The cold-faced earl doesn't want to trigger the plot

"Alice!"

"what's up?"

Hearing Riber call her name solemnly, Alice squeezed the pocket containing the snacks warily.

"Happy birthday!"

"..."

Alice was stunned for a moment, then sighed like a little adult,

"Are you really going to say happy birthday to me every day? What good will it do you if I grow to hate my birthday!"

"No, no, this is this month... the last time this year. I want to tell you a piece of good news, that is, this afternoon, Master Grofell will come here specially to draw you a ten-year-old Birthday portrait."

Unlike Riber and Sebastian who started applauding after the announcement, Alice frowned.

"You don't seem very happy?"

"Why should I be happy? When I'm painting a portrait, I need to stay still for a long time. During those times, after I take a photo, what's wrong with doing it?"

"Uh..."

What this little guy said makes sense!

Riber scratched his face.

Cameras are actually relatively rare in the Xinmei Kingdom, and are generally only owned by professionals.However, this kind of "general" generally does not apply to the earl family.

After all, why did he insist on leaving a portrait of Alice?

Riber turned his head a little while thinking, and saw Sebas with a kind smile.

Gee...

It's this guy again.

"Well. Alice, the camera has limitations! First, it's black and white, which makes it look ominous. Second, so-called photographs tend to be too neutral, showing only an 'objective you'. However, painting is different. It can show, in everyone's mind, a better you!"

Thinking that the invitations have already been invited, Riber bit the bullet and persuaded.

And Alice didn't seem to be persuaded at all, but she still compromised and said,

"If the time comes when you're by the side and drawn in with me, I'll spare some time."

"of course can."

Riber agreed.

He thought about it.It seems that since he went to the Church of Light a while ago, he has been busy with various relationships and has no time to be alone with Alice.

Therefore, Alice must be lonely for making such a request!

Yes, the relationship between them is so good.

Therefore, it is definitely not that Alice thinks that she will go to jail anyway, so she sits with someone who is not pleasing to the eye.

Absolutely not!

After making an agreement with Alice, no one will be allowed to escape after going to jail together in the afternoon.Riber stood behind Alice and began to point out her homework.It wasn't until the "pointing" Alice almost bit someone that Riber shut his mouth for a while.

Speaking of which, although Alice has received the blessing of the God of Light, she is still going to school like an ordinary child.

There are many reasons for this.

For example, the young Alice is not suitable to register as an adventurer, and go to the maze with the magic stone.For another example, being blessed by the gods is not the reason for Alice to be illiterate.

In addition, the blessing of the God of Light has its own special features.

Different from the "level" that directly superimposes a fixed level of power, the "level" of the God of Light will allow the owner to obtain a corresponding proportion of strengthening based on his own foundation.

To put it simply, the strengthening during leveling up is the addition of values.The reinforcement when leveling up is multiplication.

Riber didn't know how such a conclusion was calculated by the predecessors in this world.But in short, in order to get higher benefits when upgrading, what Alice needs now is not to strengthen the power of the gods, but to strengthen the basic abilities in all aspects.

After Alice finished her current studies quickly, there would naturally be various training courses waiting for him that made her feel overwhelmed.

And the person who arranged these courses was naturally the very enthusiastic old housekeeper of the Campret family.

Speaking of which, the matter of the Scourge Church collecting people with the blessings of the gods once made Riber extremely worried.But after discussing with Sebastian later, he realized that he was completely overthinking.

The Church of Scourge only needs blessed people of specific gods.And this specific god naturally does not include the three major gods.

Thinking about it, although the blessings of the three gods are rare, but because the number of believers is large enough, the number is also considerable.

The Scourge is arresting the elite believers of the three gods everywhere, and the entire continent has exploded long ago.

...

When Riber "tortured" Alice, the "tortured" was having fun.

Outside the window, a figure flew past, and then pushed open the door of the unnamed restaurant.

Although he knew in his heart that it was impossible, Riber still had a glimmer of hope and checked to see if a guest had walked into the restaurant.

Then, he found that the person who ran in was indeed an acquaintance...

"Hoo... hoo—"

Out of breath, bending over and pressing his knees, the person who kept making strange-sounding panting sounds was none other than the female knight Yabubeki whom Riber hadn't seen for a while.

"Master Earl! Brother...my brother just woke up!"

Raising his sweat-stained face, Abbeki's pupils were filled with joy.

Volume II: Chapter 120 VI, "The Insect King"

On the carriage heading to the headquarters of the Knights, the female knight Yabubeki sat stiffly opposite Riber, rubbing a handful of hair back and forth, looking very disturbed.

"My lord! Usually, usually... I can distinguish between work and family. So, just now, I was a little impatient, so I called the vice-captain 'brother'."

With a lower and lower volume, Abbech said so.

Seeing that Yabubeki, who had been twitching for a long time, actually wanted to say such a thing all the time, Riber showed a faint smile.

"Understandable."

Rather, in the past, Yabubech made the distinction between the two too clear, which led to Riber's fact that it was only recently that he found out that the vice-captain Isenbech who hated the old nobles was Yabubech's own brother.

In other words, it is also a recent thing to know that the deputy captain is called Isenbeiqi.

Seeing the rare gentle expression on Riber's always indifferent face, Yabubeki couldn't help but stare blankly at Riber for a while.It wasn't until the eyes of the two sides met that Yabubeki blushed slightly and turned his eyes away, and continued to play with his hair.

And Riber was also emotional, and it was rare for him to see a girl who looked like a girl in front of him.

The girls and "girls" around him recently are not very normal.

Ribel observed Yabubeki carefully, and found that although she looks radiant now, with her brows stretched, she looks very happy.However, there was still an unconcealable haggardness and exhaustion on the much thinner face.

After the first foggy night, she really suffered too much pain.

Recalling the first time they met, that Yabubeki who was nervous but still had to stand in front of the carriage to block the way.Obviously, the time has not passed for a long time, but Riber still has a feeling like a world away.

"That... Lord Earl, that lady, is it really... all right?"

As if avoiding embarrassment, Yabubeki cast his eyes out of the window and wanted to find a topic, but his face really became serious.

Because at this time, the traveling carriage hooked a reverse wheelchair with a two-way hook.And the person sitting in the wheelchair was naturally the energetic blonde lady.

"Which aspect doesn't matter? Doesn't it matter if she is not arrested?"

Ribel also looked at Bridget outside the window with some headaches.

At this moment, Bridget, who was being dragged by a carriage and moved in a wheelchair, was constantly whistling and blowing kisses to the girls on the street, asking them "Would you like to come for a ride together?"

It wasn't that Liebel was treating Bridget harshly, but she asked for it herself.

The reason why Bridget also went to the headquarters of the Knights with her was because she now took it as her duty to eradicate the mysterious organization.

Riber still believes that if you want to understand a person, it is the most intuitive to see what the other person has done.

So, don't look at Bridget as if she is laughing and joking. What she really did was decisively make the "Night Demon" who hurt Lysa become a human stick who lost her limbs.

Since Daredevil is a vicious serial killer, Bridget's actions seem to be downplayed.But when you think about it, that's pretty cruel.

And this kind of thing, on the one hand, represents the members of Bridget, Lysa, and Evanna, the members of the Phantom Thieves, have a very deep relationship.On the other hand, it represents that unlike Lysa and Evanna, even after doing these things, she still looks unscrupulous, and as the leader of the Phantom Thieves, she dared to go to the headquarters of the Knights. In essence, it may be an extremely terrifying existence.

Complicatedly retracting his gaze out of the window, Riber could only think of a better place.

At least, Bridget offered to be a helper.

...

...

At noon, Riber and others arrived at the headquarters of the Knights.

The headquarters of the Knights was also very riotous on this day.

On the one hand, the troublemakers who were arrested under Riber's "suggestion" a few days ago have not yet been released.On the other hand, all kinds of affairs in the city also rushed to the Knights like an avalanche.

Don't look at the night before, the Knights captured the "Night Demon" with almost no loss, which was a rare victory.But behind this victory is the restoration of the underground waterway that the "night devil" wreaked havoc on, and it has also become the new job of the Knights.

After getting off the carriage, Sebastian waited around the carriage as usual, while Bridget expressed that he would visit the headquarters of the Knights Order.

So, the only ones who came to the office of the head of the regiment, Erhard, were Riber and Abbech.

In the office, Riber saw Erhard who seemed to be smoking from the top of his head, the deputy head who was still just wiping his sweat, and Chris who was crossing his legs on the sofa and flipping through the documents.

After having a face-to-face with Riber and the others, Erhard, who really hated himself for having lost a few hands to handle affairs, went directly to the topic.

The reason why they were in Erhard's office instead of going directly to Isenbach's ward was because Isenbach only woke up briefly and passed out again, which was not the stage where he could see people.

Or to put it another way, even if Isenbeiqi became alive and kicking, he himself was not very familiar with Riber.Therefore, there is no need to take this as a reason to bother the Honorary Advisor of the Knight Order to visit.

The reason why Bell was invited to the Knights headquarters there was because Isenbach said some intriguing words during his brief waking up.

"traitor..."

On the way here, Riber also thought about it for a long time, but he didn't get a good result.

Just like a dog-blood series, the awakened Isenbach is like a riddle man, and there is no such thing as fainting again without explaining anything, but he really doesn't provide much information.

It is certain that there are traitors among the Knights.

Otherwise, when they went to capture the "Crimson Hunter", Isenbeiqi's team would not have been ambushed because of the information leak, resulting in the tragic result that among the nine members of the Knights including the backup, only Isenbeiqi survived.

However, for the traitor whom the Knights had been looking for, Isenbech gave an incredible message.

That is, before he lost consciousness, he vaguely saw the team members who should have fallen, and one of them stood up.It's just that I don't know who it is.

In other words, this suspended animation team member is very likely to be the "traitor".

"Isn't this a bit strange?"

After hearing this again, Riber really still felt something was wrong.

"It's really strange, or in other words, it's a strange thing for Vice Captain Ethan to be alive. Ah...Miss Yabu, I don't mean any harm."

Yabubeki, who had known Chris for a long time, just shook his head, expressing that he didn't mind Chris' lack of nerves.

"Because, this traitor is actually fully capable of killing everyone, and there is no need to leave them alive. Not to mention, he obviously escaped by feigning death, but left such a big flaw to be seen."

Everyone in the room nodded and agreed with Chris.

And Riber also believes that the behavior of this traitor is too abnormal.

It is barely understandable to leave Isenbach alive.After all, when everyone was killed, only Isenbach was alive.It is reasonable for Isenbach to be regarded as a suspect.In addition, Isenbach will be in a coma for a while, and all investigations will be stranded to a certain extent when he is in a coma.Therefore, the traitor's escape from suspended animation will undoubtedly be more successful.

If the reason for not killing Isenbach is really that simple, is it really just a traitor's mistake to be seen?

"In addition to these words, Vice Captain Ethan also said that he could hear the sound of bugs."

"Another bug!"

During this period of time, Erhard, who was extremely irritated by the inexplicable "worm", showed a short-term annoyed expression, and then suddenly thought of something, turned over on the table,

"Speaking of worms, will this report help the case?"

As Erhard spoke, he picked up a report that had been delivered not long ago and passed it on to Chris and Riber.

After reading the above content, both of them were stunned.

The author of this report is a researcher at the Greenwater City School of Medicine.This researcher recommended by Evanna has been doing research on the body of the woman who died in the basement of Evanna's hut on the night of the first foggy night.

Then, the result of the research is that the disease that this corpse suffered from before his death is most likely not Stanger's disease, but a kind of pest plague.