CH 32

Duke, Please Repent! chapter 32

8. The Duke's House without the Duke (3)

Based on Shion's memories of going to various places for interviews over the past two years, I asked passers-by about the vague parts.

Thanks to that, I was able to get to Semita Town without much trouble.

People looked at me suspiciously when they asked where Semita Street was, but what about it?

I was proud I want to meet you secretly

It's over there, not me.

'The story we'll talk about today is also going to be paid voluntarily as soon as Serpence returns... .'

After all, Hans couldn't help but report that he went out late at night.

If you look around awkwardly for nothing, you will only have doubts.

'Besides, there wasn't anywhere on the note telling you to sneak out without being detected, right?'

It seemed like he didn't write it because it was too common sense, but it was his fault that he didn't write it.

The streets of Semita were full of horses, and small buildings like shantytowns were clustered together along a narrow street like an alley.

Most of them were unauthorized buildings, and the ones with proper street numbers were sparsely located between them.

It is said that only the owners of permitted buildings were recognized as citizens and moved to the outskirts of the capital, while the rest were forced to relocate in preference to territories that lacked manpower.

Looking at the number of houses that have sprung up and come in person, in fact, redevelopment is an excuse and the main purpose is to increase the number of the nobility's territories.

seems to be

Relying on the dim light of the lantern, he proceeded cautiously.

Perhaps it was because of the close-up of the buildings, every time I walked, the sound of my feet rang like an echo.

It was eerie, as if a ghost was about to pop out at any moment.

Originally, I didn't believe in ghosts, but considering that this place is a fantasy world, I can't believe it.

In fact, there are scenes in [Master of the Holy Sword] where the warlocks cast their spirits, or the demonized ghosts make a riot.

Wasn't it crazy

" are you here?"

Although the alley was quite complicated, the difference between the permitted and non-permitted buildings was apparent from the outside, so it was not difficult to find the 6th building.

I took out Zion's old pocket watch and checked the time, it was 11:53.

'We arrived at just the right time.'

When I looked at the handle of the building, I saw traces as if someone had opened and closed it with cloth.

It doesn't look like it was intentionally wiped off, but it's relatively cheap compared to other places.

It was clean.

'Isn't that the result of someone's hard work over the past week?'

Still, it looked dirty to hold with bare hands, and I'm not the type to bring a handkerchief.

I had no choice but to open it with my feet. It is fortunate that it is not a circular doorknob that opens by turning it, but a straight type that can be pressed.

Balance with one leg, and pull the leg as if it were folded while pressing the handle with the heel.

Is it because it has been neglected for a long time?

As soon as you take your foot off, the handle says 'Tak-!' It bounced up with a sound, and fell off the door due to the recoil and flew away.

' I'm going to waste anyway, so I don't have to ask?'

Still, it did open, so I pushed my foot into the slightly open door and opened it wide.

"What did you just say?"

"The sound of smashing a dirty doorknob with your foot?"

As I turned my gaze in the direction the voice came from, I saw a man with a mask and a black hood overturned, appealing to be suspicious with his whole body.

He could clearly see the suspicious outfit thanks to the lantern placed next to him, on something black covered with a square.

'A person who doesn't know would have thought that suspiciousness was the latest fashion trend!'

On the train last month, Serpens wore a mask under the hood, this time under the hood.

It seemed that he was determined to somehow hide his identity.

"Anyway, I'm here, so can you tell me now as promised?"

Once you close the door... come inside.

The door was broken by me, so the other person changed their words in the middle.

Judging by his voice and body, he looks like a man, but since he's wrapped up like that, there's no guarantee that it's a real voice.

As you know, I'm very careful, but can't I do it here?

The opponent clicked his tongue.

But seeing that they no longer told me to come closer, it was worthwhile to exchange letters over the past week.

"What do you think of the Duke of Prasidus?"

Ummm...

If I answered that I was thinking like a stray cat, would I be treated like a madman?

"To be honest Someone like Yuri?"

That's mental durability.

In my mind, I wanted to compare it to a softer cookie, but I didn't think I could understand it, so I just replied that it was like glass.

Since the nature is the same anyway, the general meaning will work.

Ha... you are being deceived. He is not as transparent and clean as you know.

it didn't work at all

What else does that mean?

Your predecessor... I know who killed him.

Don't you want to?

"Do you know?"

No, Serpens. How did this guy get his job done?

And why does that person know that?

'Is it the family of the former aide or the detective they hired?'

Then, why did I call myself out instead of spreading that fact?

Seeing that I was called like this, I asked

I don't think either of them are thinking... .

The Duke of Prasidus killed him.

"Do you have any evidence?"

Reaction is too calm?

Oops!

I already knew this, so I guess I was being too cold without realizing it, thinking about what to do after that.

That's it, from what you sent, it's clear who you're trying to pinpoint as the culprit. I was saying it's the duke's secret, it's the truth, but then suddenly, what did my former aide do? Isn't that so? More evidence?

There is no clear evidence that he killed him.

Without realizing it, a sigh of relief came out.

'Yeah, Serpence isn't the kind of person who easily spills evidence.'

Sometimes he tends to run away impulsively when talking to me, but other than that, he's always calculating.

Instead, there is circumstantial evidence.

Under the circumstances...!

good! I can catch you somehow

all.

If you use the public perception that Serpens's usual image or that he is no different than the actual appointee of the master of the holy sword.

Block enough, but rather counterattack for defamation... .

' He's such a bad guy, right?'

Serpens will do the execution, but my conscience aches for nothing.

Anyway, if that happens, I don't know who that person is, but I think I'd be socially buried.

That person knows it too, so instead of going out with the evidence directly, the credibility

In order to raise the castle, it seems that he was summoned separately to attract me as Serpence's aide.

Yeah, I'm very curious.

Perhaps he understood my exasperation to the other side, he pulled out a document from his pocket and held it forward.

It's like you're going to come closer and pick it up.

"Can I throw it all the way here? I have an incurable disease that causes hyperventilation in anxiety when I walk away from the door."

To my bullshit, the other person said, 'Various things.

Yes .' he muttered, and threw the papers on the floor.

That didn't mean I threw it to be picked up, but the papers fell closer to him than where I was standing.

Do you think you want me to get inside somehow?

Those who are thirsty find the well.

" who called me first, shamelessly."

The opponent did not respond to my provocation.

You are wearing a mask and covering your mouth, so I have no idea what you are thinking. If I do this, I get a tree frog symbol for nothing... .

"It's obvious if you don't read the contents anyway, but you don't want to go in even if you have a chronic illness, do you?"

Bluff doesn't work...

" It's dark, right?"

Guess I was stabbed, the other person didn't say anything and kept his mouth shut. I guess this was right too.

When [Master of the Holy Sword] was serialized, the aides asked the cause of the death, and

Many people including 'I had guessed that they had found documents related to the Dark House.

The author did not comment on it, so this must be correct.

"Hey, how about that Oh, I knew it!"

I'm the Duke's assistant, can't I be unaware of that?

" but he must have known that his predecessor was trying to distribute drugs in the dark."

No, I didn't know that]! what? Jeon

Was the assistant the bad guy?

Maybe Serpence put him on the back and killed him. But why is it known that he was killed by robbers?

What, that reaction? If you didn't know...

No! It's because I'm frustrated, because I'm exhausted! To come all the way to this place because of something I already know so clearly...

" if you knew everything, you wouldn't need the rigged information."

He picked up the papers and burned them in a lamp on the box next to him.

all.

'Did you just give out falsified information?'

Perhaps he manipulated what the former aide had done in such a way that Serpence did it.

As it is information manipulation, I feel a sense of déjà vu.

How can you trust someone who's only been a little over a month this much... But keep in mind, for whatever reason, he murdered and hid it!

Aw, that's not it! It's all circumstantial, and he was a bad guy.

ok? Since he bought a grudge from somewhere and did something worth being stabbed to death, there is no evidence that our duke killed him. So that's why you're flirting behind the scenes like this, right?

And what if he killed him? The drug distribution! It's about preventing more people from dying and suffering, which is justice! Oh, of course, there's no evidence that our duke killed him.

But why did that bastard come with fabricated information and try to estrange the relationship between me and Serpens?

"It's about the realization of justice . Yes, if I had believed the documents without knowing anything, I would have been willing to die with the heart of at least doing justice."

Yeah? What else is that?

I'll give you one last chance. Listen carefully.

Even in the letter, he ignored all the replies I wrote and wrote only what he had to say, and even when we met in person, there was nothing else.

It wasn't us who killed the former Duke and Duchess of Prasidus.

"We ? are you a demon worshiper?!"

Somehow, he said he was used to the term information manipulation.

If you think about it, the only people who could face Serpent blindly were the demon worshipers.

For nothing, he was talking about the true nature of Serpence and talking about his former aide, so he was lost in that direction.

"If I had gone, I wouldn't have come!"

I don't know if this is okay with just one low-level defense scroll. Wouldn't it have been better to take it for an attack?

But that's because I'm afraid that someone might accidentally die... .

Nevertheless, the current Duke of Prasidus pointed us to the cause. How about it, don't you feel something?

I don't feel it at all. If it was so unfair, you should have come forward and explained it yourself, right?

That can't be possible!

That was it.

Regardless of whether people believe or disbelieve it, they'll be caught asking what kind of amber this is.

But now it doesn't matter. Now that I have a delegate.

Representative, who is that...?

He raised his hand and pointed at me.

If I didn't know anything earlier, I thought I knew what he was going to say by reminiscing it with what Goo-hyeon would say.

You came to realize his hypocrisy while assisting Duke Prasidus.

If it was Serpense's hypocrisy, he was already aware of it even before he became an assistant.

And he recognized the many evils that he had committed without anyone knowing.

I knew it right away too.

"I feel threatened with my life, but I am determined to expose it for the sake of justice."

It was true that he felt threatened with his life, but now he decided to bury it.

Of course, we have prepared all the materials on our side, so there is no need to worry.

I'm more worried about what they're doing to force me to do that than the data.