"Where's Joanna?"

"In the bedroom on the second floor, she was taking care of the injured housekeeper. ”

The officer replied.

Eric's brow furrowed. But he still moved towards the room where Joanna was.

Not long ago, through interviews with several police officers, Eric had learned the identity of the shadow in the dark. At this point, he just wanted to tell Joanna the news.

Arriving at the bedroom door, Eric knocked on it.

"Who?" asked from inside the door.

"It's me. Eric replied.

"Come in. ”

With permission, Eric turned the doorknob and walked into the room.

As soon as he entered, Eric saw Joanna in a wheelchair standing by the bed, looking at old Seba with concern on her face. And take care of it in every detail.

That's right. In Joanna's eyes, if it weren't for Old Seba sacrificing his life to protect her, I'm afraid she would be more than lucky now.

So, presumably, Joanna's heart must be full of regret for this dutiful old butler now.

Eric looked at Joanna like this and suddenly changed his mind.

"Miss Joanna. I have something to talk to Mr. Butler alone, can you go out first?"

Unlike his usual speech, Eric used a tone that made people have to pay attention. It's a tone that is used in formal settings.

The tone of the detective.

"You want to investigate? It's not convenient now, Seba needs to rest. Joanna hesitated, but refused. "And even if you want to investigate, you don't have to let me out. Is there something I can't know?"

"It's important. Do as I say. ”

Eric still insisted, his eyes looking at Joanna.

Joanna sensed something strange in her sharp eyes, and there was also an aura that could not be refused.

The two looked at each other for a while.

In the end, Joanna still loses to Eric's seriousness. She stood up and walked out of the room, closing the door from the outside.

Eric, who remained in the room, looked at Seba lying on the bed with his eyes closed, not knowing what he was thinking.

Half a day later, he spoke.

"Mr. Seba, won't it disturb your conscience that you deceived such a kind Joanna?"

......

Quiescence.

The entire space was instantly audible even if a pin had dropped on the ground.

"What are you talking about, Mr. Detective. I cheated on Joanna?"

Seba opened his mouth as he opened his eyes, his face stunned.

So maybe he was pretending to be asleep.

"Don't pretend to be garlic, you're the one who makes trouble in the dark!"

Eric snapped.

Seba's body trembled slightly. In the face of Eric's accusations, the butler raised his bandaged right arm, expressing incomprehension.

"You mean I'm the attacker, but I'm wounded. ”

"Quite simply, it's all your show. ”

Eric gave a look of disdain.

"In the darkness after the Magic Crystal Lamp exploded, you walked out of the room on the ground floor and ran through the long hallway to the hall. After that, he ran to Joanna's side and stabbed himself in the arm with the dagger on his body.

So, there was no one who tried to do anything to Miss Pyros. You're the only one directing and acting the whole time!"

......

There was silence again.

Seba's mouth opened and opened, but he still couldn't utter any quibbles. In the end, two words had to pop out of my mouth:

"Evidence?"

Not to deny it, but to ask Eric to come up with evidence.

Eric smiled.

"I asked the officers in the hall and learned that you weren't standing next to Joanna all the time. Please give me a reason why you are so far away from the hall, but you happen to be there at the critical time. I was yelling not to run around.

Oh yes. Don't say you're worried about Miss, because if you're really worried about her, you should have asked me early to stay next to Joanna. And not what happened and then rushed over.

Besides, at that time, it was just the magic crystal lamp that was broken, and who could immediately judge that she would be in danger, and the painting was the object that needed to be more worried, wasn't it? Unless you already knew someone was going to trouble her. Nor is this a perspective that a garrison should have.

Your behavior is really outlandish. ”

Seba was about to say something, but was choked back into his belly by Eric's words.

"But I can totally understand why you're doing that. Because you have to create a riot everywhere to attract enough attention. Isn't it? For your accomplice, the monster thief Butterfly. ”

Eric's words struck Seba hard at the heart like a hammer.

“...... That's just how arbitrary you can tell if there's no one else in the hall. I'm really just worried about the young lady ......"

"Stop the lame lies. Think about it, if there really is a master assassin who can easily get close to Joanna, how can he be stopped by you, a person who knows nothing about martial arts.

And Joanna didn't have the slightest injury on her body, which is just the proof that that person doesn't exist!"

Eric said abruptly.

Finally, Seba's eyes returned to calm under the blow of these words, and he no longer dodged.

"Actually, they asked me to stab Miss. Because that would obviously be more noticeable. But I... I really can't do it, so I can only stab myself. ”

It seems that Mr. Butler has a showdown. He confessed what he had done.

But Eric cared very much about Seba's words.

"Who are they, the ones who plotted the stealing of the paintings? You were threatened by them?"

"It's not a threat. They just reached out to me, and I volunteered to help them. ”

Volunteer to help?

Eric wondered if his ears had misheard something. Would a Pyros housekeeper volunteer to help outsiders deal with Pyros?

Seeing Eric's puzzled eyes, Seba slowly spoke.

It's like you're going to start telling a long story.

"When I first got an inquiry in my head asking if I would like to help steal the paintings, I was really happy. You may not know it, but I've been trapped in the main fort for five years. ”