1. "Baron wedge thompson!"
2. Chapter 42 success and failure
3. "You window-dressed... Your accounts, right?"
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1. "Window dressing is when you cook the books to make your financial situation look worse than it really was for reporting purposes."
2. "And what even is window-dressing in the first place?"
3. "On what basis do you make this accusation?!"
4. "When I compare the numbers with these books..."
5. "I have your tax records, which were previously provided to master rod."
6. "Baron thompson, this means..."
7. "That you are under suspicion of tax evasion."
8. "The numbers here heavily deviate from what was reported."
9. "Look right here."
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1. "Show him, rae!"
2. "How ridiculous can your feeble girlish minds be?!"
3. "Y-you would accuse me of tax evasion?!"
4. "Combined with the under-payment penalty..."
5. "This should be about how much he owes from a decade of tax evasion."
6. "All right, then let me quickly calculate it for you."
7. "Wow, you really have gussied these numbers up!"
8. "!!"
9. "It's quite a bit and should come out to about this amount."
1. "Besides, a woman capable of reading a ledger?"
2. "Wh-what baseless accusations!"
3. "Paying that massive amount of money..."
4. "I don't know if I can trust the validity of the documents you brought either."
5. "Would end with my house in ruin!"
6. "Oh?"
7. "Should you still find yourself questioning their validity..."
8. "These were documents created via an investigation carried out by the first crown prince, master rod himself."
1. "We could always bring master rod here for a cup of tea."
2. "I..."
3. "I-I admit I did it...!"
4. "I accept defeat."
1. "We shall report our findings to the palace, and you will be punished."
2. "Wh-what are you going to do to me...?"
3. "This was a chance for him to try that crème brûlée you were so proud of."
4. "Oh? What a shame."
5. "At least, that's what I want to say."
6. "We have a proposition for you."
7. "But, baron wedge..."
1. "In the event that a criminal admits to their crime..."
2. "and cooperates with the investigation..."
3. "by naming their accomplices..."
4. "they may be given a reduced sentence or be acquitted of their wrongdoing."
5. "Plea bargains?"
6. "Interesting. I have never heard of such a system within our nation before."
7. "Are the authorities to observe and administer justice not enough?"
1. I believe it would help me secure information to move forward with the investigation of more serious misconduct.
2. "There are many benefits to offering plea bargains."
3. "Through the use of this legal mechanism..."
4. "I swear that I shall corner both Master Salas and Master Dole."
1. "In the event that Salas and Dole are exposed and their houses crushed..."
2. "Furthermore, I shall honor your request."
3. "I see."
4. "Then, I shall allow it."
5. "I GUARANTEE THAT CLAIRE AND LILLY WILL NOT BE HELD ACCOUNTABLE."
6. "HELP MEEE! MAMA!"
1. "You have ambiguous entries here in your ledgers, yes?"
2. "Baron wedge."
3. "Yes! That's right! That's what they are!"
4. "I'll tell you anything! Just give me a reduced sentence!"
5. "I'll do anything!"
6. "Excuse you, could you not cling on my leg like a dog?!"
7. "!!"
8. "They seem to indicate payments made to high-ranking nobles."
9. "Wh-whatever could you be getting at?"
10. "Who were the recipients of these funds?"
1. "O-oh! Those! I remember now!"
2. "Do you plan to let the house thompson fall to ruin on your watch?"
3. "Who! Were! They! Made! To?!"
4. "Tell us, you crustacean!!"
5. "Th-the noble I made the payments to..."
6. "Was none other than..."
1. "Count yale..."
2. "...!!"
3. "Thank you for your cooperation. The palace will contact you with further instructions."
4. To my father.
5. They weren't made...
1. "We have successfully solved a case!"
2. "It was all to make the servants in the manor gather."
3. "S-still, what was the point of reacting like this was an episode of mito komon*?"
4. *the longest-running period drama in japanese history (1969-2011)
5. "Everyone will start to get the impression that the baron has done something wrong."
6. "Since I caused an uproar like that..."
7. "Anyone can start a rumor, but none can stop one."
8. "What a busy day this has been."
1. "With that settled, miss claire and miss lilly..."
2. "Miss claire!"
3. "N-no, what I am concerned about is the mito komon part of that act..."
4. "Let's do our very best!"
5. "!"
6. "Isn't this wonderful? Your father's name didn't come up!"
7. "B-but who is komon?"
8. "Yes, it'll be like a domino effect."
9. "So, what's next? Will we continue to employ this strategy?"
10. "I know for a fact that my father hasn't done anything unbecoming."
11. "I-I was not surprised at all!"
1. "My brothers started acting strangely, so I went and..."
2. "And then..."
3. "Pepi?"
1. "What the...?!"
2. "Loretta."
3. "Are you all right? What's wrong?!"
4. "You..."
5. "Heard the rumors about how miss claire and the others are working to investigate nobles, right?"
6. "Don't tell me that master patrice has done something wrong!!"
7. "Oh, no!"
8. "Yes, I have."
9. "Well..."
10. "My parents won't speak a word of it to me."
11. "I don't know."
12. "They recently came and visited my home, house barlier, as well..."
1. "That my father may have been involved in some shady business."
2. "But I think..."
3. "And I can't blame miss claire for what she's doing!"
4. "If it's true, then I want him to pay for his crimes!"
5. "But what if I end up becoming a fallen noble?!"
6. "I can't survive like that!"
7. "What do I do?!"
1. "It's miss claire, remember?"
2. "I'm sure that she'll overlook things for your sake, no matter what."
3. "It's going to be okay, pepi."
4. "Don't worry."
5. That's a lie.
1. In fact, she'd be even stricter with someone close to her.
2. There is no way she would show mercy on someone who's committed a misdeed.
3. Miss claire detests injustice more than anything else.
4. It's possible...
5. That house barlier will be...
6. "Hngh! Hnnff!"
1. "We still haven't found any evidence leading to master dole or master salas."
2. "While our investigation has made some real progress..."
3. "Yet, if we combine and pore over all these documents..."
4. "There could be something that begins to stand out."
5. "No. It just means nothing implicates him."
6. "Wh- which means that my father is innocent!"
7. "L-lilly would very much like to eat rae's crème brûlée!!"
8. "All right!"
9. "Why don't we take a tiny break here and have a piping-hot tea time?"
10. "If we're thinking hard, then refilling our sugar reserves is the best way to help!"
1. "I think I shall pass."
2. "I wish to think a bit in silence."
3. "Huh?! What about the crème brûlée...?"
4. "Roger that."
5. "Shall we take our exit here?"
6. "Cardinal lilly?"
7. "Sometimes people require time alone to ponder things."
8. "Rae..."
1. "I'll be sure to bring you back a souvenir."
2. I suppose she was being mindful of me.
1. "I shall do this as my name is claire françois!"
2. "Now isn't the time to feel down!"
3. There was one thing I forgot to do.
4. "Erm, well..."
5. "E-excuse me, rae?"
6. "What?!"
7. "Wh-what did you forget...?"
8. "I don't mind going out into town. But why are we in disguise?"
1. ARE WE FINALLY GOING ON THE DATE SHE PROMISED?!
2. C-COULD IT BE?!
3. No! Let us go on countless dates.
4. Shall we go on a hundred dates? Two hundred?
5. And one date won't be enough for me.
6. There's no way I would forget that.
7. "WHAT'S THE MATTER, CARDINAL LILLY?"
8. YOUR LOVE IS SO DEEP!!
9. "EEEK! RAE!!"
10. "THIS IS SO...!"
1. This sort of opportunity rarely presents itself.
2. I get to be all alone with rae!
3. This is my chance...
4. To make rae fall in love with me!
5. Now that it's come to this...
1. "Miss claire is one of the good nobles, right?"
2. "I heard that one of the girls is miss claire!"
3. "Three girls in the secret service are going around and crushing corrupt nobles!"
4. "Hey, did you hear the rumor?!"
5. "I wish that all the corrupt ones would get punished!"
6. "Yeah."
7. "Let's go."
8. "Pepi."