CH 65

“Even if you say it’s a clue, I can’t think of anything…”

If there’s anything I know, I should have told Ursch-kun, but when I looked at him, he smiled.

“Isabella, maybe you just don’t think it’s a clue, right? Look, just as that pig mask has become a clue to Viscount Hillson, casual things may be important information.”

I see. By combining the information of the game I know with the information of this city that Ursch-kun knows, it turns into information that leads to clues.

But which information will turn into a clue?

While I’m thinking about it, Chris-sama looked around and made a suggestion.

“. . . . Continuation of the conversation. . . Let’s do it in the carriage with Trevor. . . .It’s busy around. . . and the undead are coming.”

When I was told this, I looked around. It was buzzing with the knights who were talking about the person in the pig mask who caused the commotion while listening to our conversation together, and the adventurers who were defeating the newly approached undead. I said a word to the knight who is acquainted with Chris-sama and headed to the carriage where my brother was looking at the necklace.

When Ursch-kun opened the door of the carriage, Trevor-niisama, who was inside, looked back at us.

“Ahh. . . Ursch-kun, you caught up. . . Isabella!!”

Trevor-niisama, who looked at me while talking to Ursch-kun, came down from the carriage as if he just noticed me.

“Isabella. . . you’re safe, aren’t you? I had a thought that you would be fine because you were trained by Daimon, but I was still worried when I heard that you were kidnapped. . . I’m glad, I’m really glad you’re safe.”

While saying that, Trevor-niisama hugged me.

“Oniisama, I’m sorry for making you worry. As you can see, I’m safe.”

While saying that, I pat my brother’s back and waited for him to calm down. After my brother calmed down, he put his hand on my shoulder and opened his mouth awkwardly.

“So. . . I’m sorry that my fiancée Lucy. . . seems to have harmed you. I’m sorry. Let me apologize. . . . . By the way, where is Lucy now?”

“If it’s Lucy, she’s seriously injured because she got caught up in the lightning magic I released. Now I think she’s trapped by the Knights who rushed to the scene. Her life is safe, so don’t worry.”

Trevor-niisama, who heard my story, drooped down after looking around.

“I see. . . For the time being, considering the current situation in this city, it might be safer to be trapped by the Knights. It can also prove that she wasn’t in the city when this commotion happened. . . Let’s talk with her after all of this is over.”

After saying that with a sigh, Trevor-niisama stood up and went back into the carriage. We followed him inside and closed the door.

In the carriage that was silent for a while, Trevor-niisama took the tray with the necklace and put it on his lap. He had to proceed with the analysis of the necklace in a hurry, so in order to do what he could, he dived into the sea of his thoughts in front of the necklace. Alice-chan and Chris-sama started to consult about weapons care and the tactics and signals when working together.

Ursch-kun and I went back to our conversation from earlier.

For the time being, I didn’t know what I needed to remember, so I asked Ursch-kun for instructions.

“Ursch-kun. What exactly should I remember?”

“First of all, I guess it’s a scenes before and after the kidnapping perpetrators and Colors Collector appear.”

With that said, I desperately pulled out a scene that seemed to be related from the depths of my memory. There are quite a lot of events where Geese and Marieta are about to be kidnapped and repel them. While talking about as many scenes as I could remember, there was only one scene that Ursch-kun bit. The end of the Geese route in Ver3. It’s a scene that proceeds to the final battle event with the Colors Collector.

“The main heroine, Marieta, got up earlier than usual to make the lunch that she promised Geese. . .”

When she got up early in the morning and finished making the lunch box, she was ready a little earlier than the time she usually left home. So, an option that can be called the last turning point of the Geese route appeared.

By the way, the correct answer is to leave home earlier than usual and be kidnapped. If you have tea until it’s time to leave, Geese is kidnapped and you arrive at the bad end of death. If you choose to take a nap, you end up sleeping until after noon, you can’t keep your promise, your likability will decrease, and there won’t be any events, so it’s a failure to capture. No matter how hard you tried to get likability until then, it’s an option that will turn everything upside down at the last minute.

It’s a pretty simple option, so few people fail.

Marieta was unconscious after being knocked out by the kidnapper, but as she was held and being carried, she regained consciousness for a moment. You can’t see the culprit carrying her because it’s dark, but the hair ornament that Marieta was wearing falls into the aisle. It’s an important hair ornament with magic to protect her that Geese gave her as a gift. She reached for the important hair ornament that fell, but her body that had just slightly regained consciousness was stiff and and she couldn’t move well. And the hand of Marieta, who was being carried away, couldn’t reach.

At the end of the straight dark passage, while staring at the light of the hair ornament that was getting farther away, Marieta lost consciousness again. At the moment she lost consciousness, she whispered, “Geese. . .”

As if he heard that murmur, Geese, who was about to get into the carriage to head to the academy, looked back and said, “Marieta?”

Geese, who was struck by a bad feeling, stopped at Marieta’s house on his way to school, but he found out that she had already left home. Then he tried to meet her at school, but she hadn’t come yet. He waited for her, wondering if she took a detour, but she didn’t show up. Geese, who was attacked by impatience, was approached by other targets who noticed him. He looked for Marieta in cooperation with the capture targets after telling them the situation.

In this game, the favorability with other capture targets is also reflected in the capture, so you have to increase a certain likability with all the targets. In this event, the five high likability targets will cooperate, and it will be a force against the Colors Collector. As a result of this system of “I have to raise a certain likability with all the capture targets”, Isabella will be convicted at the end of Ver1 even though she isn’t a rival character in the Brian Route.

“In the end, they traced the magic of the hair ornament that Marieta dropped and found the route that was used to take her away.”

“Hmm. I don’t know. By the way, what time do they find the heroine?”

“Eh, I don’t know the time.”

“Ahhh. . . that’s right. You wouldn’t conveniently know the time. So, what about the day being high or at night?”

Hmm. I don’t know if the sun was high when Marieta was found. . .

“Maybe, I think the day was still high when they found Marieta, wasn’t it? After defeating the Colors Collector and being rescued, there is a scene where she sits with Geese in the town dyed red at sunset, saying, “I’m late” and taking out the lunchbox and eating as promised.”

“Does that mean that the place where they fight the Colors Collector is where you can’t see what’s going on outside? If it’s outdoors, you would know if it’s daytime, right?”

As Ursch-kun pointed out, the final battle with the Colors Collector is not outdoors. It’s indoors. But I feel like there were no windows, so I still don’t know the outside time or the scenery outside. Isn’t it weak for information that can identify the location?

“Hmm. I’m sorry, Ursch-kun. It’s indoors without windows, so I don’t know what the time was. But it was a very large place. It’s enough to explode magic like a barrage at the Colors Collector.”

When I said that and apologized for not having much information, Ursch-kun grinned.

“No. That information is enough, Isabella. I finally know where the hideout of the people in the royal capital that our company couldn’t find is.”

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The Colors Collector arc will be over soon. After that, time will fly and the story will advance to the academy arc. (That’s the plan)

Translator:

Trevor is still worried about Lucy even now. I feel like even if finding out that she tried to kidnap and kill her own brother wasn’t enough to make him dislike her, finding out that she tried to do the same to his little sister really should have.

I am reading this as I am translating it which is why I make comments that seem like I don’t know what happens next. It’s because I don’t! Really looking forward to Isabella and Ursch being teenagers. So excited!

I hope you enjoyed this chapter and thank you for reading!