Free Web NovelChapter 437: Chapter 437: The Goddess Who Came to Visit_1
Rose Iron Prison, reception area.
"Aiden Galahad? Huh?" Warden Isabella looked at the name on the visitor application form, lifting her face in surprise, "Little sister, you are... wanting to see the warden?"
The girl outside the window, whether in terms of attire or appearance, seemed to be only around fifteen or sixteen years of age, with wheat-colored skin, and ethnically she did not seem likely to be a relative of her supervisor—besides, Isabella had not heard of Aiden having any relatives in contact.
"Yes." The girl smiled calmly, nodding her head, exuding a steadiness that was incongruous with her appearance.
"This... I don’t recall seeing a similar appointment. May I ask, are you a relative or a friend of the warden, and what business do you have with him?" inquired Isabella.
"It’s like this, Mr. Galahad had previously placed an order at our store, we have finished the work, but he has yet to come to the store to settle the bill, so I came over according to the contact address to personally inform him," the girl explained methodically.
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Isabella was momentarily puzzled; it was inconvenient for guards to leave their posts during duty hours, and personal affairs were generally not allowed to be dealt with at work unless it was an emergency, so normally they would not provide their work unit as a contact address to merchants.
However, the head warden essentially did not need to perform personal duty, and considering he often stayed in the prison from morning to night for work, it was understandable that he would have his contact address moved here.
"Then I... will find someone to notify the head warden, Little sister, may I know the name of your establishment—"
Isabella had only asked halfway when the door behind her opened.
"Isabella, the new registry book and ink, I’ve brought them for you from logistics," Veronica came in with a stack of notebooks and a bottle of ink.
"Ah, thanks." Isabella turned around, "Ah, you’ve come at just the right time, there’s a kid here who wants to see the warden, can you help me go ask?"
"See the superior officer?" Veronica shifted her gaze outside the window, and couldn’t help but express surprise, "Eh? Who is this little sister?"
"Is this officer able to see Mr. Galahad directly?" the girl shifted her gaze to Veronica.
"Yes, may I ask what business you have with him?" Veronica stepped forward.
"Good day, officer, could you please tell Mr. Galahad that the order he placed on Sunset Boulevard is ready, and if you could let me see him? I need to settle the bill with him," the girl waved her hand, saying so properly.
"Then may I ask which store’s employee you are?" Veronica asked meticulously.
The girl looked into Veronica’s eyes, smiling—a sudden inexplicable palpitation took hold of Veronica, an unconscious desire to avoid the other’s gaze, as if those eyes could see right through to the bottom of her heart.
How strange, it was only when she stared down those guilty prisoners that they would unconsciously dodge eye contact like this.
She immediately brought her gaze back, and the girl’s expression remained unchanged, seemingly unaware of her momentary evasion of eyes.
"Just tell Mr. Galahad my name is Melissa, and he’ll understand," "the girl" Melissa said with a smile.
At this moment, in the head warden’s office, Aiden was reading a letter.
"We have uncovered a cult within our borders, known as the Revival Society, which uses the ethnic religion of the southern continental region as its front. The leader of the cult has publicly displayed a miracle, persuading a mother to believe in the old gods and endure illness, and then on the spot, he cured a dying infant. The identity of the cult leader is unknown, as he always wears a mask when preaching. We are having our informants follow up with an investigation."
Still no word from Professor Dodge."
After reading and taking note of the contents on the paper, Aiden quickly shredded the paper along with other discarded documents, mixing them together and throwing them in the wastebasket.
These days, keeping up with his chats with Halo had also led to considerable progress, and he had gained quite an in-depth understanding of the intelligence on the "Hatred" authority.
The "miracle" mentioned in the letter could be easily achieved with the "Sacrifice" power, transferring the illness from the infant to the mother. With the same ailment, an adult naturally had a better chance of survival than an infant.
"Sacrifice" is actually a very frightening power, it can be used to accumulate absolutely loyal followers, who can then take the place of the power holder to endure harm at critical moments. Utilizing religion to gather faith and recruit more fanatics, the "Hatred" authority could then be exerted to its fullest. With this, the likelihood of Mr. Blood Robe organizing a cult had increased significantly.
The efficiency of the Royal Secret Police is very high, and they had already identified civilian cults that could be manipulated by Mr. Blood Robe and had sent informants to infiltrate them.
Although they still hadn’t found Professor Dodge, as long as they confirmed that this cult was a tool used by Mr. Blood Robe for his own ends, at least they would not be lagging too far behind in this respect.
After considering for a moment, Aiden stood up and left his office, planning to head to the isolation room. But as he opened the door, he almost bumped into Veronica who was right outside.
"Ah, Chief!" Veronica quickly realized and took a step back, saluting in a flustered manner.
Aiden was taken aback, since with Veronica’s hearing, she should have been able to hear him moving from inside the office to the door.
But he said nothing about it and just nodded, "Is there something you need to talk about?"
Veronica reported everything about the reception to Aiden in detail.
"Melissa?" Aiden involuntarily sucked in a breath of cold air when he heard this name.
"Yes, you... you remember her, right?" Veronica asked cautiously.
Of course, Aiden couldn’t forget that name; with the description of her appearance, the girl who appeared at the reception must be Melissa, the owner of "Phantom Moon."
It had been indeed some time since Aiden visited Melissa. He had only seen Melifilia a couple of times, checked on her containment condition, discussed some intelligence, played a few chess games, and Melifilia hadn’t urged him to find the diviner.
The acquisition of the divine words had been proceeding smoothly (although he didn’t know how much of that was Melissa’s influence behind the scenes), so he had no pressing need to seek out Melissa. After the Avenging Goddess awoke, Aiden had no choice but to stay in Rose Iron Prison temporarily with the Wordless Code to prevent Halo from causing trouble. Correspondingly, he couldn’t use the Wordless Code to control Melissa’s mind-reading ability.
So, before appropriately taking care of Halo’s situation, he couldn’t directly appear before Melissa—she would instantly know about the Avenging Goddess’s revival.
Unexpectedly, this goddess had come personally to his doorstep, leaving him quite unprepared.
"Send her a message for me. Tell her to wait in her shop, and I will have someone deliver her payment directly. I am not available to meet with any visitors right now," Aiden waved his hand dismissively.
"Understood." Veronica did not offer any objections and turned to head towards the reception.
But after only two steps, she stopped in her tracks.
