章節 113: 3.53 Cooperation

Ryan looked around the abandoned factory. It used to be one that produced the best chocolate in the entire kingdom. He recalled that the Emperor was quite fond of it and he even ordered for it to be served as a dessert for the envoys from other kingdoms. And then somehow the owner messed up. There's something mixed in with the chocolate — it wasn't told explicitly in the news but Ryan guessed that it was poison, judging by how the related envoy was brought into the hospital as soon as possible — and the cooperation fell through. Enraged, Emperor Bernard ordered for the factory to be shut down and its owner to be sentenced into life imprisonment for capital offense.

Now that Peter asked him to meet in this place, Ryan started to wonder whether the situation wasn't as simple as the news made it out to be and whether the rebels had something to do with it.

"You're here?"