"You must be misunderstanding something, Your Excellency," Chahan said with a slightly awkward expression. He was well aware of what Erwin was implying here.

"How am I misunderstanding things? I haven't pointed any fingers or named any names, so why are you so nervous?" Erwin asked with a smile. "Even if you weren't intimately involved with the spouse of Count Onen, your ex-lover must've had something to do with their family, right?"

Erwin cast his gaze toward Chahan as he spoke.

Chahan lowered his head in silent contemplation for a moment, then replied, "Well... How do I put this? Master Erwin, I'm assuming you're not aware of the fact that Duke Eru and Count Onen are brothers-in-law, which is to say that their wives are sisters."

"Alright, and how is that significant?"

"In addition to those two sisters, there's actually a third one. The eldest sister married Duke Eru, the second-eldest sister married Count Onean, and the youngest of the three sisters married the quartermaster of our Boll Dukedom, Baron Klay."

"I see," Erwin said as he looked at Chahan with a meaningful expression. At this point, he already knew the identity of Chahan's ex-lover.

Judging from what Chahan had just said, the eldest of the three sisters was residing in Newfando as Duke Eru's wife, so she could be eliminated from the list of suspects. Furthermore, Chahan had vehemently denied any ties between him and Count Onen's family, so...