Back To The Land Of The Living

NINE MONTHS LATER

‘I told you. They are too sleek to be pushed into admission.’

That was the response he had received from Vatican Sol, when he let him know what had become of the testimony he had filed, on Eren's attack.

The Khans, like every other allegation, had rushed it aside as though it were a pesky fly. Well, in some ways it was.

Those people... They seemed to have over them and their image, a bulletproof of sorts.

And for every witness they could create ten alibis, right there on the spot.

At least, Silas thought, the publicity had been useful in some way.

But the outcome told him, as it did tell Sol, that their years of investigation would be worthless without some vice-like, undeniable grip on the perpetrators.

That way it would be acknowledged, just as it was already long-known, that they deserved what was hopefully coming.

And again, Vatican Sol had thought the same exact way.

‘I think the kid is the key,’ The professor could recall him saying.