Chapter 53: Prison Director
Forniat.
The Prison Director of the Contract Land, also the nominal supreme commander of the Contract Land.
This is all that the outside world knows about him. As for who he really is, or how many years he has lived, no one knows, not even the Popes of the various churches have more detailed information. All they know is that both he and the Contract Land exist to seal Visas.
For one person...no, to be precise, for a soulless remnant body, exists the Prison Director.
"You have all come from afar, yet I do not have much to entertain you with," the Prison Director slowly began, his voice still making one's teeth ache, "What I can offer is only a mission, a mission given to me by the great gods, and also to all of you. Given this, let's not dwell on pleasantries."
I think to myself, you haven't said any pleasantries either, haven't you just jumped straight to the point as soon as you arrived?
Rocky grumbled inwardly.
Everyone in the tent was observing the Prison Director, and he was no exception, but unlike the others, he had an extra measure of scrutiny for the Prison Director.
Mainly because he wanted to see if this guy could possibly be that "Miss Ring Finger," given that there was a precedent of the Tongue, leading Rocky to know that the gender in Taoyuan Village might not correspond to reality.
It's known that Miss Ring Finger comes from the Contract Land and is very powerful.
The Prison Director is also from the Contract Land, equally powerful.
Could it be possible they are the same person? After all, with such chains wrapped around the body, it's indeed hard to discern gender.
Of course, so far, Rocky has been unable to find any commonality between the Prison Director and Miss Ring Finger, only that their differences are indeed quite significant.
"Visas is dead, but his power has been lingering in the mortal world," the Prison Director said, "Since we cannot completely erase his existence, at the very least, we cannot let his power converge again. That is the purpose of this gathering. As you can see, Heavenly Voice Obedience has already been set up. We just need to input a name to remove the hidden danger. But what I did not expect is that such a simple task could still turn into chaos."
The Prison Director's gaze fell on Rocky, instantly making Rocky feel a chill down his back.
"At first, the information was provided by Rhein, demanding the execution of a heretic named Ulu, also indicating the other party had at least four corpse fragments," the Prison Director said blandly, "But now, you want to change the name?"
At this moment, Rocky somewhat regretted attending this gathering.
Originally, he thought it was to showcase Rhein's next pope figure to all factions, but now it seems more like he's here to take the blame and get scolded.
If things go wrong here, wouldn't that old Lango pin all the responsibility on him? But this intelligence wasn't even collected by him.
Despite having many complaints in his heart, Rocky also knew that at this time, he could only bear it, after all, he was representing Rhein's face.
"When we submitted the information, we should have mentioned that this was just our speculation, right?" Rocky said with reluctance, "We only knew that four fragment parts had already been lost, so in such a short period, we naturally thought it was the work of a single person, that is, Ulu, and of course, we wouldn't have thought he had accomplices."
"Accomplices?" the Prison Director asked, "How do you know they are accomplices?"
Rocky's heart skipped a beat.
Oh no, he forgot that the information about the Tongue and Hand Eye being accomplices came from Taoyuan Village, and these people don't know that.
Think quickly, think quickly.
Rocky's mind raced.
He got it!
"Because I saw that person with my own eyes." Rocky slowly began, "Fenris, the Church Leader can testify. I've confronted that Corpse Fragment Holder, and at that time, he told me about his collaboration with Ulu to acquire the fragments, and how he was eventually betrayed by Ulu."
The Prison Director looked towards Fenris, who nodded slightly, "Yes, I can testify, Bishop Rocky indeed encountered such a person."
"I want to know his identity, not a vague description of 'such a person,'" the Prison Director said.
"He goes by many names," Rocky said solemnly, "Because he comes from the Holy Sound and single-handedly created the Holy Sound disaster. Of the names I know, there are Cesar and Hewinia..."
Following these words, the representatives of Holy Sound and Lyra both raised their heads.
"The Seven-Tone Player?" the Prison Director lightly tapped the table, then turned to the Holy Sound representative, "What does Holy Sound have to say?"
"The information I have is no more than that of Bishop Rocky," the Holy Sound representative said with a dark expression, "The only one who should know the full story was Ulysses, the headmaster, but he is already dead."
"I see." The Prison Director then turned his gaze to Ina, "And what about the Lyra representative? To my knowledge, it wasn't just Holy Sound that suffered a drastic change."
"Unfortunately, we have little information as well," Ina said, "In fact, we don't even know which fragment was lost, or if it wasn't for Rhein's report, we wouldn't have even known we had such a fragment because it was never in our possession. Perhaps someone once knew, but they perished with that drastic change."
"So, we still have no way to determine who the enemy is, or how many fragments there are, is that correct?" the Prison Director said, "In that case, which name should we input into the Heavenly Voice Obedience? Is it Cesar, Hewinia, or Ulu? Can any of you give me the answer?"