Chapter 123
"From what I can tell, the illustrious Stone family should have all of its members captured by the Filoan Empire, where the patriarch of your supposed family had a feud with a noble there. That makes me question your presence here." Jeanne commented as she waited for Darius' reply.
"Do you have a lie detector? Or someone with the ability to sieve through the truth of words objectively as a skill or talent?" Darius asked seriously.
Jeanne was temporarily thrown off by his answer, not expecting him to jump to such a different matter altogether. She furrowed her eyebrows and replied coldly.
"What does that have to do with my question?"
Darius smiled. "It has everything to do with it."
He raised a finger and twirled it around slowly, while placing his cheek on his clenched fist, gazing at Jeanne with mockery. "You see, your… audit… assumes that the information you are relying on is truthful and valid fact. I'm simply calling it into doubt."