The Reincarnated Prince and the Haloed Sage (Volume 3) by Nobiru Kusunoki

Author:Nobiru Kusunoki [KUSUNOKI, NOBIRU]
Language: eng
Format: epub, pdf
Publisher: J-Novel Club
Published: 2021-01-12T00:00:00+00:00

Late that night, Jeanne entered the hidden office in the manor where she lived. This was a secret room only known to a handful of people; it contained documents, books, and all sorts of things Barbosse didn’t want to have out in the open. In fact, Jeanne had discovered her signature combination of poisons from one of the books in this very office. As quietly as possible, with nothing but the tiniest ball of light she could produce to guide her, Jeanne searched through the piles of documents.

She didn’t yet see anything that would help Herscherik. What kind of information would Prince Herscherik need...? Would it be evidence of her father’s crimes?

No, there’s something he needs even more than that. With this in mind, Jeanne looked around the room, which did contain some material related to her father’s crimes—but no definitive proof. Barbosse was a careful man. He wouldn’t leave anything that could destroy him just lying around, no matter how closely kept, where anyone else could find it.

Besides, Jeanne knew that he always gave incriminating evidence to his accomplices in order to protect himself. He always calculated his profit and risk, and was ready to throw any of his supporters into the fire to save his own skin. Such was the philosophy of the Marquis Barbosse. Jeanne wondered if her cunning father would really leave behind any evidence she could find.

With a quiet sigh, she stood up. Just as she began walking towards another spot in the room, she felt something under her foot; she crouched down and peeled back the carpet to find a patch of flooring that looked slightly different from its surroundings. Jeanne easily lifted the floorboards and peered beneath them to find a safe with a dial lock. What’s in there...?

The safe wasn’t guarded by any magic barriers. Jeanne wondered if it contained dirty money or something like that before another thought crossed her mind. The benefits of a magic barrier were mostly its defense and the fact that an alarm could be set to go off when the barrier was broken. However, the barrier itself would be a glaring target for anyone who could detect magic, signifying that anything inside the ward was worth protecting. Safes with magical barriers could be assumed to contain more valuable things than those without them. Additionally, a hidden safe without a magical barrier had significantly less chance of being discovered at all.

Jeanne felt her heart race as she put her ear up against the safe and began turning the dial. Back in the red-light district, one of her mother’s regulars had particularly sticky fingers. While he waited for her mother, he’d taught Jeanne all sorts of thievery tricks. One of them had been on how to crack a dial-locked safe.

The lock finally opened with a click. The safe contained several scrolls and documents. Jeanne removed each one and read through them, then closed her eyes for a moment. Father, I always knew you were... Carefully, Jeanne removed every single document from the safe and went to work.

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