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Chapter 3 - Six hours until dawn

As the drunken Bianca started to become more and more drunken the priest decided to pour more alcohol and swift talked her into letting her guard down slowly.

Bianca who started to feel comfortable started blurting out her hidden thoughts and started cursing and mocking the princess who thought her as a best friend.

She started feeling more comfortable and started to blurt out and states how much she hated the youngest princess due to her position and popularity. And the priest who heard that wasnt mad but interested?

The priest decided to move to a more private part of the bar and started chatting with her and as more people left there were only a few that is still in the bar and the priest who saw his chance slipped a sly smile.

"Where is the evidence? The knife that stabbed the crown prince"

Bianca who was drunken turned a bit sober and become wary of me as i asked the location of the evidence and backed away with a look of suspicion

"Why the hell are you looking for that?! Tell me! "

Bianca said loudly to alert other customers but when she looked back she saw that all of them are asleep. The priest didn't even attempt to hide his sly smile looking at her expression of shock.

"You think i came here without a plan? Before i get to ask the evidence i slipped a sleeping drug to the wine they ordered while the bartender was distracted.

" you might escape or refuse but if you do that i'm afraid those hidden past crimes of yours will be at the daily newspaper"

Bianca's look of defiance was no more as that was replaced with fear and her voice turned shaky, her legs tremble as she was terrified at the thought of the news spreading.

"H-how did you know that?! Who are you!"

The priest in disguise laughed a bit at her words and approaches her and whispered to her ear and said.

"How i know will be revealed soon, you just need to focus on what will happen if the news got spread, the factions opposing the youngest princess wont back you up as they are focusing on making sure that the princess can't fight back on the court, meaning nobody can back you up now, only you"

All of Bianca confidence shattered and in a shaky tone she let out the truth slowly and said.

"T-the e-evidence is stored in my father's room.... In a box hidden b- behind the bookshelf at the side of his table...."

The priest who heard it was thrilled and before he left he said

"Remember, one wrong word, and your crimes will appear on the newspaper"

After he left Bianca legs gave up and she is shocked after hearing his voice that was leaked when he threatened her, it was exactly like the priest that she threw out.

"H-how can this be? He's actually the priest and disguised himself this well?! They said he's just a normal priest! "

After that in the dark rainy night the priest was standing at the gate of duke Gideon manor, a maid slowly walked out of the gate with an umbrella and the priest whispered

"Take a box hidden behind a bookshelf at the side of the table on the duke's room and i'll pay you a large sum of money"

The maid innocent look was quickly replaced with a satisfied grin and said

"Okay, make sure not to back on your words"

The priest who heard it sighed and smiled, in his relaxed tone he said

"Of course i won't, have i ever scammed you? "

.

The maid who heard that sarcastically laughed and said

"Don't worry, its just a joke, no way im being this careful with my number one customer"

After that the maid walked back into the manor and under the pretense of mopping the hallway because of the rain she slipped through the duke's room. After that, she started to search for a hidden space behind all the bookshelves. Footsteps were heard and the seaech became more desperate and the maid found the box and as the head maid entered the room she was long gone.

The head maid found no traces of anyone entering and saw that the maid was mopping the wet floor but saw that she wasnt hiding anything and walked away. After that the maid goes to put back the mop and slips out of the manor with the box and brought it to the priest.

The priest took out a small bag of money and gave it to her as a reward and walked away and a satisfied grin appeared on his face as the first evidence "the knife that's used to stab the crown prince" have been obtained.

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