"Fujino, we've finished interrogating him."
Juzo Megure walked into the conference room with his police notebook and began outlining the information he had obtained. "We searched him and found a lethal dose of potent poison on him. Based on our speculation, this poison was likely what he intended to use to kill Her Highness the Princess."
"At first, he insisted it was just a prank and claimed that what he put in was merely laxatives."
"However, after our tireless interrogation and with the help of Fujino's Great Memory Restoration Technique, we successfully uncovered his true objective."
"It was a deliberate assassination attempt against Her Highness the Princess!"
Juzo Megure turned a page in his police notebook and continued in a grave voice, "The person who hired him was a foreigner he had never met before. That person supplied the poison, paid him a considerable sum, and promised to take him abroad afterward."
As he spoke, he looked at Fujino with an appreciative expression. "Fortunately, Fujino reacted quickly and anticipated that he would be bold enough to poison the wine, allowing him to catch the culprit."
"Otherwise, this would have become a major problem."
Fujino nodded, his tone full of respect. "Of course. It happened right in front of me. I couldn't possibly let Her Highness the Princess, who had come from so far away, suffer any grievance. After all, Her Highness is an honored guest from afar!"
"..." Keith, who was standing by the conference room's floor-to-ceiling window and looking out over the city's nightscape, suddenly fell silent.
From that tone, it sounded like Fujino really respected Her Highness?
Respect, my ass. He had clearly humiliated Her Highness just moments ago!
The person who had made the Princess feel most wronged was him, wasn't it?
This guy really changed his