Miss Witch’s Devotion Has Gone… Twisted-Chapter 89: Leaning Tower

Anna was the first to understand Loren's meaning. Her eyes lit up, and she also shouted:
"I saved a bird from a cat's mouth. Although the bird survived, the cat lost its food, and I am also deeply sinful..."
As she spoke, Anna was also frantically winking at Naclis. Even the most oblivious person would understand what was going on now.
Laila also understood the message Loren wanted to convey the moment Anna spoke and kept silent.
Under the high-pressure environment, the others didn't notice Loren's hint. They began to compete to confess their sins. To survive, everything was worth it.
Moreover, once the first sin was spoken, the psychological burden of speaking other sins disappeared.
The scale carrying them rose higher and higher, but what Loren feared still happened. There were still five scales remaining on the ground.
Besides them, there was a girl lying curled up on a scale.
"I don't want money anymore... I want to go home... I want my mom..."
She probably entered the Prison of Sin Spire just to get some treasure, but after encountering things beyond her understanding, she had somewhat broken down. Loren suspected she hadn't even heard the announcement from the Scales of Sin Severance just now.
"This is troublesome..."
What Loren feared most had still happened. Separated by the air wall here, he couldn't even interfere with the outside world;
he could only interfere through words.
"It's over! If I can't confess my sins and stay at the very bottom, I'll die!"
Loren's performance was a bit exaggerated, but it was enough to remind that girl and, at the same time, remind Laila and the others again with an action completely out of character for him.
Seeing that the people below hadn't risen up, the few people above finally breathed a sigh of relief and stopped confessing their sins.
Having created such a distance, they felt it was enough.
The girl's crying had turned into sobs. She gradually calmed down, and the desire to survive made her struggle to her feet.
Seeing this, Loren felt a surge of joy and reminded the girl of the rules here once more.
The girl finally spoke, but what she said clearly wasn't a sin:
"I stole and ate the last cookie at home..."
After she confessed this, the platform didn't move an inch. In the eyes of the Scales of Sin Severance, this simply didn't count as a sin.
The magma beneath their feet continued to rise without stopping. Loren could already feel the heat waves, which also made the girl increasingly terrified. She began to cry again:
"I should have listened to my mom, stayed home properly, shouldn't have run around everywhere, shouldn't have come here looking for treasure..."
Loren sized up the girl. She looked about the same age as Luna, wearing ragged clothes, with an ordinary appearance. She was just a girl from an ordinary family who had sneaked in after hearing rumors about the Prison of Sin Spire.
Her goal was just to find some treasure to make their lives a little easier. Ordinary people in the Bardo Kingdom lived far worse than those in the Gedlan Kingdom.
The magma had reached the bottom of the scales. It seemed it wouldn't be long before it swallowed them. The time was down to the last few minutes.
"Never mind..."
Loren glanced at the children and shouted out his sin:
"I helped an evil king brew a potion of immortality!"
This was the sin Loren had pondered for a long time to find. And with this one sin, he directly rose close to the three who had desperately confessed their sins earlier.
Helping the old king extend his life was roughly equivalent to Loren indirectly causing the deaths of hundreds of people. If he hadn't finally killed the old king and Eldrin, balancing merit and fault, Loren probably wouldn't even have passed the Sin-Burning Flames trial.
"Children, the Scales of Sin Severance kills the four at the top last. If more than four people are at the bottom, one will die randomly."
Standing high up, Loren revealed his motive. In that instant, everyone except the girl felt crushed. Anna directly waved the knife in her hand frantically towards the girl's direction:
"Hurry up and confess your sin! If Master Mentor dies, I'll kill your whole family! I'll kill all your friends one by one in front of you!"
Anna couldn't think of any sins of her own and could only try to save Loren this way.
Faced with such an Anna, the girl was once again scared speechless.
"I've killed Plague Believers, I've killed many people..."
Naclis was also stating her sins, but in the eyes of the Scales of Sin Severance, this wasn't a sin.
Laila was much more rational than them. Through Loren's words, she also understood what kind of sin was considered more serious:
"I once saved a noble from a monster. To thank me, he seized many girls and gave them to me as gifts. The families of those girls were all killed by him."
As soon as the words fell, the platform beneath Laila's feet also began to rise rapidly, but there was still some distance to Loren.
Now it was Loren's turn to panic. He hurriedly explained:
"I have a way to survive. Don't worry, just stay put calmly."
Loren thought that after all this time, Anna and the others would have great confidence in him. But when he truly faced a life-threatening danger, how could they not be afraid?
Now Loren felt that if he really died someday, they would become even more thoroughly corrupted.
Looking at Loren's relaxed expression, Laila bit her lip and ultimately chose to believe Loren.
Considering Loren's performance along this journey, and the fact that he knew the true rules of the Scales of Sin Severance, it was normal for him to know the method to break it.
Anna put away her long knife and quietly watched the girl.
If given two choices, one where Loren had a one in ten thousand chance of dying, and another where ten thousand innocent people would definitely die, she would send those ten thousand people to their deaths without hesitation.
If Loren was on one end of the scale, what was on the other end didn't matter to Anna.
The moment the magma submerged the platform, the mechanism activated. Immediately after, Anna saw many corpse fragments falling from above, dropping into the magma and turning to ashes.
However, Anna didn't see the familiar black robe, and she finally breathed a sigh of relief.
Then the light swallowed them once more. When everything returned to normal, a completely unharmed Loren appeared before her.
"Master Mentor!"
Anna threw herself into Loren's arms without a second thought. Even though Loren said he would be fine, Anna was still worried.
"It's alright now."
Loren stroked Anna's hair, comforting her.
His method of escaping judgment was simple: Void-walking.
Actually, many secret realms have attacks that target the soul;
Void-walking isn't always invincible.
However, the Tarot cards are all connected. The Prison of Sin Spire was built around the Judgment card. The Judgment card is the core here, and to obtain the Judgment card, the High Tower is essential.
The tilted [High Tower] can allow sinners to escape [Judgment].