Volume 6 - CH 1.7

Part 7

It was a single person room, but it was a wide room that seemed like six people could stay in it alone.

At any rate, a place that seemed like it was a room was an entry hall.

The meaning of it might not be understood, but there was an entry hall in this private room, and it was much more vast than a single room of a normal inn.

After passing through the entry hall and entering the room, it was decorated with paintings and large vases, and was gorgeous and luxurious.

Diablo went passed being surprised and went to being exasperated.

「It’s as if it’s a king’s bedroom.」

「Fufu……The quality of the decorations aside, the design might not be all that different.」

Alicia made a wry smile.

She approached near him.

「What is it?」

「I thought I would take your cloak.」

「U, umu……You are quite tactful.」

He took his mantle, the 《Call of Darkness》, off.

The mantle that he had burned before, the 《Curtain of Dark Clouds》 had a Bad Status Prevention effect, and an effect where he would have one HP remaining.

On this new mantle, the 《Call of Darkness》, it would bestow 《Fear》 on all enemies.

Since Bad Status effects didn’t work on high level monsters in the MMORPG Cross Reverie, he habitually used the Dark Clouds, but in this other world, he often went up against low rank opponents.

According to the settings, 《Fear》 seemed to cause enemies to cower in fear──The effect in the game was that they would become unable to attack for a set amount of time.

Alicia hung that mantle on a coat hanger.

「Is this place to your liking? This room is a place where successful Adventurers lodge. By enjoying such extravagance, they are able to personally experience the success they acquired themselves. I am sure that it is for that sake that it has gone in the directing of having an excessive air of luxury.」

「In that case, there is no meaning to staying here with another person’s money.」

「Fufu……The other reason is for the sake of protecting important people. While you are at this inn, the High Chief Priest’s safety will be kept.」

「That is important.」

「Even if you do not go outside, you can buy anything that can be purchased in this town, and it is possible to call physicians and beauticians to the room. There is no need to worry about her figure being seen by authorized people of the Church.」

「It would seem that you have an understanding of the gist of the situation. Did Rem write that much in her letter?」

「No, it was only a few lines saying that your companions increased by three people, what your expected arrival date was, and that she “wanted to know about a secure inn”. Other than that──I had known what the High Chief Priest’s face looked like.」

「Fumu.」

He acted calm with his usual Demon King role play, but he was astonished in his mind.

So from only that amount of information, she presumed that “there was an important person that should be protected”.

「No, wait. Lumachina’s face should have been concealed though?」

「Fufu……At that distance, it is enough as long as the eyes can be seen.」

Alicia poured water into a cup from a pitcher, added an aroma with a lemon, and placed it on the table.

「Here.」

Diablo sat down on a sofa.

「First, I suppose I shall listen to your information.」

「Since it is hard to say in a loud voice, would you mind if I sit down next to you?」

「I will allow it.」

「Thank you very much.」

She sat down next to him, and went into a distance where their shoulders were on the verge of touching each other.

Since they were probably going to have a talk where it would be problematic if they were heard by someone, he had given her permission but……

She was close.

He was nervous.

Her interior was broken, but Alicia was a beauty. Moreover, right now, she was dressed up appropriate for the daughter of a noble.

She wore an elegant dress that had little skin exposure, but it instead was a “virgin killer”.

Clothes that kill virgins──What that is isn’t in the shitty riajuu meaning of being clothes that are hard to figure out how to take off, but in the meaning that although they didn’t have a slutty feeling and looked innocent, they were clothes that made an appeal of their femininity even like that.

Virgins inexperienced with women would shy away from women that exposed a lot of skin. It was because they gave off a feeling that the worlds they lived in were different.

──Well, even with women that wear neat and clean clothes, I thought that they didn’t live in the same world as me though!

As Diablo’s thoughts fell to the dark side, he was brought back with Alicia’s voice.

She whispered into his ear.

「Ufufu……Diablo-sama, thanks to you having disposed of the king’s spy, it seems that the matters about me haven’t been reported.」

With a sneer, she expressed a dark smile. Light was reflected, and her glasses shined in an orange color.

Making a complete change from the elegant expression she had on just before that moment, she seemed like a villain. She was deranged.

「I, I see……」

What she meant by the king’s spy was the suspicious ninja. He had been attacked by that guy at the inn at Faltra City. Since it seemed like his companions would get injured if he went easy on him, he hit him with powerful magic and defeated him.

However, after he was praised by Alicia with that evil-looking face, he felt like he had done something inhuman. Since his true nature was that of a timid person, Diablo couldn’t calm down.

Alicia bit her thumbnail.

「The achievement of having prevented the Demon King’s revival at Faltra City which is at the national border was evaluated. However, I was made to take the blame for having relied on Adventurers, for how I was not there at the emergency, and for the death of the Holy Knight Sadraa whom I was accompanying.」

「Hmph……How incorrigible.」

A court service was a terrible problem.