Roland sat at his desk in a daze, he didn't expect that someone would dare to kill in the castle, if it wasn't for the nightingale to find out in time, he was afraid that he would have been murdered.

Who is it this time? Sister Sanwang, or other brothers and sisters? Do you want to be in such a hurry, five years of fighting for the king, it has only been a few months now, Roland slapped the table irritably, how can he still let himself survive the winter?

Footsteps rang out outside the door, and Chief Knight Carter Lannis pushed the door open, "Your Highness, the deceased have all been identified, seven of the eight bodies are members of the original patrol, and one is unknown. There are two other people who are still alive, one of whom was ...... by a witch No, after being treated by Miss Pyne, he still hasn't woken up. One has been taken into the dungeon, and is being guarded. ”

Knowing that this team raised by the former lord was unreliable, Roland gritted his teeth and thought that eight out of ten people had mutinied, and it was indeed the right choice not to let this group join the militia.

"The one who is locked up, you remind your subordinates to keep an eye on it, don't let people commit suicide by poisoning again like last time!"

"Last time...... So?"

"Ahem, it's nothing," Roland shook his head, it seemed that he was called by the nightingale in the early morning, and even his head was confused, "in short, I want to know everything from his mouth, who is the mastermind, who is in contact, who is the bribe, these are all left to you to investigate." ”

"Yes, Your Highness," Carter did not leave immediately, but knelt down on one knee, "It was my dereliction of duty to let the Assassins infiltrate the castle this time, and I hope Your Highness will punish you." ”

"Enough, you weren't in the castle at the time, it's none of your business. ”

"So......" Carter hesitated, "can you tell me who actually prevented the assassination?" I can see from the scene that they ......," the knight swallowed, "they all seem to have been killed by the same person, and they were powerless." ”

"Can you see that?" Roland said curiously.

"If the forces were evenly matched, the scene would not be so clean, and the wounds would be varied," Carter whispered, "and everyone fell in a small warehouse, and there was hardly a single object on the ground except for blood and corpses, and the large chests where cured meat was stored, not even a sword mark was left on them. In other words, the man walked in a small clearing without any cover. With all due respect, Your Highness, this is incredible. ”

"I see," Roland nodded, he understood what the other man meant. Theoretically, no matter how strong a person is, after being surrounded, he will fall into an extremely unfavorable situation -- in actual combat, it will not seem to be surrounded like in the movie, and people will still be on the ground one after another. Attacks in the blind zone of vision will be especially deadly. Therefore, with one-to-many, the correct countermeasure is to rely on the terrain and environment to always meet the enemy head-on.

However, Nightingale is no ordinary person.

"Anyway, you go and do what you have to do. This person can't show up just yet, and I'll tell you when the time comes. ”

Despite the Chief Knight's loyalty to him and his knowledge that Anna and Nanava were witches, Roland chose to hide the Nightingale's existence. Because she is different from the other two witches, she is not on her side, and the reason she stays in town is only for Anna. Behind her is the Witch Aid Society, and sooner or later she will leave here.

Carter retired with a disappointed face.

Roland could understand his thoughts, and as a sword-wielding man, he continued to practice the swordsmanship that had been summarized and accumulated over hundreds of years, and took it as the truth. But when you see something you can't understand, you are bound to doubt yourself - if swordsmanship can be so subtle, what is it that you are proud of?

"I thought you were going to call me out," Nightingale said, still sitting in the corner of her desk, her legs crossed.

"I thought so too. Why don't you settle down here and be my secret guard, and get paid twice as much as Anna for two golden dragons a month, or twice as much as Anna?" Roland began to say again, "The house has a garden, two days off a week, and paid leave every year - well, it means to get a gratuity while resting." ”

To his surprise, this time the other party did not categorically refuse, but smiled and said undeniably, "I can't leave my partner alone." ”

"Then call them all over, and when the winter passes, the border towns will be built in a big way, and then as many people can accommodate them. And...... Witches can also walk the streets without discrimination, and no one will consider you evil. ”

"Wait until you're done," Nightingale said with a shrug.

Well, Amway still has to look at the product, and this kind of thing can only be done slowly. Roland changed the subject, "Nanava has been sent back safely, right?"

"Well, she's scared. ”

The prince sighed, it was midnight when he was woken up by the nightingale, and he almost didn't throw up when he saw the scene. She briefly explained what had happened, and Roland told her to smuggle Nanava out. The little girl, who usually only healed chickens, fainted immediately when she saw a living person covered in blood. In short, after a lot of chickens and dogs jumped, she cured the patrol captain with tears on her face.

In order to keep his family from noticing, Nightingale is also responsible for bringing her back.

When everything was done, it was almost dawn.

"What do you think about this, can you tell which of my good brothers or sisters did it?"

Nightingale shook her head, "They're all members of the patrol, the only exception is that they don't have any identity-related evidence on them, and anyone can do it if it's a bribe...... But I don't think it has anything to do with your brothers and sisters. ”

"Why?"

"Because it's so unrigorous. At one time, there was infighting among the team. He did not commit suicide immediately after the defeat, leaving at least two people alive. And at the time, they behaved unprofessionally, like street gangsters. It's not like your brother and sister's style, it's more like a layman's plan. I don't think even if I'm not there, there's no chance that this assassination will succeed...... Don't forget that Anna sleeps right downstairs from you. ”

Nightingale took Roland's cup, took a sip of water without healing, and continued, "Anyway, your knight has gone to the dungeon to ask for a confession, and I bet he will soon find out the truth - that fellow is so inferior to your sister's pawn that he was on his knees not to kill him." ”

"The badly wounded patrol leader...... I seem to have been summoned. ”

"Really?" Nightingale tilted her head, "I think you should thank him, and if he hadn't pestered the other guys alone, I wouldn't have found the rats in the basement so quickly." It's not clear why he did it, but the enemy of our enemy is our friend, right?"

Yes, Roland thought, but the point was not whether he was a friend or foe, but what the nightingale said.

- "Our" friend.