"Cecilia, are you saying... that the treatment these people received was divided based on the crimes they were convicted of?" Shigure Kira instantly understood what Cecilia was thinking. She scratched her head. "But... only these three have committed crimes..."
"No... committing a crime is not the only expression of doing bad things," Siegfried suddenly said. Shigure Kira's eyes widened. "There are many people who have done heinous things but have not been punished by the law, right?"
"Those people are also guilty!" Nicholas also aligned with Siegfried's logic. "Those martial arts masters who help the weak and fight for justice would indeed target such people!"
"So... not only these three, but the other four victims have also committed unknown mistakes but escaped the punishment of the law?"
"Salome!" Siegfried turned around and looked at the documents seriously. "Are there detailed life records of these people?"
"No. The information from before the Great Honkai might be able to be retrieved by restarting the quantum cluster computer of the City of Sighs, but there is no information from after the Great Honkai!"
That's right... after the Great Honkai, the entire City of Sighs was "cleansed" by those high-ranking officials. The people who came here were all new faces, and there was no equipment to record their every move.
"Sigh..." Nicholas sighed. "It seems we're entering my least favorite part..."
"Salome, Kira, you two go with me to restart the quantum cluster computer," Cecilia said. She quickly scanned the crowd and quickly assigned tasks to a few people.
"Nicholas, please go with Siegfried to find people who know these victims and try to get an objective evaluation of them from their mouths."
"Leave it to me!" Nicholas took a deep breath, straightened up, and showed a confident smile. "No matter what secret it is, I can..."
"No intimidation," Cecilia instructed, and Nicholas instantly deflated.
"I know..." she muttered, but still did not refuse.
Cecilia and Siegfried looked at each other, their gazes crossed, and then they nodded at the same time as if their minds were connected.
"Be careful," Cecilia said softly and gently.
Siegfried showed a smile. "If you encounter anything, send a signal. I will definitely come."
The group exchanged glances, then quickly split into two groups and headed towards their respective destinations.
Siegfried and Nicholas walked side by side. Nicholas glanced at Siegfried's frowning brow and laughed to lighten the mood. "What, you look nervous? Are you scared?"
"How could I be!" Siegfried's eyes widened. "I am the great captain of the Snow Wolf Squad! With the [Judgment] in my hand, I command the world! I punched the Siberian warlords and kicked Joyce of Future City! How could I be scared by this!"
"Joyce might fight you to the death if he heard that," Nicholas sneered. Siegfried puffed out his chest, looking fearless.
"A joke! A mere Joyce, if he dares to offend, I will definitely defeat him!"
"He'll ban your Alahato game account and you'll be obedient," Nicholas didn't give him any face, and Siegfried's face instantly turned red.
"Whose side are you on?" Siegfried asked eagerly and in a low voice.
Nicholas did not answer, but repeated the first question. "So, you're really nervous... what are you worried about?"
Siegfried was silent for a moment, then sighed. "That is a Herrscher, after all... Cecilia was in the amusement park yesterday, and this latest situation can be said to have happened right under her nose, but she didn't notice anything...
"The Herrscher's abilities have surpassed anything we've experienced in the past. This is a challenge on a whole new dimension. If we delay because of our inexperience and a new victim appears..."
Nicholas was silent.
Should she say, as expected of Siegfried? He wasn't worried about whether they could solve the Herrscher, but about whether he could save more people from the Herrscher...
And it was very likely that these people were all criminals. This was even a possibility that Siegfried himself had proposed.
And even so, Siegfried still had to worry about their safety... this guy Siegfried was really...
"I know those people are probably not good people," As if to confirm Nicholas's guess, Siegfried hung his head and looked at his clenched fist, his brows furrowing deeper.
"But I still can't just let them die like this... If it's just a simple eye for an eye, responding to pain with pain, then there will only be more and more mutual suffering in this world.
"If their repentance is not out of sincere remorse, but just a superficial act to save their own lives, to avoid the pain they are about to receive, then what is the meaning of their repentance?
"And we who have created such false repentance... how can we talk about true justice?"
Siegfried took a deep breath and looked ahead in Nicholas's helpless eyes. "So, I have to save even these bad people, these scumbags!
"Until I am sure they are beyond redemption..." Siegfried's hand rested on the Star of Judgment at his waist.
"At that time, I will personally end their remaining lives."
"Wow..." Nicholas let out an exaggerated sound, then put away her phone, interrupting the video recording. "If this were posted on Spark, it would probably attract a lot of fans~"
"What?!" Siegfried, who had just been full of seriousness, instantly collapsed, almost falling to his knees and begging Nicholas. "Don't!"
Nicholas waved her hand so that Siegfried couldn't catch her. While teasing him, she also had an indescribable feeling in her heart.
Was Siegfried's philosophy naive?
It was even more naive than a three-year-old's concept of good and evil! The cruel reality would mercilessly slap the face of anyone who held such an unrealistic idea. The darkness hidden in people's hearts was definitely not something that a single sun could illuminate and disperse!
They would only laugh at the sun while devouring it.
But... this was Siegfried, and this was what every Kaslana would say without hesitation.
It was also the reason why, back then, a brash young man of less than seventeen could gather an entire Snow Wolf Squad.
"The Kaslanas want to change the world, to illuminate the world," Joyce had once commented on this family.
"Coincidentally, they have such a miraculous power."