Detective Agency of the Bizarre
Chapter 531 - 531 Fifty

531: Fifty.

Tread over thorns, unwavering in determination.

531: Fifty.

Tread over thorns, unwavering in determination.

“Where is she?”

The girl asked calmly.

The sweating leader dared not look directly into those bright eyes and lowered his head to say, “Please follow me…”

Viscount Rivis indifferently glanced at the guards and drew his longsword with a sound.

The leader, trembling with his back to them, led everyone to the bedroom door and opened it.

“Phew…”

A sigh of relief sounded as the fearful gang leader slumped against the doorframe and sat down.

In the bedroom, the girl lay bound with ropes and gagged on a fur rug in front of the fireplace, unharmed.

“Uncle Clyde, please take her back to the carriage,” said the girl to the captain of her father’s guard, then turned and left the tavern.

“Following the young miss’s orders.”

Baron Rivis dropped his gaze to the leader, “Compensation for the stolen goods and manpower losses will be sought at my estate.”

“How would I dare when she belongs to the Baron…” the leader said obsequiously, but Viscount Rivis had already left the tavern with his daughter.

The kidnapped girl only had some bruises and marks from the bindings, and when she found out the church had them rescue her, she was so astonished she couldn’t speak.

After learning that the kidnapped girl was taken to save Olivia’s child, the girl had the guards send her to Olivia.

“You’ve done what the fellow in the church asked you to do, and now it’s time to find him,” Viscount Rivis said, finally not calling Lu Li a swindler anymore.

The girl shook her head gently.

“There’s one more.”

…

The plan to lure Jonah Peters and recapture him was very successful.

Although Jonah Peters betrayed his own brother, he still showed up at the gallows where the long-awaiting officers caught him.

The girl first went to see Ole Peters, with Viscount Rivis vouching and the real culprit caught, his suspicion was already cleared.

He was still lingering at the Police Station simply because he wanted to see his brother one last time.

As Lu Li had once told Jonah Peters, the girl told Ole Peters he was wrong, that committing a crime deserved punishment.

Taking the blame for his brother’s crime only made more innocent people victims, the so-called brotherly love only harmed more people.

Ignoring the silent Ole Peters, the girl, under Viscount Rivis’s approving gaze, entered the cold and damp underground dungeon.

Jonah Peters, handcuffed in heavy chains, swayed slightly facing the corner.

An impatient officer tapped on the iron bars a few times, which was stopped by the girl, who looked at the figure with his back to her and spoke gently, “Jonah.”

The swaying figure behind the iron bars stopped suddenly, and Jonah’s face, pale from the cold, appeared in disbelief, “Mary…

how come you’re here?”

“Because I’m the one who told the Police Station the murderer was you.”

“How did you know…

why!” Jonah’s cheeks contorted with the anger of being betrayed by a friend.

“Because you were wrong.”

“Just for those vile people!?” As if hearing something amusing, Jonah cracked a madly mocking smile, “Do you know, everything I’ve done was for you, to restore your true face!

Someone with a beautiful soul like you shouldn’t wear this ugly face, you should be heaven—”

“You don’t care if I need it or not.”

The girl interrupted Jonah, her deformed, indistinct face calm, her sole eye bright and pure, “All you’ve done is to satisfy your own desires, just for yourself.”

Jonah’s mouth opened, and his crazed expression froze; he found he couldn’t refute the girl.

The girl slightly lowered her eyes, bidding farewell to one of her only friends, “I hope you can repent for the mistakes you’ve made, Jonah.”

The girl left the gloomy, chilly dungeon, the light from the outside world like her own radiance, wrapped around her frail body in the wheelchair.

When everything was resolved, the girl accompanied by her father headed to the church.

Lu Li was also waiting for the girl’s arrival.

Or rather, waiting for the test to reveal its true meaning.

Despite this being a decent story about redemption, its flaws cannot be hidden.

The deliberate failures of the first five believers were as smooth as the action taken by the last girl.

If the girl’s destiny had been the same as that of the first five believers, her ending should have been to be killed by an angry Jonah, who thought she had betrayed him as she just left the church, ultimately changing nothing.

Instead of the scene that Lu Li is now seeing, where the innocents are saved, the wicked are punished, and everything is as beautiful as a fairy tale.

Nevertheless, Lu Li could finally breathe a sigh of relief, no longer worrying about the unknown nightmares, waiting for the imminent end.

The ornate carriage came to the cemetery outside the church, and Baron Reeves pushed the wheelchair into the church.

The sight of the carved wooden wall disappeared, returning to the dim light, and their silhouettes appeared at the church door, draped in a faint glow.

“I have completed your bidding, can you now answer me a few questions?” the girl asked softly as she gazed at the figure in the Confessional.

At the same moment, a proverb emerged on the carved wooden wall of the Confessional.

[Choices are sometimes unimportant]

It was as if answering the question in Lu Li’s heart.

The girl received no response from the Confessional.

The priest, who knew nothing of what had transpired, approached Baron Reeves and his daughter, asking what had happened.

Receiving an answer, the priest replied blankly, “There is only one priest in this church.”

[What matters is to stand by one’s choices]

The colors faded, and a non-blinding soft white light once again filled the field of vision, returning everything to the pure white space from the beginning.

The lone Confessional stood in this space.

Viscount Rivis suddenly moved to the side of the Confessional, and abruptly pulled open the wooden door—

The empty Confessional was revealed.

“There’s no one inside,” he said.

Had he already left?

Or perhaps…

[Hesitation only lets the darkness behind one swallow oneself]

The colors of the Confessional gradually faded away, leaving only Lu Li and the wooden chair beneath him in the pure white space.

“Do you recognize this handwriting?” the girl asked as she brought out the stack of coarse paper but suddenly stopped.

She discovered that it was blank, as if the content had never appeared.

[With a heart steadfast, stride through the thorns unwavering]

Weariness crawled up Lu Li’s back, spreading into his heart, and a desire for rest spontaneously arose.

Having experienced this once before, Lu Li did not refuse.

Leaning against the back of the wooden chair, he closed his eyes.

The coarse paper was taken by Viscount Rivis for confirmation.

“The words have disappeared…” the girl murmured in a whisper.

“But you couldn’t have appeared without reason and disappeared without reason…

Perhaps one day in the future, you will appear again…”

[Do not be defeated by setbacks.

Arrogance will not destroy you, cowardice will]

As Lu Li closed his eyes, the pure white world darkened in an instant.

Only the last phrase echoed in his mind.

[Please rest for a moment, for eternal existence awaits your dream]