Battle of the Twin Cities: The Ninth Councilor

Chapter 51 Suicide
"You want to see my father?" Camille said apologetically, "It's a pity Mr. Marcus, my father left for Belgüen this morning, and you came a step late."

Went to Bergün?

Such a coincidence?
Marcus froze for a moment, then looked at Marvin.

The ghost sent by the Black Rose Sect obviously didn't know about it, and he was also stunned.

He pondered for a few seconds and asked, "Can you tell me when Patriarch Ferros will be back?"

"I'm sorry, but I can't say for sure." Camille replied, "Father doesn't come back every time he goes out at a fixed time. It can be as short as a month or as long as three years."

That can be troublesome.

Marcus can wait, but Hextech can't wait that long.

Do I still have to go to those congressmen?
"However... my father told me before he left that I will take care of all the affairs of the family when he is away." Camille turned and said, "Mr. , maybe I can help you."

After hearing this, Stevan looked at Camille with a dangerous look in his eyes.

Obviously he is the next heir to the position of head of the family, why did his father hand over the family affairs to Camille when he left?

This is obviously not trusting one's own abilities!

"If that's the case... that's okay." Marcus pondered for a few seconds, looking around: "Can I go in and talk? This is obviously not a good place to talk about things."

Camille took a step aside, stretched out her hand to guide and said, "I'm the one who neglected, Mr. Marcus, please, let's talk in the study."

"Yeah." Marcus nodded, "Catherine, keep an eye on Marvin, don't let him take the opportunity to run away."

"Yes! Sir!" Kaiser replied loudly, and led Marvin to follow behind Marcus and Camille.

Stevan was last, he was just incompetent and not really stupid.

From Marvin's reaction just now, he could see that the other party was approaching him and pleasing him for a purpose, so naturally he would not say a word for him, and let Catherine escort him away.

Soon, passing through a small path in the manor, a luxurious residence like a palace appeared in front of everyone.

Arriving here, the busiest place in the manor is conveniently arrived.

There are groups of guards patrolling everywhere, and gardeners are taking care of trees, flowers, shrubs and other greenery. Young girls in maid outfits are running around, cleaning up the dead branches and leaves that the gardeners have cut.

"Catherine, this is much more magnificent than your big house." Marcus stopped to watch for a moment, and expressed his feelings.

Catherine said later: "The Philos family has a history of more than 100 years, which is longer than several member families. Of course, the Gilaman family is much worse."

"Hey." Marcus pointed out, "From now on, if nothing happens to Gilaman's family, they will never be able to catch up with the pace of development of the Philos family."

"Mr. Marcus is overrated." Camille said modestly, "The main business of the Philos family is nothing more than the original crystals produced in Shurima, oh... that is what is now called Hex gems on the market. There is almost no other use for things other than mining areas for blasting, and there will always be a day when the market will be saturated.”

After hearing this, Marcus had an ambiguous expression: "Camille, you are a smart person, I don't believe you don't know what happened in Piltover last night."

"Mr. Marcus is also a wise man."

Camille smiled without saying a word, led Marcus and others into the mansion, and walked towards the study.

On the way, he ordered a maid to prepare refreshments for the guests.

After entering the study room, Marcos found that the Philos family was truly a hermit family. Just a study room was several times more luxurious than Mel's office.

Any item here is a valuable treasure, enough to make a commoner in Piltover rich overnight.

"Mr. Marcus can just come in." Camille blocked the door: "Miss Catherine, please wait in the side hall."

Then she ordered to her younger brother: "Stewan, escort Marvin to the basement, and I will interrogate him later."

As soon as the words fell, Ma Wen suddenly shouted: "The black rose will bloom again!"

Immediately afterwards, taking advantage of everyone's unpreparedness, he slammed his head against the wall next to him.

It was so powerful that even the brains burst out.

Stevan was the closest, stupefied by the sight, and wiped his face dully, only to find that Marvin's splashed brains had landed on his own face.

Immediately, the teenage boy uttered the shrill scream that a girl would only utter when she was frightened.

Marcus turned his head and saw this scene, secretly frightened by Black Rose's method of brainwashing the congregation, this person is not even afraid of death!
Camille was very surprised. Marvin was exposed first. She thought Marcos was with him, and Marcos might even be one of the identities of Pale Lady.

She kept her composure all the time, just looking for an opportunity to spy on the other party, or to take the opportunity to control Marvin and interrogate the information she wanted.

Unexpectedly, Ma Wen committed suicide first!
The action was so decisive that even she couldn't react to stop it.

"What a good way!" Camille said coldly.

At this time, the patrolling guards in the manor heard the screams and rushed forward. Looking at the corpses on the ground, they confirmed the safety of the two little masters and guarded them layer by layer.

"It's okay." Camille calmly ordered: "Take the young master back to your room, and two more people will throw the body into the back garden to make fertilizer."

A bearded man walked out of the guard: "Yes, miss!"

Then he assigned a few people to drag the corpse away, and others sent some of them away to send Stevan away, and then the maid came to clean up.

Marcus watched the whole process with cold eyes, and the people in the entire Philos manor were like precise gears, operating in an orderly manner when encountering anything.

But in just a few minutes, the scene was completely cleaned up, and it was completely impossible to see that a person had just died here.

After the maids retreated, two more people came and took Catherine to the side hall.

It was the first time for the young lady of the councilor's family to witness the death with her own eyes, she was so frightened that her face turned pale, and she was at a loss for the whole time.

Camille then closed the study door and said to Marcus, "Mr. made me laugh."

"It's okay."

Marcus nodded expressionlessly.

The reason why Camille waited until now to close the door was very obvious. It was to take the opportunity to show the strength of the Philos family to Marcus and the others.

But unfortunately, this kind of scene is completely trivial to Marcos.

Think back when he was an anchor, he was encouraged by the audience to play horror games in the middle of the night, what scene did he not see?
Not to mention that his brains were cracked, even if a person was disembowelled and placed in front of him, he would still be able to eat a whole portion of stewed food without changing his face.

(End of this chapter)