"In that case, we'll take the prisoner with us, Judge Hogue."
"Understood. Get moving as soon as you can. Keeping this fellow here really has been a nuisance."
A glance at the time confirmed that the legally required detention period had elapsed. This little performance had come to a perfect end, too.
Eddie closed his eyes in pain. Back in the "sweet dream" Jiang Xiang had given them, they had already experienced their teammates dying with agonized screams.
During this court proceeding, he had been interrogated for a long time all over again.
He wasn't a battle-hardened warrior like Captain Parker or Ned.
Before joining the Time Variance Authority, he had been an ordinary newspaper reporter. Later, a chance turn of events had led to Captain Parker saving him.
He had endured a rough journey alongside them and eventually joined the Time Variance Authority.
But the military of this world seemed to regard him as some extraordinary figure.
They had subjected him to all kinds of torture!
They had locked him up without letting him sleep and interrogated him nonstop in rotating shifts.
Then, at the end, they had used his identity to stage a "reality show."
How boring, yet how amusing!
"Heh. They're exactly like those politicians."
With dark circles under his eyes, Eddie gave a self-deprecating laugh.
The interrogator who had stayed with Eddie all this time suddenly curled his lips into an eerie smile, which quickly vanished.
"Really? Your world has a military, too?"
Eddie looked incredulously at the man speaking to him.
Just last night, this fellow had told him that no one would waste words on a criminal and that he would be enjoying a long stretch of silence.
He had told Eddie to prepare for loneliness. So why had he started talking now that