Episode 370
Episode 122. Coronation Ceremony (3)
While Heisle Zach was preparing a plan to use the blue dagger, the Society of Roses concentrated on secret escort.
‘It’s a bit cumbersome, but anyway, it’s Jang Mi-hoe’s first duty under direct control of the imperial family.’
There should be no failures, no small mistakes.
Even with Yuma, there won’t be any holes in the escort, but
it’s not for nothing that the phrase ‘one in ten’ is used.
Natalie, along with brothers Chen and Dan Dunn, inspected the entire barefoot circuit of Hella.
In addition, a special intelligence team was organized and linked with the gateway guards to organize the identities of all people entering and leaving the capital.
It was the gateway to the capital that at least tens of thousands of people came and went every day. It was a terrible labor to figure out all the people and weed out those who could be even a little bit dangerous.
‘Hoe Lord.”
It was Chen. Natalie was looking at the people classified as dangerous in the secret underground space of the morning star.
Just by looking at her pale face and frizzy hair, you could tell what kind of hard work she was doing.
“Tell me, Chen. Bring me some coffee.”
Chen had already brought hot coffee. Natalie smiled and accepted the coffee from Chen.
“An abnormality has been detected among the aristocrats in the capital. It is not yet known if it is related to this coronation ceremony.”
“Abnormal air flow?”
“yes. About a dozen aristocratic families, including Dries Gray Sirin Romano Quirrell, recently borrowed Povian’s illicit loans or held auctions to dispose of their luxuries.”
“You mean you need the cash. Did the group have any gambling debts?”
“Currently, the Povian family does not operate a gambling house. It must have been because the imperial family was paying attention to Yang Min-gu.”
“I don’t think they’re going to borrow money to provide aid.”
“It was used for relief aid.”
“Copper! If that’s something you can’t do, that’s it.”
“It’s copper. So I let the kids go and looked closely, and it was confirmed that the money borrowed and the money donated did not match. Most of the money that was left went to the warehouses of the Cannons and Schrells.”
Natalie took a sip of her coffee and tilted her head.
“Cannon and Stell are a bigger family compared to the other nobles mentioned earlier.”
“Yes, it seems that they are plotting something with the main axis.”
“Hmm… Even though Imperial nobles usually have empty heads, I don’t think they would think of committing anything during the coronation ceremony. If that happens, it will be ruined.”
“I am of the same opinion. However, I did not understand the sudden provision of cash, so I reported it.”
Tick tock tock. The tip of Natalie’s index finger hit the table lightly.
“Are there any of them that we have a weakness for and that we can touch?”
“The Quirrell family and the Syrin Romano family are included in that range.”
“Then, select a couple of them from those two families and catch them. Not those who are at the bottom of the scale, but those who have some influence in the family. Even if it’s not related to the coronation, it’s clear that he’s doing something stupid.”
“yes.”
“And contact Lord Mars.
Do you know what that means?”
The meaning was to find out if the cash accumulated in the warehouses of the Cannons and Schrells could escape through the gateway.
The moment Chen nodded and was about to leave, Natalie grabbed him as if she had forgotten something.
“I’ll tell the top, take the kids and eat a few dragon turtles. You, too, have no face.”
“Thank you, Lord.”
The Rose Society was able to raise an unexpected harvest within a single day.
Si Lin Romano, who had been brought in for a little conversation, found the mark of a knife being placed on the aristocrat’s throat.
His name is Bape Sirin Romano. Sirin Romano, the nephew of the family head, was the one who rebelled when Heisle Zach first mentioned the ‘blue dagger’.
“What are you doing!”
“First of all, I apologize for the rough handling, Mr. Bape.
By the way, how many times have we met before? It happened three times in the Povianga drug den, in Hale Back Alley Bastard Village, and in the Garrison Investigation Room.”
“Aren’t those the problems that we decided to pass on then! Why are you doing this again!”
“That last drug den was pretty good. It was very impressive to see them kidnapping commoners and trying to sell them because they didn’t have enough money for medicine.
That means you shouldn’t come out so stiff.”
Dan had a habit of dealing very harshly with any opponent, whether he was a nobleman or under Tali’s orders. Bape couldn’t hide his humiliation and trembled.
“Well, put the past personal life aside. Originally, I wanted to have a hot conversation with Bape today, but I don’t think it’s necessary. Where did that wound on your neck come from?”
Dan pointed, and Bape hurriedly covered the nape of his neck.
Then, without hesitation, Dan took out the dagger hidden in his sleeve and scratched his head with the tip of the knife.
“Before you ask twice, you might as well tell me, Bape. The blue wound is a problem that we have no choice but to react very sensitively to. In some cases, even if Bape is a noble, he cannot be alive.”
“Can’t you live alive?
Are you going to kill me? No matter how much you are under Baron Drake’s protection, if you did such a thing.”
“It’s not that I’m killing it…
How do I explain this? Did you show that blue wound to the doctors?
But you just say it’s no big deal, right?”
Bape nodded slightly.
“That’s the poison used by the blue dagger chieftains. Neither doctors nor healers can cure it. Judging by the scab, it looks like it’s been a few days, but after a week, the poison starts to work in earnest.”
“Is it also poison? What is it that no one can fix!”
“There is only one person in the world who can cure that poison. Rose Week. If you tell me where you met them, I’ll take you, Bape-sama, or I’ll just let you go.”
“lie! Where in the world is such poison?”
“As you said, it’s a poison that shouldn’t have remained in this world. In fact, it’s a poison I’ve only heard of. The blue dagger ended 30 years ago. If the elder we met earlier hadn’t recognized it, I wouldn’t have known either.”
“I can’t believe it.”
“You’d better believe me, Bape.”
again and again. As soon as Natalie entered, all the members of the group knelt down in unison. As she sat down to take the pipe, the Bape couldn’t even raise his face, as if he was afraid of her.
“The blue dagger was more like an assassin group than an underworld. It was a group with hundreds of years of tradition, and Prince Haseo was assassinated by them more than five times. He was also a longtime nemesis of the rose society.”
“Rose wine…. Are you really saying I’m going to die?”
“No, Dawn seems to have scared you, but I’ll give you the antidote as an apology. In the first place, our method was too radical. When I was still a gangster, I couldn’t give up all my habits.”
Natalie held out a small glass bottle. I motioned him to drink it right away, and Bape scooped it up in one gulp.
Then the blue mark on the bape’s neck disappeared in an instant. After confirming the fact in the mirror, Bape touched the nape of my neck several times as if it were creepy.
“Thank you! Natalie! If you release me now, Joe will keep his mouth shut.”
“But my favor is not without cost, babe.”
“What do you need blood for?”
“Please make an appointment with me.
We will never speak of the blue dagger we heard today.”
“Is that really enough? I promise you! With the honor of the family.”
“yes. And I’ll protect you from the blue dagger in the future. The fact that they left blue marks on their necks meant that they would surely kill them. It hurts our ego a little bit.”
“You mean if you leave a mark… you will surely die?”
Bape thought of the aristocrats gathered at Cannon’s house not long ago.
Except for Heisl, the blue dagger’s knife touched the neck for a moment, and all of them had the same marks as himself.
“Yes, there is absolutely no way to keep them alive. I’ll attach the children to you, so please go back. You’d better refrain from going out for a while. Until we find them and erase their names from history again.”
At Natalie’s beckoning, one of the troopers brought a sack full of gold coins.
“This is a consolation money. I won’t be bothering you like a bully from now on, so please forgive my rudeness until now.”
Bape left the basement with a bewildered face.
At the point where he had just handed out the gold coin, Bape realized one thing.
Natalie knew everything about her sudden borrowing of money. He, too, was a human being who went through strife and politics unique to the aristocracy.
“Sir, can I send it like that?”
“step. Why did we categorize the author as a human being who could be ‘touched and harmed’?”
“Because there are so many disgusting corners…
“No, Bape Sirin Romano has a very strong survival instinct. He is a human who knows very well that if we stab him at the Imperial Castle or the garrison just because we touched him, we will face death. What do you think such a person must have felt now?”
I don’t know who got him involved with the blue dagger, but he must have figured out where to stick to keep his life.
said Natalie, spitting lightly from her pipe.
And Bape, who had left the basement before the pipe lights went out, came back.
“Rose wine… I will tell you everything. Will you swear that you will spare me?”
Natalie saw him and stood up with a big smile.
“Sure, Babe. I swear on the honor of Baron Drake and the Society of Roses. Eat inside. There are more than just these dark basements in this morning star.”
* * * The next day, Yuma looked at the Rose Society’s urgent news that flew to the imperial castle with a serious face. Since I couldn’t leave the imperial castle until the coronation, I couldn’t go and inspect it myself.
‘Heisle Zach and the blue dagger…? What the hell is this?’
In the urgent message sent by the Rose Society, the plan of Heizel’s assassination mother, which Bape vomited, was written in great detail. The fact that everyone who participated in it became the target of the blue dagger.
It was something I couldn’t even imagine.
In the first place, he had almost forgotten the name Heisle Zak. That’s why Yuma didn’t have a presence.
But the problem was that the damn guy had the name ‘Zach’.
There was no way that the main members of the Zach family would have done such a ridiculous thing. In other words, this was Heisl’s arbitrary act.
Nevertheless, if this fact leaks out, the treason
will go back to ‘Zach’, not ‘Heisle Zach’.
If Yuma risked her own life to protect them, they might be able to avoid extinction, but it would only be for a moment if they looked like Rolmandi.
Besides, Yuma had a much deeper bond with Zach than the imperial castle. He will choose the Zach family at a critical moment, and that alone will deal an irreversible blow to the Empire.
It hadn’t been long since Halun had destroyed Rochshire.
An assassination plot at a time when the entire empire is still in sorrow!
Yuma suppressed his trembling fists in anger and fell into thought.
‘First of all, it is written in the report that Heizel’s recruits have been secured. However, the sudden appearance of a blue dagger… It’s something that never happened before the return.’
The story of the blue dagger being dismantled by the Rose Society was a famous anecdote even before returning.
Their reappearance means that it happened because of their own return. If so, it was necessary to think about the connection with the demons.
Tok tok tok. The tip of Yuma’s index finger hit the table lightly.
They appear at this point, mark the necks of the nobles involved as if declaring war, and assassinate the woman who would become the Empress of the Empire at the request of a grotesque figure like Heizel?
It was a story that made no sense.
•There is a high probability that Izzle is a discarded hand even by them. Besides, there must be a different purpose. You have to figure it out. How Heizl was connected to them, and how those who died 30 years ago reestablished their power.’
Before that happens, the date of the coronation must be postponed first. Heysel must be dealt with without anyone knowing so that the Zach family will not become a traitor.
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