In the Middle of The Night in the Duke’s Residence - Chapter 91

Counterattack (3)

Leon ordered the maid to summon the guards, and before they arrived, threw his bloody cloak into the fireplace and burned it completely. And he put the sword stained with the Crown Prince’s blood, and put it in Gehrig’s stomach just in time for the guards to arrive.

“What are you doing now!”

“What. Do you not know who I am?”

“Bla, black hair and red eyes…….”

“Therefore.”

“Leonhard Verdick, the Knights Commander!”

When the four guards saw Leonhard, they saluted him. Leon lightly nodded his head, and then he lowered a hand to accept their greeting. Before they could even set out to inspect Gehrig’s body, Leon summed up the situation while wiping Gehrig’s blood from the sword and the little blood from the Crown Prince with his handkerchief.

“The owner of the mansion is Gehrig. There were rumors that he borrowed money from various places, and although the repayment date came he did not have any money. Maybe that’s why there was an attack from a hitman today, and quite a lot of jewels were lost.”

The guards looked around while jotting down Leon’s words. The window was wide open as if there had been an intruder from the outside, and the wind swayed.

“Fortunately, my sister was locked up in her room, so she escaped the anger, and the butler and maids found the intruder and ran away. When Gehrig, the owner of the mansion, died, the butler and maids remembered that my sister was Verdick and contacted me.”

Normally, it would be the order to call the guards, but they contacted the Knights Commander corps, who was higher than the capital guards. Even more, the Knights Commander was the second son of the highest ranking noble in the empire, so it was not unusual to contact him.

“Is there anything wrong with what the Knights Commander has said now?”

As it was a murder case, the head of the guards, who came in person, lowered his voice and asked the butler and maids to look good in front of Leonhard. The butler and maids were also employees from Verdick, so their answer was set.

“Yes, it was correct.”

“He was a pretty tall man.”

“We only saw one.”

It seemed that further investigation was needed as to why the unknown person came to the mansion. Even though Gehrig was a commoner, he had a mansion and funds supported by Verdick. In addition, rumors from the guards said that many people demanded that his daughter be their wife or mistress was rejected by Gehrig, so that may have caused a grudge in the process.

“Well, I see. Then…….”

“I’m thinking of taking Sister Aris to my mansion.”

Leon said to the Guards Captain. He didn’t say it, but very logically he had told him that, ‘Aris was locked in a room anyway, so she didn’t see anything.’, ‘Only witnesses or employees were able to move outside.’

The Guards Captain listened to him and wondered if the culprit was Leonhard Verdick. But he quickly let his thoughts go. If the Knights Commander was the culprit, Leonhard would not have bothered to report it, and it was too far-off opponent with uncertain evidence.

Moreover, based on the sword remaining on the body, it is presumed that the intruder was a person who could handle a sword to some extent, but the Knights Commander was not a person who could handle a sword to some extent, but a person who had mastered the sword. So for the same reason, Aristasia, who had a smooth hand that had never held a sword before, could not be the culprit either.

“But we can’t send anyone involved in the case outside.”

This was the best the Guards Captain could say. Of course, he, too, couldn’t find any reason to keep Aristasia on hold.

“Sister Aris’ safety is guaranteed by Verdick.”

“Well, I understand if you say that.”

Leon even mentioned Verdick’s name directly, so the Guards Captain couldn’t resist. The guards nodded their heads, and the employees prepared the carriage, so Aris and Leon rode out leisurely.

The Guards Captain conducted additional investigations among the remaining employees, but there were no flaws in their testimonies.

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When the carriage with Aris and Leon arrived, Aris, who had been asleep, suddenly opened her eyes. It was her older brother, Evanstein Verdick, whom Aris had so longed to see, who greeted her after the carriage stopped.

“Brother!”

“Aris.”

As Aris jumped out of the carriage, he held her in his arms, and hugged her. The fact that Leon and Aris came here meant that the Crown Prince and Gehrig were dead.

“I’m sorry to bother while you’re sharing the joy of reunion,”

“If you know, keep your mouth shut.”

It was so nice to hear the two of them quarreling like this, that Aris’s eyes seemed to be filled with tears.

But Leon had to talk to Evan right away. There were some deviations from Evan’s original plan, so it was necessary to share it quickly. So he dismissed the servants around. Although the employee’s mouth was hard to open, it was not as perfect as they had experienced with the Crown Prince.

In addition, they had no choice but to be more careful because the ripple that would be caused with the story that was going to be told from now on leaked will be enormous.