Unlike the anxious Fairbanks, our protagonist Locke is sleeping in the gentle country. And in this snowy night, the agents of the Security Service are running around because of this incident.

In the Security Service building in Iva, the room belonging to Norris was brightly lit.

"Did you find anything? Major? ”

In the large office--bedroom suite, Nooris was yawning behind her desk. Directly across from her, Anderson Mario was standing upright.

"Why did Prosecutor Fairbanks show up in that area late at night?"

"We just found something superficial," said Mario, looking down and opening the folder in his hand, the shorthand paper inside the shelf was densely covered with jumbled text.

"It's news about his speech."

"Huh?! And then what? Norris leaned casually back in the thick chair, and she leaned slightly to pick up the knife on the table, and then sat back in the chair and trimmed her somewhat long nails.

"He had a speech in the square in Lake Block yesterday before dark. After the speech, he had dinner at the inn next to the square. Dinner was a vegetable patty, a glass of milk, and two cheeses. ”

During this time, there was a verbal exchange with a total of five people, two women and three men. One of the two women was our agent, and the other was a local weaver named Akalyle. We have checked this woman, and her identity is very innocent, and there is nothing worth noting. ”

"Of the other five men..."

Norris listened quietly, trimming her green-painted nails until Mario finished speaking, and she didn't get up.

Finally, when she finished trimming her nails and put the knife on the table. Only then did she raise her head and look at Mario with her ocean-blue eyes.

"Finished?"

"It's over!" Mario nodded affirmatively.

"No other response?!" Norris asked rhetorically, only this time she had stopped what she was doing.

"Yes!" Mario replied in the affirmative, but he quickly added, "I think Prosecutor Fairbanks may have actually visited his friend, and he supports the High Lord." The reason for violating the ban was because he felt the need to hide anything. This performance should probably not be questioned, so ....."

Hearing this, Norris instantly burst into laughter, and the laughter made Mario inexplicable. But if Locke was here, he knew it was a precursor to Noris's anger.

"You don't want to fool me by telling me this useless news, do you? Actually, you didn't find any useful information, did you? ”

Noris's slightly cool voice embarrassed Mario, and the scar on his face trembled several times because of it.

"Do you think a senior prosecutor, he would violate our no-night rules for no reason? It's unusual for something like this to happen! Norris said mockingly to Mario, "Don't think anything about it just because he was once an advisor to Lord Mograini. ”

These words sent an angry look on Mario's face, and he defended, "I'm a follower of the High Lord, how could I do something detrimental to the High Lord!" I'm just worried...!! ”

"Worried about what?! Worried about his position? Norris looked at him with a sneer.

The look on Mario's face changed to hesitation, "Yes, do this... Monitor a senior prosecutor .... Is this too risky for us? ”

"So you mean, that's why you withdrew the agents who monitored him when he first joined the Southern Theater of Operations??" Norris sat back in her chair and looked at him interrogatingly with her hands on her chest.

"This kind of thing, every high-ranking official, nobleman, and I will arrange for someone to go down. But Fairbanks is an advisor to High Lord Mograine, and Lord Mograine has been so helpful to our High Lord that it is really appropriate for us to do so? Mario shook his head wryly, looking worried about what he had done.

"After an initial few months of surveillance, I had the agents undo it, and I didn't see any point in doing that. And...."

"If someone else finds out, our Security Service... We will cause a lot of unnecessary trouble to the Great Lord! ”

"That's what you think?" Norris slowly rose from her chair and went to the filing cabinet behind her desk, rummaging through it.

"I... It's just that... Feel like doing it. We're going to get the High Lord's approval..."Mario finally acknowledged Noris's question.

"Very well, please wait a minute, Major Mario." Noris's voice came from the filing cabinet, and Mario kept his head down, not daring to look up at random.

It wasn't until the rhythmic sound of high heels came to him that he looked up and saw that his boss, Norris, had handed him a large bag of things.

"..... this?"

Mario asked Norris in surprise.

"You can open it and take a look." Norris said calmly, "This is your future. ”

Mario hurriedly took the bag, and when he opened it, he saw that it was full of parchment rolls. He pulled out a copy and opened the rope that was twisted on it...

He was shocked to find that the parchment was written down in the specific things he had done in the previous months. So he opened another one.

This parchment scroll is an account of his joining the Crusaders a few years earlier....

It's your own archive!

"It's ....!" Mario looked at Norris at a loss.

"I said, this is your future." Norris said to him in a flat tone, "Starting tomorrow, Major Mario, you report to Grand Lord Harvey. ”

"The job of the Security Service is not for you."

"Your current thoughts and actions are not suitable for our job. But because you are a follower of the Great Lord, I have no right to deal with you. ”

Mario never expected that Norris would say such a thing.

He was stunned almost instantly!

So when he came back to his senses, his face instantly turned pale! He looked down at the bag in his hand in a trance...

Isn't this his future!

"No, no, no! Colonel Noris! You can't do that! Mario begged Norris with a frightened face, "I'm really just worried about our security bureau and the negative impact on the High Lord at this time!" What I have done is really for the sake of the Great Lord! ”

"Humph!" Norris sneered at the idiot in front of her! If it weren't for the fact that he was a follower of Locke, if it weren't for his heartfelt concern, Norris would have made him disappear long ago!!

"You're for the Great Lord?" Norris sneered, "If you really want to do it for the sake of Lord Harvey, then you should carry out the orders given to you by your superiors to the letter!" But what about you?! What did you do?! ”

"You need to understand! Major Mario! You're not the decision-maker! You can't jump to conclusions and decide what to do and not to do! You're just an executor! As an executor! You're supposed to do what the executor does! ”

"And you're going to be merciful? Because of a person's position? And to end the monitoring of him?! You would even think that his behavior was an occasional and normal behavior?! ”

"You have to understand! This is Eva! This is the heart of the Security Service! Here something appears that we don't know about!? Do you know what that means? You idiot! Norris couldn't help but curse, "Do you know our responsibility?!" You would even question your work because of the identity of the other party?! ”

"I'll leave the day-to-day work of the Security Service to you! Is that how you work?! ”

In the face of Noris's anger, Mario bowed his head in shame and let Noris's anger pour out on him.

"The Great Lord trusted you to put you in the Security Bureau and let you be my deputy! But you still don't know what you're supposed to do!? Well? Do you want me to tell you!? Listen up! ”

"It's inconvenient for the Great Lord to do it! Can't do it! We'll do it! We are the butcher's knife of the Great Lord in the shadows!! ”

"We don't need mercy! That's what the Great Lord should think about!! We don't need to be stubborn and follow the rules!! Because we're doing the dirty work!! Violations of law and discipline are commonplace for us!! ”

"I've disappointed you so much! What you do is not the basic quality that an intelligence officer should have! ”

After saying all this, Norris was still angry, and it took a long time for her to calm down.

When she turned around, Mario was still standing there with his head down. She sighed, shook her head, and walked over to Mario.

"Your sensitivity to danger is so poor..."

"The job here is really not for you, you are suitable for being a scout for the army. There is some overlap between the scout's work and the agent's, but the gap between the two is too great. Or you go and become an officer who leads soldiers to fight on the front line, which is the most suitable for you. ”

Shaking her head again, Norris returned to her desk and sat down. Without raising her head, she said, "I will arrange for your wife Mina to take over your job, her familiarity with intelligence work is far beyond that of you." It was a waste to put her in the academy. ”

"Let's go..."

Hearing Noris's words, Mario's blushing face lifted, and he gave Noores a military salute with difficulty, and then turned to leave.

When the thick wooden door opposite her was closed, Norris looked up at the closed door with a helpless face.

"Well, I didn't expect that."

Norris shook her head helplessly, and after a few moments she clicked a red button on the table. It didn't take long for a non-commissioned officer to walk in.

"What do you command, Colonel?"

"We have arranged for our men to temporarily take over the patrols in the Lake neighborhood and check the details of every household there. If there is anything special, report it in time. Inform Lieutenant Mina Houston of the academy to report to me. ”

"Now?" The sergeant asked, surprised.

"Yes, now!" Norris nodded affirmatively, "Also, let Major Mario not leave yet, he will leave his post after their handover." ”

"Yes, Colonel!"

"Also," said Norris after a moment's thought, the non-commissioned officer on his orders, "find out who is monitoring Fairbanks, and get him ready to get me back to me." I want to know what he's doing in Iva these days! ”

When the non-commissioned officer left, Norris hammered her head helplessly, and she went to the filing cabinet again, where she was looking for something.

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Facing the wind and snow, Fairbanks stumbled outside Locke's residence when he was stopped by the guards guarding outside.

"I'm a senior prosecutor in Fairbanks, and I have a very urgent matter to find Grand Lord Harvey!" Fairbanks said anxiously, pulling out his identification.

"I recognize you, but I'm sorry, Prosecutor Fairbanks." The soldier refused his request, "This time is not a good time." ”

"You can rest for a while in our resting room and wait until dawn. We will inform the High Lord of your request to see the High Lord. ”

Seeing the soldier's face of refusal, Fairbanks could only sigh helplessly. When this breath came down, exhaustion suddenly came to him, and he had to follow the guidance of the guards to their rest room.