48 – Leaf-17
“No one died, and I didn’t do anything beyond my authority. There wasn’t a big problem.”
I smiled leisurely and looked at the investigator who was looking at me with an ugly face.
“So, are you telling me to believe that now?”
“You should do that.”
“There was an organization that sold drugs to warlocks, but behind it was in fact a secret group called ‘Kazoot’, to which Conrad and the kingdom’s swordsmanship teacher belonged, and even Fabian’s murder was part of their calculations?”
“The details are a little off, but if you think about it as is, it won’t be too much off.”
Conrad was a collaborator, not a member, and although Fabian’s murder may have been induced, it was ultimately his own will.
But what the investigators needed now was affirmation, not denial. He had to admit that the ‘nonsense’ situation he thought had actually happened.
“Well, I understand what they meant by doing this. But what right did you have to investigate them?”
“The princess herself gave the order.”
“…What?”
“Because I am a member of the student council.”
From here on, I couldn’t help but be nervous.
‘Kazoot’ is not the only one who wants to fight. Wanting to create a clear and simple structure of good and evil and expel the other was no different from the nobles of other empires.
Those who stand behind the cause of ‘I did not give in to the curses and threats of the warlocks and confidently defeated them!’ Can build a justification for raising an army in a convenient and safe way and prove their loyalty to the emperor.
Nobles who were not active in the fight could have been shot at, saying, ‘Aren’t they in collusion with the warlock!’, So there was no reason not to raise their voices.
“Her Highness the Princess?”
“Yes.”
But, I also don’t have any evidence.
The princess’s senses are keen, and the security in her student council room is much tighter than it looks.
Magical tools that film video or record voice emit quite unique magic signals. At least in the student council room, no records could be made without the princess’s permission.
“There are many nobles watching your actions.”
“I know.”
Right now, Conrad’s family was a powerful family that could mobilize a large number of imperial officials.
“Do you really think the princess will agree with your lies?”
“I don’t know that.”
It is true that I received instructions, but the princess also has a choice.
Even if she doesn’t admit to giving her orders, no harm will come to her.
It would be no different from a betrayal of me, but she is a princess. I couldn’t give up my relationship with her forever just because she treated me badly once.
‘How do you plan to move…’
Although the princess is a student, she is someone who cannot help but care about the gazes of numerous nobles.
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Even if it weren’t for that, I would have felt regretful inside.
With the support of so many people behind her, she would think she missed the opportunity to drive out ‘evil things’.
Possibilities must be kept open. When she picks her fight, she should be mindful of what happens.
“Wait a moment. If you speak this firmly, there is no reason not to call the princess. She happens to be nearby…”
The investigator who was dispatched to investigate her situation had his subordinate call the princess.
There was silence. The investigator and I looked at each other and said nothing.
He opened his mouth carefully first.
“…I don’t know how much of what you said is true, but the evidence you showed. At least if the existence of ‘Kazot’ is true… I should express my sincere gratitude.”
His eyes didn’t seem very grateful, but his mouth was praising my work.
“It is a serious threat that an organization like this was operating within the Academy, with members not from evil warlocks but from honorable knights.”
The investigator was still skeptical, but there was too much evidence I had accumulated to dismiss me as a terrorist.
Conrad’s own words and numerous letters that came from the room of a Kazot gang member who was a swordsmanship instructor.
He might have been able to forge one or two letters, but there were hundreds of letters whose handwriting matched his.
Afterwards, simply by comparing the contents of the letter with the ‘events that actually happened’, it would not be difficult to prove that they were members of an existing criminal organization.
“However, impersonating the princess is a different matter. Even if she doesn’t have to make the unreasonable claim that she ‘moved under orders,’ she won’t be in prison for long.”
It was an inexcusable felony for a cadet without any authority to attack an academy teacher and attack another cadet ‘before finding clear evidence.’
Of course, I could not have been treated as a simple criminal because of what I had done, but laws and rules were bound to be something that could point a knife at even those who had the right intentions and produced the right results.
“Woe, Princess?”
The door was opened. Yurishia entered the interrogation room.
I looked into her eyes.
Yurishia is a good person. She is upright and generous. She trusts people easily and is not someone who easily breaks her beliefs.
But her firm belief is that when she is sharpened, she can cut through the skin and bones of others sharper and sharper than any other sword.
“I gave the order.”
But she took my side with surprising ease.
“Are you serious about that, Her Highness?”
“Yes. There was some dogmatism on his part in the process of completing the work, but considering the seriousness and urgency of the situation, it was not something that could not be understood.”
His strong and resolute voice brought the conclusion to fruition.
“That’s…”
“I will take full responsibility.”
I did not expect this. It seemed like her emotions, not her reason, would not be able to accept this.
“The night he moved, I also moved.”
‘…What?’
“It wasn’t something I discussed with Wade, but I also received the ‘interim report’ he gave. Although it was a step later than that, I was able to deal with the remnants that he couldn’t handle.”
I bit my lip tightly and nodded slowly.
I didn’t know this. I was quite busy that night, and it was impossible to keep an eye on the princess while trying to catch Kazot.
‘Remnants that could not be dealt with…’
For some reason, I couldn’t see Victor. I wondered if he had run away, but if he had, there were too many items found that investigators should not have been able to seize.
‘Are you a well-fed lion? Under…’
People who see the princess for the first time are often overwhelmed by her dignity and her firm and noble authority.
But I knew her true face.
Yurishia is an emotional person. She wears a mask and is only acting as ‘herself as a princess’, but her nature is closer to a beast running around driven by instinct rather than a human being who makes rational judgments.
Of course, that doesn’t mean it’s not good. Because it is not necessarily the nature of a living thing to eat someone and seek pleasure.
Trusting and trusting someone and feeling happy when those expectations are met.
Feeling comfort and relief when an evil person is punished and can no longer commit evil deeds with his dirty body.
It was a much more archaic desire than an ordinary ‘animal’, but it was also close to instinct. And now, the princess had fully satisfied that desire.
“Are you saying that all of this was ordered by the princess?”
Of course, she doesn’t have any official authority either. However, there is a difference between a ‘warlock without official authority’ and a ‘princess without official authority’.
“Yes. Please, I hope you will give Wade praise and praise.”
She took on all her responsibilities. There will be nobles who revolt against the princess’s actions, but they ultimately have no choice but to submit to power.
Even if they end up overturning what they said yesterday, they are the ones who cannot abandon their loyalty to the princess.
“I understand.”
The investigator nodded slowly.
‘…’
Sending Victor alive may not have been necessarily a moral decision.
No matter how he explains it, he is ultimately a drug dealer. What he sells is drugs.
Spreading their harm throughout society instead of the academy could never be said to be the right thing to do.
The princess made the right choice. Even with Victor’s vague statement, ‘I didn’t do anything wrong,’ he wouldn’t have been able to block her sword.
Was sacrificed. Just as I held up ‘Kazot’ as the scapegoat instead of ‘the overall warlock represented by Fabian’, Victor also became the scapegoat who alone absorbed the princess’s anger.
I had a bad appetite, but I couldn’t stop.
I made a judgment. I made a choice. It is clearly a tremendous boon that the princess helped me, and she must somehow find a way to take advantage of this.
Kazot will now begin to pay attention to ‘me’ in earnest. There will be a conspiracy and operatives so large that it will be difficult for the students to withstand the academy, and I will have to fight it to my death.
The door was opened. As I came out of the interrogation room, I could feel the cheers of the students filling the hallway.
“Waaa!!!”
“Those investigators didn’t do anything strange, did they?”
“How can that be? The princess just came in too! She must have protected Wade!”
The students looked up to me as a hero. There was no time to be lost in thought right now.
“…Thank you.”
I hid my emotions and smiled as brightly as I could.