Volume 2 - CH 212

“How foolish. As we just expected.”

“That’s right, Ouren-kun. Under the circumstances, it’s impossible for him not to hear that”.

“Then why hasn’t the prince said anything ……? If there is no instruction, it means the prince hasn’t said anything yet, right? Or did someone send a messenger as the Prince’s word? If they did, that’s a different story. ……”

“…… No, there isn’t. There is no such thing.”

That means he has no idea at all, does he?

I don’t know where the prince is right now, but I’m sure he’s inside the castle.

Why the prince has the authority to move the knights, let’s put tht aside for now..

What we need to do now is to deal with what is in front of us.

In the meantime, what I’m going to say is just speculation.

This is something we will have to confirm first.

As adventurers, we will not even be allowed to enter the castle, so we will have to leave this to Roiger.

“Roigar brings the Knights to the defense at all costs with this airhead.”

“Who is the airhead!!”

“Shut up.”

We’ve been ignoring him like air because he just stayed still doing nothing.

This guy finally talked when we entered this room.

Um, for now, the defensive position is set up with just the adventurers.

The supplies seem to be in order, so all we have to do now is wait for the enemy to arrive.

I’m going to go back to patrolling the area to kill some time.

I’ll leave it to Maria, who is familiar with everyone else, to figure out how to move the adventurers around.

“Will that be alright?”

“If you can’t do it, that’s fine.”

“Somehow I’m pissed off.”

There’s one comment too many, one comment.

Well, let’s leave it at that.

The defense can be managed by the adventurers.

Then the knights will come and we”ll give them a job, no matter what they think of us.

This is the final decision.

“You’re the one who’s reluctant to make the leader quit or something like that.”

“Though that makes me think that this brother of mine is going to be the Commander. ……”

“…………”

“Say something, you bastard!”

On second thought, I certainly don’t like the idea.

Well, I don’t care about that.

It’s none of my business!

“Well, you’re right about this. Bring the knighthood, no matter what it takes. Got it?”

“I understand.”

At least we’ve decided what we’re going to do.

Okay, I’m going to do some business.

“Let me sneak into the castle for a bit. I’m going to look for the prince.”

“Oh, sure. …………”

“””HA?”””

You startled me.

The hell.

“What nonsense are you saying! Do you think you’re going to get away with that for nothing!”

“If I tell you a snake did it, it won’t be a problem!”

“What snake?!”

“Here it is.”

Golems are really useful.

It’s a great skill to have for scouting.

What I made this time was a tiny little snake.

I set it roughly the size of a very small spouse, but it was impossible to make it that size due to its material which is a soil.

Maybe the size of a mouse?

At a glance, it looks just like a branch.

“No, wait, Ouren-kun. You can’t show it to me before me and make me carry it for you.”

“I was just speaking hypothetically. I have to ask if the prince really doesn’t know about this. We don’t even know if we’ll see the prince.”

“Still, that’s wrong.”

“Sigh ……. You’re so stiff. ……”

What should I do?

I thought it was a great way to gather more information. ……

…….

I’ll sneak it out after they leave.

“Hey, what’s with your expression!.”

“Nah, it’s a look of resignation.”

I lied, duh.

Anyway, Roigar and Tsuar were to return to the castle and report back.

That means we’re over here.

Well, I don’t have anything to do. ……

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A butler was walking down a very long corridor.

After taking the prince to his room, he is on his way to his room because he had something to do.

He has to go into his room, get a certain thing, and go to the knight’s office.

He did not know why he had to go, but he had a strong sense of fixation that he had to do it.

…………”

His face is always straight.

It is hard to tell what he is thinking.

From the outside, it looks normal, but if one looks closely, the eyes seem to be unfocused.

The butler suddenly put his hand on the door of the room.

“V-Vasti-sama!”

“What’s wrong? Is something wrong?”

“I-I would like to have an audience with the prince right now!”

“Let me take the message. What is it?”

“Monsters! The monsters are coming!”

“Ah, I see.”

Vasti Ruckle grabbed the man’s head.

The man looked surprised by this, but before he could shout, Vasti activated something.

The man suddenly became relaxed and stood still quietly.

Vasti nodded his head in satisfaction after confirming this.

Then he called out.

“I understand. Then I will tell him that.”

“…… Eh? What? …… what am I ……?”

“Your message has been received. Then, you should work on your training.”

“…… y- yes! Then, excuse me!

The man turned on his heel and left.

He didn’t remember what he was doing there at all, but he knew that he had conveyed something.

There would be no problem since the message had been given.

So he ran to his post without worrying about anything.

Vasti looked at the man and his expression quickly returned to a straight face.

He finally walked into the room.

[Humans are pretty easy to manipulate, aren’t they?]

The black mass that was clinging over the door shouted out.

This time, the black mass on the floor responded.

[That’ s a lot of work because it’s a bunch of stuff. ……. I’m going to have to brainwash everyone around him. Isn’t it too much work for us?]

[Eeh heh heh~. I’m glad I can do it so easily. Your ability is really amazing, though. You can also brainwash the people around the people you brainwash. It’s like a plague.]

[That’s really good ……. And what are you doing? …… Should you have to focus so much on one person?]

[I’m talking about perfect brainwashing! It’s very hard to reproduce facial expressions and voices, you know? I can also see the memories, so I know how that person behaves and what they say and do.]

” If you only have one person, …… you need to make more of these ….]

[I don’t want to hear from you, who can only erase a part of the memory.]

The conversation ended as soon as the black mass stuck to the floor let out a loud sigh.

After that, Vasti came out.

Inside the crystal in his hand was a centipede.

Putting it in his pocket, he walked off somewhere.