"I... don't know what you're talking about!"
The skeleton knight with the chainsaw sword against his neck went pale.
"I'm asking you what the hell is with those two chanical arms behind you?!"
"What do you an, 'what's with them'?" the skeleton knight gritted his teeth and said, "This is my body, I can modify it however I want."
"This is your... 'freedom'?" When he heard this, sparks almost burst from Gerard's exposed eyes, "Since when does Lyra's law allow such freedom? If there really is such a law, tell , which one is it?"
The skeleton knight obviously couldn't na one; he just stubbornly said, "So what? I'm not the only one doing this! Why are you blaming only ?"
"Of course, I know you're not the only one doing this." Gerard gazed into the skeleton knight's eyes and said deliberately, "The last person I discovered doing this was Ocot, and you should know his fate."
The skeleton knight shivered inside. He understood Gerard's threat, but still unwilling to yield, he forced himself to say, "Gerard! If you really want to kill , just do it! You don't need to look for these pointless excuses! After all, we all know that you've been crazy, crazy since ten years ago! Anyway, I am innocent, and if you kill , your fate will be sealed."
"Are you threatening ?"
Gerard now was vastly different from when he had just returned to Lyra two days ago.
He pushed the skeleton knight against a nearby wall, then raised his chainsaw sword a few inches higher and twisted the handle.
Instantly, an ear-piercing roar from the chainsaw sword sounded at the skeleton knight's forehead.
The skeleton knight's face turned even paler.
He was acutely aware that if Gerard loosed his sword-holding hand even slightly, the chainsaw sword would bisect him in an instant—there was no doubting the destructive power of the sword; at that mont it had already drilled a large hole in the wall against which the skeleton knight was leaning. The stones, shattered into pieces, hit his neck, reminding him that in front of this chainsaw sword, his life was no different from these seemingly hard stones.
Gerard really wanted to kill him!
"If it weren't for the fact that I didn't feel the taint in your body," Gerard's cold voice sounded in the skeleton knight's ear, "you would have been slaughtered by now."
The skeleton knight still wanted to resist, but Gerard just moved the chainsaw sword down a bit, and the increasingly close roar, along with more falling debris, no longer allowed him to be as defiant as before.
"Tell ! Who made you put these on!"
"It was... my own choice!"
"Bullshit! You're not an ordinary person; you're a knight of the bones! Who let you pass the physical exam after altering your body like this!" Gerard yelled at the skeleton knight, "Who's behind you?! Who sent you here... Speak!"
At this mont, the skeleton knight finally couldn't hold out any longer.
Faced with such an imminent threat of death, he could no longer maintain his toughness; his ntal defense collapsed, and he dropped to the ground with a "thud," his lips trembling as he said, "It was the 'New Chaser Association'..."
The words had just left his lips when a series of rapid footsteps sounded. More fully ard skeleton knights rushed out from the platform, and as they saw the scene before them, they raised their automatic guns.
"Gerard, stop!"
"You're under arrest!"
...
Kude walked into the skeleton knight headquarters in a hurry. Chamos had been waiting for him there, and as soon as he saw Kude, Chamos imdiately ca up to him. Before he even got close, the complaints were already pouring out, "Boss, where the hell have you been? With such a big incident, we couldn't find you. Minister Fenli is furious."
"I was on a case."
"On a case?" Chamos's eyes widened, "Boss, you're not still investigating the case Gerard started, are you? Isn't that just him..."
"Once a case is opened, it needs to be investigated," Kude cut off Chamos succinctly, "Now tell , what exactly happened on the day I was gone."
"What happened today could fill volus," Chamos spread his hands helplessly, "First and foremost, the biggest incident—another administrative assistant from the Fourth District died this morning, and moreover, he died in front of countless eyes."
Kude's body paused for a mont, "What happened?"
"I don't know, according to descriptions from those at the scene, the assistant... just exploded into pieces while walking," Chamos said. "We still haven't determined the exact thod used, only a rough suspect."
"Who?" Kude asked the question instinctively, then in less than a second, he guessed the answer, "Is it Gerard?"
"Yes, Gerard was the person who had the longest conversation with the assistant before his death," Chamos said. "Shortly after Gerard left, the assistant was found dead."
"...Is there evidence?"
"That's where the problem lies... there's none," Chamos sighed. "As I ntioned earlier, we still don't know how the assistant actually died. This was definitely not Lyra's power."
"...What happened after that?"
"Following protocol, we naturally had to bring in Gerard, the pri suspect. A Knight from another squad found him at 'Rim' station, so the Knight relayed the ssage to headquarters and kept an eye on him at the scene."
Kude suddenly felt uneasy, "Gerard didn't kill this Knight, did he?"
"He did not," Chamos shook his head.
Just as Kude was about to breathe a sigh of relief, he heard Chamos speak indifferently.
"It was just an attempted murder. When the backup forces arrived, they saw Gerard with his activated chainsaw sword at the Knight's neck. If the reinforcents had been any later, a tragedy would have undoubtedly occurred, and another innocent life would have been added today." As he spoke, Chamos beca visibly angered. "This guy has obviously gone mad! We have to figure out a way to convict him imdiately..."
"Why would Gerard attack the Knight?" Kude didn't pay attention to Chamos's emotional outburst, instead, he asked the question, "Did he give a reason?"
Chamos was taken aback, "What?"
"I an..." Kude stopped in front of the minister's office, looked at Chamos, and slowly repeated his question, "Why would Gerard attack the Knight?"
"Uh, it's because that Knight had undertaken illegal modifications," Chamos said. "He had added two chanical arms to his back."
Kude's brow furrowed instantly.
"Hey, boss, you're not going to defend Gerard at a ti like this, are you?" Seeing the change in Kude's expression, Chamos imdiately spoke in surprise. "Even if that Knight did violate the rules, Gerard had no authority to execute him on the spot."
Kude still didn't pay attention to Chamos's complaint and asked again, "What else did they confess?"
"Gerard claid that the Bone Knight said he had the chanical arms installed by an organization called the 'New Chaser Association,'" Chamos said. "However, this point was denied by the Bone Knight. He said he never made such a statent and that it was all made up by Gerard."
Kude fell into Silence.
This silence made Chamos uneasy. He had been sensing sothing amiss but hadn't pinpointed it until now, and he asked, "Boss, what's wrong with you? You seem so off today. Weren't you supposed to be investigating a case? And shouldn't that investigation have been in the Fourth District? Why do you seem to know nothing about it... Where exactly did you go?"
Kude remained silent for a while before finally saying slowly, "I did go to investigate a case, but I didn't start from the Fourth District."
"So what did you find?"
"Everything appears normal, but also... not quite right," Kude cryptically dropped this line. "So for now, I can't quite say. I need to look further into it."
With that, Kude headed towards the minister's office.
Chamos quickly stopped him, "Hey, hey, hey, don't be cryptic here! At least tell sothing!"
Kude looked deeply into Chamos's eyes before leaving him with one line.
"The Bone Knight's illegal addition of chanical arms, that should be a felony, right?"
"Illegal addition of chanical arms..." Chamos recalled and then frowned and nodded, "It does seem like a serious cri, what about it?"
"But did you realize this before I reminded you?" Kude spoke softly. "Didn't you think it was just a minor violation?"
Chamos was stunned.
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