It was clearly written on it that he should come to the balcony on time at midnight, and someone would come to find him.
The only thing that can be seen from the letter is that Secretary of State Crawford has received some kind of life-threatening threat, and this threat is not a simple verbal threat, but a more substantial one, otherwise he would not have done as instructed in the letter.
Most importantly, at the end of the letter, there is a reminder:
Be careful with past acquaintances.
"Old acquaintance..."
Hulim thought for a moment.
"I see. No wonder he didn't tear up the letter even though it was crumpled up. Did he think he'd had an accident and this letter could be important evidence in the investigation?"
"But..." Alicia said doubtfully, "Isn't this letter just a trap to lure him in? So can we trust its contents?"
"Of course he can believe it. It's precisely because it's believable that he ultimately did what the letter instructed him to do, right? The problem is, the true intentions of the person who wrote this letter are somewhat unclear."
Why...
Knowing that this would become evidence pointing to yourself, why did he deliberately use this statement?
It was as if this was done specifically to get Crawford to keep the letter!
It's really confusing. There are probably several groups of people with different thoughts playing games behind this letter.
"Ms. Martina, have you found anything else?"
"Yes, Lord Hulim. After questioning Lord Crawford's guards, I learned that this letter was delivered to Lord Crawford by an adventurer on behalf of a man named Libra."
Libra?
Is it some kind of code name...
Hulim thought for a moment and looked at the letter again.
"An acquaintance? ...Maybe the one who did it was the acquaintance mentioned in the letter."
"Alicea, who do you think is the person mentioned in the letter who will prevent the Minister of State from ever returning to the city? There shouldn't be many people in the Empire who can do such a thing, right?"
“Rather than saying there aren’t many, it’s better to say there are only a few…”
“Only a few?”
Hulim immediately understood something.
"Whose man is Crawford?"
"It's Fourth Sister Felena... And there's one more thing. Now that Crawford is dead, the person who will take over this position is someone under First Brother Drehak..."
"...No way?"
"It's just what you think."
Trouble! Another political struggle.
Hulim felt a little bit tricky.
"However, even the Emperor can't ignore this method of breaking the tacit understanding."
"Yes, Father will definitely review this matter personally."
Alicia answered affirmatively.
"If this continues, the struggle between the eldest prince and the fourth princess will reach the level mentioned before, right? However, it has nothing to do with us. What we need to do is still the same thing—"
"Investigate the truth of this matter."
"First, we need to thoroughly investigate Crawford's own mystery. What on earth did he do to deserve such a threat, and why is he so afraid to speak out?"
"Maybe there are clues in his home, and..."
"Alicia, please investigate if there's anyone in the Crown Prince's faction who's familiar with Crawford and is also a wind magician."
"Okay, huh?"
Alicia was stunned.
"Wind attribute? Is it just wind attribute? But wasn't Crawford killed by an ice bullet?"
"That's right, only wind attribute!"
Hulim said affirmatively.
"The murderer was well prepared, but made a fatal mistake."
"At that time, I heard the sound of the magic attack clearly. It was not a simple ice bomb magic attack, but an attack assisted by wind magic!"
"However, I later found only traces of ice-attribute magic at the scene. There were no traces of wind-attribute magic that should have been there."
"That means..."
Alicia immediately thought of a possibility.
"Yes."
Hulim nodded.
"That ice bomb wasn't the murderer's magic, but was created by someone else. He somehow brought it to the scene and finally used his wind magic to launch it, completing the kill."
"In order to draw our attention to the owner of the ice-attribute magic, he chose to reveal traces of ice-attribute magic while completely concealing his own magic."
"But they overlooked that if this was done by one person, there would be no need to deliberately hide one type of magic while exposing the other."
"After all, if any trace of magic power is exposed, the person himself will also be exposed..."
"So, if we continue to investigate this clue about ice magic, we'll probably just end up in a dead end."
"Yes, because—"
"That person is probably no longer alive..."
... ...
The news of the assassination of Minister Crawford quickly spread throughout the upper class of Langard, shocking the government and the public.
The emperor ordered a thorough investigation of the matter and set a deadline.
Such a situation is undoubtedly very unfavorable for Hulim and others. If the murderer is not caught before the deadline, I am afraid that Philcohen will be in real trouble.
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