Secretary of the Devil's Castle

"My father?"

Patty tilted her head in some doubts, "Why does Her Royal Highness ask this?"

Fatalia's expression remained calm, "I'm just a little curious about the lords in this kind of place, and there are not many lords who are so loved by the people."

According to the survey, the people here respect and love Viscount Sharp very much, probably because the Viscount often reduces or exempts taxes, so there is nothing wrong with what Fatalia said.

Patty didn't doubt that there was him, she thought carefully for a while, and then sat next to Fatalia and said, "Dad, he... is a very powerful person. Ever since my mother passed away due to an accident, he has One person takes care of the entire territory and our family’s affairs, big and small, in an orderly manner. He distributes the idle land to everyone for cultivation, and only receives a small amount of compensation. In bad years, he will also open the granary to provide relief. Leaders, not only that, he also led everyone to dig canals to irrigate crops, and negotiated with other lords to let caravans pass by here often. Even a lot of food was sold by his father. It can be said that everyone who does not have father will definitely It's going to be very bad, after all, Sharp collar... is really poor.

"By the way, does Your Highness feel that Dad is a very gloomy person? In fact, he is not like this. In my impression, he often laughed when I was young, just because there was an accident at my house... Your Highness should I already knew about it. My mother left us in an accident. Although the investigation turned out to be a simple accident, my father didn’t believe it. He always said that it was done by other nobles. Those nobles paid the price, and since that day, Dad hasn't smiled again.

"But I still know that Dad still cares about us very much. After all, Dad is always Dad."

While talking, Patty looked unhappy occasionally, but she was still full of pride. She must have introduced the omnipotent hero in her heart to others. Fatalia nodded silently while listening, and waited until After Patty finished speaking, she patted her on the shoulder and said, "Then don't let your father down, Miss Patty, the Viscount wants you to study hard. You want to be successful and live up to the Viscount's expectations."

Patty stuck out her tongue in embarrassment: "My grades are still okay... and I haven't been back to my hometown for a few years, and I'm thinking about it. I feel that the change is really big. Even Uncle Bowen Aunt Ge Li and Aunt Ge Li are like different people, maybe they are really a little old, I always feel that their reactions are much slower."

"Is that so..."

Fatalia nodded thoughtfully, then stood up and patted her skirt, "Okay, Miss Patty, it's getting late, we should go back."

Patty nodded vigorously, "Yeah!"

Fatalia didn't intend to stay at Patty's house, so she didn't plan to stay for too long. After dinner, she almost changed back.

At night, Patty stood in front of the gate of the castle, waving his hands vigorously to say goodbye to Fatalia, and beside her was the gloomy Viscount, Unor Sharp, who had hardly been seen. He was watching the princess of the empire leave with his usual cold eyes.

"Next time I have a chance, maybe I will come again."

After making a promise to Patty, Fatalia boarded the carriage, ready to go back.

"Master, is there any gain?"

On the carriage, Favna suddenly spoke, while Fatalia looked at her little maid in surprise, "I never thought you would ask me such a thing..."

Although she was expressionless, Fatalia could still see a little embarrassment from Favna, and she couldn't help but feel a little funny in her heart, and the corners of her mouth raised an arc that was completely invisible, "It's okay, but it's a good thing to say, it's a good thing." Nothing worth mentioning, just another confirmation... I really can't relax."

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Tan En seemed a little annoyed, but when he heard Fatalia's voice, he replied immediately: "I'm very sorry, Your Highness Fatalia, I didn't notice that there was a pothole on the road... The wheels of the carriage just got stuck there After a while, there are some cracks now, it is better to change to a carriage for safety."

"You didn't even notice?"

Fatalia raised her eyebrows, but she didn't say anything. Instead, she got out of the carriage and felt a headache when she saw the conspicuous crack on the wheel, "Where can I find a carriage in this kind of place. But it's not far from Patty's house." It’s far away, find out if there is a place to stay nearby, and borrow one from her tomorrow.”

"Okay, Your Highness."

Tan En was still a little ashamed. Although he didn't know what had affected his perception, but it was a serious dereliction of duty to let the carriage fall into a pit and cause cracks on the tires. So he urgently wanted to Remedy something.

In this state of mind, Tan En found a house. This house seemed to be specially built away from human habitation. If you put it on the mainland, you might think it was some kind of trap. At best it is performance art, of course social terror is also possible.

Bringing Favna, Fatalia came to the door and knocked lightly, "Is anyone there?"

This room does not look like a place where no one lives. Sure enough, half a minute after Fatalia knocked on the door, there was a sound of footsteps from inside, and then the door was opened, and the owner of the room also His whole face was revealed.

He was a young man with an ordinary appearance, with some freckles on his face, and what was more striking was that there was an obvious break in his eyebrows.

Wearing the rough clothes of common people, he said slowly, "Excuse me... who are you?"

(One py: "The trainer who is cheating is doing badly in Teresan where geniuses are everywhere")

(The Three Goddesses gave Wu Feng the ability to observe others through data, but did not give him the talent of a trainer beyond ordinary people. Inspired to become a trainer, he tried his best to rush into the Teresan Academy, which is full of talents, and looked at the talents in the academy. The miracles created by the talented racehorse girl and the experienced and capable trainers, he does not have enough talent and courage, under the constant blows of fate and the constant ravages of reality, he can only learn to play badly in the end. .

However, even a bad trainer has to march into this world again for the sake of his racehorse girl.

Your opponent is Treisen's weakest trainer, a realistic cognition, an ordinary person with insufficient talent, Wu Feng, please give me your advice. )

Chapter 64 The Fall

"Excuse me... who are you?"

When the young man asked this sentence, Fatalia's eyes widened. She stared intently at the young man's face, recalling the document she saw in the carriage.

Mark Sean.

The young man in front of him is undoubtedly the missing Mark Sean, but why does he live here as a matter of course, and he is still wearing civilian clothes, and he even looks like he doesn't know Fatalia? This princess cannot be said to be known to everyone in the empire, but at least all the officials should know her, including Mark Sean.

Thinking about it, Fatalia frowned slightly, but for the sake of caution, she still did not choose to startle the enemy, but said to Mark Sean, "It is impolite to bother, we are passers-by, because Due to road conditions, our carriage was accidentally damaged, so we plan to stay here for one night and make plans tomorrow."

"A passerby...?"

Mark looked at Tan En, who was covered in full armor, and shrank his neck, but he still nodded wisely. After all, he guessed that his small body would not be able to withstand the big man's punch. As for the reason that the little girl said, it doesn't matter. , Believe it or not anyway.

So he nodded, and turned sideways to let out the door, "Okay, please come in, I have nothing to entertain you, I can only wrong you a little bit."

"No problem."

She looked around, and the interior of the room was in line with the appearance on the outside. It was equally small and dilapidated. It was roughly divided into two parts, one part was the bedroom on the inside, and the other part was Fatalia and the others. The room you were in at the time.

There is a table in the middle of the room, but there is only one chair beside the table, and several chairs are lined up by the wall, as if they have not been used for a long time.There are some unfinished food and a bouquet of flowers on the table, and the food is only for one person.There were also several cloth bags piled up against the wall, with a broad-bladed knife beside it, a longbow and some animal skins hanging on it.

Hunter...?

Although it seems that a person has lived here for a long time, Fatalia always felt that something was wrong. After thinking for a while, she asked: "What is the name of this gentleman? You live here alone ?"

"I do live here alone, because my parents died earlier, and I live here alone to hunt."

Mark was stunned for a while before he nodded and replied, "My name is...Mark Sean."

Sure enough...

But why does he seem to be living here all the time?Has he forgotten who he is?

Fatalia frowned, and asked again: "Then Mr. Mark, have you been to Demon King City?"

Mark was taken aback for another moment, and then replied in a more slow tone: "The Demon King's City...that's a place only big people can go...I'm just a hunter...how could I have been to that kind of place...I haven't been there... Bar?"

At the end, Mark's tone was already a little puzzled, but then he shook his head and looked at Fatalia, "I should go to bed, you can do whatever you want, if you need a quilt, there are still quilts in the cabinet over there." have."

After all, he didn't listen to Fatalia's answer, but went straight into the bedroom and lay down on the bed.

"Humm..."

Fatalia rubbed her chin, her eyes narrowed, "It's a bit stiff."

Tan En, who was standing by the window, came over, "Your Highness Fatalia, have you noticed anything wrong?"

"I didn't expect to meet such a big fish just to accept the invitation to visit other people's house..."

Fatalia squatted on those unused chairs, and then carefully observed the distribution of dust on them, "Tan, that Mark Sean just now, he was one of the officials sent by the king and disappeared. "

Some blue flames emerged from under Tan En's helmet, and Tan En's surprised but suppressed voice appeared at the same time, "Your Highness, are you sure?"

"Not 100% sure, maybe 90.00%."

As she said that, Fatalia patted the chairs, "Sure enough, the dust is a disguise, it just looks like it has been here for a long time. I guess the person who arranged it didn't have much common sense in life."

"dust?"

Tan En also squatted aside, but he turned over and couldn't see what was wrong with the dust, "What's wrong with the dust?"

Fatalia looked at her teacher, and suddenly realized that he probably hadn't done any work, so she held her forehead helplessly and explained: "Teacher Tan En, look at the legs of these chairs, the top connecting part , Is there a lot of dust? There should not be so much dust there, after all, it is blocked by the chair itself. If it is not specially arranged, the dust there should be much less than other parts - simple common sense of life, it is estimated that this is arranged Some people used wind magic or something, although it is convenient, it is not detailed enough."

In this way, it can basically be confirmed that Mark Sean is himself, so the next question is...what made him appear in this state.

Fatalia also walked to the window and looked out. Today's double moons seem to be extraordinarily bright. The moonlight from the two moons makes everything on this land as clear as daytime. Fatalia can even I saw the shadows of the villages in the distance, but those villages did not see the existence of lights.

Although Fatalia didn't bring a timing tool, it can be calculated that it is about eight o'clock in the evening, but the villages seem to be empty at this time, and there is no fire, which is obviously not normal.

"Little black."

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Fatalia whispered softly, and a pitch-black crow flew up to the window sill from the shadow and stood still. It tilted its head and stared at Fatalia with scarlet eyes. Fatalia touched its head, and then said : "Xiao Hei, go back to the Demon King City as quickly as you can, and bring me the information from Sharp's collar."

The crow combed its feathers, then flapped its wings, turning into a black shadow and blending into the night.

Seeing that Charon left, Fatalia pulled a chair and sat beside the table, "Tonight, I'm probably not in the mood to sleep, Favna, listen carefully and listen to the movement of Mark sleeping."

"Understood, Master."

Favna nodded, and then stood by the bedroom, closing her eyes and listening to every sound in the room, while Fatalia was leaning on the chair, thinking quietly, Tan En had nothing to do, so he had to stand Looking at the scenery outside by the bed, at the same time, he was mentally guarding against possible dangers, but he didn't know why his perception ability was greatly weakened.

Mark Sean has been found, and the remaining two people are probably in different places here, and the situation may be similar to Mark, so what is not known at the moment is what is going on with Mark and who is behind the scenes.

Frankly speaking, Fatalia thinks Viscount Sharp's suspicion accounts for [-]%. After all, this is still his territory. Mark even has a house here. As the lord, Viscount Sharp must be the most suspected, but on the other hand, she And we have to consider the possibility that this was deliberately designed by someone to frame Viscount Sharp.

Still have to wait until more information emerges.

Fatalia sighed and slowly closed her eyes.

No sleep for one night.

In the early morning of the next day, Fatalia had already begun to study the materials that Xiao Hei had brought over when the sky was just getting darker. She didn't find anything special. Mark didn't even move for the whole night. If it wasn't for the sound of breathing evenly, Favna thought it was a corpse lying inside.

"Okay, okay, let me see what secrets Sharp collar has."

Fatalia opened the book, pushed her glasses, and looked at the words on it intently. The book recorded various situations of the Sharp collar in the past ten years, including tax records, population crime records, etc., as well as some rumors. Kind of like that, and Patty had mentioned, the accident that killed her mother.

Regarding the accident, the follow-up investigation report stated that it was indeed an accident, but it does not rule out that someone bribed law enforcement officials, so the real situation behind it still needs to be questioned; there are also rumors about Lord Bart Sharp, According to records, this Viscount Sharp used to be a gentle and sunny person, who seemed to be infected by her enthusiastic and cheerful wife, but since his wife died, this Viscount Sharp has never laughed again, and his soul seems to be Has gone with his wife.There is also about Viscount Sharp's wife. She seems to be the daughter of a baron, and she has a very rare free love with Viscount Sharp. This lady also has some wild ideas from time to time, and has been trying to get Viscount Sharp to act.

As well as the final tax, population and criminal records, etc. Regarding population, because people in this era really have no concept of the importance of population, they have always made rough statistics, and their credibility is doubtful, but for tax and criminal records This aspect is relatively reliable.Taxes on Sharp collar seem to be rising steadily, but on the other hand, the criminal record is somewhat suspicious.

Since five years ago, the criminal record of Sharp collar has been stable and outrageous, and the number of people has fluctuated very little. This is obviously not right. This criminal record is almost like some kind of task. The feeling that it's over.

Although the normal territory doesn't fluctuate too much, there are still some small fluctuations, and the fluctuation of the sharp collar is obviously a bit deceiving, because it is too uniform and looks like a camouflage.

The suspicion of Viscount Sharp is getting bigger and bigger.

Putting down the notebook, Fatalia gently scratched Xiao Hei's neck, and then retracted it into the shadow.

Sure enough, he still had to go to Viscount Sharp to confront him face to face. If he had no problems, he could borrow a carriage and go back to Demon King City to make plans.

It's not that Fatalia hasn't considered whether there will be danger, but no matter how she thinks about it, she doesn't think how Viscount Sharp, a third-level extraordinary person, can fight against sixth-level Favna and twelfth-level Tan En.

Although the sharp collar is not very big, it was already afternoon when the three of them arrived.

"Good afternoon, Your Royal Highness, your presence has brought great glory to this land."

Inside the castle, Unor Sharp's face was still gloomy, but in the eyes of Fatalia, who was in a different mood at this time, he looked sinister no matter what, "You are serious, Viscount Sharp, I just came to borrow a carriage. "

"Of course, it is also an honor for the carriage to carry Her Highness the Princess."

Viscount Sharp said so calmly, and then ordered his attendants to lead a carriage out. At this time, Fatalia looked around, but she didn't find the small figure, "Is Miss Patty not there?"

"My daughter is going to attend other noble banquets. Because of the long journey, I set off early in the morning."

"so……"

Fatalia nodded without paying too much attention, but Viscount Sharp invited him: "It will take some time to choose a suitable carriage. During this period, Her Royal Highness, would you like to try our afternoon tea here?"

Fatalia was a little moved, her eyebrows twitched subconsciously, but then her expression returned to the usual iceberg, "Forget it, Viscount Sharp, I don't plan to have afternoon tea now, but I will chat with you for a while. The last two sentences are still acceptable—I don’t know if Viscount Sharp has ever read the new imperial law code?”

Viscount Sharp twitched his eyes, then nodded and replied: "Of course, Your Royal Highness, after all, matters related to the law are directly related to the life and death of our nobles."

"Life and death."

Fatalia frowned, "Oh? Mr. Viscount seems to have a different opinion. After all, not many nobles would mention life and death."

"Just a little foolishness."

Viscount Sharp said neither humble nor overbearing: "It's just a gift left by my deceased wife..."

Fatalia was silent for a while, straightened her skirt before continuing to answer: "I am deeply sorry for that accident, but it seems that Mr. Viscount thinks it is not an accident?"

"...It's been many years ago, and it's useless to talk about it."

Viscount Sharp seemed to sigh, then pointed to the door and said, "Compared to this, Miss Fatalia, the carriage is here, let's go home."

"Oh, that's right, then thank you Lord Lord."

Turning around and seeing the carriage, Fatalia bowed, and then looked at Tan En, "Then brother, you should work hard at the lord's place. Sister Favna and I will leave first. There are still many things to do at home. It's over."

Tan En nodded, and said in a muffled voice, "Well, I understand, take care of yourself. Favna, as a sister, you have to take care of Fatalia."

Favna didn't speak, just nodded, and led Fatalia into the carriage.

Unor Sharp watched their backs with extremely cold eyes.

"A little bit more..."