The second floor of Lichtenstein Castle.

As night fell, the corridor seemed to blend into the darkness, the only light coming from a row of old chandeliers hanging in the middle of the corridor.

Outside the windows on both sides of the corridor, shrouded in dim mist, the castle's trees and the distant cliffs seemed to vanish into the shadows.

Now, the young master of the Canberra Kingdom's merchant guild, along with the brother and sister guards, and Frey who had returned, were preparing to receive the Count on the first floor.

But before the arrival of the vampire Count Palocas, the others had an important task—

That was to convert the captured priestess of the Rebirth Church and obtain complete information about this Shadow World from her.

Lan Qi said that he was not good at interrogation work, that he had always been soft-hearted and could not bear to see others suffer.

The three clergymen, although they had fought against cultists for many years, had never conducted an interrogation.

Generally speaking, it was difficult enough to defeat these strange and unpredictable cultists, let alone capture them alive.

Even if they were caught, these clergymen were not allowed to interrogate the cultists privately, because there had been cases where deep interaction with cultists led to their own unwitting corruption.

However, thanks to the professional legal guidance provided by the lawyer, any captured Rebirth Church members in the Shadow World could be freely interrogated, as long as their own safety was guaranteed!

So, to make up for the three clergymen's lack of professional skills, Lan Qi also invited an expert to guide them.

…

Outside bedroom 202, where the captured priestess of the Rebirth Church was being held.

"The Executioner is responsible for inflicting pain, the Priest is responsible for healing, and the Paladin is responsible for repentance. Don't ask anything, just gag her mouth and practice on her for an hour. No matter what she says, don't stop. Then I'll come and question her myself."

A girl's clear, bright voice echoed in the corridor, her gray hair shimmering in the faint light, like the brightest star in the night sky.

The Poet of Great Love stood in the center of the corridor, behind her a historic mural that seemed to tell an ancient and mysterious story.

"Why... why such torture?"

The three clergymen couldn't help but ask, perplexed and troubled.

If you inflict torture without asking questions, isn't that just pure torment?

Although the Poet of Great Love was a demon-type summon, since she was the training teacher assigned by the lawyer, she must be an expert.

Even if the Poet of Great Love was not a summon but a true demon, the clergymen of the Church of the Goddess of Destiny would treat her the same, as there had been demon priests in history.

"You underestimate the elite members of the Rebirth Church. She must have undergone professional anti-interrogation training. To deal with such prisoners, interrogation generally requires a process, long or short, before the prisoner is willing to confess."

The Poet of Great Love sighed and sat directly on the windowsill, explaining to the three clergymen. She was like a goddess in a painting, elegant and dignified, full of a charm that was hard to distinguish between angel and demon.

"I call this long process 'the prisoner's coyness.'"

"So, since the prisoner will remain tight-lipped for a while, it doesn't matter if we gag the prisoner's mouth first."

"Interrogating while questioning is an inefficient interrogation method. It only makes the prisoner feel that they still have bargaining chips and room for negotiation."

"As the interrogator, we must make the prisoner understand a truth—that information is irrelevant, whether she speaks or not, heavy punishment is certain. She has no dignity or value in front of us!"

"And you must remember one thing, what a first-class interrogator really needs to give the prisoner is not pain, but fear..."

"..."

Listening to the Poet of Great Love's guidance, the three clergymen's eyes were filled with entanglement and worry.

"But, Miss Lan Fu, is this really something we clergymen should do?"

The priest couldn't help but ask after listening to the Poet of Great Love's guidance.

Although they could all understand the Poet of Great Love's teachings and found them quite reasonable, considering that they were clergymen of a church on the side of order and goodness, they were worried that learning such forbidden interrogation theories would violate their religious doctrines.

The more they listened to the Poet of Great Love's voice, the more clearly they felt their minds wavering, and the more afraid they were of going astray.

"Gods are inherently cruel. They cannot interfere in the world, but they kill one person through the hand of another."

Seeing the three clergymen looking confused, the Poet of Great Love gently curved her lips and murmured in an extremely gentle voice,

"Gods must like to do this, they are always doing it. Aren't we made according to the gods themselves?"

Her whisper was full of temptation, like an unmelting spell constantly surrounding the ears of the three clergymen.

"Cruelty and torture, it's best to regard them as a kind of love, because you can't control who you fall in love with... so it's not your fault, it's all just to carry out your faith, nothing more."

"So that's how it is... this is love..."

The three clergymen murmured, their eyes also becoming chaotic, as if they gradually understood everything.

They began to emerge from their confusion, replaced by a renewed, fervent faith!

…

In the corridor not far away, Lan Qi and Hyperion were watching.

"Lan Qi... are you sure this is okay!?"

Hyperion felt like her heart was about to jump out of her chest. Lan Qi's actions might be creating a super disaster!

"Providing professional and reliable skills training services to clergymen is also a way of doing good and accumulating merit. You can rest assured about the quality of teaching."

Lan Qi listened to and observed the Poet of Great Love's public lecture for a while, then signaled Hyperion that the two of them could leave.

The Poet of Great Love always possessed some inexplicable talents that even Talia wasn't good at, or rather, other than her appearance and race being the same as Talia, everything else about her was different.

It could only be speculated that the magical material [Poem of Compassion] had endowed the Poet of Great Love with too many strange characteristics.

"..."

As Hyperion walked, she couldn't help but look back at the Poet of Great Love's teachings to the three clergymen.

This Shadow World episode was called "The Saintly Villain's Dinner Party," but in reality, it was "Purgatory Corridor Academy 2," and a five-day high-intensity training course led by the headmaster.

Hyperion could only pray that during the winter vacation, when she and Lan Qi disguised themselves and traveled to the Northern Continent to visit Bishop Ascesan of Silent Extinction, they wouldn't encounter these three clergymen in the Northern Continent.

She could already imagine the scene of these three holding Lan Qi's selected works, singing the Internationale, and proclaiming that only by combating cults could the Northern Continent be saved.