Why it never ends

Chapter 205 Sophistry
"Is there anything else?" Victoria asked with her eyes closed.

"Oh, yes, there are two things. One is the reporter, she is now locked up next door, and we have seized her camera. Trisha said that this kind of trespassing behavior is very bad, and it may need to be handed over to the police. Office No. 005... She asked me to ask you what to do now."

"anything else?"

"Ms. Chiba said she wanted to chat with you."

"Where is she?"

"With that reporter too."

Victoria got up and sat up, she quickly rubbed her face with her hands, "Which room are you in?"

……

"Victoria!" Stella hurried up to meet Victoria as soon as she entered the door, and was about to grab Victoria's arm, "It's so great to see you—"

Victoria put her hands behind her back, "Speak up, why did you suddenly appear in the clock tower?"

Stella withdrew her hand in embarrassment, and said in a low voice, "I have already explained to them—"

"Then explain it again. The others can go out first."

Everyone left one by one and closed the door from the outside, only Chiba held her arms in her arms and leaned motionless to watch the excitement.

Victoria raised her left eyebrow, as if she was going to fight Stella to the end.

Stella rested her forehead with one hand, "...It's very simple, it just happened so suddenly, before I figured out what happened, the police started chasing people away, and then you showed up at the scene again—that You know how chaotic the scene is, I was really terrified, I didn’t care where I was and I ran around, and I accidentally ran into—”

"Accidentally ran into the church, didn't you?" Victoria interrupted, "Then accidentally ran into the clock tower, accidentally climbed to the top of the building, and accidentally took some photos? "

"Yes." Stella nodded again and again, "You already know."

"Do you think I believe it?"

"Well... why don't you believe it?"

"I'll give you another chance, think about it carefully."

"……Hey?"

Victoria was unmoved, she put one hand on her hip, "You'd better give me a convincing reason."

Stella raised her hand to stroke her hair, then turned to look at Chiba.

"Don't look at me," Qianye hugged the back of the chair, blinking innocently, "The operation tonight is not my team."

Stella was silent for a moment. She raised her right hand and squeezed a very thin slit with her thumb and forefinger, "My behavior tonight may...indeed...it seems a little suspicious of breaking into the bell tower on purpose, but—"

"If the enemy tonight is not the 'Assassin' but other chelates, do you know how dangerous your actions will bring to the mercury needle that rescued you?" Victoria seemed to have fully guessed the result, She sat down on the table beside her, "It means that the assassins don't have the habit of attacking civilians, otherwise your brain would be blown out by now, you know?"

"I know." Stella let out a long sigh and whispered, "In fact, I didn't expect you to come to rescue me at first—"

"……Can you say that again?"

Stella quickly raised her hands as a comforting gesture, "...Why are you getting angry again? What do you guys want to do with me? Just say it, okay?"

"It is a felony to obstruct AHgAs's operations," Victoria replied sternly. "Although no serious consequences were caused this time, when it comes to investigation, the sentencing of three to ten years will not escape."

Chiba nodded aside, "By the way, there is no bail in AHgAs's internal prison."

"You, wait a minute—what are you doing? Suddenly you sang and aimed at me," Stella's eyes widened, "...I hinder...what am I hindering? I really fell to my death under the bell tower, that was my own fault, I courted death, I deserve it... But I remember that Mercury Needle didn’t give priority to rescuing the colonists when it wiped out the chelate, right?”

Victoria snorted softly, "So?"

Stella's throat moved, and she pressed her heart with one hand, "I want to say something sincerely, I am very grateful that you saved my life, but before I went up to the bell tower, I knew clearly the risks I might face next , I also recognize the risk - what's the problem?"

"Hmm." Victoria nodded.

Stella quickly straightened out her own logic, "To be serious, it is precisely because you have no obligation to rescue civilians as a priority on this occasion, so I dared to rush into the clock tower, you should do what you should do , I will also do what I should do, and we all perform our duties... Isn't this a happy thing for everyone, why is it necessary to be sentenced?"

"So you did break into the bell tower on purpose."

"I--"

"Susie." Victoria called out the door.

The door opened in response, "Where?"

"Grab it and take it away."

The two quickly entered the room and handcuffed Stella and dragged her away. Stella repeatedly admitted her mistake, but when she turned her head she saw the door closing slowly and Chiba silently waving goodbye to her.

Only Victoria and Chiba were left in the room.

"It's not really going to be handed over to Office 005, is it?"

"Let's lock it up for a week first, to teach you a lesson." Victoria pinched the bridge of her nose, "It's crazy, this woman..."

Chiba watched Victoria walk to the single sofa by the window and sit down, she rarely saw such a depressed expression on Victoria's face.

"what happened to you?"

"Tired." Victoria replied with her eyes closed, "Why is this matter not over yet?"

"Aren't you already prepared for the assassin to survive? I thought you wouldn't be very surprised," Qianye said softly, "Teresa said that's what you always told me."

Victoria didn't say a word, and after a while, she suddenly opened her eyes, "But how did it survive from the Golden Crow Palace? In such a short time, can anyone really pass through the center of the explosion without injury?"

"It's also possible that it didn't go in at all." Qianye continued, "It has always been very cunning, and I even chased it once."

Victoria took a long breath, "I shouldn't have stopped you tonight, you caught it then..."

Qianye shrugged indifferently, and looked away.

"Have you made any progress in the wasteland?"

"Oh, the progress is rapid, I was planning to tell you about this," Qianye said with a smile, "The police officer may have dug out the assassin's background, maybe it really is a mercury needle that was left outside—"

Before the words were finished, there was another knock on the door outside. Victoria got up to take a look, and came back soon.

"There is a second awakening training for the reserve forces tonight, we can no longer occupy this floor of the ward." Victoria picked up the coat hanging on the back of the chair, "I just want to go back to the apartment, you come with me Bar."

"What are you doing at the apartment?"

Victoria threw a film cartridge into the air, and quickly caught it herself.

"Let's see what Stella has photographed first."

(End of this chapter)