Chapter 291

Princess Messina Vans da Ittisel tossed and turned at the discomfort brought about by the breastplate she had worn for the first time.

The ceremonial armor made only for the royal family had enchanted magic more important than the original performance of the armor, so there was no need to worry about strength, and as a result, it was as light as the clothes she was wearing, but there was nothing I could do about hardness. The only person watching was Heyri, an aide, but the butler, Heyri, who was still watching Messina, who was fidgeting and unable to move much to keep her body in shape, smiled lightly at the owner and quietly approached him.

“I’ll adjust the shoulder straps and tighten the left and right belts a bit more. You may feel a little pressure, but it’s better than being annoying every time you move.”

“Um, do that.”

As a skilled butler and knight, Heyri’s measures were over in an instant. Messina, feeling more at ease, smiled contentedly and began to focus on her work again. And after a while, he didn’t go back to his place and looked at Heyri, who was still a little closer, and asked.

“Is there anything you want to say, Heyri?”

“...no.”

Actually, there are many things I want to say. From why Messina, who has no talent for combat, had to put on armor and supervise underground waterways under the name of the royal family, why she moved like that and even drastically reduced the number of guards, and so on. It wasn’t that I doubted my master’s intelligence, but it wasn’t easy to understand that he only chose to act far from safety.

Messina respected the servant’s mindset and nodded slightly, then returned to work. Even so, the work of sitting down with an expressionless face and grasping the report brought from the area where the investigation was completed was only carried out in a building with the grandiose name of ‘Temporary Command Center for Underground Water Ecology Check’.

After killing the traitor Envelde, it was nothing more than a leisurely investigation from the victor’s point of view of the threat he may have planted. To emphasize that there is no threat, Messina, who is accompanied by a minimum of escorts and everyone knows that there is no battle or connection, must drive a wedge by moving.

It had to look that way and fortunately it did.

‘Too many things are being sacrificed to preserve the prestige of the Holy Light Cross.’

‘I should thank God that the comical situation where I couldn’t even investigate while pretending to be relaxed even though I knew that the basement of the academy was obviously the most dangerous is over.’

After a brief break, Messina stretched lightly and rose from his seat. But her head was still working harder than ever to calculate the profit and loss.

Since the threat has already been massively withdrawn, they can’t move the knights in a hurry. For the same reason, the Holy Knights cannot move first in situations where demons may be crawling under their feet. Since it was an openly managed underground aqueduct, there was no way to hide their movements, and rumors would spread in one form or another. Even the empire, which did not want the balance of the kingdom to collapse, cooperated... but it was a cramped situation where the empire could not move the warriors on a large scale to avoid the stigma of wielding power by intervening in the kingdom.

Even if the tower of hard work collapses, should we turn off the fire right away or should we endure the risk of being burned along with the tower of hard work? While everyone was grunting over the two options, it was Duke Lesrom who came up with a third option that could be a solution.

According to his secret advice, the plan was adjusted in such a way that the 4th princess directly contacted Eldmia and made him move.

The young man, who knew how to use his brain to the point where he wondered if he was a real commoner, even knew how to attach a reason for his movement. I was dumbfounded when I heard that he had drawn not only his close friendship with Sir Cheryl, who was attending the academy, but also his position as an assistant to the professor, in order to create a feeling that he was inevitably helping.

‘Where in the world do you look like you’re 15 years old?’

so efficient

It seemed like he could understand why the nobles were fighting so hard to appoint or use the boy. Now, even if demons or whatever comes out from the basement of the academy, it has become a situation where it is rather beneficial if they can only subdue them.

Now, as long as he wasn’t hurt, it didn’t matter if he couldn’t subdue him. It wouldn’t take 10 minutes for the request entrusted to Heyri to be in the hands of the Holy Knights of the Holy Light Cross, and it would take less than 20 minutes for them to go to the academy.

The story of Enbelde’s remnants who fled underground while attending the academy ‘clumsy’ joined hands with devil worshipers and tried to prevent them in advance, while the students were aware of and stopped them, cooperated with the paladins to eradicate them. The story is quite stimulating. And it was something a lot of people would like.

Of course, if you had witnessed what was happening in that underground waterway right now, you might have had a hole in the top due to stress, but there was no way for Messina to know that.