114. Chapter 113 – Vice President Boca

Chapter 113 – Vice President of Boca

Ivars was a little tense just thinking about the fact that Sherlock Hermes and James Moriarty, the original arch-enemies, had both faked their deaths just today.

However, Ivars had keenly captured a blind spot in his vision here.

There’s a simple reason why York’s lawyer can just confirm that Sherlock is dead – because he himself is the one who did it himself. He’d given Sherlock the sleeping pill, and detonated the sufficient amount of bombs he’d prepared himself at the time the drug took effect. Also received news of Sherlock’s death at a reasonable time.

Considering this, the underlying reason he was able to confirm that Sherlock was dead …… was actually because York was wishing this from the bottom of his heart.

Although Counselor York’s position within Lloyd’s seemed relatively high, he was actually in a very difficult situation at the moment. He must not expose himself in this case, and again he must kill Sherlock by himself.

As long as the bomb didn’t kill Sherlock this time, whether he went over to make up for it or not, he would easily expose himself. So he didn’t want to hear that Sherlock had survived – so he would subconsciously use the intelligence he had gathered to corroborate the points he had already made. This was also the preparation he made in advance in order to convince the other top brass.

If we consider it from this perspective, does the fact that Lloyd’s Register was able to confirm that Professor Moriarty was dead …… indicate that this matter itself had their involvement?

After all, there was the possibility of the divination being disturbed, and it might not always be completely correct. Moreover, it is not possible to accurately divine a person in a high position at too low a level. Since the Lloyd’s Society can hire a prophet to do the divination for them, they must also be aware of such limitations.

Then the fact that they could confirm the death without identifying the body …… could only be that they were involved in the matter. Let’s say they sent someone to assassinate the professor, and then that person brought back news of the other person’s death, and perhaps evidence to corroborate that the other person was dead. Because of this, they would have confirmed this fact after one divination and let go of their hearts.

The other possibility is that they didn’t really need Professor Moriarty to actually die.

All Lloyd’s needed was for Professor Moriarty to die temporarily on a social level. Make it temporarily impossible for Prof. Moriarty to return to Glass Island to give their plan a time gap.

Either way, it’s not unlikely that the professor faked his death to get away with it. And both possibilities had one thing in common-that Lloyd’s Register was in no way the least bit kind to Ivars.

It was because they desperately wanted to use Ivars that they called him here in advance and reported Professor Moriarty’s death to him. This was to not give Ivars time to confirm and think, and at the same time, it was also to put pressure on him.

Aiwas narrowed his eyes slightly and had a plan in mind.

He decided to attack with a straight ball to gain the initiative.

So he stopped hiding and suddenly spoke, “Lawyer York, you seem to be in a hurry.”

The moment Aiwass said this, York’s face changed a bit.

He slightly tilted his head to the left side, his chin propped on the fingertips of his raised left hand. And the three fingers of his right hand were rhythmically flicking on the armrest, as if playing an air piano.

Gazing at Attorney York, Ivars spoke slowly, tapping him, “You don’t seem to be saddened by my father’s death.”

“That’s because ……”

“Because his death is more in your interest. Whether he is truly and tragically dead, missing, or just a lie that I cannot check and that temporarily blinds me.

“But in any case, the fact that you told me this information in advance, rather than coming to me after I had read the papers myself, or even after I had encountered a dilemma in reality, shows that you were in a hurry. For it is obvious that the latter is easier for me to believe, and therefore to recruit.”

As the saying goes, it’s better to put the icing on the cake than the snow.

“Lloyd’s is a collection of businessmen. It can make a group of businessmen give up the lowest risk and highest benefit option and choose to activate my line in advance. Then can I understand that your situation at this moment is not as secure as you are showing today?”

Ivars half-squinted his eyes, as if he was a little sleepy.

He spoke slowly, his voice low and clear, like a whisper when telling a story to a child, “From the scene of Sherlock’s funeral, not letting me go home before taking me directly to Lloyd’s headquarters; making me ride in a rickety elevator like that; displaying pictures of you with so many big names without a trace; using the Flaying Demon to intimidate me; pointlessly pointing out that you could monitor the ‘Noble Red’; reporting my father’s death ……

“What do you want me to promise you here by pressuring me one after another? Why don’t you start by telling me, maybe I’ll easily oblige.”

Aiwas narrowed his eyes, the corners of his mouth rising slightly, “Let me guess …… is that you’ve made some kind of mistake recently? That’s why it’s urgent to pull me in and use this merit to hedge your faults.

“Looking at your eyes, I seem to have guessed correctly.”

“Aren’t …… you afraid at all?”

Lawyer York scratched his head somewhat bitterly, but his face did not show the expression of coercion.

Ivars also said with a smile, demonstrating his value, “I actually informed Mr. Mycroft before I came here; and before I got in the car, I also gave a special notice to Steward Oswald. You don’t want anything to happen to me here, do you, Counselor York? That’s one thing.

“For another, the fact that you would go to such great lengths to persuade me, to tell me stories of Prince Lloyd, of the backwardness of the royal family, shows that I am of special value. It makes it impossible for you to control me through simple means like coercion or enticement. “The last thing is …… I guess there is someone at the door right now, and it should be that Vice President Boca. He should have been at the door before you talked to me about my father’s death.”

“–How did you guess that?”

A calm voice came from the doorway.

The one who pushed the door in was a middle-aged man with half-black, half-white hair and two moustaches. He wore a dark blue suit and had a square face. His hair was relatively neatly groomed, but there was no hairspray or wax applied.

The middle-aged businessman appeared to be an unsmiling man. He subconsciously put his hands behind his back as soon as he entered the door and walked slowly behind Attorney York.

And Ivars just smiled gently, raised his left hand to scratch in the void, and greeted the man who entered the door after him.

He said lazily, “Let’s just say hello for now, Mr. Boca.

“Now that you’re in the door, I take it Mr. York won’t be able to get his credit? That’s kinda a shame, I thought he was a good guy.”

“He won’t get any less credit, because you’re worth a lot more than we expected.”

Without even questioning Attorney York, Mr. Boca simply replaced him in the conversation with Ivars.

Completely different from the always cheerful, soft-spoken and gentle Lawyer York.

Vice President Boca’s words were more straightforward, and also more impactful and heart-grabbing: “Do you want to be a king, Mr. Ivars? More than ‘Prince’ …… and more than just ‘Moriarty’.”

Ivars raised an eyebrow and asked rhetorically, “Who wouldn’t want to?”

“But you have such an opportunity right now. With enough luck, it won’t even be just a king – it’ll be an ’emperor’.”

Boca’s voice was low and magnetic, and his words were full of compulsion, “It’s entirely possible. You have to realize that we are all businessmen, and everyone has their own market and business. No one wants the old stable market to be smashed to smithereens and have those white-crowned red candles stolen by a wild seed from who knows where.

“Considering that, we’re actually the ones keeping order in Avalon then. Just as Lloyd’s is also maintaining order in the Lloyd’s District.”

“…… What you guys value, turns out to be my relationship with Isabelle?”

Ivars unapologetically addressed Her Highness directly by name.

He tilted his head slightly and asked rhetorically, “Then why should I cooperate with you?”

Hearing this, the corners of both Boca and York’s mouths rose slightly in synchronization.

“Young people are just exuberant, it’s normal.”

York took over the conversation and cheerfully rounded off, “Who hasn’t had a young time? Not to mention it’s still a young man as outstanding as Aiwas ……”

“Mr. Ivars, this is a business we’ve been running for many years. From the original creation of Lloyd’s, it has had the mission of the Overcomers – from that perspective, you are the later.

“The forefathers spent two hundred years laying the groundwork for the situation, and then the latecomers blundered in and picked the fruit. At this point, if the later chooses to eat alone, do you think that all he has to fight against is the royal family? Don’t forget, Mr. Ewers – we are all the weaker party compared to the Crown. There’s no need for the weaker party to fight the weaker party, we need to unite with each other more than anything else.”

As he advised Ivars, Boca said so more directly.

Hearing this, Aiwas raised his eyebrows, “You guys did the royal curse?”

“Not all of us.”

Boca replied, “A lot of people wanted it. Star Antimony, Iris, Round Table Hall ……

“It’s been over four hundred years. It’s been four hundred years since Lancelot I led the Knights of the Round Table to take over the island of Avalon and rename it the Isle of Glass.

“I remember your mentor taught history – do you know what it means to be a country that has lasted for four hundred years in its entirety without a single break in the middle of the lineage, without a single civil war or rebellion, without a change of kings changing hands, without experiencing a shift in customs? ”

It means decay, and it means change.

(End of chapter)