The Tale of Hero Alice's Social Death - Chapter 375

Chapter 375 – Everything Coming Together

How Alice was supposed to investigate King Haydn was a problem. According to Alice’s understanding, King Haydn had delegated a significant portion of his authority to other people so that they could help him with his work. He was a completely different ruler compared to Hatter, who’d spend most of his time cooped up in the palace working.

After sneaking into the Rhine Kingdom’s palace multiple times across several days, Alice concluded that King Haydn would only spend five hours working in the palace each day. His work hours were also random. Overall, he looked like he had a much easier time being king than Hatter.

Of course, King Haydn’s actions also came with risks. The more people King Haydn delegated power to, the more likely it was for him to breed corruption in his government. After all, not everyone could behave selflessly when granted great power. This was why Hatter had chosen to directly involve himself in most, if not all, important governmental affairs. Though, in exchange for a corruption-free government, Hatter had to work himself to the bone.

Fortunately, King Haydn wasn’t a fool. It would seem that he was aware that his action of delegating power to others would lead to the potential breeding of corruption, as he had made significant investments in strengthening his kingdom’s police force and intelligence department. Therefore, most officials who had gone corrupt would be quickly identified and arrested. The arrest of these officials would even be announced through news channels to assure the Rhine Kingdom’s citizens that their government was actively combating corruption.

Despite how much of a slacker he is, it seems he is still a relatively good king. He doesn’t touch upon his personal affairs when he is working.

After investigating King Haydn for some time, Alice found that the other party would never talk about private matters when he was at work. While this was a praiseworthy work ethic for a king, his behavior made it highly unlikely for him to slip up and reveal any clues during work.

Moreover, contrary to Alice’s initial assumption, Gunst had never shown up in King Haydn’s office during these past few days. This was incredibly strange, no matter how she looked at it. After all, the captain of the kingdom’s royal guards wielded great authority and responsibility. Logically, Gunst should have come to report to King Haydn at least once every one or two days. Yet, Gunst did not do so, which was a stark contrast to Catherine, who would visit Hatter’s office at least several times a day.

After thinking about it, Alice felt that Gunst was most likely meeting King Haydn in private and outside the palace. Hence, he did not have to go through the trouble of visiting King Haydn in the palace.

Hence, Alice eventually decided she would shift the focus of her investigation to King Haydn’s private life.

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I should have changed the meeting time…

Alice sighed in frustration as she looked at the box in her hands. Originally, after she was done ob…