Bizarre Detective Agency

   Chapter 918 Two hundred and nine. Wanted

  Like all heroes who ended in failure, the knight Vino, who returned with scars, was not greeted as he deserved.

   He stood in the crowd, surrounded by energetic, longing, and looking forward faces, carrying luggage and disembarking, and came to the human homeland they dreamed of.

   with a tired knight Vino seems out of place.

   Tightening the sackcloth hood to shield the crowd from the shivering snow, Knight Vino walked across the frozen pier and walked out of the port.

   A suspicious person wandering not far away found him and left quietly.

   and lost his companions, the armorless knight Vino was like a walking dead, ignoring everything around him and walking down the street.

  Prosperity is only maintained near the port, after a ship enters the port. There were few pedestrians on the snow-covered streets, and as long as they saw the crowd leaving the port, they would greet the merchants with their products to sell.

  The ice-free port of Wiener is getting colder every day, and the citizens think that it will improve after the winter fog tide passes. But the temperature is now close to the coldest of previous years - and more than a month away from the horrific cold snap of the new year.

  People are frozen to death every day, and the thick smoke from the chimneys almost forms another layer of dark clouds that shroud the Wiener Antifreeze Harbor even more gloomy, but the thin wooden house can't completely prevent the cold.

  If it gets worse, there will be frozen corpses everywhere on the street.

  Thank goodness the sea outside Wiener's ice-free harbour was not frozen even though it was so cold. Every moment there are fishing boats returning to the port to unload their cargo, as well as foreigners who come here to become new citizens.

  Some citizens gathered in the wooden shed in front of the port and prayed with the priest by the fire.

   Winter is the punishment of God. Only when people are devout and trust God and believe in God, God will accept them. So they chant.

   A little girl with a basket came to the shack to sell goods, but was rejected by the priest.

   "My child, all I can give you is a blessing."

   Leaving the warm stove and returning to the icy street, she saw the strange linen cloak figure walking forward alone.

   He looks weird, but what could be scarier than hunger and cold?

   "Sir, do you need the Ancient Sigil amulet? It protects you from the weird."

  The knight Vino stopped, lowered his head, and looked at the little girl's frozen palms, struggling to hold a basket full of wood chips carved with ancient marks.

   "These ancient marks are wrong."

   Knight Vino continued to move forward.

  The little girl hurriedly followed behind and flipped the basket: "What about this? And these...Sir, these are made by my mother..."

   Knight Vino stopped again: "You really need money?"

   "Yes...the firewood at home is about to burn out. The fireplace went out last night and my mother and I both woke up..."

   Knight Vino silently took out the remaining two hundred shillings in his pocket and threw them into the little girl's basket together.

   "Not so much..."

  The little girl hesitated, and the knight Vino continued to leave, disappearing into the hazy snowstorm.

  The church near the port, Knight Vino stepped into the hall. The homeless and poor gathered among the pews, and the nuns were handing out hot water and blankets.

  The knight Vino showed a nun the fist badge that once symbolized glory, and was taken to the room inside the church, waiting for the arrival of the inquisition personnel.

   After waiting longer than expected, the sound of footsteps came from the corridor outside the door. After a light knock on the door, the nun entered the room with hot coffee, put it down and left.

   She did not close the door. When Knight Vino was about to close the door, a figure wearing a graceful gold-trimmed teaching uniform, a decorative ribbon, and a crown of precious gems appeared outside the door.

  The knight Vino knelt down on one knee in fear and saluted: "Bishop Usa. The guard of the trial, Vino the steam knight reports."

   "Nice to see you back, Knight Vino. For the glory of mankind."

   "For the glory of mankind."

   "You have failed."

   Bishop Usa said softly, the gentle voice of the elderly who could not hear the accountability only had compassion for the world, which made people unable to help pour out their grievances in tears.

   "... When we went to the old sewer, Your Excellency Lu Li was being hunted down by the monsters. Master Lanna died because of me, and the captain Hoggart and the squire knights were killed by the monsters."

   Knight Vino's tone became choked, and he took out the badges of his former companions with body temperature: the silhouette badge of the head, the badge of the book, and the blank badge left in the deep part of the old sewers.

  's wise blue eyes looked at the kneeling believers gently: "God is watching you, He has known all your heroic actions, their heroic spirits will return to the embrace of the Lord... and the wicked people who started them should be punished by the Lord."

   "Wicked? I don't understand, Lord Bishop..." Knight Vino raised his head.

   "This is His Holiness Pope's instructions, child," said Bishop Usa softly. "If the wicked lie dormant and do good deeds for the evil that will be manipulated, is he not considered a wicked person?"

   Knight Vino was struggling.

   Bishop Usa continued: "I received the news of your return, and the court's wanted for the polluted exorcist has been handed over to the newspaper."

The knight Vino looked up stunned from thinking, and the sound of the few coins remaining in his pocket colliding reminded him of a memory that was not too long ago but seemed extremely long ago: Lu Li's evil followers escorted him out of the old sewers all the way, they didn't hurt Any existence even gave him a thousand shillings as a way back.

"Bishop Usa, this is wrong!" Vino, who had seen many knights outside, couldn't help defending Lu Li: "We shouldn't be hostile to Mr. Lu Li, he and his followers will never harm us humans! He and we are both right, we shouldn't consume like this..."

   Bishop Usa's eyes drooped down with age, and he seemed disappointed with him, and turned away from the room without saying anything.

   faint voices came.

   "Our Steam Knights have been tainted... in need of purification."

  …

   "We all know what Lord Lu Li did in the old sewers. What better way to prove your position than this?"

   Mayor's Office, Mayor Matthaus gaffe shouted to the priest.

   "I only want to convey the Pope's orders," replied the calm priest.

   "So you don't take a stand, you only talk about the so-called 'purity'? Ha..." Matthaus sarcastically saw the priest leave the office.

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   When assistant Valendo closed the door, he couldn't help but grab a book and slammed it on the carpet, making a muffled sound.

   "Damn fundamentalism!!!"

  Valendo silently picked up the books scattered on the ground, sorted them, and put them back on the desk.

   "Lord Mayor, we can't do anything."

   After coming out of the dungeon of the courthouse, Mateus was still the mayor of Vena's ice-free port - the mayor whose actions were monitored by the trial.

   Mayor Mateus calmed down his emotions and anger: "But we can't do nothing... Valendo, summon the merchants, and tell Your Excellency Lu Li what happened here."

   (end of this chapter)