The warden who guards the witches.

Talents

The next morning, the doors of the core area opened, and the head of the prison area, Flanda, led several prison guards and a whole team of riot squad members into the corridor of the prison area, shouting a sentence, "Core area, out of work!"

　　As soon as the words fell, the cell doors of the core area opened in turn, and the prisoners came out of their cells one after another, forming two lines on both sides of the corridor.

　　Prisoners in the Rose Iron Prison, as long as they had the ability to work, they were basically required to participate in labour reform on weekdays, even this group of the most difficult to manage magical girls in the core area were no exception.

　　This kind of labour is mandatory, and the prisoners can only get a little bit of relatively meagre pocket money from it, and the extra proceeds will be collected by the prison as funds to maintain the operation of the prison.

　　But even so, the bigwigs in the core area were generally quite cooperative, for one thing, long-term cooperation with the labour reform, and even outstanding performance would help reduce the sentence and raise the treatment level in the prison, and secondly, they wouldn't be willing to offend a certain warden with frequent tactics for this kind of small matter.

　　Flanda walked through the corridor, counting the number of people in turn, as she walked she suddenly frowned.

　　The number of people was low, no one from room thirteen was listed.

　　As a death row inmate soon to be executed, Veronica naturally didn't have to take part in the reformatory, but Faye, who was in the same room as her, was a different story.

　　Flanda came to the door of room thirteen and shouted inside with a black face, "Prisoner 3307, what are you still lying in bed for? Hurry up and get out of work!"

　　Still lying on the iron bed fixed to the wall, wrapping herself into a caterpillar with the quilt, Fier sleepily waved her hand towards Flanda: "I can't do it, Supervisor, I'm still a bit dizzy after being hit the other day, so please allow me to take a sick leave."

　　"Are you kidding me? You got hit the day before yesterday, you were fine yesterday, and today you're not feeling well?" Flanda was so exasperated by this nonsense that she laughed out loud, "No one can take sick leave without the prison doctor's permission! If you keep messing up, I'll have to have the riot squad come over and drag you to work! Hurry up!"

　　Veronica, who had just finished shuffling out of her cubicle, swept a glance at Faye, who was stuck in bed, shook her head, and sat back down on her bunk to read, unconcerned.

　　That's when Aiden's voice came from the other end of the corridor, "Just let her stay."

　　"Warden? How do you ...... "Flanda turned her head in surprise and saw Aiden striding along the corridor from the direction of the gate, and the guards guarding near the gate saluted him.

　　Unlike the usual tragic situation when Aiden came to inspect, this time when Aiden walked along the corridor, the inmates who stood outside the gate all seemed to be very disciplined, and any more out of the ordinary would only be to glare at him with indignation, or whisper curses from their mouths.

　　Those inmates who curse Aiden most fiercely on weekdays are not stupid, they know very well, usually when they stay in the cell how to jump up and down, at most can only be regarded as a violation of discipline, but in this kind of direct physical contact with the guards, as long as you make even a little out of the ordinary action, immediately can be judged as an attack on the guards, by the riot squad iron bar a greeting.

　　Aiden didn't look out for the listed prisoners, pacing and walking to the front of room 13: "Let's let prisoner 3307 stay in the room first, it just so happens that I have something to ask her, Flanda you take the other inmates to work first."

　　"Understood!"

　　Flender obeyed the order without saying a word, commanding the other guards to line up the prisoners who were out of the rows, and then bring them to different labour areas.

　　"Hee hee, it's true that it's still Aiden-sama who cares for me and knows to let me sleep a little longer!" Fei'er, who was lying on the bed, also playfully greeted Aiden.

　　"Heartbroken you my arse!" Aiden disliked back nonchalantly, "I'm just looking for you to ask you a question, answer my question and get the hell out of here and get to work!"

　　"Eh... don't!" Faye protested in a long drawn out voice.

　　"Any more nonsense and I'll put you on extra overtime." Aiden picked up without hesitation, silencing Faye instantly.

　　"Warden." Veronica put the book she was holding down as soon as she saw Aiden appear in the doorway, "Is that ...... any news?"

　　She tried very hard to make her expression and voice seem calm, but the look in her eyes still betrayed her thoughts.

　　Aiden couldn't help but sigh when he saw her like this, "Although I can I understand your feelings la, I have to give you a precaution first, don't expect too much. After all, in terms of process, your case is already considered to be closed when you were sentenced to death, it's not that easy to overturn the case."

　　"This ...... I know it myself." Veronica lowered her eyes.

　　"Let's start by gathering as many clues as we can, and it just so happens that I have something to confirm with you." Aiden stepped to the point, "Let me ask you, that Bruce kid, does he have any lovers or girls he's chasing or anything like that?"

　　"No lovers, but he did try to pursue a girl, a watchgirl at a tavern in the lower city, but it never went well." Veronica thought back.

　　"Oh? How did that not go well?" Aiden raised a little interest.

　　"The girl, she's quite materialistic, I used to see her on patrol dating richer looking men, several times, and changing at least three dates. Every time Bruce tried to ask her out, she pushed him off, I did try to talk him out of it, but I'm not sure he listened."

　　"I see, looks like that boy did get rich ......," Aiden whispered as he rubbed his chin, "but still a dead lick."

　　"Excuse me, this matter, does it have anything to do with the case?" Veronica asked cautiously.

　　"It does, you've provided a valuable clue." Aiden smiled and nodded, then turned to Faye, "Faye, I have something to ask you as well, I remember that you used to run a shop in Fireworks Lane right?"

　　"Yeah."

　　"Did you have a good face there?"

　　"Just kidding, I was the Queen of the Night at Firework Alley, if my shop dares to say that its performance is only ranked second, no one dares to say first!" Fei'er suddenly had a jolt of spirit, sat up and patted her thighs and bragged.

　　"You're a pimp and you still have a sense of superiority, right?" Aiden was infuriated and amused by this girl, "Alright, alright, then do you know a shop called 'Midnight Rose'?"

　　"Give me a second! Would you rather go to one of those expensive and rubbish shops than me?" Faye huffed and jumped up from the bed, "When I was doing business across the street from that shitty shop they couldn't even pull in a single sale a night, if it wasn't for the fact that my shop was closed later they would have gone bankrupt long ago!"

　　"Don't be ridiculous, don't be ridiculous, look at the way Veronica is looking at me all cold!" Aiden hurriedly set himself straight, "I was there to investigate!"

　　As a result, this time not only Veronica, even Fei'er showed a few disillusioned looks to him, "Lord Aiden, your excuse ...... is really a bit out of hand."

　　"I, say, recognise, true!" Aiden emphasised word for word and knocked on the iron bars, "The two people I want to investigate went into this nightclub yesterday for a secret talk, so I want to go over and inquire!"

　　"That's hard, isn't it, those kinds of shops don't just reveal the privacy of their customers, and it's not like you have investigative powers, Aiden-sama." Faye blinked twice.

　　"That's why I asked if you have any contacts!"

　　"Oh, that's easy." Fei'er suddenly raised her hand in an unusually bold manner, "Give me paper and a pen! I'll write a letter of introduction for you and sign it, guaranteeing that the people over there will listen to you once they read it."

　　"You have such a big face?" Aiden was a little surprised.

　　"I'll threaten them that if they don't listen to you, when I get out of jail I'll bring people to specifically stare at their shops to crowd them out, robbing them of all their customers, so that they can only kneel and beg for food outside of Smoke Flower Alley!" Fei'er showed her teeth and revealed a sinister smile.

　　"It can be, I didn't think you could actually come in handy one day." Aiden nodded with an appreciative face.

　　"Then ...... can people who come in handy get a small reward?" Faye winked one eye at Aiden.

　　"I can let you off the hook for your grinding today." Aiden thought for a moment, "If this letter of introduction actually works, I can turn around and give you a step up in treatment level."

　　"Yeah, feel free to leave it to me!" Faye suddenly shook her fist in dry energy.

　　Veronica looked back and forth at the two with an astonished expression, not knowing what to say.

　　This prison, it was really full of talents.