I! Cleaner!
Chapter 204 - 204: 0177 You check on me I check on you, it's normal_1

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The ancestors of the royal family of The Twelve Kingdoms... were once occupants of the Watcher's Palace?

Originally, it was just a bit of trouble, and Leon felt embarrassed to proactively talk to the director. However, he heard such a secret, prompting him to remain silent for a while before he couldn't help but ask,

"Then does Taurus His Excellency also..."

"Taurus His Excellency has no children."

The Red-haired Director responded,

"But if she had descendants and wanted to, the Purification Bureau would be willing to offer certain conveniences, including supporting her descendants in establishing a nation. If all went smoothly, The Twelve Kingdoms might become the Thirteen Kingdoms again in a hundred years.

Leon, this world is much larger than you imagine. It's not just the location of The Twelve Kingdoms that is suitable for human survival, and the Watcher's Palace is the last barrier protecting the world. Given the merits of the palace occupants in safeguarding the world, the bureau believes that conditions of this sort aren't unacceptable."

"..."

*Although, saving the ancestors and then ruling the world? What kind of Dragonborn setup is this...*

After listening to the Red-haired Director, Leon opened his mouth speechlessly. He wanted to retort, but after thinking it over, he decided to keep his mouth shut.

Compared to the Dragonborn, the royal family of The Twelve Kingdoms seemed much more normal. Although there were some doing as they pleased, because most nations weren't solely ruled by the royal family, power was held in check to a certain extent, remaining within the bounds of "humanity."

As for the Purification Bureau, with its secretive style and decentralized structure, it imposed heavy penalties for abnormal interferences in daily activities. Each branch had a great degree of autonomy and wasn't a tightly knit power organization.

Except for granting some special privileges to royal families due to their status as descendants of palace occupants, the bureau didn't seem to have intentions of staunchly supporting The Twelve Kingdoms—thus, The Twelve Kingdoms and the Purification Bureau gave the impression of having a mutually beneficial relationship.

The former didn't compete for power and relied on the latter to resist abnormal invasions; the latter needed the former to maintain stability in the surface world, providing assistance and support when necessary, maintaining a relatively stable balance.

"Additionally, you need to be extra careful during this time."

While Leon pondered what was really going on with The Twelve Kingdoms, the Red-haired Director, after thinking it over, uncertainly said,

"I think this matter might also be related to the Aquarius Director."

The Aquarius Director, yet again?

Leon furrowed his brows and tentatively asked,

"Is it because the rebels' ability comes from the Aquarius Director? Are you suspecting that the Aquarius Director is actually behind this attack?"

"That is part of the reason, but more so because of the intensity of the ability."

The Red-haired Director said with furrowed brows,

"Simply making an ordinary person completely forgotten is within the realm of possibility for many abilities. However, to make a nation's princess vanish from everyone's memory, the strength of the ability, the hierarchy of the anomalous object, and the cost would be incredibly high. There are very few branch directors capable of such feats.

Furthermore, even with such a significant person missing, no one noticed anything wrong. Everything was forcibly 'rationalized,' as if that nation had never had a princess... Doesn't this ability feel somewhat familiar to you?"

Everything was forcibly rationalized...

After frowning and pondering for a while, Leon suddenly realized something, his eyes filled with astonishment,

"Are you implying... the Brain of the Evil God, which is responsible for erasing traces of abnormal events?"

"To be precise, it should be the Brain of the Evil God along with the Illusion Can that houses it."

The Red-haired Director squinted and said,

"The strength of this forgetting ability is somewhat excessive, so I'm inclined to believe that someone incredibly knowledgeable about the operational rules of the Illusion Can took advantage of its power.

This forgetting ability might just have set things in motion, with the Illusion Can's trace-erasing power exploited afterward, misleading the Illusion Can into concluding that the event had ended and that the princess had disappeared, prompting a large-scale erasure of the event's traces, leading to the current situation.

Otherwise, if it were merely a simple memory erasure, just a few people examining old newspapers or receiving documents signed by the princess before she was forgotten would immediately notice something amiss. Thus, only the Illusion Can within the bureau could forcibly rationalize those problems, and the person capable of doing so..."

The person capable of doing so could only be the Aquarius Director!

As one of the Twelve Directors, he was undoubtedly familiar with the rules of the Illusion Can. Coupled with some link between him and the rebels, the suspicion of him being behind the scenes couldn't be said to be large—it was practically tantamount to listing his identification number!

Once Leon quickly grasped the logical structure in the Red-haired Director's words, he couldn't help but feel uncomfortable, as if some world-class trickster had set their sights on him.

"Director..."

Glancing at his mere 4.1 Contamination Value, confirming that his little physique couldn't handle much turmoil, Leon, feeling that a major issue was at hand, couldn't help but complain,

"Within a week of the Ryan Blood Night, the headquarters' review of me came down; yet here we are, having reported potential issues with the Aquarius Director—how many days have passed since then, and the headquarters hasn't made any moves?"

"What kind of moves did you expect? Should they just arrest the Aquarius Director and let you take that sheep of yours to interrogate him?"

Glancing at Leon, the Red-haired Director replied testily,

"After all, he's a director! You're a newbie who's only joined the Purification Bureau for a month, proposing an investigation against him is like a shepherd from Laine County accusing the king of sneaking into his sheep pen yesterday. Nobody will pay much attention.

Even if I vouch for you and the information becomes noteworthy, executing an investigation on him would still be troublesome—at the very least, it would require agreement from three directors. And considering that most directors keep their identities secret, or aren't even in this world, just continue waiting then!

Anyway, it's almost time for the end-of-year review. Every year, three directors are responsible for overseeing it. With Taurus His Excellency en route back, I should be able to notify four directors by next week. At that point, the review concerning Aquarius should just about be ready."

A week, huh...

Leon pondered, relaxing slightly. Just as he was about to continue speaking, he heard a strange squeaking sound coming from the drawer behind the Red-haired Director.

"It should be a message from headquarters."

Noticing the sound, the Red-haired Director returned to his desk, opened the drawer, fiddled for a moment, and then pulled out a sheet of ink-smeared paper, quickly scanning it.

"I thought it was something else; it turns out the results of your investigation are in, and you... huh?"

Upon seeing something unbelievable, the Red-haired Director's eyelid twitched violently before his brows furrowed instinctively.

"Leon..."

After skimming through the paper, his gaze lingered on terms like "suspicious," "dangerous," and "madness!" After a deep breath, he grimly informed,

"The results of your investigation... aren't too optimistic..."""

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