Chapter 107: Sixteen Visa’s Tongue
“Your aning is, the chanician wasn’t killed by you, but a person nad Ocot, and this Ocot is also the assistant for the Fourth District,”
“Yes.”
“So you chased him all the way onto the gear car, and you even used your forr ‘Night Star’ authority to make the gear car stop before reaching the Fifth Zone, just to capture him,”
“Right.”
“Then, when he resisted arrest, you engaged in a fierce battle with him…” the Bone Knight conducting the interrogation slowly leaned forward, “Next, you discovered that the assistant underwent an unauthorized modification, he had installed six…”
“No,” Gerard corrected the Knight, “it was eight.”
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“Ah, right, right, right, eight,” the Bone Knight nodded repeatedly, “eight chanical arms, and the thing he used to control these chanical arms was… Pollutants, he also implanted pollutants in his body? And was eventually overco by the pollutants, turning into a monster-like being, so during your fight with him you ended up destroying three sections of the gear car?”
“It wasn’t who destroyed them, it was he who destroyed them.” Gerard patiently explained, “I was just dodging his attacks, so it can’t be counted on .”
…Is that the main point?
The Bone Knight straightened up, “So where’s the evidence?”
“His body is the evidence.”
“And where is his body?”
Gerard lifted his head, looking at the Bone Knight before him, “Regarding that point, as I’ve already explained, before you all arrived, his body was dragged away by so creature from beneath the Iron Chain Bridge, my initial determination is… Pollutants.”
“Why didn’t you stop it?”
“Because I was facing you all, so my back was to the corpse, which let it slip away. By the ti I realized it, the body had already been dragged beneath the water,” Gerard said, “In fact, if you had run a bit faster, you could have seen the last mont before the corpse was dragged into the water, at that ti Ocot’s eyes were still open, yes, if only you’d run a bit faster, you could have seen his last visage.”
…Damn it, run faster to see the last visage.
The Bone Knight felt a frustrated surge in his chest that he couldn’t spit out, and he stared at Gerard for a long mont before finally speaking, “Don’t you think sothing’s off?”
“I don’t think anything’s off,” Gerard said calmly, “If you think there’s an issue with what I’ve said, you can point it out directly, instead of asking rhetorically.”
With one sentence, he had stumped the interrogating Bone Knight, who subconsciously glanced outside the room.
Standing outside the room were Kude and Chamos.
After listening to the entire interrogation of Gerard, Chamos couldn’t help scratching his head, “Why does it feel odd?”
“What?”
“I an Gerard,” Chamos said, “I always feel like he’s changed sohow, we just ca back from Rhein’s Somo City together, it’s only been a day since we last t, but it’s as if he beca a different person… don’t you feel that way?”
Kude didn’t directly answer Chamos’s question, but quietly gazed at Gerard inside the room and after a long mont, slowly began to speak, “So, how credible do you think his statents are?”
“The credibility of his statents…” Chamos’s eyes widened, “Are you serious? It’s ridiculous to even ask that question.”
“It is our duty,” Kude said, “These are his statents, and even if they’re unreasonable, you need to point out what’s unreasonable, rather than presu. From what we’ve seen, his statents at least are logically consistent.”
“Logically consistent, Captain, I really don’t know if you’re joking with ,” Chamos said, “According to him, the locks on that assistant nad Ocot have been released, and not just the ‘Body Lock’ but the ‘Heart Lock’ too, and it doesn’t stop there. He even underwent a forbidden modification and stuffed pollutants into his body. It’s not about whether this crosses the line, it’s simply… impossible, even if he had truly gone mad, who would have helped him achieve all this? It’s not sothing one can just sneakily do at ho. If so, who’s supporting him? He was an assistant for the Fourth District; could it be that the person aiding him was the Lord Bishop of the Fourth District?”
Chamos rambled on, expecting Kude to interrupt, but Kude did not, and even nodded slightly after listening, “Continue.”
Continue…
Chamos was speechless, but still continued, “Then there’s the pollutant he ntioned that took the evidence away, Captain, beneath the Iron Chain Bridge that’s Lyra’s inner river, so what kind of pollutant could co here? Is the entire Fifth Zone, the entire Devil’s Army just for decoration? And according to his description, that pollutant specifically ca for the body, why? Now, is there soone capable of controlling pollutants? There seem to be too many loopholes.”
“So, you think all of this was his own staging?”
“Is there another possibility?”
Kude, looking at Gerard in the room, softly said, “But even you think this excuse is absurd, why would he use it then?”
Chamos was taken aback, then looked at Kude with a resentful gaze, “I always feel like you’re insulting , and I have proof.”
Kude ignored Chamos’s comnt, his eyes still on Gerard, contemplative.
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