Viscount Adreza bit his lips. Although he asked what he should do, in reality, he had no choice given to him.

He had said he would kill unless everything he knew was revealed.

“I-I’ll tell everything I know. B-but please promise me one thing.”

Adreza, pleading like a fly, rubbed his hands together. When Revenfeld gestured with his chin, the officer guarding the prison opened the iron bars.

Just in case the iron door closed again, Adreza hurriedly jumped out, scratching the stone floor as he went.

“Come in. Speak.”

“If I tell everything I know, p-please protect me.”

Adreza pleaded, prostrating himself under Revenfeld’s feet. As Revenfeld looked down at him, his eyebrows furrowed. There was no warmth in his golden eyes.

“Protection?”

“If I tell everything I know, those Generva followers will try to kill me.”

“Oh?”

“Yes, yes. S-so, if you…”

“Let’s hear how important the information is first.”

Revenfeld signaled to the officer. The guards who had prepared a chair in advance brought it over and placed it in front.

It was a very heavy chair surrounded by gold. The red color was unusually vivid, not matching the prison at all.

“Since it might take a while, sit down.”

Naturally, I thought Revenfeld would sit down. Revenfeld guided me to the chair. When Adreza and I sat down, I didn’t want to get into a squabble with Revenfeld, so I sat quietly without saying anything.

Revenfeld looked at Adreza coldly.

“Then, tell us. Let’s hear how much your information is worth.”

The information Adreza vomited out was astonishing.

The first time Viscount Adreza encountered Generva was when the world was getting dim, taking advantage of the confusion during smuggling.

In the first place, the problem was not properly verifying the identity of the crew involved in smuggling since smuggling itself was illegal.

Generva boarded a ship involved in illegal smuggling as an illegal crew member. She easily traveled between several countries.

‘I never thought about smuggling.’

No matter how tight the security was, it was useless. What’s the use of having guards? If they receive money from nobles and allow illegally imported goods, what’s the point?

If they allow Generva, who carries illegal goods, to move around easily without proper identification, it’s futile to set up guards.

“Hah.”

I let out a suppressed sigh. Fundamentally, there was no solution unless the root cause was eradicated.

“A meeting of real trash.”

As Revenfeld uttered each word, Adreza’s shoulders hunched.
Generva, who approached Viscount Adreza, claimed that she did not reveal her identity from the beginning. She stated that she only provided information on how to smuggle goods more easily at first.

By assisting in smuggling, she became able to acquire valuable art pieces more affordably and easily, earning the trust of Viscount Adreza.

At some point, Generva demanded to take dying children off the streets without parents. Since these were children with imminent death, Viscount Adreza readily agreed.

‘This marks the beginning of the Ferdian experiments…’

Gradually, the exchange of smuggled goods and children became frequent, and it soon became a matter of course.

When it was too late to withdraw, Generva revealed her true identity. She then detailed what had happened to all the children sent by Viscount Adreza.

‘If Viscount Adreza had properly reported at that time, many children might not have been sacrificed like this.’

However, Viscount Adreza chose to tolerate rather than report. Unknowingly, he became an accomplice to Generva and decided to keep his mouth shut.

“Generva always selects experimental subjects.”

“What does it mean to select them?”

“She doesn’t experiment randomly. She thinks that the sap of the World Tree reacts differently in various situations, such as the reactions of children under a certain age, well-raised children, reactions to women, reactions to men, reactions to the elderly, nobles, and so on.”

“Hah.”

Revenfeld laughed as if in disbelief. Then he wiped his face up and down with both palms.

It seemed like Revenfeld was about to kill Viscount Adreza right in front of him. At the eerie, mocking laughter, Viscount Adreza paused in his speech and glanced around nervously.

“So? Are children the current experimental subjects?”

“W-well, there’s one more.”

“One more?”

“Those of high status regardless of gender.”

Those of high status regardless of gender.

Suddenly, in my mind, the disease spread by Generva affected high-ranking priests and Eteria’s Empress, Lysa, came to mind.

This was important information.

Knowing who Generva was currently using as experimental subjects could not only help prevent them but also be used to investigate and capture them.

“All I know is up to here.”

Viscount Adreza knelt, politely folding his hands.

“I-I don’t approve of the Ferdian experiments, so I don’t know any deeper! I-I’m just being used! A-and the children I sent were all children who were going to die anyway!”

Revenfeld’s raised eyebrows twitched fiercely.