"I'm afraid there's more than that." Raven narrowed his eyes and stared at the man who called himself Kirk Keller.
"Mr. Kirk, in addition to kidnapping extraordinary pets, you also committed a more important crime, assaulting a police officer. You haven't forgotten that, have you?" Raven knocked on the table with his knuckles. "And when you attacked the police officer, you tore open a magic scroll..."
"Where did the scroll come from?" Raven's eyes became sharp.
Magic scrolls are military items that are strictly controlled by the city of Weimar. The random use of magic scrolls is like a wizard casting spells at will in the city, which is an illegal act. Therefore, magic scrolls are neither sold to civilians nor allowed to be used in the city.
In this case, those who can get the magic scrolls are usually organized criminal organizations.
Kirk was silent.
"Mr. Kirk, it will do you no good to keep silent. You have already committed multiple crimes, including abducting supernatural beings, assaulting police officers, and illegally possessing magic scrolls. It is best for you to confess and seek leniency." Raven sat on the chair behind him, crossed his arms, and waited for Kirk to confess. "I suggest you start from the time you committed the crime this morning. That colorful lizard is not just something you happened to run into, right?"
"Ha, you know it so clearly, why are you asking me?" Kirk sneered, turned his head away and did not communicate with Raven.
"I don't want to waste so much time with you. Finish your questions early and leave work early. If you don't say anything, you will go to jail for the rest of your life. What does it have to do with me? My mission is accomplished after catching you. If you don't want to say anything, forget it. Let's go." Raven called his subordinates, and the two of them pretended to leave the interrogation room.
"Hey! Wait! I'm telling you!" Seeing that Raven really didn't seem to care, Kirk became a little anxious and hurriedly called out to Raven.
Raven saw Kirk soften and sat back down in his chair, "Well, go ahead."
Kirk hesitated for a moment and asked, "Officer, could you please not say that I exposed this information?"
Raven looked at his subordinate and nodded slightly.
It looks like we've caught a big fish.
"Don't worry, we will 100% guarantee the safety of the tainted witness, in the name of the Sage Council." Raven said, "The more you confess, the more meritorious service you will perform, and the less prison sentence you will serve. It is not impossible for you to be given a three-year suspended sentence for good behavior and not have to serve any prison sentence."
"Okay, let me tell you..." Kirk seemed to have finally made up his mind and told all his criminal experiences and facts.
Kirk is a local idler in Weimar City, who usually makes a living by doing odd jobs. Then one day, a partner of his who was doing odd jobs invited him to "do a big job" together. They joined forces to use alchemical drugs to stun the extraordinary dog of a wealthy family and handed him over to a mysterious organization.
They didn't know what this organization wanted to do by collecting living supernatural creatures, but they knew that the rewards they offered were very generous, and that they would provide many tools and materials to facilitate their crimes, such as alchemical potions, magic scrolls, enchanted weapons, etc., which could be exchanged for gold coins.
Kirk and his partners started a business of kidnapping supernatural beings.
Later, they set their sights on Krista's colorful lizard.
They bought incense through the organization's channels that would drive the colorful lizards crazy but that humans could not smell. They released it in the morning to lure the colorful lizards out and then captured them.
However, an accident occurred during the capture process. Their cage scratched the colorful lizard, causing it to wake up and cast an illusion on them.
However, they had prepared the "Shield Spell" magic scroll in advance, and used the force field shield to deflect the magic released by the colorful lizard, thus successfully capturing it.
After catching it, they decided to temporarily keep the colorful lizard at Kirk's house and sell it to the organization tonight.
Unexpectedly, before the sun set, Raven came to the door.
Raven read the transcript.
Hey, this time it's really like after going through so many twists and turns that you think there's no way out, but suddenly there's a new village ahead.
With this confession, the lizard can escape death.
This is quite a tortuous story... Because a criminal organization abducted a supernatural being, it led to a case of manslaughter...
However, how the case is judged is the court's business, and the guards' mission is to send them to the court, so Raven doesn't care too much about this.
Raven was more concerned about the information of the organization than the trial outcome of the case.
"Tell me everything you know about that organization." Raven gave his subordinate a look, indicating that he should take complete notes.
The subordinate responded with a knowing look.
"Okay... that organization calls itself 'The Vegetable Market'..." Kirk said as Raven and the others took notes.
Half an hour later.
"Sheriff, that's all I know..."
Raven nodded and turned to look at his subordinates: "Have you memorized everything?"
The subordinate nodded: "Sir, I've written it all down."
"Just make a note of it. Upload the information to the headquarters and wait for instructions from the headquarters. Have Team One and Team Two take turns to keep an eye on the target location. Watch from a distance and don't alert the enemy. Mainly scout the enemy's general armed strength and deployment. I will go to investigate with Sheriff Ellie when she goes to work tomorrow. By the way, arrest Kirk's accomplice. He is the one who used the shield spell. He will be held responsible for manslaughter. You lead Team Three in person."
Raven skillfully arranged a series of instructions and snapped his fingers crisply.
"I'm done with work and off duty!"
…
Krista was waiting anxiously in the reception room. When she saw Raven coming, she stepped forward and asked hopefully, "Sheriff Raven? What's the result? Can it prove that Capa is not the murderer?"
Raven smiled at Kriska and said, "The suspect has confessed. His accomplice used shield magic to deflect the illusion magic cast by your lizard, causing manslaughter. Your Kappa will not be judged as out of control and sent to execution."
Kriska breathed a sigh of relief: "Thank you! Thank you! Sheriff Raven! Not only did you help me find Capa, you also helped me clear Capa's suspicion. Thank you so much!"
Raven waved his hand and said, "You're welcome! This is what our guards are supposed to do. If you want to send a silk banner, one is enough. There's no need for anything else."
Kriska's eyes lit up: "Yes! A banner! I'll go back and ask someone to order it! Thank you and the police officers of the East Fourth Detachment very much! Goodbye, Sheriff Raven!" After saying that, Kriska hurried out with her lizard.
"Hey! What a gift! Run slower! Be careful not to lose the lizard again!" Raven didn't have time to stop her before Krista ran away.
Okay, if I really send you a banner, it will be a political achievement that I can show off.
"I've worked overtime for too long today. It's time to go back to bed." Raven stretched, yawned, and walked towards the bedroom.
Halfway through the walk, Raven suddenly remembered something.
"Oh yes, the owner of the watermelon stand is still in the detention center. Let him out first."
Amidst the boss's profuse thanks, Raven returned to the office.
It wasn't that he didn't want to sleep, but letting his boss go reminded him that he still had tons of reporting work to do.
I get a headache just thinking about all this paperwork, but I have to do it.
After writing down the circumstances of several recent cases, Raven felt more and more that the recent situation in Weimar City was very delicate.
"First, there was a spy organization from another country that assassinated the guards, then there was a new type of hallucinogenic drug, the Church of Vakiris, and now there is a 'vegetable market'..."
Although it is the city with the strictest public security in the entire continent, Weimar is like a sieve, infiltrated by various criminal organizations, and various new types of crimes have emerged in Weimar.
There are even some things that have no clear legal restrictions. For example, the abduction of owned supernatural beings in the vegetable market can only be convicted of plundering other people's property in Weimar City. There is no law specifically applicable to this criminal activity.
"Being a guard in Weimar City is quite fulfilling..." Raven laughed at himself, shook his head, and put away the case report he had just written.
Although it is tiring, hard and dangerous, and perhaps Raven would not have chosen to join the Guards at the beginning, after meeting Ellie, Vera, Monica, Frey and the others, witnessing the free trade atmosphere of Weimar City, and seeing people's love for the Guards while on patrol, Raven no longer wants to leave the Guards.
There's always someone who has to do something.
…
The next morning, Raven came to the office and saw Ellie already sitting in the office.
"Good morning, sir. How was your rest?" Raven greeted Ellie, sat in his seat, made a cup of coffee and started drinking it.
"You're full of energy now. I heard you caught a big fish yesterday?" Ellie stared at Raven with her eyes flashing.
Raven nodded. "Ah, yes. Yesterday it was originally a homicide, but it turned out to be manslaughter. In the end, it also involved a criminal organization that abducted supernatural beings for unknown purposes. The report is there. You will know after you take a look."
Ellie smiled slightly: "I have read the report. You wrote it very skillfully. Even I can't write much better than you."
It's you, Sheriff, whose writing skills are so poor...
But Raven naturally didn't say anything more and agreed casually: "Haha, it's because of your teaching, Sheriff. By the way, I plan to go to that 'vegetable market' with you today to check it out. Is that okay with you?"
Ellie naturally knew what the problem Raven was talking about, nodded and said, "No problem, I've rested for a whole day, both my energy and injuries have recovered completely. Quick recovery from injuries is also a characteristic of me." Ellie blinked her left eye playfully. Obviously this "characteristic" came from her wolf blood mark.
"Okay, since you have no problem, sir, let's wait for the second team that is currently following us to pass on the news. Then we will put on civilian clothes, pretend to be supernatural creature dealers, and go to the 'vegetable market' for a while."