Chapter 70

There was a sense that if they didn't agree on a single word, he would draw his sword.

Kaeya: "Good, here comes the exciting part. Lumine and Su Bai are about to draw swords against each other."

Dainsleif: "This fits Lumine's warlike personality."

Diluc: "One can only say it's no wonder the Traveler wanted by several countries would draw a sword against the Pope in Fontaine?"

Lumine: "You all stop. 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 Shogun of the True Form, the Star-Eating Whale..."

Zhong Li: "She seems to have really said that."

Lumine: "Nonsense. I was drunk and talking nonsense. I have always been a gentle and cute sweet girl."

Aether: "I testify. My sister's gentleness is real, and Su Bai's ability to bewitch people is also real."

Lumine: "Brother, you only need to say the first part. Eat the second part."

Clorinde: "Mr. Su Bai, what are you taking Navia to the Fortress of Meropide for?"

Wriothesley: "I blindly guess that Cares is not dead and is in the Fortress of Meropide."

Navia: "What? My father from the previous life is not dead?"

"The Traveler?"

Su Bai glanced at Lumine.

"Rest assured. How Navia went in, I guarantee she will come out safely."

"You just need to wait quietly."

"Besides, if I personally take her to the Fortress of Meropide and problems arise, won't the spearhead immediately point at me?"

After listening to Su Bai's explanation.

Lumine and Paimon looked at each other and nodded at the same time.

"I actually think what Su Bai said is not wrong."

Paimon analyzed: "In broad daylight, he takes 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 Navia's father, Cares, who had died three years ago.

Cimei Society.

When she saw her father again on the light curtain, the corners of Navia's eyes instantly moistened.

It was indeed as they had guessed.

In the previous life when Su Bai became the Pope of Fontaine, her father Cares was indeed still alive.

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

Amber: "Yes. Even in the previous life, didn't Navia say her father died in a duel with Clorinde?"

Eula: "In the previous life, the Fontaine Duelist Clorinde was Su Bai's subordinate. She must have been ordered to hold back during the duel."

Clorinde: "I guess it should be the same. In the previous life, Uncle Cares must have listened to Mr. Su Bai's idea and acted out a fake death scene with me."

Wriothesley: "Hey, hey, hey. This doesn't seem like a good thing. It is a challenge to Fontaine's justice."

Neuvillette: "Ahem. In the previous life, didn't the Duke order the execution of Du Jiye in the Fortress of Meropide?"

Wriothesley: "That was Clorinde who did it."

Clorinde: "....."

"This..."

Seeing Cares, 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 the father and daughter alone to meet.

"Navia..."

"Father, is it really you?"

Navia, with a crying voice, couldn't believe what was before her eyes.

"What exactly is going on? How did you..."

"Sigh..."

Not having seen his daughter for three years, Cares affectionately touched Navia's head.

When he learned that Navia had run to the Vatican to question Su Bai.

Cares sighed deeply: "Foolish, Navia."

"If the Pope had not given me the idea to fake my death back then and helped me treat my illness."

"Even if I didn't die at Clorinde's hands, I would have died from the disease."

"So your illness..." Navia asked anxiously.

"Only Milleth knows." Cares smiled: "It seems he has been helping me hide it well, and hasn't told you until now."

"By the way, Father."

"What exactly happened back then."

Navia was eager to know the answer.

"Back then..."

"Since you impulsively went to the Pope, I can no longer hide it from you."

Clares recounted the entire sequence of events from that year to Navia.

"You don't know how I felt, watching the murderer of my friend turn into a water stain right before my eyes."

"I was terrified at the time."

"How could a person possibly turn into a water stain?"

"Moreover, at that time, I learned that those people had targeted you and were preparing to strike."

"So I spread the news that I had already uncovered their secrets, and if anything happened to you, I would expose everything about them to the public."

Clares let out a bitter smile: "Actually, I was just bluffing them; I didn't possess any reliable intelligence."

"Therefore, they believed I posed a great threat to them, so they devised a scheme to frame me."

"So when Father sought out His Holiness the Pope, did he tell the Pope that humans could turn into water stains?" Navia pressed.

No wonder everyone was startled by Vahn's death that time, while Su Bai merely furrowed his brow.

I originally thought it was Su Bai's composure due to his high status, but now it seems he actually knew about these matters long ago.

Clorinde: "It seems Mr. Su Bai knew about these things back when he first made contact with Lei Nei and the others."

Wriothesley: "I'm not sure, but Mr. Su Bai must have known about the Fontaine Prophecy centuries ago."

"I had no one I could trust."

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

"I could only tell the Pope, and fortunately, the Pope believed my words; he believed I had been wrongly accused."

"That is why he ordered me to fake my death, and through a series of maneuvers, had me brought to the Fortress of Meropide for temporary safekeeping."

"Then why..." Navia was just about to ask why the Pope did not make this public.

She then remembered that no one would believe humans could turn into water.

Once made public, it would trigger immeasurable panic.

Just like Fontaine now, which appears calm on the surface.

But in reality, dark currents are surging beneath.

Add to that the negligent deity, and when the time comes...

"In the end, the Pope's actions were indeed to protect the Hydro Archon Furina, weren't they?"

Navia's expression was melancholy.

Nowadays, people are in a state of panic, yet the Hydro Archon Furina still appears entirely carefree.

"Sigh, since His Holiness the Pope believes Father was wrongly accused, why didn't he send anyone to capture the true culprit?"

"They haven't caught him?" Clares was stunned: "I told His Holiness the Pope back then that Marcel was most likely the mastermind behind all of this."