The Judicial Minister's gaze as he smiled meaningfully and studied me was deeply unsettling. In any case, among the ministers, aside from my father-in-law, there didn't seem to be a normal one. Excepting his tendency to resort to fists when words failed, my father-in-law was a rare family-oriented noble.
That definitely fell within the range of normal.
"So what we uncovered is that the slum organization Rafel is connected to the merchant guild. But the merchant guild is under the Finance Department's influence. What does that tell you?"
Huh? That was somewhat different from what I'd been led to believe.
"When I was a finance inspector, I identified the Administrative Department as the party behind the fence incident. But you're saying the Finance Department was actually involved?"
