"Pepe!!!!!!!!!!"
Outside the window came the spirited roars of the female tree spirits.
The Duke looked up expressionlessly. "I thought the flower on the tree spirit's head was gone."
Li Aili nodded wearily, then pulled out a crown woven from leaves. "So, he's now picking leaves."
Duke: "..."
The Shadow Minion was led into the study by Conrad.
Li Aili wasn't sure if it was just her imagination, but the moment she entered and saw her, this... this leader of the Shadow Minions seemed to have its fur standing on end?
Li Aili: "???"
What did she do?
Li Aili mentally reviewed what she had been doing recently, then exclaimed with delight, "There's news from the capital?"
The Shadow Leader nodded with a complicated expression. "...Yes, Madam."
The Duke slightly raised his chin. "Speak."
The Shadow Leader took a breath. "Our people have learned that Charlie Coran has driven all the people sent by the Goblin Bank out of the gate."
"Those goblins sent there left the capital in a hurry... and returned to the capital two days later."
This time, they first rented a small shop in the outer city.
Then, they posted notices recruiting 'small-time thugs' for the capital.
Li Aili paused in her teacup-holding motion, then asked with interest, "And then?"
The Shadow Leader sighed, "That scene was spectacular; all the unemployed people in the entire royal city went to apply for jobs."
"They accept all comers and hired tens of thousands of people in a single day."
"Those street thugs were displaying banners in front of Charlie Colan's manor, but they were quickly taken away by the city's sheriff..."
The sheriff stopped after arresting seven or eight thousand; the dungeons of the royal city were overflowing.
"So the sheriff released some of them, but here's the problem... these thugs, they weren't afraid of being caught at all!"
If you take them out one by one, the parchment used to write the criminal records, when stacked together, would be ten centimeters thick.
People who have been locked up for a few days are even less afraid. After taking a shower and a nap, they're back to normal.
Then, I can go back to 'clocking in' at Charlie Colan's doorstep again.
"Will Charlie Colan use some means to extend the detention time of these street... uh, 'working class' people?" Li Aili asked curiously.
Shadow Leader: "Indeed, he did it."
"but……"
"The goblins have an employment contract with Mr. Panticillin, the world's most famous lawyer..."
"So... he's currently suing the Royal Security Bureau of the Kingdom of Clark at the 'Intelligent Races Joint Committee' of the Saint Nihe Empire..."
Li Aili: "..."
Duke: "..."
Li Aili asked in shock, "Is the Royal Capital Police Department really that strict? They won't even release Panticil?"
Shadow Leader: "They released them... When they saw Mr. Pantishlin go to bail him out, they didn't even wait for the elven lawyer to speak before releasing them all."
Li Aili: "..." Young man, you seemed to be thinking of saying 'elf rogue' just now, didn't you?
"Wait a minute, you almost confused me. What's this 'Intelligent Races Joint Committee'? They're in charge of human affairs??"
No matter how you look at it, those are places where intelligent beings other than humans protect their own rights!
Shadow Leader: "Who says otherwise... I've only heard that famous lawyer questioned the courtroom staff in court... asking them whether humans are considered an intelligent species..."
"It is said that all the intelligent races present at the time remained silent, and not one of them dared to say 'no'."
Li Aili: "..." As expected of you, Panticillin!
"In short, the 'Intelligent Races Joint Committee' has now been renamed the 'Non-human (not discriminatory!) Intelligent Races Joint Committee'."
Li Aili: "…………"
She calmed herself down, took a sip of hot black tea, and asked, "So, how's Charlie Colan doing?"
The Shadow Leader said, "Queen Melanie and her family have now blocked the King's 'purse strings'."
"Vivian couldn't get the money from the king, and the goblins were also spreading leaflets all over the capital, claiming that the Coran family were all old scoundrels who refused to pay back their debts."
Marquis Kelan fell ill with anger upon hearing the rumors.
"Furthermore, because of the fact that the 'Non-human (not discriminatory!) Intelligent Races Joint Committee' changed its name overnight, many nobles in the Saint Nihe Empire also learned about it."
"Now, because of Charlie Coran, all the nobles in the Kingdom of Clark are being ridiculed..."
The noble children who studied in St. Nicholas were ridiculed as penniless wretches who couldn't pay their debts.
"Those were all children of noble families. They wrote home in shame and indignation, crying about the incident."
"The nobles of these kingdoms have lost face and are now turning their anger towards Charles Coran."
"Even the king himself received letters mocking him from other kings, which caused him to fly into a rage in the palace."
"Before our people left the capital, the king issued a decree ordering Charlie Colan to sell his mansion in the capital to pay off his debts."
Now, forget about borrowing money to cause trouble; Charlie Colan can't even stay in the capital anymore and can only slink back to the Colan family's territory.
However, the family estate had always been managed by his father, the old Marquis of Coran.
After the old marquis's health deteriorated, he handed over the affairs of the territory to his eldest grandson, who was also the son of Li Aili's aunt, Arman Colan.
Tsk.
Then I thought about all the messy things that happened in the Kelan family...
Li Aili asked curiously, "I'm just asking out of curiosity. Do you think Alman Colan knew that his mother was killed by Charlie Colan?"
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