Episode 19. Operation to exterminate knapul (4)
“Is this the Marquis Lecter?”
Iris asked, pointing at the mansion. The wizard who teleported me nodded in affirmation.
“Yes. Here is the Marquis of Lecter. However, if you want to join the family of marquis, you’ll need to talk to them at least a few days in advance and reveal your identity. Ah, now that I think about it, I know that recently, people are not allowed into the mansion at all. It seems difficult to meet Marquis Lecter……. Are you going back like this?”
“No. It’s okay. Master gave me permission to do it freely.”
“Master?”
The wizard is puzzled.
The only person Iris noticed was Prause.
‘Master told me to focus on tracking down and monitoring Marquis Lecter, so it won’t be a problem if I go in without permission. On top of that, if I can kill even the demons, I’m sure Master will praise me!’
Actually, it wasn’t without problems.
It’s because Prause is already aware of the fact that Marquis Lecter is related to the demons.
It was because it was Prause’s job to take responsibility and compensate for the problems that would arise from the girls’ selfish behavior.
But even though she was Iris, she didn’t even think about that.
Because of his absolute trust that Master wouldn’t let him do anything wrong, he was unaware of what he was doing, even if it was a little off.
She eventually proved that although she behaved like an adult on the outside, Iris was still a mentally immature child.
“There are all kinds of ways to meet, so you can just go.”
“…… Is that true? I’ll just trust you for now. Since you are from the Empire, please always pay attention to your actions.”
The wizard teleported away and Iris and Maria looked at the mansion of the Marquis Lecter.
“Iris.”
“Huh?”
“What do you think of living in a mansion like this with Master?”
Maria threw a question out of the blue to Iris, who was contemplating how to get past her gate. She glanced sideways at Maria to get her intentions.
“For now, the first thing to do is to focus on what Master asked me to do, but… …. Hmm. I don’t think living in a place like this would be bad. It means that Master’s ability has been recognized that much.”
“Isn’t it? Do you think Master needs to stand out a little more?”
“That’s true. Since Master is thrifty, wouldn’t he refuse to live in a mansion like this? Furthermore… ….”
‘I think it would be a little lonely to have a separate room in a spacious mansion… ….’
Since Princess Seri took care of Princess Seri at the Aus mansion, she was Iris’s personal selfishness, who did not have the opportunity to sleep with her like when she lived in Sekul.
“Moreover?”
“Nothing. But why are you asking that out of the blue?”
“Oh, just… …. I thought that it would be good for Master to rule the territory like Duke Aus. As you know, Ausse lives in harmony with other races and humans, right? Even if it is an empire that committed a massacre, that’s because the emperor is bad, not the humans themselves……. There are people you can trust, like Master or Duke Aus. To be honest, living here is much more comfortable than living in the forest.”
‘Isn’t that what you mean by accepting human beings?’
Iris felt a strange sense of incongruity at Maria’s disorganized words.
It was obvious that she still hated humans, but when she suddenly said this, she couldn’t help but wonder.
Iris, staring at her, noticed belatedly that Maria said this while conscious of Prause. And Maria, who was conscious of Iris’s gaze, hurriedly took matters into her own hands.
“Oh, don’t get me wrong. It’s not that humans have improved, but that their culture has brought more convenience to life—”
“Let’s think about that story after the liberation of slaves.”
Iris cut Maria off.
“For now, we should focus on the work Master has entrusted to us.”
Iris felt something unpleasant about listening to it, and she couldn’t stand it. Realizing that she had almost inadvertently become angry with Maria, Iris sighed inwardly and moved on.
“Yes. Sorry. Wasn’t it too sudden?”
“No. I also want Master to live in a house like that.”
Iris let her awkward air flow naturally with her smile.
“Then let’s go.”
“Yes.”
But it wasn’t until Maria noticed that her reaction to Iris wasn’t the same as usual. She also said that the feelings she felt softly from her were not simply something that could come out of her priestly relationship.
Feeling a sense of incongruity with each other, they approach the wall of the mansion.
Before entering, Iris raised the tip of her nose cautiously, closing her eyes and focusing on her sense of smell.
Iris, who had been sniffing her surroundings for a while, hurriedly covered her nose.
“Awesome!”
“What’s wrong, Iris?”
“What a stench…… !”
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Iris’ face wrinkled. Beast races have more sensitive physical senses than other races, so they had to suffer in this area.
“Stink? I don’t know what the smell is…… I can definitely sense an unpleasant aura over this wall. I think it’s Magi.”
“…… Okay. As Master said, there were demons here. Maria, let’s go in.”
“Let’s jump over this wall. There are knights roaming inside the mansion.”
“Okay.”
“「Invisibility」.”
Maria cast an invisibility spell on herself and Iris.
Her invisibility is wind-type magic, which distorts the atmosphere around her so that she cannot be recognized.
“This is not completely hiding. If there is someone inside the mansion who can detect mana, there is no choice but to get caught.”
“It’s okay. I just need to be able to infiltrate. Now that I know there are demons here, if I can cut off his head, I won’t be able to say anything about the invasion.”
Iris spurred her ground and jumped on her wall. Maria climbed onto her wall in the wind.
The knights who had been wary of her surroundings looked up at the wall, but were unaware of the two. Seeing them looking only at a distant place, Iris moves.
“Let’s go.”
I step on the wall and run towards the annex. Arriving near the annex in an instant, the two men were ready to fight at any time.
Iris put her hand on her sword and focused on the presence she felt inside her building.
‘Someone is coming up from the underground?’
“Two people are approaching the entrance. Get ready.”
Iris falls off the building and waits with her sword half drawn. The moment her demons popped out, she was thinking of using the Illusion Flash. Maria also had her mana in her grasp.
“—I warned you. Keep your promise.”
“Yes. I will keep my promise.”
Kikik.
The door to the annex opened and the two walked out leisurely. The identities of the two were Kyokyo and Marquis Lecter.
‘As expected, Master said! But… ….’
Iris immediately changed the position of the sword handle and grabbed it. It was because when Lecter was by his side, he couldn’t use the wide-range skill Illusion Flash.
“Oh, did you have guests?”
“A guest?”
Lecter tilted her head at Kyokyo’s strange smile. Due to the current invisibility magic, Lecter couldn’t see the warriors.
“Nice to meet you, warrior disciples. Come to this humble place—”
While Kyokyo spoke leisurely, Iris spurred her on the ground and thrust out her sword.
“Welcome to Chung Island.”
A sharp stab.
Iris knew that Marquis Lecter next to Kyokyo was an ordinary human, so she judged that she would not be able to respond to her movements, so she launched an attack without hesitation.
Hook!
However, the results contradicted her judgment.
It was because the tip of Iris’s sword, which was aimed at Kyokyo, pierced Marquis Lecter’s torso. Kyo-Kyo, which she was aiming for, was in a state where she did not take any damage, thanks to her being out of the range of the Illusion Fullness just before her sword touched it.
“Keah!”
The Marquis Lecter vomits blood.
She wasn’t just stabbed by a sword. Lecter, who made a large hole in a circle centered on his sword, poured out torn organs along with an amount of blood that even potions could not handle.
“Oh my~ I didn’t know you would have such a sasin-like side, right?”
Kyokyo brainwashed her Lecter to protect her own body, and then she said it slickly.
“I… what have you done to me…… !”
“You worked hard. Can you leave the rest to me?”
Puffed up.
In the end, Marquis Lecter, who lost all his strength, collapsed helplessly. As Iris stared blankly at it, a sense of despair flashed along with her guilt on her face.
And Kyo-Kyo, who was observing Iris carefully, raised her accent, feeling a sense of joy.
“Oh… ! Do you like that look? The expression of a human who committed a sin for the first time……. Oh, is it Suin? It’s sweet anyway.”
“This Demon Tribe…… !”
Iris hurriedly swung her sword, but Kyo-Kyo was not weak enough to strike her sword, unable to escape her psychological shock.
“I’m sorry, but at this rate, you think I killed Lecter, so I’ll break the spell?”
She snapped her fingers as she said that. Then the wind that surrounded Iris and Maria dissipated, and the knights began to see the two of them.
“Hey! Who is there?!”
Other knights who heard the cry of one knight begin to gather. Seeing that, Kyokyo couldn’t hold back her laughter.
“Marquis!!”
Looking at the fallen Marquis, he rushed at it. And her knights rushed towards Iris with her sword.
Since the knights had been brainwashed by Kyokyo for a long time, they only looked at Iris and Maria alternately and pushed her sword.
“How dare you kill the Marquis over a different race?! Lay down your weapons and surrender! Otherwise, I will kill you right here!!”
Iris closed her eyes tightly at the shouts of the knights.
Maria pondered whether or not to use her magic on the knights gathered around her, watching her Iris’ reaction.
“I’m looking forward to it. How will the aristocratic murders that will spread in the Aium Kingdom in the next few hours be dealt with? And I am very, very curious how your master will deal with this.”
At Prause’s mention, Iris finally let go of the string of reason she was holding on to. And when she opened her eyes again, Iris’s pupils were stained with those of a beast.