Tiger, who had only just become the boss, wanted to resist. But when he saw the gang members surrendering, he held back and missed his last chance to escape.
Annan watched the thugs in the hall being restrained and said to the scribe who had come with him, "Caught red-handed."
"Congratulations, Captain Young Miss Olmedo! You wiped out a gang in your first hour and fifty-four minutes on the job, breaking the New Royal Capital City Guard's record of three months and ten days!"
"Who held the record?"
"Jinke. It took him ten hours."
"I just happened to have my eye on them."
Annan spoke modestly as he studied Tiger, whom Schofield had picked as the new boss.
Schofield had a good eye. Tiger really did look like a brainless boss.
"Interrogate the criminals. Everyone else, search for evidence."
Annan divided his men into two groups and led one through the Seblin Gang's headquarters.
Schofield had already stripped the place of anything valuable. All that remained was evidence of their crimes.
Annan followed his men down the second-floor corridor, checking the rooms one by one. When they reached what seemed to be a gang leader's room, his men stopped at the doorway.
They stepped aside for Annan. A foul smell filled the filthy room, but that was not what mattered. Several thin pieces of leather lay across a chair facing the door.
"What is that?" Annan had a sinking feeling.
The scribe's face darkened. "Human Skin."
"...Whose room is this?"
Someone ran downstairs to ask and returned shortly after. "Sir, it's Tiger's."
"Bring him here."
Annan entered the room and saw several rows of tiny skulls displayed on a shelf beside the door. Together with the chair covered in Human Skin, they made the girls' dying screams seem to ring