Spoil me pls

Spoiler about the actual killer
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It’s the ML stepmom a.k.a duchess adler, she want to get rid ML and claim the adler household it might some like revenge as she actually a spy from foreign country (someone said that ML father killed the stepmom father) they also want to claim right the mining right that can be used as a tools for war
Andddd the ML butler (forgot his name) actually also the spy that work together with the duchess


For when will she stop suspecting the duke i don’t know when since in the novel it would take longer for her to realizes that ML was innocence and found out that the real killer was the duchess

Im shaking my head so hard. You can already tell from hints in the story that this might be it but bc FL is a dumbass mascarading as a detective it's played like hur dur what a mystery while she keeps susing out ML even though she admitted to herself already that her suspicions are unreasonable. At least that's the vibe for me and I'm currently on ch.40

Right? I feel like her suspicion on ML was kind of stupid but the duchess also playing a big role here since she want to make it that our ML was the killer (so i can’t really blame FL) but seriously there is a lot of hint and prove that ML was innocent yet FL keep doubting him, it kind of unfair since ML was geniune to her :(

I feel like my head is spinning trying to make sense of everything

I feel like my head is spinning trying to make sense of everything

Oh wow that's such a painful plot twist

What was the hint?

I can’t really point it out since i already forget about it (yes i have a gold-fish memory *sob*), but the most biggest hint that i’m sure he is innocent was when she pointed out that he can’t stand the smell of blood, and we can see how he keep fainting at the smell of the blood

While being a killer (tho it’s not always through violent way) it was impossible to begin with if you have that conditions, even for me even tho i wear a mask i can still smell a blood… well still it was based my own observation lolol it could be wrong but the spoiler told me that i was right and the serial killer was someone else

been a while since I read this too, but there's that what kuroi said + hints about ML's mom or "someone" being out for his ass + mentions of her being from another country after FL explained how there's gonna be something-something I forgot; war or smth with that nation.
And the picture slowly pieces itself together, while FL seems to only ever suspect ML because of one sentence she clapped her eyes on in the dumbass summery of some story she never read.

Oooh okay okay

The way you wrote your comment is so fucking funny.
I agree, no suspense in who killer is, just feels hur dur mystery kiddy detective game

but the thing is its quite literally her job to play as a detective considering she used to be a professional prosecutor … and we readers are the only ones who can see things for Dukes POV so i wouldn’t blame her. she’s not dumb it’s just what prosecutors do!

Prosecutors are different from detectives, and lead less of crime investigation appearances than it is often confused with.

Prosectors deal with the law side (presenting evidence and explaining why they should/not be convicted - detectives, they investigate the details of crime.

Prosecutors do not usually do interrogations or infiltrations. That's a police related job.

The author has amalgamated multiple roles and FL keeps insisting she's a prosecutor which pisses me off a bit, but it is what it is ٩(๑❛ᴗ❛๑)۶

oh makes sense… but i still think her obliviousness is quite justified tho!

If that's your standard for a learned prosecutor promise me you'll never go vote.
She admitted to herself already that her suspicions of him have no real ground to stand on yet still acts like he'll open the nine gates of hell on her. There are evidence and puzzle pieces for his innocence all round, but she'd doddling around like any typical FL protag bc the author has no clue how to write smart people. She's as valid as my expired gym club membership of 2022.

Maybe!
I would probably try justify it internally by pointing out her harsh internal bias (since she sincerely believes in her book)
And unconscious anxiety and suspicions that comes with unfamiliarity in a new world.
No astounding logical revelations to me, and the art is carrying but it's not that bad I guess.

yup! more or less what i was thinking about too

Omg not Alfred too… I had a feeling with the foreshadowing with the stepmother duchess but Alfred too ╥﹏╥ had a inkling but at the same time wanted to believe in him