Chapter 32: Too Much Misprejudice
"Of course we have to directly finish this person off without hesitation," Lubbock said without doubt.
Najenda nodded, "Right, your words have some truth. If it were the Prime Minister, he would definitely do that thing. However, the person who faked the Prime Minister's identity didn't die, but was thrown out after being beaten severely. Could the real Prime Minister be that nice?"
This sentence made everyone present shocked suddenly.
True too, could the real Prime Minister have that kind of kindness? Letting someone who faked him stay alive?
No matter how one looked at it, this absolutely did not resemble the Prime Minister's style of acting, unless...
"The person thrown out wasn't the fake Prime Minister, but Honest, the real Prime Minister," Akame said with certainty.
"Hey, hey, hey, this is a joke right? The one identified as fake turned out to be the real Prime Minister Honest? How could a thing like that happen?"
Lubbock said with a face full of disbelief.
Even Bulat beside him showed an expression of disbelief.
The two people absolutely could not believe that the real Prime Minister Honest could be thrown out of his own residence.
"Gaea Foundation might be able to copy a person's outer appearance, but what about a person's expressions, a person's small movements, and a person's daily behavior?"
"Is it possible this Imperial Arms can really make someone change into another person, and even the expressions, appearance, and tone of voice can be exactly the same?"
"Even so, what about the memories of the past?"
Bulat brought up his questions slowly.
If faking the identity of a dead person, that thing could still be understood, but this was faking the identity of a living person.
Moreover, that person was Prime Minister Honest. Bulat really had difficulty imagining how that person did it.
Specifically, the other party visibly replaced the real Prime Minister Honest in front of Great General Budo.
Incredibly hard to understand, it didn't make sense, and was extraordinary.
Najenda nodded. She strongly agreed with the doubts brought up by Bulat, "What you said is not without reason. Actually, I myself also cannot confirm whether the person identified is the real Prime Minister Honest or not."
"I am only analyzing based on general logic. What would the real Prime Minister do after facing a situation like this?"
"Maybe the person disguising himself truly has an unexpected ability, so he could survive from the real Prime Minister's hands."
Leone, who heard up to here, could not help but scratch her hair, "Speaking up to here, you guys still cannot confirm whether this Prime Minister who was thrown out is actually real or fake?"
Najenda smiled bitterly and said, "There's nothing that can be done. This matter is also too absurd."
"Before there is more news and information, we also cannot confirm whether this Prime Minister who was thrown out is real or fake."
Bulat's eyes rolled, then he suddenly thought of a way.
He said, "It's not that there is no way. We can completely find this Prime Minister Honest who was thrown out, then test the other party to find out whether he is real or fake."
"If he is real, we will finish him off. If he is fake, we will pull him into our group."
Leone clapped her hands and said, "This is good! I agree with this plan!"
Mine, who was beside, nodded and said, "Not bad either. I am also very curious whether the person who faked the Prime Minister's identity is actually real or fake."
If he were fake, he could completely be pulled into their group.
Night Raid needed that kind of talent.
Sheele stated that she herself also had no objections.
Akame also nodded. Competent members inside Night Raid were of course the more the better.
Najenda saw everyone agreed, so she did not refuse.
On that very night, she took Leone and Bulat to go toward the Imperial Capital Security Squad.
The Imperial Capital Security Squad had very tight guarding, but for a few experts like them, that thing was absolutely not a problem.
This place absolutely could not stop a few experts like them.
However, the thing that made them shocked was that after the three people sneaked into the Imperial Capital Security Squad, they did not find the existence of Prime Minister Honest.
Bulat thought for a moment, then he took advantage of the time when the Security Squad members were sleeping to kidnap one of the Imperial Capital Security Squad members. After conducting an interrogation from the other party's mouth, he found out the location of Prime Minister Honest.
The person who brought back Prime Minister Honest was the Captain of the Imperial Capital Security Squad named Ogre.
However, since Ogre was captured by a group of soldiers at noon and executed with the method of being cut slowly until dead, everyone considered this person brought bad luck, and they also did not recognize the other party as the real Prime Minister Honest.
After all, how could the real Prime Minister Honest be in a very messy condition like that, and even more impossible to be brought back by Ogre.
This was definitely a fake imitation.
Therefore, the people locked this imitation item into the prison.
After obtaining the information regarding the Prime Minister's location, Najenda and the others immediately entered the prison, then found Prime Minister Honest who was being locked up.
At this moment, Prime Minister Honest's face looked pale and his body was limp. His appearance looked like he only had a little breath left compared to a dead person.
Najenda, in a single look, immediately recognized that this person was indeed the Prime Minister, at least exactly the same as the Prime Minister in her memory.
It was just that his condition was much more miserable.
However, regarding whether he was the result of a disguise or not, that thing still required a process of investigation first.
Therefore, she opened the cell door then walked inside, then conducted a search on Prime Minister Honest.
She did not find the existence of the cosmetic-shaped Imperial Arms, Gaea Foundation.
On the contrary, Prime Minister Honest, who saw Najenda suddenly appear in front of him, instantly had shock on his face.
"It's you!"
He of course knew about Najenda. He even also knew that Najenda had become the leader of the assassination unit Night Raid.
Specially moving to oppose him.
However, the thing he didn't expect was that he would actually see the other party inside the prison.
This was truly a bad situation happening repeatedly.
How could someone experience such bad luck?
Could it be because the first half of his life went too smoothly, so he had to face an end like this?
"It turns out it really is you, Prime Minister."
Seeing herself recognized by the other party in an instant, Najenda immediately knew that this unlucky person was the real Prime Minister.
First, the item named Imperial Arms was a weapon. If a weapon was not near the body, then it wouldn't be able to produce any function.
She had just conducted a search on the Prime Minister's entire body and did not find an Imperial Arms. This thing explained that the other party did not rely on an Imperial Arms to change into the Prime Minister's form.
In addition, another thing worth noting was that the other party in a single look directly recognized her identity.
She used to indeed be an Imperial General, but the problem was that she was not as famous as Esdeath. The people who recognized her actually were not many.
And Prime Minister Honest was one of those few people.
Moreover, when Prime Minister Honest recognized her just now, the thing that flashed visibly inside his eyes was not a pleasant surprise, but fear.
This meant the other party was feeling afraid of her.
Actually, what kind of person would feel afraid of her?
Of course it was the real Prime Minister.
She had joined the Revolutionary Army, become the leader of Night Raid, and lurked in the Imperial Capital in order to finish off the Prime Minister who was that evil person.
The Prime Minister should also know this thing. Now after falling into her own hands, how could he not feel afraid?
Fear was a natural thing to happen.
Through various signs present, Najenda could almost confirm that the person in front of her was the real Prime Minister Honest.
This was truly a situation where a difficult search turned out to be obtained very easily without meaningful effort.
Thinking of this, Najenda almost laughed.
Heaven has opened its eyes. Heaven truly opened its eyes.
However, different from Najenda who had a face full of joy, Prime Minister Honest at this moment only wanted to curse heaven.
Heaven was truly blind. Why let himself face a problem like this.
The moment Prime Minister Honest saw Najenda in an instant, he knew that his life today would not be saved.
To live there was no longer any hope, but he truly was not willing if he had to die just like that.
Even if he died, he also had to give a deep lesson to the person who faked his identity.
Thinking of this, Prime Minister Honest's gaze turned into an unprecedentedly cruel one.
Noticing the change inside Prime Minister Honest's gaze, Najenda could not help but ask, "What ghost trick are you thinking of again? Do you think you can escape today?"
"Escape? Why should I escape?" Prime Minister Honest said while smiling coldly.
"I understand very well that I cannot possibly live today, because of that I also do not intend to escape."
"I only want to remind you, Najenda. Do you think by killing me, your Revolutionary Army will win? No, your Revolutionary Army will soon face the disaster of total destruction."
"What do you mean?" Najenda's heart could not help but thud hard.
If it were someone else, she might not care, and only consider the other party was barking before his death.
But the problem was, the person who uttered this sentence was the Prime Minister who had great power in the government, who had made the Imperial Arms messy.
His words had to be paid attention to. They could not be directly believed, but also could not be disbelieved.
Prime Minister Honest could not help but smile coldly.
"Look at my condition right now. Just yesterday morning, I was still the Prime Minister who was in a high position. Yet tonight I am already a prisoner who has nothing left."
"Why I could fall into a condition like now, all of it is the consequence given by that person."
Najenda's heart thudded, then she said slowly, "You mean it's that person who faked your identity."
Prime Minister Honest nodded and said, "Right, namely the person who faked my identity."
When talking about this person, he clenched his teeth so tightly that his lips were injured and bled. His pale face surfaced a bit of red color due to very high anger.
Najenda could not help but ask, "What kind of method did that person actually use to replace you? Was it an Imperial Arms?"
Prime Minister Honest could not help but smile slightly, "Not an Imperial Arms. If it were an Imperial Arms, I couldn't possibly lose this tragically."
"I can tell you, that person used a kind of special power to change people's cognition."
"Cognition?"
Najenda could not help but furrow her brow. This answer was completely outside her expectations.
Prime Minister Honest coughed once, then said slowly, "Clearly that person's face was not similar to mine at all, but my people, my butler, and my bodyguards all considered that he was the real Prime Minister."
"The thing that made me even more filled with despair was, when I brought Great General Budo to look for him, Great General Budo was instantly changed in his cognition by the other party at the first moment he saw him."
"He surprisingly considered that that person was the real Prime Minister, while I was only an imitation item."
"Precisely because of this kind of power that doesn't make sense and is outside imagination, it made me lose this tragically."
Speaking up to here, Prime Minister Honest's heart was full of a feeling of unwillingness, because the defeat he experienced truly felt very unfair to him.
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