The warden who guards the witches

Suburban area, private winery, secret police base.

Heinz sat in the room, drinking coffee with a thin man in military uniform across the tea table.

"The people who brought support this time are all elite members of the SS." The man picked up the coffee cup and said, "His Majesty attaches great importance to this mission and will not let you suffer at the hands of others."

"I sent you, Lieutenant Colonel, to support me. I disappointed His Majesty." Heinz looked normal, but his tone was unusually solemn.

"Sir, don't think so much. His Majesty just asked me to assist you." The lieutenant colonel smiled, "Sooner or later we will work together under you in the future. The current situation in the country requires our joint efforts."

"I should have shared His Majesty's worries, but I ended up causing His Majesty to worry. I'm really ashamed." Heinz sighed and glanced at the man in front of him.

Not long ago, he sent a telegram to the king suggesting that the mission was too difficult and reconsidered the assassination. As a result, the king replied and insisted that he complete the mission.

At that time, because the arrest of Aiden failed, the Silver City Cavalry and the Inquisition began to search for them in the city. For safety reasons, Heinz asked a captain of the action who had exposed his appearance and several team members to leave Silver City as soon as possible.

That night, the kingdom sent a second telegram, saying that considering the consumption of manpower in the mission, he decided to send a small team to support them.

After the support came today, Heinz found that the people sent by the king were not members of the Royal Secret Police at all, but from another independent department of the gendarmerie, the Royal Guard - responsible for protecting the personal safety of royal family members and the security of royal property.

In this regard, the reason given by the other side was that the king decided to expand the scale of the Royal Secret Police, so he transferred a team from the Royal Guard to join the Secret Police, and participating in this mission was also to allow them to receive training under the direct command of Heinz.

However, the "elite level" of the transferred people can be said to be far beyond the requirements of the mission. The lieutenant colonel who led the team was actually the direct adjutant of the head of the Royal Guard. In terms of rank in the gendarmerie, he was actually only one level lower than Heinz.

Moreover, although the king has expressed his intention to transfer this person to the secret police, he has not yet issued the formal procedures. In other words, the department to which this lieutenant colonel currently belongs is still the Royal Guard, and he is not yet a subordinate of Heinz.

The several departments of the gendarmerie are independent of each other. Judging only from the standards within the gendarmerie, the obedience that this lieutenant colonel needs to achieve to Heinz is probably limited to saluting Heinz when he sees him, and he has no obligation to obey Heinz's command at all. Heinz now has the right to command him, only out of the king's instruction.

In other words, as long as His Majesty the King does not pursue it afterwards, or if there is any more secret instruction in advance, this lieutenant colonel can completely lead those people to resist Heinz's orders.

This is actually a warning from the new king.

Heinz knows very well that the Royal Guard is the most trusted among the trusted for the new king. After all, they are closest to the king, and no ruler is willing to let people who may have second thoughts stand beside him with guns. After the new king took office, the first thing to change was the Royal Guard. The person in charge during the old king's time was transferred and replaced by the new king's confidant who was cultivated when he served in the army.

Now the new king sent the confidant of the Royal Guard to supervise his mission. Obviously, Heinz's report that he wanted to quit made His Majesty suspicious.

Objectively speaking, this is a normal reaction. Regardless of Heinz's past relationship with Sera Rexia, with just a report, the king probably found it difficult to believe that the warden of a prison in an autonomous state was actually capable of fighting against the intelligence forces of a big country.

The king naturally suspected that Heinz was unwilling to carry out this mission and let it go.

Heinz knew very well that this suspicion was not wronged. He did resist this mission. As for whether he let it go unintentionally... he was not sure if he asked himself.

The king insisted on sending him to carry out this mission, which was to force him to show his loyalty.

After all, although Heinz has always been loyal to the royal family, that loyalty is to the old king. In the eyes of the new king with different political views, this is a minus point. Now the nobles and ministers of the kingdom have been divided into the old and new factions because of the new policy. In the eyes of the new king, those capable and powerful people, loyal people are confidants, and disloyal people are confidants.

So the new king is eager for him to give a clear answer, because Heinz's position is too important in this political struggle. And getting rid of the other blood of the old king by hand is undoubtedly enough to make him a confidant of the new king.

The signal released by His Majesty the King is also very clear. If the people sent find that Heinz is really not serious about the mission, he will continue to "expand" the scale of the Royal Secret Police, and dilute Heinz's control over this department by sending his own confidants to the Royal Secret Police, and hollow out little by little-the Hoffman family will no longer be trusted by the royal family.

Already, there is no way out.

Heinz reached out and took a sip of the bitter coffee, his expression as hard as stone.

…

In the lower city of Silver City, at the dessert shop on Street 7, Aiden picked up the teacup and took a sip of black tea.

Opposite the tea table sat two witches from Room 12, Daly and Precia. In addition to three cups of black tea, there were two desserts on the table.

Two hours ago, he made the two wear shackles that sealed their magic power, and then took them out of the prison to the suburbs. The purpose of this operation was to investigate the place mentioned in Heinz's letter.

The meeting place was located in a private winery built on a low slope. Because the terrain was higher than the surrounding area, the view there was very good, comparable to the sentry post of a military fortress. If it was the base of the Royal Secret Police, there must be someone monitoring it around the clock. It was almost impossible for ordinary people to approach without being discovered, let alone sneak in for investigation.

In the absence of Qiqimora, he could only rely on Daly and Precia's magic.

"There are two people patrolling in the yard of the winery, and they are bringing dogs, probably military dogs." Precia stretched out her hand and drew on a schematic diagram. She possessed the bird and scouted the exterior of the manor from above. "The lookout point in the house should be on the attic. The slope in front of the manor was used to plant some low fruit trees. If someone came up from below, they would be discovered immediately. There is a road in front of the manor gate that runs east-west for carriages, but in fact, the slopes in front and behind the manor are not steep, and you can retreat in any direction if you run. Only one carriage arrived at the manor in the morning, and six people got off. They entered the manor and never came out."

"They are replenishing manpower." Aiden put down the teacup, "They are stationing troops to wait for our arrival."