A Contest of Wits with the Authorities / Interrogation? Questioning? A Talk!
You should know that even the great demons in Gensokyo would fall for this trick without realizing it, thus ensuring that the banquet would continue without a shortage of people.
Not to mention the ordinary people in front of us.
None of them even sensed anything was wrong; they simply instinctively felt it was safer to be closer.
Once everyone had gathered, Suika a deep breath.
The Ice Rune - Ice Storm condensed into countless ice blades, which she controlled in front of her.
When she had collected enough, she suddenly swung her fist.
The Mount Oe Tempest descended upon the Great Knight Territory once again.
A fierce wind, carrying icy spikes, pierced through the crowd.
When the wind died down, there wasn't a single person left on the field who could breathe.
After doing all this, Suika turned and left. She was confident that if that Rust-Copper Knight were here, he would definitely not survive.
If he's not there, then I'll definitely receive relevant information in the next few days, and then I can go find that guy and kill him.
Just over ten minutes after Suika left, several shadowy figures arrived at the Ingla Family.
Seeing the corpses lying haphazardly on the ground inside, Roy Lazurite leading the team, sighed and then took out his communicator.
"Report: The entire Ingla Family has been wiped out by unidentified individuals."
Repeat, "The entire Ingla Family has been wiped out by unidentified individuals."
After he finished speaking, he led his men closer.
"Tsk tsk tsk, what a tragic death!"
Did you see the weapons that killed them?
Roy approached and sighed a few times, then noticed that although the dead had wounds, there were no traces of weapons.
This was very unusual, so he asked the others who had come with him.
"No," "Couldn't find it," "I don't have it here either!"
The reply he received made him thoughtful.
The manner in which these people died was even more puzzling to him.
This is not a good defensive position; on the contrary, the small square with nowhere to hide should be the place where people should be kept away the most.
If the reason for gathering everyone here to speak was a sense that a major battle was imminent, it doesn't seem like it.
Because Roy found the head of the Ingra family in the crowd, who had died not at the front or in the center of the crowd, but in a completely inappropriate place to speak.
The bodies of several of the family's direct descendants, including the Rust-Copper Knight, were also found one after another. Their scattered positions made it seem as if they were attending a cocktail party rather than a pre-battle rally.
Then there are the weapons that kill them.
After searching around, apart from finding some inexplicable puddles of water in certain places, there were no traces of the murder weapon.
However, based on the wounds on these people, Roy roughly pieced together the appearance of the weapons that killed them.
They are cone-shaped objects, each ten centimeters long.
Considering the subtle frostbite marks on these wounds, Roy roughly understood what the weapon that had killed these people looked like—ten-centimeter-long icicles made of ice.
After sending the message, he took a few more photos and then left the scene with his men.
Shortly after he left, mounted police in Kazimierz arrived after receiving a report.
Upon seeing the bodies on the ground, the mounted police officers trembled with fear and immediately reported the incident.
Soon, the area was completely sealed off with a cloth wall.
Suika had already returned to the arena.
She sat in the private room, chugging down her liquor for a while before finally calming down her nervousness and unease.
Just as she was calming down, there was a knock on the door.
"Who?" Suika looked up.
"Madam, considering that watching the game for too long can be mentally taxing, the organizers have prepared a delicious dessert and the Kazimierz Daily for all the VIP guests. You can read the newspaper and enjoy the dessert during your breaks to refresh your mind."
A waiter walked in and saw that Suika was still there. He breathed a sigh of relief and then said respectfully.
"Oh, is that so? This is much more humane than making me sit here all day on the first day."
Oh, and some chilled drinks, please.
Suika calmly accepted the items and placed them on the table.
Chapter 265 The Contest and Response from the Official Side
Soon after the waiter left, news that Suika was still in the arena reached the ears of the upper echelons of the Commercial Union.
"Are you sure it's the real person, and not some illusion or a substitute?"
Someone still asked, unsure.
"This is her entire itinerary and the people she met after entering Kazimierz."
We have no record of her having twins enter the premises.
Moreover, she is different from others, possessing several very distinctive characteristics.
First, there's the issue of foreign trade. Those exaggeratedly long horns are too eye-catching. If two identical people had appeared before, it's impossible for our news to completely miss them.
Secondly, there's her alcoholism, which is more terrifying than Ursus person I've ever met.
According to the survey, the amount of alcohol she drinks every day is roughly equivalent to her body weight.
"I doubt you'd find another person with such an incredible capacity for drinking in a short time."
The other party retrieved the amount of alcohol that Suika drank on the field today, and it was not much different from the previous time, so it seemed perfectly normal.
Of course, the clone wouldn't drink alcohol.
So where did all that wine go? Naturally, it went to Ibuki Gourd.
This is also a characteristic of the Ibuki Gourd discovered by Suika: it can not only pour out countless bottles of sake, but also pour sake into it.
It's a pity that, unlike the Hoshiguma Cup, it doesn't make the poured-in alcohol taste better.
However, at present Suika does not need this ability.
Pour in roughly the same amount of alcohol, creating the illusion that your clone has drunk quite a bit in the arena, so that others won't be able to tell whether the person left here before was actually Suika.
Just like now, it can be confirmed from various sources that Suika did indeed stay in the arena's private room. Apart from the servant entering and her initial trip to the toilet, there are no other suspicious points in the surveillance footage.
Each time a servant entered, the reason and the process were consistent with what the servants said, and the person in question was indeed inside the room when they entered.
So when the Armorless Union and the Knights Association came knocking, the Commercial Union presented a pile of evidence to protect Suika, indicating that there was absolutely no opportunity to cause trouble for the Ingla Family at that time.
Even so, the Armorless Union and the Knights Association still demanded that Suika be questioned.
The Commercial Union stated that Suika was a distinguished guest from abroad who came to Kazimierz to participate in the Knight's Tournament.
Instead of providing her with quality service, Kazimierz's side made her journey extremely difficult.
If this gets out, it will deal a heavy blow to the tourism industry in Kazimierz.
Therefore, as the party serving the VIPs, they stated that if the Armorless Union and the Knights Association needed to question Suika, it must be done in the presence of a representative from the Commercial Union and a member of the Nearl Family who appeared to have a good relationship with Suika.
Furthermore, the Armorless Union cannot force Suika to answer questions she doesn't want to answer.
The Armorless Union and the Knights Association were furious about this.
However, there are no reasons to refute this, but at present, although Suika is not the prime suspect, she is a key suspect.
Questioning her is a procedure that the Armorless Union must initiate.
The reason the Commercial Union protects Suika is not because they have money, but because they are powerful.
Instead, they saw the benefits in it, since the Commercial Union couldn't get around the Armorless Union and the Knights Association if it wanted to make more money through the Knight's Tournament.
The opposing team, on the other hand, has been very tight-lipped in terms of Knight's Tournament.
This time, they were trying to use the Suika to break through the two associations, create an opening, and get the other side to agree to some of their conditions.
"Okay!" After both sides agreed, the Commercial Union found Suika, who was being "protected".
At this moment, Suika was in a private room at the hotel.
It wasn't even dinnertime yet, so she shouldn't have come back so early.
But after she had been sitting there watching a few games, the door was knocked on.
The visitors were from the Commercial Union.
They said that an unidentified force had entered the Great Knight Territory and posed a serious threat to it.
They believed that Suika was likely to be the next target of those unknown individuals, and in order to ensure her safety, they hoped she would return to her room in the hotel.
The Commercial Union will send extra staff to the hotel to ensure her safety in the coming days.
Suika had anticipated that the other party would do such a thing.
However, knowing is one thing, but she absolutely cannot express it in such a way.
So she acted very angry, indicating that she could not accept their behavior.
She came to Kazimierz for tourism, but ended up being "confined" to her hotel.
She loudly proclaimed that she hadn't even caused trouble for the arena and organizers for the incident yesterday when that Rust-Copper Knight threw a weapon at her, and now the Commercial Union was trying to place her under house arrest on trumped-up charges.
Are they all in cahoots, thinking they can take advantage of me just because I have money?
Her voice was so loud that many onlookers in other rooms craned their necks to watch the spectacle.
Ironically, everyone sitting here was a VIP guest of the Commercial Union, and even the person in charge seemed a bit clueless upon seeing this.
Finally, after using a large amount of expensive liquor, Suika reluctantly agreed.
Then they went directly to Młynar, a member of the Nearl Family who worked at the company.
After hearing the request, Młynar shook his head, indicating that he did not know the Ms. Suika that the higher-ups were talking about.
Since the person she knows is Zofia, it would be more appropriate for her to be a witness.
So when the Commercial Union found Zofia, she thought the Frost Knight's affair had been discovered, and she was so frightened that her heart almost jumped out of her chest.
After learning the reason, she had a feeling that Suika was probably behind it.
But as the Commercial Union said, all the evidence currently proves that Suika is innocent. Even the Armorless Union did not arrest or detain her, but instead chose to question Suika in the presence of a third party.
"Okay, I'll be there on time for tomorrow's questioning session." Zofia agreed, then glanced at Suika's location with a hint of worry in her eyes.
Meanwhile, Suika was standing on the bed, pulling Shanghai Dolls and dancing a two-person skit.
Since we can't go out, there's nothing else we can do indoors besides watching TV and going to the balcony to enjoy the view.
When a person is bored, they're capable of doing anything.
Especially since she's currently "playing" a hapless character who just spent the afternoon in a private room and was sent back inside, unable to go out.
It's normal for a "child" to play house and fool around when they're bored.
At least for those staring at Suika, this was perfectly normal.
That's right, one of the reasons Suika was making a fuss was that she discovered there was a security camera in her room after returning.
Chapter 266 Interrogation? Questioning? Interrogation!
What is she doing?
A person on the other end of the surveillance asked
"It's normal for little girls to play with their dolls when they're bored. My daughter often plays dress-up games with her dolls, making them look like ghosts..."
On the other side, an older man glanced at it a few times and said nonchalantly.
While playing around, Suika found the locations of almost all the security cameras in the house.
To be precise, surveillance cameras were secretly installed in all areas except the bathroom and toilet.
What can Suika say about this? Do the people of Kazimierz really respect privacy?
Because she was being constantly monitored, Suika didn't let Shanghai act on her own; instead, she held her in her arms like a real doll.
The next morning, after getting up, she subconsciously prepared to go out. Only after opening the door and seeing the "security guard" standing outside did she realize that she seemed to still be under house arrest.