Chapter 293 – 293. Insecticidal Cleaning Operations (1)
“Ah, that’s all right. If I was going to be treated that way, I wouldn’t have been talking to Alex like this.”
Now, respecting the old man belatedly coming in, Eun-hyeon’s side refuses.
In fact, it was Eunhyun who stood as the central figure in forming relationships with people around her, making the ranks and genealogy entangled while forming friends and husband and wife relationships with Riod and Illyana, but she didn’t care about this part at all.
Rather, just like when Eun-hyeon didn’t appear, they were adjusting themselves to each other with courtesy, so it hasn’t been a big problem until now.
“Why didn’t you tell me? Until now?”
Even after hearing all of YuRia’s secrets, Eunhyeon didn’t bother telling her what she had been misunderstanding.
He could have told me directly about his future poetry and that this world is not a novel, but a real world.
As I felt that I had been deceived, I felt a sense of resentment.
“You didn’t ask.”
“… You impostor.”
YuRia, feeling nasty at Eunhyeon’s shrugged shrug and reply, trembled as she clenched her fists.
In fact, the reason Eunhyeon didn’t reveal this to Yuria was to keep an eye on her situation.
She thought that someday the goddess who awakened her memories of her past life would naturally come to her.
‘Did she decide that Yuria wasn’t fit to be an apostle?’
Or is she still undergoing a test she is not aware of?
With the exception of her Vesta, who singled out Eleanor as her own disciple, it is not entirely possible that one of her six goddesses would adopt her disciple as Yuria.
“Still, the princess honestly told Alex everything, but isn’t it a little quiet on my side as well. So, I also revealed my secret. It seems the princess doesn’t like something.”
“… That’s Okay.”
She turned her head away, judging by her demeanor, she was in a delusion, but thinking about herself, she must have been embarrassing.
She accepted Alex’s gaze mixed with a bitter smile, telling her not to tease her too much, and Eun-hyun smiled and nodded her head.
To divert a bit from this subject, Alex slightly diverted the subject.
“So… Does that mean that the person named Cha Han-seong, who was originally supposed to be the main character, has now joined Artia?”
“It was.”
“How was it from your point of view, having mixed the story yourself?”
“Um…”
In fact, Eun-hyeon only had a conversation with Cha Han-seong about earth’s civilization mixed with flimsy jokes, but she hadn’t had a deep conversation.
All I heard from Rio de was that her impression of him between last year and this year had changed significantly, starting with the story that she took the entrance exam last year as well.
“My impression has changed in one year… What do you think of the princess?”
Alex glanced at Yuria and asked for her opinion.
“You mean that?”
“Looking at the story so far, doesn’t the princess know the information about the man named Cha Han-seong in the future poem? A rough outline of what experiences you have and what kind of growth you go through.”
“… That said, all of that information is now obsolete.”
“What do you mean?”
“In the story I saw, a man named Cha Han-seong worked as an adventurer at the beginning of the story, then gradually built up his skills and career and lived in Pernin. There he was active as an adventurer…”
After looking at Eunhyeon for a moment, Yuria swallowed his saliva and continued his words.
“The Shinsoo who started rampaging in Pernin gets involved in an incident that turns it into a sea of fire.”
“That…”
It was the future of Erin that Yuria had talked about before, that was originally planned.
“Are you saying that even though the originally planned future and the present are different, they are so different that it doesn’t help much?”
“… Yes.”
YuRia couldn’t help much, so she nodded her head with a sorrowful expression on her face.
“As for Cha Han-sung’s case, I will deliver the story directly to Riod so that he can observe it. But in order to do that, we need to talk about the princess indirectly. Would that be okay?”
“Marquis Olivion…”
She hesitated for a moment before answering, lost in thought.
Riod is one of the strong pillar-like nobles who persevered in his will while remaining steadfastly neutral even in the fight between the aristocratic factions inside the kingdom.
Even being a man who was Eun-hyeon’s colleague, there was no element of disbelief anywhere.
It was only because he was worried about whether Lyod would believe his absurd secret.
“I hope you can explain it well.”
“I see. Ah, a week has passed since the court meeting on non-gong peddling and support for the border decree. What was the result then?”
Yuria, who slightly frowned at her as if recalling an unpleasant memory of her, let out a small sigh.
“Ha… In the end, it turned out just as you thought.”
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Cooong!
“Nonsense!”
The nobleman who was being interrogated in Artia’s interrogation room was indignant and hit the table with his clenched fist.
“I… To think that I made a request to enlist my son in Krasir… ! Are you insulting me, my children, and my family!?”
The face of an indignant nobleman, as if he had received all the insults he would receive in his lifetime.
Cain’s face, which was stared at with anger, was extremely calm.
“Not only that.”
“What?”
Cain continued his speech without shrinking at all even in his bloody atmosphere.
On the table, he handed out dozens of papers he had placed on his side.
“This is… ?”
“Let’s read it.”
Cain did not pay attention to the expression of the nobleman who frowned and demanded an explanation, and invited the nobleman to read the contents of the document himself.
“This, this… !”
The nobleman’s eyes widened after reading the contents of the document.
Before long, he glared at Cain, who had handed the document to him, as if he were going to kill him.
“You seem to have done more than I thought.”
“Where the hell did you get this information from!”
“This information was reported to headquarters as ‘anonymous’.”
Although it was stated that it was ‘anonymous’, this is the information collected so far from the Heilangdan, which is now under Eunhyeon’s command.
Not only the aristocrat in front of Cain, who is currently being interrogated, but also the corruption and deeds of many other nobles are recorded without exception.
They are the information that contains the dark side of the nobles of the Kingdom of Pernias that Runan has been collecting over a long period of time as he settles down in the slums of Pernin and establishes an information guild.
While carrying out dirty work such as information gathering and killing contracts, the information he had collected in case he was betrayed someday was full of dangers that could bring all the nobles involved to the ground.
“You dare me with this kind of information whose source is uncertain…”
“It’s too detailed for something like that. The date, the names of the nobles involved, the number of people, the cause and process, and even the results. Isn’t it neat, without any contradiction? Ah, it means neat organization without contradiction itself. It is the same that the content itself is rotten and dirty.”
It contained too many things to be called unreliable, saying that the source was uncertain.
In the first place, Artia, including Cain, had no intention of accepting evidence under the pretext of anonymity and lack of credibility.
It was none other than Eun-hyeon’s information provision.
Now, the members of Artia, who know his value, respect and admire Eun-hyeon, who showed some of his skills through mock sparring with Riod.
“Especially, the idea of setting up an orphanage under the pretext of charity work and enslaving the children in this orphanage to a small estate far away from the country and taking them out is truly spectacle.”
Not only eating all the ransom money of enslaved children, but also taking all of the kingdom’s budget paid for welfare projects to make a separate profit.
“This… It’s a motherfucker It’s a mothership!”
Despite the indignant claims with a distorted face, Cain maintained a calm expression.
“That’s it. It’s just the viscount’s one-sided argument. But…”
Pointing with his index finger at the papers on the table with all the dirty details written on them, he continued.
“All the people listed in this document will be arrested and investigated.”
“This… It’s completely different from the improper solicitation of Krasir’s entrance exam…”
“The worse quality is this one. There have been reports of corruption that is eating away at the country. Shouldn’t we continue to interrogate this?”
“Nice… Eww!”
The interrogation of the nobleman, who was unable to refute and was blushing and indignant, was finally over.
The guilt of the nobility is certain.
Now it’s time to arrest others involved with him and carry out further investigations.
Arrest everyone involved and write a report clarifying cause-and-effect relationships.
Once leader Riod submits a report to Queen Diane, the Artia Knights’ task is over.
When he left the interrogation room, the knights waiting in the hallway saluted and followed him.
In addition to the nobles who have completed the interrogation, there are more than ten other nobles scheduled for interrogation.
Besides, not only the smuggling of orphanage children as slaves.
Even the investigation into large-scale merchants who used money and sexual favors to a number of nobles in order to reduce taxes.
Other than that, there were a lot of things that needed to be brushed off.
“… There is a lot of dirty work to do.”
That meant there were a lot of people to interrogate and a lot to investigate.
The purpose of this interrogation is not only the improper solicitation of Krasir’s joining.
Eun-hyeon invited Yuria in advance at the court meeting room, questioned the personality and skills of Krasir’s new members, and created a flow to raise suspicions of corruption in the entrance exam, which was only the starting point to induce this situation.
They siphon off the country’s budget, keep others in check in order to protect their place and food bowl, and create a solid system that monopolizes power and vested interests.
In order to make all corruption committed in the process subject to investigation.
Due to the suspicion of improper solicitation in the entrance exam of the Krasir Guards, a situation was created in which a large number of people from the aristocratic families of the newly recruited members were investigated.
Now, while simultaneously investigating another corruption they committed, they are also pulling out all the other corrupt aristocrats who were involved with them one after another.
That was the board Eunhyeon had laid out this time.
-Let’s call the operation ‘F-Killa’. Let’s spray ‘insecticide’ and get rid of it all.
For a man who laughs and jokes like that, it is a very elaborate and well-planned composition.
‘… He’s a really scary bastard. It was fortunate that he said he was the captain’s friend. Considering that he was an enemy, he must have gone crazy.’
It has already surpassed the limits of situations that individuals can create.
It was created by leading the situation in which the corrupt aristocrats, who were deeply rooted in the framework of the state, could be struck down while treating them as bugs.
The individual’s strength is also very good, but the people who are helping Eun-hyeon and his personal connections are also formidable, and the way he thinks is merciless.
He does not hesitate to induce the situation, drive it into a corner, and punish it.
‘… It’s complicated. Let’s just do my job.’
So Cain moved his steps.
“Is the captain still there?”
“Yes. You are still interrogating Marquis Walter yourself.”
