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[phantom_earl]

Comments

[justasystem]

The zombies were bad enough.

[phantom_earl]

Thankfully they've ceased for now. Are you all right, Your Highness ?

[justasystem]

Mm, I'm okay now- Xing-ke protected me... and then I went to the hospital after, to see if there was anything I could do.

[phantom_earl]

How very noble of you and your knight.

[Private]

[blackestate]

The attitude in this City towards death is rather unusual, young Master, as you should well know.

Have you any specific plans as to how to deal with the police?

[Private]

[phantom_earl]

Ideally, I would like to circumvent them, but they were the ones who took away the body of the victim before I could see how she had been murdered.

[Private]

[blackestate]

I see. Do you intend to persuade them to involve you in the case? Or simply use them?

[Private]

[phantom_earl]

To use them. I suspect going through the young warden would be to our biggest advantage.

[roseblooms]

Cain had returned home for a bit... though it's a pity the City returned him back here, right when he was settling in.

I suppose it's all for the best for people to be able to be protected from the curses this City brings upon its people for a while though...

[phantom_earl]

Is it that usual for one to be gone for that long only to return? My butler, too, had been absent two weeks.

[roseblooms]

It's common for a few people, though I've known people who just never get to leave the City at all. I haven't for about a year and a half now!

Though, ah, a butler? You wouldn't mean Mr. Michaelis, would you?

[phantom_earl]

Yes, well it's been a rather grueling couple of months for myself...

And yes. How do you know him?