Chapter 73: Phantom Thief Dauphin (17) - Top Secret. No External Disclosure

#73화 Master Thief Dauphin (17) - Top Secret. No External Disclosure

The powerful people of Levruk are trash.

As for the people gathered at the grand mansion now, they were the trashiest of that trash—trash among trash.

This wasn't because Dauphin liked to save the best for last; rather, it was the result of those whose crimes were sloppy or still had room for improvement paying up of their own accord early on—in other words, following Dauphin's 'advice.'.

In aristocratic society, where honor and face were practically assets in themselves, failing to withstand mere 'thief' extortion and apologizing to a 'commoner' while even bringing compensation money was an enormous social loss.

But no matter how humiliating an apology was, it still wasn't something that could be compared to getting beaten senseless by a thief like a dog on the hottest day of summer and then bound up like a bagworm and put on display in the middle of the street.

If only one of them submitted, they'd be treated as a fool who buckled under threats or as a traitor, but if there were others joining the apology, there was all the more reason not to hesitate.

In other words, if they were still holding out even now, with only ten targets left, then they were either fools whose vain pride or stubbornness had eaten into their marrow, or the worst of the worst—utter scum whose crimes were so grave that an apology alone could never cover them.

And those trashy people were currently showing their vile personalities to the fullest.

“Because of one measly thief, I don’t know what kind of hardship we’re all being put through.”...