134 – Bait – 8
It’s pretty embarrassing to say that with your own mouth, but Lyra considered herself a very talented person. Infiltration, sabotage, assassination, information acquisition, disruption, and more. She was a pro She was a spy, or an operative, or an assassin, she was confident that she could perfectly do whatever ordinary people thought of as ‘this’, and in fact she did it perfectly. She is confident that she will do it perfectly even now of course. Because she wasn’t soft enough to dull the skills she had learned in a moment of peace.
Well, she was overly perfect and held too much information in her hands, and she was abandoned by Prince Wilhelm… , Wouldn’t that be the fault of the crown prince, who didn’t even become a vessel to reap herself for?
Anyway, in that sense, Lila didn’t take this incident too seriously. She doesn’t know where she got that unusual drug, but she was just a bunch of thugs from the things she did and the quality of her gang.
Anyway, sane guys wouldn’t have bothered to come to this neighborhood without anything to pick up and eat, and they wouldn’t have caused serious problems to the children of nobles and elders by so ignorantly spraying medicine. You can make a lot of profit right away by playing a game like this, but in the long run, it’s not worth it at all. It’s not for nothing that large-scale organizations grease the guard forcefully. This means that there is no one at the top of the organization who can see the future for a long time. Perhaps the real organization going back and forth is more serious.
Well, that’s about it, I was really reluctant to play the bait role, so I turned it down…. In fact, she herself would deny it, but it wasn’t a choice that was completely unmixed with her personal feelings. Of course, Mikhail, who asked her for her bait, was seduced by her, and her refusal was also mixed in a little bit. Of course, that’s not the biggest reason either, and even if she didn’t feel offended at all, she would have said no in the end.
So how did I not gather so much information with the intention of helping? As befits a shabby thug group, it took less than 15 days for Lira to get her hands on the boss’s taste in underwear. In fact, it wasn’t that much to say that they were incompetent enough to be ignored, but unfortunately, this time the opponent was bad.
But why didn’t you tell Mikhail the information you obtained? To be honest, it was just grumpy. Even Lira herself could not deny this fact. Isn’t there a way to express it other than being grumpy when she doesn’t bother to deliver it right away and voyeurizes Mikhail’s hardships alone?
Yeah, she was a bit caught off guard to be honest. Mikhail seemed to be quite wary, probably because he thought that Wilhelm was behind the drug, but it was because Lira thought differently. She probably had Wilhelm behind her, but it was a little different from what she thought of Mikhail, she thought.
Seen from the point of view of an aide who served the crown prince quite closely, Wilhelm preferred to throw something like this at a human he had no connection with, and then completely remove his hand. Therefore, she thought that the drugs they had were something to be wary of, but the guys who had them were nothing more than a bunch of lowly thugs. In fact, when she saw that she had been stripped of all the information she had done so far, she was right in her thoughts.
Yes. As she said before, ‘medicine’ was something she should have been wary of. To be honest, I was too careless. Lyra shook her head. Mikhail was watching her with her eyes ready to explode at any moment.
“I know it sounds like an excuse to say it in this situation. First of all, this was Cordelia’s choice. It’s not that I pushed my back, it’s that he thought about it alone and chose it because he thought he would regret it if he didn’t act now.”
“After…. Now that you understand, could you please explain?”
After hearing Lira’s words, Mikhail sighed. In that moment, his head had cooled down a little, and the burning eyes had faded a bit, but he still couldn’t hide his nervousness.
“First of all, to explain why Cordelia got involved in this, I have to tell you about your easy stealth, Mikhail.”
“Are you complacent? You prepared a large-sized robe on purpose for the mask?”
“That’s the problem!”
Lira widened her eyes. For Mikhail, who still couldn’t figure out which part of herself was the problem, she picked out each one and explained it.
“I don’t have time to explain these things one by one, so I’ll just say it briefly: If you’re wrapped up like that by yourself, you’ll look suspicious to anyone, right? Cordelia isn’t stupid, and everyone else around her walks around as a normal person, but if she’s alone and wears a mask and even a robe, then of course her tail gets stepped on.”
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Mihail muttered with a slightly shocked face, as if he really hadn’t thought of it at all.
“Was it that serious?”
“Uh. So Cordelia didn’t get tired of it and she kept following her.”
“You mean Cordelia was following me?”
“Uh. Every day from the first day until the day you finally bought the medicine. He walks around like that every day, looking like he’s going to do something to anyone, but even if he’s like me, he’s scared and follows him around.”
“Then the sound of that cat at that time… ?”
“Ah, that’s what I said. I thought things wouldn’t end well if I left it alone, so I tried my best.”
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Mikhail exclaimed that the part he had been concerned about had been resolved. The true identity of the person I felt at that time was Cordelia. Then, realizing that it wasn’t what was important, he brushed the lyre again.
“That’s not what’s important right now.”
“Anyway, I originally meant to hold you like that and tell you to stop playing dangerous nights and sleep peacefully in the dormitory, right? But first, he asked if there was anything he could do to help.”
“…… “
“I’ve said it before, but I said that if you don’t want to do it, you don’t have to do it.
“So Cordelia stepped forward to play the role herself.”
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Mikhail sighed. Conversely, if he finds himself in a situation like Cordelia’s, would he really be willing to sit back and wait when told to wait? The answer was obvious. He would never have sat still. Even she didn’t actually have her friends gone. She can’t blame anyone. If I had to blame it, the people who randomly sprayed drugs on the students were bad.
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Michael, who roughly understood why Cordelia was here, suddenly discovered something strange.
“But, then, isn’t there something particularly wrong right now?”
“Ahahahaha….”
As Lira said, isn’t there anything particularly problematic about this situation? Lyra laughed awkwardly at Mikhail’s question.
“I thought I was too, but the plan went a little wrong.”
“Plan? What plan.”
“You and I are fine no matter how much we are exposed to this smoke right now, aren’t we?”
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Mikhail thought about what acting meant, but then he remembered the first time he came here, and then he understood what she was talking about. It’s because they’ve roughly adapted to this hazy, turbid air, and even at this moment, this place is full of white smoke that the victims are constantly spewing out. It’s underground and there’s not even basic ventilation, so it’s natural. Mikhail also felt discomfort to the extent of burning his eyes or having trouble breathing, but it felt the same in other performances.
Lyra asked, pointing at her into the air.
“Do you know what the smoke and the smoke-producing drugs have in common?”
“… Is it harmful to the body?”
“In the first place, it only works for those who took the pills that were sprayed. Are you and I all right?”
After hearing all of her explanations, my curiosity about many things, such as why Mikhail himself was fine, why he didn’t even lock the door, why all the other students smoked the medicine they recommended without thinking about it, were all answered.
That’ll be all right. Because she herself had never taken the pill. She wouldn’t even have to lock the locker room where the students were locked. All of this smoke filling the hallway must have been the jailer’s lock. It was only natural that all the students took the suspicious medicine they recommended without question. Because of that smoke, I must have lost half the taste in the first place. It wouldn’t be strange if he took everything he was given and smoked it. At this point, it’s funny to call it acting. It’s not smoke, it’s poison smoke.
However, if that’s true, there was one thing that didn’t make sense. Mikhail asked.
“Then what about Cordelia?”
From his point of view, Cordelia was almost certainly not normal. The widened eyes and staggering gait proved it. Postpone getting drunk? That’s absolutely not the case. Mikhail was able to assert to Cordelia that she did not have the acting skills of her own. She probably would deny it even if she asked me. It was clear that she had been poisoned.
Lira let out a sigh.
“That’s the problem I was talking about. Now it’s time to think about how to get that liar princess back.”
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Meanwhile, Cordelia, who had been dragged along like that, was surprisingly half-conscious. Barely holding on to her fading consciousness, she reflected on why her replacement job had gone so twisted.
Apparently, she said that if she had never taken the pills, she would be fine even if she was exposed to smoke…. It seems that she herself is not fine. She still nods with her eyes closed. Precisely, it was not that her eyes were closing, but that her consciousness was going out, but for Cordelia now, either way didn’t matter.
Is it wrong to believe in Lyra? No. At least, she’s never lied to herself about this one. And, isn’t it cool for her to blame others as soon as things go wrong with her subject, which she said she wanted to do?
Then what was the problem? While she was being dragged along, a scene came to her mind as she pondered for a long time. The moment she hid her pills under her tongue, pretending to have eaten.
She completely forgot. No, but isn’t it too mean to hit what she put in her mouth for a while and then take it out? Her consciousness began to flicker.
The next time she comes to her senses, she apologizes for bothering her unnecessarily.
Her consciousness, which had been flickering, was completely turned off.