Shortly after coming, Zoe, who had been called back, complained. She was sitting in a poor posture on the sofa, pulled out the cigarette, and asked.
“Now I’m considering you as a client, not a niece. You looked like someone with a mission.”
Before I could say ‘please sit properly,’ Zoe fixed her sitting posture on her own.
She noticed that her serious-looking niece had a severe request.
“Why are you so stiff?”
It was because my request wasn’t easy.
The request I was going to make could probably be the first failure for Zoe, who had never failed since she established Journee.
‘Will she succeed?’
I was still trying to count her chances to succeed.
‘We also don’t have any talented people to help her work.’
Journee was a new guild. Therefore, there were more passionate people than competent people. Thanks to this, Zoe was super busy. Everyone in the guild relied on Zoe, but there was no one to help her.
‘It’s been bothering me.’
If she accepted my request, Zoe might be the one at a loss.
She could fail to fulfill this task.
I glanced at Zoe.
When I looked at Zoe, who was sitting leaning her back while staring back at me, I could see the future of Journee, a guild that would dominate the continent as the best information source.
‘It’s something that’s actually going to happen.’
I decided to bet more on her success in the future than in the present because I believed that Zoe would surely bring Journee to their glory.
“Say something. Why are you hesitating?”
“Can you go to the Fire Prison?”
“Fire Prison?”
Zoe’s eyes got sharper. Her eyes were full of doubts. She seemed surprised by the unexpected word that came out of my mouth.
Zoe didn’t answer right away. Seeing her didn’t say anything back, the notoriety of Fire Prison came to my mind again.
Wasn’t it rumored as a literal hell?
“Why do I have to go to the Fire Prison?
Fire Prison, nicknamed hell, was where only notorious prisoners on the continent were imprisoned.
Fire Prison was where you couldn’t come out once you entered until your sentence was fulfilled. Only those who were sentenced to life imprisonment and death were imprisoned there.
—Serial killers, habitual drunk wagon robbers, those who planned treason, soldiers who fled the battlefield, and criminals who committed crimes that were simply unforgivable.
In short, the prison was a place that you could only come out from after being burned to death.
For me, here…
“There’s someone I wanted to bail.”
“That person must have been trapped under a big false accusation. You could have just said it.”
Zoe thought that I was just like my mother, naive and friendly. But, it was time for her to know what I really was.
When people were blinded by their love toward their loved ones, they were concerned a lot. However, Zoe forgot that we also shared blood.
I shook my head and said.
“No, he’s a bad guy.”
Zoe dropped the cigarette.
“What? You want me to get a criminal out of that prison? Why? Is it because that person gets life imprisonment? Are you going to take him out and kill him? Are you going to do the same thing as you did for that young doctor?”
When one worked in this field, one could see through something with their sharp instinct.