The most shameless alchemist in history

She was thinking about which side to start from to make a breakthrough.

However, at that moment, a giant net suddenly fell from the sky, trapping her inside.

That wasn't all; a cage also fell down, leaving her unable to escape for a time.

"Huh? What are you doing? Hey?" Sakura suddenly became a little anxious.

“Isn’t it obvious? You just said we set a trap. Simply surrounding someone isn’t a trap. This is a trap, understand?” Renault said, pointing to the cage.

"I don't care if this is foul play, cheating, or cheating, you have to fight me fairly and squarely, otherwise I won't give in to you!" Sakura said angrily.

“Alright, now that you’ve been caught, you should behave yourself. You should at least have the awareness of being a prisoner. So, Dure, what brutal methods should we use to interrogate her next?” Renault chuckled and said.

"Waaaah, you bunch of bastards! What kind of heinous things are you going to do to this innocent and lovely girl? Don't come any closer! Stay away from me! Please don't come any closer!" Yingyue looked at the group of people in front of her in fear, and she said in a trembling voice.

"Huh? Weren't you just so smug about breaking off all ties with us? Why are you backing down now?" Renault asked in surprise when he saw her aggrieved look.

"This is what they call being forced to bow your head when you're under someone's roof. So as long as you don't do anything too outrageous to me, I'll tell you whatever you want to know!" Sakura said decisively.

Previously, the Golden Flash and Red Flash sisters refused to speak no matter what, which made Renault very resentful.

The girl they were now dealing with, named Sakura, was very cooperative and confessed everything.

Renault had originally thought he could get valuable information from her, at least to make up for the series of setbacks he had experienced before.

However, Sakura's knowledge was extremely limited, far from what Renault had hoped for.

"Hey, little girl, are you kidding me? I don't believe you only know this little bit of information. You're not trying to fool me, are you? Let me tell you, I, Renault, am not so easily fooled!" Renault sternly warned the prisoner named Sakura in front of him.

"Don't you have any sense of reason? Didn't I tell you? I originally came from a faraway island nation. My hometown was very poor. Everyone was starving and living hand to mouth. Then one day, a ship docked at the port near the village. The people on the ship said they could take us to a better life. All we had to do was follow them and we wouldn't have to go hungry anymore. So many children from our village got on the ship and sailed across the ocean with them to this faraway place," Sakura explained, now handcuffed.

"So you're saying you're an innocent person who was trafficked into the Purgatory organization, and then Purgatory trained you to be an assassin, and you carried out missions for them, is that right?" Sitting next to Renault, Dure was much calmer, and he asked Sakura for further details.

"This young man is more reasonable. He's basically saying what you said. Although I've become the Punisher of Purgatory, they only contact me one-way, telling me which target to eliminate, and then I just obediently carry it out. Speaking of which, this is my first mission, but I didn't expect it to end in failure. Good heavens, isn't this even more unlucky than that guy Red Flash?" Sakura said dejectedly, realizing her mistake later.

"Oh no, oh no, oh no! According to the rules of Purgatory, once a mission is failed, one will be eliminated. I was sent to deal with Red Flash because she failed her mission, but I didn't expect that not only did I fail to complete the mission, but I also became another failure. Does that mean there will be another executioner to deal with me? This is too terrible!" After realizing this, Sakura felt extremely frantic.

"Hey, hey, straighten up your attitude. You need to understand your position right now. You're a prisoner now, arrested by us. Your life is in our hands. What are you worried about?" Renault was very unhappy with Yingyue's attitude. It was obvious that she didn't take him seriously!

"Haven't I already cooperated with you all? I've told you everything I know, what more do you want? You people are so unreasonable!" Sakura said angrily.

"You little brat, you committed murder, how come it's us being unreasonable? Do you know that what you did was a very serious offense? We could have executed you!" Renault felt like he had encountered a weirdo.

"Execute me? Then hurry up and execute me, so I won't have to worry about the Newcomers coming after me." After hesitating for a moment, Sakura seemed to have finally found the ultimate solution to the problem, and she immediately made the request excitedly.

"What's wrong with you? Are you really that afraid of the executioner? You're going to die anyway, so why aren't you afraid of us at all, but you're afraid of the executioner?" Renault really couldn't understand this, and he found it particularly unbelievable.

"Well, that makes sense, but you guys aren't scary. Even if you execute me, I don't think it will be too brutal. But executioners are different. They are all extremely vicious people. If I were executed by them, the process would be unpleasant at all. I don't want that." Sakura tilted her head and thought carefully before pointing out the difference between the two.

"But then again, aren't you one of the executioners yourself? You don't necessarily look fierce," Renault asked, puzzled.

"Oh dear, do you think every executioner is as gentle, generous, kind, and lovely as me?" Sakura blinked and said.

"Can't you speak properly? We're interrogating you right now. You need to understand the situation. Stop grinning like you're at a banquet!" Renault warned sternly, his tone serious.

"Hey, I'm telling you, you definitely don't have a girlfriend, right?" Sakura muttered softly.

"How did you know?" Renault looked at her in surprise.

"With such a terrible personality, you have no way of pleasing girls and you're completely clueless about romance. It would be a miracle if you had a girlfriend," Sakura said, sticking her tongue out at him.

"You...you're so infuriating, so infuriating! Who's the prisoner here, you or me? Why does it sound like you're interrogating me?" Renault was completely helpless against this girl, and he said angrily.

“Alright, Renault, you can go and rest for a while. I'll interrogate her,” Dure said kindly from the side.

"Alright, Dure, I'm leaving this little girl in your hands, otherwise I'm really afraid I won't be able to resist disciplining her!" Renault stormed off.

This was the first time he had ever encountered such a difficult and willful prisoner, which infuriated him.

"Goodbye, Uncle. Don't be angry, or you'll age faster." Sakura watched Renault leave, waving and smiling at him. It didn't look like an interrogation at all; it was more like a cheerful party.

"You greenhorn, who are you calling 'uncle'? I'm still young, only in my early twenties, how did I become an 'uncle'? I just can't stand you anymore..." Renault was so angry that his lungs felt like they were about to explode. As a rising star of the Land of Lightning, had he ever suffered such humiliation before?

"Alright, Renault, calm down. You guys get him out of here right now." Dure gestured to the nearby adjutant to pull Renault away. The adjutant managed to coax and persuade Renault out of the interrogation room.

"What a gentleman! You must be much more gentlemanly than him and treat a lady like me with gentleness, right?" After watching Renault leave, Sakura turned around and looked at Dure with a smile.

"You're from the Eastern Continent, right?" Du Lei suddenly asked.

"I guess so. Actually, my country is quite far from the Eastern Continent. It's an island nation. However, my country has had close ties with the countries of the Eastern Continent since ancient times. In fact, we were vassal states of the Eastern Continent for a considerable period of time," Sakura said with a nod of affirmation.

“I see. But since you say your hometown is very poor, why didn’t you go to the Eastern Continent to make a living and instead came to this distant Western Continent?” Du Lei suddenly asked.

"Actually, I did want to go to the Eastern Continent, but I heard that a serious internal strife broke out there. The highest leader of my country, a guy called Daimyo, thought it was a good opportunity to get rid of the Eastern Continent, so he announced that he would secede from the Eastern Continent and no longer be a vassal state of the Eastern Continent. This has made it impossible for us to land on the Eastern Continent," Sakura said helplessly.

"I see. So, after you joined Purgatory, what kind of people did you meet?" Du Lei asked again.

"After joining Purgatory, besides the teacher who taught me basic assassination techniques and swordsmanship, I only had a few friends like Red Flash and the like," Sakura said after thinking for a moment.

"Do you know why the Purgatory Organization exists?"

"The Purgatory Organization? I guess it was set up to help homeless children like me. That's what I think. Actually, I don't really know why it exists." Sakura shook her head and said.

"In the Purgatory Organization, are all those who fail a mission eliminated?" Du Lei asked again.

“If the stress test fails, it proves that this person is extremely incompetent. Incompetent people are not qualified to survive in the Purgatory Organization,” Sakura nodded affirmatively.

"But don't you think this method is cruel?"

“Cruel? Where is it cruel?” Sakura tilted her head, completely bewildered.

“Isn’t it cruel that failure means certain death, with no second chance?” Dure explained.

"But at least we can live. Back in my hometown, because of the lack of food, the competition among us is fierce. Many children die before they grow up. Hunger and disease are deadly. But in the Purgatory Organization, at least we can grow up safely, and we have teachers who teach us various skills. Even if we fail, it's because we haven't mastered the skills, and we can't blame others. We have a choice. Back in my hometown, we don't even have the most basic choice. So if we have to say how cruel it is, it's definitely more cruel back home. I think it's pretty good here," Sakura said earnestly.

"So that's why you felt at ease staying in Purgatory and carrying out missions?" Dure nodded thoughtfully.

"Actually, if it weren't for the Purgatory Organization, I probably would have starved to death long ago. They not only kept me alive, but also taught me all sorts of skills, so I'm very grateful to them," Sakura said earnestly.

“I understand. Do you know someone in the Purgatory Organization called Night Raven?” Dure asked, recalling the person he had met in the hot spring village many years ago.

“Night Raven? I think I’ve heard that name before, but he’s a very important person. I’m not qualified to know him.” Sakura thought for a moment, then shook her head and said.

"A big shot?" Dure frowned.

In his memory, when he first met Night Raven and Red Sparrow, they were not very strong; they were just ordinary magic users.

Of course, at that time, their strength was more than enough to crush Dure and his team.

However, looking back after many years, the strength that Night Raven displayed at that time was actually not worth mentioning, but now, hearing what Sakura says, it seems that this is not the case.

Because both Golden Flash and Red Flash are Dragon-rank magic users, while Sakura Moon, although slightly weaker than them, is still a King-rank magic user with formidable strength, especially her masterful swordsmanship.

However, the fact that even a King-level magic user's status is lower than that of a former high-level magic user made Du Lei truly puzzled.

"Anyway, I've told you everything I know, so could you..." Sakura suddenly looked at Dure with a pleading tone.

942 is really not easy.

"Can you do what?"

"Um... I think I'm hungry. Could you give me something to eat? I was planning to get something to eat after I finished the mission, but the mission isn't finished yet, and I haven't eaten anything. I'm so hungry!" Sakura said, sounding a little aggrieved.

"Is that all you're asking for? Okay, no problem. What do you want to eat? I'll have them bring it to you right away." Du Lei chuckled at this.

"What should I do if I want to go out to eat? Being trapped in this place is so depressing, I have no appetite at all. It must be the happiest thing to eat happily in a place with lots of people, right?" Sakura said pitifully.

“Hey, I’m warning you, don’t go too far. Don’t forget who you are, you’re a prisoner!” An adjutant who was assisting Du Lei with the interrogation immediately reprimanded Ying Yue when he heard her make such a request.

"Okay, okay, I'm a prisoner and I can't make demands. Don't be so mean..." Sakura said pitifully.

"No problem."

"Huh?" Sakura looked at Du Lei in surprise.

"Mr. Du Lei, what's going on here..." The adjutant looked at him in surprise.

“I said it’s no problem, you can eat out,” Du Lei said softly.

"What? Mr. Du Lei is a wanted criminal, and an extremely dangerous one at that. If we just let her out like this, I'm afraid it will..." The adjutant was taken aback and said with some surprise.

“I’ll be following her and monitoring her every move. With me here, what are you worried about?” Du Lei asked in return.

“Mr. Dure, although you say so, but…” The adjutant was in a difficult position.

"What? Don't I even have the right to take away prisoners?" Du Lei's tone gradually became more forceful.

"No, no, no, that's not what I meant at all. Since it's Mr. Dure, and you're personally overseeing it, there's definitely no problem." The adjutant knew that Mr. Dure was a distinguished guest of the Land of Thunder.

Moreover, he received a handwritten decree from His Majesty Arahat, granting him unimpeded access and discretionary power in the Land of Thunder. Even His Highness Hilbert was very close to him.

"Then let's unlock her handcuffs and let her come out with me to get something to eat."

"Understood!" The adjutant originally wanted to consult Renault, but seeing Dure's resolute attitude, he had no choice but to comply.

"Brother, you're such a kind person! I want to eat lots of things! But..." Sakura became excited.

But her expression quickly darkened again.

"What's wrong? Is there a problem?" Du Lei asked.

"But I don't have any money on me..." Sakura said dejectedly.

"It's okay."

"Ugh?"

"I'll treat you," Du Lei said with a smile.

"Really? Hooray!"

Sakura was very happy, and a bright smile graced her face.

The adjutant quickly unlocked her handcuffs, and Durei took her to the street to get something to eat.

These past few days have been anything but peaceful for Shining City, with several major events occurring in succession. In particular, the Thunder Tower, a landmark of Shining City, had one floor shaved off, causing much discussion among the city's residents, who generally considered it a bad omen.

"What's going on in our Land of Lightning lately? Why is it so turbulent? Is this a warning from heaven?"

"Actually, it's not just our Land of Lightning that's not peaceful. Several neighboring countries have been experiencing major events recently, and the entire continent is in turmoil."

"It's really unsettling. There are wars and unrest happening everywhere. Can't we just live a normal life?"

The residents sighed and lamented, pessimistic about the future.

Sakura followed Dure on the street. After several days of turmoil, the street had returned to calm, so people still had worried expressions on their faces, but most shops had resumed business, and various snack and food stalls had also opened.