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Is it the original?

"All the copies and originals have been brought over."

The man in white said respectfully.

Upon hearing this from the crow familiar, Ye Xiao immediately stopped what he was doing in the library.

Damn it, I was wondering why I couldn't find it after searching for ages. Don't they have any manners? The mayor already gave us the copy, and these people are trying to take the original with them??

And what was the purpose of taking the original case documents away?

On the other end, the girl called Agnes whispered again, "Is everything here?"

"Yes."

“Very well, Orffindor,”

The girl cupped her cheek in her left hand, a slight smile playing on her lips. "You know what to do, right?"

“Of course, Lady Agnes, I will destroy them immediately.”

Chapter Sixty-Six Investigation

ha?

Ye Xiao frowned.

Clearly, the people in the courtroom aren't here to investigate the case, but to erase something.

The deaths of the couple who brought the merman boy were indeed suspicious, but it was unexpected that they would involve the sanctuary.

Ella has not yet been crowned in the Holy City because the next Holy Temple Trial is scheduled for next year, and the highest governing body of the Holy Temple across the continent is still located on the White Tower in the Holy City of Morning Star Ridge.

The Loren Church is essentially just a large branch of the main church, much like the Asia-Pacific branch of Microsoft, which is still some distance from the headquarters.

Therefore, Ella still has no access to the secrets of the Sanctuary headquarters.

However, even though these people wanted to destroy the files, Ye Xiao would have been fine if he hadn't known. Now that he did, he certainly wouldn't let them succeed so easily.

With a thought, he opened a small portal next to the crow that had landed on the windowsill, and quietly released a rat with an Ayra spatial anchor, which hid below the windowsill.

Immediately afterwards, the crow flapped its wings and took flight, cawing loudly, which immediately attracted the attention of the two people in the house.

The blonde Agnes looked displeased, but she didn't notice the raven's dark eyes flashing red the moment they met Orfino's gaze at the door. A small mouse, taking advantage of the sunlight casting shadows on the windowsill, climbed over the windowsill and crept into the room.

The soul magic "Renata's Web," derived from the authority of the moon goddess, was activated instantly, and Ella, thousands of miles away, channeled her divine power into Orfindo's brain through the eyes of the raven familiar.

These high-ranking Templars have relatively high resistance to mental spells, making it difficult to completely control them, but it is not difficult to command a simple action to create a momentary lapse in concentration.

His hand trembled, and the stack of parchment slipped from his grasp. At the same time, the rats that had been frantically running along the wall after climbing out the window arrived at the spot where the parchment had fallen.

Far away on the merchant ship, Ella snapped her fingers, and a portal opened above the little mouse's head. The parchment fell in, and the mouse jumped and disappeared into it.

The whole process was completed in the blink of an eye. By the time Agnes angrily drew the curtains and Orfindo came to his senses, the documents in his hand had already disappeared.

"what?"

Orfino looked down at his empty hands, then at the clean floor, his eyes filled with disbelief.

"what happened?"

Agnes noticed Orfindo's odd behavior and frowned. "Where are the files?"

"Excuse me, I was just holding it in my hand a moment ago..."

Orfino was dumbfounded and lost his composure. How could the thing have disappeared in the blink of an eye?

Agnes narrowed her eyes. What was happening was too bizarre and beyond her comprehension, which made her somewhat annoyed.

"What are you doing? How can you lose something you're holding?!"

"I……"

Orfino gritted his teeth, "This is impossible. Someone must have done something to it, maybe some kind of spatial magic trick. I'll have the Templars search the mansion right now."

"Then why don't you hurry up and go!"

After Agnes kicked Orfino out, she sat back down in her chair, took a sip of black tea, then frowned and immediately smacked the bell on the table.

Half a minute later, the servant rushed to the room, and as soon as he opened the door, he was splashed with steaming hot tea.

"Who's going to drink this cold? Pour me another glass, quick!!"

The servant, terrified after being splashed with water, rushed in, grabbed the teacup, and fled as if his life depended on it.

"Hey, my dear Lady Agnes, who has upset you this time?"

Just then, a calm voice came from the corridor, and another blond man in a white turtleneck trench coat walked in. Unlike Orfino's somewhat resolute face, this man's features were softer, and his hair was not neatly combed back, but tied back in a short ponytail, with a few stray hairs falling naturally on both sides of his face, giving him a rather carefree and easygoing air.

"Decali, you've come."

Agnes's face, which had been gloomy, softened slightly when she saw the man.

"I'm not too late, am I, Lady Agnes?"

Dekali walked into the room, closed the door, and smiled nonchalantly.

"It went fairly smoothly. How's the situation?"

"As we expected, there was not a trace of soul left in the couple's bodies."

Dekari waved his hand, "They're so clean I thought our priest had performed a purification ritual on them."

"Then it must be the effect of the Holy Box."

Agnes frowned. "You lowly heretic...did you dispose of the body?"

"Because no one claimed them, they were placed directly in the public cemetery. I gave them a few extra coins, and the cemetery manager used the furnace there to cremate them directly."

Dekari laughed and said, "Legal and compliant."

"You're much more reliable than that Orfindo guy."

Agnes rubbed her temples.

"Don't blame him, he's still young after all."

"You're young too."

"That can't be the same, I'm a genius."

Dekari flicked the hair at the tip of his forehead.

"Pfft, I know, the youngest master swordsman in the history of the Holy Temple."

Agnes covered her mouth and chuckled; clearly, she was quite taken with the ponytail knight's flamboyant performance.

"So what exactly did Orfino mess up? Let me see for myself."

Decari walked to the table, took out a begonia flower, and said, "The youngest deacon in the current term of the Holy Temple."

“It’s all fancy.”

Agnes took the flowers, her smile barely concealed. "Don't tell me you do this to other girls too."

“How could that be? My heart has always belonged only to you, beautiful Miss Agnes.”

……

Unfortunately, the crow familiar was currently blocked outside by the curtains, otherwise Ye Xiao might have watched the theatrical performance inside with great interest.

Ella, who had used a little trick to steal back the files, started browsing through them on the merchant ship. She didn't have anything else to do for the time being, so she might as well take a look for Ye Xiao.

"Haven't you found it yet?"

In the library, Greta saw Ye Xiao staring blankly at stacks of files and asked softly.

"Um……"

Ye Xiao, naturally unwilling to reveal that he had just stolen something remotely, stretched and made up a story, "Oh, I found it. I just looked at it for a bit and I think I understand it."

"what?"

The maid looked completely bewildered. "But all I saw you doing was flipping through this pile of papers!"

"Quantum speed reading is difficult for me to explain to you."

Ye Xiao patted Greta's fluffy little head. "Come on, let's go to the public cemetery first."

The two left the municipal council and soon arrived at the public cemetery.

Of course, Ye Xiao was greeted with the news that the body had been burned.

"what?"

Ye Xiao was incredulous. "This is a murder case!? The murderer hasn't even been found yet and you're telling me you burned the body?"

"I'm sorry, sir..."

The cemetery caretaker was a small, gray-bearded old man with a hoarse voice. "Our rules aren't as strict as in the city... If someone pays for cremation, they can take up less space, so they'll just be cremated..."

Ye Xiao scratched his head. He had to admit that these places were really wild. They could even burn the bodies of victims in unsolved murder cases at will.

Chapter Sixty-Seven Clues

According to the rules of this public cemetery, unclaimed bodies are usually kept in an ice cellar for a week before being buried, unless someone pays for cremation or other treatment.

Of course, it's not that they would just leave corpses lying around in the wilderness. After all, if the bodies aren't buried, it can easily cause environmental problems like plagues, and it might even attract things like rat-men.

However, the cremation process here is not as regulated as in the city; if someone pays, it's done directly.

Ye Xiao asked the old man who was in charge of the building and noted down the characteristics of the person who burned the body.

According to the old man's account, the other party cleverly wore a cloak and a fake beard to conceal his identity. Although the other party had a registered name, Ye Xiao could guess without even thinking that it was a fake name.

But judging from the scenes the crows have tracked down, it's likely that the Holy Tribunal was behind it, since no other forces have been seen involved so far.

What are they trying to hide in the Holy Tribunal?

While pondering, Ye Xiao and Greta went to the crime scene registered in the case file.

After several days of natural changes, coupled with the frequent rainy weather near the sea, there are hardly any traces left at the scene.

In such a small place, they wouldn't send people to protect the crime scene like in the city. The deceased had no relatives or background, and it was considered dutiful for any guard to spend two days investigating.

Ye Xiao could only rely on the records in the dossier and search through the muddy thicket, hoping to find some clues.

The body was found in the bushes, next to which was a secluded path.

The path was a short distance from where the body was found. According to the case file, there was no obvious blood on the path when the body was discovered. The witness was a farmer who lived nearby and was picking fruit. He went into the bushes early in the morning to pick coconuts and accidentally saw the body.

The fatal wounds on the bodies were stab wounds to the neck, one of which was fatal with a single blow, and the attack was swift and clean. The other body had knife wounds to the chest, thigh, and neck, but the signs of a struggle were not obvious.

Is there two murderers? One highly skilled, the other a tormentor?

While Ella was looking at the dossier, Ye Xiao squatted down and found some brown bloodstains on a tree trunk and weed leaves in the bushes.

Without deliberate cleaning, bloodstains are difficult to wash away even by rainwater once they have congealed.

Ye Xiao measured the height of the bloodstains, which corresponded to the area around his chest. The splatter pattern indicated that the victim's carotid artery had been severed, resulting in a gushing blood.

This also indicates that the couple was attacked in the bushes.

Why in the bushes?

Ye Xiao's gaze shifted to a path separated from this place by a few trees, where Greta was floating and dozing off using gravity magic.

It's about four or five steps away from the path. Generally speaking, normal people wouldn't wander into the bushes for no reason when walking on the road.

According to Ye Xiao's speculation, the couple first went into the bushes and were then attacked inside the bushes.

It's a bit strange, why would they walk into the bushes when they were perfectly fine?

Could it be that they saw something back then?

Ye Xiao stroked his chin and looked around. All he could see were weeds, shrubs, and swaying palm trees.

This place is very remote, deep in the outskirts of the island. The path leads neither to the island's auction house nor to the town or the dock, but to the desolate mountains deep in the island.

Why did this couple choose to walk this road late at night?

Ye Xiao looked along the path into the distance and saw a not-so-tall mountain standing at the end, covered with lush green vegetation.

It doesn't look like a good tourist destination...