Chapter 354 – Sparrows Can’t Just Walk Past the Mill.
As if a secret that shouldn’t have been leaked out, Trisian murmured devastatedly.
“Talk, I said… That?”
“Wow… One more person in those days… Master, your ability is good.”
“Berry.”
“Ah, yes.”
The sight of Berry quietly exclaiming and Vivian cracking down on her arrogant mouth seemed to arouse Trisian’s discomfort even more.
“Why, why did you talk?!”
“No, that… It’s not like I want to…”
Even so, it was her restless seat, but as she was under Trissian’s glare, the soft sofa became her thorny cushion and stabbed her buttocks.
“I had no choice but to be questioned…”
“Interrogation… ?!”
Trisian’s appearance is that of someone who is obviously bewildered. Even as she shouted at me, she glanced at the other women around her.
“No, whoa… No The important thing is not why you said it. You must have explained it well so that there is no room for misunderstanding!”
If we list only what happened and leave out various background events, Trisian becomes an adulterer who mixes with a man who has a wife.
No matter how blunt and wooden-like she is, it is a natural reaction for a normal person with ordinary sensibility to show her appearance like this because it is a situation in which her own honor is lost.
Natalya gave an awkward smile to calm Trissian, who was more vocal than usual because of her embarrassment.
“Are you okay. I heard everything from Hansung. I heard that it was because of a strange drug injected by that woman?”
“Well, that seems to have been well explained…”
Trissian seemed to have softened a little, but at the same time she heard a knock.
She answered the brief question if she could open the door, and she opened it slowly. What appeared was the servant who had guided us to this place earlier and the servants who had lifted our luggage.
The servant made a gesture that seemed to ask her to come out with an elegant gesture that contained her culture.
“I will guide you.”
Following the servant, he arrived at a huge hall.
The first thing that caught my eye was the short dining table placed horizontally in front of the rectangular auditorium-like hall.
The table placed horizontally must be the seat of the owner of this place, the lord and his family.
It was because empty chairs were placed in a row only against the wall.
It must have been arranged to see the faces of the customers sitting at the two long rows of tables placed vertically in front of it.
On the table, shiny tableware is neatly placed. It must have been because the preparations for luncheon hadn’t been finished that made them wait in that room earlier.
“You can sit over here.”
The seat the servant guided us to was close to the horizontal table where the lord sat.
As we sat there and waited, people began to enter the hall one by one and fill the empty seats at the long, horizontal table one by one.
The old man and the middle-aged men who sat down indifferently, yet familiarly, seemed to be at a distance from the servants and servants, so he carefully listened to their conversation.
“Sufficient firewood for wintering…”
“An official letter to the Mercenary Guild or the Merchant Guild…”
Judging from official documents and administrative matters, it seemed that they were probably officials in charge of matters of great importance within the territory.
Trissian also added that she might have noticed that I was listening to their conversation.
“Lunch time once a week is also a meeting time to decide various policies while having a meal with the officials in the territory. All the officials in the territory are gathering.”
“A meeting once a week? Is that today? That’s why I told you yesterday in a hurry.”
It must have been to introduce us openly in front of them on the day of the meeting where all the officials in the territory gather.
Even so, I wondered if it would be imprudent to try to meet me in such a public place without actually meeting me.
Didn’t we also verify whether or not we were the right person to be the lord’s aide?
While thinking about that, I looked at Trisian who was sitting next to me.
He might have thought that if he had been sufficiently explained by Trician, he would be qualified.
The story of that would mean that Earl Verolder puts a lot of trust in Trisian.
“…”
“…”
As I was organizing my thoughts, the somewhat noisy hall became quiet.
In the sudden silence, my gaze naturally turned to the man entering from the entrance.
A middle-aged man with a stocky physique and neatly swept back, with other vassals behind him, strode proudly into the hall and looked at Trissian, who was sitting next to me.
Due to the strange charisma that naturally controls the atmosphere, at first I thought he was the lord, Count Verolder, but soon I noticed from the strange hostility felt in his gaze toward Trisian that he was Count Verolder’s older brother, Denebalb Tricker.
As they got closer enough to talk to each other, Trisian slowly stood up and bowed her head in greeting.
“Long time no see.”
“Joy…”
He looked down the back of Trisian’s head with a sullen expression, then met eyes with me next to me.
If you recall the boring story on the way here, Denevalve Tricker is the enemy. Even if he is not an enemy right now, he is a man who will become an enemy in the future.
But even so, there’s nothing good about being hostile first.
There is a saying that you can’t spit on a smiling face, so let’s say hello first.
“Nice to see you. It’s a slave trading house, a castle in the dark moon. These are my wives.”
Natalya and the other women gave Tricker a suitably polite greeting. Even during that time, Tricker looked at us without saying a word, as if he was searching.
Now, Denevalve Tricker. How will it come out
Are you appeased? Are you slandering?
“Denevalve Tricker. He is the older brother of the lord, Earl of Verolder. I have heard your rumors. Didn’t you report the corrupt chief of the security guard who was bribed by human traffickers?”
“Yes, as a universal intellectual who loves peace and wishes for the well-being of the West Way, I couldn’t ignore the evil deeds of the ‘former’ chief of the guard and his gang.”
“… How wonderful. But, I heard that the human trafficker was one of the Black Moon executives?”
The language of high-ranking people is so tiring.
While pretending to praise them, they try to hold me accountable, saying that you were also in the same relationship with human traffickers.
Yeah, he must have thought it would be difficult to conciliate after seeing him with Trissian.
That’s why I’m trying to cut me down as much as possible in this spot where the officials in the territory are watching. Whether it’s morality or ability, anything is good.
From Tricker’s point of view, it was judged that if we could prove to the officials that we were flawed or incompetent, we wouldn’t be a threat even if we became Verolder’s aides.
“It was truly a shock for us as well. I never thought that a member of our organization would commit such vicious criminal acts…”
“Have you not been aware of everything that is going on in your organization?”
All of the criminal acts were done by Johannes. I was about to cut my tail like that, but this time I was asked if I was an incompetent guy who couldn’t even manage his own subordinates.
“It can’t be. As soon as Al Hegel, the former president of the Black Moon, took over the trading house, he found out that vicious criminal acts existed and reported it to the ‘current’ guard captain, who has a strong sense of justice.”
“Hmm…”
Tricker’s gaze goes to Trisian, who was next to him.
He opened his mouth to say something more, but it was drowned out by the servant’s roaring shouts from the entrance.
“Your lord is entering!!”
At that, all the officials who were seated rose from their seats. Tricker also gave up trying to say something more and moved to a corner seat at a horizontal table.
Seeing that, Trisian muttered quietly.
“Looks like you were trying to embarrass yourself in front of the officials.”
“For now, is this enough to be a successful defense?”
“It is a great success. All the officials are paying attention to the conversation between you and your uncle.”
“Hu, the hospitality is amazing…”
After briefly spitting out his first impression of meeting Tricker, he turned his gaze toward Count Verolder entering from the entrance.
The overall appearance was similar to that of Tricker and his brother, but unlike the stocky Tricker, Verolder was a skinny man.
His face was sunken around his eyes, and his shoulders were slightly bent, giving off a strong overall sickly impression.
Standing in the lord’s seat, which was placed in the center of the horizontal table, he looked towards us before sitting down and opened his mouth as if declaring.
“Let’s start the luncheon meeting.”
