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“Get in.”
“Okay.” Little John got into the front passenger seat, while Karon opened the rear door and sat down beside Mr. Pavaro.
“What about the butler?” Mr. Pavaro asked.
“He’s dead. Poisoned.”
Little John immediately explained himself from the front. “It wasn’t me. He wanted to poison me.”
“You didn’t awaken him?” Mr. Pavaro asked.
“No.” Karon shook his head.
“You didn’t get the location out of him?”
“There was no need. He knows.” Karon pointed at Little John. “It’s where he was corrupted.”
“Are we going there now?” Mr. Pavaro asked.
“No. Tomorrow. Since we’re going into a snake pit, the first thing we need to do is draw the snake out. At the very least, we need to wound it. Otherwise, even if we find that place, we won’t have much of a chance.”
“You’re going to draw them toward the Light vermin?”
“I already have. The dead keep secrets, yet the dead are often more believable.”
The people Alfred had killed in the textile factory executive office, and the words Karon had spoken to Little John in the Tadel residence, which were in truth spoken to the dying butler, would all be submitted as clues and evidence to the people of the Church of Order once people were awakened.
Mr. Pavaro smiled. “Others kill to silence. You kill to pass a message.”
He paused, but then continued, “But this is still a bit obvious.”
“Yes.” Karon nodded. “But obvious and direct don’t matter. As long as it works.”
“That’s true.”
“Light vermin are a thorn to the entire ecclesiastical world. The Church of Order’s standing is now pressing close to what the Church of Light was in the previous epoch, so the Church of Order is naturally the most vigilant and wary of Light vermin.”
“Yes.”
“Of course, the key point is that these particular Light...
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