84 – Grand Duke Aka – 84
Dinner was served at Baekeun Palace.
A large table full of food and the servants watching us eating them.
In fact, knowing that this is a small place, we ate while having conversations that looked as normal as possible.
… … A very ordinary looking meal.
“Hey! It’s too much! Ying eh ah huh hung huh! Hee-oh-ho!”
Rosé is hurriedly stuffing both cheeks into her cheeks.
Even so, the funny thing was that even though her cheeks were so swollen that she couldn’t pronounce it properly, she continued to search for food with graceful movements like her hands.
“Rosé… … . Then maybe I’ll catch up. Eat slowly.”
After hearing Priscilla’s words, Rose stopped her hands, chewed and swallowed the food, and nodded.
“hehehe, thank you for your concern. Priscilla. but… … Is Priscilla’s home-cooked food so delicious?”
“Gee, home food?”
“yes! It’s Priscilla’s house, so it’s home-cooked food!”
No, it seems you’re the only one who calls the imperial family’s food home-cooked.
In any case, the meal ended in such an atmosphere and we all gathered in Priscilla’s room.
“I promise you, an assassin will come inside tonight.”
I was the first to start talking.
“yes? Right now? Anyway, we arrived today, so will the raid come today?”
It was natural for Priscilla to have questions. It was because the emperor made security and security stronger than usual for Priscilla, who had returned to the imperial family after a long absence.
“That’s why it’s today.”
The reason was simple.
it won’t be today The day I thought that was the perfect timing for an assassin.
“Remember that our enemy is not an external enemy, it is an internal enemy. No matter how thorough the security is, it will be easily broken by the enemy within.”
“… … okay. If so, can we capture the assassin alive and dig up information?”
I shook my head at her question.
“I will know today’s mistake and bring more vicious guys. Most likely, summoned people who are not afraid to reveal information will be sent. Rosé, that.”
“four!”
At my gesture, Rose took out a large wad of paper from her pocket and unfolded it.
“… … Isn’t this the map of the Silver Palace? How do you do this?”
“I made it using my skills. Since there are so many familiars, it didn’t take long to learn the structure.”
Along with that, it was great that he had memorized all the ways of the imperial family in past games, but there was no reason to explain this.
“As everywhere, there is a secret passage inside Baekeun Palace. here and here. And here it is.”
I started explaining by pointing here and there on the map I had created using all the information I knew.
The places I pointed out were information known to anyone who was a member of the imperial family or who managed Baekeun Palace.
these places are
“However, few people know this place and this place.”
While saying that, I pointed to the kitchen and the largest room on the second floor. That is, it pointed to the room we are currently staying in.
“yes? Are there secret passages in these two places too?”
Priscilla asked me in a surprised voice if this information was unknown to me as well.
“Yes, to be precise, it is a place made together when the imperial family was built a long time ago.”
“… … How the hell do you know that? This is the first information I have heard of.”
These places were passages made by the developers as shortcuts in the imperial part of [Summoner Academy].
It was a place designed so that users don’t have to walk hard… … That’s why I was sure that not many people knew this passage.
However, you can’t say that you saw it in the game, can you?
“There is nothing I do not know.”
In times like these, it is best to be bold.
“Because Gregory is Gregory!”
“That’s a good answer. Rosé. Please don’t praise me.”
“lol… … .”
And Rosé, who watched me with this attitude closer than anyone else, was already used to it.
Priscilla, Amel, and the instructor just shook their heads silently as if they didn’t feel the need to argue here.
“Coming back to the point. After sending my familiars through these passages, I learned that the door on the other side had recently been opened.”
“Wait, Gregory. Few people know the passages you mentioned?”
Raphael questioning.
I nodded in affirmation.
“Yes, ‘almost’ none. In other words, there is a minority who knows.”
Amel puts on a face that understands my words.
“In other words, among the people except us, those who know the passage are suspects.”
“You can see that. But, that’s not what’s important. Because we still have no way of knowing the guys who have information about the passage. So, there is only one thing we have to do.”
“… … What is it?”
The instructor asks what I said.
“warning.”
“warning?”
“Yeah, warning them will make them nervous. And when he gets nervous, he… … It is bound to make mistakes.”
This is what I learned while living a social life in modern times.
“If it’s a warning, how are you going to warn it? Didn’t you just say it would be hard to get information from assassins?”
It was Hugo who asked the question this time.
I thought he was a mindless idiot, but he seemed to have a brain to think about.
“That’s simple.”
With a grin, I started explaining the plan.
* * *
A late night when even the moonlight disappeared. The stone statue in Priscilla’s sleeping room began to shake little by little.
A stone statue that does not tolerate even the slightest sound and is pushed aside very slowly.
The assassins, looking around to confirm the location of their target, Priscilla, flinched when they found Raphael lying right next to Priscilla, but soon began to slowly approach them.
What they wear is items that hide their presence.
It was almost impossible for Priscilla and Raphael to notice them unless they were shocked.
Yes, if it were Raphael and Priscilla.
“——It’s quite late.”
I, who had transformed into wheel form and was hiding in the pitch-black darkness and crouching flat, cut the two guys’ feet with the thorns on my arms.
“──!!!”
The two guys tried to quickly retreat after realizing that they had been discovered, but one ankle at a time had already been torn off by me.
“Where are you going to run away?”
[(Skill: Black Swamp) is activated.]
As it is, it used the black swamp to block all exits to the outside.
Except for the entrance to the room. And at the same time, the other party who opens the entrance and appears.
“… … No matter how many times you watch it, you never get used to it.”
“I mean.”
“Gregory! We are here!”
“… … Are those guys?”
Amel, Hugo, Rosé, and the instructor entered at the same time, and the guys who were blocked until the last exit looked at each other and nodded.
Agjak. A noise is heard, and the two fall down at the same time.
He had chewed the poison he had hidden in his teeth just in case.
Everything up to this point is as expected scenario.
“Rosé. that.”
“… … It’s a pity, but it can’t be helped.”
Rosé said that and handed me the tobacco leaves that she always put in a plastic bag.
I picked it up, went over to them, opened my mouth, and stuffed it in handfuls at a time.
“Raphael. Please.”
“However much.”
Then, Raphael approaches the fallen guys and puts his hands on their heads. A white light glowed softly in her hands, covering the guys’ heads.
“Amel, Hugo, Instructor. Cut all their tendons.”
When the others cut their tendons, Raphael heals them.
poison? With the leaves of the World Tree and Raphael here, the poison is no big deal.
With the fruit of the world tree in case, it was virtually impossible for the assassins to commit suicide.
After a while, the assassins slowly open their eyes.
Seeing their eyes widened, they seemed quite surprised to learn that they hadn’t been reverse summoned.
“Did you sleep well? Well, now it’s your turn to play with us.”
I said that and approached the two guys.
It seemed that he was trying to resist me momentarily, but his expression wriggled as if he felt something wrong with his body.
The tendons in both arms and legs were severed, but there was no way they could move.
“Give up because all the memorization in your mouth has been removed. You guys have to work hard starting tomorrow.”
“… … ?”
Could it be that you didn’t understand what I was saying? Leaving behind the unresponsive guys, I spoke to the party.
“Tie the two to the top of the Silver Palace. for all passers-by to see. And take turns watching over them.”
Yes.
This is a warning.
Our intention was to spread the fact that someone who tried to assassinate Priscilla existed throughout the imperial family.
You can ask if it’s a situation that everyone will know if you say it tomorrow anyway.
In fact, the instructor even asked me that question. However, it was a completely different matter to see the assassin with your own eyes and to hear it only with words.
Also, you won’t be able to give them a definite warning just by conveying them in words.
We decided to warn them in a direct way.
By executing them right in front of everyone.
With that, we intended to use it to leave a message for the enemies of the imperial family.
The hunter is us, not you.
That you are the prey.
Well, the hunting season has begun.