Great! I'm surrounded by villains!-Chapter 377 - 296: The Most Unexpected Detective No.1

Chapter 377: Chapter 296: The Most Unexpected Detective No.1 freeωebnovēl.c૦m

When Jiuyue reached this conclusion, both parties fell into silence simultaneously.

A deathly stillness spread through the studio, and Duan Mingyuan unnaturally raised his hand, wiping his own head.

He felt that he shouldn’t be at the age of hair loss just yet.

But this was Jiuyue.

Like a true detective, she could unravel clues like peeling a cocoon to extract the truth, then in the next second she might utter the timeless phrase "short-haired people will encounter specters." Even Duan Mingyuan could not help but admire her ability to switch seamlessly between Shinichi Kudo and Mouri Kogoro.

Indeed, she was the detective with the most unexpected moves of all.

This sudden conclusion clearly disrupted the butler’s footing, leaving him speechless for a good while.

The butler had to wonder if he had really found the right person.

Ever blunt, Jiuyue realized she had misspoken and stammered for a long time before managing to say, "Mr. Mingyuan, your hair is still very thick, I wasn’t saying you have little hair!"

Duan Mingyuan skipped the topic of hair length, believing it shouldn’t be a concern for a thirty-year-old man.

He looked at the butler, "You seem unsurprised by Jiuyue’s deduction."

"Taking care of a 170-year-old is especially challenging, his mind is difficult to keep stable for long, and sometimes he babbles nonsense, particularly while dreaming," said the butler indifferently. "As butlers, we should know everything about them, this is the family precept handed down from my ancestors."

The bloodline of the Shan Clan People is strictly divided.

Generation after generation, the Family Head only emerges from pureblood heirs, whereas people like him have played the role of butler through the ages.

His father was the butler to Saintfield VI, and this duty was not supposed to fall upon him just yet, but a tragic accident forced him to take over his father’s responsibilities prematurely.

"When my father met his mysterious death on a ship known for strange occurrences, I had to become more cautious, to avoid the same fate," he confessed.

The Saintfield family gave a vague explanation for his father’s death, claiming he suffered a sudden cardiac arrest during a nighttime visit to the bathroom, and when people found him the next day, he was already dead.

But in reality, his father had never had a history of heart disease and was perfectly healthy.

It’s worth mentioning that several of Saintfield VI’s former butlers had not died a natural death.

And after becoming aware of Saintfield VI’s past, the butler understood the reasons why.

Whether intended or not, once you know too many secrets, you die.

Like his father and the crew members of the past Saintfield ship.

"There indeed was a security officer on this ship who had a strong interest in mysteries, unfortunately, three years after he took the position, he was found dead in his room," the butler said casually.

The same reason, the same mental illness, when people found him the next day, all that was left was a cold corpse.

At that time, the butler had yet to take over his father’s job, but according to the crew, the security officer’s expression at death terrified many into having nightmares for weeks—it did not look like an "accidental death."

Trying to sound nonchalant, the butler remarked, "It is truly fortunate, had Saintfield VI not passed away first, I would have been next."

"Yet you insist on investigating further," Duan Mingyuan observed.

Duan Mingyuan said.

The butler was different from the Shan Clan People he knew, at least not like the crew of the Saintfield, he seemed disinterested in who would take over as the Family Head, which would determine his life for the next few decades.

As he himself put it, a person interested in secrets wouldn’t live long in such an environment.

"Saintfield the Sixth killed many people, but he was far from the real mastermind."

To the butler, today’s Saintfield the Sixth was just a pitiful soul caught in the whirl of fate.

After his soul had swapped with the Family Head’s, it was transferred into an old body, and since then he had lived every day in constant anxiety.

Even though he had killed all those in the know, he was still aware that he wasn’t the true Saintfield the Sixth.

So when he saw "another himself" on the ship, he was immediately scared out of his wits and firmly knew it wasn’t sea psychosis.

In the rebellion that occurred decades ago, he also failed to learn the whole truth.

For instance, where exactly did the Soul Swapping Ceremony originate from?

"In my father’s notes, after the Soul Swapping Ceremony was completed, Saintfield the Sixth investigated every Master of Mysticism he had ever invited, but up to now, he has found no clues, just as this ship gives you the feeling of, a non-existent person offered him the method of soul transmigration and then disappeared without a trace."

They had no further interaction after that.

The individual didn’t use this to blackmail Saintfield the Sixth or demand obedience.

It looked like... a philanthropist.

He selflessly offered something a dying old man longed for.

But the more it happened, the more the butler felt suffocated.

Because from another perspective, it seemed an invisible hand was controlling the fate of the Saintfield family, they believed they had everything in control, but even the position of the Family Head was being manipulated.

"The family is eager to pin the blame on you, and I defended you in front of them, that was the last of my power to exercise,"

the butler said.

As long as he insisted that there was something fishy about the death of Saintfield the Sixth, it was likely there was more to it. Even for appearances’ sake, other family members would have to carry on investigating, or else, at a time like this, if competitors labeled them as "overeager," it would be extremely detrimental to their ambitions of taking over as Family Head.

"However, I can’t hold out for too long. I have become a nuisance in the eyes of those people, and my death from a heart disease or another accident could happen at any moment. If you find me dead in my room tomorrow morning, don’t be too surprised, but I hope you will continue the investigation."

The butler’s gaze was piercing, these unrelated Blue Star People had become the only ones he could trust now, "Who exactly offered the Family Head the Soul Swapping Ceremony? Regardless of whether he’s human, monster, or what those experts mention ’the dark mud’, I want to know a definitive answer... If I die before then, just burn the truth for me."

"No, you won’t die."

Jiuyue suddenly said with conviction.

Although she didn’t fully understand, it seemed the butler had helped them.

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