The chill of the morgue had yet to fade when Lilith frowned slightly and said evenly, "Tell me everything."
Wu Heng followed beside her. "According to what Ask the Corpse revealed, the Priestess had died three days before the banquet and never returned to the Church dormitory. He didn't mention something that important, only briefly said that he had investigated smugglers."
Lilith slowed her pace. "What else?"
Wu Heng continued, "There's one more thing. When I investigated the tavern, they deliberately left behind boots and a belt to mislead me into tracking them north. Not many people in Netarei City know the effects of this strange item of mine. I could count them on one hand, and the only one the culprit could have come into contact with was Nasir."
Before he had become a hero, Nasir had also been his comrade-in-arms during the investigation in Netarei City.
Though he did not want to believe it, both points were indeed suspicious.
At first, he had thought Wraith Possession had been mingling among the Church and the Association and only then learned that he possessed this strange item.
But the Priestess had disappeared three days before the banquet. Nasir had not grown suspicious? He had even brought her directly to the banquet.
That made him very easy to suspect.
Lilith narrowed her eyes. "You suspect Nasir colluded with the wraith?"
She casually pulled on her dark blue hood and said, "Church priests are rather fanatical about their faith. Cooperating with a wraith that murdered a priest? That doesn't make sense."
"That's what's been bothering me too." Wu Heng rubbed his chin.
Ahead was the end of the corridor, where they could see passing mercenaries and hear the surrounding clamor.
Lilith stopped, adjusted her hood, and said softly, "Since you're already back