The bounded criminals were taken to the protectorate office while the prime minister following closely behind dished out another command to his guard and she left.
Satisfied and excited with his plan, he walked into the office of the head of department after following protocols.
"Prime minister Choi... what a pleasant surprise" The chief saluted.
"Yes ...yes...how have you been, chief Kang?"
They continued with their exchange of pleasantries and stopped when one of the officers knocked on the door to take permission from him in commencement of the interrogation of the prisoners.
"Ermm... Chief Kang, that's exactly why I'm here , l want you to interrogate the girl via torture ... according to what I witnessed, the girl started the whole thing ... don't pay attention to her innocent face, she's a vixen, in fact let me use a qualifying adjective for her, she's a nine-tailed fox" he lied.
"Whoa!.. calm down sir...prime minister Choi according to the report l received, the girl is a victim and the young master is her savior"
He slammed his fist on the table and roared. "She's not innocent, she's the culprit!"
"Hmm...My lord, who exactly is this girl that caught your attention, because according to what I know of you, you are the kind of person that will never involve yourself in such a trivial matter directly" the chief interrogated suspiciously.
Chief Kang is a shrewd man that knows when someone is planning something sinister, he's able to rise and maintain his seat of authority because of his instincts that tells him what to do and what not to do.
Right now, he knows that he caught a big fish in his net. Whoever or whatever that is making the almighty prime minister agitated sure is very big.
The prime minister seeing that he's about to betray himself relaxed his tensed nerves and feigned a smile devoid of his earlier agitation.
"Chief Kang, just follow my orders and I promise you the seat of the vice chancellor of tribunal"
The man that was about to refute the order of someone trespassing in his jurisdiction became baffled and did the only thing he knows how to do, brown-nosing.
"Ah ... my lord , you didn't have to... I would have already carried out your order without accepting anything... Thank you my Lord" he smiled.
Two words appeared on the mind of the man being brown-nosed " Cunning dog"
After receiving his incentive, he ordered his guards to carry out the prime minister's orders to the latter.
At the cell, the prisoners were separated into 2 , the gangsters in one cell and the young master in the other one. Because of his dressing, the guards knows that he's a noble hence they treated him with respect in order not to offend the family he is coming from.
As for the pretty girl, she was kept in a private room where she's writing her testimony against those that attacked them and trust her, she's writing every single thing that happened.
Still writing the report, the door was suddenly swung open and she was startled, but seeing the familiar faces of the guards that treated her with utmost respect she relaxed.
"My Lords , you guys almost startled me " she complained.
"Did we ?" the shortest one among them replied sarcastically.
Sensing that something was amiss with the reply, she lifted her eyes and met with the eye of the person that answered her full of malice.
Before she could understand what she did or said wrong, the short man slammed his fist on the table housing the report and collected it .
The surprised girl later found her voice and was about to protest when the man tore the report and ordered her to be taken to the interrogation hall.
"What is going on, my lord?... that report is still not completed...why are you guys dragging me ... leave me alone and get your chief...l want to talk with him" she cried.
Not being able to contain his anger because of her incessant shouts , he slapped her and howled .
"Shut up you bitch! it's the chief that ordered for your interrogation not me"
"It's a lie...why would I be taken to the interrogation room without any sin?" she defended herself.
"Who told you that you are without sin?" a man shouted at her.
Turning around to see who could say such a thing to her, she saw a middle-aged man with face distorted with anger.
"Who are you?" she asked.
The guards dragging her fell silent when they heard her question and wondered who gave her the effrontery to question the prime minister of the nation.
"My identity is something you should not be worried about... you should be worried about the sin you committed and how to atone for it"
Yoona bit her lips to keep herself from crying out loud and cursing this stranger that is irritating her, which sin?, which atonement? forget about sin and atonement who is this man that is looking at her with piercing gaze?.
He looked at her eyes and could deduce what she was thinking, he chuckled and murmured softly to himself
"How dare you covert the lad l have set my eyes on for my sweet child? you are courting death by keeping yourself close to the crown prince of this nation and future husband of my child"
Trying not to waste his breath on the girl , he started being impatient and signaled the guards to carry on with their duties , just as he was about to curse under his breath on the delay of the person he sent to get information on the girl's identity, she arrived.
"Master, l got the information... she's the only daughter of the first son of minister Kim"
The prime minister kicked the walls before him and cursed his bad luck on her being the grand daughter of the minister of rites, he's an influential politician and not one to be trifled with, immediately he almost gave up his plans to torture the girl , the spy told his master that there is an additional information and he replied haughtily "What?"
"Her mother was a slave in the minister's manor"
Immediately he got this piece of information, he laughed heartily while patting the back of his spy " You did well Tae hee"
Invigorated with that single piece of information, he became unstoppable and stormed into the interrogation hall bellowing an order to begin the interrogation.
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Jae joon and Seohwa went back to check on their miss according to the information he provided ,but they were led to a path filled with blood .
Seohwa became so scared that she disregarded her fear of blood and ran towards the place that looked like a battlefield while calling on her miss.
Her heart skipped a beat when she found her miss's handkerchief on the site wrinkled beyond recognition as if the owner squeezed it so hard in a state of panic.
Jae joon became alert and rushed towards the old man at the farthest corner looking at them.
"Grand pa, please tell me what happened there earlier today" he asked the man while pointing towards the place filled with the sight and smell of blood.
The old man narrated what he witnessed and the subsequent actions that happened, he told him of uniformed guards that came and took them all away.
"Is it the police, the city prefectures, the tribunal or the army ?"
But the man told him he doesn't know which unit they came from, thanking the man profusely he dashed towards the place Seohwa stood defeated and bawling, he collected the handkerchief and whistled, a beautiful bird flew down from the treetop and nestled on his shoulders.
He brought the handkerchief to its nose and allowed it to sniff it , when he thought that it might have grabbed the smell ,he sent it out with one word "Find" .
The bird screeched as if understanding the command and departed . The maidservant that witnessed the bird sniffing her miss's handkerchief shivered but knowing that there is a slim chance of finding her miss relaxed a bit and disregarded what happened.