"But there's no evidence..." Bruce had been persuaded, but his status within the Church meant he had to be extremely cautious when dealing with royal affairs. Even if this was the stronghold of The Triad, it didn't mean the Church could truly do whatever it pleased. The world was never that simple.
"That's why I told you to swear an oath! Investigate it however you need to once you're out. Isn't looking into the backgrounds of those victims your job? Just don't deliberately interfere." Solam shrugged casually. "By the way, if I remember correctly, the ducal royal family worships the Lord of Radiance, right?"
"That's right!" Everyone knew that.
"Then the personal priests assigned to members of the royal family should all be from the Radiance Church, shouldn't they?" Solam continued.
"What are you getting at?" Bruce asked with a frown.
"Then the princess from sixteen years ago should have had a personal priest by her side as well, right?" It was nothing unusual for royalty to have personal priests, much like private physicians. So for a princess—especially one rumored to have been sickly all her life—to have a personal priest was only natural.
"You mean..." Bruce's eyelids twitched.
"That's right. Perhaps that personal priest knew best what exactly happened to that princess back then?" Solam said darkly, ignoring Bruce's expression.
Before Bruce could say anything, Rist suddenly rushed in.
"This is bad! Another victim has been killed! At Saint Sophia Cathedral!"
Upon hearing that, Solam and Bruce suddenly looked at each other.
Saint Sophia Cathedral stood at the very center of the city. It was the Radiance Church's largest cathedral on the Shining Plains, second only to its headquarters in the Holy City of Miranda. Since the Lord of Radiance was the primary faith of Toussaint, this cathedral