Huh? How had she actually gotten him thinking along the same lines, about hunting nobles?
That momentary spark of interest made Han Su feel a little surprised.
Was it the influence of Ms. Shen's memories and thoughts? He was actually very interested in hunting nobles.
But in truth, she was clearly somewhat deranged. Whether this line of thought she'd offered was correct was still an open question. She said the Twelve Knights and the Emperor were enemies, but that was only her guess. She said the Emperor had been erased from existence, but that was just her perspective. And her claim that only the Emperor's power could free them from all this was an entirely unsupported guess.
After all, when it came to traces of the Emperor,
Han Su already had the Mechanical Fragment, the Fishing Horn, the Emperor's Book, and other such things.
And was the Emperor really their only hope of escaping the Kidnapping Case?
If Han Su remembered correctly, the Old Butler had mentioned the Emperor in the Ancient Castle, too.
He'd also said these children were gifts the Emperor had offered to the monsters.
There were two possibilities: perhaps the Knight Descendants were acting in the Emperor's name, or perhaps the Emperor was involved from the start. One thing was certain: everything in Ms. Shen's memories was based on what she'd understood from her own perspective. As for Han Su himself,
he'd been in and out of the Ancient Castle so many times that he'd already glimpsed some of its secrets. He might even know more than she did—
But then again, when it came to the Mechanical Fragments—
Han Su gently set down the Crystal Skull and looked inside the Briefcase. The two Mechanical Fragments lay quietly in their compartments, looking utterly ordinary.
But their