Chasing Time

“Next, we have the most noble recipient of the Order of the Garter, the Grand Cross of Saint Michael and Saint George, the Grand Cross of the Bath, the Victoria Cross and the lower grades of Knighthood, the leader of the anti-colonial movement, the bell-ringer of the East India Company, the hero of the Crimean War, a Fellow of the Royal Society, a lifelong dear friend of literary giants such as Dickens and Great Dumas, a steadfast supporter of scientific luminaries like Faraday and Darwin, having served as assistant under-secretary, deputy under-secretary, and permanent under-secretary in departments of the Home Office and the Navy Department of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, the inaugural Cabinet Secretary and head of the civil service, the first graduate and most distinguished alumnus of our school. Please welcome Sir Arthur Hastings to deliver a speech on the occasion of the fiftieth anniversary of the founding of the University of London.”
Arthur's gaze swept across the crowd before him, looking at the young faces and murmured, “Agares, what do you think I should say?”
The Red Devil's wraith hovered behind him, saliva almost dribbling from the corner of his mouth, “Look at these ignorant souls; they still worship you as a hero. Why not say something they'd like to hear?”
Arthur took a deep breath and let out a deafening roar, “Oxford is a bunch of whores' bastards!”
“Oh!!!!”
The audience erupted into thunderous applause.
“Cambridge is the same!” he added immediately.
The applause grew even more fervent...
(The protagonist, possessed by a devil, travels through 19th-century Britain in a world without magic)

The Shadow of Great Britain

In the office of the Home Office, Sir Peel sat in his chair, carefully reading a series of investigation reports on grave robbing and murder cases submitted by Scotland Yard.


On his right-hand side, there was a stack of proposed amendments to the Anatomy Act drafted by Arthur.


The proposed amendments elaborated on key information that Arthur had learned from the doctors and grave robbers, such as the necessity of corpses for medical development, the shortage of corpse supply, and the ability of anatomy schools in other European countries to legally acquire unclaimed bodies from hospitals, prisons, and poorhouses.


Given the revisions to the Bloody Act, the sources of legally dissected bodies would only decrease from now on.


Thus, to avoid a recurrence of large-scale grave robbing and murder cases like this one, it was deemed necessary to refer to European experiences and expand the sources of legally dissected bodies.


Chapter 43: Change of Weather in Great Britain (Subscribe please!)