Chapter 42: Walpurgis Night (7)
Marbas spoke as he stroke his beard.
“Can he present himself immediately?”
“Yes. Torkel is waiting outside the ballroom. If summoned, then at any time……!”
“I allow it. Except, I shall end this hearing here if the witness does not arrive within the next 5 minutes. Furthermore, I will also then declare this as Dantalian’s victory.”
Paimon lowered her head gratefully before hastily making her way out the entrance of the ballroom in search of her personal employee who should be on standby somewhere. The other Demon Lords continued to murmur as they watched her leave. The hearing was put on pause.
I felt my chest cool down.
‘How foolish.’
Paimon chose the worst possible option. Think about it. Torkel abandoned his duty as a merchant and gave Paimon confidential information. In other words, Torkel is Paimon’s spy.
If you add the name ‘Torkel’ to the original vague title of ‘an executive of the firm who had given her this information’, then, at that instant, the fault of going against one’s duty as a merchant doesn’t lie on all of the Keuncuska Firm but on Torkel alone. Her mentioning his name was no different from mercilessly ending Torkel’s life as a merchant.