Enforcer Manual
Chapter 753 - 751: Believer_1

Chapter 753: Chapter 751: Believer_1

Everyone was looking for Diago.

The walls of the port city were plastered with wanted posters.

A bounty of 100,000 wats was a substantial sum for a place like Silvermoon Harbor, and the residents, not yet retired for the night, left their homes to search for the boy named Diago.

The wanted poster was issued by Father Godel, who accused Diago of conducting heretical ceremonies on their ship and even burning one of their vessels.

But there was something strange about the whole affair.

Silvermoon Harbor was a relatively isolated port city with little personnel turnover, especially after the changes in the third Neutral Country, up until the time when Kunka and the Expeditionary Army were stationed there.

The residents of the port mostly knew each other, yet when they saw the high-priced wanted posters and inquired around, they realized that no one actually knew Diago.

According to the information provided in the wanted poster, he was 14-15 years old, clearly not a member of the Expeditionary Army.

And the reasons Father Godel issued the wanted poster were even more peculiar—rumor had it that Father Godel dreamed of a boy named Diago performing a heretical ceremony on a ship of the Tidal Sect, and when he awoke from his dream, indeed the Church’s ship was on fire.

He firmly believed it was a revelation from the Lord of the Tides to execute the member of the heretic cult named Diago.

But the problem was ...

you can’t execute someone who doesn’t actually exist.

After searching for most of the night, many of the port residents decided to give up on the tempting bounty, suspecting that the Tidal Sect people might have concocted a name out of thin air, offering an empty cheque to mock them.

After all, you could never truly know what went on in the minds of the Tidal Sect, and Father Godel’s own mental state was questionable to begin with.

Also involved in the investigation was the peculiar Franken.

For the residents of Silvermoon Harbor, he was like a famous detective, and once they grew familiar with him, they would occasionally entrust Franken to help them with some tricky situations.

The peculiar Franken always managed to relieve them of their troubles.

This time, unlike the port residents wandering the streets, the "Emperor" first went to the site of the burned ship, which by now was left in ruins, no wonder the Tidal Sect could not find any substantial clues on the ship.

But the truth was hidden within those clues.

Father Godel was adamant that Diago had engaged in a heretical activity, burning their ship, but from what the "Emperor" discovered, it appeared that was not the case.

He found footprints of the crew within the remains, as well as the remnants of an oil lamp.

In his view, there seemed to be no direct connection between the fire and a heretical ceremony; rather, it looked more like a crew member accidentally knocked over a lamp, igniting the whole ship by mistake.

When the "Emperor" found this crew member before dawn, he was lying in bed in a dazed state, having not even managed to clear away the traces he left at the scene of the fire, as if his soul was lost the moment he reached home and lain on the bed.

The crew member insisted that the fire was caused by Diago’s engagement in a heretical ceremony, but when pressed further, he stumbled over his words, unable to articulate a coherent reason.

He couldn’t even clearly describe what Diago looked like, merely having a vague notion that it was a 14-15-year-old boy, thin, and appearing malnourished—these scant details matched exactly with the boy Father Godel saw in his dream.

Following up, the "Emperor" inquired with some of the port residents who had helped extinguish the fire, and none of them had seen anyone resembling Diago during the rescue, not even the "Seagull" had ever heard of such a person in Silvermoon Harbor.

She felt that Father Godel must have been muddled in his sleep, blaming a man-made fire on a heretic.

She never had much affection for the Tidal Church members, always muttering about spirits, with their mental states seemingly abnormal, and for a group of people with mental disorders, it was nothing unusual to experience delusions.

According to "Seagull," the fire was most likely caused by the crew’s violation of regulations. In an attempt to clear his own responsibility, he incidentally shifted the blame to the cultists dreamed up by Godel’s identity, and Father Godel actually went as far as to take the dream as reality.

Continuing the investigation would just be a waste of effort.

Not to mention 100,000 watts, even if they offered 1 million or even 10 million watts, they wouldn’t be able to pull a person from a dream and deliver him to Father Godel.

From a scientific, rational, and objective standpoint, this is indeed the most likely outcome.

But "Emperor" acutely discovered some subtle anomalies.

All those who might have witnessed Diago had memories that seemed as if they’d been tampered with, blurred and indistinct, almost all of them were only able to vaguely sketch a similar scene, yet their words were astonishingly consistent, as if all had the same dream.

This actually seemed more like the effect caused by an interference-type Ability User.

It was only when he followed this clue that he finally came across an unexpected discovery.

"Emperor" temporarily put the name Diago to the back of his mind and returned to the incident itself.

For instance, what was the fire-stricken ship actually used for?

Soon he received intelligence from "Seagull" that whenever the Tidal Church took in orphans from Silvermoon Harbor, providing them with food and shelter, they would take some of the orphans to the Misty Archipelago whenever they sailed out.

But just like those residents of Silvermoon Harbor who became believers, those orphans never returned once they went to the Misty Archipelago.

Ordinarily, the Tidal believers would place the orphans on their ships, allowing them to help with odd jobs aboard.

Only after "Emperor" had learned this information did he realize where the real problem lay.

The ones who went missing in the fire were not only Diago.

All the orphans living on the same boat as him disappeared as well, yet neither Father Godel nor the other Tidal believers seem to have noticed this at all, nor do they believe the children perished in the fire.

It was as if their existence had been erased from the believers’ consciousness, they could only vaguely remember that among those orphans, there was a boy named Diago.

"Emperor" finally found out where the missing orphans were.

They were hiding in a temple not far from the outskirts of Silvermoon Harbor, which was once a church of the Lunar Eclipse Sect. During the time when Barrosa Group controlled Silvermoon Harbor, the clergies of the Lunar Eclipse Sect were driven out, and the church was abandoned thereafter.

"Seagull" said the orphans from the harbor considered that place their home.

He eventually found the boy that Father Godel had dreamed of.

This boy named Diago’s skin was in shreds due to burns; he was lying on a straw mat, gasping for breath.

The orphans gathered around him.

"Why didn’t you bring him to the port’s hospital?"

"Emperor" couldn’t help but question these children, scrutinizing all the orphans present, trying to discern who was the interference-type Psychic that twisted the believers’ cognition.

But in the end, he found nothing.

They all just seemed like ordinary port orphans.

"Because Diago is going to a better place," said a girl who seemed much older than the others, "Father God is coming to take him."

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