Chapter 149 – 149. Family Crisis (2)
“How… How could this happen…”
Avros and Alex did not resist.
Without disobeying the royal family’s order accompanied by Walter’s arrest warrant, he quietly surrendered and left the ducal residence, and only cold silence lingered inside the mansion.
The daughter was kidnapped, and the husband and son were arrested and transported.
Luneth, left alone in the mansion, couldn’t help but bewildered by the sudden situation, and blurted out words denying reality.
“The Duchess.”
“Yes… ?”
“You should remember the words of Avros and Alex. Do you know what the two of you said to your wife before they were transferred?”
“The mansion… I wish you well…”
“Yes. In this chaotic situation, the only person who can protect the duke’s mansion is his wife. So, take heart. Princess Eleanor… I will bring you by any means.”
“Ask… , Please. Please my daughter…”
“Yes.”
Eun-hyeon nodded her head and left the mansion at Lunes’ request, which was almost begging.
She first stopped by the house to take Emilia, and then headed to Artia’s headquarters.
“I knew you would come.”
“Did you hear the news? Duke family.”
“…”
Riod didn’t answer, but instead gave a small nod.
The news of the arrest of the Duke and Duchess Armitas was currently the loudest issue in the capital.
“Thanks to that, the investigation into the abduction of Princess Eleanor was put on the back burner. What do you think? Are you seeing this as a coincidence?”
“No, not at all. I think they diverted their attention by making a bigger case happen. It’s even worse that you covered up the corruption of none other than the duke and exploded it.”
In a situation where the entire ducal family was in a mess due to the abduction of Eleanor Armitas, it is the same situation as the attack on the entire ducal family of Armitas.
The cause of the arrest, ‘conspiracy to embezzlement of Renion Hersha’ was none other than Ashton’s arbitrary act, but even if he lost his heir position and is now in the duchy’s annex, he is definitely the son of Avros.
I thought that I would not be able to avoid responsibility, but who the hell was the work of tying up not only Ashton, but Abro and Alex as well.
“I don’t know whose skill it was, but I ate the candy very well.”
Eunhyun’s fist naturally starts to gain strength.
Even if it wasn’t until the entire duke’s family collapsed, it would be unavoidable for them to give up their position as the second-in-command in this country and decline.
“Can’t the search for the princess be carried out on the side of Artia?”
“Currently, Artia, along with the ducal family, is being investigated by the royal order by nobles who sympathized with Renion Hersha’s embezzlement of breach of trust. The blatant influence of directing the entire staff to this investigation worked. I’m sorry, but lending a hand in this case could be regarded as violating the king’s order.”
“Ha… I’m fed up really.”
Eunhyeon didn’t think of asking for help from Riod by going so far.
In a cramped situation, he frowned and cursed naturally.
“But it is too blatant. Perhaps, the possibility that a member of the royal family kidnapped Princess Eleanor…”
“It’s not impossible, but I don’t see why she would have to kidnap her. On the side of the royal family, there is a high possibility that the faction on the side of Queen Diane attacked the duke of Armitas to pressure Helena Hubei and Prince Evan, but if this is the purpose, it is only necessary to bite the fact of Ashton’s embezzlement from the beginning. Why do you dare to do such a complex thing that you can gain by attacking the entire duchy?”
Not only Ashton as a co-conspirator of the embezzlement of misappropriation, but also Abro and Alex were added to arrest them, and it was impossible to figure out what connection they had with the kidnapping of Eleanor.
“… Maybe a partnership?”
“Collaborator?”
“Maybe people with the same interests formed a cooperative relationship for their own purposes and created this situation, Leo, I want to see the bodies of the two escort knights who were said to have been murdered. Were you transported this way?”
“I get it.”
Eun-hyeon nodded and called one of the members and gave orders to guide Eun-hyeon to the body of the escort knight.
“This is it.”
The room we arrived at was guided by a member of staff and was filled with the pungent smell of corpses.
“Hey, this is a place where children can enter without permission…”
“We explain that this entity is not a child.”
“Are you okay. Just let me in.”
“No, what the hell…”
She tried to stop the cute girl with a petite appearance from following Eun-hyeon, but Emilia walked silently and stood next to Eun-hyeon.
Eunhyeon and Emilia silently stared at the two corpses enshrined inside.
“You said you were challenging me…”
His pride was so hurt that he had been brutally defeated by himself, and he couldn’t see the face of the knight who said he would challenge himself one day without stopping his training.
Staring at the body of Leno, whose head had been cut off and turned into a cold corpse, Eun-hyeon faced the fact that another small connection with her was leaving like this, and fell into an empty feeling.
She came to her senses and, pulling up the cloth over the corpse, began examining the corpse closely.
The armor he was wearing was full of scratches here and there, and there were various dents.
Various traces of Sivan, including bruises, tell us that the escort knights were fighting fiercely.
Eun-hyeon stretched out her hand and lifted the corpse, turning her back side up.
“Hey, hey! What are you doing now…”
Surprised by the act of arbitrarily touching and damaging the corpse, the member tried to stop Eun-hyeon, but Eun-hyeon did not listen to the member’s words and silently observed the traces of Siban on the corpse.
“Lea, what about your analysis?”
“The large number, the piercing marks on the severed neck, and the ability to pierce the heart with a single blow suggest that he is a skilled assassin. Based on the depth and thickness of the wound, the weapon that matches the size most among the weapons registered in the database is a stiletto-type dagger.”
“I think the same.”
‘What, what is it? What the hell is that kid… ?’
Eunhyeon and Emilia calmly exchanged opinions with each other, ignoring the reaction of the members who looked at Emilia, a young girl who looked less than 13 years old, with amazement at the analytic ability.
“I saw you. It seems that Captain Artia is busy, so just tell him you’re leaving.”
“Ah… Yes.”
The perplexed member put on a dazed expression at Eunhyun’s words and nodded as if possessed by something.
Eunhyeon immediately moved his steps and headed for the darkened alley.
It was a slum in a slum where the deeper you go, walking along the winding alleyways, the more shabby things you can see through the skinny skin, with bony bones visible.
“I am better… Me, just a penny…”
Eun-hyeon’s appearance was the same as that of other commoners, but beggars gathered one by one and begged for Eun-hyeon, who began to think that she was a commoner from a family who lived in their own way thanks to her very neat and beautiful appearance.
“Even with this, you can solve your meal.”
“Oh, oh oh! Thank you!”
When he handed the pouch containing a bunch of silver coins he took out of his pocket to a beggar, the beggar cheered and began to bow to Eunhyeon.
“Give me!”
“Hey! Let’s all share!”
Seeing the countless amounts of silver coins in the handed out pockets, the beggars clamored and made a fuss to get even a single silver coin in the pockets.
“Do, give me the money!”
I left behind the beggars who were fighting each other for the silver coin and moved on again.
A man in front of him threatened him with a cleaver that had chipped away from rust.
“That’s it.”
“Hey, don’t lie! Boo, you must have more!”
The man threatening with a rusty kitchen knife was certain that Eun-hyeon had more money hidden in her pocket, and did not join the ranks of the beggars to claim the silver coin pouch.
Eunhyun did not respond any further, and continued to walk.
“Aren’t my words like words?! Give me the money!”
Even though he pretended to slit Eun-hyeon’s throat with a kitchen knife, Eun-hyeon ignored the man.
“This bastard is Jin… ! Aaaaagh!”
As the man tried to thrust a rusty kitchen knife into Eun-hyeon’s throat, Emilia thrust her fist into the man’s abdomen.
“Recognizes an attack on the master and prepares an automatic defense posture.”
“Don’t kill me.”
“I accept your order.”
The beggar, who had already been hit in the stomach by Emilia’s attack, threw away the rusty kitchen knife she was holding in her hand, threw it away, grabbed her stomach, and rolled over her floor, howling.
Oddly enough, I didn’t feel sympathy, pity, or sadness.
“…”
For some reason, Eun-hyeon herself made an expression that she couldn’t understand why she couldn’t feel anything, but now she shook her head and held her heart together, thinking only of finding clues to save Eleanor.
Stepping forward, Eunhyeon arrived at the center of the slum and stared at the flimsy building made of wooden planks glued together.
“Hey, what are you? This isn’t the place for a keut like you to bring a cute kid. Get lost.”
“…”
As Eun-hyeon didn’t answer anything and just kept staring at the board building, a man with a touchy look frowned and approached Eun-hyeon.
“Even if this bastard pretends to listen to people talking… Aaaaa!”
The man, who was offended by Eun-hyeon’s attitude of mercilessly ignoring his own words, reached out his hand to push Eun-hyeon’s shoulder.
Between Eun-hyeon and her gangster, Emilia reached out her hand and caught the gangster’s hand, and as she grabbed her bones so tightly that her bones were crushed, the gangster started screaming and struggling.
Eunhyeon ignored the gangster’s reaction, opened the wooden door of the board building, and entered the building confidently.
“What?”
“What is it, that bastard like Sannim?”
“Child?”
“Eh?”
“Stop! Stop! Release this right now!”
The gangster who tried to block Eun-hyeon’s entry as a gatekeeper is screaming in pain as his arm is caught in the hand of a young girl.
It was very funny to see Eun-hyeon enter the building and be dragged by Emilia as she walked in.
Inside the building, the buildings that were drinking bad alcohol at the tavern exploded with laughter when they saw the mess.
“Puhahaha! Ronde, is that bastard being beaten by a child in a power struggle right now?!”
“Is that a girl too?!”
“You bastard!”
“Swarm of dicks! You bastard!”
“Hey! This bitch! It’s really no joke! Release this right now!”
“I came to visit the owner of Heilangdang. The top floor of this building, the 4th floor, right?”
Eun-hyeon’s calm question calms the bar’s lively atmosphere.
“Hey, what did you just say? You want to meet the head of the house?”
“However?”
A large man who slammed his glass and set it down on the table roughly stood up and approached Eun-hyeon and asked.
“Isn’t your eldest brother the kind of person you can meet if you want to meet him? What did you come for? Why did you come to ask me to find the mother of the child who ran away leaving her daughter behind?”
“Puhahahaha!”
“Clap!”
“…”
Seeing Emilia holding Eun-hyeon’s hand tightly, the large gangster must have mistaken it for a father-daughter relationship.
No matter how young Eun-hyun was, she didn’t look like having a daughter the size of Emilia, but she was clearly creating an atmosphere that made fun of Eun-hyeon and Emilia.
“Heilangdang and the black wolves he leads. I have something to see them.”
“Ah, when this bastard speaks really well, he doesn’t take offense. Do you have to tell me to just go away, kindly and directly so that they understand?”
“I’ve been speaking directly from the beginning, but don’t you guys listen to me with your ears?”
“This kid is really…”
The big man raised his big forearm and hand towards Eunhyeon.
“Lea.”
“I accept your order.”
As soon as Eun-hyeon’s command went off, Emilia stood in front of Eun-hyeon and kicked the tall man’s leg with all her might.
Under the harsh conditions created by the difference in height, the legs were the most efficient part for Emilia to attack a man twice her size.
“Turn it off?!”
In an instant, one of the big man’s legs was deformed, and Emilia took over the man’s back in an instant, aiming for the moment when his legs lost balance.
After kicking the hamstring behind the knee of the remaining leg with the heel, the man fell to his knees.
“Uh… ?”
In the blink of an eye, Emilia’s hands were wrapped around the sides of the large man with a dazed expression, without giving her time to properly perceive what had happened to her.
With her short arms, she couldn’t completely encircle the man’s thick belly, but with tremendous arm strength, she wrapped her arms around the man’s stomach and pressed her stomach firmly with both hands to fix it firmly. Lifted the man of enormous stature as it was.
“Uh?”
“Uh uh uh?”
The expressions of the gangsters around them staring blankly at the scene slowly begin to change to astonishment.
“What, what are you doing! Won’t you put this down?!”
The man who floated in mid-air swung his limbs and went wild, but Emilia didn’t budge.
On the contrary, until Emilia leaned her own back behind her.
The thugs around her stare in astonishment at the figure of the doll girl who simply lifts and supports the weight of a huge man with her knees bent.
As Emilia lifted the huge man, she began moving little by little until she reached the corner of a table made of square wooden planks.
“Stop it! Mum… !”
Thud!
Emilia slammed the huge man’s crotch down on the edge of the wooden table with all her might.
“Quaaaaagh!”
The faces of the gangsters who watched the sight of them screaming in unspeakable pain start to turn white.
Emilia didn’t let go of the huge man and she lifted the body up again.
“No way…”
“Stop…”
“No… !”
Even the gangsters who were watching the scene shook their heads in fear and begged Emilia to stop.
Cooong!
“Quaaaaagh!”
Cooong!
“Aaaaa! Stop! Stop! Please gmaaaaan!”
Over and over again, Emilia slammed the crotch of the tall man into her corner until the corner of her wooden table shattered.
“Stop! That guy’s marbles are already… It’s already broken!”
A gangster, who felt pain just by looking at her, begged with her face filled with despair to stop the doll girl’s indiscriminate acts of violence.
“Archis… What the hell did you teach your puppet?”
It was the moment when Eun-hyeon recalled her own marble that had been blown by Illyana in the past, and tasted her creepy feeling again.
