His Majesty Wants to Read the New Release! - Chapter 42 Harvest Festival (5)

Translator: Kimmy

Editor: Sasha_00

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Sergeant Alex’s face behind the investigation room’s door shone brightly.

This was her happiest day of the year.

She was happy to the point that even the City Hall’s sewage water-like coffee tasted sweet.

The other officers of the 2nd investigation department were not so different either.
They all looked at the frowning journalists with joy and satisfaction.

Oh, finally! Goddess of justice Yusta, thank you!

Despite the deep bags under the eyes of the officers, their smiles were bigger than ever.

The relationship between the City Hall and the Morning of Glory Newspapers was remarkably hostile.

The investigators had always joked about the journalists by calling them ‘people born with so many complaints’ or ‘souls that returned from hell’.

Even the chief of the City Hall came down to laugh at the journalists.

“What exactly happened?”

Alex looked at Billford who was as cheerful as her and asked.

It was impossible to arrest this many journalists with the charge of ‘stalking’ alone and keep them here for this long. Normally, they would have gotten out of it like snakes.

Billford looked around and whispered to Alex softly.

“Uh, your husband.”

“Ex-husband, Billford. Ex-husband.”

Alex corrected Billford.

Billford paused with a weird expression but soon continued talking.

“So your ex-husband. He deals with magic-related things right?”

“That’s right.”

“Uh, the swordmaster’s author. Apparently, she had reported a case involving a magician before. He managed to include that case’s charge with this one. She included the names of the journalists as the possible suspects and technically they did lurk around her house for a long time so there’s nothing wrong with this charge.”

“Wow.”

“She wrote a very detailed description of the suspect. It made our job way easier.”

Cases involving a magician of the Magic Tower were treated as a priority because of the magical nature of the case.

Because of that, magicians were the City Hall’s biggest trouble so no prior notice was sent when arresting a suspect or summoning a related person.

It was because there was a chance of the magician casting hypnosis magic or illusion magic.

That’s why investigators all wanted to avoid magician-related cases.

And because no prior notice was sent, investigators were not allowed to tell the suspects or related persons what they were being investigated for. But the investigators had to make them comply.

While the investigators struggled to come up with a vague but convincing reason, the magicians and related persons sued the City hall for invading their rights, spread a conspiracy theory, and talked badly about the City Hall about 10 times worse than usual. And even worse, in most cases arrests could not even be made in the end.

“Awesome.”

“Right? The investigators are picking draws for the order for investigation. They are all so excited about it. I never thought a day like this would come.”

The two looked at each other and smiled cunningly.

According to precedent, City Hall could extend the investigation by not revealing any information to the journalists, summoning them whenever, and asking vague questions.

It would all be stopped forcefully in about a month but that was enough time to investigate the Morning of Glory Newspapers.

I should visit her with a gift sometime. 

Alex looked at Lockhart yelling with all his might inside the interrogation room and drank her coffee.

Ah, so fragrant. 

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“Her aim is to annoy the heck out of them if it’s impossible to defeat them completely.”

Glenn reread Eva’s letters again.

She wrote about the methods that could be used to effectively mess up the journalists. Evil intent emitted from her cute, bubbly handwriting.

Remarkable.

The Chancellor smiled contentedly.

Informant A saw his smile and rubbed his arms just like Informant B did earlier.

Urgh, so creepy.

Eva remembered what Glenn said about the limitations of investigations and also what could be done within the legal parameter.

Even stalking allegations that were usually considered ‘not so important’ could be used to mess up with anyone.

Even with magicians.

‘I just had another unique stalking incident recently. I would like to include this too in the charges if possible?’

That’s why Eva ingeniously phrased her words.

The stalking has been going on for some time now and there was more than one stalker.

So, Eva wrote about how there are so many suspects and that she isn’t sure which one is the stalker but that she knew one of them was definitely a magician since she received an artifact.

If the suspects were normal people, it would be hard for such an ambiguous charge to go through but it was different if one of the suspects was a magician.

And Eva had the artifact as proof.

Technically, Eva didn’t lie about anything.

She only wrote the details of the people she met more than twice when she accompanied Brigitta to her work and back home.

And there were witness records from her and the neighbors and a previous report about a magician.

These were enough to connect the dots and file a charge.

The Emperor’s beloved author tore down the prejudice Glenn had formed in his mind based on her fragile appearance as she and cleverly reported all this.

The Chancellor was one of the busiest people in Lesa but he put aside all his duties and focused on linking Eva’s reports with the Morning of Glory Newspapers.

After he sent a reply full of conspiracy 2 hours later to Eva, she filed a written report in the City hall.

All this tactful conspiracy was plotted and executed in just a day.

“She has outstanding memory, spite, cleverness, and acting power. Amazing. I really want to hire her.”

By now, the City Hall would be excitedly investigating the Morning of Glory Newspapers.

Just thinking about it made him full even though he hadn’t eaten anything yet.

Informant A looked at Glenn burying himself in his chair with a big smile and shook his head fearfully and focused on his work.

The case about the mine in the West was urgent. He had no time to spare in staring at his boss’s horrifying smile.

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“My grandfather is so worried for absolutely nothing.”

“Count Maron? He doesn’t look like the type to worry though.”

“Tell me about it, Commander. It’s because you don’t know how much he scolds at home. He’s the one who was most against me becoming a knight.”

Amber Rose Maron, also called Sir Amber, scratched her long ginger hair with her lace-gloved hands.

The pretty jewels stuck on her hair almost fell out every time her hands ran through them.

“Hmm, but I didn’t think Count Maron would be the type to be against a woman becoming a knight.”

Brigitta cocked her head.

Her silver hair flowed down naturally.

“Commander, you are so handsome!”

Brigitta smiled at the knights in dresses praising her and turned back to Amber, who was locking arms with her.

Really, the Public Order Minister?

There were a few idiots in noble society that still said things like ‘Women should be at home doing housework not become a knight!’

However, they all shut up when Brigitta flexed her biceps.

And Count Maron was different from those idiots she met.

He encouraged her many times during the war and he even argued with Margrave Siegfred until the very end about her position and station after the war.

Well, he lost to the Margrave in a bet so Brigitta was assigned to Herssen.

But even when he lost, Count Maron told her to come to him any time if the Margrave was not treating her like she deserved.

“Uh, he isn’t but it’s just that my older brother died in the war.”

“Oh….”

Amber’s brother was 3 years older than her.

He was quite a delicate spirit and he loved books.

He promised Amber to get her a romance book that won some kind of award for her to spend time instead of creating trouble at home.

But her only brother died in the war, not being able to even deliver the romance book he had already got for her.

He did keep his promise though.

The book was delivered to her through the Emperor after the war was over.

After receiving the book, she held the book and bawled. Even until now, she couldn’t open the book.

Every time she misses her brother, she would gently rub the book she can never manage to open.

“He was so against me becoming a knight because of that. He said he won’t be able to cope if he loses his granddaughter too. In that sense, how does he ever command and control the other knights? I begged and pestered him while lying on the ground.”

“So, the Count submitted to you after all?”

“Well, I did all the begging and pestering in the hallway in front of his office. For about 4 days. So, he really didn’t have a choice.”

“Wow, you are indeed amazing.”

“I know.”

Amber fluttered her pretty lashes and grinned proudly.

It was a shame for Count Maron but Amber inherited this boldness from the Count himself.

“Anyway, he allowed me to become a knight but he still didn’t give up on trying to wed me with someone. Look at today for example. He thinks I will become more reserved or something if I’m wearing a dress.”