Chapter 55 – 055. The Nobility Chain Raid Case (1)
“Crazy…”
“Under…”
Upon hearing all of Eun-hyeon’s plans, absurd and unbelievable reactions leaked from the faces of Avros and Alex.
Even Riod, who usually showed blind trust in anything Eunhyeon did, was skeptical this time around.
“Personally, I have no intention of expressing dissatisfaction with your plan, but this one is a bit harsh. Is there any reason you have to do that?”
“Of course. If I go out like this, you will have a bigger debt on the other side.”
“Illyana wouldn’t agree.”
“Of course you have to secretly agree. I will tell Illyana from the middle.”
Lyod sighed.
If he had heard of Eun-hyeon’s plan, he would have jumped up and down, grabbed Eun-hyeon’s collar first, shook it, and became angry like a fire.
“Your plan is absurdly reckless, yet so terrifying… But didn’t you think I’d hear about your plan and change my mind and not join you?”
“At least there are parts of me that I thought the duke wouldn’t do… It doesn’t matter if you don’t have to join the plan. However, please do not disturb. Because it’s really necessary. But I don’t think it’s a bad suggestion even for the duke who was worried about the future of this country until now.”
“Um…”
Eun-hyeon’s plan could certainly serve as an opportunity to dispel her worries and concerns.
However, in the course of the plan, the nobles of this country must be allowed to continue to suffer.
Even if it was the damage that came from his own ducal family, he had to accept it.
Quietly closing his eyes, Avros was lost in thought.
“Father.”
“Alex, what do you think?”
“I am… I think it’s worth doing. Furthermore… When I heard of the crimes that the victims had committed, I was angry. At least, if you think that they will be punished in this way, you will feel relieved.”
“If the situation you predicted really happened, I wouldn’t interfere and I wouldn’t know. As a noble of this country, I will faithfully fulfill my role.”
It was a sign of consent that Abros tacitly spoke about.
“Great.”
Eun-hyeon nodded his head as if satisfied, and the four people gathered in the room of the shabby bar spent their time drinking like that.
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“I’m here.”
“Come on.”
As soon as she entered the house, Illyana, who was quietly reading a magic book under the lighting of magic lamps, greeted Eunhyun as she entered the front door.
She went straight to the kitchen, looking for dishes to be piled up, but her eyes widened at the clean dishes.
Looking at Illyana with her bewildered expression, she quietly opened her mouth.
“The kid did it. He feeds them food and puts them to sleep, but they say he’s too discerning not to do these things.”
While she was proud that it was Erinn’s actions, she felt regret that it was not Illyana’s actions.
“What kind of expression is that?”
“Uh? No, just…”
Eunhyun tried to hide her expression in the feeling of seeing through her heart, and Eunhyun smiled.
After drinking water to quench her thirst, he sat next to Illyana on the sofa.
“Are you two sleeping?”
Eun-hyeon nodded her head as she nodded in affirmation.
‘Because time is time.’
“What were you talking about?”
“Are you saying you don’t want to become a noble of this country?”
“What kind of nonsense is that?”
Illyana asked, frowning.
“It’s just that the duke was worried in many ways.”
“Huh, so?”
“Of course I refused. It bothers me, so what do you do?”
“If you look at what you do, you are the busiest person in this country.”
“What kind of bullshit are you talking about? And I decided to help with a controversial case these days.”
“The raid incident?”
“Huh.”
“Huh…”
Illyana, who had been staring at Eunhyun through her eyes, turned into a fierce gaze as if she sensed something in her.
“Are you hiding something from me?”
“Huh?”
“Tell me right away.”
As if in a sudden rush, Illyana pushed her body against Eunhyun and pressed her closely.
“What are you talking about?”
She made an expression that she didn’t know what Eun-hyeon, who was proud of her excellent acting skills, was talking about, but Illyana’s eyes, who were staring straight at him, only grew sharper and sharper.
Normally, she had a personality that would not interfere at all because of her ignorance, but as if she really had a ‘woman’s intuition’, Illyana’s sharp eyes noticed Eun-hyun’s hidden secret so easily.
However, I can only feel that Eun-hyeon’s actions are meaningful, but I do not know what he is hiding.
Even Eun-hyeon, who pretended not to know like that, knew very well that there was no way she would openly tell her about it.
“Whoa…”
Illyana let out a small sigh, and the bitterness disappeared in an instant from Illyana’s eyes, and anxiety rose.
“You don’t have to talk if you don’t want to talk. Instead… Don’t get hurt.”
Eunhyun smiled bitterly and nodded his head.
“Don’t worry.”
Even though I said that, I couldn’t erase the feeling of sorry inside.
‘Sorry, I don’t think that will work this time.’
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There are several common patterns in serial crimes, usually by the same offender.
In the process of investigating the grudge relationship between the criminal and the victims, a common name or the existence of a certain object, or a similar trace left as a result of a specific action or habit of the criminal, etc. , The number of clues that can be found increases, and the identification of the culprit also becomes easier.
However, it was not only good things that increased as the number of victims of the same type unconditionally increased.
A typical example was the existence of nobles at the court meeting who criticized Artia, who had the right to command the investigation, as incompetent, saying that the case was still not resolved.
“X-foot, you must be really crazy…”
Last night, Cain, who was writing a report to be presented to leader Riod by arranging the doctors’ opinions that analyzed the progress of the raided nobles and the interrogation of the knights, was swearing and moving his pen without realizing it.
He was organizing and transcribing many reports he had investigated, but the most important content was that ‘no additional information was found in the investigation.’
With this, the leader, Riod, will not be able to criticize the subordinates, including himself, but the lack of progress in the investigation will prove that Artia is incompetent, and their leader will have to suffer that humiliation again at the next court meeting. Meant to do
“Haa, what if it’s a real devil…”
Cain blankly stared at the ceiling as she put the possibility that Leo de had put into her mouth.
Cain is also one of the younger generation who did not participate in the war 20 years ago, so he does not realize the existence of the devil.
If the culprit is a human, it’s hard to catch, but I’m not worried.
There was only a vague feeling because I had never imagined, let alone experienced, the situation in which I had to deal with an unknown being called the devil.
“Whoa, I have to report it first.”
After completing the writing, Cain visited the leader’s office with the report.
Cain, who entered the room with two knocks, saluted Leo, and then saw that there was not only Leo, but one more person in the director’s room.
“Eh?”
When she noticed the presence of a man with silver hair and red eyes, she uttered a dazed voice involuntarily.
“Oh, hello.”
“Ah, yes…”
She saw the man greeting her with a smile, and she nodded her head in surprise, accepting the man’s greeting.
‘No, why did that man come here again?’
Cain had seen Eunhyeon once, so he knew that he was friends with Riod.
He looked like a man in his early 20s, somehow not old enough, but he was an absolutely unusual man who treated each other casually, Eun-hyeon’s swordsmanship skills, and a strangely relaxed age.
“Somehow, I came here to help a friend.”
“Oh, I see.”
While we were greeting each other, the door was hurriedly opened and one of the members ran in in a hurry.
“Everything, Captain! Uh?”
The member, who jumped into the leader’s office with an agitated expression, looked at Eun-hyeon with the same dumbfounded expression Cain had when he first entered the room.
“No, why is he here?”
“Hey, why is my face sold so much? I’ve never even had a conversation with him.”
“Hey, how do I know that? You would know best.”
Eun-hyeon narrowed her eyes and glared at him, as if she didn’t like Lyode’s attitude of snoring and replying.
“Ah, it was a big deal. Captain! A fourth victim came out!”
The impressions of the three people in the leader’s office frowned at once when they heard the news like a bomb thrown by a member who had just rushed in.
It was expected, but remembering that sad premonitions were never wrong, Eunhyeon muttered softly.
“You are very diligent.”
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“Like the previous victims, there is not a drop of mana in their body.”
Eun-hyeon, who accompanied Riod, did not say anything when she saw the aristocratic victim lying down to rest in the victim’s mansion bedroom.
“Well, but this one… ?”
The doctor who explained the victim’s condition secretly asks about the identity of Eun-hyeon, who accompanied Riod and Cain.
He didn’t wear a sword or armor, and he was wearing casual clothes close to commoners, so he was suspicious because he didn’t look like a member of the Knights.
“It’s a pair. We will vouch for your identity.”
“Yes. If so what…”
The captain of the Knights of Artia, who has the authority to investigate, is a person who respectfully guarantees it, but while thinking about what the problem might be, the doctor reluctantly nodded his head, unable to erase his confused expression.
However, I didn’t know that the commander of the knights would come to investigate the incident like this, and it was all the more embarrassing because there was an unknown man accompanying him.
“Are there any signs of trauma or assault?”
“Yes. It was clean. There was not a single wound from bumping into anything.”
The skinny skin and bony appearance of the bones are visible, and the dented cheeks of the victim, who are breathing hard and properly, are also very irregular.
The victim’s condition was like a plant that had sucked out all its nutrients.
Suddenly, Eun-hyeon approached the victim and brought her face close to the victim’s face.
“Hey, see? What now…”
The doctor, not knowing what he was trying to do to his patient, hurriedly tried to stop Eun-hyeon.
When he was stopped by Leo, the doctor put on a puzzled expression, not knowing why.
Eun-hyeon opened the victim’s closed eyes with her hands, and sensing the magical power in the pupils and the victim’s pupils that were untied, she released his hand.
“That’s right. Hypnotic magic.”
“Choi, hypnosis… ?”
The doctor was taken aback by Eunhyun’s words and asked back.
Eun-hyeon glanced at the doctor, nodded slightly, and resumed her explanation while looking at Liode.
“All the mana that should have been in the body has disappeared, but there are traces of magic along with mana in the pupils. This is not a spell cast on oneself, but a spell cast by someone else on this victim.”
“How come it hasn’t been found?”
“That’s right, hypnosis magic itself is unfamiliar to humans. There is no kind of magic in human magic that can manipulate the minds of others. I would have never studied it.”
During the Great War, all patients with these symptoms concluded that they had been attacked by a succubus, and no proper research was conducted on the symptoms.
At that time, in the middle of the war, even one more person had to be saved, so doctors did not even have time to study these symptoms.
“I, really… Are you saying the devil’s work is right… ?”
After hearing the story, the doctor asked Eunhyeon with a pale complexion.
Now, the identity of the silver-haired man telling the story was not so important.
What was important was that as a doctor, I was prepared to prepare for this patient and for future patients.
“Can the condition be improved?”
“Well, literally, only the mana in the body has been stolen. The emaciated body is a side effect of depriving mana and too many nutrients at the same time. If you eat well and take care of yourself, you will be back to normal. Oh, but for the time being, avoid meat or greasy food that burdens the stomach, and start with a light meal with a small amount of soup and gradually increase the amount of food.”
“Ah, I see! I will stop by the mansions of the other victims right away and inform them of this!”
The drooping shoulders of the doctor gave strength, and he began to leave the room with hasty steps.
The elderly doctor, who was known as a fairly competent courtier in the capital, was feeling skeptical about his medical life when the condition of his patients did not improve despite the current victims continuing to appear one after another.
Even if it wasn’t a solution he found on his own, it seemed very encouraging to have hope that the patients’ condition could be improved.
“You’re old, but you’re still full of energy.”
Eunhyun, who laughed at the back of the doctor, looked at Riod and opened his mouth.
“Now that I have gathered all the clues, I can predict the criminal’s purpose and behavior to some extent…”
“Right. Now it is our turn to prepare.”
Eunhyun nodded.
