Work Prophet
Chapter 233 - 81: When the Map Ends, the Dagger Appears

Chapter 233: Chapter 81: When the Map Ends, the Dagger Appears

Ireya didn’t wait for David to reply and raised the recorder, playing the conversation inside.

"Tell me that name."

"If I tell you, will you let me go?"

"No, you killed my father, whom considered you a close friend, and I need to avenge my father,"

"It’s impossible, if you knew his identity, you would understand that there’s no way your revenge could ever succeed."

"That’s my concern."

"......"

"He forced me. The Figrola family is the rulers of the western realm, and that person is the heir-apparent of the Figrola family. It only takes a word from him, and others make everything ready on his behalf. They conspired against Hugo, my only son. I had to do as he said.

"That was the only way to save Hugo. I didn’t want to murder your father; we were friends, but I couldn’t disobey David’s orders either. I was too weak..."

......

"Do you have anything to explain, Lord David?" Ireya pressed step by step.

"Recording voice, that’s Prophet Merlin’s trick, right?" David said, "No matter how many times you experience it, it is indeed quite magical. I don’t doubt Prophet Merlin’s abilities, but this trick also has a flaw.

"It can only record voices, but it can’t capture the actual state of the speaker at that time."

"What does that mean?"

"What I mean is, Sir Caroman was likely speaking under duress. As everyone knows, Sir Caroman and an attendant went hunting more than ten days ago and then disappeared without a trace.

"During this period, his family has been searching for him, and just three days ago, a message came from Acorn Castle saying they found the body of the attendant who went out with him.

"Judging by the wounds on the body, he clearly experienced a struggle before dying, and by this, the Vier family concluded that Sir Caroman had been kidnapped."

"Are you suggesting I kidnapped Sir Caroman and forced him to say those previous words?" the girl angrily said.

"I didn’t say that, but Sir Caroman’s behavior was indeed very strange. He, a noble and even the head of the Vier family, personally appeared on stage, participated in your play, had an emotional breakdown during the performance, and ended his own life by his own hand.

"Don’t you find all this a bit abnormal?"

Many of the audience members nodded silently as David spoke, especially when they recalled the bloody scene before. Sir Caroman’s facial expression indeed seemed very strained, as if someone had been coercing him.

But in the end, his conscience prevailed, and instead of following the lady’s plan to frame David, he ended his own life, which seemed to explain everything.

Miss Rabbit laughed out of frustration, "Clearly, you were the one threatening him below; otherwise, why would you bring his son over?"

"Hugo came with Lady Catherine, you can ask him if you don’t believe me. Additionally," David paused, "would you like to explain how Sir Caroman’s right hand went missing?"

"His right hand wasn’t chopped off by me, but rather..." The girl paused mid-sentence suddenly realizing something. At the time Hels handed the man over to her, he didn’t explain the condition of Caroman.

Even if she were to accuse Hels now, it’s likely he wouldn’t admit that his people did it.

And fatally, Ireya had no evidence at her disposal.

From the kidnapping to the handing over of the person, Hels had done everything very cleanly.

Indeed, when the young girl turned her head to look at Hels beside her, he only offered her a helpless smile.

In the eyes of outsiders, the new Family Head of the Arias family was indeed the most likely to kidnap and seek vengeance against Sir Caroman.

After all, Sir Caroman had inadvertently killed her father, giving Ireya all the motive she needed to carry out such acts.

Most people simply couldn’t understand why the girl would also go to great lengths to drag the Figrola family into the mess.

First it was Hels, and then David.

If it weren’t for her identity as the Dragon Slayer Heroine, she would have likely been apprehended by the Figrola family’s guards by now.

In fact, the sheriff had already shifted his attention from Hels to the Lady, looking eager to act, waiting only for David’s order to take her into custody.

Miss Rabbit, who had originally thought that with both witness and evidence at hand, the real culprit could be convicted with the help of public opinion, suddenly realized that after all her efforts over these days, apart from exonerating Hels a bit, she seemed to have achieved nothing.

Instead, she had unwittingly shouldered the blame for kidnapping and driving Sir Caroman to death.

The young girl was nearly bursting with rage as her gaze swept over the faces of those present, hoping someone would stand by her side.

However, from nobles to commoners, most eyes that met hers held only suspicion and hostility.

The Figrola family had ruled the western realm for over nine hundred years and had replaced the Enríquez family as the rightful rule of this land, enjoying immense prestige among the people.

Even though she was now a Dragon Slayer Hero, when compared to the Figrola family, people were inherently more inclined to trust the latter.

Ireya suddenly felt she might have been wrong from the start.

She shouldn’t have hoped to use public support to fight against the authoritarian rule of the Figrola family.

But without doing so, she didn’t know how else she could avenge her father.

After all, in the western realm, the Figrola family was simply too powerful; as a top-tier noble family entrenched in the upper echelons of the Empire, in terms of military, political, and economic strength they were far beyond anything a small family like the Arias could compare with.

Since she had resolved to walk the path of revenge, nearly everyone had advised her to give it up.

But she was not Hugo; as a member of the Arias family, Miss Rabbit perfectly inherited her father’s stubborn streak.

Of course, she was not ignorant of weighing pros and cons, but on some matters of principle, the new Family Head of the Arias family was more stubborn than anyone else.

She could not accept that her beloved had died inexplicably, even though she knew that pursuing it further might put her in danger, yet she still unhesitatingly pushed forward.

Perhaps to the wise, such behavior might not seem wise at all. Yet Miss Rabbit still stubbornly believed that in this world, some things must be done, and she was far from a dead end.

If this was a three-person card game, both Hels and David had already played their trump cards, while Ireya’s ace was still tightly clenched in her hand.

And that card was the biggest joker on the table.