Volume 8 Chapter 9: Support
<span style="text-decoration:underline"><span style="font-weight:400">Volume 8 Chapter 9: Support
<span style="font-weight:400">"Is someone going to let us out?!" Arnie banged on the door. However, what he got in return was silence. His expression darkened as he was prepared to kick a table.
<span style="font-weight:400">However, his mother, Barb, responded, "Stop destroying everything." Barb''s eyes were dark as she bit her nails. What is going on? She didn''t understand why she and her son were locked away.
<span style="font-weight:400">The knights appeared in front of her door one morning and told them they would stay in this room instead.
<span style="font-weight:400">Did they find out about everything? A thought urred; Rodrick had been trying to take power and be a grand duke. Barb supported this. She would be the grand duchess if he became the next grand duke. She had seen how people respected Violet, and she yearned for that. Yet all of that was about to disappear.
<span style="font-weight:400">Being locked in a room was a red g.
<span style="font-weight:400">"Open up!" Arnie couldn''t take it any longer as he continued mming the door. This time, it worked as the door burst open, smacking the guy in the face.
<span style="font-weight:400">"Ugh!" Arnie was sent flying.
<span style="font-weight:400">"Dear!" Barb quickly walked up to him to see that he had blooding down his nose! Then, she looked at the brat, "How dare you kick the door down like that?!" Since it was Keith, there was no need to hold back her anger!
<span style="font-weight:400">"Tch! You think you can talk to me like that with all the trouble your family caused thesest few days?" Keith ignored their re as he sat on the sofa, "Let me make one thing clear, the only reason you guys are alive is because we haven''t handed down your verdict."
<span style="font-weight:400">"Verdict?!"
<span style="font-weight:400">"What verdict, you bastard!" Arnie charged at Keith as he was prepared to swing his fist down. However, Keith tilted his neck one way, dodging without any trouble. Grabbing his arm,
<span style="font-weight:400">"ARGHHHHHH!" A hideous roar came out of Arnie''s mouth as he was shocked by 10000 volts of lightning!
<span style="font-weight:400">"Stop it now!"
<span style="font-weight:400">Keith did so as he dropped him on the floor, "But everything has changed now; your verdict has been decided."
<span style="font-weight:400">"What?!" Barb and a disheveled Arnie were startled.
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<span style="font-weight:400">"You two are going to be executed." Keith coldly dered, "Your lives are nothing more than garbage."
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<span style="font-weight:400">"!" Arnie and his mother''s face paled.
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<span style="font-weight:400">"P-please!" "We don''t want to die."
<span style="font-weight:400">"Do you think you can say that after trying to start a coup against the grand duke?" It was baffling. They clearly don''t understand the situation.
<span style="font-weight:400">"W-we,"
<span style="font-weight:400">"However, I think I could get a few good words in for you to live." A grin formed on his face.
<span style="font-weight:400">"!" Barb''s expression changed. Who was he? This boy was none other than Marquis Freed''s son and also the grandson of Grand Duke Bradley. Not only that, he also had a good rtionship with Krystal. If he put a good word in, they could live!
<span style="font-weight:400">"Wipe that salvation look off your face." Keith''s gaze was cold as ice, "Do you think I would save you without anything in return. I want something of equal value."
<span style="font-weight:400">"Equal value?"
<span style="font-weight:400">"Tell me, who was the one who started all of this?"
<span style="font-weight:400">"Eh?"
<span style="font-weight:400">"Don''t y dumb; there was a mastermind behind your actions."
<span style="font-weight:400">“…”
<span style="font-weight:400">"The grand duke would probably pardon your execution if you hand over the culprit," Keith added calmly.
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<span style="font-weight:400">"It was a cloaked man! He was discussing it with Rodrick!" Barb didn''t hesitate to reveal.
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<span style="font-weight:400">"We already know this." Keith shook his head, "That''s not enough information for you to live."
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<span style="font-weight:400">"Then we don''t know anything!"
<span style="font-weight:400">"Then I guess you guys can die." Keith shrugged as he got up.
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<span style="font-weight:400">"Where are you going?!"
<span style="font-weight:400">"Leaving, since you guys are nothing more than worthless." Keith looked at them like garbage as he walked away. However,
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<span style="font-weight:400">"Wait! I do remember something!" Arnie muttered with a weak voice.
<span style="font-weight:400">"Hmm? What do you remember?"
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<span style="font-weight:400">"I remember the person had a weird emblem."
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<span style="font-weight:400">"A weird emblem?"
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<span style="font-weight:400">"It''s in the shape of a dagger. He wore it like a pocket watch." When the cloaked person talked with their family, he noticed how the man would hold onto it.
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<span style="font-weight:400">"Is that all you can remember?"
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<span style="font-weight:400">"Father was extremely respectful to him; they made a deal about support," Arnie added.
<span style="font-weight:400">"What?" "They did?" Barb didn''t hear about this.
<span style="font-weight:400">"I overheard Father saying he would support someone if he became head." Arnie was out drinking and returned homete. That was when he walked across the door and heard them discuss it.
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<span style="font-weight:400">"That''s all."
<span style="font-weight:400">"…Hmpf." Keith looked away as he opened the door, leaving the two in despair and fear. Outside the door, Edmund and the two stood.
<span style="font-weight:400">"You heard everything, right?"
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<span style="font-weight:400">“…”
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<span style="font-weight:400">"What''s the matter?"
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<span style="font-weight:400">"Quite the cold attitude you had there, Kid." Cedric chuckled.
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<span style="font-weight:400">"Hmm?"
<span style="font-weight:400">"For a second, I thought hell had frozen over." Sterling shivered when he heard the conversation. Keith''s voice was quite dark and cruel, like he held a knife at their throats.
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<span style="font-weight:400">"I had to sell it." Keith sighed, "Out of everyone, I''m the one they have never met with and don''t know if what I''m saying is the truth or not." He had to be the one to interrogate them. No one knew what kind of personality he had. He was an enigma to those two.
<span style="font-weight:400">"But they did have information." Edmund took a deep breath. That was what Keith had suggested. He had told them that Rodrick and the family had been talking to the cloaked person.
<span style="font-weight:400">"Mmhmm, this person has a dagger pendant, and also, it was someone Rodrick would support if he became grand duke," Keith repeated Arnie''s words.
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<span style="font-weight:400">"That''s a good start." Cedric nodded.
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<span style="font-weight:400">"Sir Edmund, please take this as well." Keith handed him a stone, "This is the recording I obtained of the cloaked man discussing with Rodrick. I couldn''t see the pendant. But try your best to see if you can find more information out of it."
<span style="font-weight:400">"Thank you so much." That was another piece of information they could use.
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<span style="font-weight:400">"Mmhmm, I''m going to go to bed now." Keith bowed. It should have been him going to bed now.
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<span style="font-weight:400">"I''m sorry about taking your time."
<span style="font-weight:400">"Mmhmm." Keith left the three there.
<span style="font-weight:400">"See? What did I tell you about the kid." Cedric grinned.
<span style="font-weight:400">"Indeed."
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<span style="font-weight:400">"That kid is dangerous." Sterling continued to shiver. Never did he expect Keith to be this ruthless.
<span style="font-weight:400">"He may have a kind side, but that will go out the window if they try to cause trouble."
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<span style="font-weight:400">"But Father, if what Arnie said is true, this lowers the number of culprits." Arnie''s information lowered it by a mile.
<span style="font-weight:400">"Indeed." It can''t be, can it?
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