Mission to Natrice

Grace's mission to Natrice was the first "arc" in "The silver eyed angel".

Grace received a mission from Gloria after finding her hiding in a glade of trees under orders to test Grace's perception. Grace needed to abandon her sword to enter the town as no weapons were allowed by the guard force due to the recent string of killings. In place of her sword, Gloria gave her a dagger to hide. Together, Grace and Eliah traveled to Natrice to kill a "Voracious Eater", meeting Mael, Grace's employer, in the graveyard. She found out that the people and guards of the town had been cleverly picked off by the yoma and she went to investigate herself. While walking through a red-light district, the yoma grabbed her, thinking her to be another victim. Grace instinctively stabbed through its hand with her dagger and chased it to the cemetery, stabbing it in its right shoulder while breaking the knife in the process. Mael came to her rescue, scaring off the yoma by shooting it with arrows and trying to heal Grace. When he removed Grace's clothes and saw her stigmata, he went blind for 3 hours and afterwards stated he never wanted to see it again and would never speak of it to anyone. She realized the yoma had been attacked before and Mael told her that another claymore, Mercia, had been sent to kill the voracious eater but was killed. Grace found the yoma at the same time as Eliah after deducing it had been hiding in a cemetery, killing to hide itself and killed it with Mercia's claymore. During the battle, Grace overstepped her limit and entered the crimson world, meeting her dark twin, Aezathol, for the first time. They fought for control of Grace's body after Aezathol declared it was hers to take and use to destroy the world, something Grace would never agree to. Aezathol gained the upper hand, almost killing Grace but Grace regained resolve after realizing that she had done the world, in particular, Eliah, a service and wasn't useless and hated by all, pushing back and defeating Aezathol who admitted defeat and activated her latent ability, "The Heart of Darkness", semi-awakening her. Eliah ate the yoma's guts in secret and left with Grace. Mael was caught and executed for looting the dead to pay for Grace's services.