Chapter 174: Rusted-III

In the meantime, after Elise had left, Ian sat on his couch with his legs crossed and his eyes looked at the butler that come to show him some evidences and report he found. One of it was the letter given by Maroon which now was only a single scrap after the parchments was torn by the woman who had the letter before, Vella. The woman was Elise's friend, one of the two women who got close to Elise.

"What else you found about the woman?" questioned Ian with his smile dying off. His red eyes looking at the wall, before shifting at Ian with an expression of solemn.

"She was an ex-convict, a criminal with a heavy sentence but she was pardoned out of lack evidence granted by the Lord of Runalia," said Maroon, he had searched for the person's past in the second he learned of the odd letter she exchanged.