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Tollin proposes a Merchant Guild plan to trace the expensive coat, then tension rises with Paal Crysa's nighttime visit.","summary_language":"en","summary_source":"chapter_translation","summary_status":"editorial","summary_verification":"verified"},"summary":"The Seventh Prince Wants to Bail Chapter 23 focuses on the Young Duke's effort to find the missing children after the carriage accident. As Knight Commander Jack apologizes and says the search of the outer slums yielded no results, the Young Duke asks for the temple records of the older child named Seya and insists on keeping his promise. Tollin proposes a Merchant Guild plan to trace the expensive coat, then tension rises with Paal Crysa's nighttime visit.","key_events":["Knight commander reports failure to find described children in outer slums after night search.","Paal Crysa visits at night, reveals Igo imprisoned for bribery, delivers mysterious key.","Young Duke recalls older child's name as Seya and requests temple records check.","Tollin concludes carriage accident was deliberate to lure knights away and questions disappearance.","Plan made to trace children via Central Merchant Guild when they sell expensive coat for food.","Tollin notices abnormally few small children in slums and suspects deliberate targeting.","Tollin orders escort knights monitored and thugs who attacked Young Duke interrogated and executed.","Young Duke insists on keeping promise to help children citing weight of House Feedus word."],"characters_involved":[],"transcript":{"available":true,"format":"plain-text","language":"en","content":"YOUNG DUKE!\nARE YOU ALL RIGHT?!\nAS KNIGHT COMMANDER, I MADE A GRAVE MISTAKE BY LEAVING YOUR SIDE!\nI KNOW IT'S NO EXCUSE, BUT OF ALL TIMES, MY MEN GOT INJURED THE DAY BEFORE...!\n\nI'M FINE, SO DON'T WORRY TOO MUCH.\nTOLLIN TOLD ME TO GET PLENTY OF REST TODAY.\nMORE IMPORTANTLY, I HEARD YOU WORKED HARD ALL NIGHT.\nJACK, DID YOU FIND THOSE CHILDREN?\n\nAH, YES. WE'VE BEEN SEARCHING THE OUTER SLUMS SINCE LAST NIGHT...\nBUT WE COULDN'T FIND ANY OF THE CHILDREN YOU DESCRIBED.\nWE DID FIND A FEW CHILDREN,\nBUT MOST OF THEM WERE OLDER THAN THE ONES YOU DESCRIBED.\n\nI SHOULD HAVE GONE WITH YOU, JACK.\nDIDN'T I TELL YOU OVER AND OVER YESTERDAY?!\nIT'S STILL FAR TOO DANGEROUS FOR YOU TO GO THERE, YOUNG DUKE!\nTHE YOUNG DUKE HAS NO IDEA\n\nJUST HOW MUCH DANGER HE WAS ACTUALLY IN.\nTHAT WASN'T AN ACCIDENT. IT WAS DELIBERATE.\nHOW DID IGO KNOW IT WAS THE YOUNG DUKE'S CARRIAGE?\nAND THERE'S SOMETHING ODD ABOUT THE WAY THE YOUNG DUKE DISAPPEARED.\n\nEVEN IF THE CARRIAGE ACCIDENT WAS MEANT TO DRAW THE KNIGHTS AWAY,\nIT MAKES NO SENSE\nTHAT NO ONE NOTICED THE MOMENT THE YOUNG DUKE LEFT.\n\nTHERE'S A LOT ABOUT YESTERDAY THAT DOESN'T ADD UP.\nESPECIALLY THOSE TWO MEN WHO APPEARED BEFORE THE YOUNG DUKE.\nTHEY WERE PROBABLY ASSASSINS SENT TO KILL HIM.\n\nTHE SCENE I SAW FOR MYSELF WAS SHOCKING.\nTHE DESTRUCTION WAS EVERYWHERE, AND THE STENCH OF BLOOD WAS OVERWHELMING...\nIT WAS ALMOST AS IF SOME ENORMOUS BEAST HAD APPEARED\nRIGHT IN THE MIDDLE OF THE SLUMS...!\n\nTOLLIN, YOU HAVE NO IDEA\nHOW THIS WORLD REALLY WORKS.\nTHE CRYSA FAMILY COULDN'T HAVE ACTED ALONE.\n\nWE MUST FIND OUT WHO'S REALLY BEHIND HOUSE CRYSA!\nACTUALLY, I THINK ONE OF THEM WAS TRYING TO SAVE ME...\nTHEY WOULDN'T BELIEVE ME ANYWAY. BETTER NOT SAY ANYTHING.\nTHEIR ROBE CONCEALED ALMOST THEIR ENTIRE FACE,\n\nBUT SOMETHING ABOUT THEM LOOKED STRANGELY FAMILIAR.\nTHEIR DISTINCTIVE PRESENCE... THE WAY THEY MOVED...\nAND THAT JET-BLACK HAIR BLOWING IN THE WIND.\nI CAN'T PUT MY FINGER ON IT, BUT THEY SEEMED VAGUELY FAMILIAR...\n\nTHEN I'LL RESUME THE SEARCH THIS AFTERNOON.\nBRINGING IN MORE PEOPLE SHOULD SPEED THINGS UP CONSIDERABLY.\n\nOH, THAT REMINDS ME. I JUST REMEMBERED SOMETHING.\nI REMEMBER THE OLDER CHILD BEING CALLED SEYA.\nCOULD YOU CHECK WHETHER THE TEMPLE HAS ANY RECORDS OF HER?\n\nYOUNG DUKE,\nAREN'T YOU WORRYING A LITTLE TOO MUCH ABOUT THOSE VAGRANTS?\nTHE FEEDUS KNIGHTS ARE MORE THAN CAPABLE OF HANDLING THIS.\nPLEASE TRUST THEM AND WAIT.\nTOLLIN, I KNOW WHAT YOU'RE WORRIED ABOUT.\n\nBUT I MADE THOSE CHILDREN A PROMISE.\nI PROMISED I WOULD HELP THEM.\nYOU KNOW THAT AS WELL AS I DO, DON'T YOU?\n\n\"A PROMISE FROM HOUSE FEEDUS CARRIES WEIGHT.\"\nIF I CAN'T EVEN KEEP A SMALL PROMISE LIKE THAT,\nHOW CAN I HOPE TO LEAD THE PEOPLE OF HOUSE FEEDUS?\n\nI THOUGHT HE WAS STILL JUST A LITTLE BOY...\nBUT HE'S GROWN SO MUCH WHILE I WASN'T LOOKING.\nBEFORE LONG, THIS CHILD, TOO...\n\nWILL GROW INTO SOMEONE AS DIGNIFIED AS YOU WERE.\n...THERE'S NO NEED TO GO ALL THE WAY TO THE TEMPLE.\nHM?\nWHAT THOSE CHILDREN NEED IS FOOD, NOT EXPENSIVE CLOTHING.\nTHAT MEANS THEY'LL HAVE TO SELL THE COAT.\n\nAND AN ITEM LIKE THAT CAN'T BE SOLD JUST ANYWHERE.\nBUT HOW WOULD WE KNOW WHERE THEY'D SELL IT?\nI'LL HAVE THE ENTIRE CENTRAL MERCHANTS' GUILD KEEP AN EYE OUT FOR YOUR COAT.\n\nI'LL ORDER THEM TO REPORT ANY GARMENTS MATCHING ITS DESCRIPTION TO HOUSE FEEDUS\nAND BUY THEM FOR MORE THAN THE MARKET PRICE.\nEVENTUALLY, YOUR COAT SHOULD TURN UP.\nONCE WE TRACE THE SALE, IT SHOULD ONLY BE A MATTER OF TIME BEFORE WE FIND THE CHILDREN.\n\nC-CAN WE REALLY GO THAT FAR...?\nYOU WANT TO FIND THOSE CHILDREN AS QUICKLY AS POSSIBLE SO YOU CAN HELP THEM, DON'T YOU?\nY-YES, BUT...\nTHIS IS WHAT MONEY AND POWER ARE FOR.\n\nIF YOUR INTEN TIONS ARE JUST, THEN USE THEM TO THE FULLEST.\nW-WAIT, WHAT IS THIS MAN TALKING ABOUT?!\n\nHE'S TALKING TO A CHILD!!!\nREASSIGN EVERY KNIGHT WHO ESCORTED HIM YESTERDAY TO THE OUTSKIRTS.\nSOMETHING ABOUT THEM FEELS SUSPICIOUS, SO ASSIGN SEPARATE WATCHERS TO KEEP AN EYE ON EACH OF THEM.\n\nAND WHAT SHOULD WE DO WITH THE VAGRANTS WHO ATTACKED THE YOUNG DUKE?\nINTERROGATE THEM, THEN HAVE THEM EXECUTED.\nI'LL SPEAK WITH THE YOUNG DUKE SEPARATELY LATER.\n\nACTING HEAD, YOU HAVE A VISITOR.\nA VISITOR? I'M NOT EXPECTING ANYONE AT THIS HOUR.\nTHEY SAID YOU'D UNDERSTAND ONCE YOU SAW THEM.\n...LORD TOLLIN, I HESITATE TO SAY THIS,\n\nBUT SHOULDN'T WE TELL THE YOUNG DUKE A DIFFERENT STORY?\nJACK, THE YOUNG DUKE IS SO MUCH LIKE THE FORMER DUKE.\nYOU WERE AT THE HUNTING FESTIVAL. YOU SAW IT YOURSELF.\n\nA MAN WHO LIVED HIS ENTIRE LIFE BY HIS PRINCIPLES,\nONLY TO BE BROUGHT DOWN SO SUDDENLY... AS IF EVERYTHING HE'D STOOD FOR HAD BEEN MEANINGLESS.\nTHE YOUNG DUKE WAS EVERY BIT AS UNCOMPROMISING YESTERDAY. IF ANYTHING, HE WAS EVEN MORE SO.\n\nSHOULDN'T WE TEACH HIM HOW TO BEND BEFORE IT'S TOO LATE?\nON THAT, I AGREE WITH YOU.\nTHE FORMER DUKE'S INFLEXIBILITY PUT THE ENTIRE HOUSE AT RISK.\nOF COURSE, I MEANT WHAT I SAID ABOUT FINDING THOSE CHILDREN QUICKLY.\nIN FACT, IT'S MORE URGENT THAN INVESTIGATING HOUSE CRYSA.\n\nMORE URGENT THAN HOUSE CRYSA? FOR A FEW VAGRANT CHILDREN...?\nJACK...\nHOW MANY CHILDREN YOUNGER THAN THE YOUNG DUKE DID YOU SEE IN THE SLUMS?\nPARDON? WELL... WAIT!\n\nI HADN'T NOTICED IT BEFORE,\nBUT I SAW IT CLEARLY WHILE SURVEYING THE CENTRAL LAND YESTERDAY.\nTHERE WERE FAR FEWER YOUNG CHILDREN THAN THERE SHOULD HAVE BEEN.\n\nIT'S UNFORTUNATE, BUT THOSE WHO COULDN'T ADAPT TO THE HOSPITAL PROJECT HAVE LOST THEIR LIVES.\nAND THE YOUNGEST CHILDREN WOULD HAVE BEEN THE MOST VULNERABLE.\nTHAT MAY BE SO.\nBUT WHAT IF SOMEONE IS DELIBERATELY TARGETING YOUNG CHILDREN?\n\nIF HOUSE FEEDUS LOSES CONTROL OF THE CENTRAL LAND, IT COULD SUFFER A DEVASTATING BLOW.\nFIND THOSE CHILDREN. AS QUICKLY AS POSSIBLE.\n...UNDERSTOOD!\n\nNO ONE EVEN CAME TO GUIDE ME THROUGH THIS PLACE.\nTHIS HOUSE'S HOSPITALITY HAS REALLY GONE DOWNHILL.\nBROTHER...\nIT'S BEEN A LONG TIME, TOLLIN.\n\nHOUSE CRYSA SECOND SON PAAL CRYSA\nI SEEM TO BE SEEING ALL SORTS OF FACES I NEVER EXPECTED LATELY.\nHAS OUR ELDEST BROTHER FALLEN ILL OR SOMETHING?\nSO THE NEWS HASN'T REACHED YOU YET.\n\nIGO HAS BEEN IMPRISONED.\nI DON'T KNOW THE DETAILS, BUT APPARENTLY HE'S BEEN CHARGED WITH ACCEPTING BRIBES.\nDO YOU REALLY BELIEVE SUCH A RIDICULOUS EXPLANATION?\nI DON'T KNOW WHETHER IT'S TRUE.\n\nDO YOU KNOW WHAT HAPPENED YESTERDAY?\nTHE ACCIDENT IGO CAUSED PUT THE YOUNG DUKE IN DANGER!\nWHO KNOWS...?\nIS THAT ALL YOUR FAMILY HAS TO SAY?!\n\nI DIDN'T COME HERE JUST TO ARGUE.\nI HAVE SOMETHING TO GIVE YOU.\n...WHAT'S THIS?\n\nONLY IGO WOULD KNOW EXACTLY WHAT IT IS.\nTHIS IS...\n\nA KEY...?\n\nSO...\nWHAT BRINGS YOU HERE AT THIS HOUR OF THE NIGHT?\n\nNOTHING SPECIAL IS SUPPOSED TO HAPPEN AT THIS POINT.\nOR HAS THE ORIGINAL STORY PROGRESSED FASTER THAN IT SHOULD HAVE AGAIN?\nHOW AM I SUPPOSED TO KNOW IF YOU WON'T SAY ANYTHING?!\nDID YOU SEE A GHOST IN YOUR SLEEP?\n\nAAAAAAGH!!!\n...HUH?\nA GH-GHOST... A GHOST... EEK!!\n\nWH-WHAT'S WITH HIM?\n...WAIT, DOES HE ACTUALLY MEAN IT?","bubble_count":146,"pages_count":43,"source":"community"},"spoiler":{"level":"auto","safe_teaser":"The Seventh Prince Wants to Bail Chapter 23 focuses on the Young Duke's effort to find the missing children after the carriage accident.","spoiler_summary":"The Seventh Prince Wants to Bail Chapter 23 focuses on the Young Duke's effort to find the missing children after the carriage accident. As Knight Commander Jack apologizes and says the search of the outer slums yielded no results, the Young Duke asks for the temple records of the older child named Seya and insists on keeping his promise. Tollin proposes a Merchant Guild plan to trace the expensive coat, then tension rises with Paal Crysa's nighttime visit."},"source":{"canonical_path":"/series/the-seventh-prince-wants-to-bail-wkzthuu4/chapter-23-tru5wa","citation_title":"WebtoonLib — The Seventh Prince Wants to Bail #23","content_type":"chapter_summary","last_updated":"2026-11-03T13:14:55.821Z"},"data_status":"complete"},"untrusted":{"user_comments":[]},"see_also":{"for_series_detail":"/llms-series/the-seventh-prince-wants-to-bail-wkzthuu4"}}