Chapter 60: Illegitimate Daughter Sasha
"If she's missing, you should call the police."
William rubbed his temples.
"Besides, discussing your superior so brazenly on the phone, aren't you afraid of leaving evidence against yourself?"
"Don't worry, there's no one around me!"
Ren continued in a low voice.
"The police have been investigating for several days, but still haven't found any substantial clues.
"They found Ms. Sasha's figure in the surveillance video near the church; she seemed to be deliberately hiding her tracks."
The Ms. Sasha mentioned by Ren was Bishop Minde Julius's illegitimate daughter—Sasha Julius.
William had heard about this lady from Ren before.
Ren hung out in the church and knew the private lives of various clergy members very well.
According to Ren—where there are people, there are worldly affairs; if you want to climb up, you have to take the initiative to seize opportunities.
William admired this; if Ren were a local American, he would have advised him to run for congress.
Anyway.
The relationship between Ms. Sasha and Bishop Julius was not harmonious.
Her mother was once Bishop Julius's favorite woman.
But due to Church reasons, such a relationship would naturally not be accepted within the Church.
At the same time, as a Bishop, Julius didn't have many affairs in the church.
So he chose to settle his lover in a place not far from the church, and the two had been meeting privately.
Over time, this forbidden love bore fruit, and the lover became pregnant one spring.
At first, Bishop Julius insisted on aborting the child.
Once the child was born, their relationship would be easier to discover.
This might affect Julius's ascent in the Church.
But the lover begged bitterly, saying that this child was a testament to their love.
Facing the plea of his beloved, Julius finally chose to compromise and promised to change to a larger house for the mother and daughter.
Of course, further away from the church.
So, on a stormy night, Sasha was born.
But her birth also took her mother's life.
Because of dystocia, the lover didn't make it in the end.
Julius was devastated by the news.
He lost a beloved woman and gained a child who was very likely to affect his future.
Although he eventually kept Sasha, the relationship between father and daughter had always been stiff.
Julius restricted Sasha's actions everywhere and was dismissive of her desire to become a nun.
And Sasha had always worked hard to prove herself in front of her father.
Not long ago, news of the descent of the Holy Word came from the Vatican.
The relationship between father and daughter eased a little.
Julius agreed to let Sasha become a nun.
But she had to strictly follow the route he prescribed to study theology.
However, Sasha had always wanted to learn exorcism, and for this reason, she had secretly sneaked into the exorcism room many times, where exorcism artifacts issued by the Vatican were stored.
"Maybe Ms. Sasha ran off to steal holy artifacts again," William stretched and guessed casually.
"Already searched, nothing!" On the other end of the phone, Ren shook his head.
"Ms. Sasha is an adult; maybe she just went out to relax."
Speaking of this, William raised an eyebrow and suddenly changed the subject.
"Did you take a fancy to her? Planning to use this to climb up?"
"Am I that tasteless in your eyes!" Ren said angrily: "My only love is Bailey!"
"Then what about Ms. Phyllis?" William ruthlessly exposed him.
"This... that..."
On the other end of the phone, Ren wiped his sweat.
"Oh! Don't interrupt."
"Looking for you is naturally not just because of a simple disappearance. Do you know about the recent child disappearance cases?"
William recalled for a moment; it seemed that Chief Hopper mentioned it when he was in Hawkins.
But what did this have to do with Sasha's disappearance?
"In the Arizona child disappearance case a month ago, only some of the children were rescued."
Ren's tone changed here.
"The remaining children had their internal organs hollowed out; hearts, spleens, and lungs were all gone."
"The scene looked like some kind of cult ritual."
"And a suspect resembling a priest was found at the time, so the police sought professional help from the Church."
William raised an eyebrow upon hearing this, understanding why Hopper troubled him at that time.
"But after investigation, there were no clues about the suspect within the Church, so the police investigation reached a deadlock."
"Regarding this, our Exorcism Academy has sent Silver Cross Clerics; it seems they take this very seriously!"
Ren continued.
"And half a month ago, a similar case occurred in Montana."
"Police found many bodies of young men and women in an abandoned old house."
"They all had terrified faces, and their arms were chopped off whole, seemingly performing some kind of worship."
"This case also implicated the Church, and the murderer hasn't been found yet either."
William couldn't help but complain inwardly: "Might as well wipe out the Church in one go; how much trouble would that save?"
But he just thought so; after all, he was also a member of the Church and had to make a living from it.
Ms. Sasha was also once keen on these two cases.
She even spent several consecutive nights immersed in the case files.
Of course, this was also blocked by Julius.
After all, Sasha was just a novice who had just come into contact with exorcism.
If these two cases involved some demon, her fate would likely be to become a sacrifice.
Plus Sasha couldn't find any useful clues.
So she gave up soon after.
"The reason I'm looking for you is that on the second day after Sasha disappeared, a high-level holy artifact in the exorcism room also disappeared!"
Ren looked around to make sure no one was approaching him, then whispered.
"I heard it's a 30-year-old holy artifact, kept as a church relic!"
"Only a small number of people know about this currently."
According to Ren, Bishop Julius had searched the area around the church.
He even hired some "exorcist" friends, but found no trace of Sasha.
For a Bishop, the loss of a relic was definitely a serious dereliction of duty!
Plus Sasha was the only bloodline left by his beloved in the world.
Therefore, despite having many dissatisfactions with her.
Bishop Julius still offered a heavy reward and entrusted friends in the industry to help find her.
"I heard it's a bottle of high-quality holy oil, stored in the church for decades!"
William was immediately interested upon hearing this.
He had already experienced the effect of holy oil.
Recently, due to Emma's departure, William lost a source of income directly.
Although he still had a lot of spare money, he applied high-grade animal holy oil.
And applied it all over his body every time, unlike other clerics who only used it on parts of their bodies.
So William spent money like water.
"You should have mentioned this from the beginning." William said: "When do we leave?"
"I'll send you the relevant information later. Just come to our church gate tomorrow morning." Ren replied on the other end of the phone.
"You're not coming to pick me up?"
William raised an eyebrow.
"Your place is a bit far from the West District; bus tickets don't even get a discount!"
"Hello?"
Beep... beep...
The phone had been hung up.
"This guy!"
William gritted his teeth.
After a while, an email came to his phone containing personal information about Sasha.
The night passed without incident.
...
Early the next morning, William packed his things and headed to the Parish.
After a two-hour drive.
He arrived in front of a magnificent building.
This was a Gothic-style church with a history of eighty years.
Trimmed flat lawns, smooth stone floors, many clergy members going in and out.
The name of this place was carved on the stone tablet beside it—"St. Jehovah Church."
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