THE PLAN

"IT WAS the First Prince?" Gypsy asked in surprised while she and Yvo were walking along the long pathway leading to the mansion. Only the two of them were there. "He asked his spies to spread that nasty rumor about us?"

Yvo nodded before he offered an explanation. "That's correct, Noonim," he said. "I found that spies that he planted in the mansion, then I interrogated them."

She flinched at the word "interrogated."

After all, she knew that it was also equivalent to torture. It was the norm in this world. However, she didn't have to like it, did she?

"I didn't kill them," the young master said as if he could read his mind. Or maybe the fact that she paled after hearing the word "interrogated" was quite obvious. "I did hurt them a little in order to make them talk. But I let them walk out of the duchy alive, on their own feet."

[Does it mean the spies weren't hurt badly?]