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C487: Mastermind / Jean
I tell Tris to remove Bouddarga’s restraints. Then, glaring at the freed president of this country, I tell him.
‘Bouddarga, can you tell me a little of the old story that you couldn’t say back then?”
I thought I had done enough research on my brother’s case, but maybe there are some facts I don’t know. There was a possibility that I would hear things I didn’t want to remember, but I was prepared.
“……Fine. But listening won’t change anything. Your real enemy is that powerful. And it is true that I am part of it.”
“Whatever the story, I will never forgive you or your family. I promise you that.”
‘Pfft……maybe you think your brother’s case was planned and carried out by someone in my family? If so, you can rest assured, we weren’t that good.”
“The mastermind is the upper echelons of the Liberal Party and you and your father are a part of them, I know that much.”
“Hahahahaha! Don’t make me laugh! My father, me, and even the leader of the party, are lackeys! You only saw the toes of the mastermind! Listen, your brother touched someone he shouldn’t have!”
“Who is the mastermind behind this? Tell me. I don’t care who it is, I’m not afraid of them.”
“Kukukku……is a good one. I’ll tell you something you don’t know. It was Rafishal who ordered your brother’s assassination!”
“Rafishal?”
The name of Rafishal the Great Sage is something that even a child knows.
“You’ve probably never even heard of it. Rafishal is a shadowy organization with influence throughout the continent. Its official members include many royalty and royal families of major countries. To make an enemy of the association is like making an enemy of the entire continent.”
“That’s nonsense.  You can’t be so sure of that.”
“You are right. The Rafishal association is not completely hidden. It exists in the open as a name you know. Jean, I think you can guess what it is.”
There is only one such entity. An organization that has influence throughout the continent, but whose true nature is shrouded in mystery…….
“The Raddle Company…….”
“That’s right. The Raddle Company is the front of Rafishal’s association and Raddle Vega is rumored to be the head of Rafishal.”
“Since you use the word ‘rumored,’ I guess you don’t know the facts either.”
“How can a member like me know all the facts? I only know some of the facts. Even if I am the head of a country, I am at the end of the line!　Do you know what that means? The Rafishal association is that powerful!”
“I don’t care if they are powerful or not. If that Rafishal association is really the killer of my brother they will pay the price.”
“I am amazed that you are not the least bit cowed by this fact…….Where do you get your confidence……from, Jean? After all, you are……”
Bouddarga tried to speak about me but I wasn’t going to let him continue so I changed the subject.
“I know that the Rafishal association is the mastermind behind it. Now tell me how my brother was killed. That will determine what I do with you.”
“I’ll tell you everything I know, and then you’ll realize the real horror.”
Bouddarga seemed to have made up his mind and began to speak in a slow tone.