Mysterious, but Naruto

Friday evening at six o'clock, at the gate of the Earl of Wolf's house.

One carriage after another stopped in front of the gate, and nobles dressed in fine clothes entered the main house surrounded by servants.

Audrey, dressed in a pale blue evening gown, followed her mother as they stepped down from the new carriage bearing the family crest.

Indeed, the Earl of Hall's household is now using carriages produced by the Louis factory.

In fact, when Count Hall learned from Audrey that Louis Helmett was actually Rokudo's alter ego, he broke out in a cold sweat.

After all, he had just followed the advice of his investment broker and acquired 8% of the other party's factory for free.

Doesn't this mean that before even starting work, you've already offended the company's boss?

Fortunately, Louis did not value this and did not allow Count Hall to return the shares.

After all, they didn't really have any opportunity for a handover in the open. Giving up Louis's new carriages without taking over shares would actually be a noteworthy thing.

Count Hall had no choice but to accept the shares and resolved to promote the carriage factory properly in the future.

Although, in the count's view, someone like Louis, the embodiment of civilization, should genuinely not care about a mere factory.

Whether he cares or not is the right of the superior, but as a subordinate, he cannot afford to be improper in his attitude.

Sure enough, Earl Hall immediately replaced all of his carriages, except for the one that was initially bestowed upon him by the royal family, with the new carriages.

With Earl Hall's cooperation and the newspaper advertising, the carriage factory is truly unable to keep up with the orders this time.

"Audrey, you look as radiant as ever today; you're sure to be the most dazzling jewel tonight," said Countess Wolf, who came to greet Countess Hall and Audrey.

"Thank you, Countess," Audrey replied with a smile, her eyes searching the hall.

Soon, she found her target—Viscount Grelint was standing in a corner, talking with several young nobles of similar age.

After saying goodbye to her mother, who was talking with Countess Wolf, Audrey lifted her skirt and walked over.

"Good evening, Grelint," she greeted with a smile.

"Miss Hall!" Grynt turned around, her eyes lighting up. "You look... well, how should I put it, radiant today?"

"Thank you for the compliment." Audrey chuckled. "Could we speak in private? I have something important to discuss with you."

Grylint glanced at his companions and shrugged. "Excuse me, gentlemen."

The two went out onto the balcony, where the night breeze blew the curtains, shutting out the noise from the hall.

"It's about Fors Wall," Audrey said bluntly. "How's your investigation going?"

Grynt's smile faded, and he lowered his voice: "I've had someone investigate Hugh Deercha's case."

On the surface, she was only arrested for injuring a gang leader, but in reality...

"Actually?"

Grynt's expression remained relaxed: "Actually, that mob boss has someone backing him."

My people found out that Constance has a nickname in the East End: "Hyena." On the surface, he's a gentleman, but in reality, he's the head of a small loan shark gang.

However, a large portion of his monthly protection money ended up in the pocket of a high-ranking official in the Backlund Police Department.

Audrey frowned slightly: "So Hugh Deercha's real problem isn't that he injured the mob boss, but that he assaulted a subordinate of the police department?"

"almost."

Grylls nodded and then shook his head.

"To be more precise, this Constance was just a front man for the higher-ups."

Hugh Deercha's act of injuring him was tantamount to slapping that high-ranking official in the face, which is why the case has been suppressed so severely.

My people later discovered that Ms. Wall had contacted Constance privately before coming to us and had her issue a statement forgiving Hugh Deercha.

If it were just an ordinary gang, after that "voluntary" declaration and paying a small fine, the matter would be over.

But the result...

"As a result, the police department classified the incident as a serious assault case, escalating it from a simple fight to a serious crime. In that case, it was no longer possible for the victim to simply not pursue the matter."

"That's right. The question now is whether we should put in a lot of effort, even at the cost of offending several high-ranking police officials, to continue putting pressure on this case."

Or perhaps it's simply a matter of helping the other party find a top lawyer familiar with these types of cases, and then contacting the hospital to obtain a medical certificate from Ms. Deercha stating that she has mental problems or intellectual disabilities.

Both of these methods could potentially help the other party escape punishment, but the methods are different.

The former should be able to pressure the police department to drop the case, and the other party will not have a criminal record because of it in the future.

As for the latter, although the other party does not need to go to jail, the criminal record for serious crimes still exists, and if the police department wants to cause trouble again in the future, they can easily use this as an excuse again…”

Audrey's eyes lit up as she thought of something else.

"Grelint, you said before that the police department forced the prosecution."

The reason is that the victim in this case, Constance, was seriously injured by Miss Hugh Deercha and is still lying in a hospital bed, and may never be able to stand up again.

So, if Mr. Constance's injuries are healed and he voluntarily goes to the police station to withdraw the charges, wouldn't the police department then lose its pretext for prosecution?

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Viscount Grelint looked at Audrey with surprise.

Unlike Audrey, who was still a minor and the youngest in her family, Viscount Grelint, as the heir to the family fortune, knew more about the extraordinary world than Audrey.

However, among the mystical knowledge he knew, healing abilities were not many, and the effects of these healing abilities were mostly weak.

He knew that enabling a partially paralyzed patient to move freely before the trial was not an easy task.

Especially Audrey, who was practically the one who led him into this mysterious world. Even if there were truly extraordinary individuals who could do it, it shouldn't be attributed to Audrey.

However, Viscount Grelint then remembered something: Audrey had once asked him to buy some rare herbs and exotic items.

"Wait, Hall, tell me honestly, did the Earl tell you some extraordinary secrets about your family?"

Since we are the best of friends, you were the first person I thought of when I had the chance to become an Extraordinary through Fors Wall and the others.

If you really have a way to become extraordinary, you must tell me!

Of course, I also know that this knowledge is quite valuable, so please tell me what price you need!

Although Viscount Grelint was quite agitated, he never forgot to keep his voice down, ensuring that only Audrey could hear him.

Audrey gave a mysterious smile: "Don't worry, Grelint, I came to see you today precisely for this matter."

However, as you know, some things in the occult come at a price, so I can only tell you the parts I can. The rest you'll have to figure out for yourself.

"Oh, my dear Hall, you really are my best friend."

Don't worry, I understand, I understand everything. Just say what you can say, and I will never forget what you've done for me!

Although Grelint is only a viscount while Audrey is an earl, titles are now mostly just titles.

Although it still brings them some privileges, those privileges are not what they used to be.

Especially after the kingdom abolished the Grain Act, nobles who originally owned large amounts of land suffered losses and were unable to maintain their former extravagant lifestyles, thus being forced to sell their ancestral properties.

There were even instances of impoverished earls, viscounts, and barons selling their family titles.

Of course, titles cannot be sold openly, but those people were so desperate for money that they simply passed on their titles to others through marriage, adoption of stepsons, and other means.

Therefore, the person who is succeeded to the throne must give the former nobleman a large sum of money and support him until his death.

As for the original nobles, they promised to pass on their titles to the corresponding people after their deaths.

This matter is actually full of uncertainties; it's a huge gamble.

As for gambling, it's naturally about human nature.

The nobleman gambled that the other party wouldn't secretly kill him immediately after he made a will and had it notarized.

Those who purchase a title are gambling on whether the original nobleman will pass the title to them before his death, whether he has a biological child hidden away, and whether he possesses a verifiable token, etc.

In conclusion, while high titles still carry status, they are far less significant than before.

Their status was based more on the actual power they possessed.

Viscount Grynt, for example, foresaw the development of industry early on, and therefore did not continue to focus on traditional land hoarding, but instead invested in the coal and steel industry early on.

Their family was among the first wave of "emerging" nobles to rise with industrial development.

The Hall family, also a representative of the "newly emerging" aristocracy, had a very good relationship with the other two families.

If Earl Hall hadn't truly loved his daughter and wanted her to find her own husband when she grew up, the two families might have already arranged a marriage.

Although they weren't engaged, their relationship was quite close; it wouldn't be wrong to say they were childhood sweethearts.

It was precisely because of their close relationship that Viscount Grelint thought of Audrey first when he had the opportunity to obtain clues about extraordinary individuals.

Audrey did the same, having already formalized Viscount Grelint's relationship with Louis.

However, the matter between Louis and the Akatsuki was too complicated and concerned her entire family. Audrey wanted to speak up but was unsure how to strike the right balance.

She was afraid that if she didn't say enough, the other person would miss the opportunity to follow Mr. Rokudo.

She was afraid of offending Mr. Rokudo if she said too much, and if he didn't join her, she didn't know how to face him.

After all, for the safety of her family, even if Mr. Rokudo didn't say anything, Audrey could imagine what her father would do—he would definitely send someone to assassinate him.

After all, this matter concerns the life and death of the family, and it cannot be dismissed with just a few words about being closely related.

Therefore, Audrey's idea was to inform the other party today in order to prevent them from falling into some unknown danger in order to become an extraordinary being.

Audrey had read all the extraordinary knowledge and intelligence that Earl Hall had contributed, and now she had a better understanding of her past actions of blindly pursuing becoming an extraordinary being.

She realized just how dangerous their actions had been.

"It's not a good time to talk in detail here today. I'm just giving you a heads-up. Come to my house tomorrow afternoon for tea and we can discuss it in more detail."

"Yes, yes, you're so thoughtful. Now is definitely not a good time to discuss this."

Should we continue with helping Deercha and the others?

Audrey nodded: "Of course we should help them."

To be honest, I joined an invitation-only gathering of extraordinary individuals by chance, and that's where I got the clues to becoming an extraordinary individual.

Miss Deercha and her group clearly have another extraordinary gathering that outsiders can join. Even if we become extraordinary, it will still be of great help to us.

Furthermore, it is indeed possible to treat that Constance, but at a great cost.

If measured solely in gold pounds, it would cost around 100 pounds, but as you know, there are many things that cannot be bought directly with money.

Therefore, you can tell Miss Wall the two options: if you only ask a lawyer to issue a medical certificate, then the remuneration that the other party needs to pay will remain the same.

However, if we are to treat Constance and get him to drop the case at the police station so that Miss Deercha doesn't get a criminal record, we will need additional compensation, and it can't just be money.

Audrey was absolutely right; she had indeed been pulled by the Fool to the palace where the gray fog was located, and it was indeed an extraordinary gathering by invitation only.

And she did indeed obtain the potion recipe from that party in the first place; she wasn't lying.

As for the treatment methods, we have to mention the exchange form that Louis gave to the Akatsuki members as a benefit.

He considered that in the early stages of the organization's development, the members' strength would not be very high, and the ninjutsu they could learn would be relatively easy.

Therefore, Louis prepared many talismans for his members, such as explosive talismans, binding talismans, sealing talismans, and so on. The variety was extensive.

This compensates for the initial shortcomings of the members in many aspects such as attack, defense, and support.

However, in order to prevent members from becoming too reliant on these external items and thus neglecting their own chakra training, Louis set the prices of these exchange items quite high.

Since they are almost all disposable items, their cost-effectiveness is very low.

Among these exchangeable charms is a healing charm.

This is the product of Louis's research into the knowledge in his mind, which can use chakra to simulate effects similar to the Palm Healing Technique.

It can activate cells within an area of ​​approximately 10 cubic centimeters on the surface of the target unit, accelerating the healing of injuries, but it consumes a large amount of physical energy. If used improperly, it may cause damage or even death to the person.