Lu Yuan stepped forward, his tone calm.
"Captain Eger, I think this Priest owes me an explanation."
He paused, then added, "And compensation."
Eger nodded. "As he should."
He turned to Andrew. "What do you have to say?"
Andrew looked around at the wary gazes of the three Night Watcher members and knew he would not gain anything today.
He took a deep breath and tried to make his voice sound calmer.
"This was indeed my oversight."
He forced out the words, each one seeming to squeeze through clenched teeth.
"But my intentions were good. The Angel wanted to take this child away..."
Mo Shui rolled her eyes. "She is one of mine. If you want to take her, have your Bishop come himself."
"Priest."
Lu Yuan did not want to waste time and went straight to the point.
"We are both reasonable men."
"You broke into my clinic, deployed a Silence Barrier, and attacked me."
"Any one of those offenses would be enough for the Night Watchers to lock you up. Even if they could not execute you, the price would still be more than you could bear."
Lu Yuan spoke evenly, as though stating an irrefutable fact.
"I do not want to make a big deal of this."
"Give me reasonable compensation, and we can put this behind us."
Andrew fell silent for a moment.
He knew Lu Yuan was already giving him a way out.
If this really reached Night Watcher Headquarters, his reputation as a Priest would be ruined beyond repair.
"What do you want?"
He spoke with difficulty.
Lu Yuan said directly, "That Scripture in your hand."
He pointed at the golden Fragments on the ground.
Though those Fragments had lost their sacred power, the material itself was still valuable. If he gathered them for