128: Evelia's Quick Thinking
The Director? That former bishop named Victor? Would do something like this?
After confirming this matter once more from An An's mouth, Evelia's cute little face gradually darkened. If this were true, then she had work to do.
However... after all, An An was still young, and the Church had a custom of sending children with aspirations and similar ages to specialized clerical schools for training. What if she had seen it wrong?
Evelia felt she still needed to investigate this herself. Perhaps she would also need to slightly test that bishop named Victor.
"Evelia, no need to hesitate. What this child An An said is probably true. Come look at what I found?"
Just then, Lina's voice drifted over. Evelia turned her head to look. Lina was standing on the Director's desk, her hand reaching into the bookshelf beside it, fiddling with something. After about three or four seconds, Lina pulled out a notebook with a clearly different style from the other books on the shelf and tossed it to Evelia.
"There's a hidden compartment behind the bookshelf. This was hidden inside."
Evelia caught the notebook. Without even needing to open and read it, her face had already darkened. Undoubtedly, what was recorded in this notebook must be some kind of unspeakable matter. Otherwise, why would it need to be hidden in a secret compartment in the bookshelf?
Heh... other than that Descent Faction stalking pervert she had taken out two weeks ago... her last job should have been traced back to the day she first met Amya, right?
She remembered that time... it was taking out that rich brat who had bullied Uncle Wei's daughter, wasn't it?
Ah... she really had been too immersed in comfort lately. She, Evelia, had ultimately been influenced by Amya in her speed of drawing her gun, becoming this lazy.
Perhaps before officially taking action, she still needed to properly thank that former Bishop? After all, it was he who had rekindled her fighting spirit~
Before even opening the notebook, Evelia had already decided that Bishop's fate in her heart.
When Evelia opened the notebook, what met her eyes were rows of specific dates and names, followed by strings of numbers and several symbols of unknown meaning.
Undoubtedly, this was a ledger.
That Director named Victor was really using his position to transfer orphanage children out and profit from it.
This kind of person used to be a bishop? What was the Church doing!?
"Hmm? Sister, looking at you like this, you're probably silently criticizing the Church inside, right? No need to be too surprised. This is human nature. No organization is free from some rotten worms. Even the Watchers are the same."
"As long as there's profit to be made in this world, there will always be some people who will stop at nothing for their own benefit. They won't care about others; they'll only care about whether their own interests are protected."
"Some even... can even sell out their own family..."
Seeming to see through Evelia's inner dissatisfaction, Lina shook her head and spoke in a tone far more mature than her appearance suggested.
But even so... the pointed direction in her words was a bit too obvious, wasn't it? Even at a time like this, she still had to take a jab at Jasmine?
"Therefore, if you ask me... shit!"
Lina had just prepared to continue her speech about human nature and reality, but before her words could fully leave her mouth, a sudden "tap tap" sound of someone climbing stairs came from outside. Lina's expression instantly changed. She frantically looked around. The Director's Office was too old and had few pieces of furniture. There was basically no place for her to hide.
With no other choice, Lina could only hide in the place where An An had just hidden; the cabinet below the bookshelf where the hidden compartment had been discovered.
"Eh? Lina?"
This was the first time Evelia had seen Lina, who was always the type to act like nothing concerned her, looking so panicked. She tentatively asked, but the only response she got was Lina's "Shut up! You stupid sister!" from inside the cabinet.
"Squeak!"
"Miss Evelia, so you're here... ah! Have you already found the child?"
Just then, the Director's Office door was suddenly pushed open from outside. Evelia instinctively blocked the cabinet with her body, then turned her head to look behind her.
She saw our Saint Miss tentatively poke half her head in from outside the door, her gentle gaze curiously sweeping across every item in the room. The old sofa, the desk, the bookshelf full of vintage atmosphere.
Finally, her gaze landed successively on the somewhat frightened An An, the guilt-ridden Evelia... and the two tufts of white hair exposed in the gap of the cabinet behind Evelia.
A look of surprise flashed through Jasmine's eyes, but she quickly concealed it.
"Um... I did find her. I was just chatting with this child. An An is actually a very good child..."
"Hmm? Miss Evelia? Why do you keep standing in front of the bookshelf? Is there something over there?"
"!!!"
"!!!"
Jasmine's sentence instantly made Evelia, who was blocking the bookshelf, and Lina, who was hiding in the cabinet, feel their hearts rise to their throats.
Jasmine tilted her head in confusion, then entered the room, heading straight for the bookshelf with clear purpose.
『What do I do, what do I do? Lina will be discovered! With the conflict between those two, won't they start fighting on the spot!?』
The closer Jasmine walked toward the bookshelf, the more nervous Evelia became, and the guilt and concealment on her face grew heavier. This made Jasmine, who had been observing her expression, curl the corners of her lips into a faint smile.
Looking at Miss Evelia's expression, it seemed confirmed.
"Um! Miss Jasmine! I was just... just looking for something! Yes! Looking for something! Come look at this! This orphanage has big problems!"
Finally, under Jasmine's pressure, our Demon Miss had a flash of quick thinking. She rapidly raised the ledger in her hand that recorded the black transaction information and spoke in rapid succession to Jasmine:
"There's a reason this child named An An is afraid of the adults at the orphanage! The current Director of the orphanage, who is also the Church's former Bishop Victor, frequently secretly sells orphanage children for personal profit! I was standing here just to find evidence! This is what I found in the hidden compartment behind the bookshelf! Victor's ledger!"
"Oh?"
Hearing Evelia's words, Jasmine finally stopped her footsteps. Her brows furrowed slightly, and her gaze returned from the two strands of white hair exposed in the cabinet gap back to Evelia, or more precisely, to the ledger in Evelia's hand.
"Can you tell me about it in detail?"
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