Northern Duchess
Chapter 13 The murder case

He realized that this was because of his mother, if his mother had been patient their father would not have died and he would not have been like this

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But what power of things that have passed cannot be repeated again.

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Now Melody's entourage has been running for at least a week and thanks to hard work and stubbornness they all, can be sure that today is their schedule to arrive in the North.

What Delice was worried about did not become a reality Count Kriston did not bother them at all he instead sent Guards and Knights to help them through dangerous places in his area.

"Your Royal Highness the Duchess, it seems only up to here that we can escort you" said a Knight from the Count's side as he bowed towards Melody who was still on horseback.

"Be careful on the road" Melody said.

"Okay Your Majesty, may Your Majesty also survive until the destination, just pass through a few more cities Your Majesty will reach the North, beware Your Majesty" said the Knight before turning around after saluting.

Now Devian approached with his horse to Melody.

"Your Majesty, do you want to rest first?"devian asked while looking at Melody.

"How much longer are we going to get there" Melody asked, instead of answering.

"Ah!, it will be up to one more day if we rest but if it is not possible we can until the morning later"answer Devian while thinking about estimating the time needed to get to the North.

"Then go ahead, I don't want to rest, the sooner it will get better" Melody said when she considered it.

"Okay Your Majesty" said Devian who bowed and immediately went to instruct the officers.

"Aargh!!!!!"

A loud shout from within the forest that made everyone there surprised, apparently the shout also made the birds in the forest fly up into the sky.

"Yeah!!"Melody who heard the scorching immediately begged her horse towards the sound, cried the Guards and Knights who followed her completely ignored her.

"Your Majesty!!!"

"Your Majesty!!!"

While Delice and Devian immediately decapitated the horses they both followed in the direction where Melody was moving.

From afar they could both see Melody's horse tied to a tree around there, seeing that they immediately beheaded their horse faster, they were afraid that something bad had happened there.

There they could see Melody squatting in front of someone's corpse, they also saw that Melody closed the eyes of the corpse glaring.

"Your Majesty" call Delice.

"You are here" Melody said as she stood from there, the sword that had come out of the sheath as well now she entered back into the sheath.

Her beautiful figure was now dazzling, the wind blew her long hair, now dancing beautifully in the sun that slipped from the sidelines of the tree, once again it was a beautiful painting but again the corpse in front of him made the two people who were watching him while fascinated now realized.

"What happened, Your Majesty?"ask Delice.

"There's murder" Melody replied lightly.

"Ah, let me check on Your Majesty" said Devian who just came closer to the corpse and crouched beside him.

The man died quite horribly, many incision wounds on his body, it seemed like it was a type of torture, besides that the entire body of the corpse was also filled with puncture wounds, his eyes were opened then it was possible that he died from torture?.

In addition, his lips have turned blue, plus his fingernails are also now black, and there is black blood coming out of his mouth that smells bad, is this like poison?.

"It's so horrible" Devian said.

"Delice go call the local ruler" Melody said.

"Okay Your Majesty" Delice said as she bowed and immediately left from there riding her horse at full speed.

As much as Delice is now crouching in Devian sambing to observe the corpse in front of her, to be honest she will get a new experience when listening to Devian babble about the consequences of the death of the person in front of her.

"Hemm, he just died three minutes ago which means it coincided with His Majesty's arrival here, Your Majesty did you see the killer?"devian asked as he looked towards Melody after checking the time of death of the corpse in front of her.

Hearing that Melody willed because she was focused on recording what Devian said, it turns out that Devian is quite useful as well as he is like a forensic expert.

"Ah!, I just saw him he was wearing all black clothes with a mask, he seemed like a killer because he was very fast, his weapon was a dagger, it seemed like he was a hit man" Melody replied seriously explaining.

"So yeah, it looks like he has a lot of enemies" Devian said.

"Did you find any other clues?"melody asked seriously, while putting her hand on Devian's shoulder.

"No, but maybe if we do further investigation we'll find some other clues, but unfortunately at this time, we have to go to the North immediately"devian replied as he looked at Melody who was now beside him.

"Right, so let's just leave the case to the local officials" Melody said.

After saying that Melody immediately went to a large rock there and leaned back casually while watching Devian surround the surrounding area, probably looking for clues.

He could see that there were some objects?, which were believed to be evidence that were now being input into a special place made with magic by Devian.

"This trace.. somehow I'm familiar with the way of his murder" Devian muttered softly which can still be heard by Melody.

Melody who heard that slightly frowned when all she saw was a footprint, she had absolutely no interest.

Assumptions and analysis entered Devian's brain, the evidence he found was like pieces of a pazzel fusing rapidly.

"Don't.." said Devian quickly, he gasped before he could say the next sentence that maybe now Devian already knew who the killer was.

Apparently the sentence that was cut was much more curious than the footprints or who the real killer was, just look at Melody was already beside Devian while staring at him with a look of hope.