In the name of the true god

After careful consideration, Jude agreed to Edmund's suggestion: "Let's do it your way, but I just finished my rotation in the Heretic's Quarter, so it will take almost another month to confirm the tunnel."

His time flow was different from Edmund's.

目前他的日期为神教历448年10月22日（周一），埃德蒙的日期为神教历419年9月1日。（注：1）

After verifying the situation at the heretical prison area.

他的时间会来到神教历448年11月10日（周六），周一凌晨和埃德蒙碰面的时候，埃德蒙那边已经过去了三个月，日期则是神教历419年12月1日。

In other words, after all this commotion, he had only been in the other world for a little over a month, while Edmund's progress had been synchronized for more than half a year.

The public execution eight years from now doesn't seem so far away...

"boom……"

The mysterious space suddenly began to shake precariously, and the black mist floating on the ground began to churn.

The fifth meeting is about to end.

Edmund abruptly made a request to Jude: "Jude, if this succeeds, I need your reward."

"A reward?" Jude paused for a moment. "...It's only right."

Edmund has already helped him a lot.

We can't keep letting him make the sacrifices all the time.

However... the reward he needs is definitely not simple.

as predicted.

Just as his consciousness was about to be pulled away, Edmund gave Jude no chance to refuse and quickly made his demand: "I want you to tell me my ending."

Then, before anyone could reply, Jude's consciousness seemed to spread out, first with waves of dizziness, then back to reality.

The clouds outside the window were sparse, and the moonlight was soft and bright.

He lay in bed, staring quietly at the ceiling, his heart heavy.

—I want you to tell me how I'll end up.

This sentence actually contains a lot of information.

ending.

Clearly, Edmund had guessed that he had died before the year 448 of the Christian calendar.

This is actually quite easy to see.

He remained tight-lipped about his affairs.

Furthermore, if he really lived to the 448th year of the Divine Religion Calendar, I would definitely go directly to him to discuss it in person, without having to wait for the mysterious space to open.

and so……

As long as I come into contact with Edmund, the past timeline will always be affected. This is something I can't avoid by hiding it.

If that's the case, it doesn't seem to matter much to tell him honestly what happened in the future...

Perfect timing! I also wanted to try and see if I could stop Edmund's death and reverse what had already happened.

If it succeeds...

October 22, 448 of the Divine Calendar, Monday, early morning.

Jude drove Connor to work, and the prison remained on high alert.

When I met Allen in the temporary break room for prison guards in the special prison ward, Allen was changing clothes with dark circles under his eyes, as if he had been thinking about the rescue plan all night.

"Good morning," Jude greeted, and then they changed clothes together.

"Good morning," Allen replied listlessly.

"Jude," Captain Foster said, sitting to the side as if he'd been waiting for him, "a prisoner will be executed this morning in the death row and solitary confinement section. Would you like to go and see?"

Execution of the death penalty...

This is something that death row inmates and solitary confinement wards can never avoid.

The actual execution process is usually handled by the resident prison guards in the prison area, while those who rotate shifts are only responsible for assisting.

Captain Foster's question was most likely an attempt to broaden his horizons and hone his mental fortitude.

"Okay," Jude agreed after a moment's thought.

"What did this guy do wrong?" the vain Colin asked.

Captain Foster, a cigarette dangling from his lips but not lit, said, "He committed multiple burglaries. During his last burglary, he also murdered two children."

"Tsk, damn it." Colin seemed unfazed, merely raising an eyebrow.

It's exactly eight o'clock.

After only half an hour on duty, Captain Foster led Jude back to the main floor to greet the reporters, relatives of the victims, and relatives of the prisoners who had come to witness the execution.

8:30.

Phoenix Griffin, the first-class warden in charge of the death row and solitary confinement ward, and a doctor also came to the execution area.

The execution area is divided into two parts by a glass partition: the execution room and the observation room.

The execution chamber contained an electric chair, the primary instrument of execution. The transformer and power switch connected to the electric chair were located in the observation room.

After the reporters and relatives from both sides were seated in the observation room, the three execution guards responsible for simultaneously pressing the power switch were already on standby. First-class warden Phoenix, the doctor, two resident guards, Captain Foster, and Jude, a total of six people, entered the execution chamber one after another.

The tall, thin death row inmate was sitting on a wooden electric chair, his wrists, legs, waist, chest, chin, and forehead all bound with leather straps. His hair and leg hair had been shaved off, and he was secured with electrodes shaped like a helmet.

"Any last words?" The tall, first-class warden, Phoenix, stood in front of the death row inmate and asked in a cold voice.

The condemned prisoner trembled uncontrollably, his speech even more stuttering than that of the poet Anders: "No, no, no, no, no..."

Chief Warden Phoenix walked to the phone, dialed the warden's number, and made a final request: "...Yes, understood."

After hanging up the phone, he returned to the condemned man and calmly read out the following procedure: "Jesper Barnes, convicted of multiple thefts and the murder of two children, is to be executed by electric shock today, in accordance with the judgment of the Supreme Court of Montorus, Kingdom of Florence. He has no last words. Execution begins."

Upon hearing the instruction, the three prison guards in the observation room simultaneously pressed the power switch.

"Sizzle..."

The electric current instantly traveled from the condemned prisoner's head through his entire body.

"Ugh—" The death row inmate convulsed, groaning and struggling violently in the elevator.

Jude stood at a distance that wasn't too far, watching this scene, his breathing unconsciously becoming heavy.

He had dealt with corpses, such as the fat wizard.

But he had never witnessed a person slowly die before, and the visual impact of that was far more intense than facing a corpse.

One minute later.

The condemned prisoner remained motionless, and a stench of burning flesh filled the air.

"Stop." Chief Warden Phoenix signaled to the guards in the observation room to turn off the electricity.

"No vital signs." After examining the death row inmate, the doctor issued a death certificate on the spot.

The execution was completed swiftly and decisively.

"Waaaaah..."

"Good riddance! You damned scum!"

Inside the observation room, some people couldn't help but cry, while others angrily cursed.

Superintendent Phoenix, seemingly unfazed, turned to leave, but stopped as he passed Jude: "You're Connor's brother?"

"Yes." Jude felt nauseous from the pervasive smell of burning food, and he started to gag as soon as he opened his mouth.

"Good luck," the first-level warden said casually, and then left.

Jude swallowed hard, barely suppressing his discomfort: "What...does he mean?"

"This execution went fairly smoothly," Captain Foster said. "Sometimes the electric shocks can cause problems. The condemned prisoners don't die immediately and often end up with severe burns that are horribly gruesome, sometimes even catching fire. It's a lot of trouble for us to clean up after them."

He personally removed a disfigured corpse from the electric chair and put it into a body bag...

This is indeed more psychologically torturous than witnessing an execution...

Jude could only be thankful that he had at least some experience, otherwise he would probably have vomited on the spot, leaving an indelible shadow.

"Captain Foster, this is all yours now." The resident prison guards and the doctor left one after another, and in an instant, only Captain Foster and Jude remained in the execution chamber.

"us……"

"The body is still very hot. Let it cool down before dealing with it." Captain Foster noticed that Jude was not in good condition. "You can go outside for some fresh air and calm down."

"No need..." Jude waved his hand. He had finally gotten used to the burning smell of the execution chamber. If he went out and came back, he would probably have to endure another shock.

Captain Foster glanced at his watch, and after the body had cooled down, he stepped forward first: "Your performance was much better than I expected. Come on, let me teach you how to handle a corpse."

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Note 1: Because Jude always enters the mystical space on Mondays, the Sunday number is added when marking the date in the Divine Calendar 448 for the reader's convenience. Edmund always enters the mystical space on the first of each month, so there is no need to mark the Sunday number in the Divine Calendar 419. This will continue in the same manner thereafter.