered.

The only thing that could cause such a scene was magic.

But the problem was, she had no idea when she’d been targeted by this magic.

Even if the caster was powerful, Liyami couldn’t sense it.

If she couldn’t feel it, then surely Colin could?

Before going to the clothing shop, she had been with Colin the entire time.

If she had been affected by this magic, Colin would definitely have noticed.

So the magic must have been cast after she left the Mansion, but she had been using “Shadow Veil” and “Presence Reduction” while moving at high speed on the way to the shop.

It would be hard to hit her with magic then.

Therefore, it must have happened inside the clothing shop.

“Could it have been the shopkeeper? But she didn’t look like a mage. Then who…”

Liyami didn’t even consider the possibility that Colin hadn’t felt it.

After all, if even Colin couldn’t sense it, that would be even more absurd.

Someone who could block Colin’s perception of magic on Liyami could surely do the same to Colin himself.

But if such a caster existed, why not just kill them outright?

Why cast this strange magic instead? What’s the point?

At that moment, Liyami recalled Colin’s strange attitude toward her.

Since she became female, Colin’s behavior toward her had been odd.

At first, Liyami only said she was Liyami, and Colin had believed her with almost no evidence.

Then he took her back to the Mansion in Kit City, and when faced with Liyami’s Silver Mark, he didn’t just slash her immediately but patiently listened to her explanation.

He had been way too tolerant.

Moreover, Colin’s every action showed he was very attentive to her.

Could it be…

Colin hadn’t not sensed it—he was already affected?!

But if the magic could affect even Colin, then who on earth was behind this…wait!

Liyami seemed to have figured it all out.

She already knew why this was happening.

Slowly, she raised her clenched fist and slammed it hard against the sofa.

“Ahhh! Damn that Magic Circle!”

Indeed, her current state—charming men, even affecting Colin—was definitely caused by that Magic Circle!

Only that cursed Magic Circle could possess such strong power: changing gender, altering perception, transforming Assassin’s Marks into Silver Marks, and even seducing others.

Who created that Magic Circle?!

Liyami was furious—not only at the Magic Circle’s power but also at herself for only now discovering the culprit.

She felt much dumber now than when she had been a man.

Why she’d become less intelligent was obvious.

Magic Circle!

This is all your fault!!!

Liyami slammed the sofa in anger.

After a while, she lay down helplessly, staring blankly at the ceiling.

What now?

She couldn’t even leave the house like this.

The moment she stepped outside, hordes of men would swarm her, leading to conflict and chaos.

“Does that mean I can only go out using ‘Shadow Veil’ from now on?”

As Liyami was lost in thought, she suddenly felt a burning sensation deep in her abdomen.

Tonight, 21:00, Kit City outskirts Cemetery.

Reading the words flashing in her mind, Liyami paused for a moment before jumping up happily.

“That’s right! Maybe the Shadow Secret Society has a way to solve this! And most members are women, so the problem I just had wouldn’t happen there.”

Thinking that there might be a solution to this troublesome problem, Liyami hummed cheerfully while preparing to meet her contact tonight.