Devil's Bible

Chapter 220 Where are the people?

All people remember about Cecilia is her arrogance and her tragic fate.

After committing the crime, she broke out of the church-controlled prison, and when she was caught again, she was mentally impaired.

This person then seemed to have been left in the prison and remained there without any further movement.

Logically speaking, if a family member had become mentally unstable, the Dartmanley family, based on their privilege of treating nobles well, could apply to bring Cecilia back to the family and place her under house arrest instead of imprisonment.

However, since Dartmanley did not come, Cecilia was naturally imprisoned by the church.

Then...

"Where is she?" Isabella asked the guards as she stood in front of the cell.

The trainee pastor awkwardly touched his nose, unable to say anything more.

Cecilia, who was in prison, has disappeared.

Furthermore, judging from the surrounding environment, it has been uninhabited for some time.

However, despite such an obvious loss of personnel, there were no reports of it at all during this period of time, and everyone in the prison seemed to have been completely unaware of it.

Information on all kinds of people was readily available, but upon checking, the people were nowhere to be found.

"Where did they go?" Isabella asked, barely suppressing her anger.

However, the answer was that no one knew.

Isabella then investigated further and was so angry she laughed.

This disappearance of prisoners is not an isolated incident, but rather a widespread phenomenon.

Nobles do have certain privileges. If they commit a minor offense, such as accidentally killing a commoner, they may be punished, but they can be exempted from punishment by virtue of their privileges.

For example, one could avoid punishment by staying home for a month or by giving a gold coin.

However, even with this privilege, they still felt it was beneath their dignity, since it required the use of the family name.

Therefore, cases of fake imprisonment have occurred.

He was nominally imprisoned, but in reality, he only appeared in the cell that day at most, and then quietly left that night.

If you keep a low profile during this period, there shouldn't be any major problems.

Simply put, it means that nobles, despite having privileges, dislike the loss of face that comes with using those privileges.

They then used their privileges to get the church prison to turn a blind eye to their escape attempts.

In short, because such things are not uncommon, as long as one is a member of the nobility and someone sends money to them to take care of so-and-so.

Then, problems will arise with the other party's supervision that night.

The same goes for Cecilia.

Some time after she was brought back, someone handed her money, and one night she was taken back to Cecilia.

“So, during this process, someone from them will definitely contact you. Tell me, who is it?” Isabella awaited the result.

If church prisons have been able to operate without major problems for so long, then this system must have had sufficient verification procedures.

If there aren't enough verification procedures, wouldn't anyone who knows about this issue be able to arbitrarily remove people from prison?
“We saw the Dartmenley family seal.” One of them, feeling uncomfortable under Isabella’s gaze, finally revealed the crucial information. “Because it’s illegal, noble members rarely show themselves. They send someone with a seal that’s hard for outsiders to obtain. Only after seeing the seal will we let them pass.”

“You also know it’s illegal.” Isabella felt a heavy responsibility; the church was rotten, and it wasn’t just the Redemption Department that was corrupt, but every department had its problems.

Twelve hundred years ago, a great catastrophe struck the earth, and people moved to live on the backs of floating whales. This changed the situation from one of polytheistic coexistence to one of dominance, which is one of the reasons.

One of the reasons is that the God of Discipline has neglected the church over the years.

After taking a deep breath, Isabella led her people to the Dartmenley family's manor.

The damage caused by the previous battle between Datmenley and Nems has already been dealt with.

When Isabella arrived at the Datmenley family, Datmenley happened to be available.

Upon seeing the head of the family, Isabella did not hesitate and revealed her purpose.

"? I didn't order anyone else to bring Sisi back." Dartmanley was also confused; he certainly hadn't given any such orders.

Dartman then inquired around and confirmed that no one else had made the decision on their own.

Besides, even if she made the decision on her own, once Cecilia returned, she couldn't possibly escape him; he should at least know about it.

So either someone impersonated the Dartmanley family to bail her out, or some members of the Dartmanley family coveted Cecilia and chose to secretly take her out and raise her outside.

This is also possible, since it's not a secret to some members of the family that Dartmenley wanted to refine Cecilia into a humanoid golden elixir.

Isabella was more perceptive than Dartmenley; she could sense the general emotions. Dartmenley had gathered many family members who might have done these things, but when they heard about Cecilia, most of them seemed bewildered.

In that case, most of these people can be ruled out as suspects.

"Then, patriarch of the Dartmenley family, I wonder who else besides you could access the family seal and take it away?" This noble seal not only symbolizes the family's honor, but also requires the seal to be affixed to many family-related interests before they can be mobilized.

Therefore, this thing is not only difficult to counterfeit, but also generally very rare for people to come into contact with.

“The entire family only has five or six people.” Dartmenley was very cooperative in response to Isabella’s question.

Because at this moment, he had realized that since Cecilia had little connection with her own family, her connection with Nems was growing stronger.

The clearer Isabella's investigation becomes, the more serious Nems's problem will be.

Furthermore, it's possible to win Isabella over as an ally later to fight against Nemus together.

Soon, everyone who had come into contact with the seal during that period received orders from Dartmanley to return to the family and be questioned.

After asking around, no one was found to have any obvious problems.

At most, some people used the seal to seek personal gain, becoming parasites within the family, but this did not involve Cecilia.

"Is there anyone else who hasn't arrived yet?" Isabella asked.

“There’s one more person!” After thinking for a moment, Dartmanley actually found someone who could access the seal.

“Nell’s uncle—Byrne!”

Previously, Byrne had stood firmly on the side of the Dartmenley family, completely disregarding the lives of his sister and nephew, and only wanting to curry favor with the Dartmenley family.

And he actually managed to get in touch with him. Byrne had a good business sense and was in charge of many of Dartmanley's businesses, so he also had access to the seal.

(End of this chapter)