Chapter 248: Us Players Never Sell Counterfeits (Straight-Faced) (1/2)

Gerald McCobley was a knight in service of Lancaster’s City Watch.

Unlike your typical City Watch captain, he served Mayor Corinth and answered to him directly, and was not required to administer various odd tasks for safety in the city.

In terms of role, the knight was more of a bodyguard serving the city’s mayor and key nobles.

Born into the McCobley family who had been in service of the mayors for generations, Gerald had been educated to serve them since he was a child.

And he did so.

In any given moment, his eyes would be watching—judging every person approaching the mayor, from outside the doors of the mayor’s study or a corner of church, never once letting his guard down against any stranger at any given time.

And until now, he had never shown mercy to any assassin making an attempt on Corinth’s life.

Mayor Corinth was naturally pleased with Corinth’s ability. Days ago, he even entrusted the protection of his beloved granddaughter Gwendolyn to him—who was also mostly targeted by all of Corinth’s political enemies in Lancaster.

That was when Gerald noticed the many unusual characters surrounding Gwendolyn.

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Those people called themselves Players, but they were clearly ordinary peasants. Even so, they had somehow earned Corinth’s approval to come and go from the mayoral residence, while frequently visiting and asking after young Gwendolyn despite having no serious matters, or her mother.

Please. Gwendolyn was Lancaster’s young mistress in the truest sense of the title. Every other noble child added together wouldn’t as important as she was!

If Gwendolyn would want some local fruit that only grows in lands hundreds of miles away, those beneath her would fork out their own money just to earn the future mayor’s favor.

Moreover, Mayor Corinth spoiled her rotten, and would do all he can to make her wishes come true.

With such influence, why would Gwendolyn have things that she needed the peasants for?!

And yet, surprisingly, there was…

Having grown up within the confines of the city, the young mistress was very curious about the world outside. That was why she always wanted to hear the peasants calling themselves Players to talk about the outside, even occasionally entrusting them to teach her games and give her toys that only the common people would play.

After all, the people around her were like Gerald—born into nobility and having never left the city. Aside from his richer training in things in combat, he was basically no better than her.

That would have been acceptable if that was all the self-proclaimed ‘Players’ were doing. But there was this person called Marni who persistently tried to sell Young Mistress Gwendolyn and her mother some weird things.

It was fine if those things were priced according to its value, but every item would sound like a big deal whenever Marni promoted them, and there was no way a traveling merchant could get their hands on such a thing!

Gerald knew that he shouldn’t stay silent when Marni showed up again. Even if he might make his masters look bad, he would expose the conman’s lies right here and now, so that everyone could see his true colors!

And at the moment, he watched as the man tried to sell the young mistress’s mother a huge, scarlet chunk of coral.

“Look! A Gray Fjord Coral found from the depths of the Gray Fjord itself. Its measure in gold is assured, a top-of-the-line item! Buy it now at the price of 6 Abbys! (72, 000 Rions or approximately 150,000 yuan)

Gerald almost sneered at that.

The Grey Fjord Port had been occupied by a bunch of bandits years ago. Even though the imperial army had sent several bands there to wipe them out, they all returned in failure.