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"Work harder and faster. If you do not work, you will not get to eat. You need to earn your keep in the detention center."

The warden smacked his whip on the ground to appear intimidating. But the inmates had no fear of his whip or his attitude.

One of the inmates even yawned when the warden gave up his speech. It enraged the warden enough to make him see red and growl. The warden glared at the inmate to make him stand down.

But the inmate looked unbothered and continued to stand relaxed. He did not flinch when the warden smacked the area before him with the whip. The sharp cracking noises the whip made left no lasting impact.

"Warden, we understand. It's the same drill every day, so you do not need to repeat it to us. You are boring us to death here, so hurry up with your speech."

The inmate yelled, causing the warden to grip his whip harder and look at the inmate with an annoyed expression.

"H-How dare you talk back to me! Don't you know what I am capable of? Here, has a taste of my whip."

The warden smacked the inmate with the whip. Despite the harsh sound of the whoop, its impact on the inmate was minimal. The inmate did not even flinch when he received the whip's impact.

It caused the warden to feel ashamed, and he signaled for this second-in-command to move forward and deal with the inmate. Finally, fear sunk into the inmate's eyes, and he backed down.

Dealing with the garden was one thing, but the second-in-command was scary.

"Now, if you know what to do, let's get to work. You have your areas in front of you. Use your hands to clean up the walls. Do not let a single dust particle remain on them."

The first duty of the day was cleaning the prison. From floor to ceiling, the whole place was the target. The inmates were tasked with cleaning up the area.

Amane looked at her section and was sure she was being played with. The area she had been assigned was larger than that of other inmates.

It was also challenging to clean since it had a lot of details. But Amane did not exchange any complaints about it.

She had no intention of cleaning the detention center in the first place. This place received funding for cleaning purposes, and Amane saw no need to contribute.

Her area was also near the runes that comprised the detention center's security code. The security code made one powerless in the detention center and bound their powers. It was the basis of the detention center's power and authority.

So far, Amane has heard about the code, but she has not been fortunate enough to see it with her own eyes. But she was going to change this today. Today, she would find the secrets behind the detention center's powers.

"Stop lazing around. You need to get the cleaning finished today. Chief Sean will be visiting us tomorrow, and some of you might get to leave early. So, make sure you give it your all."

The warden emotionally manipulated the inmates with his words. Many of the naive people inside the detention center fell for his trick.

But anyone with some legal knowledge and field experience knew that the warden could not do anything. Sean did not trust the warden much in the first place. There was no way he would listen to the warden.

People got to work, and Amane entered her section as well. The guards kept an eye on most inmates. But people like her were left alone.

Since Amane had free time now, she decided to look around. The security runes of this detention center lay in the center of the formation. Amane was two corridors away and decided to visit the place.

She pushed the door open and looked inside the corridor. The guards glared at Amane when she left her post and walked into another hall.

But since Amane did not stop, the guards approached her and asked her to step back into her assigned section.

"I am afraid you cannot leave your assigned section until you finish cleaning it. Those are the warden's orders, and you must follow them."

The guard informed Amane with a confident voice. He wanted Amane to turn around and head back, but she pushed past him toward the other corridor.

"Hey, did you not listen to me? I said that you need to head back now. Are you ignoring me?"

The guard was pissed. He had not heard about Amane's skills and how she quickly dealt with the second-in-command. In his mind, he could take her out with ease.

So, he attacked Amane when her back was turned. When his hand landed on Amane's shoulder, she twisted her body and threw the guard over her shoulder. The guard looked surprised, and his face met the ground.

He looked up, only to see Amane's unamused expression looking back at him.

"Do not test me again. I am not in a mood to deal with unnecessary bullshit. Next time, I will blow a hole in your stomach without looking. Do you understand?"

Amane asked with a threatening voice. The guard looked back at her before nodding and backing down.

He did not want to face Amane on a bad day. It caused Amane to sigh and look away. She walked past the fallen guard and into the second hall.

There was nothing special about this hall. Even the runes that kept this place up looked ordinary at first. It was impossible to tell where the power-suppressing runes were placed.

Amane needed to check out the runes more. She touched the runes to check if she missed anything. However, the runes still required to be completed before being read. There needed to be more context.

Rune language was complicated. You could jumble its words, and the sentence's meaning would not change.

Essentially, 'She is a girl' and 'A is girl she' would have the same meaning and context. However, one was significantly more straightforward to understand than the other.

"Ah, this complicates things. I cannot read these runes until they are all here."

Amane had to give up for the day. She had spent some time on the runes and needed to investigate her case. She returned to her hall but heard a loud yell in the distance.

She and others in the vicinity headed toward the area where the yelling originated.

An inmate sat on the ground, her eyes wide and lifeless. She looked at a dead body in front of her and shook.

The dead body was heavily injured and had a lot of broken bones sticking out from all angles. It looked like a deadly fall, but there was no platform to jump down from.

The guards and warden approached the dead body as well.

"I…this is…I found him dead in here. I-I do not know what to do, and…it was not my fault. Please, it was not my fault. Do not lengthen my sentence. Please, I beg you."

The inmate sounded worried and scared at the same time. She no longer wanted to be in the detention center because she feared for her life.

She had already heard about the disappearances in the detention center. And now there was murder as well? Her fragile mental health could not take it.

"Silence! You do not get to decide what I will do with you. In this case, you are the primary suspect, so you must be held accountable. Guards, take this prisoner to her room and keep an eye on her. I will open an investigation on this death."

The warden promised, but the inmates only rolled their eyes.

The death of inmates was not a pleasant topic. But it was not an uncommon one either. This inmate had likely tried to commit suicide and fell at an awkward angle.
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There was no need to feel alarmed about this.

"Ugh, you! Clean this up before tomorrow. Chief Sean must not know what happened here. Take this body to the labs and have it disposed of. I do not want to deal with this today."

The warden ordered his second-in-command. From how he commanded the scene to his confidence in his actions, it all told Amane that this was not the first time the warden had dealt with a death.

Maybe death was more common in the detention center than she first realized.

"Oh my! That body looks painful. I wonder what this person did for them to end up like that. I pity them."

Loki whispered these words directly into Amane's ears. She might have been surprised had she not felt his presence arriving behind her a few seconds ago.

"This looks like a murder case. Someone must have killed this person and thrown this body in here to disguise it as a murder."

Amane gave Loki the side-eye, but he just smiled back at her.

"Oh, and what makes you think that? Do you have any evidence to back your claim?"

Loki asked with his pleasant grin. But Amane only shook her head and did not reply.

She already knew that Loki was the culprit behind this murder. The faint smell of blood that came off his body was familiar, and Amane found it comforting.

But if Loki did not want to disclose what he did, Amane would not say anything either.

She would keep his secret for the time being. Loki was still useful to her for now.