Public trial?You deserve it too!

"My lord, I'm really just an errand runner, I don't know anything."

[No problem, this guy has been terrified, and he is telling the truth. 】

The system skillfully put away the magic, and she no longer needed an order from Claude to activate the lie detection technique.

"I understand, I am satisfied—but you should know what to say and what not to say?"

"I know, I know, I know." The man nodded deeply. "I know the rules, as long as you say it, your head will move."

"Okay, clean up your situation a bit more naturally, then go downstairs with me, and then lie on the floor of the tavern and pretend to be dead. If someone asks you, just say that you were knocked out from drinking, and you know you just woke up."

Claude patted the man on the shoulder and motioned him to stand up.

"Yes, yes, yes, thank you for your kindness!"

The man nodded gratefully, immediately put his goods back, wiped his footprints, and closed the door again.

"grown ups……"

"Let's go."

Claude turned around and went downstairs.

The man let out a long breath, and immediately followed him.

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"Come on! You useless bastards! You crawled out of your mother's belly just to let me beat you down!"

The ex-gang members were laughing wildly and beating each other, keeping their mouths close to each other's parents, while Bob was very skillful behind Charles, who was eccentric and madly attacking here, but all of them were blocked by the Knights of Justice. I could only see the man's face full of beatings and words full of beatings, but he just couldn't reach him.

...Obviously this tactic has been very skilled.

Georgi occupied the inside of the bar at this time, and while drinking, he smashed the wine bottle in his hand on the other's forehead, and the standard Imperial language on his mouth became a Volga accent.

"Ula!"

He punched the two men who were trying to get in, turned them over one by one, cheered and took another sip of strong alcohol for himself.

then……

boom!

The burst of magic immediately destroyed the bar and the wine bottles behind it.

——Congratulations to Georgi for officially stepping into the ranks of the Knights of Justice

But the current opponent did not show off ecstatically, but his eyes became blood red.

"It's you who fucking smashed my wine, right?"

"No, no!"

The other party explained in panic, although they don't know why the other party is so irritable because they don't have alcohol to drink, but the biological nature is obviously telling them to seek advantages and avoid disadvantages as soon as possible.

Randolph is still barely able to maintain a little thinking ability. He is pulling Irwin to prevent him from being brought down because of the siege. After all, these two people have the lowest combat effectiveness now.

As for Crazy Euler, who was already crying and screaming, Erwin looked at the enemy in front of him, and no one could even hear what he was talking about.

——Probably "You fucking pay back the money" and "Did you dare to ask me for money" and "Did you still have money and didn't pay taxes" and so on...

"Where is the boss... we can't continue fighting like this endlessly?"

Randolph was already a bit battered. The chaotic battle on the first floor has continued until now, and it doesn't even look like it will end.

Up to now, the drunkards and spectators have been almost cleared, either they were beaten up long ago, or they slipped away in advance, leaving only four drunken drunkards and a member of the Orphan Gang still fighting. However, gang members are pouring in from outside, obviously they regard these people as coming to kick the hall.

It's just that from the time when Claude dealt with the Bloody Hand Gang, he knew that this gang of good and bad ears would not get any benefits from the knights, not to mention that there are now four knights, including two knights of justice—— It's just that a few people have been drunk for a long time and are a little delirious, so now the two sides are still fighting back and forth.

Then two people flew out and knocked down a group of people.

"Boss!"

Charles roared in surprise, instantly attracting the attention of countless people.

Claude kicked the two people who were blocking the way at the stairs, and winked at the man behind, who immediately lay down obediently on the ground, looked at the miserable condition of the person next to him, gritted his teeth, and put his He knocked his nose hard on the ground, blood flowed out immediately, and then lay on the ground without moving.

The action here immediately attracted the attention of some gangsters, and people immediately surrounded him.

"Quick! This is their boss!"

Claude's expression was a bit subtle, and when the other party met Brittany to carry out the mission, he must give Gorman an order - absolutely not allowing Charles to touch even a drop of wine!

...Or don't even allow the other party to eat grapes.

But that's all for later, let's talk about it now.

Claude overturned a person who rushed over, and then——

——He stomped on and broke the neck of the man pretending to be sleeping.

【I thought you were really going to let him go. 】

"How come, I can hide my traces for a while longer, just to let him help me clean up the scene willingly. '

Claude grabbed the gang members who were rushing over and threw them again towards the place where the crowd gathered, and the screams stopped abruptly in an instant.

'And I also need to pay attention to my own image. I can't use such means that violate my personality. You must know that everyone here is my own. '

[I am also one of my own, right? 】

'I don't need secrets from you. '

Claude smiled faintly, picked up a gang member who had lost consciousness, and charged into the protective circle of his own people.

"Boss, there are too many bedbugs here, shall we continue to fight?"

Randolph wiped his face, Georgi's promotion was too big, and now the whole tavern looks like it just rained.

"Stop fighting, let's withdraw first - the wine is not finished yet!"

"But it's a bit difficult. The windows and doors are blocked by the other party. If you continue to fight, you might kill some people."

The boy's voice was a bit worried. Obviously, the current situation is still a subconscious gang fight between the two sides - the gang members have no such strength at all, while the gangsters here are playing high, completely forgetting to use magic power, so in fact the other party still I didn't find the real strength here...

Claude glanced around and smiled.

"Randolph, remember one sentence - when God closes a door for you, he will open a window for you, if not, then fuck him!"

Randolph was taken aback.

[This is where the wall is the thinnest, and it does not affect the main structure. 】

With one punch, the boy directly blasted a big hole in the entire wall, leaving everyone stunned.

"Charge! Next tavern!"

Claude let out a strange cry.

"Ula!"

Georgi immediately jumped out and caught up with his captain, and the other three cheered and rushed out.

Bob was numb and didn't know what happened, but he still knew what to do and when, so he ran away immediately.

The men who stayed in the tavern looked at me and I looked at you, but no one dared to catch up.

"They...are they really here to drink?"

"Then why fight?"

"Drink...hey?"

Someone next to him interjected: "I seem to have heard that someone fooled them with fake wine."

"Oh...that makes sense..."

Obviously these guys have no intention of maintaining their own tavern.

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In the end, Claude sent people back from door to door. At least Randolph insisted on telling where the two of them lived. Charles was taken away by Bob, and he carried Georgie back to himself. home.

Throwing the snoring man on the bed in the guest room, Claude walked to the back of the house, smashed the ice on the water tank, took a cold shower, and then returned to the living room, starting to think about today's harvest.

"It's not bad. Gorman's side has been finalized. Friedrich obviously cared about what I said. He sent all capable hands, otherwise Charles wouldn't know him—I also helped cover it up. There should be no traces of suspicion on our side."

[Looks like good luck. 】

"It's really good, now I have found out the real problem."

Claude raised his eyebrows.

"It's just... I really didn't expect that it would be the First Prince who was smuggling with the Merchant Alliance on a large scale, and the volume of transactions is obviously increasing. Otherwise, the Baal Chamber of Commerce would not have sent the goods to the imperial capital in such a hurry. Selling stolen goods is still such a large-scale recruitment of peripheral members."

[What exactly is Augustus going to do? 】

"I don't know, anyway, I only know that every bottle of Shangmeng rum he sells now is a piece of soil on his future grave."

The boy sneered.

"I don't know why the emperor has been so conniving with each other, but obviously, it is absolutely impossible for the Imperial Intelligence Bureau to be ignorant of the fact that the Baal Chamber of Commerce's blatant operation is simply telling others to come and investigate it. But , Until now, not only did the Imperial Intelligence Bureau not stop anything, it even pretended not to see it at all, which is a bit interesting."

[Do you want to put a long line to catch big fish? 】

"Big fish? Augustus isn't a big enough fish? To put it mildly, it's something he can throw the blame on. He can throw away anything that's lax, or cheating. But if it's big , the emperor thinks about it a little bit, this is conspiracy and collusion, connecting with foreign countries."

Claude narrowed his eyes and began to tap the table with his fingers.

The system already knew that the other party's behavior showed that she was thinking about something, so she didn't continue to talk to disturb him.

"Hmm...interesting."

[Where is the fun? 】

"The actions and behavior of the Barr Chamber of Commerce are very interesting."

Claude rubbed his chin.

"Mr. Gutenberg, shouldn't be such a low-priced thing... This method is so rough that it is like a prodigal son who doesn't understand bullshit playing tickets, and the other party is a non-knight, and he is just relying on commercial means to win. How can a man who has achieved his current status have such a big flaw? Just grab someone and ask him all the truth, and even when it started—is it possible?"

【You mean, that person lied? 】

"No, what I mean is, whether the other party is lying or not, they have said too much information, so much that it is abnormal, so much that it seems... It seems that someone deliberately let them say so !"

A slight smile appeared on the corner of Claude's mouth.

"No matter who is suspicious, no matter who is caught, even if it is a peripheral person, if you ask about this kind of thing, you will definitely find a way to investigate it, because this matter is very involved, and as long as you investigate, it must be clear at a glance—— That is to say, the Barr Chamber of Commerce is deliberately leaking information?"

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【You mean, that Mr. Gutenberg Barr did not try his best to defend Augustus on this matter, but deliberately spread this matter? 】

"There is only one explanation. This series of behaviors of the Baer Chamber of Commerce is actually just pretending to hide itself, but from the perspective of an intelligence collector, it is purely 300 taels of silver here. These behaviors are all to seduce Check it out for everyone who notices."

【So... In fact, there must have been other voices within the First Prince's forces? 】

"I'm afraid that's the case. Someone must have done this without telling Augustus—after all, if the behavior of the Barr Chamber of Commerce is reported in the past, it is actually very beautiful. It is easy to fool the boss who has not learned about intelligence. gone."

Claude affirmed.

"I'm guessing that this is a long-planned attack to completely drive the First Prince into the abyss, because this matter is a deception. Once the Imperial Intelligence Bureau intends to investigate, it will definitely be transparent. —do you remember when Randolph first started courting me?"

[Yes... You just completed the training mission in the northern border of the empire, and when you headed south to the eastern front. 】

"Yes, I was still very confused at that time. Originally, I planned to rely on my own ability to personally send the First Prince on the road after I came back, and I planned to take this as my credit, as a successor to climb up——I ended up I was still pretending to be a fool outside, and suddenly Randolph showed me a favor.

"The favor of the son of a high-ranking intelligence official is a very important weather vane. It shows that the originally complicated and confusing battle for the crown prince has come to light, and Augustus has lost. So in order to make up for the lack of credit, I deliberately exposed My own magical talent, and I handed over the induction magic - and was directly forced to get engaged, and until now I am dealing with a bunch of bad things that follow, I am really convinced."

The young man sighed.

"That is, after we finished the battle in the northern border, Randolph's attitude suddenly became eager. Before that, the only communication we had with the outside world was periodic letters from home. From the timeline, the emperor should know about it at the beginning of this year. This matter—in other words, the effect of this matter should have been achieved.”

[So Gutenberg is not actually a member of the Great Prince Augustus? 】

"This person definitely has two minds. Although I don't know who he is for the time being, his actions are making the First Prince completely lose his right to inherit—this is not something he can do alone. After all, the First Prince is not There are only a bunch of young people from the big nobles, and he also has a teacher, Leicht. From the chat with Jung before, I can know that Leicht is a character of his contemporaries. And Jung is so upright, A character with a high level of means, the evaluation of the other party is also positive, which is enough to see the other party's ability."

the boy explained.

"Such a person can connect and balance the power of the eldest prince, and even suppress the second prince into a fool. Although Jung and Ludwig are also responsible for this, the ability of the other party can also be seen, even from the means. Generally speaking, he may be stronger than Jung, otherwise he would not have been sent by the old emperor to assist Augustus, whom he valued—then the problem would be, how terrible it would be to suppress such a person without seeing internal problems ability to compile?"

[Unless Augustus does it himself, it is impossible to cover Leichter's eyes,

"How is this possible? From Ludwig's side, it can be seen that none of the teachers given by the emperor are free, and they are absolutely loyal. It is impossible for Augustus, and there is no need to do such a thing. things."

Claude laughed.