In the banquet hall of Commander Birune's annex in Andrew's Kingdom, Karasuma Ying and Mary were having breakfast.

Yesterday, the murder of the Commander, who shook the small kingdom, was successfully solved by Miss Mary, and the murderer, the captain of the Guard, Gunner, committed suicide on the spot after the crime was revealed, and the case ended in a very decisive way.

But this also shows that Birune's death is not as simple as it seems, and the so-called private grudge is probably just a cover-up.

But in the end, how much turmoil Biruen's death will cause to this small kingdom has little to do with Karasuma Ying and others.

Because for the detectives here, they are more concerned about whether the previous royal commission can continue than they worry about the country's political future.

Is that sapphire still to be found? Will there be any changes to the rewards after I find them?

For this point, the royal family has not yet given an accurate answer, but only informed everyone that all catering services in the annex will be provided as usual, and if you want, you can continue to live here temporarily, and if you don't want to, you can choose to leave on your own.

In this regard, almost all the detectives chose the former.

The reason is very simple, the flights and trains from the Andrew Kingdom to the outside world are all once a week, and the last one only left yesterday, and if nothing else, they will have to wait another six days for the next one.

With this in mind, everyone wisely chose to stay in the annex and eat and drink for free.

"What's wrong?" At the dining table, Mary looked at Karasuma Ying, who was holding her mobile phone and couldn't stop pressing, and asked.

"It's nothing, reply to a friend's message......" smiled and replied casually, and Karasuma put the phone down.

It's a text message from Conan and Xiaolan.

They seem to have found some news related to Oniemar on the Japanese side.

Freya, who once pretended to be Oniemar, is said to be one of the two princesses of Andrew's kingdom.

At the same time, Freya also has a twin sister, and the two are targeted in Japan by a killer who is said to be taking orders from abroad, and when they try to try to get rid of the killer, the killer uses their plan to kill Freya's sister.

But soon, the killer was discovered by a foreign female detective who happened to be at the scene, and was finally arrested by the Japanese police.

Freya then takes advantage of the chaos to flee again, and the unknown female detective disappears with her.

Karasuma knows more about Freya's information.

Freya and her twin sister are said to have been adopted by the current King Heningu ten years ago, a fact that no one knows about in other countries, but it is no secret in Andrew's kingdom.

It is said that King Heningu himself had no children, and after adopting the twins, he seemed intent on passing the throne to one of them, and Heninggu's own brother, Preben, was unhappy about this.

All of the above were all heard by Karasuma Ying from those servants in the royal palace, and everyone's statements were roughly the same, so there was basically no falsehood.

Based on this, she made a somewhat bold assumption.

In the current small kingdom, there is a black hand that is trying to eradicate the power of King Heningu's lineage.

The death of Commander Birune, and the murder of the Freya sisters, have proven this.

After Heningu became seriously ill, Birune began to assist his brother Preben in handling government affairs.

It is said to be an assistant, but it may also be understood as surveillance, and Brother Wang himself is probably aware of this.

Therefore, after the theft of the royal treasure, the sapphire, the royal brother Preben, immediately blamed the commander of the palace guard, Birun, and ordered him to recover the sapphire within a month, otherwise he would be punished.

From the point of view of conspiracy theories, it is likely that the so-called theft of the sapphire was planned by the king's brother Preben himself, in order to take the opportunity to eradicate Birune, which King Heningu had placed next to him.

Even the murderer who chased and killed the Freya sisters may have been ordered by him, after all, King Heninggu himself has no heirs, as long as the sisters die, then the throne of Andrew's kingdom will naturally fall to him......

Everything that is happening so far is developing in the direction of this royal brother.

I'm afraid something is going to happen in this country.

Of course, Karasuma Ying herself doesn't have that much energy to care about these things.

Yesterday, after escaping from her cell, she followed the male detective to the watchtower, and then accidentally bumped into Barry, the chief of the Kingdom police, who was also in the watchtower at the time.

Barry's eyes showed obvious surprise the moment he saw her, but he didn't do anything at the time.

After a moment of surprise, Barry returned to his normal expression and did not look at her again.

And since then, until this morning, Karasuma Ying has not been interrogated or arrested by any of the royal police.

It was as if it was someone else and not her who was being caught in Barry's cell at the time.

There was clearly something wrong with this, so Karasuma immediately went to the maid named Belinda afterwards.

Obviously, if there was something wrong with her being caught in a cell, Belinda, who told her the news of "White River" in the first place, must have been involved.

Then Karasuma Ying was surprised to find that Belinda was gone.

According to other servants in the annex, Belinda appears to have been driven back to her hometown after making a mistake and is no longer in the palace.

That's a coincidence......

At this point, there is no need to continue reasoning.

Obviously, she was tricked.

The people who tricked her were clearly trying to put her in the dungeon, and it was likely that Barry was a part of it.

This also explains why Barry was able to appear behind her so coincidentally at the time, as he knew from the beginning that she would be going to the dungeon.

Even the opportunity for her to sneak into the dungeon was probably created by Barry on purpose, and if it weren't for Karasuma Ying's usual weird skills, she would have been planted there yesterday.

So, who exactly? For what purpose would you want to do this to her?

One of the things that sent chills down Karasuma's spine was that the people who had set her up accurately grasped her weaknesses and moved out of the surname "Shirakawa", forcing her to act impulsively at that time and fall into their trap.

The other party is obviously the one who knows her details.

"Miss Mary, Miss Karasuma."

In the banquet hall, a voice interrupted Karasuma Ying and Mary's meal, and the two looked up to see that it was Barry, the chief of police.

He walked straight up to the two of them, put on a straight face, and said in an emotionless tone:

"His Highness Preben wants to see you, please come with me."

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(End of chapter)