“Okay, Boss.”

Penelope, as a well-trained investigator, lowered her eyes from his boss’s bare body and received the recorder he gave her.

“I’ll interrogate Eleonora Asil myself. Don’t talk to her, provoke her, or be rude, okay?”

“We don’t even have a chance of doing that… If we upset her and she retaliated it would be a deserved death.”

Kyle laughed as Paul mumbled sorrowfully.

“That won’t happen if you let her sleep and let her eat regularly three times a day. She can have hot cocoa but don’t give her any other snacks.”

“Yes, boss. Yes?”

Paul answered roughly. He made a surprised sound. Penelope, who had been writing down her superior’s order according to habit, curiously looked down at the memo she wrote.

And Kyle’s command was just blown away.

It looked similar to the memo that Noah wrote ‘Manual for the dragon’. Penelope was a little confused. Who is raising whom?

However, Kyle did not seem to have any doubts about what he said. He added a few minor instructions and then closed the door again. Click.

“No big deal…”

Paul mumbled in a puzzled voice. 

Penelope shrugged her shoulders.

“You have to please her as much as you can now, so you can’t do anything even if you see something bad.”

“Really? That may be true, but why can’t she take care of her own meals…” 

“Don’t you think he won’t even give her a chance to rebel? You know he’s weak to Eleonora. If you talk to the captain like that, he might get angry.”

“Oh, right. Let’s go, Penny. You’re going to edit the recording, right?”

“Yes. You take the statement of Lady Valtayer.”

The two investigators, unaware of everything that had happened between Kyle Leonard and Eleonora Asil, were cautious that their conversation would be heard by their captain. At the end of the hallway, Penelope went into the investigator’s office whilst Paul headed toward the underground interrogation room.

Whilst Kyle was forced to rest for half a day and Noah was asleep, a few things occurred at the same time.

Paul faced unexpected difficulty during the interrogation of Lenia Valtayer, and Penelope witnessed a very suspicious scene recorded in the recorder handed to her by Kyle.

* * *

It took two days before Noah was informed of the progress of the case and in the meantime, she lazed about in the VIP room.

Contrary to Noah’s expectation that she would be cleared of charges in a day or two, the situation was not very favorable to her.

Kyle Leonard wasn’t the one who brought the news.

Noah struggled to wake up from the armchair, where she had curled up in a blanket and had dozed off when a sudden surge of investigators entered the room. And when she heard the first word they said, she couldn’t fall back to sleep.

“Oh… So now, what?”

“Drag her down to the interrogation room right now.”

The investigator, who had gentle eyes that did not fit his rugged body, made a threatening tone.

“Please cooperate, Baroness Asil.”

He didn’t cuff her wrist or put a gun to her head, but she felt threatened enough. 

‘What’s going on? Is something wrong?’

Noah couldn’t shake off the ominous feeling as she was forced to follow the investigator down. However, compared to how Noah felt when she arrived in front of the underground prison and the interrogation room, the ominousness was nothing compared to what she felt now.

I’m scared!