Bull Head groaned, lowering his head even further. Seeing there is no point hiding anything, he resumed. "M-my Lord Sentinel, we were desperate! Souls escaped Hell—many souls! That is the truth, and it happened under our watch! If we couldn't bring them back, the punishment would have been…" He shivered. "Unimaginable."
Horse Head nodded frantically. "Y-yes! So we… We came up with a desperate plan! We…We faked judgments!"
"Fake Judgement? What?" Lu Sheng's voice rose with disbelief.
"Yes! We tricked souls like you into believing they were doomed to hellfire unless they served us. You were not the first, My Lord! But every other soul we sent found a way and escaped eventually. They found ways to break free from our watch!"
Bull Head's voice broke in. "That's why we chose you, My Lord. You looked… harmless. We thought you'd stay under our control forever, searching for those escaped souls."
