At nine o'clock that evening, the mayor of Tanyi City delivered a public address on television, directly responding to the Unyielding Herald's "false reports" about Jane Hesta the previous Sunday.
Robert, the project's actual director, took part in the live connection throughout the speech. They invited several children from Saint Anne Abbey and had them recount before the cameras just how kind and pure Hesta's heart was.
Robert then fiercely condemned certain "ill-intentioned" young reporters for making baseless assumptions, fabricating lies without concrete evidence, and attempting to mislead the public and distort the truth.
At 10:20 that night, AHgAs offered no additional written explanation, merely posting a video on its official website.
The footage showed a corridor. A red-haired girl had grabbed a frail young man and was beating him mercilessly. He looked utterly pitiful. He never fought back, only kept struggling to crawl away, but the red-haired girl would not let up, raining blow after blow upon him.
Outside the frame came a pale, terrified female voice—
"Someone's... someone's being beaten—ahh, my God... stop, child—sob... somebody help—"
Though both the boy and girl in the footage had been mosaicked out, people still recognized Hesta from her unmistakable hair color.
...This was irrefutable evidence.
Was this red-haired little girl a little angel with a crystal-pure heart, or a potential demon capable of brutal cruelty? Everyone now had their own answer.
Tanyi City Hall fell completely silent. The evidence refuting them had arrived so quickly that they had no idea whether AHgAs had other unreleased material in its hands.
One disaster followed another. An hour later, the AHgAs Reserve Base announced that it would provide a detailed explanation at eight o'clock the next morning regarding the incident of a Che lated Being attacking people within the base.
The officials' phones were