I, the Lord of the End

Chapter 108, Confession
In the snow-falling big garden, next to the frozen fountain.

Beneath the white statue of Jupiter, lord of heaven, the two faced each other.

On the left is a white-haired, neutral-looking, handsome boy who is not like ordinary people. His silver-white hair flutters in the wind. Although his face is sad, Sid still maintains a face called The "high self-confidence" state, coupled with his handsome face, made the scenery in the entire light elf garden eclipsed by Sid's charm, and the surrounding wind and snow seemed to be swirling around him. Add more color.

If Sid's state at this time is digitized according to the character card of Dungeons and Dragons, then his charisma value must be above 25 points.

The expression of the middle-aged man on the right changed slightly. Surprises flashed across his elegant gentleman's face. He leaned on a cane on the ground and drew circles on the snow-covered floor. Earl Mecklen obviously never expected Sid to doubt it. To himself, his eyes rolled on Sid's face several times, and seeing that he didn't seem to be joking, he could only squeeze out a smile: "Little brother, you must have made a mistake, right? How could I be a traitor? "

Sid didn't speak, he put his hands behind his back and looked at the earl quietly.

"Why do you doubt me?" Seeing that Sid still didn't believe it, Mecklen looked very aggrieved: "I was the first to submit the post-war report, and it was my proposal to ask you to check it out. I was only a deputy in the war, and it was Charlie's decision to attack Friedland. As for the logistics, I have never seen the logistics! How can you say that I am a traitor?"

"Your Excellency Mecklen, you are very powerful, you are really powerful. In this big drama, almost everyone is serving your plan." Sid walked up to Mecklen with his hands behind his back, and wiped the earl Passed by, then turned around: "At first, Your Highness and I believed in your investigation results very much. We both believed that Charlie was the traitor, because your conclusion was reasonable and logically correct, with almost no flaws. , Your Highness and I are doing as you wish, suspecting that Charlie is the one with the problem."

"It's actually not difficult to understand, because among the three parties, only you are willing to cooperate with the investigation. Charlie's attitude is very tough. He has always been like today, taking a very fierce attitude against us. The Earl of Orlando is non-violent. The attitude of cooperation, so we have a kind of natural trust in you, and this is why the castle of Cogne and his party are here." Sid walked behind the earl, and slowly turned around: "It is precisely there that I found your first a flaw."

"Did you make a mistake, little brother?" Earl Mecklen shook his head, his expression still aggrieved: "I persuaded you to investigate Castle Cogne! They won't let you go."

"The situation inside Cogne Castle is very strange. The traces of battle left there show that the castle would not have fallen so easily without the betrayal of the ghost. But when I investigated the interior with His Highness, I found that the entire castle was cleaned up very cleanly. It's clean, every trace of it has been cleaned up." Sid paced slowly, and he stretched out a finger: "The situation in the castle was completely posed for us to see afterwards."

"Then someone must have cleaned up the castle. You should ask Charlie, not me!" Earl Mecklen said impatiently, "How do I know what happened inside?"

"There, I found something wrong. It is obvious that four weeks have passed since the Cogne Castle massacre. Why does the castle still smell of blood? There is also the pendant on the inner ring of the Blessing Church." Sid took it out of his arms. He smiled and said, "If it wasn't for my friend Fogg, who is a member of the living guard and proficient in everything about the Blessing Sect, we would have been blinded by you."

"It is absolutely impossible for the members of the inner ring of the Blessing Cult to discard their mark, because it is a symbol of their identity, and they will try to get it back by all means, unless they die in battle, but if they die in battle, the mark will definitely be broken State." Sid put the pendant in front of the count: "Therefore, there is only one explanation left, that is, this mark was obtained through special channels, and it was deliberately placed in the castle to mislead us towards the worship of worship. Think about it over there."

"Sure enough, after leaving, His Highness and I returned quickly, and saw the group of castle defenders packed up and left in a hurry, leaving behind an empty castle." Sid shook his head: "On the way back, we were attacked by the devil. Attack, narrow escape, this is also your plan."

"What nonsense are you talking about, little brother." Earl Mecklen smiled. He spread his hands and said very seriously: "I don't know what you are talking about, but if it follows what you said, everything must be logical. What logic is there in your call?"

"Okay, even if you take a step back, I deliberately induced you to go to Cogne Castle to investigate, so why did I launch an attack after successfully inducing you? If you are dead, then so many things that were arranged before What's the use?"

"In order to silence them." A strange smile appeared on Sid's face: "Those people have completed their mission, but they know too much. If we don't silence them, when will we wait?"

"!" Earl Mecklen's face was suffocated, and the words he had originally thought were blocked in his throat.

"You are very sure that nothing will happen even if you attack His Highness, because it is impossible for the royal family not to keep back." Sid continued: "That's why you said at the banquet next time, 'Fortunately, you guys Go', because only if we go, can we have this move that kills three birds with one stone."

"..." Count Mecklen fell silent.

"Up to this point, everything is still under your control. You are just a little puzzled. With such conclusive evidence, why Your Royal Highness has not acted for a long time? You are a little anxious, so you communicated with the internal response of Your Highness, That’s Sir Yehir.” Sid sneered and said: “It’s an internal response, but Sir Yehir is not your lackey, he just hit it off with you, he needs to make achievements quickly, and needs a lot of money to support him Breakthrough, so from the moment he came to Bad Wolf, he was blackmailing you."

"Yesil got a lot of money from the three of you. As a price, he always revealed the news about the princess. That's why His Highness casually said that he likes yerba mate. You immediately prepared it at home. The reason why yerba mate tea entertained her."

"You are two unrelated things. Yes, I did bribe Sir Yesil, but this is too common in the Holy Empire. The envoys from the Central Dynasty, the high-ranking princess, I just voted for it. That's all I like." Earl Mecklen's attitude gradually became colder. He turned around with a cold snort, and faced Sid face to face: "Your inference? You call it a presumption of guilt. There is no evidence. Your words are nothing more than It's just a guesswork!"

"Then let me continue to make up my mind." Sid chuckled, and his figure floated past the Earl of Mecklen like a ghostly ghost: "Just when you were suspicious, two strange voices came. Good news."

The white-haired boy stretched out his first finger: "One, the arrival of the Silver Hand Elf and the Cold Iron Dwarf has made things change beyond your expectations, especially Silver Hand. Although Whitney is a tramp, no matter what he says Both are Yinshou's current patriarch, Ai Ruining - Yinshou's parents and children. You don't know what these two people are capable of doing, and maybe they will make the surprise event of the Allies infinitely magnified. For you, it adds a lot of uncertain factors, which makes you start to feel constrained."

"Second, because the attack on His Royal Highness was very bad, the other two parties involved could smell that something was wrong. Among them, the Earl of Orlando was planning a wedding, but Charlie had already begun to suspect you. Of course, he had already suspected you, but He has been unable to make up his mind." Sid stretched out his second finger: "Only this time, he seems to really want to confess a little bit, which makes you afraid that Charlie will choose to die."

"Hmph~ To be fair, if Charlie doubted me, why didn't he confess it early? Instead of waiting until now?" Count Mecklen's face was completely gloomy.

"Because of the supplies from Cogne Castle, it's not that the three of you have never seen it, but all three of you have seen it." Sid smiled and shook his head again and again: "After the supplies from the Central Dynasty arrive, the three of you will each take I ordered a copy, and then sent the materials to Cogne Castle. Regarding this, the three of you have already reached a tacit agreement, no matter who you are, you will not say anything about it."

"..." The earl's eyes sparkled, and he began to look at the boy in front of him again.

"This was originally a tacit understanding of the local nobles. The military pay of the Central Dynasty has always been [-]% received and [-]% lost. You should each share [-]%. But some things have always been like this. If you don't weigh it, you only have four ounces. Heavy, once on the scale, ten thousand pounds can't stop, but our Royal Highness is a disrespectful person, and her mind is only thinking of a thorough investigation." Sid walked to the side of the fountain with his hands behind his back, and brushed his fingertips across the frozen pool , said playfully: "Whether she wants to gain a lot of influence from a political point of view, or she really sympathizes with the soldiers who died in battle, her attitude makes Charlie dare not confess. "

"As he said, who wants to take the risk of changing, seizing the title, and going to court-martial?" Sid couldn't help laughing: "As for why the Earl of Orlando didn't confess, it's even simpler. He has a backer, he is Gail Hart's uncle, he retired early at worst. He is really not on the front line. No matter how he is punished, it is difficult to punish him severely. Therefore, in the whole incident, he will show non-violent non-cooperation manner."

"...Your observation of human nature is really thorough, little brother." Earl Mecklen clenched his cane tightly, and he said slowly: "It's just used in a useless place."

The count looked around, making sure that there was no one there, he let out a sigh of relief: "Some people always use their intelligence in the wrong direction, but I want to hear you finish, go ahead, little brother, go ahead."

"Things have developed in a direction beyond your control, so you decided to take the risk. It just so happened that Baron Stefan had a grudge against me. You and the Bixujiao discussed and planned to set up a situation at the wedding. Ge is separated, that is, to go up to perform, and then plan to get rid of Her Royal Highness at the wedding." Sid nodded slowly: "At that time, everyone was unarmed and unguarded, so it was not difficult to do it. If anything goes wrong at the wedding banquet, you didn't do it, responsibility and suspicion will never fall on you, it's a watertight plan."

"It's just that you didn't expect that the Tribunal was actually involved and took me away. This naturally attracted the attention of Her Royal Highness. Taking me away by the Tribunal ruined the plan, especially Judge Hutten himself is a legendary class. The strong ones are followed by a group of members of the Tribunal who are good at fighting, they were originally helpers to help you achieve your goals, but they turned out to be troublesome to hinder the assassination."

Sid talked eloquently, with a radiance of self-confidence shining on his face.

"You can't order that worship killer, a good opportunity was missed like this, but you probably never thought that the trial court would come to trouble me because someone reported me, saying that I might be their Someone to check." Sid raised the corner of his mouth.

"Who?" Earl Mecklen couldn't help being curious, but his eyes became more and more cold.

"It's me." Sid pointed to his nose: "I reported myself to the trial court."

"WTF?!" Mecklen opened his eyes and mouth wide.

"You are so ruthless, Mr. Sid, you are really ruthless. Do you know that in the hands of the trial court, the innocent will become guilty, and the guilty can be executed on the spot?" Earl Mecklen was told Shocked by Sid's decision, the old gentleman shook his head again and again: "You are such a madman."

"At that time, I already felt the danger, but what I didn't expect was that I escaped the assassination. That night, an entire army of devils would attack the Ritz Palace. Your madness really exceeded my expectations." Sid said indifferently: "Even with Sir Yesil as the internal support, you are too crazy to do this. If I guessed correctly, apart from your own reasons, there must be someone who has put tremendous pressure on you and is willing to help you. You solve Angelo's supreme mentor, I guess it's the worship, right?"

"........."

"That night was indeed a good opportunity. First of all, after experiencing a series of events, people will be tired and let down their vigilance. At that time, Whitney and Fogg were left behind by you, and all the attention of the trial court was focused on Stefan's death. .”

"According to your idea, after something happened to the princess, the Central Dynasty will naturally send people down to investigate again. At that time, Charlie will be seriously suspected. The trial court will pay attention to the Earl of Orlando, and Sir Yesil has already fled to worship the suspected culprit. It’s your family’s opinion, there’s no way to confront it, no way to check it, you’re most likely to be punished.” Sid sighed: “You can attribute all the responsibilities to foreign forces such as the Devil’s Worship Sect, and everyone is willing to believe this result. As long as you believe, your hero status can clear you of suspicion."

"Am I right? The wolf is a well-known hero, who has the title of Slayer of Worship Cult and Enemy of Devils, but behind his back is Earl Joseph Mecklen who is a devil believer?"

Sid finished speaking.

"Snapped!"

"Papa papa papa papa papa~"

There were crisp applause in the large empty garden, and Earl Mecklen couldn't help applauding Sid.

"Wonderful, so wonderful, Mr. Sid, why don't you serialize novels? Instead, you want to share your brain supplement results with me here?" The earl slapped his palms vigorously, and couldn't help but make his palms turn red. He laughed like he heard the funniest joke: "This story is intertwined, every detail has been carefully polished, and it is very exciting."

Mecklen gave Sid a thumbs-up. He looked around again and saw that there was no one in the entire big garden. Then he smiled and said, "So, where is the evidence?"

"Unfortunately, your hands and feet are very clean, I can't find any evidence." Sid shrugged: "And even if there were, they should have been disposed of by you during this time."

Hearing Sid's voice, the earl calmly adjusted his coat and bow tie, and even took out a silk scarf to wipe the snow off his head. After doing all this, he said slowly: "I In the 40 years since I graduated from the academy, I have experienced countless things, I have met many people, I have offended many people, and in these 40 years, I have learned many things."

"The most important thing I have learned is that every principality, every system, and every system has its own rules of the game, no matter whether it is open or dark, you must first learn the rules of the game, otherwise you will not participate in the game. The qualifications of the game, I have seen too many outstanding young people die before they understand the rules, because they are too self-righteous!"

"After learning the rules of the game, the second step is how to play the set of rules, just like a ball of wool, you must first find the end of the thread, and you must learn how not to violate various taboos, various explicit or implicit rules , you are qualified to be a member of the poker table, you might as well think about it, can there be no justice for the current Holy Empire, or can there be no stability?"

Stretching out his hand to press Sid's shoulder, Earl Mecklen put his lips next to Sid's ear and whispered.

"You're too immature, inexperienced, and you don't even know how to protect yourself."

"I gave you a chance, more than once, I want you to live, I even pretended not to recognize who you are, that brat who escaped my trial five years ago!"

"I think about you, I want you to survive to this extent, why can't you understand my compassion, must you bite your savior?!"

"Sid! Do you want to die that much???!!!"

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　　This chapter can be regarded as telling all the stories in the entire first volume clearly. I wonder if everyone understands it?
　　
　
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