Chapter 126: A Grand Gesture

Chapter 126: A Grand Gesture

On the small balcony of the master bedroom, Klein in Dawn Dantes’s appearance stood behind the railing, quietly watching Baron Syndras’s luxurious carriage slowly fade into the distance.

The other man’s words from just now still echoed in his mind. He felt that the Coim Company share acquisition had hidden a conspiracy from the very beginning.

To Baron Syndras, although Coim Company had great potential and bright prospects, its present value was still limited to Backlund and restricted by various conditions. It was not worth a great banker attaching so much importance to it, nor adopting an attitude of refusing to give up control at any cost. After all, even if he failed, it was only a question of earning more or less. It was not enough to result in a loss.

As for Caron, the seller, selling shares under external pressure in exchange for cash was normal. Not being especially willing to sell them to the Conservative Party’s “moneybag,” Baron Syndras, was also normal. The problem was that, as a businessman facing a transaction that was not especially important, one could indeed consider political leanings when the prices were roughly equal. But when there was a possibility of obtaining an extremely high premium, there was no reason to refuse. Yet Caron had deliberately rushed to complete the transaction with Dawn Dantes before Baron Syndras could make his final offer. He looked as though he had a grudge against gold pounds, or as though he hated the Conservative Party to an extreme degree. That did not match the current political climate. The interior of the Loen Kingdom had not yet fractured to such an extent.

It seems someone was forcing Baron Syndras to do this, while someone else used it to design a trap, using Caron’s three percent of shares as bait and using me as cover to draw Baron Syndras into the game, hoping to achieve some purpose…

Klein looked at the gas lamps under the night sky and sighed inwardly.

According to his guess, if he had not discovered the problem tonight and had not directly sent someone to look for Baron Syndras, then afterward, he would certainly have fallen into prison due to various seemingly conclusive pieces of evidence. Once the military or the Evernight Church intervened, the evidence would undoubtedly reverse and point toward Baron Syndras.

During this process, as long as Baron Syndras made even one mistaken judgment, treating Dawn Dantes as an accomplice of the mastermind behind the scenes and adopting relatively forceful methods against him, the final nail in his coffin would be driven in.

As for who was behind the curtain and what their true objective was, Klein had no way to guess. He could only confirm one thing: Madam Mary should likewise be unaware of the truth and had merely had her urgent desire to preserve control of Coim Company used by others. In short, she did not have the qualifications to deeply participate in a conspiracy of this level.

Environmental protection… New Party… Conservative Party… banker… acquisition… frame-up…

One term after another leapt through Klein’s mind, making him feel as though, through Backlund’s present calm, he could see one dangerous whirlpool after another hidden beneath the water.

They had existed long ago. They had not been smoothed over by the Great Smog. Some of them even belonged to its aftermath.

All these things intertwined, mixed together with the increasingly tense international situation, and naturally brought one word to Klein’s mind:

“Change!”

In that second, Klein seemed to smell the approach of a storm.

Adding in the prophecy of the apocalypse, who knows how much chaos and madness is brewing in the dark… My current focus is to start from the military and investigate the truth behind the Great Smog of Backlund. If I get drawn into this whirlpool, I will very likely encounter unnecessary trouble. I might even expose my Sequence strength and no longer be able to continue acting as Dawn…