Volume 2 - CH 373

9-7. Arrangement

First of all, let’s sort things out. ……

What is happening now is that Prince Kreis has been kidnapped by the Vulpan Kingdom, and Reizen, who used him as a hostage, has turned against us.

And a war is about to break out to get Prince Kreis back.

As for the devil, we’ll deal with that later.

We don’t have any information about the devil at the moment, and we have to solve our own problems.

We will keep in mind that they are not the enemy for now.

As for the war, it seems that the Kingdom of Salettana has yet to take the initiative.

The main reason is that Prince Kreis is being held hostage.

The moment you start a war, you don’t necessarily know if you will be killed. ……

There seems to be a debate going on between the cautious faction that wants to ask what the objective of the war is first, and the extremist faction that wants to forcefully get him back.

Well, I don’t know if they really want to go to war, but since they’ve kidnapped a royalty, they need to show that kind of resolve.

It may be difficult for anyone to remain calm about what the kingdom of Vulpan has done, though.

He is a prince, after all.

I can understand what the extremists are saying, since they may be directly involved in the affairs of the kingdom.

Therefore, the proposal was …… a covert rescue.

They kidnapped him in the same way.

I think that would be a good idea if we go there with the intention of doing it their way.

And then, …… for the selection of the personnel, …….

“Us and the Thunder Bow?”

“They are the ones I’ve already talked to. They are going to be useful. Ouren-sama also has similar skills, so I think there will be no problem.”

“What are we going to do about Alena and Houen?”

“My idea is to make them blend in with the army. …… It wouldn’t be surprising if they were going to kill us when we have an army ready to go.”

“But this is a matter of negotiation. They won’t kill us right away.”

“I hope so, …… but we don’t know what they want.”

“That’s also true. ……”

Don’t act carelessly if you don’t know what they’re trying to do.

However, if the Kingdom of Saletana negotiates for the purpose of rescue, this side is overwhelmingly at a disadvantage.

The royal family’s precious son.

How dare they come up with such a daring idea of kidnapping him?

“Still don’t we know what they want?”

“Unfortunately, and also that it would take a long time just to get there.”

Was it about 20 days one way?

That would certainly be a slow way to get information.

…… But those robed figures are soldiers of the Vulpan Kingdom.

We were attacked once before the war started.

It’s like they aimed at us.

Did Reizen get threatened and give them some information?

Possibly. ……

“Hey, Uchikage. That guy was really trying to kill us, wasn’t he?”

“…… yes.”

“No matter how much he was threatened, would he go that far?”

“…..I don’t know. I didn’t engage in the fight with him.”

“Huh, but they didn’t go after you. ……”

“They didn’t even fight me.”

Well, that’s true …….

I can’t really say that we actually fight them.

But you know….. with this, it’s decided that we’ll go on a mission to rescue Prince Kreis,…….

I would like to do something about Reizen. …… Well, in that case, we will still have to go to Prince Kreis to see if we can get him back.

But I don’t think the other party will give up on us early and run away.

At the very least, we should be prepared to deal with the other robbed person, so we have to be vigilant.

“That’s right. That robed woman that Uchikage fought. She’s …….”

“Apparently, she has the skill of self-enhancement and the skill of inflicting a weakening effect on her opponents.  Alena later told me that my movements were slowing down.”

“Oh I see ……. that debuffing skill seems like a pain in the ass.”

“Although I think it is something that can only reduce speed, it is still a threat enough. Please be careful when confronting them.”

“I guess so.”

The fact that we haven’t been attacked in the last three days is a miracle.

The other party also did not know where we were staying, right?

However, they are probably assassins, and they are probably very good at finding out those kinds of things.

Perhaps they are replenishing their forces.

I mean, trying to fight them when all of us were gathered here was just odd.

Although we lost.

It may have been an action that relied on Reizsen’s….. skill.

In any case, we have to talk to Yurie, Roze and the others first.

“Uchikage. Do you know where they are?”

“I think they are at the guild right now, talking to Maria guildmaster. Would you like to head there?”

“Yea. If possible, let’s pull Maria out as well.”

If it wasn’t for me, Reizen wouldn’t be able to be stopped.

I need to have her buy as much time as she can.