The next morning, as I was having breakfast with Quinn and the others, Quinn mentioned the subject of the dark winning voice.
''I heard that a pretty widespread warning notice has been issued for everything. I think that's unusually fast for the usually slow-moving royal capital.''
　As Quinn says, it has become customary for King's Landing to be generally slow to take action.
　
　For example, when a frontier city, town, or village asks for a budget for a river breakwater that is about to collapse, it is said that it takes a year to get a budget, and it is not uncommon for it to take another year before the money is actually paid out.

　In such a situation, the warning notice against the winning voice of darkness was issued in practically one day, and I don't think it's an exaggeration to say that this is indeed an unusually quick notice unbecoming of the royal capital.
''This is........it would be fine if the King's Capital is doing it in earnest, trying to destroy the Dark Charming, but.......''
　Quinn slurred the last word as he said it.

　Well, it's easy to imagine.
　The bottom line is that the possibility that there was a strong push by some people who feared the retribution of the Dark Charming is undeniable.
　The Dark Charming is said to control the underworld of this world.
　Probably, there must be a significant number of noblemen in the capital who are benefiting from it or are connected to it behind the scenes.
　The dark charmers always tried to maintain a strong connection with the central part of the capital to prevent a situation like this from happening, and they also did this and that to deceive the eyes of the capital.
　As a means of doing so, he participated in Liberty's summer festival as a neighboring city to show off his friendly relationship with neighboring cities, and behind the scenes, he was unusually obsessed with obtaining the eggs of the ancient monster tribe that some nobles are said to want behind the scenes due to their delicacies, despite the fact that trade is ostensibly forbidden, and so on....
　In this short period of time, there have been two cases involving my small frontier city of Liberty alone.
　It would not be surprising if they had done something to other cities as well.

　So, it's no wonder that they were trying to do something to other cities as well.
　It is not difficult to imagine that the members of the band, including El Nakotta, who escaped from the case, are very angry.

　If the aristocrats, who were flocking to the interests of the charmers of the darkness, feared that their anger would be directed at them, if it was during the period when they were parasites in Urinacombe like before, but now that they have completely disappeared, it is rather counterproductive because it is impossible to know from where they will retaliate.......

　

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　After finishing the day's training, I was asked by Melanesia if I wanted to go to the Three Dragons Pavilion, but I was concerned about the one incident of the Darkness' winning voice, so I refrained from going there today.
　Today, Wunya was accompanying me to the royal capital, and when I came out of the Central Frontier Bureau
Thanks for your hard work, little man.
　He greeted us as he said that.

　We were walking down the street towards the Quinn Trading Company, but there was something strangely noisy in one corner of town.
"Is something wrong?
　Unja's ears were twitching as she said this.
　The eyes are sharp and alert, as if she's watching her surroundings.
　I followed Una's lead, getting slightly cautious as I walked towards the noisy area.

　I'm sure you'll be able to find a few of them in the middle of the street, where only carriages come and go, and a large number of guards have gathered around them.

　I concentrated on the stories of the people around me.
　According to the people gathered around the area, the carriage in which the nobleman was riding was apparently attacked by someone.
　
''Botchan........that carriage.......''
　Apparently, Unya has noticed it too.

　That carriage the Greed family's carriage my former family's carriage I'm sure of it....

◇ ◇.
　Soon, the entire area where the carriage was stopped was off limits.
　The guards who had fortified the perimeter.
"What you see and hear here is what you say to yourself.
If there are any witnesses to the attacker, please come forward immediately.
　I chased away the onlookers while shouting that.

　I tried to stick around for a while to see if I could get some information, but
　After a while, the guards began to look at him suspiciously, so he gave up on gathering any more information and went back to the Quinn Chamber of Commerce once.

'Master Gossage, were you asked?　I heard that the carriage of the Fourth Duke was attacked by a group of unidentified people earlier.
　When I returned to the Quinn Chamber of Commerce, Quinn, who was inside the shop, spoke to me in a panic.
　
　From Quinn's information, it seems that he only knew that the carriage that was attacked belonged to the Fourth Duke.
　I walked into the back of the Chamber of Commerce with Quinn.
...The carriage that was attacked is the Greed family's carriage.
　At those words, Quinn's eyes widened.
So, let's see, Mr. Gossage's former family...
　I was often immensely disappointed as I said this.
　I asked Quinn to keep this matter to himself and to gather as much information about this attack as he could.
　Quinn nodded.
'Okay. Let's try as much as we can with our contacts.
　With that, I left the shop early.

　Me and Unya went back to Quinn's private residence in Dengo's carriage first, and in that carriage, my feelings were quite subdued.

　The Greed family is considered to be the first of the four lords.
　I'm sure they had a high level of security, but when it was attacked like this, I can only assume that it was a very skillful person who committed the crime.

　........Which means, the possibility of the Greed family being closely linked to the charming voice of darkness is high......

　My father, Gapoli, is indeed dirty with money.
　He was often ridiculed by other nobles for buying the position of the four dukes with money, and I know that he actually spread the money around here and there.
　In order to raise that money, he kept squeezing money out of his direct lands.......
　It's certainly not surprising that in this vein, he was connected to the dark winning ways and worked to make money.

　The nobles are strictly forbidden to have any contact with the underworld.
　If this attack was a warning to the Greed family from the dark winning voice I honestly can't imagine what will happen next time.

　Indeed, I'm a person who has nothing to do with the Greed family now.
　........However, I can't help but wonder about the house I was born and raised in....

　While I was thinking about this, Unja, who was sitting across from me, moved to sit next to me and gently hugged me.
I'm sure you'll find out about the rest after the training is over.
　Unja pats me on the back as she says this.

　With an indescribably complicated feeling, I let myself fall back on Unja.

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　According to Quinn, who met with me the next morning at breakfast.
Even within the royal capital, there seems to be a pretty strict gag order on this matter, and very little information is out there.
　As he said this, he frowned.

　It is true that if the rumor of an attack on one of the four duke's carriages spread easily, it could lead to a problem of responsibility for not only the nobleman's vigilantes, but also the royal guards.

　As I listened to the story, I kept thinking about how this problem would evolve in the future.