Hearing her say that, I no longer felt that the Burial Ground was particularly dangerous.
Seeing my reaction, she frowned. "Some people have tried going in to take a look before, but not a single one ever came back. I'm warning you because I think someone has set you up. Whoever did it wants you to enter that place and put yourself in danger—or, rather, they want to kill with a borrowed knife."
I said nothing and lit a cigarette.
Logically speaking, the Burial Ground should not have been dangerous. It was merely where the Pompeii people buried their dead.
But there was one thing I had to be cautious about. She had also said that people had once been curious about the place and gone in to have a look, only to never come out again. And I believed there had to have been more than one person, or Qianqian would not have reacted so strongly.
"No matter what, I have to go take a look."
If we were going to deal with the outsiders in the future, then however inadequate the Holy See might be, it was still a massive force.
That was why I was unwilling to give up so easily.
Who held the Holy See's power did not really matter to me. Working with one person was the same as working with another.
"I know I can't persuade you. If you insist on going, you must be careful. I can't go with you. For one thing, it's part of the agreement I reached with them. In Pompeii City, I can go anywhere except the Burial Ground. That is my forbidden zone. I've always suspected that some great secret is hidden within the Burial Ground, but you know my temperament. As long as something has nothing to