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“We’ve been chasing it after calculating the possibility that the original product has been turned into a defective product. After dissolving the products and checking what kind and how much the impurities mixed in, we caught the illegal broker who sells the same products.”
“The student council did that?”
He then answered the suspicion questioning if the members of the group where talents, who were still students, gathered could really investigate the products, dissolve them, track them, and even catch the seller who sold them.
“Professor Ardin here actively helped us. He tracked the one who worked on the products’ appearance with magic, and he also helped us in interrogating him.”
The expression of Viscount Rocke turned odd hearing that.
That meant, someone smuggled the original products to make the defective products, so these weren’t defective products sold by Rocke Merchant Guild.
“Then the question is who was the one who changed the products.”
A frightened man along with a knight who was watching him entered through the opened door.
A musty smell emanated from his shabby clothes on his shrunken shoulders, and his dirty body as if he had not washed.
“He’s a broker who lives off swindling the mercenaries. All the changed defective products are sold by this person.”
“Everyone buys my products knowing they are cheap! If not, then would they buy my products that are priced less than half the original products?!”
The man, who was shaking his hand as though he was confused, fell flat on his face.
There was no doubt he was really frightened by getting dragged to the front of a member of the imperial family that he had never seen in his life.
A knight browbeat the man who looked really afraid.
“To whom you exactly sold the products, and where did you smuggle the original products?!”
“Smuggle?!”
The man’s eyes opened wide.
He, who was trembling because of the murderous intent that was ready to kill him at any moment, struggled to open his mouth.
“I don’t know. I only know that recently there’s a girl who often buys my products in bulk.”
The seal of Rocke Merchant Guild was definitely stamped on the slip he scurried out of his arms.
Viscount Rocke’s eyes turned to Rany after he glanced at the slip.
The face expressing alarm and fear turned stiff.
Rany whispered to me along with a sigh.
“My Dad really believes it?”
“I don’t think he does.”
As soon as I answered to soothe her, Viscount Rocke snatched the slip.
No matter how much he checked on it, it was definitely issued under Rany’s name.
“Viscount Rocke, bring that over.”
“. . .”
As he stepped back, a knight snatched it roughly from his hand and brought it to the Crown Prince.
After looking at the name, he heaved a sigh.
The students’ faces were already filled with contempt and hatred, also wrath.
Rany nonchalantly shook her head.
“Think about this. Unless I’m a fool, there’s no way I will smuggle the products using money issued under my name.”
“Raynia Rocke, are you saying that despite knowing how bad your grades are?”
Rany smirked at the words spoken by Professor Grein.
“I never heard that people can’t do business transactions just because their grades are bad. I would never go through with transactions that could easily be pinpointed and are so very disadvantageous in the long run.”
His face grimaced at Rany’s remark.
The crumpled face was no different than that the other students.
The other professors closed their mouths as if they were uncomfortable questioning and pushing a student, but Professor Grein said fiercely as though he was driving Raynia into a dead end.
“It was also you, who actively promoted products from Rocke Merchant Guild anywhere.”
“It’s not a crime to do that to sell more products from my family.”
“All acts of private gain on campus are illegal.”
“Well, let’s say that I was wrong in promoting, but isn’t that slip the only evidence of me smuggling the products? The broker who sells the products doesn’t even recognize me, and the slip under my name could be easily gotten if you put in a bit of effort.”
Viscount Rocke stared at Rany nervously.
Clenched both his hands, desperation was in his eyes.
Mago was staring at Rany, who was defending herself, while holding an odd smile.
She had no intention of involving me from the start.
Well, it would be an exaggeration for her to involve the Miller Family.
The Crown Prince would also be troubled if Orion also came to the academy.
Because this wouldn’t end in a short investigation.
She really chose a target that she could easily defeat.
If her goal was to watch me getting hurt, this indeed a fast and certain method.
“We also don’t want to believe that Young Lady Rocke did something like this. However, we found out that three years ago, you were caught when you’re trying to sell forged products and were almost handed in to the noble trial.”
The expression of Viscount Rocke looking at Dmitry Beyond walking hesitantly through the door was like seeing a ghost that returned from death.
With a face that looked reluctant about telling the story from that time, Dmitry walked before the Crown Prince.
Rany’s name and Dmitry’s name was certainly written in the summoning letter of summary trial in his hand.
The Crown Prince slowly called Rany’s name.
“Raynia Rocke.”
“Yes.”
“Are this summoning letter and the fact that you were prosecuted in a summary trial true?
Rany slowly turned her head.
Looking at Viscount Rocke’s face in despair, she calmly nodded.
“Yes.”
The room turned noisy in an instant.
Gazes filled with reproach pierced Rany.
Numerous eyes were filled with criticism