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In a private room in a hotel, Reisen was eating a steak when an old butler walked up to him and reported, “Young Master, the people sent to investigate have returned.”
“Speak.”
“Apple Street 3-07 belongs to the Adams family, as does 3-06 next door. Mr. Adams is the Minister of Energy and Industrial Development for Swillen, and his son, Piaget, is the one who currently lives at 3-06. 3-07 should be vacant. Our people confirmed this in front of Piaget.
“However, there is indeed someone living in 3-07. That person stood on the second floor balcony the entire afternoon. You could see him just by driving past. He should be a sentry.”
“If I remember correctly, my brother Gerson’s cars were found at the end of Apple Street?”
“Yes, Young Master. After Young Master Gerson and the others went missing, we searched extensively and finally found the two cars they drove at the end of Apple Street.”
“Tadel went to a psychiatric clinic, didn’t he?” Reisen asked.
“Young Master, Piaget is the owner of that clinic. We now know that the traitor Tadel was influenced by Light Vermin, but at the time, Young Master Gerson and the others did not. Thus, I infer that Young Master Gerson and the others went to investigate Piaget’s home, and they disturbed the Light vermin living next door. Young Master Gerson and the others were likely attacked by those people.”
“A coincidence, a disturbance, and then attacked?” Reisen frowned slightly. “That seems a bit too coincidental.”
“Young Master, you mean?”
The butler had been the personal attendant of the family’s previous patriarch. After the man had been turned to ash in his study for no apparent reason, the Raphael family had fallen into internal strife.
The butler chose to support the patriarch’s eldest son, helping him to resist the power of his various uncles. That was because the butler had always...
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