"Oh, gentlemen, you shouldn't believe a servant just because of something he said. Mr. Astor, you're the one who values evidence most, aren't you? He's simply making vicious accusations!"
The noble who had been reprimanding Liu Wei was beginning to panic.
This was completely unexpected!
"The banquet is still underway, and the guests are all here. Surely you two shouldn't-"
Before he could finish, however, pain shot through his knees. With a crack, Miaoyu knocked him to the floor with her scabbard.
When he looked up to see who had struck him, he saw Miaoyu standing before him in a woman's fencing outfit and black knee-high socks.
Looking up from below at her disdainful expression as she gazed down at him, he fell into a daze.
Miaoyu merely gave a soft snort. "Am I beautiful?"
"Beautiful, beautiful-"
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The noble looked as though he had lost his soul, his eyes blank and his expression utterly witless.
"Tell us everything. If I'm in a good mood, I might let you press your face against the sole of my shoe."
Miaoyu spoke with arrogant disgust, issuing orders like a queen.
Yet the noble she had knocked to his knees seemed ecstatic. "I don't know the specifics. I was only instructed to cooperate-"
But just as the noble was about to say Reese's name, something suddenly seemed to constrict his throat, and he began making muffled whimpers.
Lin Hao could sense that one of this world's seven primary laws had produced an invisible force that imposed the restraint.
"So a church is involved... This is quite a convenient way to silence people-"
Lin Hao voiced his admiration, then raised a finger.
Had it been a fluctuation of the entire main law, there really would not have been much he could do.
But a