My villain wants to save himself, but the yandere heroine disagrees

Then she went to the second floor and, following the servant's instructions, she came to the room that once belonged to Mary.

Pushing open the door, I found that the room was very deserted and completely unpopulated except for the fact that someone came to clean it regularly.

Sherlock walked to the desk, glanced at the bookshelf behind him, and then opened the drawer of the desk.

As expected, there was no trace of the family emblem inside.

At this time, the people who checked other rooms also came back.

"Sir, we didn't find the Toulouse family crest in other rooms."

When she heard the word "sir", Sherlock frowned slightly, then nodded to show that she understood.

Afterwards, she came to Lucius's room.

"Your Excellency the Duke, we have searched the house, but we did not find the Toulouse family crest in the house, so I would like to ask, where is Lady Mary buried?"

Lucius frowned when he heard Sherlock ask this.

Then he looked up and stared at Sherlock.

"You want to dig a grave?"

"Do you know that your behavior is a disgrace to a noble family?"

"I'm sorry, but this is an investigation order from His Majesty the Emperor. Please understand."

Lucius slammed the table so hard that Sherlock took two steps back.

"You are taking advantage of my loyalty to His Majesty the Emperor!"

Then he walked straight up to Sherlock.

"Your Excellency the Investigator, Orson and I have talked about you. I know about you."

"You solved the case with him, and you were promoted because of it. Otherwise, you would still be an unknown little detective, right?"

"At this point, you don't choose to believe my son, but instead send him in for investigation, making him the target of public criticism. Do you still have a little gratitude?"

Sherlock looked at Lucius' questioning, her body trembling slightly, perhaps because of fear or excitement. After a long while, she slowly spoke:

"Your Excellency the Duke, that's not the case. Besides me, there are others who also suspect Orson. Only by completely clearing Orson of suspicion can he avoid being held responsible. Otherwise, if the case is closed hastily, the rift between him and others will only deepen."

Lucius snorted coldly when he heard Sherlock's words.

"You say it so nicely, but in fact, you are not one of the people who gave evidence at that time?" Lucius snorted coldly, then turned around and sat back in his original place.

"I will arrange for someone to take you there, but this is my bottom line. If you want to mess around again, don't blame me for being ruthless."

"Thank you, Your Excellency the Duke."

Sherlock breathed a sigh of relief when he saw Lucius agreed, and then hurried out.

Lucius arranged for someone to wait for Sherlock and his group at the door. When he saw her coming down, he immediately came to greet her.

"Hello, Miss Investigator has arrived from the Imperial City. I will take you to Madam Mary's grave next."

"Well, thank you very much."

Sherlock forced a smile and followed the man.

The group quickly passed the family cemetery, and Sherlock asked in confusion:

"Isn't Lady Mary buried in the family plot?"

"No." The servant shook his head and then explained, "Because of that incident, the relationship between the master and the lady was completely broken. Afterwards, the lady hanged herself, and the master did not allow her to be buried in the family cemetery. It was a punishment for her."

"Is that so?" Sherlock nodded, expressing his understanding.

Then, the two came to an unmarked grave. The servant stepped aside, pointed to the tombstone in front of him, and said, "This is the grave of Lady Mary."

"Well, let's start digging."

Sherlock said this and signaled the members behind him to start digging immediately.

"I would like to remind you that although we have already arranged Madam Mary's remains and sealed the coffin, it has been such a long time and the weather is hot now, so there may be some things in there that you don't want to see. Please understand."

"I know." Sherlock nodded.

Under normal temperature conditions, the body of a person will begin to slowly decompose more than 24 hours after death. When the temperature changes, the time will also be different.

Similarly, after being placed in a coffin and buried, the time for decay will be prolonged.

But after all, several months have passed. Although it has not rotted into a pile of bones, the half-rotten appearance is the most frightening and disgusting.

The coffin was not buried very deep, and after digging for a few minutes, the men reached the outer panel of the coffin.

Then the burial pit was cleared and several people jumped down and came to the coffin.

"Open."

Sherlock ordered coldly.

The investigators who came with them this time have all seen big scenes, so opening a coffin is no problem for them.

They first gently moved a corner of the coffin lid away, and only opened the coffin lid completely after they no longer smelled the odor of a rotting corpse inside.

The servant had turned away, not daring to look at the scene in front of him.

However, the scene inside the coffin at this moment was far from what several people had imagined.

A woman who looked quite young was lying quietly in the coffin with her eyes closed. Her hands were clasped together and placed flat on her lower abdomen, as if she was asleep.

According to the description, this person is undoubtedly Lady Mary.

However, several months later, her body not only did not decay, but instead had a strange fragrance.

This abnormal scene actually made the investigators who were responsible for opening the coffin a little scared.

One of them felt Mary's breath and found that there was indeed no breathing sound, so he felt relieved.

Perhaps it was preserved using magic.

And Sherlock's eyes have been fixed on Mary's chest since the coffin lid was opened.

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He took out the Toulouse family crest that he was using for reference this time, placed it in front of his eyes, and compared it with the crest on Mary's chest.

Her eyelids twitched a few times.

"Sir, Madam Mary does have a family crest on her chest. Is it the crest of the Toulouse family?"

"Bring it here first." Sherlock said this and ordered his men to put away the family emblem first.

The possibility that it is a counterfeit cannot be ruled out, and it needs to be taken back to the Toulouse family for personal verification.

Then, the men followed Sherlock's orders and prepared to put away the family emblem.

However, as soon as one investigator's hand touched the family emblem, he jumped back as if he had been electrocuted.

"What's going on?" Sherlock couldn't help but ask.

"This family emblem... is so cold. No, the whole coffin is so cold."

Sherlock frowned, then jumped into the pit himself and came to the coffin.

The moment she reached out to touch the family emblem, she felt a bone-chilling chill. After Sherlock cast a magic spell to increase the temperature, she felt the temperature drop a lot. Then, she immediately took away the family emblem.

And at the moment she took away the clan emblem, the temperature inside the coffin returned to normal, just like the magic circle had lost its effectiveness after the core of the formation disappeared.

Fortunately, there is no scene of Mary's body rapidly decaying.

Then she returned upstairs and ordered her men to cover the coffin and bury it before returning to the Duke's mansion.

"I'm sorry, Your Excellency the Duke. I misunderstood you before. We found the emblem of the Toulouse family in Lady Mary's coffin."

"Hmph." Lucius snorted coldly and said nothing.

"However, we are going to take the family emblem back to Saint Laurent City. There are people from the Toulouse family there. They will identify whether this family emblem is authentic."

"Okay, remember, if it's the real thing, I don't need you to return it. You have to apologize to Orson in person."

"I will." Sherlock lowered his head and then said, "Well, I hope the Duke will not mind this inconvenience. I will go back and report now."

Lucius waved his hand, signaling Sherlock to leave.

Shortly after Sherlock left, the butler Albert walked into the study and whispered a few words in Lucius' ear, and then Lucius nodded.

……

On the other side, Saint Laurent City.

With the efforts of Litt and others over the past few days, the discussions about Orson gradually disappeared. People also knew that Orson was just cooperating with the investigation and he was living a good life, which was enough.

But inside the palace, Arthas received a secret report.

After reading the contents of the secret report, Arthas crumpled the paper into a ball and threw it into the stove next to him to burn it to ashes.

Chapter 3: How could I be that kind of person? (K)

"This is the situation, Your Highness. I can guarantee with my life that this is the family emblem that only the direct descendants of our family can have."

In front of Arthas, an envoy from the Dukedom of Orleans handed the family emblem back to Arthas, then bowed his head respectfully and said.

Upon hearing this, Arthas said nothing, but turned his head towards Sherlock.

"So, Miss Sherlock, your inference is wrong, and Heinz has damaged our relationship with the Duke of Antica, right?"

"I'm sorry, I am willing to take full responsibility. If you think I didn't do a good job, you can fire me directly. I won't refuse."

Sherlock lowered his head and spoke in a neither humble nor arrogant tone.

"Humph, firing you is not that easy. Things have come to this point, and you are the only one who can continue the investigation."

Arthas said this and placed his hand on the emblem of the Toulouse family.

"Now we have two family crests in our hands, both of which belong to direct descendants of the Tullus family. This means that the raven lied to us."

Arthas looked at Sherlock and asked:

"Then, Miss Sherlock, what about the fact that you swore that in your deduction, the raven had no motive at all?"

Sherlock's pupils shrank slightly and a trace of cold sweat ran down her forehead.

The thought of her finding out that her inference was wrong was obviously more frightening to her than having her fired for failing to do her job.

She has had extremely strong logical thinking since she was a child. On top of that, she has a special ability of empathy, which allows her to restore the criminal's thoughts and motives at the crime scene layer by layer, and she has never failed.

However, this time she was not sure whether her reasoning was really wrong.

There must be someone who wants to frame His Royal Highness...

After Raven clearly revealed his movements and even gave away everyone in the Orchid Tavern...it is entirely possible that someone else was doing this.

unless……

Unless the Toulouse family crest that Raven took away at that time was fake, or was replaced by someone in the middle.

However, with Raven's eighth-level strength, it is impossible for him not to notice the substitution.

In other words, François's family emblem had been secretly tampered with before.

Someone knew that François would definitely die, so they replaced François's family emblem in advance!

Yes, that must be the reason.

It is therefore particularly important to know who François had met during his lifetime and the servants who took care of his daily life.

As mentioned before, the family crest is difficult to imitate, so if a family member comes to compare it, they can tell it is a fake. If François himself did not notice it, then it is very likely that the staff member responsible for François' daily life and clothing matching is someone who is deeply trusted by François.

And the time between replacing it with a fake one cannot be too long, otherwise François will find out.

So, it could be that the people around François colluded with the assassin, or they knew that François would be assassinated on that day, so they chose that day to replace the family emblem on François' clothes with a fake one.

The purpose is to frame someone later!

So, the problem now comes to the servants around François.

"I know, I know the reason!"

Sherlock said this, which startled Arthas. Then he asked, "What's the reason?"