Chapter 238: Princess Leora Messes Up
Keith dragged the noblewoman around the town while his team announced her crimes to everyone nearby. Invites were sent out to everyone so that they could attend the main event that would occur during the evening.
Time quickly passed but it was pretty exhausting to shout for hours on end. By the time it was close to evening, Keith had managed to gather a huge crowd of angry people.
Keith turned to look at one of the knights and the man didn't need anything more to understand what he had to do. He nodded and grabbed the viscountess and tied her up to a cross. Your journey continues at My Virtual Library Empire
Once this was done, Keith walked around her a few times and then addressed the crowd.
"As you all have heard, Mrs Lia Barbarosa is the person behind the disappearances in the past decade or so." he said and then looked at Amelia, who nodded brought her fingers to her mouth.
A loud whistle pierced everyone's ears and the next second, there was another voice.
"I'm cominggg!"
Everyone turned to look in the direction at which the voice had come from and saw Nolan walking with a wide grin on his face. Behind him was a huge group of scantly clothed people.
"This is the proof of her crimes and the people here are the few lucky ones who have managed to survive her terror. There are still hundreds of people who are currently being rented.
Some of these people here could be your own family, and some of them could be your close friends, so I'll leave this decision to you.
There are stones on the ground, firewood in homes near us and a lot of other things that you can use to make her remaining few minutes a living hell!" he said and looked at Alpha and Beta who were a part of the crowd.
The two of them grabbed stones and hurled them at the viscountess. Once one person began, the rest followed. Stones, sand and sticks were thrown at the woman until she dies from excessive bleeding.
"Burn her off." Leora said and walked towards Keith who was currently staring at the Viscount's family members.
Keith noticed her from the corner of his eye and went back to doing his own thing. He hummed a little and turned to look at the viscount.
"Oh dear Viscount Barbarosa, it appears to me that your kids will be cursed by a mysterious being in a few days." he said with a serious look on his face before adding, "I can help you with preventing this from happening as long as you give me soldiers."
Barbarosa frowned and shook his head, "Not going to happen. If you're done with the inspection or whatever you came here for, then please leave."
During the past few hours, Barbarosa had realized that he couldn't be attacked or accused when he didn't do anything wrong. Keith wasn't that kind of person based on what he had observed until now.
'Once he leaves, I'll bring my mistress back home and live a happy life with her.' he thought, but to his surprise, Keith suddenly smiled as he looked straight into the nobleman's eyes.
"You see, Barbarosa... it's all right to have a mistress. But I wonder if it'll be all right to find her missing."
"You..... you wouldn't..."
Keith smirked in response, "Oh, I would!" he said and walked towards Barbarosa's youngest son.
"How old are you, kid?"
"Thirteen..." he said as he looked up at Keith and then was surprised to see the inquisitor giving him a warm smile.
Keith patted his head and said, "You see, if you need anything. A new start in life, away from this filthy place, then feel free to find me. I'm an inquisitor from the church of protection."
The reason for this action was simple, the kid was untainted and had not been involved in most of the other siblings' or parents' shenanigans until now. As for the few that he did participate in, he did not have a good feeling towards these experiences and Keith learned about this thanks to his system.
"I'll give you until tomorrow morning, Barbarosa. Don't disappoint me." Keith said as he turned to look at the viscount and then left with Leora right behind him.
"What did you mean by a mysterious being coming here to curse those kids?" Leora asked as she tried to catch up to Keith's fast walking pace.
Keith slowed down and chuckled, "I was just blabbering nonsense. I was trying to threaten him but it probably looked like I was trying to scam him. That's why I changed my approach later. Threatened to get his mistress disappeared."
"Does that mean that you were actually going to curse his kids if he doesn't listen to your wants?"
Hearing this, Keith shook his head, "No, I was going to kill them. I believe that there are some things that shouldn't exist in this world. Some of them might be kids, but the things they've done could be considered as some of the worst things ever."
Leora didn't say anything and simply nodded as she turned around to get a look at the four kids of the viscount.
"The eldest is almost twenty eight now. Second and third are both twins at twenty two and the last one is actually the son of this mistress instead of the viscount's wife. It's thanks to this woman that this child was able to grow..... untainted by the filth around him."
"How do you even find out such things?" Leora asked, absolutely perplexed by the amount of information he had compared to the rest of them.
Keith gave her a side-eye before smirking, "I wonder why you're asking... is it because you got your people to keep an eye on me when we came her to scout? Let me tell you one thing princess." he said and the smirk on his face vanished, only to be replaced with a glare.
"Try that shit one more time and you will find your people lying in a pool of their own blood. You might be a princess, but at the end of the day, you're a fragile human being just like everyone else here."