The warden who guards the witches.

anonymous letters

　　"Fighting over sharing a little snack, interesting? Wouldn't it be better to split it honestly and equally? What do you think this place is?" Veronica clasped her hands and glared back and forth at the two girls in front of her, "This is a prison, not a daycare centre! Behave yourselves, and the next time you do, you'll be in the brig, do you understand?"

　　"Understood." The two girls who looked similar - the Twin Slayers who had been thrown into prison by Merukino - replied in unison.

　　In the face of Veronica, they seemed unusually honest.

　　The reason for this was still because they had been severely beaten up by Veronica before when they made trouble under the instructions of Meru Jino.

　　"Go back to your rooms!!!" Veronica pointed towards the cell behind them.

　　The sisters entered the room with their heads bowed and Veronica closed and locked the door with a flourish.

　　"Gee thanks to you." Isabella, the prison guard who was on duty in the cell block, came over to thank her, "These two bear children, I couldn't tell them to stop at all."

　　Ordinary prison areas were fine, when they encountered inmates from the core area fighting in their cells, the monitoring guards could only call the riot squad to deal with it besides warning them.

　　"I've also never thought of being a prison guard and having to bring up children." Veronica sighed back.

　　"It's good in a way though, it feels like they're more or less like normal kids."

　　When they were first locked up, the sisters under the control of Merukino gave the impression of being sadness-less dolls.

　　Afterwards, Aiden ordered them to be completely separated from Merukinu, cutting off Merukinu's influence on them, and letting them undergo indoctrination with the other juvenile delinquents.

　　Veronica still had more confidence in Aiden's methods, the sisters' situation wasn't as complicated as Evantha's, and in time, they still had a chance to return to normalcy.

　　"Patrol is over, I'll go report to the warden first."

　　Veronica and Isabella said their goodbyes and left the Core to head to Aiden's office.

　　"...... worked hard for you."

　　After listening to Veronica's daily report, Aiden returned flatly while examining the case file in his hand.

　　He had been looking at the case file over and over again since Veronica came in.

　　Seeing that her boss was busy, Veronica did not bother him any more and turned around, ready to exit the office.

　　But at this time Aiden called out to her, "Veronica, when you used to be a mounted police officer, did you know anything about the Old Town gangs?"

　　"It's kinda ...... okay." Veronica turned around, a little surprised that Aiden suddenly brought up this topic, "I used to be in charge of some related cases."

　　The category of cases that the mounted police were responsible for was dominated by large-scale violence, cult groups and demonstrators who gathered illegally, horse thieves who looted in the suburbs, and urban gangs, all of which were common opponents of the mounted police team.

　　Veronica swept a glance at the number on top of the case file folder on the table and suddenly understood a few things, "Are you looking at Carmilla's case file?"

　　"Yes."

　　"Do you suspect her case is suspicious?" Veronica looked puzzled.

　　When she was wrongfully imprisoned at that time, Aiden had also repeatedly reviewed her case file before judging that there were suspicions in her case before he started to work on helping her investigate and finally helped her overturn her case.

　　"I was trying to find out what suspicions there were, but I couldn't see them for a while." Aiden put down the case file in his hand.

　　Investigating violent crimes related to gangs was not his speciality in the art, he was a prison guard specialising in controlling inmates, and the original owner of this body also specialised in investigating fae crimes, and although he had a partial understanding of g**g crimes it wasn't exactly in-depth, and there was nothing in his inherited memories that he could draw on.

　　"Why is this just now suddenly ......" Veronica blinked in confusion.

　　Carmilla's case had happened a year ago, and it was a bit of a stretch to pull out her case file and revisit it after a year.

　　"An anonymous letter arrived in my mailbox this morning." Aiden flipped a letter off his desk, "The person who wrote it said they were going to tell me the truth about Carmilla's case."

　　Veronica took the letter and pulled it out to read it, the writing on it was a little crooked and different sized, obviously a deliberate attempt by the letter writer to hide his usual handwriting, but tentatively the content was recognisable.

　　The letter told from the perspective of the person concerned about a g**g fight that happened a year ago at the abandoned pier in the old city, where the Skull and Bones g**g and the Blood Hands g**g went to war over turf.

　　During the fight, Bailey, a teenager from the Skull and Bones g**g, was knocked down by Carmela, a cadre of the Bloodhands g**g, and then the mounted police suddenly arrived, and the gangsters fled in all directions - these circumstances are not very different from those written in Carmela's case file, and the teenager who was beaten by Carmela fled the scene and died of traumatic shock, and was found by a garbage collector in the early hours of the next morning. He was found in the early hours of the next morning by a homeless man picking up rubbish.

　　That teenager is the son of Silk Rhine, the ghoul who is now imprisoned in the core of the Rosebud Iron Prison.

　　The problem lies in the second half of the letter, which states some details not found in the case file: Bailey hadn't actually shown any major injuries when he fled the scene, and then returned to the Skeleton g**g's stronghold, where he was praised by the cadres for his positive behaviour in the brawl, and then left alone.

　　Then the next day, Bailey died in that alleyway in a bizarre manner.

　　"Do you have a clue as to where this letter came from?" Veronica asked towards Aiden after reading the letter.

　　The letter was rather suspicious in many places, anonymous and with the handwriting blurred out, it could be said to be completely of unknown origin.

　　The timing of its appearance was also bizarre - it appeared only after a whole year had passed since the case, and it didn't appear in the hands of the police or the prosecutor's office in charge of investigating the case, but surprisingly, it was sent to the warden who was in charge of the prison.

　　If there were no other unforeseen circumstances, the odds were that such an inexplicable letter would only go into the trash, but Aiden was now seriously re-examining Carmilla's case file.

　　All Veronica could guess as a possibility was that Aiden had a clue as to the source of the letter.

　　"Well, I can probably figure out who sent the letter." Aiden nodded.

　　What came to his mind was the gangster boy he had seen in the meeting room yesterday.

　　The way the kid was trying to speak he remembered clearly, and the perspective the letter told was perfectly in line with the teenager's identity.

　　I'm afraid that given his position, it would take a considerable degree of determination to try to expose what's going on inside the g**g.

　　Aiden had only informed him of Silk Rein's recent situation yesterday, and knew that Silk Rein was still unaware of his son's murderer despite the fact that his days were numbered - this might have been the reason why he had decided to send this letter to the prison.

　　In that case, it does explain the origin of the correspondence.

　　"...... Veronica, what do you think?"

　　After briefly telling Veronica about yesterday's events, Aiden solicited Veronica's opinion.

　　"From my previous experience in handling cases, it seems that this kind of thing is not impossible." Veronica pondered for a moment, "But for the details, I think it's better to ask the person himself."