Pastor's Tantra

According to Aiwass's memory in this life, Minister Drost was a friend of old Moriarty. They have a pretty good personal relationship.

He is a loyal and powerful minister of the Queen's faction and has a good relationship with the Moriarty family. Moreover, he is also a minister who is very capable, honest and has no desire for power. Without enough evidence, this pillar of the kingdom will definitely not be able to be moved—even if there is evidence, it may not be possible to move it directly.

"Strong work ability, clean and without lust for power..."

Aiwass silently chewed the key words of Old Drost in his heart.

He had felt something was wrong before, but because of Lily's dark history, he didn't react.

Thinking about it now, Minister Drost seems a little too perfect in areas other than his private life:

An official who is very capable and honest will have some upward ambition; an official who is very capable and does not intend to continue to be promoted will probably not be very honest; and an official who is honest and has no desire for power will probably not be very honest. , he usually has no abilities at all.

This is basically an impossible triangle, but old Drost satisfies all three at the same time.

No wonder. It turns out he is a mole, so that makes sense.

...Is old Drost also one of the chess pieces manipulated by Moriarty?

Aiwass was sitting in a wheelchair, the fingers of his right hand tapping the armrest rhythmically, and he was lost in thought.

On the other side, Director Gordon led people from the Inspection Bureau to carefully interrogate everyone on the second floor of the White Shoes Club.

He attached great importance to the opinions given by Aiwass. Therefore, we took two of the most experienced inspectors to personally check whether there were documents hidden in all members' packages and personal belongings.

Chloe stood quietly in the corner and pushed up her glasses slightly, no one noticed her presence.

She has a beautiful and bright appearance, and short caramel-colored curly hair that gives people a warm and sweet feeling. At this moment, she was not wearing a school uniform, but a backless white dress that was only worn in summer or at banquets, with a crystal dance shoe badge on her chest.

In the early winter of November, this look will definitely impress.

But everyone around Chloe seemed not to see her. Under the influence of those glasses, her appearance and clothes became ordinary.

It's like she's no different than anyone else. As long as the eyes leave her for a moment, she will no longer be seen, like a bubble in a dream.

Chloe was holding a stack of books in her arms, hiding in the corner and watching all this quietly.

...There are capable people in the Supervision Bureau.

No, to be precise, it should be that the young man named Aiwass Moriarty is somewhat magical. Chloe thought.

Until just now, the situation was under Chloe's control.

If she had not used "Eagle Feather" but simply poisoned her, it would have been difficult for the Avalonians to realize that Secretary Raff was killed by a professional assassin. If she poisoned Rafe at his home, the outcome would probably be the same - the cause of his death would be covered up by the Minister of Trade.

And her mission as a killer is to make Rafe's death conspicuous, to make him die in a suspicious manner in front of everyone.

Because of Raf's special cause of death and his remaining documents, the Avalonians would begin to suspect... that Raf was conducting intelligence transactions with foreigners, and was immediately silenced after giving out key information.

Then they will start investigating those documents.

Although those files were basically composed of code words, Chloe believed in the analysis and decoding abilities of the young man from the Hermes family. He has already investigated the "Sweater Brotherhood" and found those alchemical bombs. You must soon realize that this document must be related to the port smuggling case.

After that, the Minister of Trade will naturally be involved. His connection with the Star Antimony people may be discovered, and even other ministers who have connections with the Star Antimony will also be discovered.

And this is Chloe's mission as an agent.

Although for the Iris Kingdom, Avalon and Star Antimony are not good things. But this is a critical moment for the Iris, and Avalon better not have problems at this point in time.

They need to try to keep Avalon and the Star Antimonians hostile, but at the same time maintain a balance between the two sides. It ensures that it does not enter a state of war, but it can continue to deplete the power of the two countries.

In Avalon, there are many agents like her who have sneaked in.

Their purpose is to alleviate the hostility of the Avalonians towards the Iris people in Avalon, and to increase the hatred of the Avalonians towards the Star Antimony people. At the appropriate point, help the knights who are restrained by their armor to break free from the many constraints entangled in them——

The knights of Avalon are only bound by the road and must obey orders; and are bound by the oath of loyalty and cannot harm the royal family.

But in fact, as long as they don't have the idea of ​​"replacing", they will not deviate from the path.

In other words, they just couldn't usurp the king's power.

Then, just let the royal family still exist, but lose the power to control them.

As long as the royal family no longer has the power of the authoritarian path, the knights can take off their armor and imitate the fleur-de-lis in forming a cabinet.

The power that belongs to the authoritarian path is ultimately suppressed from top to bottom, layer by layer - the mysterious skills of the authoritarian path are "leadership" and "speech" and have nothing to do with loyalty.

Even if there are knights who are willing to surrender to the royal family from the bottom of their hearts... but if there are kind-hearted people to help them break free, they will never feel uncomfortable about it.

Just as the path of beauty may lean toward the path of equilibrium or the path of dusk, so the path of authority may tend toward transcendence and love.

Power increases ambition and amplifies desire. She knows how to deal with love-inclined people all too well.

Chloe's main task is to publicize the dangers and terror of the Moon Children in Avalon.

This is an advance preparation to prevent the Moon Child from joining Avalon after being expelled by Iris.

A few days ago, she suddenly received a task from her superiors——

Her superiors asked her to find a way to stop the Star Antimony Kingdom's conspiracy, and try to expose the Minister of Trade, or at least put him into a dormant state. As a clue, her superiors gave her the name "Raff" and his contact information.

She managed to steal the "Noble Red" ring stored in the Supervision Bureau and replaced it with a fake. He used it to forge his identity, and sent the ring and a letter of urgent appointment with the other party to Secretary Raf, asking him to meet here.

Fortunately, the stronghold of the "Sweater Brotherhood" was discovered by Sherlock Hermes, otherwise it would be difficult for her to make a date.

With great difficulty, Secretary Rafe was tricked out with the documents.

Just a pity.

...It would be better if Aiwass didn't appear here today.

Chloe frowned.

She had actually seen Princess Isabel just now. To be on the safe side, it's actually best not to take action.

But after all, she is not a member of the Noble Red Society. If Secretary Rafe communicates with the Minister of Trade after returning, it will be easy to see through her false identity. It will be harder to ask him out in public next time.

So she thought about it and decided to take the risk.

It's a risk, but it's also a rare opportunity.

Because this matter directly involves the safety of Her Royal Highness, if an unknown transcendent assassin sneaks into the club... Raf will definitely be thoroughly investigated.

But what Chloe didn't expect was that Aiwass immediately realized that she might have taken away some documents.

The extraordinary power that comes from adapting to the path allows her to hide her figure, and also allows her to hear the following conversation clearly from such a distance.

She was filled with doubts and surprises.

——How did Aiwass reason?

She took away part of the documents completely on impulse.

Because Princess Isabel is here, Chloe is worried that the Minister of Trade will react too quickly and arrange for someone to take back all the documents as soon as possible. So she left part of it as evidence.

The document was scattered all over the floor when Raph fell, and it was normal for a page or two to be missing. Maybe someone present stole it.

If the Trade Secretary cleans up his hands, Chloe can anonymously publish the documents he secretly took. Keep up the pressure on the trade secretary.

She was filled with doubts.

Before taking action, Chloe used detective thinking to review her actions.

Logically speaking, if someone silences someone to obtain information, then he can take away all the documents. If he takes away some and leaves more, it will become conspicuous; therefore, this behavior is not in line with logic and primary interests. And if he takes away all the documents, then I'm afraid it will take a while for the Supervision Bureau to investigate and find out that the documents are missing...

Therefore, from this perspective, if Aiwass is really a qualified detective, he should rule out the possibility that "someone silenced Rafe after conducting intelligence transactions with him" at the first time, and think about the problem as More complex.

——In the end, Aiwass really stopped at this step and asked Director Gordon to check their personal documents.

No, do you understand it or not?

Rafe fell down the building with a pile of documents. This seems unnatural no matter how you look at it? Would a real killer make such a stupid mistake?

From the perspective of Chloe, who knew everything, she realized that Aiwass's reasoning was obviously unnatural.

Does he really have a false reputation?

But in that case, why would he take the initiative to interfere in Director Gordon's investigation?

He even said it directly, and the document was tucked away in the book - as if he had seen what he had done.

Because she really hid the document in the book.

That information is a code word. If it's just one or two pieces, fold them up and put them in a book so they won't be easily noticed.

When no one is stealing information, just steal one or two documents from a pile. If Commissioner Gordon is left to investigate on his own, his experience will tell him that this is impossible.

Aiwass persuaded Director Gordon to come and search in person.

That would be bad.

The biggest problem here is that Gordon is very strong.

Her glasses were enchanted with the spell of the authoritative path of "Cannot Look Directly", giving her the ability to not be caught by people's eyes. Those supervisors whose energy level is too low cannot see her at all. Just like those members didn't see who killed the secretary.

Gordon may not be able to beat her, but his strength is similar to hers. And he is the true transcendent who belongs to the authoritarian path.

It's possible that he will see through his own psychological invisibility.

Although as an elite agent, Chloe was confident that Gordon would not be able to kill her. In a one-on-one situation, there is a high probability that he can counterattack in a short time.

But she also heard that there was a large group of air cavalry outside.

She didn't want to run into those in the army.

But because of Aiwass's instructions, Gordon had already come here personally.

Chloe couldn't move at all now. She would be noticed if she moved, and when Gordon walked up to her, he could also notice her. Unless Gordon happened to turn away before coming over, she was arguably exposed.

But Chloe wasn't very nervous.

Because she still has a trump card!

Although the outside was completely surrounded by air cavalry, it was impossible for her to break out head-on. But as a transcendent who has adapted to the path and an elite assassin, she has many ways to survive even if her infiltration fails.

Thinking this, she looked at Aiwass.

Before Gordon could approach, Chloe pushed up her glasses again. Holding a stack of books, her body quietly melted into a thick shadow.

This is her path characteristic, and she has chosen "Shadow Affinity" three times.

——This is also the confidence that makes Chloe confident that she can definitely escape.