Chapter 171

What happened, its so noisy .

Our mood is dampened now .

The nobles furrow their brows and the servants complain when the door is swung open with a bang .

But they dont continue grumbling for long .

The palace guards!? Whose mansion do you think this- uwaah, what are you doing!?

I can hear the knight assigned as the security for the party scream and then run in on all fours covered in blood .

Ruffians! H-helpgyaah!

The knight crawls into the hall and the pathetic man dies soon after he was pierced in the back with a sword .

Ooh how cruel!

Ah

Most of the people here are civil officials who have never seen a person die so they cover their eyes, while many wives faint on the spot .

Mel, Leah, hide behind me .

Right!Kay!

It sucks not having Irijina here .

First I have to determine whats going on though .

Nobody move!

Counting the man who pulled the sword out from the dead knights body, there are 10 men who walk into the hall together .

All of them are wearing chainmail and holding swords .

As expected, none of them had weapons like bowguns or spears .

The palace guards? what on earth is-!?What the heck is going on!?

I cant blame the nobles for being shocked .

All of them look just like the guards that protect the capital .

Are they palace guards?

Theyre imposters .

I answer Mels anxiously asked question immediately .

Theres a possibility that they came because the master here is evading tax or theyre in the middle of cleaning up any places that support criminal organizations, but its still strange to specifically target a party . There are too many unrelated nobles here and if by any chance they made a mistake and an irrelevant high ranking noble was injured, the guard captain wont just lose his job .

Any armed groups loitering around and planning insubordination in the capital would be immediately suspected .

Their disguise as palace guards is just camouflage .

In that case, their objective is robbery? or maybe something else .

We belong to the palace guards! Where is the Commissioner of Government Affairs!!?

Oh yeah, where is Marquess Baldwin?

Didnt he go to the room in the back as soon as the commotion started?

I guess Kenneth ran to the back room as soon as he heard the shouting .

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