Madmen don't keep diaries

Chapter 226 225 Pressing forward step by step

Konate Chen remained calm and even wanted to laugh.

There was a hint of sarcasm in his tone. "I do know old William, but that's just acquaintance. My only relationship with him is that I bought clothes in his store. But it's too hasty to accuse me based on that alone."

Hong Shenghuo smiled at him and said, "Don't worry, Bishop Konate."

He pulled a talisman from his sleeve and asked politely, "To avoid any accidents, I need to temporarily restrict your magical power until I produce the evidence. Does Your Excellency the Bishop have any objections? I promise, it won't hurt at all."

Konate Chen looked at the talisman in Hong Shenghuo's hand. It was a fire net mountain-sealing talisman, which would indeed only serve to seal the magic power.

So he nodded: "I have no objection, I believe the Water Control Bureau will not wrongly accuse a good person, come on."

Hong Shenghuo threw the talisman away, and the yellow paper quickly caught fire in the air, and in the blink of an eye it turned into ashes and disappeared.

Instead, a web of fire appeared around Konate Chen and disappeared in an instant.

Konate Chen moved his hands and feet and found that except for being unable to mobilize his magic power, his movements were not restricted.

"continue."

Vadracho reminded.

Hong Shenghuo nodded and continued speaking.

"Besides the relationship between buyer and seller, Konate Chen and Old William do have a more hidden connection. The Waterworks Administration has solid evidence of this."

Konate Chen guessed in his mind that Hong Shenghuo would probably take out the account book next.

Unexpectedly, what Hong Shenghuo asked his personal guards to present was a pair of scissors and a coat.

Konate Chen felt that the coat looked familiar, but he couldn't remember where it was.

He felt vaguely uneasy.

Hong Shenghuo said to the audience, "We have confirmed that Old William is a defected priest from the Church of Evernight and once served as the captain of a team of agents."

He picked up the scissors and explained, "This is actually a high-level magical weapon called 'Shadow Cutting'. Old William stole it when he escaped from the Church of Evernight."

"The effect of the Shadow Scissors is very direct and powerful. As its name suggests, it can cause damage to shadows, and this damage will also be reflected in both the physical body and the spiritual body. For example, if I use it to cut off the heads of your shadows, your heads will fall to the ground with them."

When Hong Shenghuo said the last sentence, Konate Chen's eyes suddenly widened and his lips trembled.

Hong Shenghuo looked over with a smile on his face. Konate Chen swallowed his saliva and said in a firm tone: "What you said has nothing to do with me, and it has nothing to do with the case-"

Hong Shenghuo ignored him, put down the scissors and picked up the coat again: "This is an exquisite coat, it is tailored with great care and skill - yes, it was made by old William."

He lifted a corner of his shirt to show everyone, "Please look here. This is the inconspicuous embroidery. Old William deliberately used the same color thread as the clothing to sew it, so it's not conspicuous. This embroidery serves as an anti-counterfeiting mark for Old William's tailor shop, but it also serves as a magic circle."

Hong Shenghuo smiled slightly. "It's very cleverly designed, isn't it? The effect is also very simple - stealing shadows, a typical method of the Church of Evernight. It can steal the shadow of the person wearing this clothing, and it can also temporarily store the shadow in the magic circle."

Hong Shenghuo made a small joke: "Perhaps when we go back today, everyone should carefully check whether anyone in the family has patronized Old William's tailor shop. As far as I know, Old William left this magic circle on almost every piece of clothing."

Konate Chen's face gradually turned pale. He wanted to say something out loud - whether it was to defend himself or to interrupt, whatever, he didn't want Hong Shenghuo to continue.

But reason told him that no matter what he said at this time, it would only make him more suspicious.

Fortunately, Vadracho spoke for him: "Your Excellency, I don't see any connection between what you said and Bishop Konate."

Hong Shenghuo nodded slightly: "Please allow me to call a witness." "Please."

Vadracho nodded.

Hong Shenghuo clapped his hands, and the side door not far away opened. Guard Officer Morgan, looking confused, walked in under the escort of two sailors.

Ignoring Konate Chen's increasingly pale face, Hong Shenghuo picked up the coat and asked Officer Morgan, "Officer Morgan, do you recognize this coat?"

Guard Officer Morgan's eyes revealed fear and hesitation.

He swept his eyes across everyone's faces, finally landing on Vadracho's.

Vadracho showed no expression, but Guard Officer Morgan did not dare to lie in front of him.

"Yes, yes, I have."

He gritted his teeth and finally spoke.

"I took a day off that day because Bishop Konate asked me to go to the tailor shop to pick up a custom-made coat for him. Yes, this one."

Halfway through his speech, Guard Officer Morgan subconsciously glanced at Konate Chen. Seeing Konate Chen's ugly expression, he quickly looked away and continued speaking.

"After I got the coat, I brought it up to the city and personally handed it to Bishop Konate. But it didn't seem to fit, so Bishop Konate tried it on and asked me to return it."

Hong Shenghuo continued to guide: "Do you remember the specific day?"

"of course."

Officer Morgan took a deep breath and said, "It was the day Father Feng Xiuhu officially took office."

Hong Shenghuo faced the audience and said, "You may not know this, but a case also occurred on this day."

The Duke suddenly spoke up, "I remember that Director Lu's wife and housekeeper were murdered on this day. At the time, their deaths seemed so strange that the police couldn't investigate, so they left the case unresolved. But now it seems we should know the answer."

The Duke subconsciously looked towards Konate Chen, but happened to see the moment when Konate Chen and the Duke's wife made eye contact.

He withdrew his gaze and gave Hong Shenghuo the chance to speak.

Hong Shenghuo took over the conversation and continued, "The Zhenshui Division has been conducting a thorough investigation for several days, interviewing and questioning the patrol officers who handled the case. They've confirmed that there were no abnormalities in the shadows of Zhao Yingxia and the Lu family's housekeeper. However, there are other witnesses who can prove that Zhao Yingxia's shadow did disappear when she died."

"This proves that the shadows of Zhao Yingxia and the housekeeper were stolen by Old William in advance. He then used the shadow-cutting scissors to silence them, and then had Officer Morgan transport the coats and return the shadows to the bodies."

"The police officer in charge of the case has a confession as evidence that after the body was transported back to Shangcheng, Konate Chen did go to check on it and had contact with the body under the pretext of providing clues."

"enough!"

Konate Chen shouted angrily. He knew he had to stop Hong Shenghuo from speaking any further.

His eyes widened in anger as he protested loudly, "What you said has nothing to do with the Water Control Bureau case!"

Hong Shenghuo calmly asked, "Bishop Konate, when did I ever say that today's trial was about the Shenwei Cannon case?"

PS: Konate Chen thought that the church would support him, but he didn't know that the Duke of Great Power had already spoken to Vadracho in secret.

(End of this chapter)