Reincarnated into a Game As the Hero’s Friend

This was another knowledge from my previous life, and this was in fact the kind of physiognomy drawing used by the police, as I have remembered. I guess some of the traits that witnesses remembered were traits that would catch other people’s attention. I nodded to Lily, turned to my father, and spoke up.

“If the mastermind is really a refugee from Triot, then taking her under our custody would make them move, but it could also serve as a countermeasure. That is if the mastermind is really from Triot.”

“I see.”

“And then after….”

When I was about to continue speaking, a knock was heard from the door. One of the maids monitoring Clara, entered the room after waiting for father’s permission, handed something to Norbert and gave him some information about the discovery.

“There was a double layer on the inside of Clara’s clothes and this was sewn into it.”

“A medicine packet?”

Since I was not the best person to examine a woman’s clothing, I asked the maids to examine it while Clara was taking a bath, which they did, as I expected.

I touched it and found that it was small and swollen, but very light. It looked like moderately high-grade demon parchment. This alone would not be something a refugee would have, but if the mastermind gave it to her, that person might be an aristocrat or someone in a similar position.

When I opened the package, I found a white powder. In a detective drama, there would be detectives who would lick it, but since it was probably poison, no one would do such a thing. Even in a real investigation, they would not lick it on the spot because it was evidence.

Pockets were also rather common in this world, by the way. In my previous world, pockets were not attached to women’s clothes, or even men’s clothes, until near modern times, but in this world, pockets seemed to be the idea of adventurers who carried potions and other items, and there were many clothes that had pockets.

“Just replace the contents with salt or something and put the medicine packet back in, please, before Clara gets out of the bath. I’ll check the contents.”

“Won’t she notice that they’ve been replaced?”

“I think they probably handed it to her as some kind of package to keep, but we should not let her notice that it was replaced, it’s fine. If she did notice, she’ll probably rush back to her master, which may actually hasten the process.”

I responded to Max’s question that way. As for the drugs, Rafed would be able to find out what kind it was and where to get it. He was a difficult guy to deal with, but he was certainly excellent in this regard.

“If the other party is a professional assassin, he won’t do anything to make me suspicious. The timing is too blatant. Perhaps Clara’s master is an underling who is up to something on his own. Nevertheless, it could be a clue to the big guy, so I want to catch them by the tail.”

“I see.”

“I think their intentions will change depending on whether the contents are a powerful poison or something that can weaken one to the point of sickness. For the time being, we have to be careful, father and mother as well.”

“I understand.”

In this world, there could exist magic to eliminate poisons, but the reality was that there were still a certain number of people who died from poisons. As far as this was concerned, it didn’t matter if they were nobles or commoners. In the case of commoners, it was often difficult to tell whether they died from poison from snakes or from being eaten alive by monsters.

In the case of nobles, even if the death was ostensibly announced as an illness, there have been cases where the death was by poisoning.

“On that basis, I will make arrangements…”

I explained the plan to the maid who brought in the medicine packet, and we had a quick meeting with Max and the others.

In addition, when I applied for a loan from Father, he gave me a blank stare. No matter how high I get paid as a viscount, I didn’t have an unlimited pile of gold coins in my room, and I needed the cash tomorrow, so I apologize for the nuisance.

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