Of course, this was just a theory.
Besides the possibility that a believer had killed the Saintess and fled, another theory was that no one had been killed at all. Instead, a Saintess had escaped, and the temple had unilaterally announced her death to erase her identity.
As for the person who had fled all the way to a satellite city, they wouldn't be hard to track down. It would just take some time.
The Outer District Players couldn't conveniently get passenger lists from government offices, so they took a simpler, more heavy-handed approach: publicly offering help to believers who had been "persecuted."
The Outer District Players couldn't say they were offering help to whoever had killed the Saintess, and the believers weren't likely to trust them anyway. So he had everyone stick to the same story: don't mention the murder, just say they were offering help to believers.
Whether the person who had fled to a satellite city was a Saintess or simply a believer, they were now an enemy of the temple. Ordinary people couldn't protect them, so seeking help from the Outer District Players was their best option.
For a time, eyes and ears were everywhere outside the temple.
Xu Huo and the other two were among them.
"I don't think anyone will ask for help." Blondie stirred the noodles he had just ordered. "Someone who managed to escape the temple must have had help, right? Maybe they came to the satellite city to seek refuge with a friend. Why trust strangers with no ties to them over their own friends?"
"Besides, they're all believers. Unless their faith has completely collapsed, even if they're at each other's throats, they won't bring outsiders into it."
"That makes sense," Xu Huo said. "But you never know. Even if no