"I met Olmedo but didn't ask him about the attack."
On the way back to the manor, Annan and Della talked about what they had seen in the Mage Tower, and wisely passed by "Teacher Yirulanze".
Della didn't pay attention to this fellow person either. Her hiding effect would be much worse if she sat in a bright place. At least it wouldn't be like when they first met. Annan would forget who she was talking to while talking.
"Why didn't you ask?"
"It's useless to ask. Regardless of whether he is the murderer or not, he will just say no...and maybe he already knows this."
"so?"
"So, I guess Jeffrey Olmedo is really not the murderer, he is really as upright as I heard and saw, and he will investigate the attack."
The only clue currently lies in the "Wine Lady's Servant", and Francois is trying to find out who that person is.
Annan believed that Francois could find out something. Because there was no one more suitable than him in the entire Breeze City - the ranger's agility and agility allowed him to sneak in and track without anyone noticing, and his sharp mind allowed him to
He can easily discern clues that are difficult to find, and his status as a nobleman means that he will not be in danger even if he is discovered. He will not be afraid of the twists and turns and dangers he encounters by using any means necessary.
Shameless Baron? It is terrifying for a nobleman to never give up to achieve his goal.
…
Francois did find something.
He spent two days visiting the locations and forces where Annan was attacked twice, and also went to the Bale Gang. The results were shocking - the Winchet family's carriage passed through that street when the incident occurred, and the Winchet family emblem appeared on the attack
For the perpetrators, there is even some funding from the Winchet family behind the Baller Gang——
There is a wine lady everywhere, and all clues clearly point to the wine lady.
But Francois knows: free things are the most expensive.
The simpler things are, the more likely they are to contain horrific truths.
Lady Wine, he knew that one of his ancestors was a mudblood, and a commoner freedman suddenly became an emerging aristocrat, and then after the death of her husband, the property did not decline but expanded a lot——
Would such a smart woman leave such a conspicuous clue?
Moreover, Ms. Wine’s main business is wine, and she has no relations with the Reeves family.
Francois divides the existing conclusions into three levels:
On the first level, all the clues pointing to the Wine Lady indicate that she is being slandered.
On the second level, the wine lady deliberately used this crappy method to avoid suspicion.
On the third level, the planners lure the investigators into falling into the first two levels, and then go back and forth to investigate, wasting time.
So Francois jumped out of the conspiracy chain at the beginning and imagined a new existence: a third force muddying the waters.
With his hypothesis, Francois once again went to the place where he was attacked by the dwarf giants to confirm his guess. As a result, he unexpectedly encountered a group of scavengers.
Scavengers will appear where there are corpses, and they will be here to prevent Francois from being surprised. To his surprise, when he was about to leave, a scavenger stopped him.
"You want to know who the murderer is?"
"Who are you?"
Francois examined the figure wearing a crow mask, but he was not too wary - the Scavenger was as neutral and aloof as the Mage Tower.
The other party didn't say anything, he just placed a crow badge on a branch nearby and turned around to leave.
Francois picked up the bronze crow badge and fell into deep thought.
How could they get involved...
…
"There are still six days..."
"What did you say?" Francois asked curiously.
"Abby, I need two cups of tea." Annan said to the maid outside the door and sat on the sofa in the study. "Nothing... have you made any new discoveries?"
"Yes, I met the scavenger..."
Francois tells about his investigation.
Scavenger is not a cleaner in the literal sense. It has a deeper meaning: cleaning up rat infestations, corruption and natural disasters within human towns.
Scavengers do not belong to any single city, country, or god. They only belong to cities that belong to human civilization.
Annan had never interacted with them. At most, he had passed by them and seen a group of figures wearing crow masks filled with spices like plague doctors.
"What did you guess?"
Annan knew what Francois must have discovered.
"A conjecture based on current clues."
"The Olmedo family is innocent..." Francois observed Annan's expression and continued without any rebuttal or frown: "The wine lady is also innocent."
"Who is the murderer?"
"Ratman."
Francois said that using intrigue to provoke disputes and using deceit to corrupt humans is what the rat people are good at.
This is also consistent with the news that "the Skaven tribe is about to invade the North".
"But this is just a conjecture... We cannot determine the real murderer until we find conclusive evidence..."
Because everyone has a reason to become a murderer.
There is no need to say more about the Olmedo family. After the Reeves family was attacked and Jeffrey Olmedo became the new city lord, the Olmedo family, as the biggest profiteers, has been unable to escape the suspicion of the murderer.
Lady Wine's suspicion is that the clues for the two attacks on Annan point to the Winchet family. As the nobleman closest to Annan, it is in her interest for Annan to become the city lord - so it is also possible that she is pushing Annan to regain the position of city lord.
"Even I am the same, Your Majesty the King of the North." Francois said fearfully, "After you become the city lord, you will wash away the shame of my family..."
"You didn't come here just to tell me these conjectures?" Annan asked.
"Yes... I want you to do one thing."
"What?"
"Go out."
…
It seemed like just a coincidence, but after Francois wanted Annan to go out, an invitation did come unexpectedly.
It was signed by Tutor Irelanze, who invited Annan to watch a performance at the Benitez Theater - she was just outside the manor.
Annan promised her that at least she didn't have to worry about safety when she was with the Mage Tower instructor.
Teacher Yrilanze will never eat her. She is an elf, not a succubus.
Before going out, Annan asked the head maid to help take out the box under the bed, and then came to the dining room: "Dara, guard the door, don't let anyone in."
Familiar scales appeared, and the blue dragon seemed to sense something, and said in a low voice: "A mouse..."
"Dela is my friend." Annan corrected with a frown.
"Weird humans..." the blue dragon snorted coldly. "Where is the enemy?"
"There are no enemies."
Annan opened the wooden box: "This month's 300 gold coins, and I need a piece of dragon skin to continue summoning you."
The dragon's claw stretched out the crack, grabbed the wooden box and retracted into the gilded mountain, and quickly threw out a piece of blue dragon skin with toughness.
Annan thought Blue Dragon wanted to bargain.
"besides……"
"What else is there!"
"Do you want to eat something?" Annan stood aside, revealing the food on the table behind him: "chestnut soup, roast chicken, I don't know the taste of dragons, so I prepared some..."
