The warden who guards the witches

Early the next morning, Aiden handed a document to a prison guard.

"Submit this document to the Inquisition Bureau and tell them that it is urgent and must be handed over to Director Harold immediately for review." After Aiden gave the order, he asked the other party to leave quickly.

Then he sat back on the office chair. He had already solved most of the work yesterday. Today he took the letters delivered from the mailbox in advance and looked through them one by one.

With the publicity style of the Red Shark Pirates, after his tit-for-tat reply, there should also be some reaction from the other side.

But after looking through all the letters, he did not find a letter from the Red Shark Pirates.

"You're so calm." Aiden commented in his mind.

Or is Neville Drake ready to take direct action after being prodded?

The preparation work has not been completed yet, but the most critical step has been completed. Even if the opponent attacks, it can barely be dealt with.

At this time someone knocked on the office door.

"Come in," Aiden replied.

The door opened, and Veronica walked in with a solemn expression: "Sir."

"You haven't gotten off work yet?" Aiden glanced at the clock on the wall. Veronica worked the night shift yesterday. By this time, she could actually change clothes and go back.

"Isabella and I changed shifts for a long time and were planning to go back at noon." Veronica paused and then said seriously, "Sir, I was at the reception desk just now and a strange person came and said he wanted to visit. Prisoner 3677, he claims... to be the other party’s father.”

"Neville Drake?" Aiden was a little surprised.

"That's what he calls himself. I compared it with the image on the wanted poster. Even though he changed his clothes, I can still tell that he looks very similar, and his disguise..."

"What's wrong?"

"It's very similar to the graffiti you drew yesterday." Veronica said seriously.

"That should be the real deal." Aiden nodded after hearing this, "Did he bring anyone else here?"

"No." Veronica shook her head.

Aiden couldn't help frowning. The pirate king finally came to the door in person, but looking at the formation...it seemed that he was not here to rob the prison but really to visit the prison.

No, not to mention that he had a history of prison robbery, as a wanted criminal, how could the prison allow him to visit?

It is impossible for him, who has been wanted for many years, not to know this kind of thing.

Aiden soon understood the other party's true purpose - what the other party wanted to see was actually the top person in charge of the prison.

"Then he is now..."

"Waiting at the reception desk." Veronica replied, "Because you told me, I just asked others to change my seat and watch first."

"Well done." Aiden nodded approvingly.

Neville Drake came alone. In addition to declaring war, he probably also meant to give them a show of strength.

If the prison starts arresting people immediately, I am afraid that a large number of them will be brought down directly because of the power of the "Wordless Code".

"Arrange a meeting room for him." Aiden gave the instruction.

"Are you really going to let them meet?" Veronica was a little surprised.

"Of course not, I am the one who wants to meet him." Aiden picked up his hat, put it on, took his cane and walked outside the office.

Veronica was just about to follow her when she suddenly noticed a pair of long black silk carved gloves worn by women on the guest seat in the office.

"Eh?" Veronica was stunned for a moment.

This is not something that a colleague on duty would wear in prison, and it is unlikely that inmates in the prison would have such accessory.

Were there other female guests who stayed here last night, or was it something the warden was going to give away, or... was it actually worn by the warden himself in private?

Reliable and unreliable guesses popped up in Veronica's mind one after another.

"What's wrong?" Aiden, who walked to the door, found his subordinate standing still and turned around to ask.

After hesitating for a moment, Veronica looked at Aiden and asked cautiously: "Sir, um, the gloves on the sofa are..."

Aiden quickly glanced over there, and for some reason Veronica felt that he seemed to wink at the air.

Then, Aiden turned back his gaze with a puzzled look on his face: "Gloves? What gloves?"

"Huh?" Veronica looked at the sofa again and was stunned.

The sofa was empty.

I clearly saw a pair of long gloves lying there just now...

Veronica blinked, completely unaware of what was going on.

"Is it too tiring to continue working after the night shift?" Aiden asked with concern on his face.

"I, I'm fine!" Veronica waved her hands repeatedly, "I'm sorry, I seemed to have accidentally seen something wrong just now."

"Let's go then." Aiden motioned for her to follow.

"Okay..." Veronica followed out of the office, frowning in confusion.

…

Soon, the two arrived at the prepared interview room. Half a minute passed, and Aiden saw a man who called himself Neville Drake walking into the room from the door opposite the glass curtain wall.

He is a middle-aged man with an unattractive appearance, wearing an ordinary dress, a monocle and a top hat, with a mustache. It is completely impossible to tell that he is the pirate king who reigned supreme in the Tranquility Sea of ​​the Empire, but he did graffiti with Aiden. The image on the wanted poster is very close.

"Huh? I'm here to visit my daughter, are you?" The other party pretended to be suspicious and sat down on the chair.

"Nice to meet you, Mr. Drake. I'm the warden here." Aiden smiled at him with his cane, but he didn't take off his hat to salute.

"Are you Aiden Jarod who wrote me a reply?" Neville Drake also smiled, "I didn't expect to meet you..."

"Okay, there's no need to be polite about this kind of thing. You came to see me specially." Aiden put away his smile directly, "Where does a wanted criminal like you get the right to visit the prison?"

Neville nodded and put away his smile. He stared at Aiden for a while, and said with interest: "Then facing a wanted criminal like me, don't you arrange a few people to capture me? I remember you seemed to say that you were very interested in my bounty?"

"I won't do that now, because doing so... is too much of a loss." Aiden shrugged.

"Too bad?" Neville looked puzzled, "What do you mean?"

"You are a wanted criminal in the Empire, not here. In the Autonomous Prefecture, the outrageous things you did are just to intimidate the judicial authorities, and you haven't put them into action yet. I was thinking that I would wait until you took action before arresting you, and then you would become a felon in the Autonomous Prefecture. At that time, I can not only receive the bounty from the Empire, but also another bonus from here." Aiden replied slowly, "Raising pigs, you always have to fatten them before slaughtering them."