Chapter 19: Inglis, 12 years old (7)
「Wh-what…!? What’s happening?」 「Let’s check it out, Rani!」
The shrieks weren’t something Inglis could just brush off. She led the way back into the venue. The room’s attention was focused on the innermost area. As they approached, the awful smell wafting around became more prominent. She recognized this distinct stench from her past battle’s experience as the smell of burnt flesh.
And the scene that they came upon was exactly as she imagined. Inside the large room exactly around the area where Marquis Wilford had been entertaining his guests now stood a corpse of a man burnt to a cinder — that was the inspector from the capital, Sir Shioni’s corpse. His body was charred to the point of which he could no longer be recognized and remained motionless — his life completely burned out.
Close to the corpse were Marquis Wiford and Vice Commander Ada, as well as Rahal and the big man who was his guardian-slash-slave. The Marquis and his knight were stunned while Rahal smiled daringly. As for the big man, Inglis couldn’t read his expression under his mask.
「What the f…!? O-, oi, what happened here!?」
Leon raised his voice in a slight panic.
「Hmph! All I did was teaching this insolent man a lesson. He wasn’t the most polite when addressing me, a Highlander, you see.」
Rahal responded with a sneer whilst Marquis Wilford and Ada were petrified still.
「Ms. Ada! What happened…!?」