The plan had failed.
The plan was to hand over the Vice Principal to the investigator and be done with him.
I had already won seven hundred gold from him. It was a small amount compared to the money I gave to William, but that much from the Vice Principal, who was a commoner, was a lot.
5,000 gold was an amount that even I couldn’t ignore. It was a year's worth of money lost.
Of course, if I asked the Count for more money, I could get it.
But to do so, I would have to explain to the Count what I would spend the money on.
So even if I lost a little bit, it was better to solve the problem with what I had.
"I was too complacent."
I couldn't let myself be satisfied with just seven hundred gold.
I shouldn't have tried to hand him over to someone else when he wanted to kill me.
I wanted him to just rot in jail.
'But I think I'll feel better if I beat him with my own hands.'
It wouldn’t be enough to relieve me unless I took everything he had and made it impossible for him to recover.
And to do that, I had to find another way.
This wasn’t something that I could solve by blindly hitting him. What's more, th...
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