031. The Wedding Across Time

  Adam’s words pletely ehe followers of the Children of Fire. They angrily raised their guns, their red body paint fming like fire as they shouted, "Burn him!", "Sacrifice him!", "You have nht to say that!"

  At this point, her Amanda’s men nor the young officers could sit bad do nothing; they all raised their ons, aiming at each other.

  Just a day ago, they were rades fighting side by side against the izers and colborators, but now they were at each other’s throats over a matter of belief.

  Seeing the situatioe, with internal flict immi, Li Aozi was already prepared to intervene, using gravity to suppress these unruly fools, when Alexia suddenly stood up, holding her briefcase, and strode forward.

  Li Aozi was momentarily stuhen pulled a headset-style transtor from his pocket and tossed it to her.

  "Catch."

  Snap.

  Alexia raised her hand, caught the transtor, and clipped it onto her ear. She walked forward with a fidehat the people of this new era had never shown.

  "Excuse me, ing through."

  Her steps were firm and powerful, her boots striking the ground like onballs pounding on the heart. People couldn’t ignore her presence, allowio push through the crowd—or rather, as soon as they saw Alexia in her uniform, they subsciously made way for her.

  Her expression was calm and serious, yet not distant. Her long braid swayed with her stride as she ehe ter of the crowd. She tossed down the briefcase, and the meical devifolded on the ground, transf into a podium as she had intended. As she stepped onto the podium, everyone’s eyes focused on her, quietly watg this girl bloom like an iris.

  "Apologies, fellow oppressed and victims of ial rule, but I need you to listen to me for a moment."

  She pced her hand over her chest and nodded in apology, then said:

  "I am Alexia, Alexia Emanuel Justein, a ghost from the old era."

  "I know this may sound abrupt, but after witnessing your as and hearing your words and thoughts, I must point out something."

  She spoke slowly, clearly, with a measured pace, and the crowd listened ily, fully focused on her speech.

  The moment, Alexia nodded slightly and said:

  "You bunch of idiots, fools, and brutes! You’re all a bunch of blockheads harder than frozen fish!"

  The crowd erupted in an uproar, ready to curse her out, but Alexia's stern voice silehem:

  "Who’s trying to destroy you now? Who is your enemy? Who has hurt you the most?"

  "Is it your fellow trymen? Is it the rades filled with passion and justice, who you’re now pointing guns at?"

  Her words made the people close their mouths. Alexia tinued with full force, her words sharp and awakening:

  "You’re holding rifles, your bodies filled with titanium alloy impnts and sili chip augmentations, but your as are as shalloirates and bandits."

  "Any sedary flicts should be dealt with after the primary flict is resolved."

  Adam bowed his head in shame, Alexia’s words hitting him in his weakest spot.

  "But this doesn’t mean that evil and ignorance should be overlooked."

  Alexia raised her hand, the Niobium Alloy ed around her arm like wheat stalks, and in her raised hand, she held a gavel.

  "I am not a judge; I am a prosecutor, an Inquisitor of the past."

  She turned her gaze toward the followers of the Children of Fire, their trembling figures reflected in her dark golden eyes.

  "I only bring forth accusations, expose the crimes. As for judgment and fiveness,"

  She lightly struck the gavel into the air.

  Bang—

  Thousands of followers of the Children of Fire fell to their kheir mouths involuntarily opening to fess their sins.

  "I once kidnapped a girl uhe guise of preag..."

  "I killed two boys and took out their hearts to sacrifice to the gods."

  "I…I was tempted by the price offered by Law III arayed the guerril fighters’ hideout."

  "It wasn’t me, it wasn’t—it was me, I secretly trafficked women."

  Standing in the ter of the crowd, Alexia made the criminals kneel and fess their wrongdoings, clearly distinguishing right fr.

  Alexia did not pass judgment on them. After stepping down from the podium, she quietly left the crowd amid their transformed denunciations and approached Li Aozi.

  Li Aozi crossed his arms, the golden glow in his eyes fading.

  He hadn’t even used gravity, yet these people had fessed because of Alexia.

  So this is an 【Inquisitor】... People from the old era may not have mastered the Dao, but they had their own proud path.

  "Thank you."

  Alexia smiled as she held the briefcase in both hands.

  "It looks like you’ve found a reason to keep living," Li Aozi said. "Your eyes have regaiheir light; they look beautiful."

  "Yes." Alexia turned her head and looked at the crowd.

  After fessing their crimes, the followers of the Children of Fire were no longer arrogant. With their misdeeds exposed, they became docile and obedient.

  "The goddess of justice holds both scales and a sword; fairness also requires force to be upheld."

  The 【Inquisitor】 spoke with satisfa:

  "The Yami Liyoko era has ended, but as long as there is injusti the world, people will tio fight."

  "I came with the hopes of the old era, and although this era isn’t perfect, those who yearn for a better world are the same everywhere."

  "Do you want to rebuild the Yami Liyoko Federation?" Li Aozi asked curiously.

  However, Alexia shook her head and said:

  "No, if we failed, it means you have your own path to walk. The era that suits the people of Azure Star must be created by you. Any happiness gained must be fought for; what’s given by others will always belong to others."

  "I like that saying." Li Aozi extended his hand. "Li Aozi, an ordinary superhuman, currently w to overthrow the izers."

  "I’m Alexia," the 【Inquisitor】 said as she took his hand. "A person from the old era, sent as a bride to the future. Acc to the tract, you meet the General Affairs Bureau’s matg standards, meaning you are my fiancé."

  As she spoke, she k on one khe Niobium Alloy in her palm melting and reshaping int.

  "Will you marry me, Mr. Li Aozi?"

  ——She just shook hands to measure my ring size, didn’t she?

  Li Aozi’s eyelid twitched:

  "Holy, I’m not ready to get married yet, and Miss Alexia, isn’t it unusual for a woman to give a man a ring…"

  Pfft—

  His words, however, made Alexia burst into ughter.

  "What are you ughing at?"

  "People of this ter era are so servative."

  Alexia tilted her head pyfully and said:

  "In our time, it was on for women to propose to men."

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