Chapter 354
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“You mean he was in the parlor?”
“Yes.”
“Parlor?
Marx, who had been cautiously following behind Duke Rekal and the nobles, frowned slightly at the conversation in his ears.
“In the parlor?
I was embarrassed.
“He said there was nothing wrong…
You have scouted the palace to find the leader of the Abretans. The scouting included the parlor, but the knight who scouted the parlor reported that there was nothing wrong with the parlor.
“Could it be him?
Listening to the conversation now, I wonder if the knight who went scouting in the parlor was captured by Abretan? I thought to myself.
“No, you could be living like a guest.
Of course, it wasn’t a sure thing that he had been recruited. It was possible that the leader of the Abretans was keeping quiet as a guest of the royal court. If he was keeping quiet, it was only natural that a knight on a scouting mission would go unnoticed.
“Wouldn’t he object?”
“…He’s not interested in the kingdom, so he probably won’t object.”
The conversation that followed forced Marx to drop his thoughts of the knight who had gone scouting in the parlor and focus on the conversation.
“No? Not interested? What are you talking about?
What do you mean by opposition? What opposition are you talking about? And if you’re not interested, why did you take over the palace if you’re not interested? It was a conversation that Marx would not have understood.
