Chapter 174: ????Lizzy Poliana Claudia (7)

༺ Lizzy Poliana Claudia (7) ༻

It is truly remarkable how the flow of time is simultaneously comforting and uncomfortable.

A week has already passed, and Ferzen quietly sipped on his tea while looking at the scenery outside his window.

“......”

At that moment, a carriage stopped in front of the mansion’s door.

Tak-.

Putting down his teacup, Ferzen rose from his seat.

Imperial Officials emerged from the carriage.

There could be only one reason for their presence here.

Indeed, the investigation of the materials brought from the Claudia Family’s mansion has finally been completed, and they’ve come to report their findings.

With that in mind, Ferzen descended to the first floor and welcomed them.

There was, however, no leisure allowed for the matter at hand.

“Greetings, Lord Louerg.”

“Skip the pleasantries. You must have something to report to me.”

“Yes......! Here......”

Ferzen watched as the official presented him with quite a thick bundle of documents.

“Firstly, it appears that there were no others involved with Claudia’s treason.”

“Is that so?”

To be honest, Ferzen already expected this development.

No sane person would join such a foolish plan unless, of course, they were either insane or obsessed with revenge.

But as he flipped through the documents, Ferzen stopped at Lizzy’s entry.

Once.

Twice.

Three times.

Even after reading it a dozen times, the contents of the document did not change.

Ferzen then stared at the officials in front of him and spoke.

“Is this true?”

“Yes?”

The poor official wondered what could have made Ferzen react like this, but then when he showed them the entry, a resourceful “Ah......” left his mouth.

“Yes. According to our investigation, this is definitely true.”

“......”

Given the use of the word ‘definitely’, evidence must have backed up his claim.

Despite this, Ferzen couldn’t bring himself to believe the contents of this report.

“Euphemia, Yuriel.”The source of this content nov(el)bi((n))

Jolt-!

Startled by him, both women moved in closer, waiting for his next words.

“I have to go to the Imperial Palace right now.”

Without even waiting for their response, Ferzen had turned and walked away.

The Imperial Officials, on behalf of Ferzen, bowed towards the women and hastily followed him.

There was an important fact stated in the document that concerned Lizzy.

Paired with the fact that it was fairly common for mercenaries to die on a mission, it would be difficult for Lizzy to be certain that ‘her’ letter was delivered or not.

In fact, there was a two-month gap between the second piece of evidence and the next one, so the officials and prosecutors likely theorized that Lizzy had taken some precautions herself.

Observing from this point, it was clear that this scenario was crafted to perfection.

Since Roer had been in the Imperial Knights for a while, the only sensible deduction was that only Cesar noticed the ‘truth’ about Lizzy’s actions.

The amount of information to be gleaned from Roer’s corpse was limited due to the passage of time.

“Hahahahaha.......”

It was a plot so tragic that it would bring tears to the reader’s eyes.

No doubt, almost everyone would only see it as the valiant efforts of a little sister trying to get word out about her family’s rebellion, and her family, who tried to cover it up.

“......You may take your leave for now. I’ll stay here a while longer. Just let the maids bring me a cup of tea.”

“Understood!”

The Official who had stood behind Ferzen sighed in relief as he quickly exited the room.

Sitting down on a chair, Ferzen carefully read a report placed next to him.

Since the prosecutors weren’t fools they also suspected this could be a ploy to alleviate their sister’s charge of treason.

Indeed, the feedback collected from Roer also indicated Lizzy’s innocence.

The only thing Roer’s memories lacked was confirmation about the fact that she had tried to warn the Imperial Family in advance.

So, if the situation progressed, Lizzy’s life could be guaranteed with this alone.

But Ferzen was sure that Roer had restricted the information that was given to him.

Unlike the prosecutors, Ferzen knew that all of this recent evidence was in Lizzy’s favor......

The fact that this information was not present in Roer’s memories indicated that, from the start, he intentionally stayed ignorant, trusting Cesar to handle things.

“This......Is ridiculous.”

While there were indeed letters with Lizzy’s handwriting as evidence, her handwriting could be easily fabricated.

“Should I go along with it?”

He had his doubts before, but with this evidence, Ferzen was now sure.

Even if Roer stayed ignorant of certain facts on purpose, it would be difficult for Cesar to do the same.

All of this would be for nothing if Cesar was executed and had his memories investigated.

“What a stupid plan.”

While looking at Roer’s preserved head, Ferzen allowed himself to snort with his eyes closed.

‘Perhaps Cesar has some countermeasures in place.’

If his plan were to be broken down into stages, this would be the first step.

The most important stage would certainly be the second, which would be Cesar’s corpse.

So even if the second stage seemed like the guaranteed way of figuring out his ploy, It was marked with unknowns.

Therefore, it would probably be easier to find a hole in the first stage.

‘Sigh......’

And Ferzen intended to see this to its conclusion.

So, as he loosened his tie, and picked up the stash of documents.

Ferzen Von Schweig Louerg......Prepared himself to pull an allnighter.

TL: Damn I bought like, 4 Steam games,

Including of course the legendary Star Wars Battlefront 2 (not this fucking trash the original one, from the ps2)

I remember playing that shit on my elder brother’s ps2 when he went to school, and I didn’t know how to save the game Lmao, so I had to finish the levels in one go.........

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