This... given the situation, escaping was obviously better than staying and getting arrested with me, but William and Tia ran away awfully fast... They must have used a Pleasure Demoness's invisibility and a Calamity Priest's luck to evade this team of official Beyonders. But how could tricks like that fool a demigod?
Did this demigod from the Church of Knowledge deliberately let them go, intending to arrest only me? Just as I finished mailing my letter?
Thoughts flashed through Helene's mind in rapid succession, and she instinctively caught a whiff of conspiracy.
Her suspicions peaked when she saw the clergy casually heap together the documents stolen from various institutions, not even bothering to inspect them.
"What crime have I committed? What punishment will I receive?"
As she was handcuffed and pushed toward a carriage clad in iron sheets, its windows sealed with bars, she questioned the white-haired old man.
"Entering Lenburg under a false identity and stealing state secrets during wartime," the old man answered evenly. "You were wise not to resist or flee. Otherwise, you would have been executed on the spot... As things stand, you will be sentenced to exile."
Huh? Exile? Being kicked out of Lenburg? Isn't that practically no punishment at all...? Surprised and delighted, Helene instinctively asked:
"Exiled where? Intis or Feynapotter?"
"Neither." The demigod smiled kindly and pointed into the distance. "Our destination is over there."
Following the direction of his finger, Helene saw a great white tower.
It was the headquarters of the Church of Knowledge, the Knowledge Temple, tall enough to overlook all of Azshara.
They're exiling me into the church?
Helene's expression changed again.
At that very moment, she caught an extremely indistinct figure flashing past a street corner out of the corner of her eye. Without a Reaper's keen senses