“Saint Nick?”
That answer wasn’t too unexpected for Lin Xiao. While he was conversing with the third apostle, he already vaguely felt that he seemed familiar and since Lin Xiao didn’t know many people in Gotham Kingdom, and there weren’t many people he had conflicts with, Nick was coincidentally one of them.
According to Elona, Snow already suspected Nick and investigated but didn’t find anything.
So was it really Nick?
“Where was he during the time of the incidents?”
If Nick had proof that he was somewhere else during the time of the incidents, then he couldn’t be the third apostle, otherwise, he would be suspicious.
When Snow was returning, Nick coincidentally met Snow and found out about her return route, so if it were him, he would be able to mobilize the living dead and cooperate with White Night.
Then when Lin Xiao was at the plague zone, Nick was coincidentally sick at home, so no one knew where he went.
“So it seems like he’s the prime suspect.”
“But we have no proof, they’re just conjectures. Even if he was the third apostle and we accuse him, he wouldn’t admit to it, and we would just expose ourselves.”
“Elena, you’re right! I never expected your intellect to improve along with your figure… it seems like my teachings as your master is working!”
“Oh, is it… but unfortunately, it seems like this master is about to die to this maid’s fists.”
“No, no, Elena, at a time like this, you should say you’re going to use your body to suffocate me to death!”
“Oh okay, so it seems like you want to try dying? Okay, it doesn’t matter what the weapon is, but let me satisfy you!”
“Okay, okay… but you have to take off your clothes first! You can’t kill me without taking off your clothes!”
“Damn pervert! Still talking back? Just watch me…”
“Um… Lin Xiao, aunt, what game are you playing?”
Elona covered her mouth in embarrassment but still braved herself and continued to ask.
“Hey, can Elona also join in? … M-my figure isn’t as good as Elena, but it isn’t bad either! It seems like I’ve developed more recently… so can I also play?”
Elona was still young and didn’t understand adult matters, she just felt like Lin Xiao and Elena were both happy and wanted to join in, so she lifted her head raised her arms, and invited Lin Xiao to come play with her.
“Elona, w-what are you doing!?”
Elena quickly pulled Elona aside and forced her arms down before Lin Xiao could lay his hands on the ignorant cat girl.
“W-wu… Elena, w-why are you angry? Did I do something wrong?”
“What were you going to do? Why were you seducing that pervert? Do you want to die?”
“Seducing? No, I just wanted to join in and play as well?”
“Play? Play what?”
“Just… whatever you were playing with him, that interesting game! You looked like you were having fun, so I also wanted to join in!”
“… Fun? W-where did you see me having fun!? He was clearly teasing me and I was scolding him, why would we be having fun?”
“Hehe, that’s right, Elona is such an honest good girl!” Lin Xiao walked over and patted Elona’s head, “Right, we were indeed having fun.”
“But aunt won’t admit it…”
“Don’t believe her, she’s just not honest with herself. She likes being teased but won’t tell the truth. Elona, you’re still young, you’ll understand when you grow up.”
“Really?”
“Of course.”
“Then that means aunt really likes you?”
“Wha!? … Hm, right, she does really like me.”
Just think about it, how could Elena, who has such a bad temper, like being teased? In reality, she doesn’t like being teased, she just likes being teased by Lin Xiao!
“… Elona, I’m starting to regret.”
“Hm? About what?”
“I’m regretting saving you when you were younger and playing in the sea, I should have held you under and drowned you.”
“Ehhhh? Elena, don’t say something so scary! I was wrong… I won’t say anything like that again!”
Although Elona was apologizing, she still didn’t know what she said which made Elena so angry. She clearly liked being teased by Lin Xiao and was having fun, it’s not like she was lying, so what did she do wrong?
“Cough, okay stop messing around, let’s get back on topic.”
“Telling them not to mess round after teasing them, what a ruthless pervert…”
“Elena, what did you say?”
“Tsk…. I said, what can we do without any proof?”
“Then can’t we just look for proof?”
“Where?”
“The prison!”
“Prison? I know, you mean White Night who was silenced?”
If he wasn’t wrong, after Darkness died and White Night was captured, the third apostle would have lost two leading figures and it would be hard to find more people, so it was very likely he personally came to finish him off!
“If Nick is really the third apostle, then he surely left a clue, as long as I find anything, I’ll take care of him!”
Both Elena and Elona agreed and the three of them headed to the prison to investigate. With Elona with them, his investigation really went more smoothly.
Everyone recognized Elona and she was practically treated like Snow, and was able to easily enter the securely guarded prison. But even if Elona could satisfy Lin Xiao’s demands, can they find anything?
It’s not like Snow didn’t investigate White Night’s death, she was sure that he died of a fast-acting poison, but she didn’t know which poison. That day’s food was provided by dedicated personnel and was for sure safe. She knew he was killed but couldn’t find any evidence, so her investigation stopped there. Could Lin Xiao have a better idea?
“Tsk… it really is troublesome.”
After questioning the relative personnel, Lin Xiao didn’t understand. The prison that held White Night was extremely secure and was watched 24/7 and constantly changing shifts. Even if Snow personally came she would have to register and be accompanied.
So whoever did it was too clean and it was no wonder Snow couldn’t find anything.
“Snow interrogated Bob the day before he died, at that time he was still normal and didn’t have signs of being poisoned. Additionally, Sain Nick also interrogated Bob, many times with Snow and once alone, but there were a lot of people watching him and they didn’t notice anything off.”
After looking over the prison logs, Elena extracted the useful information for Lin Xiao. If the logs weren’t fake, then that meant this had nothing to do with Nick, but…
The more perfectly it was done, the more Lin Xiao felt like there was something off.
If they just wanted to kill him, why waste all that effort to make it such a perfect crime? Why didn’t they just directly kill him.
“Wait… what’s that?”
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