
Darkened. Not a single lamp was lit in this room. There was a loud noise all over the room. All the sounds did not come out in full, as if being held back. However, there was one voice capable of coming out loud and arrogant.
"Where's this? Don't you know who you're dealing with?"
"We're aware. Very conscious. I'm... very conscious."
A floodlight lit up, illuminating the figure that had just spoken. He sat down and tied to a chair in the middle of the room. Or I said, in the middle of the field.
"This voice, Lugalgin?"
"Hi, Fahren."
Yes, at this time, the figure who was tied in the middle of the field was Fahren. He was still wearing a typical noble outfit that was full of functionless ornaments. However, his royal robe was no longer visible.
I walked down the floodlight, in front of Fahren. I grabbed my own chair and sat in front of him. Normally, under these circumstances, commoners like me should not sit in line with the King. I have to sit on a lower seat or even above the ground, signifying my status to be lower than that of the King. Normally.
Right now, I'm not wearing casual clothes that signify my status as a commoner. I wore kevlar-coated clothes, cargo pants, and black robes, clothes as a member of the Agade.
"What are you doing?"
"I should have asked. What are you doing?" I changed asking. "I've been kind enough to accept a job as the head of intelligence, trying to refine and strengthen the kingdom's intelligence system, I've even tried to find a new king for you who is easier to control than me. But, what's the payoff?"
I stood up, grabbed Fahren's hair. "You betrayed me. You made some Schneider agents report to you. In fact, you pitted my sheep against the Alhold family. Because of you, my sister was almost seriously injured even she could have died if I didn't come down directly. Not only that, you also made out Suen and Nanna dead. Does this kingdom think its citizens are just pawns that can be sacrificed? That so?"
"A..what do you mean?"
Pretending stupid, huh?
I took my hand off Fahren's hair and took the smartphone out of his pants pocket. Behind me, a box of light appeared in the sky. If you look at the size of the box, it should be, Fahren can already guess where this place is.
[His Majesty the King, everything is going according to plan. Now, the Alhold family is fighting Lugalgin.]
[Good. Very nice.]
I've been listening to some footage of Fahren's phone tapping. Fahren widened his eyes wide, unable to believe what he was listening to.
"Right now, I'm hiring Akadia, Agade, Agent Schneider, and a mercenary."
What I mean by mercenary is Jin. There's no way I'm saying lead Guan.
"Under me, I had all the organizations keep an eye on each other. And, I don't think, there's a lot of schneider agents who report to you right away but don't report to me."
"What do you expect? They work under me."
"Not according to this statement." I took a document under Fahren's chair. "This document was signed by the concerned party, who is a schneider agent. They have sworn oaths and allegiance to me, Lugalgin Alhold. I don't see any words of oath and allegiance to the King, Fahren Falch Exequeror. And if there's a traitor, I'm allowed to clean up all the dissident agents and agents under me."
To make it easier for Fahren, and everyone else, to see the contents of the document, I displayed the scanned results of the document on the screen.
"Before, there was a traitor working with a dissident agency. However, I was still kind enough to just clean up the family of that traitorous agent. I haven't cleaned up all the agents as written on this document. However, it seems, this kindness of mine was misinterpreted. It's not that this cleansing is considered a warning, but you don't heed it. So, I was thinking, maybe from the beginning you guys were planning all this."
Fahren. He gave no response and just threw away his face.
I pressed the button on the smartphone, sent a message. Right after that, another searchlight lit up, illuminating my left. To my left, Shu En is tied to a chair, just like Fahren. However, if Fahren's mouth is wide open without a barrier, Shu En's mouth is gagged and tied with a cloth.
"All right, we played the tape a few days ago. Where you, Shu En, should have sent agents to protect the Nanna and Suen families."
I played a voice recording. This tape is not very important, it only contains Shu En who confirmed the smooth running of the plans on Fahren. After the sound recording, I played the video.
"This video was obtained from the nearest cctv."
I just gave a brief introduction and let Fahren and Shu En look into the video. In the video, two houses are rained down by bullets and even bazookas and grenades. I magnified the volume, heard the sound of screaming behind explosions and bullets.
After the attack stopped, nothing happened, silence, calm down. At this moment I, bring up some photos to the screen.
"In this attack, five people were killed. This is their face, if you care."
"The time since the attack began, until the agent schneider came, was 3 minutes 26 seconds. Report time Shu En to Fahren, 5 minutes 58 seconds. There's a time difference of 2 minutes 32 seconds."
I looked towards Shu En. Shu En's eyes widened. His body seemed to shake.
"Shu En," I opened the explanation. "If you don't report to Fahren and call the schneider agent straight away, there's two and a half minutes to warn the family. They have basement. Within these two and a half minutes, they could go to the basement, save themselves."
I walked towards Shu En and opened the gaggle.
"A defense, Shu En?"
"I.that's.that's.that's...."
"Shu En," I interrupted Shu En who was unable to answer. "In the basement, I told you. If anyone attacks your family, I'll make sure the attackers are cleared. However, since you are the one who caused all this, then...."
"No! Nah! Please! Forgive my son! Forgive Liu! He's not wrong! He doesn't know anything!" Shu En whining. Her tears also kept flowing.
"Then, how will you be responsible? Even if I kill you, it's only one life. The ones that died were 5 lives. Not worth. Not to mention, thanks to you, they no longer have a family. They're orphans. No one else will guide and finance their lives."
Well, actually, I'm gonna finance their lives anyway. However, I won't say it.
I lowered my body, putting my face in front of Shu En.
"Imagine, when you go home, there are no more smiles or welcome greetings that will welcome them. No more family warmth will soothe when they are sad."
I added another approach. "Imagine if the one in their position is your son. He came home, wishing his mother was home. Or just get out of work, hoping you'll come home. But unfortunately not. When he came home, only a cold wall greeted him, knowing his mother was no longer in this world. If the one in that position is your son, are you willing to punish only one person?"
"Well.aa....."
Shu En was unable to give an answer. His mouth just opened and let out a voice, without a word.
I opened the smartphone again. However, I had not yet come up with my next plan, a voice stopped me.
"Fahren. You can kill me and Fahren. We are the ones who killed their families. Liu has nothing to do with any of this."
"What did you say? It's your fault!" Fahren. "I have no problem getting reports lately. The deaths of those two families are because you can't set priorities."
"Fuck king! You're the one who said my top priority is serving you. Once things are impartial, you're just gonna wash your hands?" Shu En looked at me. "I beg you, forgive my son. Forgive Liu."
Waw. To the end, Shu En kept insisting that I forgive her son. I admire her. But the one who will make the decision is not me.
I sent a message. Another floodlight lit up. Under the floodlights, two people were seen, male and female. They just stood up, silent. Both eyes let out water.
"Nanna, Suen," I walked towards Nanna and Suen. "Include, Your Majesty King Fahren and Shu En, the two people who have got your family killed."
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