Chapter 52

【It felt like she would draw her blade if things went wrong.】

Kaeya: "Good, the exciting part is here. Lumine is about to draw her blade against Su Bai."

Tartaglia: "This fits Lumine’s warlike personality."

Diluc: "Can only say, as expected of a Traveler wanted by several nations, drawing a sword against the Pope in Fontaine?"

Lumine: "You guys stop right there. What do you mean this fits my warlike personality? I’m not warlike at all."

Venti: "But Lumine clearly said she fought Dvalin, Osial, the Raiden Shogun, the Shouki no Kami, the Narwhal..."

Consultant Zhongli: "She seems to have really said that."

Lumine: "Nonsense, that was me talking nonsense after drinking too much. I have always been a gentle and cute sweet girl."

Aether: "I can testify. My sister being gentle is true, and Su Bai bewitching people is also true."

Lumine: "Brother, you only need to say the first half. You can eat the second half."

Clorinde: "What is Mr. Su Bai taking Navia to the Fortress of Meropide for?"

Wriothesley: "Blind guess, Callas probably didn't die and is in the Fortress of Meropide."

Navia: "What, my father in the past life didn't die?"

【"Traveler?"】

【Su Bai glanced at Lumine.】

【"Rest assured, I guarantee Navia will come out safe and sound, just as she went in."】

【"You just need to wait quietly."】

【"Besides, if I take her to the Fortress of Meropide personally and something goes wrong, wouldn't the finger of blame point directly at me?"】

【After hearing Su Bai’s explanation,】

【Lumine and Paimon looked at each other and nodded simultaneously.】

【"I actually think what Su Bai said is correct."】

【Paimon analyzed: "In broad daylight, he’s taking Navia to the Fortress of Meropide. If Navia doesn't come out, people will definitely talk."】

【"The Pope shouldn't be a fool."】

【Paimon and Lumine followed Su Bai to the entrance of the Fortress of Meropide.】

【The two were asked to wait at the entrance.】

【Su Bai and Clorinde took Navia into the Fortress of Meropide.】

【After passing Wriothesley’s office, they arrived at a secret room that could be considered tidy.】

【The person living inside was none other than Navia’s father, Callas, who had died three years ago.】

Spina di Rosula.

When she saw her father again from the light screen, Navia’s eyes instantly moistened.

It was indeed as they had guessed.

In the past life when Su Bai took office as the Fontaine Pope, her father Callas was really still alive.

Paimon: "This... what is going on?"

Amber: "That's right, even in the past life, didn't Navia say her father died in a duel with Clorinde?"

Eula: "The Fontaine Duelist Clorinde of the past life was Su Bai’s subordinate; she must have been ordered to hold back in the duel."

Clorinde: "I guess that must be it. Callas must have listened to Mr. Su Bai’s idea and staged a fake death with me."

Wriothesley: "Hey, hey, hey, this doesn't seem like a good thing. This is challenging the justice of Fontaine."

Neuvillette: "Ahem, the Duke of the past life was also ordered to execute Dujier in the Fortress of Meropide."

Wriothesley: "That was Clorinde’s doing."

Clorinde: "....."

【"This..."】

【Seeing Callas, who had been dead for three years, Navia couldn't believe her eyes for a moment.】

【Su Bai signaled Clorinde and Wriothesley to leave, leaving time for the father and daughter to meet alone.】

【"Navia..."】

【"Father, is it really you?"】

【Navia said with a sobbing voice, unable to believe everything before her.】

【"What is going on, how did you..."】

【"Sigh..."】

【Not having seen his daughter for three years, Callas stroked Navia’s head kindly.】

【Upon learning that Navia had run to the Church to question Su Bai,】

【Callas sighed deeply: "You were foolish, Navia."】

【"If the Pope hadn't given me the idea to fake my death back then and helped me with treatment,"】

【"even if I hadn't died at Clorinde’s hands, I would have died of illness."】

【"So the matter of you being sick..." Navia asked anxiously.】

【"Only Melus knew." Callas smiled: "It seems he kept it well hidden for me and hasn't told you until now."】

【"By the way, Father."】

【"What happened back then?"】

【Navia urgently wanted to know the answer.】

【"Back then..."】

【"Since you have impulsively found your way to the Pope, I can't hide it from you anymore."】

【Callas told Navia the whole story of the case back then.】

【"You don't know how I felt when I watched the murderer of my friend turn into a puddle of water."】

【"I was terrified at the time."】

【"How could a person turn into a puddle of water?"】

【"And at that time, I learned that those people had targeted you and were preparing to make a move."】

【"I released news that I had mastered their secrets, and once something happened to you, I would make their affairs public."】

【Callas smiled bitterly: "Actually, I was just scaring them. I didn't have any reliable intelligence."】

【"Therefore, they thought I was a big threat to them, so they framed me."】

【"So Father sought out the Pope to tell him that humans could turn into water?" Navia asked.】

【No wonder everyone was shocked by Vaughn’s death, except for Su Bai, who only frowned slightly.】

【Originally, she thought it was Su Bai’s composure from his high position; now it seems he had known about these things all along.】

Clorinde: "It seems Mr. Su Bai knew about these things as early as when he was in contact with Rene and the others."

Wriothesley: "Not sure, but Mr. Su Bai should have known about the Fontaine prophecy hundreds of years ago."

【"I had no one I could trust."】

【"Because no one would believe that humans could suddenly turn into water."】

【"I could only tell the Pope. Fortunately, the Pope believed my words; he believed I was framed."】

【"That’s why he ordered me to fake my death, and through a series of methods, brought me to the Fortress of Meropide to be placed temporarily."】

【"Then why..." Navia just wanted to ask why the Pope didn't make this public.】

【Only then did she remember that no one would believe humans could turn into water.】

【Once made public, it would trigger immeasurable panic.】

【Just like Fontaine now, it looks calm on the surface.】

【But in reality, there are undercurrents.】

【Plus that inactive Archon, when the time comes...】

【"So in the end, the Pope was still trying to protect the Hydro Archon Furina?"】

【Navia’s face was melancholy.】

【Nowadays, people are panicking, yet the Hydro Archon Furina still has a leisurely appearance.】

【"Sigh, since the Pope believed Father was innocent, why didn't he send people to capture the real murderer?"】

【"Didn't capture them?" Callas was stunned: "I told the Pope back then that Marcel was highly likely the mastermind behind all this."】