Motive

[00 Months: 12 Days: 18 Hours]

As I turned my back on the joyous family, a nagging suspicion crawled into the forefront of my thoughts.

Oswald Bertrud, the family butler. Just how much was he hiding?

'Is it just my overactive imagination, or is there something more to it?

Shaking off my suspicions as mere paranoia would have been the easy choice, but that wasn't how I operated.

I couldn't afford to let any detail, however minor it may seem, slip past me.

I decided to use <Absolute Appraisal>, but considering how much energy I had spent already, I couldn't afford it.

I decided to go with a less taxing version of the ability.

I focused my gaze on the butler, initiating the ability.

Information began flowing into my consciousness, but only in a limited capacity due to the reduced effectiveness of the Appraisal:

[Native Information]

- Name: Oswald Bertrud

- Affiliation: The Lyma Duke Household

- Level of Danger: Very High

- Alignment: Lawful Good

[End Of Information]