The bedroom door opened silently, and a head poked out of the hallway.

"The head maid?"

Whispers echoed through the quiet corridors.

Annan lowered his head and found Abby sitting by the door, waking up against the wall.

"Young Master Annan......"

Abby staggered to her feet.

"Please get me a sketchpad." Annan said to the sleepy-eyed Abby.

"Oh."

The sleepy girl staggered away, and Annan closed the door and returned to the bedroom to continue gathering her thoughts.

After a while, Abby went into the bedroom with a sketchpad and easel, and Annan took it and placed it next to his desk.

"Thank you."

Abby, who was about to go out, stopped at this time, her skirt fluttered lightly as she turned around, and asked hesitantly, "Master Annan, do you want to paint oil paintings?" ”

"Just remembering something."

Annan suddenly remembered the scene of her curling up by the door.

"You're sleeping outside the door?"

"I ...... I'm so sleepy, I'm sorry Master Annan. ”

"I'm not blaming you, let's go back to my room and rest."

"The head maid said you need to have a servant by your side at all times."

"No...... All right. Annan realized that he really needed the help of the maid, and he looked at the room on the other side of the corridor outside the bedroom door: "Is the next room a bedroom?" ”

“…… I do not know. ”

Annan thought for a moment, took off the oil lamp hanging on the wall, went to the opposite side of the hallway, and pushed open the unknown door.

Light peeked into the room, revealing a dresser and a round bed.

Just a normal guest room, but a little strange opposite the master bedroom.

"You just rest here, don't close the door."

Abby remembered something, lowered her head, and hesitated to say "um".

Annan hung the oil lamp by the door, returned to his study, closed it gently, and rummaged through the drawers and desk. I didn't find a paintbrush though, and the fireplace was clean.

Abby must have been lying down for a short time, and Annan gave up waking her up, and walked slowly out of the bedroom to the study at the end of the hallway.

The oil lamp here is always bright, but there is no pen that can be clearly applied on the drawing board. Annan still found a basket of charcoal in the utility room next door.

Picking out a few long strips of charcoal that were easy to paint, and returning to the study, Annan was about to scribble on the drawing paper with the drawing board, when he suddenly remembered that he had forgotten one thing-

"Dela?"

"What's wrong?"

A slender figure emerges from the shadows.

“…… Is it there all the time? ”

"If it means that you ran to the study and took two more carbons from the utility room."

"You go and rest, too."

"Okay."

Deira didn't ask why, didn't say she didn't need to rest, and left the bedroom on her slender legs.

Click-

Confirming that only he was left in the bedroom, Annan first wrote the names related to the incident in a vertical row in order:

Fergus ○○○

Wine lady

Michael Orr ○ Duo

O ○ Si ○ Ole ○ Duo (father of Ole ○ Duo)

countess

Dela

Soruman Copperbeard

Lorna ○○○

Andrew Luna

Levi's sisters

Levi

Then correspond to the forces related to the event on the other side:

Old aristocracy

Mage's Tower

Breeze City

King of the North

Secret societies

Nezumi

Unknown

Slightly away from the drawing board, Annan held his charcoal and looked at the first name on his left, Francois.

Francois needed to wash away his family's shame, which was why he had taken refuge in himself, and he had not concealed it from the beginning, so Annan connected him to the king of the north, whom he represented.

The Wine Lady is a little more complicated, as she was the first person she came into contact with, she was close to Fast and others, and should have been related to secret societies. But she had recently opened up to herself about her family's troubles. Such easily verifiable words are unlikely to be lies. So...... Annan connected the Wine Lady to the King of the North, and drew an additional dotted line to the Secret Society.

Michael . As a mage in the Mage Tower, he should have the same position as the Mage Tower and remain neutral, so it undoubtedly belongs to the Mage Tower. Michael said he just wanted to watch himself grow...... But he, like the Wine Lady, is inseparable from Mr. Fast, so he is also the king of the solid north, and the dotted line leads to the secret society.

Olmedo. This young and upright city lord embarrassed Annan, he was not on the side of the old nobles, nor on the side of the mage tower, and maybe even on the side of his family, so Annan had to temporarily link him to Breeze City, connecting the dotted line to the old nobles.

Augusta Olmedo. Annan had only met once and knew very little about the master spellcaster who was once suspected of being behind the scenes, but he was still the prime suspect in the attack on Reeves' convoy...... One solid line belongs to the old nobility and one dotted line belongs to the nezumi.

Countess...... It seems to be the undoubted old aristocracy. But Lady Wine says she seems to want to take refuge in the King of the North, too. In addition to this, the Countess's different reactions at banquets and at the estate are suspicious, and Rhona Gilman once said at the banquet that the Countess's meat was smelly and old...... So Lady Maria was connected to the old nobility by Annam's solid line, two dotted lines, one pointing to the king of the north and the other to the nezumi.

Dela. She ostensibly obeys the Wine Lady, but Annan feels that her relationship with herself is more important than her and the Wine Lady, so he connects her to the King of the North.

Soruman Copperbeard, like Michael Brownbeard, is connected to the Secret Society.

Rhona Gilman, a freak who connects to the unknown.

Andrew Luna is still closely related to Fast and them, and rarely takes the initiative to come to him, temporarily connecting to the secret society with a dotted line.

Levi's sisters...... Without thinking about it, Annan connected them to the king of the north that he played.

Levi...... This is the only exception. Annan did not connect him, but circled him alone.

Since coming to Breeze City, everything Annan has encountered has been related to Levi and the Reeves family behind it. Conspiracy theories wonder if there really is a vengeful undead who possesses himself as an impostor, allowing himself to draw out the real murderer and thus take revenge on him?

Annan labeled the people around him. Although the lack of clues makes these collated labels less elaborate and even full of loopholes...... But barely let Annan know who to trust and who to keep their distance:

Even to his own Francois, Lady Wine, Michael, Levi's sister.

Even to the rat-man Augusta Olmedo and the Countess

It's a pity that too many circles affect the aesthetics.

But it doesn't matter anymore. As Annan tore off the drawing paper, he threw them into the firewood under the crucible and lit them, turning them into irreparable ashes.

Annan began to meditate every day, and then fell into a deep sleep after the day's experience, which caused him to have a mixed dream.

He dreamed that he was sitting on a couch, and behind the couch were lined up the Wine Lady, the Countess, Tutor Irelandzer, Dela, a pair of beautiful sisters, and a blonde woman.

(End of chapter)