Enforcer Manual
Chapter 645: I Want to Report with My Real Name!_1

Chapter 645: Chapter 645: I Want to Report with My Real Name!_1

Although it was already early spring, wandering about outside in just sleepwear still made Song Lan feel a chill.

The head chef’s worries had indeed come to pass.

The internal strife within the Iris Consortium had reached an irreconcilable point, even to the extent that they were resorting to assassination tactics in private.

Before letting him out, the Scarlet Lord had sternly warned him that if he couldn’t complete the task, he shouldn’t even dream of leaving the castle alive.

But Song Lan was no fool; he knew very well that they never intended to leave him a way out from the start.

Not to mention how he would get past the layers of scrutiny to deliver the drugged food to Ms. Kalida and the young lady, even if he managed to do it and caused both to succumb to the poison, they would immediately pin the murder of the lady and the young miss on him.

In any case, it seemed he was unlikely to meet a good end.

So, with no other recourse, Song Lan had to utilize some of his skills outside of cooking, just as some unknown philosopher from the Neutral Country said, "A chef who doesn’t want to be a beast tamer is not a good spy," as a mere chef, it was only reasonable he knew a bit about animal training.

No sooner had they stepped out than a disturbance broke out in the barracks of the Scarlet Knight Group.

After a brief cry of alarm, there were sounds of gunfire, cutting weapons, and collapsing walls.

He smelled blood, and as the commotion progressed, the scent grew stronger.

Soon, an emergency squad rushed past them.

Song Lan saw the man they were escorting for emergency aid—his jaw clenched, desperately holding onto his now hollow right arm, the silver-white knight’s armor with red patterns had been dyed red.

Now he had truly lived up to his name and become the "Scarlet" Lord in full.

News of the Scarlet Lord’s attack spread quickly within the castle, but the reason for the attack was baffling; it was said that he lost his arm to the sudden madness of a two-headed dog he was feeding.

Then the beast, as if possessed, launched an attack on everyone around.

After a fierce battle, the members of the Scarlet Knight Group finally killed it, and its mountain-like corpse now lay in the ruins of the interrogation room.

A few minutes later, an armored woman stepped into the chaos.

The members of the Scarlet Knight Group intended to stop her, but a single cold glance from her froze them in their tracks.

According to Consortium rules, interference between different knight groups was prohibited, but one person was the exception—the mark of the Six Stars rescuer on her light armor signaled her status.

Inside the Consortium, she held a status equal to that of the family members.

The woman carefully examined the wounds on the beast and the damaged cage. This was the second attack within a day, and while this incident seemed accidental, she didn’t believe that a lord of a knight group would be easily bitten and lose an arm to a hunting dog he raised.

"Who else came here before the attack?"

The woman asked.

"No one."

The accounts of the Scarlet Knight Group members were surprisingly consistent; they insisted the lord had come to the interrogation room to feed his hunting dog as usual.

But this differed from what she had been told.

Someone pointed out that before the Scarlet Lord was grievously attacked, he had gone with a group in great fanfare to the attic where the kitchen was located and taken a person from there.

Normally, with her rank, she didn’t need to know such trivial matters, but the successive attacks had already threatened the security within the castle, with both the head maid and the lord of a knight group seriously injured.

She didn’t continue to press the issue and left the territory of the Scarlet Knight Group, heading straight for the kitchen.

The common point between the head maid and the Scarlet Lord was that they had both visited there before getting hurt.

...

Meanwhile, Yeying, who had jumped out from the corner of the room, was explaining her rescue plan to Song Lan.

The moment the Scarlet Lord had come looking for him, she had hidden away. After the group left, she learned the identity of the party and the route to the Scarlet Knight Group’s location from the artificial intelligence.

"I heard the Scarlet Lord is a drunkard—every afternoon he needs to get plastered with the people from the Capello Family. I’ve already planned it out. I’m going to poison their wine and then, while no one notices, swallow them all down!"

"There’s a flaw in your plan,"

Although he was relieved that Yeying had used her little brain to think of a plan rather than just charging into the knight group’s residence and biting everyone, he had to point out the flaw in her plan.

"First, you want to poison their wine."

"Yes."

"Then everyone who drinks the wine will die from the poison."

"Yes!"

"Lastly, you have to swallow everyone whole when no one is watching."

"Exactly, just like that!"

"Then wouldn’t you be poisoned yourself?"

"...Huh?"

Yeying’s eyes widened as if struck by a bolt out of the blue.

When it came to Yeying, Song Lan always made his point and stopped there. He didn’t press further on how to ensure the sudden disappearance of so many people wouldn’t be detected by the consortium, or how to administer poison in everyone’s wine, or where to procure the poison—those kinds of details.

After all, for Yeying to come up with a "conspiracy" was already considerable progress.

"Wait, someone’s coming."

Suddenly, Song Lan gestured Yeying to keep quiet, sensing someone rapidly approaching their location.

It was only one person.

He peered down from the second-floor window and soon saw a woman in light armor. Almost as he set eyes on her, she seemed to sense his gaze and looked up toward the attic window.

"Be careful, this person is no simple character."

Song Lan immediately warned Yeying, especially telling her not to speak recklessly later on.

"How do you know that?"

"This is a matter of experience, Yeying. Take a close look at her armor, isn’t it completely different from the knights we’ve encountered before?"

The bird perched on the windowsill nodded.

"Remember this, in places where the attire is uniformly stringent, those dressed noticeably different from the rest are often formidable figures."

As they spoke, the woman entered the attic, heading straight for his room.

When the woman noticed Yeying on the windowsill, she clearly paused, but then quickly focused her attention on Song Lan, "Are you the chef that the lady employed from the outside?"

"Yes."

"Had Al... No, a man with a scar on his face taken you to their station before?"

This question plunged the room into a prolonged silence.

Song Lan frowned, as if after a lengthy internal struggle, and finally shook his head.

"He told you not to tell anyone about this."

The woman saw through Song Lan’s thoughts and spoke with a tone of certainty.

Song Lan shook his head again.

"Do you see this?"

The woman pointed to her chest. Song Lan not only didn’t look but also averted his gaze out of deference.

"I’m referring to the emblem here; I am the Iris Consortium’s Chief Knight. You can trust me. If he has threatened you, I will ensure you get justice."

"So, you mean to say... you are his superior?"

Song Lan’s expression finally wavered.

The woman’s brow furrowed slightly, but she eventually relented, "You may think of it that way."

"Then..."

Upon hearing that, Song Lan, as if grappling with a great inner turmoil, begrudgingly said, "He threatened me, saying that if I tell anyone about this, he would kill me."

"Rest assured, as long as you tell me the truth, there won’t be anyone in this castle who can threaten your life."

"Are you sure of this?"

"Yes."

"Leader, I want to report!"

A promise from a Six Stars rescuer gave Song Lan immense courage. He took out the medicine he had brought back from the interrogation table and said, "I, Rob Lucci, am formally reporting the Scarlet Lord. He threatened me to grind these tablets into powder and put it into the meals of the lady and her daughter!"

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