30—Battle of White & Scarlet“I am no traitor!” I shouted, and then dropped to my knees and bowed. The ginger spilled onto the mat. “Mieko was the one who—!”
“No,” said Chiyome-sama. “While I suppose that Mieko might have gone against her own sentiments and drugged Masugu there to search his rooms, she would never have done it so sloppily.” I looked up in surprise. Lady Chiyome was staring at Mieko, who was bowing beside me. “And of course, if she had wanted him dead, he would have died. No doubt without any of us being any the wiser.”
Chiyome-sama sniffed and looked back down at me. “This was done by an amateur. A child.” She gestured around the jumbled room in disgust. “None of my kunoichi would have made such a mess of such a simple job. Least of all my Mieko.”
I turned to accuse the
