"After that trial, no other member was ready to sacrifice themselves for the greater good, so we honestly put aside our revenge and pretended to know nothing. I strongly suggested my people not to leave the house at night," Gandu finished speaking, rubbing his palm on his shiny head with an annoyed expression before sighing helplessly.

    "I see... This is going to be a bit troublesome... By the way, if I want to repeat the same trap as you, do you think there would be anyone who would volunteer to be bait?" Myne asked with a troubled look on his face, playing with a small pouch in his free hand.

    "Of course, Your Highness, for you, for our kingdom''s safety, there are still a lot of sensible people who are willing to sacrifice themselves. If it were me, they would surely refuse, but for you, they would be more than happy to do anything," Gandu said with a smile, his eyes glued to the pouch in Myne''s hand and rubbing his hands together.

    "Good, good, then I leave this matter to you. I will return to you tonight, and we will set this trap. I want to see who these bastards are who were messing with my kingdom," Myne threw the pouch at Gandu before continuing. "Next, I want to know about some interesting things happening in the kingdom."@@@@

    Saying that Myne took out Garnet''s notebook and started looking through it. Although there were many tasks in it, most of them were specific to certain areas, so he could only get fresh information after going there. There was no need to ask Gandu about it, who obviously didn''t have much information about the small towns and cities. They were too far from him, and currently handling the capital''s matters was his limit.

    Next, Myne asked about two more tasks related to the capital city. One involved a medium-sized private auction house that was blown to smithereens for unknown reasons. The owner was unwilling to cooperate with the city guards and didn''t give any explanation, instead, he was doing his best to keep it under wraps. Due to this explosion, many nobles family members and wealthy people had lost their lives, and the kingdom was taking it very seriously. Of course, hundreds of letters of complaint piling up on Garnet''s desk were also an important reason.

    Thankfully, Gandu happened to know about it and solved the case in one go. It turned out that the auction house owner had bought a strange, shiny red ore, about the size of a basketball, from somewhere. But the ore was a bit too weird, and after trying everything and not finding any use for it, even destroying it was nearly impossible.

    So, when he realized it was a super-strong ore with no practical use, and couldn''t even mold to crate weapons, the auction house owner decided to sell it. However, that "idiot" and his pig teammate carelessly placed it near some kind of alchemical mixer, which later accidentally fell on that ore and due to a chemical reaction, it exploded during the auction. Explore stories on My Virtual Library Empire

    So now they just had to bombard the auction house owner''s house, confirm all the information, and throw him into prison.

    The second task was about a poison attack in a black market in the city. Some kind of powerful poison gas was released during a fight, killing more than 50 people, half of whom were of a certain status. Now, everyone was going crazy trying to find the culprit.

    As for the reason why is there a black market in the capital city of a kingdom where a lot of soldiers patrolling day and night, and people were prohibited from selling dangerous and illegal goods privately? Well, there were always some people who cared more about money than life, and before the royal family knew it, the kingdom''s biggest black market started operating right under their noses. Because a lot of nobles were secretly backing the black market, and it didn''t have too much of a bad impact on the kingdom, the royal family, too lazy to deal with it, decided to ignore it, which led to this task.

    "Now that this matter is done, next you guys go and prepare for our hunt tonight, while we deal with that auction house owner. Miss Emila, you wouldn''t mind being our guide, would you?" Myne asked with a smile.

    "Of course, my lord, it would be my honour to be of service," Emila replied, her face flushed red, and breathing was heavy. She slowly got up from Myne''s lap, her hands covering her intimate area to hide the evidence of their secret activity from the prying eyes of others, especially from those who were giving her murderous stares. She then backed away and hurried to the bathroom to change her clothes.

    "All right, then thanks for your cooperation. If there''s nothing else, we''re going now," Myne spoke calmly as if nothing had happened, standing up and tossing another small money pouch at Gandu, which lit up his eyes. But when he turned his head, cold sweat broke out on Myne''s forehead.

    Except for Amy, Ted, and Waffle, who were serving as mere spectators, everyone else in his team was now brandishing their weapons and giving him dangerous smiles. Even June, who was crying while fighting with slimes, was now wielding two daggers god knows where she got, rubbing them together ominously.

    "Myne, dear, could you step aside for a moment? We have something important to discuss with you," Sylphy interrupted Myne''s train of thought who was thinking of an excuse to save his poor life, grabbing his arm and pulling him towards the door. Aisha quickly joined, locking his other arm, while June grabbed his shirt from behind.

    "Your Highness, if you want to discuss something private, you can use the room on the left. It has a very high level of soundproofing and is often used for important guests," Gandu, the iron-hearted men, who play to be ignorant even when his girlfriend is messing with another man right in front of him, sees Myne about to run out of luck, immediately took the opportunity to take revenge, and while playing the role of a qualified henchman, he quickly pointed Myne toward his inevitable doom.

    Myne, who still had hoped that the three "monsters" surrounding him would show some restraint, given that they were in public. He thought they might scold him at most. But Gandu''s words were like the final strict that broke Camal back and shattered his all fantasies.

    Initially, he had simply wanted to play the role of a wealthy playboy to test Gandu''s character. However, Emila turned out to be too much of his type, and when his "little brother" took control, he hadn''t even realized it. Aisha and the others had also remained silent the entire time, which made him completely forget about them as he gave in to temptation. After all, the body parts created with his Mystic Limb Sculpting were indistinguishable from the real thing, and he experienced everything as if it were genuine.

    Like this Myne had dug his own grave. With Aisha and the others'' heightened senses after levelling up, they couldn''t have missed his little trick. Emila had been too sensitive, and her "love juice" had a scent strong enough that anyone within three meters could smell it if they focused.

    Boom!

    The office door slammed shut, leaving Amy and Gandu to exchange knowing glances and shake their heads slightly, though the smiles on the corners of their lips were hard to hide.