Chapter 15 Emergency assembly

Translator: Tseirp

Jeffrey was attending an emergency assembly convened by His Majesty the King.

The individuals had been the King, Crown Prince Conrad, Second Prince Cedric, the Chancellor, First Knight Order Commander, Supervisor of Personnel, the sufferer Marquis McKenner, and Jeffrey.

First, a short rationalization of what occurred tonight was given by the one in command of the occasion, Crown Prince Conrad.

“Marquis McKenner, do you have got any concept of ​​the rationale for the crime?”

“I can’t consider any purpose in any respect. The person will need to have been employed by somebody, however … I can’t consider something that might provoke a grudge towards me.”

Marquis McKenner is in his fifties. He straightened his again confidently and answered with a little bit of confusion.

“Nonetheless, I deeply apologize for the inconvenience triggered to the night get together presided over by Your Highness. If the Second Knight Order Commander didn’t come speeding over, I’d have …”

“You’ll have died. The person had a skinny, poisoned knife.”

The Crown Prince’s phrases made the faces of all of the individuals grim.

“Jeffrey, when did you discover the person?”

“The primary one that observed him was not me, however the younger girl who accompanied me in the present day. In the course of the dance, I used to be instructed that there was a waiter who hadn’t been working for a while. I seemed and did discover his actions unnatural and observed when he minimize by means of the venue, which was after I chased after him.”

The Crown Prince tapped the fingertips of each fingers collectively.

“I see. A lady pointed him out?”

“Sure.”

“That man has been working on the citadel for over a 12 months now. I’ve despatched troopers to summon Baron Eld, who wrote the letter of introduction for that man, however my guess is that he in all probability bribed the Baron to go off as his follower.”

The center-aged man in command of personnel, who couldn’t see by means of that guise, was wiping his chilly sweat with a handkerchief.

“Really, the primary guard who pursued the person into the backyard has superb night time imaginative and prescient. When he arrived on the fallen man, he caught a glimpse of the again of a girl operating away.”

“A lady?”

“Did a girl knock that man unconscious?”

Everybody was stunned.

“He didn’t see the lady knock the person unconscious. The guards had chased the person from the venue, to the terrace, and to the backyard. The person solely disappeared for just a few seconds after leaping into the backyard. However after they discovered him, he was already unconscious. It’s troublesome even for a person to knock a person unconscious in such a brief window of time. That’s why it’s additionally attainable that the guard made a mistake. Or possibly a girl who occurred to be there was stunned and ran away.”

“However there should be somebody who incapacitated the person, proper?” stated the King.

“What had been the traits of the lady?” requested the Knight-Captain of the Royal Guard.

“There was already a substantial distance and it was darkish, so I don’t have any particulars aside from she wore a costume.”

Crown Prince Conrad answered regretfully.

Jeffrey listened together with his mouth shut, however Victoria’s face got here to thoughts. It was she who observed the actions of that man. And he recalled how she confirmed no hesitation when she tripped the thief with Nonna on her again.

“First, we have now to seek out out concerning the man’s background. Marquis McKenner, may we speak a bit of extra?”

“After all.”

Marquis McKenner answered the decision of the First Knight Order Commander, who additionally acts because the Knight-Captain of the Royal Guard.

With no additional info, the assembly was dismissed, and several other left the room in haste to go about their duties. 5 folks remained within the room: the King, the 2 Princes, the Chancellor, and Jeffrey. Jeffrey remained because the Crown Prince signaled him together with his eyes.

The Crown Prince began the dialog.

“Jeffrey, I’ve a sense that the lady was your companion. I didn’t reveal it in entrance of the others, however the guards managed to see the colour of the lady’s costume. It was both gentle purple or gentle blue. They couldn’t ensure. However your companion was sporting a lightweight purple costume. And he or she observed the person’s actions at an early stage? Who’s that girl?”

“She a girl I met lately, named Victoria Sellers.”

“Are you able to inform us the way you met?”

Jeffrey determined that it will be higher for Victoria if he spoke truthfully, and first apologized to His Majesty the King and the 2 Princes for letting her, who’s a commoner, take part as a noble.

“It doesn’t matter now, don’t fear about it. Are you able to inform us the small print of your encounter? Is it attainable that she approached you with some objective in thoughts?”

On the King’s request, Jeffrey defined issues so as, beginning with that day without work he had.

She tripped the snatch thief whereas carrying a sleeping woman on her again.

She picked up an deserted little one who occurred to be on the website of the crime and requested him to be her guarantor to maintain the kid.

He met her once more when she turned his uncle’s assistant.

She turned a tenant within the residence of the snatch sufferer Yorana Haynes.

When he invited her to dinner, she requested that her little one got here alongside, so the three of them ate collectively.

He invited her to the night get together, and though he was turned down as soon as, his cousin coerced her a bit of and he or she agreed.

Crown Prince Conrad nodded with a ‘Hmm’.

“I see. From what I’ve heard, it’s an opportunity assembly. It was Jeffrey who courted her in spite of everything. It doesn’t seem to be she approached you with a objective in thoughts.”

“I wasn’t courting her.”

“Irrespective of who listened to that story, clearly Commander is making advances. That is uncommon. Why?”

“…She doesn’t have a look at me in an disagreeable approach. I felt snug. Extra importantly, she has the spirit to reside with out counting on others regardless of being a girl and he or she picked up and tries to nurture a toddler from one other nation …”

“Are you in love?”

He truthfully nodded on the frank comment from the King.

“……Sure.”

The Crown Prince checked out Jeffrey with a deep sigh.

“You’ve turned down all the great ones I’ve supplied you, however you’ve fallen in love with a difficult lady once more, Jeffrey.”

“I’m very sorry about that. However she’s not a difficult particular person.”

“Brother, I wish to meet that lady too. If she was the one who incapacitated that man, she should be magnificently expert.”

The second prince Cedric, who was assured in his bodily power and swordsmanship, stated.

“What are you going to do while you meet? This doesn’t concern you.”

“Don’t you need to know simply how skillful she is?”

“Cease, Cedric.”

“Please cease, Your Highness.”

The King and Jeffrey intervene on the similar time.

“Your Majesty, Your Highness Conrad. You might assume that Victoria is somebody’s subordinate, but when she is that sort of particular person, would she take custody of a kid who would hinder her work?”

“Nicely, that’s definitely an excellent level. Jeffrey, I’m not going to intervene in your try to court docket that lady. But when something ought to go improper, are you able to report it to me?”

“……That’s.”

“In case you don’t like that, Commander, I’ll tackle that position.”

“I refuse to try this, Your Highness Cedric. I’ll watch over her.”

So the 5 of them additionally dispersed and Jeffrey left.