Genshin Impact is a big stage, come if you dare

Chapter 802 Tainted Witness

As soon as the drama of "the murdered girl" "coming back to life" was performed on the stage as "evidence", the audience instantly became like boiling water, and the sounds of speculation and debate turned the courtroom into a bustling market.

"Silence. No noise during the trial."

Only after Villette maintained order at the scene with the majesty of the Grand Inquisitor was the "victim girl" able to speak.

"My name is Lillian. I'm a thief...from Mondstadt. I'm also the victim in this case."

Lillian narrated the whole process and the circumstances at the time of the incident.

Lillian is a skilled thief with special skills. The first job she committed after coming to Fontaine was in Porto Helu.

At that time, she took advantage of the crowds of people in Hailu Port to steal a lot of things, but she was eventually caught because she targeted someone she shouldn't have.

Lillian cautiously glanced at Su who was high above her, then quickly looked away.

The audience who had witnessed the excitement slapped their heads and said, "I remember that excitement! But the thief didn't look like this?"

"Of course this is because Miss Evidence has special skills!" Navia made an inviting gesture.

Lillian shrank her neck, took out a mirror and handkerchief, and removed the foundation and some flesh-colored clay-like substance from her face.

After removing her disguise, Lillian seemed like a different person. She went from having a straight nose and plump lips to being ordinary, and her presence became much weaker.

The audience was amazed by Lillian's skill, and Navia couldn't help but sigh, "Honestly, you could easily find a makeup job in a theater with this skill, but... Sigh."

Lillian continued her statement.

Relying on her superb stealing skills and disguise, she stole the ticket of Fontaine painter Halsey and came to the Oprykle Opera House to watch the performance under her identity.

During the incident at Helu Port, Lillian was nearly arrested and imprisoned in Mello Petersburg, but she escaped by throwing money around.

Afterwards, she withdrew and stayed quiet for a while. She had originally wanted to watch a show to relax, but she had the misfortune to be involved in a dangerous incident and fell into the hands of that girl again...

Ugh.

Lillian stole Halsey's ticket and disguised herself as her to watch the magic show. She was selected by the lottery machine as a lucky audience member to participate in the magic event.

"That lottery machine!" Funina pointed out a key piece of evidence. "The security team has tested it. Its results are not random at all. The opera house uses a real-ticket system!"

"This proves that the mastermind deliberately chose young girls to commit the crime!"

"And Linny's meaningful words before urging Lillian to enter the box were basically a threat to Lillian, saying she would be sent to jail if she didn't cooperate!"

Lillian felt the same way at the time!

After she got off her horse and entered the box, she became extremely alert and prepared to respond to any situation.

The box was lowered smoothly into the space below the stage, and nothing happened except that the balloon adorning the top of the box burst and splashed water all over her.

"Then... the masked assistant opened the door. He was very surprised when he saw me and rushed towards me viciously!"

Lillian quickly counterattacked!

He ducked down and rushed out of the narrow box, then picked up a large vase nearby. With a "clang", the vase and the masked man were destroyed together.

Lillian, who escaped the disaster, did not dare to be careless. She suspected that the magician and his assistant were in cahoots and were about to come and deal with her!

So Lillian quickly stuffed the unconscious assistant into the box, took off her outer skirt, which was soaked with some unknown liquid, and changed into the prop costume in the storage box, and then...

"And then—there's Miss Evidence's other talent." Navia added, "She's nimble and slender, and she's skilled in a kind of yoga that's similar to the bone-shrinking technique in Liyue novels!"

With this ability, Lillian successfully left the underground space through the narrow ventilation duct, and the security team did not find the missing girl in the secret room.

Although he escaped from the dangerous underground space, the Supreme Inquisitor of Fontaine, Navilette, ordered the closure of the Opicley Opera House.

Lillian, who no longer dared to pretend to be the Fontaine painter Halsey, could not pass the strict inspection of the security team and was therefore stranded in the opera house.

Later, Lillian, who was extremely hungry, smelled a hot and sweet smell.

Lillian turned around and saw her "familiar people" eating and chatting comfortably.

All the old and new grudges came flooding back, and Lillian, whose stomach was growling with hunger, became furious!

...used his superb stealing skills to steal two macarons from Paimon's plate.

The unlucky thief fell into Su's hands again. After confessing everything under Su's threat of force, he was detained by several members of the Rose Thorn Society as "evidence" until he was sent to the "stage" now.

Finina took a step back, her inner self screaming.

Why! Why is it like this?! Aa ...

When Funina was panicking, the audience raised their own questions.

"This is all just too much of a coincidence, isn't it? This girl can steal, disguise herself, and even shrink bones..."

"If what she said is true, then she is really a talent!"

"She can even knock out the magic assistant Cowell with one blow. She looks so thin and timid. Can she really do it?"

"Could she have been coerced into giving false testimony? After all, she had offended... ahem, right?"

Su sneered, and the rock elemental force formed a stable cage around Lillian. Then he raised his hand, and dozens of elemental bullets whizzed away with colorful flame tails.

Lillian screamed in the cage and reacted quickly, rolling and crawling around! She broke into a cold sweat while successfully dodging all the elemental bullets without any damage.

Then a small hole opened in the cage, and in front of the stunned audience, Lillian squeezed out quickly with strange but flexible limbs.

Sue: "How is it? Is this enough for Lillian to defeat the guy who wants to attack her and escape through the vent?"

The Fontaine audience, who treated the case as a drama, were speechless by this scene, and then they applauded for no apparent reason.

Wonderful! It was truly wonderful! This trial was well worth the price of admission!

Lillian lay on the stage with her clothes soaked with sweat, sobbing for a while, and looked up to the judge's seat for help.

"This is contempt of court! This is assaulting a tainted witness! She, she almost killed me!"

"No!" Paimon retorted, "If Su really wanted to hit you, you would have become a sieve by now!"

Navilette nodded. With his dynamic vision, he could naturally see the situation clearly, which was why he didn't speak out to stop it.

"She just wants to kill me! You! You! And you! All of you want to kill me!" Lillian, immersed in fear, could no longer listen to any explanation.

She was sensitive to the gray path and realized that she had fallen into a vortex of danger that was greater than she had originally thought. She doubted whether she could walk out of the Oprykle Opera House alive. She fell into a frenzy due to excitement and fear.

Su raised his hand and fired another elemental bullet, this time choosing to hit Lilian directly in the heart.

Amidst Lillian's screams, the elemental bullet was stopped by the golden shield that rose around her.

Sue: "If I really wanted to kill you, I wouldn't have given you a shield, understand?"

Lillian looked at the golden jade shield on her body, then looked up at the girl high up who could provide her with a shield and also withdraw it at any time, realizing that her life was already in the other person's hands.

"Please...save me..."