Pastor's Tantra

Chapter 107 York Hermes of Lloyd’s

Although Sherlock's reasoning is very complete and reasonable. But only Aiwass knew that Sherlock's answer must be wrong.

Because he lacks an important piece of information, Aiwass cannot tell Sherlock this piece of information.

Sherlock followed the clue from Aiwass's grandfather and found out about the Noble Red Society. Coupled with the Pelican Bar, the Giant Remnant and the smuggling case, he logically believed that Aiwass's parents were killed by the Noble Red Society.

This inference is completely logical.

However, in the dream ritual, Aiwass tortured the curser "Aziz bin Abdul" as a deformed demon and learned from him that he served Professor Moriarty. He is the real master of the Iron Hook Demon, and he killed the entire Alexander family.

But he is not a demon warlock from the Noble Red Order.

He's not even an Avalonian, and has absolutely nothing to do with the Giants and Star Antimonians...he's a Parthian.

This information was still information that Sherlock himself had mentioned to the "Fox" during the dream ritual.

At that time, Sherlock only knew that "the man behind the scenes finally went abroad, and his destination was the Horus Empire or the ancient Parthian kingdom." But Aiwass had seen that man's appearance with his own eyes, and also knew his ancient Parthian-style name.

——In other words, as the founders of the Scaleless Hands, the Alexander family is related to the Noble Red Society, and the Noble Red Society also has the motive and ability to kill them; but the person who ultimately executes this plan is He is a foreign curse master hired by Professor Moriarty.

The motivated party has no action, and the action party has no motivation.

The key is that Aiwass has never heard of Professor Moriarty's relationship with the Star Antimony Man or the Giant. If they had, Aiwass would never have been attacked by the Noble Red Cabal and chosen as a sacrifice in the first place - he was actually sacrificed and almost killed.

At that time, Aiwass had already had a long correspondence with the demonologist master and apprentice. As long as they know something about the professor, there is no reason for them to sacrifice Aiwass at the risk of angering the professor.

——This incident is full of unnatural atmosphere and involves a wide range of things, which makes Aiwass feel a little headache.

He always felt that he had missed a very important clue. But it’s impossible to confirm without going to Haina’s hometown to investigate for herself.

Aiwass could only put that aside for now.

The thread he can grasp at the moment is that there must be something wrong with the person who attacked Sherlock. The need to let Sherlock fake his death and let Sherlock's family help in the acting shows that that person most likely knows Sherlock and is related to the Hermes family.

The most important thing is that Sherlock identified the suspect almost immediately -

Sherlock, who had gone to wash his face and sober up, came back and regained his cold expression. As if nothing had happened before, he answered Aiwass's doubts in a serious manner.

"Speaking of which, this matter has something to do with you...Mr. Fox."

"I?"

Aiwass was a little confused: "What's wrong with me?"

Sherlock drank black tea with honey calmly, his voice was calm without any trembling, as if what Aiwass had seen before was an illusion: "You told me the secrets about Lloyd's and the Strangler in your dream that day. I was surprised.

"I have long known about the existence of Lloyd's, I know their history very well, and I also know that they are actually a gray loan sharking institution. I also know that they use "Lloyd's Weekly" as a credit currency to collect benefits and transfer taxes to Things about Avalon. But I knew so much, but I didn’t know that they actually hired the Hangman Party.

"And in all my previous investigations I had never found this to exist - it was totally unreasonable. So I knew immediately that someone was preventing me from accessing the deep secrets of Lloyd's."

"——And the fact that he can do this easily means that 'he' is your source of information."

Aiwass continued smoothly: "And you think this source is very reliable - at least in terms of Lloyd's and even Lloyd's District, you think he is the most reliable expert."

There is only one possibility.

Now Aiwass has fully understood Sherlock's extremely powerful investigative ability. It only took less than a week, without even leaving the glass island, to follow the clue of Aiwass to find out Jacob and the Scaleless Hand. This is not something that can be done by simply "looking up information".

In other words, Sherlock must have used his own connections. His main method of investigation is actually to consult on various matters he wants to ask through his strong connections and connections.

So, if you want to "poison the intelligence" for Sherlock, you can only become an expert in this direction.

"As long as he can gain your complete trust, then if you want to ask about this matter, you will come to him first. Because you will think that he is the most reliable."

"Not bad." Sherlock nodded.

——It is indeed a "fox".

Sherlock admired Aiwass who could always keep up with his own thinking.

He nodded appreciatively and added in a calm and cold voice: "Moreover, this person should be closely related to the interests of Lloyd's.

"It just so happens that I do know such a person. He is my uncle, the half-brother of my father Arthur Hermes - York Hermes."

Sherlock put down the tea cup and crossed his fingers in front of his belly: "He is the vice president of the Avalon Lawyers Association and the editor-in-chief of Lloyd's Weekly. The senior management of Lloyd's...the legal counsel they hired. Before I I told you in the dream that Lloyd once invited me... He was the one who invited me.

"——In fact, you have met him before."

"Have I seen him?"

Aiwass was a little confused.

Sherlock nodded: "At your investiture ceremony. He was sitting next to Inspector Gordon."

"...The middle-aged lawyer with short blond hair?"

Hearing Sherlock say this, Aiwass recalled the lawyer in the white suit.

He was a little surprised: "But he is blond..."

"My father and I inherited the black hair from my grandmother."

Sherlock said flatly: "Uncle York inherited my grandfather's blond hair. As the eldest son, the Hermes family's heirloom armor was supposed to be inherited to him.

"But that year happened to be the 'Ten Days War'. My uncle didn't want to go to the battlefield, so he passed on the family armor to my father. My father was commanding the Vanguard Army at that time. Thanks to His Excellency the Great Arbiter , this war, which was originally expected to be very tragic, only lasted ten days. After the triumph, my father was promoted to minister of the palace. "

"...It turns out your father is the palace minister."

Aiwass exclaimed, "You've never mentioned that before."

The responsibilities of the Lord Chamberlain mainly include planning various ceremonies and activities that the royal family participates in, and is also responsible for presiding over royal weddings and funerals, as well as hiring and dismissing servants and female officials within the Palace of Silver and Tin. He is basically equivalent to a butler in an ordinary knight family, or even higher - he has the power to supervise the education and conduct of royal family members, and has the power to punish princes and princesses who misbehave.

Sherlock sighed: "Because my father and Her Majesty the Queen once went to the theater together. Unlike me, he is an avid lover of literature. So I think this appointment involves Her Majesty the Queen's personal relationship and is not worth bragging about." .

"Because of this experience, Her Majesty the Queen also signed a special order. It gave my father an additional power, that is, he could veto the performance of any new play, force the plot of any existing play to be modified, or cancel the performance of the new theater Qualifications. But before my father even used this power, he suffered a disaster for no reason."

"Disaster?" Aiwass asked.

"It's a curse."

Sherlock replied: "But we didn't find any traces of the curse at that time, and we all thought it was poisoning - because Prince Canter's symptoms at that time seemed to be poisoned. His liver, lungs and brain were almost It melted, and blood spilled from the mouth and nose. The priests who came to check also confirmed that it was poisoned.

"Since members of the royal family died of poisoning, the first to bear the brunt were the servants responsible for His Royal Highness's daily life. They were tortured and their memories were extracted... Of course, no information was obtained.

"At this time, there was an anonymous letter reporting that my father was the person who poisoned me. Later, the Supervisory Bureau found the same poison in my home. In this case, no matter what, I had to open my head and search my memory to prove my innocence. The legal technique of searching memories will burn the brain...which means that my father is going to die no matter what, the only difference is whether he is innocent or not."

"——Obviously, things turned around later." Aiwass nodded and continued.

Because although Lord Arthur has now resigned as minister, he is obviously still alive.

"Yes, Her Majesty the Queen directly issued an emergency order to release my father. She directly said, 'I don't think Arthur would do such a thing,' and directly absolved him of his innocence without looking at the 'evidence' submitted by the Inspectorate. , and reinstate his official position.

"My father was filled with gratitude, but he still resolutely tendered his resignation."

Sherlock sighed: "He is right. Because we later learned that that was just the beginning. Later, each royal member died in a different way, and then it was confirmed that it should be some kind of curse. Logically speaking, the power of the curse Such a powerful country can only be Star Antimony... But in fact, this statement is not absolute or scientific."

"The Path of Love also has the ability to curse," Aiwass replied, "so the Iris is also a possibility."

"That's right," Sherlock nodded, "The Iris Kingdom is pressed hard by the Star Antimony. They desperately hope that Avalon can share some firepower.

"The curser may also come from the giant remnants. After all, one of the paths followed by the giants is to transcend the path, and they also have the ability to curse; it may even be the Scaleless Hand or the Noble Red, they also have the curse The inheritance of learning.”

"Could it be that," Aiwass vaguely realized something, "Avalon actually doesn't know the origin of the cursed one?"

"Yes. It's such a hard-to-find curse, and the frequency of execution of the curse is so low. The propaganda says it's the Star Antimony People, just because we already have a feud, so that the people can understand it easily and have a greater sense of urgency - after all There are quite a few people who know that we can’t actually beat Xing Antimony. Setting up a target that we can’t beat can effectively avoid being kidnapped by public opinion.”

If you don't know who the enemy is, the moment Avalon chooses the wrong target to start the war, it means doomed defeat.

Because the party that was originally cursing the royal family was unlikely to join the war immediately. It would only add insult to injury - or even wait to reap the benefits when both sides were harmed.

"Fortunately, my father ran fast. Otherwise, he would have been responsible for it later."

Sherlock narrowed his eyes slightly and his gaze became sharp: "And my uncle has always claimed that he likes the job of a lawyer. Looking back now, he also has the motive and possibility of framing my father.

"I used to have a pretty good relationship with my uncle... He would take me hunting when I was a child, but my father only liked watching plays. During the half-month period when my father was on the battlefield, he came to take care of me at home. I The reason for doubting him was mainly because he was the last person to visit me before I was bombed.

"He asked me about the 'Sweater Brotherhood' and repeatedly confirmed to me who my intelligence source was, and why he 'risked investigating' without confirming it to him - because before that, there were many reports about the Lloyd District and the Lloyd's I always ask him about the cooperative.

"I explained to him that this was information from a dream, another possibility from history. But obviously I didn't convince him.

"He invited me to join Lloyd's again... I already knew the details of Lloyd's, so how could I agree to it? So I refused without hesitation."

"You should agree first." Aiwass couldn't help but said.

"How did I know that he could do such a thing? York was very angry at the time, but he quickly calmed down. He told me that he would come back in the afternoon and take my father with him - which meant that I didn’t want to go far. After he left, I suddenly felt a little sleepy, so I planned to take a bath and go back to sleep.

"But when I was about to finish washing, there was a sudden loud noise outside, and the house collapsed. The water in the shower head exploded, and the wall exploded with smoke and cracked and collapsed.

"Fortunately, I reacted quickly enough. I collected water from the burst pipe on the spot and condensed it into an ice shield. I wrapped myself up to prevent the first wave of impact, so I didn't die immediately. But at least twelve bones in my body were broken. I suffered massive internal bleeding and lost my sight and hearing. I was lying on the ground and couldn't even get up.

"——Based on the time and the scale of the explosion, he must not have gone far at that time. It was entirely possible to return the same way after hearing the explosion... but he didn't."

Not until the end. Sherlock whispered.

He looked sad.

"I felt someone shaking my body - my remaining rationality told me that she should be the landlady. I told her not to shake my body, and told her the contact information of Mr. Bishop. And the ability to temporarily hang myself in my storage box alchemical mixture. In the end, I barely survived with the first aid provided by Bishop Mathers, who lived nearby.

"After I was rescued, I contacted my brother Mycroft Hermes immediately and told him everything. Then I told him to tell Uncle York that I was dead. Reaction."

He looked at Aiwass solemnly and said seriously: "Looking back now, the person who framed my father may have been him - starting from this point, he may be connected with the cursed person, so he was able to get that Bottle of poison.

"This matter is not only about my personal grudges and family grudges, but also about the future of Avalon...and even the safety of Princess Isabel. If things go well, we may even be able to solve the mystery of the curse——

"Edward has the ability to search memories, but it can only be used at the most critical moments. I can't be sure how deep Uncle York's connection is with this matter, and there is only one chance. If they find out that I am actually still alive, I'm afraid they will immediately Be alert. This lead will be cut immediately.

"The landlady has been protected. The only people outside who know that I am still alive are my brother Mycroft, you guys and Edward.

"——I'm afraid my suspended animation won't be hidden for long. This matter needs to be resolved as soon as possible. I leave everything to you, my friend. If you need my help with analysis, please feel free to come to me at any time."

Sherlock solemnly announced his mission to Aiwass.