High Above

  Chapter 388 Let Hope Happen (13)

  When Ian went to the third floor to check the clues in Linda's room and the alchemy lab.

  Sister Reflecting Light is taking notes for Steward Moda.

It sounds weird—the first-level executor of the Huaiguang Church, a nun who is not considered an official clergyman in Huaiguang, how can she have the power to enforce the law and take notes for witnesses or even tainted witnesses in a major case up?

   But this is actually because the empire has its own national conditions.

Although the empire has its own law enforcement agencies, the emperor supervises noble officials alone, and the agencies that obtain intelligence from other countries include the 'Patrol Knight', 'Noble Tribunal' and 'Mirror Sea Guard', three completely different agencies that are independent of each other. violence department.

  The ‘Institute of Truth’ and the ‘Institute of Intellectual Knowledge’, which are in charge of managing the ascendants, are two major factions among the empire’s factions, wrestling with each other endlessly.

   But there are relatively few people who are really responsible for dealing with civilian-related issues.

The three departments of 'criminal law', 'jurisprudence' and 'inspector' are generally referred to as 'supervisory court' or 'court', and the executor is called 'supervisor envoy', which is regarded as the official name of the empire to deal with civilian complaints, and Institutions for all types of civilian criminal and civil cases.

  Usually, robbers and robbers, kidnapping and extortion, and ordinary people killing and fleeing are all sent by the local city's governor's court to hunt down and investigate, and bring the criminals to justice.

   But how to say...

  Don't say they can't manage it, even if they can manage it, will the local nobles let them manage it?

   An example, Port Harrison.

  Fourteen years ago, the chief justice of the local Governor's Court was killed by an ironclad shark, and the second term disappeared directly before taking office, probably eaten by the natives.

   From this we can know the status of the Supervisory Court within the empire.

   And to be honest, even if it is really possible to control, if there is any major event involved in Terra, it must have something to do with sublimators and psykers!

   But one thing, if you have something to do with a sublimator or a psychic, you can accidentally follow a line and find a strong person or a local noble.

  Even if the opponent is an ordinary wandering adventurer and mercenary, but the adventurer and mercenary who can live well without being a nobleman's black gloves and make a big mess must be quite skillful.

   It is not their turn to take care of things, so let them take care of them.

   What if something is really found out?

  Find out, maybe the chief of the local supervisory court has to run over to apologize.

  But Huaiguang Church is different.

Under normal circumstances, the Huaiguang Church will not take care of this kind of thing. Although they never care about the local laws and have their own logic to face the world, most of them are neutral, watching everything from the sidelines, let alone interfering the internal penal system of other countries.

  But what if, the Huaiguang Church really started to make a move, and really found out something...

  The ones who should kneel down and apologize are those nobles and local tyrants.

   Now is the stage.

  The disappearance case in the Agate Stone Plain has already alarmed the Huaiguang Church, but the local procuratorate did not deal with it.

  According to the usual practice, even if other law enforcement officers from Nauman City arrive later, they must wait for the Huaiguang Church to deal with the relevant issues before accepting the secondary scene and witnesses they have dealt with.

   Moreover, by this time, there is very little room for local law enforcement to operate, and generally they can only close the case according to the clues given by the Huaiguang Church.

   Unless they want to overthrow the results of Huaiguang Church.

  If they dare.

  The reason why Sister Yingguang did this was mainly to protect Steward Moda.

Baron Ryan has obviously been charged with a lot of vicious crimes such as 'unprovoked mass murder and hiding corpses', 'illegal human experimentation', 'illegal use of psychic energy to interfere with other people's will'. 'Illegal blood sacrifice' and various other offenses related to his property.

  As someone close to him, the best fate for Manager Moda would be implicated and beheaded, and the worst would be that his whole family disappears.

   But he was not guilty.

At least according to the understanding of the Huaiguang Church, Steward Moda just fulfilled all his duties with all his heart, and this duty did not involve the lives of any other people—he was just managing the castle for a criminal, because of the memory modification caused by psionic energy, Just take care of the master and young master in his heart.

   "Probably so."

  After asking about almost all the details, Sister Reflecting Light took back the pen and paper.

  She nodded to the decadent and tired old manager: "The record is over, don't worry, the local inspector won't do anything to you."

"…thanks…"

  Strengthening his spirits and raising his head, Steward Moda also knew that this time things must be a big mess. The deprivation of Baron Ryan's title can almost be said to be a certainty.

   It is a trivial matter for him to lose his job, but what should the leader of Ryan do?

the most important…

   "What will happen to the masters and gentlemen?"

  The old steward asked in a low voice, asking a question he already knew the answer to.

   Just pleading for a sliver of hope.

   But Sister Yingguang thought for a while, and still told the truth cruelly.

   "The baron may be punished by the noble court. The end result may be that after depriving the ascensionist and noble status, he will be sentenced to death as an ordinary person. If these children move smoothly, they will be sent to the Huaiguang Church for reform."

  Seeing Steward Moda's eyes wide open, with hope in his eyes, the dragon girl said slowly: "But if it's too dangerous, we can't let these children continue to live."

"Based on your current situation in charge of Moda...Ira's psionic power is a high-level spiritual power of the control level. Even if he does not resist accepting it at all, he will probably only be able to spend the rest of his life in the sanctuary around the holy mountain. Live in an asylum."

   "Other children are no exception. Their abilities are suspected of being artificially catalyzed, and they are all extremely dangerous... As long as they resist, the possibility of their survival is almost zero."

   "But..." As if being hit by a heavy hammer, Manager Moda muttered, "Aren't you Huaiguang?"

   "Yes, we are Huaiguang." Yingguang responded seriously, red sparks flickered in the eyes of the dragon girl, which was the flickering light of the fire element essence, representing the ups and downs of emotions in her heart.

  This question has been asked by many people, including old men in ragged clothes, middle-aged people with desperate eyes, and mothers who knelt down in grief and begged for themselves.

  They all had hope for Huai Guang.

   But Huaiguang is not hope.

   Never was.

Therefore, when facing Manager Moda, she still said in a soft tone: "I know what you mean, Manager Moda. Personally, I sympathize with the experiences of Baron Ryan and his three adopted sons and daughters, but this has nothing to do with There is no conflict that they have committed great crimes."

   "They are indeed pitiful and pathetic, but those who died innocently, just in the handwriting I recorded along the way, there are hundreds of people who died."

"Not to mention, the two missing children in Chenxia Town in the past few weeks, and the 'dead' who were 'captured' by the Sharp Claw Tiger in Yijinye Town—they have no parents, no children, no relatives ?"

"They just said goodbye to their parents and relatives with a smile in the morning, set off to spend a beautiful day, worked **** the earth, and then disappeared from this world inexplicably, crying in fear, asking others where their children are, where are their husbands and wives? When I was there, I became a broken specimen in this room..."

   “Tragedy breeds more tragedy, and I am deeply saddened by it.”

  Huaiguang treats all people equally, and will not think whose life is more important just because someone is more miserable.

   What's more, aren't those innocent people who died miserable?

   This is the subtext that Sister Reflecting Light did not say.

   "I get it...I know my thoughts are evil and injustice...but. But..."

The steward, who was much older than the naked eye, knelt down slowly, hugged his head, and muttered to himself: "I just fell into a coma once, why, the world changed completely in an instant, and my past was like a false joke ..."

  Yingguang did not answer this question.

  Because psykers have such power... so terrifying.

so.

   Some are afraid, some are longing.

  —Is it an artificial psyker... The water behind this is too deep, and I don't know if the executioner of the temple will arrive in time before Baron Ryan really makes a big mistake...

Then again, it will be very troublesome when it really arrives... I thought that Baron Ryan was at most a cover-up cultist, and this is within the scope of punishment that the Huaiguang Church can handle. The executor defeated the baron and escorted him to the Just give it to the relevant departments of the empire.

   But now the matter is too big, so big that the executors of the temple will definitely kill the "evil man"... Once Baron Ryan dies, there will definitely be a bunch of imperial departments to come and argue, and the clues will be cut off.

but…

   Somebody has to do it.

  With such thoughts in mind, Yingguang stretched out his hand and pressed lightly on the other side's head when facing Steward Moda who was silently bowing his head to him and weeping silently.

  The nun's fingertips shimmered, accepting the other party's confession.

  She recited the ancient proverb softly: "The light of the sky does not penetrate the darkness in the heart, and the sun's heat does not purify the evils of the world."

   "We are the apostles who cherish the light, we are the watchmen of the sun, and our mission to walk in the world is by no means to eradicate darkness, nor to sweep away sins..."

   "We cherish light... just to make hope happen."

   thump, thump, thump.

  Footsteps came from the stairs.

   Calming the spirit of the old man, Yingguang turned her head, and she saw the knight in alchemist armor walking downstairs with a thick stack of documents in his hand.

  (end of this chapter)