Shadow Agent Chloe

According to Iver's memory in this life, Minister Drost is Old Moriarty's friend. They have a pretty good personal relationship.

He is a loyal and powerful minister of the Queen faction and has a good relationship with the Moriarty Family. Moreover, he is also a minister who is very capable, honest and has no desire for power. Without enough evidence, this pillar of the kingdom will definitely not be able to be moved—even if there is evidence, it may not be possible to move it directly.

"Strong work ability, clean and without lust for power..."

Iver silently chewed the keywords of old Drost in his heart.

He had felt something was wrong before, but because of the dark history of Lily, he didn't react.

Thinking about it now, Minister Drost seems to be a little too perfect in areas other than private life: an official who is very capable and honest at work will have some upward ambitions; an official who is very capable at work and does not plan to continue to be promoted will probably not be very honest; and an official who is honest and has no desire for power usually has no ability at all.

This is basically an impossible triangle, but old Drost satisfies all three at the same time.

No wonder. It turns out he is a mole, so that makes sense.

... Could it be that old Drost was also one of the chess pieces controlled by Moriarty? Iver was sitting in a wheelchair, the fingers of his right hand tapping the armrest rhythmically, lost in thought.

On the other side, Director Gordon led Bureau of Supervision's people to carefully interrogate everyone on the second floor of White Shoes Club.

He attaches great importance to the opinions given by Iver. Therefore, we took two of the most experienced inspectors to personally check whether there were documents hidden in all members' packages and personal belongings.

Chloe, who was standing quietly in the corner, pushed up her glasses slightly without anyone noticing her presence.

She has a beautiful and bright appearance, and a Caramel short curly hair that gives people a warm and sweet feeling. At this moment, she was not wearing a school uniform, but a backless white dress that was only worn in summer or at banquets, with the Crystal Dance Shoes badge on her chest.

In the early winter of November, this look will definitely impress.

But everyone around Chloe seemed to have not seen her. Her appearance and clothes became ordinary under the influence of those glasses.

It's like she's no different than anyone else. As long as the eyes leave her for a moment, she will no longer be seen, like a bubble in a dream.

Chloe, holding a stack of books in his arms, hid in the corner and watched all this quietly.

... There are capable people in Bureau of Supervision.

No, to be precise, it should be that the young man named Iver Moriarty has some magic. Chloe thought to himself.

Until just now, the situation was under Chloe's control.

If she did not use "Eagle Feather" but simply poisoned her, it would be difficult for Avalon people to realize that Secretary Raff was killed by a professional assassin. If she poisoned him to death at Laf's home, she would probably have the same outcome - the cause of his death would be covered up by Minister of Trade.

Her mission as a killer was to make Laf die conspicuously, to make him die in a suspicious manner in front of the public.

Because of Laf's special cause of death and his remaining documents, Avalon people will begin to suspect... Laf was conducting intelligence transactions with foreigners, and was immediately silenced after giving out key information.

Then they will start investigating those documents.

Although those files were basically composed of code words, Chloe believed in the analysis and decoding abilities of the young man from Hermes's family. He has investigated "Sweater Brotherhood" and found those Alchemy Bomb. You must soon realize that this document must be related to the port Smuggling Case.

After that, Minister of Trade will naturally be involved. His connection with Stibnite Person may be discovered, and even other ministers who have connections with Xing Antimony will also be discovered.

And this is Chloe's mission as an agent.

Although for the Iris Flower Kingdom, Avalon and Star Antimony are not good things. But now is Iris's critical moment, Avalon had better not have problems at this point in time.

They need to try to keep Avalon and Stibnite Person hostile, but at the same time maintain a balance between the two sides. It ensures that it does not enter a state of war, but it can continue to deplete the power of the two countries.

In Avalon, there are many agents like her who have sneaked in.

Their purpose is to alleviate the hostility of Avalon people towards Iris People within the territory of Avalon, and to increase the hatred of Avalon people towards Stibnite Person. At the appropriate point, help the knights who are restrained by their armor to break free from the many constraints entangled in them——

The knights of Avalon are only bound by the road and must obey orders; and are bound by the oath of loyalty and cannot harm the royal family.

But in fact, as long as they don't have the idea of "replacing", they will not deviate from the path.

In other words, they just couldn't usurp the king's power.

Then, just let the royal family still exist, but lose the power to control them.

As long as the royal family no longer has the power of Path of Authority, the knights can take off their armor and form a cabinet following the example of Iris.

The power belonging to Path of Authority is, after all, suppressed from top to bottom - the mysterious skills of Path of Authority are "leadership" and "speech" and have nothing to do with loyalty.

Even if there are knights who are willing to surrender to the royal family from the bottom of their hearts... but if there are kind-hearted people to help them break free, they will never feel uncomfortable about it.

Just as Path of Beauty may lean toward balance or Path of Twilight, Path of Authority may also lean toward transcendence and love.

Power increases ambition and amplifies desire. She knows how to deal with love-inclined people all too well.

The main task of Chloe is to publicize the dangers and terror of Child of the Moon in Avalon.

This is an advance preparation to prevent Child of the Moon from joining Avalon after being expelled by Iris.

A few days ago, she suddenly received a task from her superiors——

Her superiors asked her to find a way to stop Stibium Kingdom's conspiracy, and try to expose Minister of Trade, or at least put him into a dormant state. As a clue, her superiors gave her the name "Laf" and her contact information.

She managed to steal the "Noble Red" ring stored in Bureau of Supervision and replaced it with a fake. He used it to forge his identity and sent the ring and a letter of urgent appointment to Secretary Raff, asking him to meet here.

Fortunately, the stronghold of "Sweater Brotherhood" was discovered by Sherlock Holmes, otherwise she would have had a hard time making an appointment.

It was not easy to trick Secretary Raff out with the documents.

Just a pity.

... It would be better if Iver didn't appear here today.

Chloe frowned.

She had actually seen Isabel Princess just now. To be on the safe side, it's actually best not to take action.

But after all, she is not Noble Red Society. If Secretary Raff communicates with Minister of Trade after going back, it will be easy to see through her false identity. It will be harder to ask him out in public next time.

So she thought about it and decided to take the risk.

It's a risk, but it's also a rare opportunity.

Because this matter directly involves the safety of His Highness Princess, if an unknown transcendent assassin sneaks into the club... Laf will definitely be thoroughly investigated.

But what Chloe didn't expect was that Iver realized right away that she might have taken away some documents.

The extraordinary power from Path of Adaptation allows her to hide her figure and also allows her to hear the following conversation clearly from such a distance.

She was filled with doubts and surprises.

——How did Iver reason it out? She took away some of the documents completely on impulse.

Because Isabel Princess is here, Chloe is worried that Minister of Trade will respond too quickly and arrange for someone to take back all the files as soon as possible. So she left part of it as evidence.

The document was scattered all over the floor when Laf fell, and it is normal for one or two pages to be missing. Maybe someone present stole it.

If Minister of Trade cleans up his hands, Chloe can anonymously publish the documents he secretly took in the newspaper. Keep applying pressure to Minister of Trade.

She was filled with doubts.

Chloe used detective thinking to review his actions before taking action.

Logically speaking, if someone silences someone to obtain information, then he can take away all the documents. If he takes away some and leaves more, it will become conspicuous; therefore, this behavior is not in line with logic and primary interests. And if he takes away all the files, then I'm afraid Bureau of Supervision will have to investigate for a while to find out that the files are missing...

Therefore, from this perspective, if Iver is really a qualified detective, he should rule out the possibility that "someone silenced Laf after conducting intelligence transactions with him" at the first time, and make the problem more complicated.

——In the end, Iver really stopped at this step and asked Director Gordon to check their personal documents.

No, do you understand it or not?

Laf fell down the building with a lot of documents. This seems unnatural no matter how you look at it? Would a real killer make such a stupid mistake? From the perspective of Chloe, who knew everything, she realized that Iver's reasoning was obviously unnatural.

Does he really have a false reputation? But in that case, why would he take the initiative to interfere in Director Gordon's investigation?

He even said it directly, and the document was tucked away in the book - as if he had seen what he had done.

Because she really hid the document in the book.

That information is a code word. If it's just one or two pieces, fold them up and put them in a book so they won't be easily noticed.

When no one is stealing information, just steal one or two documents from a pile. If Director Gordon is only allowed to investigate by himself, his experience will definitely tell him that this is impossible.

Iver actually persuaded Director Gordon to come and search in person.

That would be bad.

The biggest problem here is that Gordon is very powerful.

Her glasses were enchanted with the permanent [Cannot Look Directly] spell Path of Authority, giving her the ability to not be captured by people's eyes. Those supervisors whose energy level is too low cannot see her at all. Just like those members didn't see who killed the secretary.

Gordon may not be able to beat her, but his strength is similar to hers. And he is the transcendent who truly belongs to Path of Authority.

It is possible that he will see through his own psychological invisibility.

Although as an elite agent, Chloe is confident that Gordon will definitely not be able to kill him. In a one-on-one situation, there is a high probability that he can counterattack in a short time.

But she also heard it. There was a brigade of Sky Knight outside.

She didn't want to run into those in the army.

But because of Iver's instructions, Gordon has come personally.

Chloe cannot move at all now. She will be noticed if she moves, and Gordon can also notice her when he walks next to her. Unless Gordon happened to turn around and leave before coming over, it can be said that she has been exposed.

But Chloe is not very nervous.

Because she still has a trump card! Although the outside was completely surrounded by Sky Knight, it was impossible for her to break out head-on. But as a Path of Adaptation transcendent and an elite assassin, she has many ways to survive even if her infiltration fails.

Thinking this, she looked at Iver.

Before Gordon approached, Chloe pushed up his glasses again. Holding a stack of books, her body quietly melted into a thick shadow.

This is her Path Trait, and she has chosen "Shadow Affinity" three times.

——This is also the reason why Chloe is confident that he can definitely escape.