Chapter 169

“I’ll do it.”

“Are you sure you can really handle it?”

“Of course! If I just deliver this… you’ll let me go, right?”

Albert’s jaw was trembling uncontrollably.

Cedric watched him with a faint smile. Since this was how things were bound to end, he wondered why this man had ever been so confident in the first place.

“I can’t make it as if nothing ever happened. I can try to smooth over the side effects of Anghelic, but what happened on that ship…”

“I’ll pay back every bit of the tax I evaded! Including the value-added tax—every last coin! And about the… the people who died…”

“You were very selective about choosing people with no families to compensate.”

Cedric took another sip of tea.

If he didn’t swallow it down like that, he felt his disgust would show on his face.

“How about this? Release the people who were…