Chapter 84: Arrested

Perseus POV

Ok, this is not what I imagined my entrance to the southern continent was like. The moment we bid farewell to Zach and his crew, my group was arrested at the gates to the nearest town when we showed.

"On what fucking charges?"

"Conspiracy to commit treason." The guard replied "Burglary, assassination, attempted assassination, and a couple others, do you need me to list all of them out?"

"What?! Where's your fricking proof."

He then turned to Lilith and it took me a while but he's indicating that she's one of the proof, which didn't make sense. Her disguise and fake ids would point to her as a citizen of Tehios, discrimination would exist between here and there, but this is ridiculous. Accusing me along with the 2 rose guardians of treason is not a good look for anybody.

I want to say I half expected this, but the chances of this was very low when I calculated it, so I didn't really prepare for this. The people who caused the kraken to be angry definitely won't like it when they realized I'm here now once they knew of me investigating the people on those trade routes.

But even then, it would be hard for them to just arrange this unless they have someone of more credibility to back em up for all those other charges.

Treason is a huge accusation, and having a demon with me doesn't really help, but they all must have teamed up, and with a slight bit of outside influence to weigh in and give support.

Sheela...she married a prince, and definitely have powers extended outside her own continent, and news source said that she's a bit obsessed about me having something to do with her family losing a lot of money and the reason why her own family is now suspecting her to be the cause.

The only reason that she's fine is because her husband's authority after I disguised as her. But with all these people eyeing me, the authorities of this continent probably have their hands forced by the main kingdom. But it's not like they're showing any pity now that they see that I'm accompanied by a demon and I'm a descendants of the strongest hybrids in history.

But the burglary charge is definitely from her.

Why can't characters like her just like give up? It happens in stories all the time, they do it continuously only to suffer terrible fates or die in a humiliating way. It's not that hard to just continue our lives on our separate ways, you live with a wealthy prince and enjoy your life like that while I enjoy my life with beautiful women.

They can cook up a lot of things now since I am the 3rd party that can sway the results of the war, I mentioned it a lot, so I won't waste your time. But with Lilith here, they can just cook up some fake news of me discussing my allegiance.

I hate being restrained, and I always have stuff on me to break me out if I'm ever captured. I learned some of it in my past life, and this life, under Chief Aminu's tutelage, I was taught several items that this world use in order to capture someone and how to get out of them if necessary.

Doesn't help since none of the items that the 4 main kingdoms possess can't stop a lord from using the powers of the rose, so I just created a pin and broke out of my cuffs. I'm only using those items incase anyone found a way to restrained all my powers and not just magic.

"Sir, if you aren't guilty, you have nothing to be afraid of." he said as he signaled his buddies to raise their weapons "Please put it back on before we are forced to call for backup."

"You're accusing me of capital crimes, and the laws of the southern continent have loopholes that allows you to delay my supposed sentence and a lot of other shit, so unless you got some concrete evidence, let me enter or just let me get to the cross continental teleportation array and I'll go home."

"Sir, please do not let me repeat myself."

"You? You seriously think that you're the one in the position to threaten me? That's funny."

But before things escalate further, a guy came out and he's one of the guys amongst the people in my files, he did travel along those trade routes, but he's an adventurer whose mother work as a merchant and his father work as a mage captain. He then calmed the guards down before my group killed them.

It's a bit suspicious that I find one of the guys I'm trying to investigate right here, it's too suspicious that he's here at a perfect timing as well. He's this 180cm tall handsome mage of the 7 star level, a small celebrity for the people here, his name is Jack, short for Jackolin Barbarus Integos- Yeah, I don't remember his full name, and so I'll just call him Jack.

"Lord Perseus, I assume you are the leader of your group, right?" he asked with this stupid smiling face

"Well, yeah, I call some shots."

"Why don't you just cooperate and we'll-"

"No, I've made my demands very clear, and you should know more than anything that your laws are flawed, I'm already being falsely arrested for false charges, so unless you want to die along with them, help out."

"Look man, I'm as clueless as you are. Don't threaten me as well."

Lie. I sense it, he's lying, he's not clueless about this, even if he's not the mastermind, he at least know the cause.

"Jack, are you behind this?"

"Why the hell would you think that?!" he now look offended

"Answer yes or no."

"No."

Lie, again.

"Do you know who else is behind this then?"

"Look man, I'm just trying to help out, I don't know anything." Lie again.

That means that this is one of the guys I need to kill. Simple as that.