The Usurper Appears in the Dead of Night – Part 04

Patricia Zylberstein was roused in the middle of the night and learned about the unprecedented incident at the Sea Dragon Hall. She was told that the hall itself couldn’t bear its own weight, and the walls burst, but she didn’t buy it for a second.

“You’re telling me that, despite nothing like this ever happening before, the walls of the storage vault just happened to explode last night of all times, during the auction period?”

It was faintly bright outside.

Wiping the sweat on their forehead, the person in charge of the Sea Dragon Hall, answered, “Y-Yes.”

“That’s impossible! Someone was obviously behind it!”

“B-But the explosion came from the inside. One plain statue seems to have been destroyed, but aside from that, nothing else was damaged.”

“That’s another problem! Only this plain statue was destroyed? How does that even happen?”

“Since there’s rubble everywhere, we assumed it was destroyed along with the wall. The rest