Peggy frowned.
But, as the man said, there was nothing else to do, so he chose to continue listening.
"When the hard-working man received the news and rushed there, he learned that the vicious dog was the pet of a certain baron and had been imprisoned back home."
"The people who were cleaning up the mess didn't say anything to him other than 'Your daughter is dead.'"
"How the vicious dog escaped and how it appeared on that street, no one thought it was necessary to explain anything to him. Only one guard seemed to look at him pitifully, so he criticized him: Why Don’t you think highly of your daughter?”
"It seems that it was all because of his mistakes that affected the noble master's dog. The child deserves to die..."
Hearing this, Peggy had already guessed that the "story" this man was telling was probably his own personal experience.
Just when a hint of sympathy emerged in his heart, the man continued.
"——I'm just a commoner, how can my daughter compare with the noble master's dog?" The man with a sloppy face gritted his teeth unconsciously. "The hard-working man knew this very well, so he secretly investigated for a long time and found out that the baron liked to keep violent pets in captivity and train them to fight each other."
"The one who bit his daughter to death was the pet that the Baron had recently acquired. After that, he kept her well fed and well-fed every day, and it was even more luxurious than the life he and his daughter had lived."
"He couldn't sneak into the Baron's house and kill the dog, but after investigation, he unexpectedly discovered that the Baron's doting son liked to eat snacks sold on the street... Ha, ha, ha, ha..."
As he spoke, he seemed to remember something and laughed heartily.
"You killed a nobleman?" Peggy was stunned.
Ordinary civilians would be given harsher sentences for killing nobles, let alone murdering a vulnerable child in such an insidious way. It is not difficult to understand that the victim would be sentenced to hanging when the victim made an angry statement in court.
No, that's not right... If he really committed such a thing, then from any aspect, it would be even more impossible to imprison him with a noble like himself!
This extremely abnormal arrangement made him feel horrified.
After realizing something was wrong, he looked around at several adjacent cells, only to find that he and this sloppy man seemed to be the only ones being held on this floor. The surroundings were extremely quiet, without even a single noise.
He couldn't help but hammer the iron door again.
"Is there anyone outside! Talk back! Guard?!"
No answer.
The man laughed again, "Hahahaha, you are so funny! Are you afraid that I will kill you? Don't worry, I won't kill people who don't have any grudges."
Peggy said angrily: "Idiot! I'm not afraid that you will kill me, I'm afraid that someone will kill us two!"
He didn't know how full the city guard's prison was at ordinary times, but it was obviously abnormal to make such a big noise without any patrolling guards coming to take a look.
Have you done anything that needs to be silenced?
After thinking about it, only this incident is more likely.
Could it be that... you don't want to involve him? But I have clearly confessed my crime in accordance with the explanation they gave me!
Some not-so-good speculations popped up in her mind, and Peggy didn't want to stay here and wait for death.
After hesitating for two seconds, he walked into the door lock and used magic power to shock it.
"Bangdang——"
There was a muffled sound and the door lock was unlocked.
This time it was the turn of the slovenly-looking man behind him to look at him in shock. "A-are you a noble?"
Peggy was about to step out of the prison and paused. After about two seconds of silence, he turned back and said softly: "If you are not dead and you meet a big man who can completely change your destiny... tell him , Peggy died in a plot, and the secret is hidden behind the second brick from the bottom of the tool compartment of the men's toilet on the top floor of the Qingxi Academy club building."
He was betting on the one in 10,000 chance that this sentence could be successfully conveyed.
Without looking at the extremely slovenly guy, he stepped out of the cell.
…
"Last night there was a jailbreak in the City Guard. Peggy, the middleman who was responsible for connecting the two parties in the Marseille poisoning case, was killed on the spot."
Early in the morning, Duke Elliot told Wayne this unbelievable news.
"Qingxi Academy requested to investigate the personnel on duty in the cell that night, but was rejected by the City Guard. Prince Richard has already left for the City Guard headquarters, and we don't know what the outcome will be."
The information he has is very detailed, and it seems that he has been sending people to pay attention to the latest developments.
Wayne frowned and asked, "Didn't you say that you only need to be imprisoned for a maximum of three months? After all, it was just an attempt to poison a horse. A nobleman receiving such a punishment is already beyond the limit."
"Theoretically, this is indeed the case. But for some reason, Peggy confessed but refused to accept punishment. She insisted on escaping from prison and attacked the guards without explanation, and was killed." Duke Elliot pondered for a moment. "It won't be that simple behind this matter, but for us, we just need to watch carefully."
"We believe whatever they say."
Wayne understood what Elliot meant and nodded.
Although this incident happened unexpectedly, Wayne did not know the person named Peggy, so he had no real sense of it.
He went to the academy with Chris as usual, and handed over the "Teacher's Day" plan they had made together to the chairman who was sitting in the office with a troubled face and combing his hair.
"Have you also heard about what happened in the city guard prison last night?"
Harold accepted the project and asked casually.
"I heard some rumors." Wayne answered vaguely.
"It's really troublesome." Harold said in a gloomy tone. "Students of Qingxi Academy can die on the battlefield, from diseases or accidents...but they should not die from the conspiracy of those guys."
Wayne was silent for a moment.
"Even if he's a criminal?" he asked.
"That's right!" Harold replied matter-of-factly.
"If he is guilty, Qingxi Academy should first approve his punishment, and then he can be sentenced."
"This is one of the inherent rights decreed by the kingdom and established from the very beginning of the academy. Those guys - their hands have crossed the line!"
He was very annoyed now.
Could it be that you don't take him seriously because the chairman of the board doesn't usually take care of things?
Once such a precedent is set, next time Qingxi Academy will no longer be able to legitimately protect those students who may be involved in a struggle between external forces.
