Chapter 82 Shadow Agent Chloe

According to Aiwass's memories in this life, Minister Droste was a friend of old Moriarty, and they had a pretty good personal relationship.

He was a loyal and powerful minister to the Queen, with close ties to the Moriarty family. Furthermore, he was a highly capable minister, incorruptible, and lacking a desire for power. Without sufficient evidence, such a pillar of the kingdom would be impossible to overthrow—and even with evidence, it might not be possible to do so directly.

"Highly capable at work, honest, and not power-hungry..."

Aiwas silently chewed on old Droste's key words in his mind.

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

Now that I think about it, Minister Droste seems a little too perfect in areas other than his private life:

An official who is both capable and honest will have some ambition to move up; an official who is capable but does not intend to be promoted will most likely not be very honest; and an official who is honest and has no desire for power will usually have no ability at all.

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

No wonder. It turns out he's a mole, that makes sense.

...Could it be that old Droste is also one of the pawns controlled by Moriarty?

Aiwass sat in a wheelchair, tapping the armrest rhythmically with his right hand fingers, lost in thought.

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

He attached great importance to Aiwass's advice, so he brought two of his most experienced inspectors with him to personally check all members' packages and personal belongings for any hidden documents.

Chloe stood quietly in the corner and gently pushed her glasses up. No one noticed her presence.

She had a beautiful, bright face and short, caramel-colored curly hair that gave off a warm and sweet feeling. She wasn't wearing a school uniform at the moment, but a backless white dress that she'd wear in the summer or at parties, with a crystal slipper badge pinned to her chest.

In the early winter of November, this outfit will definitely make an impression.

But everyone around Chloe acted as if she hadn't noticed her. Her appearance and clothing had become ordinary under the influence of those glasses.

It was as if she was no different from anyone else. If I took my eyes off her for a moment, she would disappear from my sight, like a dream or a bubble.

Chloe held a stack of books in her arms and hid in the corner, watching everything quietly.

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

No, to be precise, it was the young man named Aiwas Moriarty who was somewhat magical, Chloe thought.

Until just now, Chloe had the situation under control.

If she had simply poisoned Raff without using the Eagle Feather, the people of Avalon would have had a hard time realizing that Secretary Raff had been killed by a professional assassin. If she had poisoned Raff in his home, the same outcome would have beenfallen—his death would have been covered up by the Minister of Trade.

Her mission as a killer was to make Rafe's death conspicuous and in a suspicious manner in public.

Because of the special cause of Raf's death and the documents he left behind, the people of Avalon will begin to suspect... that Raf was trading intelligence with foreigners and was immediately killed after giving out key intelligence.

Then they will start investigating those documents.

Although the documents were largely composed of code, Chloe had faith in the young Hermes family's analytical and decoding abilities. He had already investigated the Sweater Brotherhood and discovered the alchemical bombs. He would surely quickly realize that this document was related to the port smuggling case.

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

And this is Chloe's mission as an agent.

Although neither Avalon nor Star Antimony were good things for the Iris Kingdom, it was a critical moment for Iris, and it would be best if Avalon did not run into any problems at this point in time.

They needed to keep Avalon and the Star Antimony people hostile to each other as much as possible, but at the same time maintain a balance between the two sides, ensuring that they did not enter a state of war while continuously depleting the strength of both countries.

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

Their goal was to ease the hostility of the Avalonians towards the Iris People within Avalon, and to increase the hatred of the Avalonians towards the Star Antimony People. At the right moment, they would help the knights, who were bound by their armor, break free from the many constraints that entangled them.

The Knights of Avalon are bound only by the constraints of the Way to obey orders; and bound by their oaths of loyalty to not harm the crown.

But in fact, as long as they don’t have the idea of ​​“replacing” it, they will not deviate from the path.

In other words, they simply could not usurp the throne.

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 authoritarianism, the knights can take off their armor and form a cabinet in the style of irises.

The power of the authoritarian path is ultimately top-down and layer-by-layer suppression - the mysterious skills of the authoritarian path are "leadership" and "speech", which have nothing to do with loyalty.

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

Just as the path of beauty can lean toward balance or toward twilight, the path of authority can converge toward transcendence and love.

Power increases ambition and amplifies desire. She knows how to deal with people who are prone to love.

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

This was an advance preparation to prevent the Son of the Moon from joining Avalon after being expelled by Iris.

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

Her superiors tasked her with finding a way to thwart the Star Antimony Kingdom's plot and expose the Minister of Trade, or at least put him into a dormant state. As a clue, her superiors gave her the name "Laf" and his contact information.

She managed to steal the "Noble Red" ring stored in the Supervisory Bureau and replaced it with a fake one. She used it to forge her identity and sent the ring along with a letter of urgent appointment to Raff's secretary, asking him to meet here.

Fortunately, the base of the "Sweater Brotherhood" was discovered by Sherlock Hermes, otherwise it would be difficult for her to make an appointment.

It was with great difficulty that they tricked Secretary Raff, who was carrying documents, out.

It's just a pity.

...It would be better if Aiwass hadn't appeared here today.

Chloe frowned.

She had actually just seen Princess Isabel. To be on the safe side, it would be best for her not to take action.

But she wasn't a member of the Noble Red Society after all. If Secretary Raff returned and communicated with the Minister of Trade, it would be easy for her to see through her fake identity. It would be difficult to invite him out in public next time.

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

This is a risk, but it is also undoubtedly a rare opportunity.

Because this matter directly involves the safety of Her Royal Highness the Princess, and an unknown extraordinary assassin has sneaked into the club... Raf will definitely be thoroughly investigated.

But what Chloe didn't expect was that Aiwass realized at the first moment that she might have taken some of the documents.

The extraordinary power that came from the path of adaptation allowed her to hide her figure and also allowed her to hear the conversation below clearly from such a distance.

She was filled with doubts and surprise.

——How did Aiwass deduce this?

She took away some of the documents completely on a whim.

Because Princess Isabel was there, Chloe was worried that the Minister of Trade would react too quickly and immediately arrange for all the documents to be taken back. Therefore, she specifically kept some of them as evidence.

The documents were scattered when Raph fell, so it's not surprising that one or two pages are missing. Perhaps someone present stole them.

If the Trade Minister cleaned up his mess, Chloe could publish the documents she had secretly taken anonymously in the newspaper and continue to put pressure on the Trade Minister.

She was full of doubts.

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

Logically, if someone were silencing someone to gain intelligence, they could simply take all the documents. Taking some and leaving more would only make it more obvious; therefore, this behavior would be illogical and inconsistent with the primary interest. And if he took all the documents, it would likely take the Inspectorate a while to discover the missing documents...

Therefore, from this perspective, if Aiwass is really a qualified detective, he should immediately rule out the possibility that "someone killed Raff after conducting an intelligence transaction with him" and would think of the problem as more complicated.

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

No, do you understand or not?

Rafe falling from a building with a pile of documents in his arms is so unnatural. Would a real killer make such a stupid mistake?

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

Is he really just a name in vain?

But if that's the case, why would he take the initiative to interfere with Commissioner Gordon's investigation?

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

Because she actually hid the document in the book.

The information was originally in code. If it was just one or two pages, it wouldn't be easily detected if it was folded up and placed in a book.

No one steals intelligence by stealing only one or two documents from a pile of documents. If Director Gordon were left to investigate on his own, his experience would tell him that this would be impossible.

However, Aiwass persuaded Commissioner Gordon to come up and search in person.

That would be bad.

The biggest problem here is that Gordon is very strong.

Her glasses were enchanted with the permanent "Unable to Look Directly" spell, granting her the ability to be invisible to the naked eye. Those low-level inspectors couldn't see her at all, just as the members hadn't seen who had killed the secretary.

Gordon might not be able to defeat her, but his strength was similar to hers. Moreover, he was the only transcendent who truly belonged to the path of authority.

He might be able to 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 fight, she would most likely be able to kill him in a short period of time.

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

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

But because of Aiwass's instructions, Gordon came here in person.

Chloe couldn't move at all. If she moved, she would be noticed, and Gordon would notice her if he approached her. Unless Gordon turned away before he could reach her, she would be exposed.

But Chloe wasn't too nervous.

Because she still has a trump card!

Although she was completely surrounded by air cavalry and could not break out head-on, as a transcendent who had adapted to the Dao and an elite assassin, she had plenty of ways to survive if she failed to infiltrate.

Thinking of this, she looked at Aiwass.

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

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

——This is also the reason why Chloe is confident that she can definitely escape.

(End of this chapter)