"A week has passed, meow. Today is your forty-fourth day since coming to Bulida, the capital of the Krui Di Empire."
Lanchi sat in the dining room on the first floor of the mansion, reading the newspaper early in the morning without stopping the Ninth-Order Divine Beast's favorite daily broadcast.
Don't ask why he didn't stop it.
The answer was simply that he couldn't win.
"Captain Maquire has often asked you for help these past few days, and his dark circles have been getting heavier."
"Red Falcon Nikola also discovered Maquire's suspicious behavior because of your inadvertent hints, and reported to Director Dikes that Maquire had recently been investigating the director's movements."
"You've noticed that Dikes has been treating Maquire more and more kindly. I estimate the Imperial Special Operations Division will soon be completely wrapped up, meow."
Cat Boss was lying on the dining table when it said this, then turned its gaze once more toward the one on the wall—
Honor and loyalty first, iron blood defending the nation.
It still remembered that ever since Lanchi came to the Krui Di Empire, he had done nothing but act like a loyal subject of Krui Di.
After discovering that Maquire was disloyal to the empire, Lanchi had immediately begun helping the empire eliminate him.
He was worthy of the words on that silk banner.
The Imperial Special Operations Division was undergoing drastic changes every day now.
If the events of these seven days were explained in detail, they might fill dozens of chapters. Cat Boss had simply summarized them.
"Lanchi, meow, are you taking this banner back to Ikelite later?"
Cat Boss pawed at Lanchi's sleeve and asked.
"Take it back and hang it in the Cat Boss Restaurant?"
Lanchi looked toward the silk banner, somewhat reluctant to part