"Because - his city is deeper and he has greater control over the forces behind him."
Herbert took a full sip of wine with a slightly dull expression.
He was the only one drinking at this table. He was cautious when he first sat down, but as soon as he drank too much and became more emotional, many distracting thoughts emerged, diverting all his attention from the present moment.
The first prince of Stuart is thirty years old this year.
Even for children from ordinary families, at this age they should support the family anyway, not to mention that as a prince of a country, of course there is no exception.
Since he was the oldest prince, and the Stuart custom was to hand over some government affairs to adult princes to train their abilities, the first prince had already built his own team early. And continue to accumulate advantages.
If he was the only one with outstanding abilities, he would be worthy of the title of Crown Prince.
But the third prince, who was four years younger than him, refused to be outdone. Relying on his parents' favor and his own intelligence, he also formed an evenly matched camp, and even had a faint tendency to catch up from behind.
In today's Stuart, almost all ministers have been attracted by the two princes.
The more the king hesitated, the more fierce the fight between the two princes became. It can be said that they no longer cared about brotherhood.
While listening to Herbert's intermittent complaints, Wayne matched what he confided with the clues he knew.
An adult prince has the right to contact government affairs... So, it is not impossible for Raphael to suspect that his injury was caused by his brother.
According to the situation explained by Herbert, Stuart's domestic resources have been almost completely divided between the two more advantageous princes. Under the current background that Raphael is about to graduate and return to China, who would be willing to take the initiative to spit out the fat that he has already eaten?
It is normal to not want him to return to the country.
It's just that the methods are really ruthless.
With the power of the Stuart royal family, it makes perfect sense to be able to organize such a professional assassination team composed entirely of magicians. If he hadn't reacted quickly at that time, Raphael might have had to hit GG on the spot.
It would be even more suspicious based on the subsequent handling.
The Stuart Kingdom clearly sent more manpower in the name of taking care of Raphael. As a result, the envoy Simon and the group of people he brought not only did not care about Raphael's physical condition, they even did not know how to obtain it. After gaining the king's trust, he became involved in the internal affairs of the Kingdom of Lornes.
No matter how you look at it, it looks like he has other plans.
And everything that happened later just confirmed this conjecture.
They colluded with Deev...and perhaps more in the shadows, and plotted to bring Bulwer into the game. In those people's imagination, the best outcome would be for up-and-coming officials like Bulwer to completely break with the established aristocracy to which Chapman belonged, thus alienating the troubled king from his own confidants.
In this way, outsiders like them will have an opportunity to take advantage of it.
If Chapman hadn't been tricked into a high position by himself at the right time, maybe their moves wouldn't have been so fast.
Having to confront one's own family is more like a way to confuse the situation.
In other words, just doing what they like.
After all, as long as you are openly hostile to your own family, you will naturally add a layer of buff to yourself, and it will be easy to win the approval of those who are dissatisfied with the Wenche family. Of course, if they are stupid and take the initiative to become a target, they will not lose anything.
Just like the words he used to persuade Franz that day in the garden of the Edgeworth family.
The Kingdom's Finance Minister, who was originally very resistant to him, suddenly became less firm when he heard Simon suggestively mentioning using the Winche family to take the blame.
Now, with the power vacuum created by Bulwer's temporary departure, Simon could no longer take care of his own side of the family, so he just spread some innocuous rumors. But if there is a chance to take action, I believe they will never be soft.
After all, if it was true as they had guessed, Raphael's survival would be a big loss for them.
From this perspective, he completely interfered with their assassination plan, so it is very possible that he would hate the Wench family and wait for an opportunity to take revenge...
All the fragments were gradually combined into a clear and complete picture in his mind, and Wayne reopened his eyes from a state of closed eyes and meditation.
Opposite him, Herbert was unconsciously drunk on the table.
After paying the bill, Wayne threw him back into the room.
The so-called "pig" that Ecos caught was just another guy pretending to be a pig.
In order to escape guilt, he will probably confess all the mistakes he has made for generations during the torture of the city guard. As for what the city guard will do after they find out that many "pigmen" are fake, that depends on the person in charge now. What are the officers planning to do?
What I have to do is to use my unquestionable strength to completely dispel the idea of criminals who want to use this to get away with their crimes.
If one appears, catch one; if a hundred appear, catch a hundred.
And it will never be easy for these guys.
——From now on, no one will dare to pretend to be a pig man.
Although the City Guards did nothing, should I, who had already joined the City Guards, continue to drift along and die together like this?
Wouldn't that be in vain that he had almost no authority over his superiors in the city guard?
Looking back at the hotel where the lights were still bright in the night, Wayne adjusted the mask on his face and left quickly.
In a room in the hotel.
Herbert furtively opened one eye and saw that the room was empty and there was no nameless suspicious man. He breathed a long sigh of relief.
"Huh~ It's so dangerous, I almost lost my innocence! It's really difficult to be a handsome guy in this world——"
If Wayne heard what he was saying, he would probably turn around and beat him up, turning him into a real pig head.
…
Baptiste Chamber of Commerce.
Lina was absentmindedly processing the documents in the chamber of commerce, staring at a blank piece of paper for at least two minutes.
It wasn't until someone next to her spoke to her that she suddenly came back to her senses.
"Hey, Lina!" A girl about her age happily showed her the newspaper in her hand.
"The 'Pig Man' rumored in the capital has been caught! This is really great!" she said happily.
"Ah... um."
Unlike the joyful look on the other party's face, Lina looked worried.
Probably sensing something was wrong with her mood, the girl asked, "What's wrong Lina? Didn't you say you hoped the pigman would be caught soon? Why do you look so bad?"
"...No, I just didn't sleep well last night." Lina reluctantly covered it up.
