Yori’s face twisted. “Expose whom? Talren will burn you. The city will call you a thief. You’ll be hunted.”
Yori blinked, uncertain. “You want to—?” raw chapter 461 yuusha party o oida sareta kiyou binbou free
“Stay ready,” Kyou said. “If the house wakes, run for the lower garden. Don’t look back.” Yori’s face twisted
Kyou thought of Maren and her money on the table, the twenty crowns that had tasted of obligation. He thought of the farmers whose fields had been transferred and salted. He thought of the party that had been his family and had thrown him out with a ledger under its arm. He saw, in a sudden clarity, a route that stitched a dozen small rebellions into a single fabric. The city will call you a thief
Mikke — the child — was brave in the way that made people keep secrets from walls. She watched Kyou as if inspecting a coin for gold. “Why’d they kick you out?”
“We don’t,” Kyou said. “We recreate it. We find other ledgers, receipts, witnesses. We cross-check. We make a chorus out of one voice. The ghost helps us. It will point us to names that exist in other books. We stitch them together.”