"I see... I understand."
Listening to the words of the man in the robe, Evie's expression seemed to have a little understanding, and at this time the man in the robe took the lead in speaking and asking.
"You've asked enough questions. Now it's my turn to ask you, do you really have a way to help Sister Vanya completely clear her name?"
"I can help Sister Vanya clear her suspicion, but it will be difficult if the heresy investigation team is obviously not doing the right thing. They will only investigate in a way that is disadvantageous to Sister Vanya and Adus, and any clues and evidence that can lead to the truth will be ignored by them. Therefore, if you want to find out the truth, you must obtain evidence.
"This evidence must be direct, strong, irrefutable, and irrefutable. It must be so that Clifton and his men cannot deny it and will be speechless. As long as I can get this kind of evidence and force Clifton to admit it, Sister Vanya will naturally be cleared, and Adus's crisis will be resolved."
Evie looked at the man in the robe and spoke bluntly. After listening to Evie's words, the man in the robe thought for a while, nodded, and then spoke.
"I understand. We will go find the evidence you need and get it as soon as possible. During this time, please ensure the safety of Sister Tafania. She is an important person to Adus."
"If you don't tell me, I would do the same..." Evey responded, and then she seemed to have thought of something and continued to speak.
"But what I'm worried about now are the guards of the delegation who were arrested before I came here. Now the investigation team has directly taken them over by the city guards. In the eyes of the public, they have a close relationship with Sister Vanya. If they make statements that are unfavorable to Sister Vanya under the torture of the investigation team, I'm afraid I'll be in some trouble..."
"The guards of the special envoy group..." After listening to Evie's words, the man in the robe fell into deep thought for a moment.
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After a while, the man in the robe and Evie exchanged tentative words with each other, and then Evie said goodbye and disappeared into the night, while the man in the robe also left the place and began to move away from the Pigeon Hotel.
On the other side of Kankedal, Dorothy, who was sitting in her room, was sipping the black tea on the table while controlling the corpse in the distance to a safe place. During this process, she was also thinking about the information she had just talked about with the nun named Eve.
'We need indisputable, direct and strong evidence. What I have in my hands now seems to be insufficient. There is a possibility that they may ignore it. So...so we need to collect some other strong evidence. I have some ideas in this regard. I should be able to get it with a little time and effort.
"The key here is the guards of the special envoys who fell into the hands of the heretic investigation team. If they are forced to make any unfavorable confessions, it will cause a lot of trouble for Sister Evi, so we have to pay more attention to the things over there."
Dorothy thought so after taking a sip of black tea, and then her thoughts shifted to Sister Evie who came to the rescue today.
"Then there's the nude of Evi. She's such a strange being. At first I thought she was a ghost, but it turns out to be a projection. Her body is more than a hundred miles away, and she appears here with the help of a repeater... I'm really wondering what the nun's body looks like. Why does she have to be monitored remotely from a military port a hundred miles away? Why can't she come here in person? Could she be..."
Dorothy drank her tea and looked out the window. As she gazed at the moonlight, her thoughts became more profound.
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At night in Kankerdar, on the wide pier port, a huge black steel ship with a length of 100 meters and painted black was docked here. On the side of the ship were scriptures engraved, and many crosses stood on the front and back boards. Some crusaders were tied up and emaciated, and they wailed weakly. In addition to the crosses, there were several black iron pillars standing on the front board. Under the iron pillars was a circle of iron fence, and there were ashes that had not been cleaned up.
This strange black ship is called the Torment, and it is the flagship of the heretic investigation team headed by Clifton that is coming to Kankedal. At this time, inside the ship, Clifton and his men are carrying out their work.
Inside the burning cell, in a small cell, Gaspare, wearing thin blood-stained clothes and covered with cracks and scars, was being imprisoned. He was tightly bound by shackles and gasped for breath with his head down. From time to time, shrill screams could be heard from afar in the space around him.
"Father Gaspare, I advise you to tell the truth and explain everything clearly, so that you don't have to suffer any more. This is your first day here, and I am still taking care of you in a moderate way. According to our tradition, if you continue to be stubborn, I can't guarantee that I will be as gentle as I am today on the second or third day..."
Standing in front of Gaspare's prison, Clifton looked at the weak Gaspare and said indifferently. Listening to Clifton's words, Gaspare slowly raised his head, looked into Clifton's eyes, and spoke coldly.
"I have told you everything I can tell you, Your Excellency the Inquisitor. What else do you want me to tell you?"
"Of course, it's about how the heretics corrupted you through Addis! How you colluded with the heretics! How you murdered Prince Baruch! Of course, what kind of agreement did the heretic Shadi reach with the heretic Vanya! What are your plans for the future! Tell me all this, and you still have a chance, Father Gaspare."
Clifton looked at Gaspare and spoke quickly. After hearing these words, Gaspare stared at Clifton and then spoke.
"Heh... Holy Son, my warriors and I fought bloody battles with the heretics. Countless people died at the hands of the heretics, and the rest were seriously injured. Now you actually say that we are colluding with the heretics... What a bullshit! We defended the nobility of the Holy Church with our blood! And now you have locked us up here and tortured us! Where do you get the power! Where is the basis for this!"
Facing Clifton, Gaspare almost roared at him, unable to hide his anger, while Clifton responded with a sneer.
"My authority comes from Grand Inquisitor Kramar. This is a case he has directly ordered to be investigated! As for the evidence, a large number of heretical items ranging from books to holy emblems were found on the train you were riding! The train crew, including the assassin who was a train attendant, also confessed honestly that you and them had experienced the corruption of Addis by Shadi! With this certified physical evidence, do you still want to deny it?!"
"Those crews? Humph... Those crews are heretics. What does it have to do with us? We have only known them for twenty days and had almost no contact at that time. God knows what they are planning all day long?
"These despicable people are not of the same kind as us! They were instigated by others to frame us and Sister Vanya with a conspiracy, and you just believed their accusations. It's ridiculous. Aren't there a few ordinary people who are not even Beyonders who care about the words of the Holy Knights of the Holy Church?! Apart from these ordinary people, have you seen any of my warriors tell lies?"
Gaspare spoke directly to Clifton without fear of his authority. Hearing Gaspare's words, Clifton gritted his teeth and spoke angrily.
"Who said your men didn't speak up? Some of them have already confessed in front of me."
"Ah? How many of them? Who are they? Tell us what you are talking about? Call them over here so we can have a look? If you don't call the person who so-called confessed over here so we can confront him face to face, I will treat what you said as bullshit!"
Gaspare sneered at Clifton loudly with a cursing tone. Clifton couldn't help but twitch his mouth and his face sank when he heard Gaspare's words.
Indeed, up to now, none of the guards of the special envoy group had confessed according to Clifton's wishes. Their attitudes were very tough, and Clifton had not gained any advantage from them. Clifton's words just now were just to trick Gaspare.
Seeing that the escort team led by Gaspare was so tough, Clifton realized that he had to find a breakthrough between them. The accusation from ordinary civilian crew members was indeed ineffective, and it still needed accusations from the special envoys. After all, in the Addis, the special envoys including Vanya were a whole, and the crew of the Desert Arrow had little contact with them.
Clifton knew that in order to accuse Vanya that even Evie could not ignore, he had to make someone within the special envoy group betray him and admit that the special envoy group was involved with heresy. Looking at Gaspare in front of him, Clifton also deeply realized that it would be difficult to make the other party surrender. He could not rely on Gaspare to break through the special envoy group. He had to change his angle, change the candidate, and change a more fragile will.
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