"Do you know where he was going?"

At the door of the rest room of the King's Castle, Karasuma Ying looked at the maid Esther and asked again.

"I don't know."

Esther shook her head, but after reminiscing, she still spoke, "But I remember that Steward Ole went in the direction of the West Castle......"

The area of the King's Castle is larger than that of ordinary European castles, and the entire castle is roughly divided into east and west by a central courtyard full of flowers and trees.

The East Castle was mainly used by the royal family and some close nobles of this small kingdom; The West Castle was used for the offices of important officials of the kingdom who were in high positions.

The king's chambers were in the East Castle, while Barry's office was in the West Castle.

Although the east and west castles are not completely separated, if you want to get from the inside of the castle to the other half of the castle, you need to make a large circle around the castle, which does take more time than going directly through the central courtyard.

"Ah, and also, at that time Steward Oulei was still pushing a small cart." The more she thought about it, Esther spoke again.

[Small cart?! 】

"Is there anything on the cart?" Having caught an extremely important clue, Karasuma Ying hurriedly asked.

"I don't know." Esther shook her head again and replied, "Because the cart is covered with a white cloth, I don't know what's in it......"

"What time did you meet Butler Oulei?"

"It's just after half past six this morning......

"What does Steward Ou Lei usually do at this point in time?"

"At half-past six, I think we're all bringing breakfast to His Majesty, right? Butler Ou Lei was very punctual, especially after His Majesty was seriously ill, and he would go to bring breakfast to His Majesty on time every day. ”

[In other words, before meeting Esther, should this Auray butler have just left the King's bedchamber? 】

According to Esther's description, Karasuma Ying roughly sorted out the movements of the people in the King's castle this morning.

At about half past six this morning, the Auray butler first went to the King's bedchambers, as was customary, to bring breakfast to His Majesty, who was seriously ill.

Shortly thereafter, he left the King's bedchamber and carried a cart from the central courtyard to the West Castle, where he met Esther, who was trimming the flowers.

During this time, he tried to get Esther to stop pruning the garden flowers, but was unsuccessful.

After this, the Steward of Orray returned to the East Castle and began to make the final preparations for the banquet of the royal brother Preben this morning.

About ten minutes later, Mary and Karasuma Ying, who were invited by the prince's brother Preben, also came to the East Castle.

Finally, just as the feast was about to begin, the maid Esther finally found the body of Chief Barry in the corner of the courtyard and reported it to his brother Preben.

At present, this Ou Lei butler has a lot of problems, but what is the specific situation, Karasuma Ying has to meet this person in person.

And the king's bedchambers, I don't know how Miss Mary's investigation is going......

"Esther? Hans? ”

At this moment, a gentle and elegant voice sounded behind the three of them, and Karasuma Ying looked back at a handsome young man with blond hair.

It was the Oller butler they were talking about earlier.

"Ou, Ou Lei butler?!"

It seemed that because of what she had just said to Karasuma Ying, Esther was like a frightened rabbit when she saw him at this time, and her face suddenly showed a panicked look.

"Esther, what's wrong with you?" Ou Lei looked at her suspiciously.

"No, nothing...... Well, Captain Hans, I'll go back if I don't have any other questions......" After a quick conversation, Esther turned around and slipped quickly into the lounge.

"She'......"

"Haha! Don't worry about Auray Butler. At this moment, Hans stood up and sloppily and said with a smile, "Miss Karasuma and I were investigating the murder of Chief Barry, and Esther was the first to discover Chief Barry's body, so we came to ask her some questions......

By the way, is there something about Steward Ou Ray coming here? ”

"Although the banquet in the morning has been terminated, those meals have not been cleaned up yet, I have come to call a few maids to clean up the kitchen, and prepare for today's lunch, this should be okay, right? Captain Hans? Ole looked at Hans and asked.

"Of course you can, the guard team has given priority to serving the royal family, so Steward Ou Lei will take care of it."

"Well, thank you......"

"Steward of Orray." At this moment, Karasuma Ying suddenly called out to him.

"What's wrong? Detective Karasuma? Ou Lei asked, pausing to look at her.

"Have you been to the King's chambers this morning?"

"Well, yes." Steward Ou Lei nodded, his expression calm and natural.

"Where did the carpet in the king's bedchamber go?" Karasuma Ying asked very directly.

Her question caught Ou Lei off guard, and the whole person was obviously stunned for a moment.

"The carpet of the king's bedchamber?"

After being stunned for a few seconds, Ou Lei finally came back to his senses, he looked at the sharp-eyed Karasuma Ying in front of him, the expression on his face was very nervous, and even a trace of cold sweat oozed from his forehead.

"How am I ...... I don't seem to understand what Detective Karasuma is saying? Rug...... What is the meaning? Detective Karasuma, His Majesty's bedroom is never carpeted. ”

But soon, Ou Lei calmed down, regained his personable demeanor, and explained with a smile.

"Well, it seems that my guess was wrong." Karasuma Ying squinted at him and asked, "Butler Oulei, in order to solve the murder of Chief Barry as soon as possible, can you allow me to go to His Majesty's bedroom to investigate a little?" ”

"Uh, this ......"

"After all, this is a commission from His Highness Preben, Steward Oulei, I hope you can provide us with this little convenience......"

“……”

At the same time that Karasuma Ying moved out of the royal brother Prey to put pressure on Ou Lei, Mary on the other side had already moved the royal brother His Royal Highness himself directly.

After wanting to enter the king's bedroom and being stopped by Ou Lei, Mary was very pragmatic and directly invited His Royal Highness, who is currently in actual control of this small country, to come over.

At this morning's banquet, when the soldiers of the Guard had just come to report the news of Barry's murder, while everyone at the scene was in varying degrees of surprise, Mary noticed the flash of ecstasy on the face of His Royal Highness.

As a veteran agent active in the Cold War, Mary was keenly aware of the possible conspiracy behind Barry's death.

And after learning that the place where Barry's body was found was directly above the king's bedchamber, Mary directly confirmed her inner guess.

Regardless of how Bali died, his death may not be related to His Majesty the King, which has nothing to do with the identity of the murderer, but an inevitable political drama......

From Brune, to Bari, and finally to the seriously ill king...... I see, it seems that those people's plans are almost the last step?

Now that the King's Castle is completely locked down, at such an important and dangerous time, since the children are still here, you must be there too, right?

Or maybe you've already shown up?

People are already stupid

(End of chapter)