Responses
They need it to have flavor in the story, that's how it works
Arbitrary writing of an author who wants to push along a mid plot.
The same could be said about every drama, webtoon, novela,....like everything.
What was the point of all of that all they needed to do was arrest him as soon as the real ledger was found you really don’t even need an excuse your nobles for christs sakes is every arc in here going to be as outrageously dragged out and over the top as this one