The man stood in the cemetery, where the bodies of believers and clergy lay buried.
Yet beneath the soil lay more than bones. This twelfth-century church was merely the newest of the three churches that had stood on this site, and these believers now rested above the ruins of a church dating back to Roman times. During Geneva's Religious Reformation in 1536, John Calvin, the founder of Calvinism, expounded his Reformed Theology in the Chapel of Calvin beside St. Peter's Cathedral—then still called the Little Chapel of the New Virgin. His ideas influenced the Waldensians of Italy, the Dutch Reformed Church, and the Scottish Presbyterian Church, so this church saw immense foot traffic. Even an unfamiliar believer would hardly draw attention—not to mention that the two churches were now surrounded by restaurants, dessert shops, an archaeological museum, bureaucratic offices, and litigious lawyers. Helmut Zemo believed that even if he sat on a bench stuffing himself with dessert, no one would notice him.
So that was exactly what he did. At the entrance to St. Peter's Cathedral stood a French fine-chocolate shop called Confiserie Arn. Helmut Zemo bought a small crucible-shaped chocolate, bearing the coat of arms of the Holy Roman Empire. He intended to bring his wife here after the mission was complete—he had found news of her in the latest mission dossier. After his initial disbelief and wild joy, Helmut Zemo quickly calmed down. He carefully examined his wife's medical records and found many suspicious details. He even suspected that the City of Immortals was deceiving him, because no one could possibly survive such horrific injuries.
Even with the City of Immortals' extraordinarily advanced Cybernetic Prosthetics transplantation and bio-organ modification technology, it was difficult for someone with a shattered jaw, a spine smashed into several pieces, and severely damaged