Chapter 107 - Chapter 107: Chapter 103: Fischer Fears Making Enemies (1/2)
Chapter 107: Chapter 103: Fischer Fears Making Enemies
Theo got up and without speaking to his wife or eating, he went straight to Fischer Manor and soon saw the man who had informed the evil cultists.
He was a cousin of the former village chief of Ourde Village.
The man was now bound with rope and kneeling on the lawn outside the mansion, his eyes wide with fear, his whole body trembling.
Byrne and Irene stood silently beside him, gazing at the man. Then Byrne raised his head to recount the whole situation to Theo.
“The matter is actually like this,” he said.
Theo finally understood that because the Fischer family’s carriage had left Nasir for Fein City, and had made a stop at Ourde Village along the way.
The administrators of Ourde Village used to be people from the Kesse family, but as soon as the Fischer family gained ruling powers over the village, they replaced the administrators with their own family members.
Then, they exiled those who harbored dissatisfaction.
But even with such measures, there were still relatives and friends of the original beneficiaries in Ourde Village who were dissatisfied, an omission in how the Fischer family dealt with matters.
There’s nothing they could do—they couldn’t control the thoughts of each person on the land. Besides, there were too many people in the village related by blood or marriage, and exiling them all would have been too extensive.
Irene, in fact, still remembered that the village chief’s cousin had no ill intentions toward the Fischer family.
He was even happy when his cousin was exiled, for with the backing of the Kesse family, the cousin was extremely arrogant and didn’t regard others at all.
It could be said that at the time, this man welcomed the Fischer family’s move to drive away the Kesse family.
However, the human heart is always prone to change.
In recent weeks, because of his previous arrogance and tyranny, he was retaliated against by those in the village supported by the Fischers, and he began to harbor resentment.
One day, the man, who was short of money, happened to see the Fischer family’s carriage and ran to the Kesse family to exchange the news for money.
He received a reward of one Gold Coin.
And certainly, the man couldn’t have imagined that he would die because of this.
“How exactly was he found out?” Theo was surprised. Ourde Village is some distance from Nasir Town; he couldn’t believe the man had been caught so quickly.
Byrne responded calmly, “I’ve long since told those in Ourde who support the Fischers that they’d be rewarded for reporting suspicious people. He was spotted and reported when he came back drinking with the gold coin.”
He shook his head, his eyes filled with intense murderous intent. In a low voice, he said, “The whole thing was a plot by the Kesse family. Thinking about it is really laughable; the Fischer family nearly perished because of a single Gold Coin.”
“It’s just a pity we don’t have enough evidence to report them to the Tempest Church, and the words of this man alone are insignificant.”
He turned calmly, came up beside Theo, and whispered,
“Since we can’t take the path of accusation, there’s no need to keep him alive.”
Theo quickly heard the man, his face red and trembling uncontrollably, shouting loudly,
“Don’t kill me! I know I was wrong! I’m willing to compensate with money; let me do anything for you, just don’t kill me ahhh!”
Byrne shook his head and walked away, then stopped and said very seriously,
“Theo, when you take care of it, be sure to ensure that the children don’t see.”
“Hmm.”
Theo nodded calmly, then grabbed the man’s shoulder, pulled him up, and forcefully dragged him from the lawn.
“I beg you, ahh! Don’t kill me, ahhh! I’m begging you!”
Theo felt the man’s struggle and suddenly swung his fist down on the back of his head, yelling out:
“Get over here, you bastard!”
The man fell to the ground after the Heavy Strike but still moaned and tried to get up, his pleas becoming incoherent.
“You scum, when you betrayed the Fischers, you should have foreseen this day!”
Theo dragged the man to a corner, found another piece of rope, and tightly strangled his neck, pulling hard until the struggling body stopped shivering before suddenly letting go.
The body instantly fell motionless to the ground.
“Damn it, what a hassle!”
He felt a sense of rage inside and lifted the body towards a cart nearby, first placing the corpse on the cart, then covering it with a white cloth.
Then Theo left Nasir Town, heading all the way to the East Coast, where he threw the body from the cliffs into the sea.
“Such a heavy fat pig, you wore me out,” he muttered.
Theo did not return immediately but sat on the cliff by the sea, staring at the turbulent waves and the splashing surf for a long time.
“Aaahhh!”
He suddenly let out a few loud shouts, his voice carrying far.
Theo suddenly felt much better inside.
His wife did not understand him, which was quite normal, considering he had never truly communicated with her.
Moreover, he really could not tell her about the real things he did every day; he had always suppressed the killing and the darkness inside his heart.
He had thought about confiding in his family but knew that he absolutely couldn’t do that.
She fulfilled her responsibilities, and I must fulfill mine.
Theo realized this.
He thought about asking Mr. Byrne for a long vacation, then going to Fein City to get his foolish son back, and after that, the entire family needed to take a good rest for a while.
He also wanted to have a serious talk about the future with his wife and children.
Mr. Byrne would agree to this request, because he had always been kind to his relatives and friends; Theo was clear about this.
When he returned to the Fischer family, Theo suddenly saw his wife’s frail figure in the hall again.
“Why have you come?”
Seeing his wife’s tear-reddened eyes and Byrne’s hesitant look, he suddenly had a strong premonition of something very ominous.