Sophia Demiurge

Chapter 131: Framing Up 101

Chapter 131: Framing Up 101"Well, we sure did... with you changing quite a bit."

When I went to Urduja and Momoiro's side, the ball was still many moments away from starting given that the sun had just started to set, it was still too early that the nobles present were not that many either, but that may be because of the identity of the Seiyokus, so I don't know. 

After my mother-in-law returned my respectful greeting with a questionable sentence, she continued.

"Well, seeing that you are the one who started this farce with the Seiyokus, I presume that you're also the reason why is my presence requested in the Royal Capital?"

Upon hearing such, I could not help but chuckle, after which, I replied.

"What are you talking about? What I did is to just ask for a little compensation for my life-risking stunt of saving this Kingdom in the steed of its King, it's not my fault that they choose to smelt one of my coins causing their largest smithy to explode to smithereens alongside 60 percent of their weapon commissions, causing their biggest industry to be crippled and all of their alliances all over the world to be in the verge of collapse."

I smiled lightly while I watched Auntie Midori start to shake hands with the nobles that attended her party, after that, I continued.

"All of their misfortunes are because of their decisions."

This time, it was the turn of my mother-in-law to snort, she ignored Momoiro who was dumbfounded by what I had said, I wondered if she still finds me interesting after this, well, I can't really glorify myself to appeal to the other daughter of the parent of the person I will marry, so I guess it doesn't matter.

"Haa... if you say so, it's not like I particularly care, but can you at least tell me why are you planting a mole inside Gjallarhorn when you have that spider? This would risk discovery by a large degree compared to using her offsprings, you know?"

Hearing that, I sighed as Auntie Midori went in front of us, she was shocked to see me with Urduja but given that she knew that I was the fiancée of Eleanor, she just smiled awkwardly and shook hands with the three of us before bowing once again, I can say that she's afraid of three marginally strong people sitting in her mansion.

After Auntie went out of my illusion, I finally replied.

"... How about you treat it as me helping my Auntie Midori reclaim the prestige of her name?"

Urduja was once again speechless, though soon her eyes went wide and a grin appeared on her face.

"This is why I hate speaking with smart people."

After that conversation, the three of us started to talk more casually, mostly about how I became this packing in front and back, the preparations for the wedding and how will I use the investment I forcefully forked out of the coffers of Gjallarhorn, Urduja also asked me about how will I stir Kamatayan into the direction I wanted to, the conversation continued until the food arrived and the dance started, yet, despite all of that, I have one thing in mind.

_Are those spies looking for me?_

[3rd Person POV]

The night went on, Urduja went and danced with Momoiro and Sophia before the latter bid them farewell and used the 4th dimension to go back to her Queendom, before she entered however she did not forget to stop and take a look at the people who are scanning the whole area, she also felt some presences that are

"THIS IS IT! THE BARON KINGFISHER, THE NOBLE WHO GAVE SEIYOKO THE MONEY TO BUY THEIR NOBLE STATUS HAS DIED! IF THIS EVENT IS NOT LINKED TO SOPHIA, OR AT LEAST TO THE SEIYOKUS, THEN I DRINK SHITHOLE WATER! GO TO THE SEIYOKOS AND INTERROGATE THEM WHILE ALSO INVESTIGATING THE PEOPLE OF CLOSE PROXIMITY, FRIENDS AND ENEMIES OF KINGFISHER!"

Another rage-induced command filled the ears of the deputy commander but this time, it made sense, after all, the only social gathering that Kingfisher participated in the past week was the ball for the celebration of Seiyoku's permanent nobility, in the whole week, Kingfisher seems to indulge in the flower buds of her new mistresses and even canceled all of his appointments, thus it is just normal to think that the new baroness who is known for her cunning has devised the perfect downfall of their patron, thus the deputy actually was enthusiastic by the order and moved out some interrogators immediately, however, they were bound to fail once more!

Not only did Midori arrange all of their alibies in a way that is not too smooth to rouse suspicion but not too flawed for the blame to be directly pointed at them, but she had Sophia compliment all of her alibies, no evidence was pointed against Midori and co. and all of the people, places, and events they said in their alibi had traces of their presence, the traces were subtle too, meaning that the spies did not find them too perfectly placed to be true,  some of the household members even have to lead the interrogators in the scene to make a point of their innocence.

And three days after such a failure, they were about to give up, once again defeated by their commander's impulsiveness, however, at that moment, one of the investigators finally found the suspect!

The friend of the patriarch of the Kingfisher family, Ferdinand Queenpin was branded primary suspect when the spies who were about to wrap up the investigation found out that he was with Kingfisher during the ball and found a whole barrel of wine with thallium sulfate traces, upon trials, it was confirmed that the dose inside was enough for the mg: kg ratio of the poison to match the weight of Kingfisher of about 70 kilograms, more so, the Queenpin family are known chemists and are an important aspect of the military in terms of medical or poisonous matters.

They also learned that in the week that Kingfisher did not appear in public, Queenpin always visited him regularly, it was also said that her wife and children were on an escorted vacation in one of their villas, it was speculated that Ferdinand poisoned Kingfisher using poison inside the ball of the Seiyoku and then used the honeypot payment of the Seiyoku as an alibi to divert the blame to Midori and co., another aspect of investigation that practically confirms all of this is that Kingfisher doesn't have any alcohol contents in his body after the ball, he wanted to frame the Seiyokus.

The only careless thing Queenpin did is that he did not disposed of the barrel and just used a bottle worth of it's wine when trying to frame the new baron, if he just find a way to transport it alongside the ordered barrels of Midori, they he would have succeeded.

Upon delving deeper, Ferdinand was found guilty when the spies learned that he once caught Kingfisher having sex with the poor chemist's wife which caused a huge rip in the relationship between him and his friend.

Just like that, the case was solved, the Seiyoku family was proven not guilty and Ferdinand Queenpin who got concrete evidence planted inside her house got the death by guillotine as punishment without even knowing what the hell did he do.

All of this transpired in the watchful eyes of Midori who was amazed at how the event was manipulated, not only did her Lady who calls her auntie use an unconventional poison such as thallium sulfate to make it so that the poor chemists would be implicated in it, she also made it so that all their alibies will have concrete bases by making her children and fellow former wives of Shiro remember their faces, and the most impressive part was the fact that Sophia was able to dig up an event like wife stealing to seal the fate of the scapegoat.

Midori sighed, regretting her on-guard attitude the last time Sophia and her met.

"Ah... such a capable person... I wonder if I can get closer to her."

[Sophia's POV]

It took three days to watch the whole ordeal, I was amazed at how showing off my smarts was able to gain a good amount of Auntie Midori's favor, however, I do not care about such things, I exhaled a large one causing mist caused by vapor frozen to gush out, upon seeing the just finished paperwork of mine, a smirk appeared on my face.

"I can finally prepare for my wedding."

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