“Which inmate are you here to visit?”
“Patricia. The one who was brought in a couple of days ago.”
“What’s your relationship with her?”
In front of the officer, Su Fan answered the questions smoothly, his expression perfectly calm.
There weren’t many criminals in this area, and even fewer women.
The officer remembered Patricia quite well.
This woman was suspected of drowning her own children, but at the time of their deaths, she had been in custody with a solid alibi.
She was set to be released this afternoon.
The officer didn’t have much interest in paying further attention to someone like her. After asking a few casual questions, he let Su Fan go in.
Patricia looked haggard as she sat in the chair, her eyes unfocused, as if her mind were wandering far away.
When she heard someone had come to visit, a strange, eerie smile appeared at the corner of her mouth.
But upon seeing that it wasn’t Anna walking through the door, Patricia reverted to her previous expressionless state.
“I’m guessing you’re disappointed. You were hoping it would be Anna coming to see you, weren’t you?”
The dark-haired young man sat down across from her and spoke her thoughts aloud the moment he opened his mouth.
Patricia remained silent, like a doll.
“It’s fine if you don’t talk. I can roughly guess what’s going on just by thinking about it.”
Su Fan spoke in a calm, flat tone.
“You think Anna conspired with the police to take you away, and that they pulled your two sons out of the cabinet, which led to Eurona finding them.”
“You think Anna is the reason your children died, so you used your own means to make Anna’s two children become Eurona’s targets.”
“Just so Anna could also suffer the pain of losing her children.”
Hearing this, Patricia’s body trembled.
“I looked through the records. Anna, as a member of the community’s child protection services, had always been responsible for looking after your two children.”
“She helped you a lot, openly and behind the scenes. And this is how you repay her?”
Su Fan’s words ignited a fire of rage within Patricia.
She could no longer maintain her previous composure. Slamming her handcuffed hands on the table, her face twisted with fury as she roared,
“If it weren’t for her, my children wouldn’t have died! What do you know?! Shut your stinking mouth!”
The woman before him was extremely agitated. In contrast, Su Fan remained calm throughout.
“Who is the murderer that killed your children?”
Su Fan’s unexpected question made Patricia freeze instinctively.
“Eurona…”
“Who usually helped you?”
“…Anna.”
“Who is your enemy?”
“Eurona…”
“And who are you taking revenge on right now?”
As Su Fan asked his questions, Patricia’s already haggard face turned completely pale.
“Can’t answer?”
Su Fan’s calm voice was now like needles, piercing directly into Patricia’s chest.
“…”
“Anna inadvertently caused the death of your two children. That was her fault. It’s perfectly reasonable for you to want revenge on her.”
“But praying to Eurona, the one who murdered your children, and asking her to kill Anna’s kids instead… heh.”
Su Fan didn’t finish the sentence, but that soft laugh said it all.
“I know, you were probably planning to wait until you got out, then sneak into Anna’s house and offer those two children to Eurona…”
“Are you here to warn me?”
Patricia’s voice trembled, but she got a completely different answer from Su Fan than she expected.
“I’m here to encourage you.”
She looked up and saw the chilling smile on Su Fan’s lips.
“Go ahead. No one’s stopping you. Don’t worry about it.”
“You…”
Patricia was shocked and uncertain. She looked at Su Fan and shuddered.
Without saying anything more, the latter stood up and left.
Leaving Patricia alone, sitting dazed in the visiting room.
——
Leaving the detention center, Su Fan prepared to return to Anna’s house.
His purpose for coming here was to see if Patricia had been worshipping the evil spirit or performing some kind of dark ritual.
If so, he would eliminate her on the spot.
Getting involved with evil spirits gradually distorts one’s mind, and nothing good ever comes of it.
However, after meeting her, Su Fan abandoned that idea.
She was just a poor, mentally unstable woman who had lost her children.
But blinded by hatred, she had lost her ability to think logically.
By order of priority, she should first find a way to kill Eurona, the murderer of her children, and then settle scores with Anna.
Not use the power of the very evil spirit that killed her own children, making it even stronger in the process.
Su Fan didn’t care about the feud between Anna and Patricia, but at the very least, Anna couldn’t die at the hands of the evil spirit Eurona.
Otherwise, Su Fan would have broken his promise.
The purpose of this trip to the detention center was to wake Patricia up and stop her from walking to her own doom.
He had said what needed to be said. If she insisted on remaining delusional and joining forces with the evil spirit, then Su Fan would simply have to take action when the time came.
Before long, Su Fan returned to Anna’s house.
Before he even went inside, he saw a car parked at the entrance.
Seeing this, Su Fan frowned.
As he continued through the doorway, he indeed saw a stranger walking back and forth inside the house.
The man looked to be in his fifties, with short hair, a bit overweight, and had darker skin.
He was currently holding an egg and running it over the furniture in the room.
“Mr. Su…”
Anna came over to greet Su Fan when she saw him return.
“Where did you go just now? Why did you disappear all of a sudden?”
“To deal with some things… Who is he?”
After a casual reply, Su Fan asked his own question.
“He’s a folk healer recommended by Father Andrew. His name is Raphael…”
Anna explained.
Raphael?
That’s a pretty audacious name.
Just casually taking the same name as an archangel. Why didn’t he just call himself Lucifer?
“I invited him here to assist with the exorcism…”
“Did you tell him you already hired me?”
“Ah? No…”
Seeing the guilty look in Anna’s eyes, Su Fan could pretty much guess what she was thinking.
From the time he accepted the commission until now, Su Fan hadn’t shown any real ability.
He had talked a lot but refused to remove the curse.
And then he suddenly left, which gave Anna the idea of inviting someone else.
“I didn’t mention you, but I’ll help mediate between you two. More hands make light work, right?”
Seeming to sense something was wrong, Anna quickly tried to smooth things over.
Su Fan wasn’t angry. Instead, he cracked a slight smile.
“Don’t worry. From now on, Mr. Raphael will be in charge of everything.”
“Mr. Su, but…”
Hearing that Su Fan was about to wash his hands of the matter, Anna immediately tried to persuade him, but Su Fan cut her off.
“In the field of exorcism, hiring one professional and then hiring another shows a lack of trust in the exorcist’s ability. It’s a major taboo in the industry.”
“I haven’t left immediately out of respect for you, Ms. Anna.”
“Don’t make me change my mind.”
Hearing this, Anna had to abandon the idea of continuing to persuade him.
Just then, Raphael finally stopped what he was doing.
He looked over at Su Fan, then at Anna, and an understanding expression appeared on his face.
“Ms. Anna, what you’ve done is not right.”
Raphael walked over and said patiently.
