The two clergymen had been discovered in time. Amputation was enough to save both their lives.
But that was already enough to show who had done it—who else could it have been but Sophia Jensen?
Traveling more than two thousand kilometers in two hours was only an estimate. Both men had tracking devices on them, and after the devices lost their signals, they never reappeared. They were found six hours after they went missing.
Considering that frostbite took time to develop, the Mairui Church believed they had been left outdoors for at least four hours.
The Papal Court, however, believed that if a small aircraft had been used—say, a helicopter—covering over two thousand kilometers in six hours was nothing remarkable. Therefore, Sophia could not be definitively identified as an apostate with evil powers.
While those sides were still bickering, the police had run into a headache as well. The family and organization of the only person who had died were no longer pursuing the matter, but the owner of the private museum refused to let it go and demanded that they solve the case as quickly as possible.
This man had suffered enormous losses in the incident, reportedly exceeding twenty-five million Mairui Dollars—and that was with part of it insured. Otherwise, the losses would have been even worse.
Anyone who could afford to run a private museum was naturally a respectable figure. His fortune was not especially massive, but he still had over a billion Mairui Dollars—reportedly more than two billion now. He liked collecting antiques and had opened this museum.
In Mairui Country, money talked. He demanded that the police solve the case quickly and even said he could offer a private reward.
He had heard of the Jensen Family and all that, but... did being the Jensen Family