Summoners War: Only I Summoned Divine Beasts - Chapter 1407

Chapter 1407: Trap
A moment ago.

“A play?” The emperor squinted his eyes.

“Don’t Your Majesty remember the last time Johnson and Evelyn visited me?” The empress raised two fingers. “At that time, they requested my cooperation to investigate the spies within the imperial palace.

“Back then, I had no way of knowing anything, but I wasn’t idle either. Because I was under suspicion, all my movements were monitored.

“However, the fact that I was monitored meant everything was recorded. Do you think I will just sit and do nothing when I can actually solve it by myself?

“As such, I used myself as bait. I tried to make various contacts as if to raise people’s suspicions but not exceed the permissible limit where Your Majesty couldn’t protect me anymore.

“After the investigation stopped, I looked at the record myself and realized something. Everything was indeed recorded, except for one person.”

“!!!” The emperor raised his eyebrows. “So, you’re telling me this person is the culprit?”

“Yes. If you think about it, people know that I’m suspicious, but because of my status, they can’t really avoid me too much either. So, they will first try to avoid me so that there won’t be a link between me and them.

“If they can’t, they will try to remove the record. When all other people are recorded as having a link with me, why would this one person try to erase the link? Isn’t it to clean up the relationship?”

The emperor gasped. Even Evelyn and Nathan didn’t expect that the empress had actually done a better job compared to Johnson.

‘It looks like the empress is a person with so many talents. Even if she doesn’t marry the emperor, she might become a formidable person by herself,’ assessed Nathan. Nathan stepped forward and asked, “May I know how you’re planning to handle this matter?”

The empress raised three fingers. “I need three things. First, your familiar. In our first meeting, you were able to fool everyone else except for His Majesty with the illusion, yes?”

Nathan nodded. “That’s correct.”

“I want to take advantage of the illusion to disguise the contract. I will write the contract in our language, and please allow His Majesty to ask those questions so as not to raise suspicion. Is that possible?”

“Possible,” Nathan confirmed.

“The second thing will be your guarantee that you will protect my husband. The moment that person realizes he has been fooled, he will definitely try to harm him because that’s the only option to escape.”

Nathan glanced at Evelyn. “If we don’t want to raise any suspicion, we have to stand at the side. That means the space element has to be used if we want to be fast enough.”

The empress nodded while the emperor smiled. “My dear… You are so good to me. I promise I will punish myself by sleeping on the couch so as to remind myself not to plan something like this anymore.”

“That’s what you should do. Don’t think that’s enough, but we will discuss it privately later.” The empress glared at the emperor.

“…” The emperor looked away, his back drenched with sweat.

“Lastly, I want you to act with me. We have to lower his guard first to sign the contract. As long as he signs the contract, everything will be exposed.”

Nathan asked, “Acting is fine, but it needs to be very good acting. If not, we wouldn’t be able to make him believe. If he thinks it’s a fake, it will just raise his suspicion.”

The empress tilted her head in confusion before asking, “I have been meaning to ask this, but you are not a noble even on your continent, are you? I’m not trying to be rude, of course.”

Nathan shook his head while the emperor explained, “On this continent, acting class is necessary for nobles. You have to act. You have to be able to cry even if you want to laugh. How are you going to capture the hearts of the masses if you can’t act?”

“…”

Nathan was speechless, but when he saw what had happened earlier, Nathan finally understood what they meant. With all those tears and actions that provoked emotion, even he would have believed it had he not known anything.

The left guardian’s expression turned solemn as he came to the contract. He skimmed the contract and didn’t notice anything wrong, so he quickly signed the contract.

The left guardian was smiling inwardly, knowing that he would become the sole guardian. At that time, there were a lot of things he could do.

The emperor nodded with a serious expression before asking, “Left guardian. Can I ask you something?”

“Y-Yes. I will answer everything you want to ask, Your Majesty.” The left guardian hurriedly regained his composure.

“Back then, you were adopted by our family and finally bore the name Terry Tile Erwih. However, I think I have never asked you about the name given to you by your parents.”

“!!!” The left guardian was taken aback by the question. He smiled. “Of course. The name given to me by my parents is Andreas Excel.”

“!!!” The emperor, Johnson, and even the left guardian himself were suddenly stunned.

“Excel? That name…” Johnson gasped. As someone who had investigated the Death Society deeper than anyone else, it wasn’t weird for him to recognize this name. “Andreas Excel… Isn’t Excel supposed to be the family name of Spider, aka Lithia Excel? You… What is your relationship with Lithia Excel?”

The emperor didn’t recognize the name immediately. He was simply surprised that the name that was registered in the family record never mentioned anything about Excel.

The left guardian had actually been hiding his name the whole time.

Still, the most shocked person in the room was none other than the left guardian himself.

‘What’s going on? Why did I blurt that out?’ The left guardian panicked. He didn’t even understand why he had said such a thing.

Still, he wasn’t obligated to answer Johnson, as it wasn’t stated in the contract.

However, the emperor realized something was going on and immediately confirmed his doubt by asking the next question.

“Have you made any contact with the members of the Death Society? If you have, please tell me about the type of contact and when.”

The left guardian opened his mouth subconsciously, forcing him to forcefully cover his mouth to stop himself. Ever since he came to this room, no, ever since he signed the contract, he somehow blabbered almost everything.

The emperor’s expression turned cold.