Part 2 The Faceless Man Chapter 41 The Parties
Queens, inside the Earl of Hall’s luxurious villa.
Audrey padded her white napkin and watched the dining maid cut bacon for herself, arrange fully cooked omelettes on both sides, spread jam on fluffy bread, and add sauce to roasted mushrooms.
In a real noble family, the maids are divided into many kinds, besides the chambermaids, there are also maids for the different bedrooms, maids for the study, maids for the living room, maids for the guest room, maids for the clothes, maids for the shoes, maids for the jewelry, maids for the meals, maids for the washing up, maids for the kitchen, and they are strictly corresponded to each other, and there is one maid for each thing.
Although this is a great waste of labor, but for the nobles, decency is everything, until the debt is numerous, will not reduce the requirements of similar aspects.
Audrey took a sip of her maroon colored tea, letting the faint scent of malt and rose reverberate in her mouth.
At that moment, she heard her father, the Earl of Hall, a member of the Kingdom’s Upper House and a great banker, mutter into the newspaper in his hand:
”The Aurora Society is crazy.”
The Aurora Society? Audrey blinked and asked curiously:
”Did they do something?”
”Oh baby, you don’t want to know, they went so far as to assassinate Beckiron, the ambassador of Intis, which didn’t do them any favors.” Earl Hall shook his head as he flipped through the newspaper.
Audrey’s older brother, the earl’s eldest son, Hibbert Hall swallowed a mouthful of roasted mushrooms and voiced his opinion:
”Perhaps they want to destroy the relationship between the kingdom and Intis and let the war spread from the colonies to the northern continent.”
This noble son had a handsome face and brilliant blonde hair, and no matter from which angle he was viewed, he had the beauty of a classical sculpture.
”No, if that was the case, they wouldn’t have left so much obvious evidence behind, and there are too many new policies in the kingdom that will be entering the implementation stage recently, and it will take some time to stabilize the environment, we won’t open the war hastily, what happened last night is in the newspaper this morning, and there are details of what happened and the specific murderer, it’s enough to show what his majesty the king and the ministers are thinking. ” Earl Hall pointed out to his child.
Audrey listened in stunned silence as her father and brother discussed this for a moment before responding:
Beckrand had been assassinated?
Mr. A succeeded?
He really is from the Aurora Society?
He deliberately exposed that it was done by the Aurora Society just to prove that this matter was completed by him and not cheating on the final payment?
This is too fast and efficient, right, I only made the first payment yesterday afternoon, and this morning I heard the result, a good result!
Audrey’s astonishment was followed by uncontainable joy, and that joy was followed by instinctive trepidation.
The task entrusted by Mr. “Fool”‘s family member was accomplished so easily and simply, definitely something to be happy about, but the strength and power of action shown by Mr. A and the Aurora Club behind him made Audrey subconsciously feel scared.
Well, it’s fortunate that I’ve already communicated with Gretlin yesterday and reached an agreement to borrow money, and as a Viscount, he should have already succeeded in raising the money without attracting attention to himself……. In the next two days, I’ll give the final payment to Mr. A. Through Hugh and Forsyth, I definitely can’t go out on my own… . and I can’t go to Mr. A’s parties again for a month or two; fortunately, I have other circles …… Audrey haughtily took a bite of the fluffy bread spread with jam.
As breakfast drew to a close, cupcakes with cream, cherries and strawberries arrived on her plate, and the calmer woman was suddenly a little self-conscious.
Mr. “Inverted Man” still wants to participate in this mission, but he may only now complete the initial commission …… things are already over …… who asked him to be at sea ~ Audrey moody, happy, and tasted with a smile on her face. Audrey was in a good mood and savored the dessert with a smile on her face.
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Hilston District, Hugh and Forsyth looked at the newspaper in front of them for a long time without additional action.
”…… This is Mr. A’s doing, isn’t it?” Hugh looked at his friend in shock and confusion.
Forsyth turned the stone-studded bracelet at his wrist and shook his head with the same bewilderment:
”Maybe.”
”I know about the Aurora Society, but I don’t know if Mr. A. is a member of the Aurora Society.”
”I suppose so, after all, we only gave him two thousand pounds yesterday, there shouldn’t be anyone else trying to assassinate that Beckland ambassador ……,” Hugh said with less certainty.
Forsyth was silent for a few seconds, and suddenly lamented:
”Whether Mr. A. did it or not, we’ll have to give him the rest of the £8,000, and at the moment there’s no one who can prove that he didn’t do it, so we can’t renege on the debt if we still want to hang around in this circle!”
”It’s not out of our pockets anyway …… And we’ve got £500 to pay for it!” Said Hugh, cheered up all of a sudden.
”The trouble is, I always thought it would be dangerous …… to go to Mr. A. again,” Forsyth murmured; “it would be better for both of us if I went myself when the final payment was delivered.”
”But ……” Hugh instinctively became a little uneasy.
”Your following will interfere with my escape.” Forsyth shook his wrist bracelet and said in a tone of disgust.
”Okay.” Hugh replied helplessly as he scratched his short, shaggy blonde hair.
Just as the two were apprehensive about the matter, a new message from Mr. A was delivered to them through a hidden contact channel, and he told them not to bother with him, but to just deposit the remaining balance into several separate anonymous accounts at different banks.
Whew …… Hugh and Forsyth breathed a sigh of relief at the same time.
And in a basement so spacious that it seemed like a temple, Mr. A, dressed in a black robe with a hood, sat on his knees in the darkness and whispered something reverently.
In front of him was a statue close to 3 meters, an inverted hanged man whose legs were tied with chains and connected upwards.
This inverted hanged man had the unique vertical single eye of a giant, and his arms were stretched out horizontally, swinging into a cross.
At that moment, a man with a black robe covering his body came in and humbly reported:
”Mr. A, I have delivered the message.”
”Very well.” Mr. A said without a sideways glance.
The black-robed, hooded man asked suspiciously:
”Why don’t you let us investigate who commissioned this mission?”
Mr. A buried his head and spoke in an indifferent tone:
”There is no need.”
”You must remember that this is a critical time.”
”We’re going to make the continent chaotic, and we’re going to try to attract the attention of others as a way to welcome the Lord’s return!”
”Hahaha, cough cough cough ……”
Mr. A suddenly laughed, then coughed violently, coughing so hard that his entire body prostrated to the ground.
”Cough cough!”
He coughed out a mass of blood-colored fragments, and these fragments were still writhing after landing on the ground, as if they were living things.
The man with the black robe covering his body immediately lowered his head and pretended that he didn’t see anything.
After a long time, Mr. A finally calmed down.
He crawled and marched, his mouth pressed against the ground, licking back all the blood-colored fragments that he had just coughed up.
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126 New Year’s Day Road, Hilston District.
A relaxed Klein didn’t bother to follow Doragu Gale this time, choosing his mistress Erica Taylor as his target, and it takes two to cheat anyway.
The pretty blonde, wearing delicate makeup, arrived early at the Kraig Club in a rented carriage, and Klein followed inside, carrying a suitcase with a portable camera and various disguises.
”Is there still a room for rest?” Wearing the club’s White Frost badge on his chest, he asked the pretty maid who was in charge of today’s reception.
The maid in a black and white dress smiled politely:
”Yes, you can just follow this waiter upstairs.”
Klein nodded gently, and led by the red vested attendant along the steps, step by step to the second floor, just in time to see Erica Taylor enter a lounge against the street.
”Would you like to watch the pedestrians on the street, or the tennis court in the back?” The red vested waiter asked solicitously.
”Street side, I guess.” Klein replied with a feigned casualness.
Under the red vest waiter’s arrangement, his room and Erica Taylor’s room were two rooms apart, with the same view of the street outside the club’s main door.
How should he take pictures later? Find a chance to sneak in and hide inside the room, or climb through the window and climb the pipes outside? Neither of these two methods could disguise the exaggerated flash, but the latter would disguise me as an alien surreptitious photographer and keep people from suspecting me and banishing me …… However, this is all easily detected by Dolagu and Erika ah …… Using a charm to make them fall asleep? No, that would make the photo not convincing enough, it has to be a picture of the process ……
There’s only a chance of one, it has to be a good enough shot …… This isn’t my area of expertise, I’m not a master of the arts …… In old Neil’s place, he’d be attempting to construct new ritual magic, ritual magic specifically designed to mask camera flashes, but of course the goddess may not be able to respond to him ……
In the midst of Klein’s push for his next move, he saw Ms. Bodyguard emerge from a silver mirror in the room.
She was still wearing the same black gothic court dress, a compact fedora of the same color, light blonde hair, and a pale, delicate-looking face.
”Do you have a way of disguising the camera flash?” Klein asked casually.
Before his words left his mouth, he saw ripples on the surface of the silver mirror, and a slightly transparent palm suddenly stretched out.
The bodyguard lady ghost-like drilled out from within the silver mirror, walked in front of Klein, and nodded slightly:
”It’s okay.”
She bent her body down and leaned over, blending into the camera’s lens just a little bit!
Klein’s mouth was slightly open as he watched the shocking image, and it took him a long time to come back to his senses, pick up the portable camera, and try one in his own rest room.
The results were better than he expected, the flash was confined to the vicinity of the lens and the image was quite good.
Perhaps it should now be called the “Psychic Camera” …… Crane said with a grimace, took the camera, went to the window and waited patiently.
It wasn’t long before he saw Doragu Gale arriving in a horse-drawn carriage.
On the other side of the room, Erica Taylor also saw her lover and was busy leaving the lounge to greet him on the first floor.
Crane seized the opportunity to get out of the other side’s room with a tarot card and carefully hid in the cupboard where the extra sheets and quilts were kept.
The darkness around him reminded him of last night, and of the strange and frightening “Master of the Secret Puppets” Rosago.
Last night, he was in danger, but today, he came to catch him in the act of adultery, life is really amazing ah …… Klein said to himself, at the same time, he heard the sound of the door opening.