Chapter 41

Finally we reach our destination as we walk down a flight of stairs. Lighting the way using my magic.

We reach two cells, both of which hold a criminal each.

The former maid and the former knight.

“M-Milady!”

“Milady, Milord, please show us mercy!”

They immediately start to beg, but when I turn to look at Ann… yikes.

Her eyes were completely cold.

“How much were you given?” Ann asks them without lending an ear to the pleading.

“Mi-”

“How much?”

Her tone was cold and imposing, it shut them up, and the former maid spoke up.

“Ten gold pieces... for every information…”

“So splitting that, it would be five for you each?”

“Yes.”

“Then how many did you manage to exchange?”

“Three, Milady…”

“Fifteen… How long have you both been working for us?”

“I’ve been working for half a year.”

“I was knighted a year ago.”

“Do your families live here at the fief?”

“Y-yes, both of our families…”