The Butterfly Trap
The Side Story 4
Zurich set foot into the dining room, when he got there several people had gathered including Claude, he called a waiter who was busy preparing food and asked him to call Sicily to join them in eating, the maid nodded politely and stepped past Zurich.
" A little while" said Zurich, blocking the servant.
" Can I help you sir?"
" How many servants here have long black hair, do you know?"
" If the person in charge of this building there are about six sir" he replied.
" Are they all ordinary people?"
" There are two people who are Sir's purifier, they work in a medical center that is on the left wing" he said.
" Let them meet me at work after breakfast!"
" Good Sir"
" Please continue what you're about to do"
" Good sir", he replied, bowing politely and leaving the room for the Sicilian chamber.
Shortly after that Penelope and Aria entered the room, Zurich looked towards Penelope and called out to her, the girl approached.
" Can you purify me, Miss?"
" Are you okay sir? isn't your body resisting purification from me?"
" Can we try again?"
" Well", he answered putting his hand over Zurich's palm but a sting made him take a few steps back.
" It still can't be sir" he said, shaking his head.
" Yes it's okay".
" Are you okay sir?" reworked.
Zurich nodded then the girl returned to her seat near Aria, Zurich was still confused by what happened, Penelope was already off the girl list last night, but if Penelope was indeed his first love he should have realized it long ago.
He sighed, now that there were only two maids who were his first love candidates purifying him last night, he hoped that this time he could find the girl, he said, and if he found out then he would do various ways to make the girl stay by his side.
A few minutes later a servant appeared followed by Sicily from the door and Penelope called him to sit next to her, the girl smiled and drew closer to penelope, they seemed to talk.
' ha? why isn't that girl on my list?' thought Zurich.
' But his track record he is an ordinary person, there is no way he can hide his strength given the great risks'.
Zurich stared at the girl for a long time, the girl seemed to be uncomfortable, since the incident she drew her sword into the neck of the girl, it seemed that she was very afraid of him, even she could feel the girl trying to avoid his gaze.
The girl got up from her seat and rushed out of the dining room, Zurich followed her because the girl's movements looked suspicious, he stopped the girl in the corridor and tried to find out the sweet scent that was still thick in his memory but there were no signs that the girl was the one who purified him last night.
Two servants came to Zurich's room as he was busy with documents on his desk.
" Greet Grand Duke Zurich Dagaras" they bowed.
Zurich lifted his head and walked up to the two servant girls, walking a little closer to smell the power they had, but none of them had the same scent as the girl in his memory.
" How long have you been working here?"
" It's been three years sir", replied one of them.
" If I'm only one year sir" replied another.
" I heard that you guys are purifiers, what rank?"
" My rank B Sir".
" If I purifier D Sir rank".
" Why don't you become knights of the Aqurius faction and become servants instead?"
" It's because my strength manifested the last two months Sir", replied the servant yeng claiming to be of B rank.
Zurich nodded his head and looked at the other one.
" That's because the power of my purifier is very limited Sir, so I choose to be a servant and if the faction needs my strength, I will gladly give you some help" replied the other.
Zurich could see the big picture of them, after asking a few other questions, they withdrew from the room, before long Claude entered Zurich's room with some documents in his hand.
" I hear you're looking for a black-haired purifier" he said, handing over some documents to Zurich.
Zurich nodded, "For personal reasons so you know enough!"
" Okay sir", he answered half laughing.
" Is it possible that the man of winter will feel his name falling in love?"
" Are you tired of living?"
" That's not it sir, if you need my help, I'll look even to the border of a black-haired purifier that suits your taste"
" Stop joking, what did you find?"
He stopped his laughter and opened the little book he always carried everywhere.
Zurich listened carefully, "Continue!".
" Based on the assumption of Miss Sicily, poison entered Sir Red's body through ice cubes that were put into the tea, according to Sir Red the ice cubes are clear because he always asked the waiter to boil the water first before being made into ice, in fact, when we're on our way, we don't have ice cubes and we don't boil water, so how does the perp do it?"
" I eliminated the people on our team who had this ice-cube-related power, first Sir Aria who had the Fire power, Sir Chris who had the summoning power, Sir Chris, Sir Holland has the power of ice and Sir Kaye has the power of water"
"So the four of them are suspects?"
Claude nodded.
" I don't think Holland would do it, because he couldn't possibly do something stupid that would make him a doer".
" But sir what if he expects us to think so?"
" No, Holland has always been around me so he can't be one of the perpetrators, the question is how does he do it?"
" Right, how could it be only Sir Alfred that they targeted?"
" There are still many things we don't know yet, so please continue the investigation, remember that no one knows, you can ask Sir William Abelard for help!"
" Good sir" Claude said.
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Zurich looked at the rabbit locked in the cage, he had spoken to the creature several times but it seemed that the rabbit had returned like a normal animal, Zurich could not figure out why he had brought the weak animal with him but the more he looked at the animal the more he thought of the black-haired poison girl.
He smiled, these past few days somehow he had always thought about the girl, he hoped that the girl who purified him was the poison girl Butterfly or Sicily.
' I can't remember the face of my first love but I can remember the scent of its power, where are you now Butterfly?' he thought he was still staring at the rabbit who was still cool eating the carrots he gave.
" I've been so busy lately, what if I leave it to someone else?" ask the rabbit who will definitely not answer it.
He chuckled, noticing himself inviting the animals to talk, thinking that his sanity had slowly disappeared since he had been purified by the girl he had not been able to find.
Moments later Claude and Sicily entered his room, discussing Red's condition and the various topics of the poison q, after a long discussion he gave the rabbit that he had taken care of some of the hearts to Sicily but it seemed that the girl was reluctant to accept it for a moment ago after she looked at the rabbit a bright smile adorned her face and fragrance the one Zurich had been looking for tickled his nose.
He tried to touch the girl who approached him but she quickly avoided his touch, Zurich was surprised by what he was doing, he could not believe he wanted to touch the girl he suspected with a gentle touch.
The girl's sweet scent still lingered clearly reminded him and he was sure that it was the girl who purified him that night but the trace recap of her who was not a purifier made Zurich let out a sigh of confusion.
When he finished his sword practice, he saw Sicily and Penelope walking in the castle garden and they stopped and saw William approaching them, Penelope went with William while Sicily stood looking at those who were away, Zurich approached her from behind, he was still doubtful about his assumptions but when he collided with the girl he was able to smell the girl's scent clearly.
" What perfume are you wearing?" he asked the girl but she did not answer and asked her back.
Zurich lost her temper, wanting to hug the girl before her excitedly but she tried to hold back because she was not necessarily the girl she was looking for, just as the girl was about to answer him a subordinate of William approached her.
" We have found Sir's spy, and Sir William asks you to see him" the man whispered.
Zurich hesitated to leave the girl because she still did not get an answer from the girl in front of her eyes, he looked at the girl for a long time and said that he would question her again later and then he went to follow William's subordinates to his castle.
" After a long investigation there were two people we suspected of being the perpetrators" William said, turning their discussion around, there were only three people including him in the room.
" I ask Sir William for help to watch the gestures of the four men whom we suspect Sir" Claude said.
" Good, go on!"
" Of those four people only one person is really suspicious but there is one more person who always meets the perpetrator" William said, "Sir Aaron".
Zurich and Claude looked at each other.
" According to the description of the knights who followed Sir Aria and Sir Aaron always met secretly, they discussed about Red's health and his development when he was handled by Gold Butterfly, who was this Gold Butterfly?", ask her explanation.
" Is she the Miss Butterfly I just met?"
" Yes sir, she is the girl who helped us in this investigation and also she is also the one who has made an antidote for Sir Red, only our identity is kept secret from the others" Claude replied.
" Is he an influential person?"
" He's quite a genius yet he's unwilling to get involved with nobles" this time Zurich replied.
" We just realized that there is a spy on our team thanks to his information, so I hope you also help us keep his identity a secret".
" Well, as long as he's not a threat to the country" William replied.
After a discussion with William, Zurich did not have time to meet Sicily because of the many files he had to investigate, plus he had to watch Aria's movements secretly so that he could make sure that the girl who had served as one of his team's captains was an enemy spy.
Two days later he could not find Sicily anywhere, he searched the places the girl frequented but there was no sign of her whereabouts, he also asked Penelope but the girl had not met Sicily in those two days either, the only place Zurich had not been to was the Sicilian room.
He knocked on the door several times but there was no answer, it seemed that the door of the room was locked from the inside, Zurich stopped the waiter who was walking with some tools to clean the floor and asked him to bring the keys to the Sicilian room.
A while later she had already entered the girl's room but the girl was also not in her room, he decided to wait for the girl while talking as if he knew that the girl was in his room and was hiding.
He several times uttered words of intimidation while chuckling, hoping that the girl was indeed in his room, indeed, he could not wait to make sure that the girl was his first love he had been looking for.
Shortly thereafter Sicily emerged from behind her and said she was impolite to enter a woman's room but Zurich was delighted to see the girl in front of her and began giving statements that trapped the girl.
" Butterfly, I remember every second that happened that night," he said, luring the girl but the girl's answer was what he expected.
The girl in front of him was really his first lost love, he felt happy and disappointed, he was happy because he finally found his idol and was also disappointed because the girl did not remember him, she said, plus he was worried about the girl who was hiding her strength.
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