398 After 396 Serdio (1/2)
After talking about Chiara, Fran was now listening to Diaz. Orrell and Lumina have already left.
”I want to hear about a man named Sergio.”
”The way you put it, you don't seem to remember.”
I'm sorry, Diaz, but Fran really doesn't remember. I had a way of remembering a annoying nobleman who died trying to take me away from me, but I completely forgot his name, face, etc. Well, I guess that means it was to that extent for Fran.
”Maybe even contact from Marquis Ashtoner is warm?
”None”
”But if we leave Urmut, we're going to King's Capital next.”
”I see. Auction.”
”Mmm.”
Fran told us that the blacksmith Garth had not been able to locate him since shortly after he received a confidential request from the Marquis Ashtoner family.
”Well, I heard he went to Barbora, but I don't know where he is.”
”I hear the Marquis Ashtoner family is collecting materials for the blacksmith.”
”Ho? Garth, the Marquis Ashtoner family that took you? It stinks.”
”For once, I'm promising to meet Garth in King's Capital. According to the case, the Marquis could tease you there. So I want to know how you handled Sergio's case and how the information about Fran is passed on to them '
”You know what?”
After we rubbed Sergio, Diaz interrogated Sergio's squire a little harder first, so he pulled the information.
”No, I was able to get almost as much information out of this one as I hoped.”
It's a pretty scary word to get the information you want. Fran hasn't noticed, but I'm guessing he just made me say some convenient information in the induction interrogation. Diaz must have something for you.
”In front of me, it wouldn't have worked out like this.”
”What do you mean?
”I have a nobleman named Count Olmes under the umbrella of the Marquis Ashtoner family, but his son is really in the way. He had the skills to spot lies, and he was very heavily used.”
Is that it? That's a story I've heard somewhere. Skills to spot lies?
”I was a man named Viscount Alsando, you know? I'm sure he was in Aretha, so I don't think it's weird if he's face-to-face.”
I knew it! I took away the reason for the lies, that stupid Viscount! Augusto Alsando. My parents are certainly Count Olmes. Definitely.
”This Viscount's skills are really troublesome. The logic of falsehood, not only does it spot lies, but it even has the effect of making them believe in lies. What do you think would happen if he used that skill in a biased way?
”I guess you can perjure yourself all you want.”
”It is. For example, if Sergio's squire tells you that the Viscount is a liar, whatever information he pulls out, he'll be held to be a liar.”
In fact, Augusto used it in a similar way, trying to fit Fran in.
”Just lose that Viscount Alsando's ability to suddenly spot lies one day. Without skills, the Viscount would only have been an incompetent problem child. The Count Olmes family faded. And because of that, they never put a cross spear in the Marquis Ashtoner house for the authenticity of their testimony.”
It was my intention to take the logic of falsehood away from Viscount Alsando to the extent of my interest in trying to fit Fran in. I didn't know that story would be involved here......
”There was physical evidence of the magic potion, and there's no escape. Well, Serdio has his status as a Viscount, so the sin will be borne by his House of Viscounts of Receps. I don't incriminate the Marquis itself, except for the officials of the Alliance. All the abominable guild masters who gave Sergio this.”
Diaz slaps herself in the neck with a ton of tricks. It wouldn't just mean I fired him. They must have physically dropped their necks.
Diaz is a good guy when he talks like this, or he's a sneer smart dandy grandpa, but he's also the one who's kept the guild together for years. There will be no forgiveness for the political opponents who take power from each other.
”As far as Sergio's death is concerned, Fran, I try to stay as low as I can about you. And to those who were there, Elsa said strongly from you. Well, it's gonna be hard to hide at all.”
”That's no choice.”