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Violet Empire, Royal Capital Salamun, Crimson Garden
In the study that was so quiet that it was almost uncomfortable, the petite girl was leaning sideways at the long table and meditating. The sparse and flickering firelight in the fireplace reflected on her cheeks and glasses, making her already difficult-to-read expression even more emotional. On the other side of the elusive long table filled with files, Lewin, who had rarely appeared in the Red Garden in the past two days, and Cassie, who had just returned, stood there with solemn expressions, watching the people in front of them without saying a word. Silhouette of a temporary manager.
After the house arrest of Duke Buffy Marshall and his entourage ended, everyone in the Fire Claws moved back to the Crimson Court that night and exchanged residences with the former. However, Futaba casually walked into the Mercury Court before leaving. She knew that the tray that was suspected to be used for remote communication would be discovered immediately after the other party returned, but even so, the mute Marshall had to pinch his nose and swallow.
Although this kind of thing is not even considered interest in Futaba's eyes...
two minutes later
"So, why do we want to make this place look like a cult den?"
After finishing her thinking, Futaba let out a long breath and gently rubbed her forehead: "Please open the curtains, and open the windows by the way."
Lewen smiled, turned around and walked to the window to let in the fresh air and morning light. He did not mention that it was Futaba himself who said before, "Who would make it so sunny when discussing Qing Mimi's conspiracy?" This kind of thing.
Cassie, who was more than half a beat too slow to react, only came back to her senses when LeVine had turned around and walked back, lowering her eyes in embarrassment.
"Are you blaming yourself?"
Futaba narrowed her eyes slightly, and asked with a chuckle while adapting to the sunlight that suddenly spread in the study: "Because you feel that you have not completed the task I assigned you well?"
Cassie lowered her head and stared at the toes of her shoes: "That's true."
“It’s hard for a man who is too serious to be popular~”
The girl shrugged indifferently, walked around to the chair behind the long table and sat down. She raised her eyebrows and said: "At least you are not welcome here. Really. I have told you before. Hurry over there." The hope of kidnapping the main person responsible before killing people and silencing them is slim. It is difficult for me to lead others by their noses even though I have lost the first move. I don’t have high expectations. Isn’t it normal for the operation to fail?”
"Even if you say so..."
Cassie clenched her hands slightly and whispered: "But if I had been faster, I might have a chance to succeed."
It was obvious that this battle-experienced beast elf was still very dissatisfied with himself.
If I had reacted earlier and taken the initiative to seek cover from Mr. Deku to take the first step...
If the traps designed to block the advance of large armies were more precise, even if they might cause some unnecessary casualties, they would still be delayed as long as possible...
If only I could move faster when passing through those magic traps and illusion barriers...
"In short, you think that if you had worked harder, been more attentive, and been more lucky, you wouldn't have watched Mr. Sack's mansion blow up in front of your eyes, right? Bar?"
Futaba, who had already heard the whole story, glanced at Cassie and said lazily: "It's really a simple and rigid idea, so I don't like to comfort others... But, forget it, considering the possibility of your depression If this will get this young lady into trouble, I’ll just give you a little bit of coaxing.”
"Haha~"
Although he was not in the mood to laugh, Levin couldn't help laughing when he saw the girl who looked like a hothouse girl talking to Cassie in such a tone.
Cassie didn't react at all, but looked with some confusion at the girl in front of her whose aura gradually exceeded 1.6 meters and was rapidly advancing towards 1.61 meters.
"Although I don't know the specific situation at that time, no matter how you think about it, the possibility that Sac Fries died immediately after sensing the approach of an intruder is really low." Futaba pinched the little boy. Chin glanced at the file in front of him and said absently: "Although it seems like a reckless thief accidentally triggered a magic warning, which then caused the entire lumber factory to sound alarms, and finally caused a certain mansion to explode on the spot. The person in charge committed suicide and ended up with no intact body, but in fact this cannot stand up to scrutiny."
Lewen frowned slightly: "I can probably understand what you mean..."
"Yes, this is not something difficult to understand. Futaba read the information in front of him at a glance, leaned back lazily on the back of the chair, and sneered: "First of all, if you want to disguise it as an ordinary wood processing factory, Then the triggered wide-area warning that Cassie mentioned before is too nonsense. It is just like announcing to others that "I have a problem here". Of course, the secrets of magic are vast and profound, and those that can only be triggered under specific conditions There are too many early warning spells to count, and they can even be triggered when the number and hostility of outsiders reach a certain level. Well, in addition to this, you can also use the early warning magic that is turned on at night to prevent thieves. "I forgot to turn it off during the day" is an explanation, but I still think this is abnormal. "
Cassie hesitated for a moment and whispered: "I don't think that early warning magic is very advanced, because it didn't respond to my high-level concealment at all."
"Well, that's more questionable."
Futaba clapped his hands lightly and continued: "Not only that, but Sac Freese's brazen blowing up of the house and his own behavior made me feel even more strange. Even if he found out that the menacing attacker on the other side was evil, he would not hesitate to do so. It is unreasonable to die where you are."
"Could he be a dead soldier?" Lewin hesitated for a moment, then expressed a different opinion: "After all, there must be people under the command of an established noble family like Marshall who are willing to sacrifice for the mission at any time."
Futaba rolled her eyes and picked up a volume of information left by Ned and threw it to Levin: "It seems that you haven't memorized the information about Sac Fries yet. Captain Ned's investigation results are very clear. Even if Mr. Sack comes from a bad background, he will only play a role similar to that of a middleman. Although he has an interest relationship with the Marshall family, he is in no way affiliated with the latter. Sack's performance is more like A partner of the Marshall family, no, to be clear, it should be the spokesperson of a certain partner of the Marshall family."
"Well?"
Levine opened the file in his hand with great confusion. After reading it for a few minutes, he raised his head in confusion and asked: "Well, Miss Futaba, I know everything in it by heart, but what you just said... …Mr. Ned doesn’t seem to have mentioned it in it…”
Futaba waved his hand casually: "Yes, yes, I think the captain probably doesn't know either."
"Then you..."
"You guessed it. Through the information left by the captain and some other investigations, it is easy to come up with the above results. It is not complicated. You can do it as long as you are willing."
【I don’t think so at all! 】
Lewin, whose self-esteem was hurt, laughed twice and wisely chose to shut up.
Seeing that he was no longer expressing his opinion, Futaba continued what he had said before: "In short, Mr. Sak who died without a body should not have committed suicide. From the 'business' he was responsible for, it can be seen that this person did not care. What is good and evil? Judging from his position, it can be seen that he should be quite skillful and at least a little clever. Those who are both smart and have no moral bottom line often cherish their lives the most. Do you understand what I mean?"
"What you want to say is..."
Cassie was not a fool, and she reacted when she heard this: "Was that Sack killed by someone else?"
"It's very possible that this is the case, and it's most likely the Marshall family."
Playing with the mid-level mage badge that she just got yesterday, engraved with the three marks of sparks, lightning and arcane eyes, the girl said lightly: "If this is the case, then even if Cassie succeeds before others are discovered, If you sneak into that mansion, you will only find a corpse. If you are not lucky, they will even explode into the sky together, so there is nothing to regret, do you understand?"
The speechless beast elf nodded, and after a moment of silence asked in a low voice: "Then what should we do now?"
"Step by step, after all, I didn't really expect to get surprises from the Dark Forest." Futaba shook her little boots that could barely reach the ground, and turned to Lewen: "What does our Archduke Fire Claw say?"
The latter immediately replied: "Chief Xiluo fully supports your judgment. In addition, Grand Governor Luo Shi entrusted me in his letter to convey his most sincere respect to you. He feels that you are a truly bloody woman."
"Haha~"
Futaba laughed happily and asked happily: "That big and thick little carrot head?"
The two people opposite were shocked and broke into a sweat at that time. You must know that the fiery-tempered Grand Governor was second only to Chief Xiluo in the territory, and such a ridiculing nickname as "Little Carrot Head" was only given to other people. Father, the former Grand Warlord Gru Kurogiri dared to say that, and Futaba was the second one to dare to say that. Not just this time, she said so when she was in the Fire Claw Territory!
But I thought that the ignorant are fearless, but after such a long time of getting along day and night, Cassie and Lewin, the two top leaders of the Fire Claws, have figured out, or think they have figured out Futaba's temper, let alone He called the Grand Warlord Little Carrot Head. If this girl knew that Chief Fire Claw's childhood nickname was "Big Carrot Head", she would probably dare to call him "Big Carrot Head".
"Okay, then there's nothing to worry about."
The two brothers didn't dare to talk before Futaba met, so they casually brought up the topic of Little Carrot Head and continued to ask: "Where is the person you are looking for?"
Lewin smiled and took out a roll of parchment from his sleeves and placed it in front of Futaba: "Thanks to Grand Duke Baroka, half of the people on this list have been secretly picked up and protected with his help." Get up, as for the remaining ones..."
"Half is enough for the time being. My original expectation was only one-third. It seems that entrusting this matter to Grand Duke Baroka is really the right choice."
Futaba unfolded the parchment and glanced at it roughly, and then a flame suddenly ignited in the weak and boneless hand, and in an instant burned the list handed over by Lewen: "Honest man, it's easy to use, I like."
Levin coughed slightly in embarrassment, and continued to report before Shuangye Wen: "The Grand Duke of the Crystal Wolf has also sent someone to notify the interior of the territory, and will fully cooperate with our third and fourth filings. You gave her before The conclusive 'new evidence' played a crucial role, but..."
"but?"
Futaba frowned and asked curiously: "But what?"
Levin hesitated for a moment, and then said hesitantly: "But those new evidences are false..."
"Then, did she guess it?"
"No, there is no way to verify the information you forged, so Grand Duke Crystal Wolf should not be able to guess it. She should simply believe you..."
"So what's the problem?"
"The problem is...the evidence is false."
Lewen scratched his ears in confusion and said anxiously: "We should be cheating..."
Futaba whistled in a particularly unladylike way and looked at the other party sideways: "What is our purpose of lying to her?"
"Is...what is it?"
"Idiot, of course I want Sister Emmeline to believe that the Marshall family is indeed guilty of such evil as the slave trade."
"Uh, yes, that's true."
"Did the Marshall family capture and trade slaves?"
"certainly."
"That's fine then."
Futaba snorted and shook her index finger at Lewin who was completely surrounded by him: "So I didn't deceive Sister Emmeline at all, but I told her the truth in the simplest way."
Levin's eyes widened: "I always feel like something is wrong..."
"None of my business."
Futaba stretched, then stood up and walked outside the study: "It should be some time before the third meeting in that damn place. I'm going to bask in the sun for a while. You two can radiate negative energy first. Anyway, There should be no results from the discussion this time. After all, we didn’t get the people back, so we will remain passive until the next counterattack and be mentally prepared.”
Levin and Cassie bowed to Futaba at the same time and said in unison: "Thank you..."
"Don't thank me. I did all this for myself, and I just happen to have the same interests as you." Futaba shrugged, then paused slightly, turned back to Lewen and said, "By the way, we started letting him go three days ago. The matter you investigated hasn’t been found out yet?”
The latter shook his head slightly: "Sorry..."
"It's okay, it doesn't matter now anyway."
Futaba curled her lips, opened the door and walked outside: "After all, everyone is dead, so what if we find out, there is no need to continue."
Immediately afterwards, there was another pause in her footsteps...
"Do you have anything else to do?"
"No, it's nothing..."
Futaba casually deleted a message, gritted his teeth, opened the door and walked out.
Immediately afterwards, another friend message popped up that was exactly the same as before...
'do you miss me? '
Then, another one...
'do you miss me? '
There's more behind...
'do you miss me? do you miss me? Just say you miss me! You said I would go on a date with you! How about I say I miss you and then you date me? '
'Get out of here and stay! I don’t have time to play with you now! '
Chapter 342: End
