Chapter 82 Shadow Agent Chloe

According to Aiwass's memory in this life, Minister Drost was a friend of old Moriarty. They have a pretty good personal relationship.

He is a loyal and powerful minister of the Queen's faction and has a good relationship with the Moriarty family. Moreover, he is also a minister who is very capable, honest and has no desire for power. Without enough evidence, this pillar of the kingdom will definitely not be able to be moved—even if there is evidence, it may not be possible to move it directly.

"Strong work ability, clean and without lust for power..."

Aiwass silently chewed the key words of Old Drost in his heart.

He had felt something was wrong before, but because of Lily's dark history, he didn't react.

Thinking about it now, Minister Drost seems a little too perfect in areas other than his private life:

An official who is very capable and honest will have some upward ambition; an official who is very capable and does not intend to continue to be promoted will probably not be very honest; and an official who is honest and has no desire for power will probably not be very honest. , he usually has no abilities at all.

This is basically an impossible triangle, but old Drost satisfies all three at the same time.

No wonder. It turns out he is a mole, so that makes sense.

...Is old Drost also one of the chess pieces manipulated by Moriarty?

Aiwass was sitting in a wheelchair, the fingers of his right hand tapping the armrest rhythmically, lost in thought.

On the other side, Director Gordon led people from the Inspection Bureau to carefully interrogate everyone on the second floor of the White Shoes Club.

He attached great importance to the opinions given by Aiwass. Therefore, we took two of the most experienced inspectors to personally check whether there were documents hidden in all members' packages and personal belongings.

Chloe stood quietly in the corner and pushed up her glasses slightly, no one noticed her presence.

She has a beautiful and bright appearance, and short caramel-colored curly hair that gives people a warm and sweet feeling. At this moment, she was not wearing a school uniform, but a backless white dress that was only worn in summer or at banquets, with a crystal dance shoe badge on her chest.

In the early winter of November, this look will definitely impress.

But everyone around Chloe seemed not to see her. Her appearance and clothes became ordinary under the influence of those glasses.

It's like she's no different than anyone else. As long as the eyes leave her for a moment, she will no longer be seen, like a bubble in a dream.

Chloe was holding a stack of books in her arms, hiding in the corner and watching all this quietly.

...There are capable people in the Supervision Bureau.

No, to be precise, it should be that the young man named Aiwass Moriarty is somewhat magical. Chloe thought.

Until just now, the situation was under Chloe's control.

If she had not used "Eagle Feather" but simply poisoned her, it would have been difficult for the Avalonians to realize that Secretary Raff was killed by a professional assassin. If she poisoned Rafe at his home, the outcome would probably be the same - the cause of his death would be covered up by the Minister of Trade.

And her mission as a killer is to make Rafe's death conspicuous, to make him die in a suspicious manner in front of everyone.

Because of Raph's special cause of death and his remaining documents, the Avalonians would begin to suspect... Raph was conducting intelligence transactions with foreigners, and was immediately silenced after giving out key information.

Then they will start investigating those documents.

Although those files were basically composed of code words, Chloe believed in the analysis and decoding abilities of the young man from the Hermes family. He has already investigated the "Sweater Brotherhood" and found those alchemical bombs. You must soon realize that this document must be related to the port smuggling case.

After that, the Minister of Trade will naturally be involved. His connection with the Star Antimony people may be discovered, and even other ministers who have connections with the Star Antimony will also be discovered.

And this is Chloe's mission as an agent.

Although for the Iris Kingdom, Avalon and Star Antimony are not good things. But this is a critical moment for the Iris, and Avalon better not have problems at this point in time.

They need to try to keep Avalon and the Star Antimonians hostile, but at the same time maintain a balance between the two sides. It ensures that it does not enter a state of war, but it can continue to deplete the strength of the two countries.

In Avalon, there are many agents like her who have sneaked in.

Their purpose is to alleviate the hostility of the Avalonians towards the Iris people in Avalon, and to increase the hatred of the Avalonians towards the Star Antimony people. At the appropriate point, help the knights who are restrained by the armor on their bodies to break free from the many constraints entangled in them——

The knights of Avalon are only bound by the road and must obey orders; and are bound by the oath of loyalty and cannot harm the royal family.

But in fact, as long as they don't have the idea of ​​"replacing", they will not deviate from the path.

In other words, they just couldn't usurp the king's power.

Then just let the royal family still exist but lose the power to control them.

As long as the royal family no longer has the power of the authoritarian path, the knights can take off their armor and follow the example of Iris to form a cabinet.

The power that belongs to the authoritarian path is ultimately suppressed from top to bottom, layer by layer - the mysterious skills of the authoritarian path are "leadership" and "speech" and have nothing to do with loyalty.

Even if there are knights who are willing to submit to the royal family from the bottom of their hearts...but if there are kind people who help them break free from their shackles, they will never feel uncomfortable about it.

Just as the path of beauty may lean towards the path of balance or the path of dusk, the path of authority may also converge towards transcendence and love.

Power will increase ambition and magnify desire. She knows too well how to deal with people who tend to love.

Chloe's main task is to publicize the harm and terror of the Son of the Moon in Avalon.

This is a preparation in advance to prevent the Son of the Moon from joining Avalon after being expelled by Iris.

A few days ago, she suddenly received a task from her superiors-

The superiors asked her to find a way to block the conspiracy of the Star Antimony Kingdom and try to expose the Minister of Trade, or at least put him into a dormant state. As a clue, her superior gave her the name "Laf" and contact information.

She managed to steal the "Noble Red" ring stored in the Supervisory Bureau and replaced it with a fake one. She used it to forge her identity, and sent the ring and a letter of urgent appointment to Secretary Raff, asking him to meet here.

Fortunately, the base of the "Sweater Brotherhood" was discovered by Sherlock Hermes, otherwise it would be difficult for her to make an appointment.

It was not easy to trick Secretary Raff with the documents out.

It was just a pity.

... It would have been better if Aiwass had not appeared here today.

Chloe frowned.

She had actually seen Princess Isabel just now. To be on the safe side, it was better for her not to take action.

But she was not a member of the Noble Red Society after all. If Secretary Raff went back and communicated with the Minister of Trade, it would be easy to see through her fake identity. It would be difficult to make an appointment with him in public next time.

So she thought about it and decided to take the risk.

This was a risk, but it was undoubtedly a rare opportunity.

Because this matter directly involved the safety of Her Royal Highness, and an unknown extraordinary assassin had sneaked into the club... Raff would definitely be thoroughly investigated.

But what Chloe didn't expect was that Aiwass realized that she might have taken some of the documents.

The extraordinary power from the Adaptation Path allowed her to hide her figure and also allowed her to hear the following conversation clearly from such a distance.

She was full of doubts and surprises.

——How did Aiwass reason it out?

She took some of the documents on a whim.

Because Princess Isabel was here, Chloe was worried that the Minister of Trade would react too quickly and arrange for people to take back all the documents at the first time. So she left a part of it as evidence.

The documents were scattered all over the floor when Rafe fell, and it was normal to have one or two pages missing. Maybe someone present stole it.

If the Minister of Trade cleaned up the mess, Chloe could anonymously publish the documents she secretly took in the newspaper. Continue to put pressure on the Minister of Trade.

She was full of doubts.

Before taking action, Chloe used detective thinking to sort out her behavior.

Logically, if someone killed someone to obtain intelligence, he could take all the documents. If he took away some and left more, it would become conspicuous; therefore, this behavior was not logical and in the first interest. And if he took away all the documents, then the Inspectorate would probably have to investigate for a while before discovering the missing documents...

So from this perspective, if Aiwass was really a qualified detective, he should have ruled out the possibility of "someone killed Raff after conducting an intelligence transaction with him" at the first time, and would have thought the problem more complicated.

——As a result, Aiwass really only stopped at this step and asked Director Gordon to check their personal documents.

No, do you understand?

Raff fell from the building with a pile of documents, which was very unnatural no matter how you looked at it? Would a real killer make such a low-level mistake?

From the perspective of Chloe, who knew everything, she realized that Aiwass's reasoning was obviously unnatural.

Is he really just a name for nothing?

But in that case, why did he take the initiative to interfere with Director Gordon's investigation?

He even said directly that the documents were sandwiched in the book - as if he saw what he did.

Because she really hid the documents in the book.

The information was originally a code. If there were only one or two pages, it would not be easy to be noticed if they were folded and put in the book.

No one would steal only one or two pages from a pile of documents when stealing information. If Director Gordon was left to investigate by himself, his experience would definitely tell him that this was impossible.

However, Aiwass persuaded Director Gordon to come up and search in person.

That would not be good.

The biggest problem here is that Gordon is very strong.

Her glasses are enchanted with the permanent [Do not look directly] spell of the authoritarian path, which gives her the ability to not be caught by people's eyes. Those supervisors with too low energy levels can't see her at all. Just like those members couldn't see who killed the secretary.

Gordon may not be able to beat her, but his strength is similar to hers. And he is the real extraordinary person who belongs to the authoritarian path.

He may be able to see through his psychological invisibility.

Although as an elite agent, Chloe is confident that Gordon will definitely not be able to kill her. If it was a one-on-one fight, she would most likely be able to counterattack in a short period of time.

But she also heard that there was a large group of air cavalry outside.

She didn't want to run into those people in the army.

But due to Aiwass's instructions, Gordon has come to find her in person.

Chloe can't move at all now. She will be noticed if she moves, and Gordon will notice her when he walks to her side. Unless Gordon turns around and leaves before he comes over, it can be said that she has been exposed.

But Chloe is not very nervous.

Because she still has a trump card!

Although the outside is completely surrounded by air cavalry, she can't break out head-on. But as a transcendent who adapts to the Tao and an elite assassin, she has ways to survive after the failure of infiltration.

Thinking of this, she looked at Aiwass.

Before Gordon approached, Chloe pushed her glasses again. Holding a stack of books, her body quietly melted into a thick shadow.

This is her Tao characteristic, "Shadow Affinity" repeatedly selected three times.

——It is also the confidence of Chloe that she can definitely escape.