Now I'm a Demon Lord! Happily Ever After with Monster Girls in My Dungeon: Volume 7 [Complete] by Ryuyu

Author:Ryuyu
Language: eng
Format: epub

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“And that’s what happened when I went to settle things man-to-man with that shitty old fart. I’m not sure how much we can trust him, considering how extreme he is.”

“I see. So that’s what his thought process was in all this. It’s no wonder he felt no need to take any further action.”

The king looked uneasy as he nodded to himself in understanding.

“Well, at least we’ve got all the details now. How’d things go on your end?”

“We’ve apprehended every last individual who has deep ties to Argos and was involved in his machinations. We’ve also recruited neutral parties to our cause. His faction is nearly annihilated. But I’m sorry to say that we still couldn’t find any hard evidence of Jayma’s involvement.”

“Yeah, I figured as much. He may have known about their plan all along, but I’m guessing he didn’t actually interfere in any part of it.”

“That does indeed seem to be the gist of it. Everyone we captured testified that they acted primarily under Argos’s orders. Perhaps reeling from the shock of being abandoned, Argos himself has been speaking quite freely about the entire plot. The problem, however, is that the more he tells us about what happened behind the scenes, the fainter Jayma’s connection becomes to everything.”

“Really? Even though he’s spilling his guts?”

My confusion was clear in my tone of voice. Now that I knew how crafty the old noble was, it made sense that he would’ve taken countermeasures to make sure none of the blame fell on him. Still, though...

“Yes. Of the various crimes Argos is being charged with, there’s no doubt he himself devised the monster stampede and the attack on the royal castle.”

“Agreed.”

“That is why we tried to investigate the extent of Jayma’s involvement in those two charges, but... During the interrogation, despite Argos’s repeated claims of ‘Minister of Military Affairs Jayma ordered me to’ and ‘Minister of Military Affairs Jayma entrusted it to me,’ the more we dug into the root of his testimony, the more proof we unearthed of Argos making his plans independently. Thus, Jayma’s shadow became more and more faint.”

“Whoa...”

Damn, that old asshole really had figured out how to get out of this completely unscathed. Not to mention that he’d been slick enough to foist all the dirty deeds on Argos to perform. He’d made him the perfect scapegoat. I almost felt sorry for the poor schmuck. Almost. But this info really drove home how relentlessly vicious that old man actually was.

Jayma stood to benefit himself from our arrangement where he promised to protect Nell from the evils within the country, so I trusted him to a degree because I needed to. Even so, I wanted him to kick the bucket as soon as possible, and that feeling had only gotten stronger. The king, the Church, and that old fogey—they all had Nell under their protection, which meant that even the dumbest moron who tried to go after her would think not just twice but three times before they tried anything.

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