Twilight Cafe.
The familiar window-side seat.
But this time, the people seated on either side were completely different.
"So, Miss Irin, you're saying that Mr. Liao Ji was kidnapped by an evil nun posing as a member of our Church and taken to the Archive Room on the lowest level of our Church?"
Tamik furrowed his brow as he stared at the girl across from him—the young woman who had once accompanied Liao Ji at Haisha Bar, and who had now come in his place to meet with him.
Desperate to save someone, Irin anxiously emphasized again, "Not the Archive Room! The abandoned sewers beneath the Archive Room! They're full of monsters—Corrupted Corpses! And it's all because of that damned priest of yours!"
"He'd been secretly researching how to use a Great Emperor's Relic excavated from the ruins. Those Corrupted Corpse monsters were all innocent people Kalleva captured from the Black Cave, whom he used in his insane experiments and transformed into monsters!!"
Tamik's brow furrowed even deeper at the girl's horrifying words.
He had only wanted to find Liao Ji and probe into the whereabouts of the "relic" lost at the Kalleva factory. He had never expected that his entire worldview would nearly collapse.
An ordinary knight might have simply walked away, or perhaps arrested the girl at once for "blasphemy."
But Tamik still remembered the principles of investigation his master, Dulin, had taught him: never jump to conclusions or casually deny anything you believed to be "absolutely impossible."
Observe, and think.
Those were the five words he had learned from Captain Dulin. 💥👺 🎉👻
So—
"Miss Irin, wait a moment. Let me process this." Tamik stopped the girl across from him, who was still urging him on, and rapidly sorted through the overwhelming flood of information in his