CH 70

“I think it’s better not to take Geese-sama and Brian.”

While I was worrying, Ursch-kun said that and shook his head.

“Is that so? If Ursch-kun says so, I won’t take them with us, but. . . can I ask why?”

“It’s okay. First of all, one thing is that it’s better not to increase the number of people that know Isabella has alot of items and abilities. The other thing is, it’s too risky to take them to fight the pig masks that we couldn’t even defeat earlier when they have already been defeated once. We don’t know how they fight in the first place, so there’s no teamwork or anything.”

You’re right, Ursch-kun. If Ursch-kun hadn’t stopped me, I would have taken them only with emotionalism in the revival of the loser.

“Then, I have no choice but to leave them.”

“Hmm. . . Bella-chan. That’s no good.”

When I decided to leave Geese and Brian behind, Alice-chan told me to wait.

“What? Do you want to take the two of them?”

“You’re wrong. It’s good to leave them behind, but if you don’t take them, they will probably follow us, or we’ll get dragged down by something we don’t need. You should keep them locked up after making them sleep until noon tomorrow.”

Alice-chan. . . You’re too careful. For those who have just been rescued and protected from kidnappers, it would be the work of demons. Well, as for what you’re claiming, I don’t know what to say.

“Alice-chan. I know how youfeel, but shall we take a more peaceful approach? They also want to cooperate in solving this case. I’ll allocate something they can do to help us at a level where there’s no danger, and I’ll have them go there.”

“Do you have something else to do? For example, what is it?”

“So, the Knights captured Lucy and took her, so could you go and see if Lucy’s friends from the magician organization try to get in contact with her? In the first place, Geese-sama ran out to confront his sister Lucy, didn’t he? I think you siblings need to talk about it soon. It would be helpful if Brian-sama could accompany Geese-sama to make sure that the siblings don’t go out of control. . .”

I asked Geese and Brian who came out of the back room to go see the situation of the captured Lucy. However, Brian rejected the idea while shaking his head.

“No, even if I accompany him, I won’t be any deterrent!! I don’t want to be entrusted with this!!”

Certainly, it will be difficult for Brian, the egg of the magic knights, to break into a confrontation between the magician siblings.

But it’s okay.

“I don’t think it will develope into the conflict that Brian-sama is worrying about, so it’s okay. You’ll face eachother from across the prison, and Lucy is dying because of me, so she can’t fight.”

“Why is she dying?! What did you do?”

“I didn’t do anything. When I released magic directly above me, Lucy who was next to me almost died instantly even though the magic didn’t hit her. It looks like she survived it with a defensive magic item.”

“I can’t grasp the situation at all!!”

That was unexpected for me too, so it can’t be helped that you can’t grasp the situation just by listening to the story. I don’t think this is all because of my poor explanation.

After that, Brian, who didn’t seem convinced, and Geese, who didn’t say a word at all, rushed into the carriage of Schneiver & Co., and were sent off to the knights. I don’t know where Lucy is inprisoned, so they went to find out from the knights.

It took a long time, so the four of us hurried to the ruins of the abandoned factory. It seemed that it would take some time to crawl up on their own from the state of being burried alive in the rubble, and by the time we arrived, the pig masks had not yet come out of the ground. I wonder if I should be amazed that it took so long, or if I should praise the determination of crawling up from under the ground and factory rubble on their own.

For the time being, I looked underground with [Lust] and [Sloth], and there were people who were clearly undead, so I purified them and they disappeared. In addition, the undead pig skins, which became pig masks, were also purified and extinguished.

If the pig mask is gone, they won’t be able to crawl up. I thought so, but one of them didn’t stop. I think he’s probably the strongest pig mask man who I fought underground. . .

I couldn’t appraise him calmly earlier, so I’d like to appraise him now if possible, but unfortunately, I can only activate two Mystic Eyes at the same time. In order to see the pitch dark underground, I had to use [Lust] and [Sloth], so I’m frustrated that I can’t activate [Greed King].

“Bella-chan. . . Can’t we explode all the rubble?”

Hmm? Sure, I’m starting to feel good about that, right? For information about whether there is anyone else that was captured or what their purpose is, we can ask the magicians who were captured with Lucy, so there is no need to wait for him to crawl up.

Going by that, I tried to take out Ursch-kun’s special bombing item that didn’t use magic stones from the item box, but Chris-sama stopped me.

“. . . . . . Alice. . . I have a bad feeling about that. . . . It’s better to stop it.”

“Chris-sama, where is that unpleasant premonition coming from?”

“. . . . . . I don’t really know. . . . . but it’s the flow of emotion. . . that way of defeating it. . . his heart will run away. . . . I don’t understand it either. . . but. . . . . . it’s better to stop it.”

What do you mean his heart will run away? Something must have been caught with his [Pride King] ability, but because of Chris-sama’s low conversation skills, I have no idea what he’s trying to say.

Alice-chan and Ursch-kun, who also didn’t seem to understand the meaning, tilted their heads and thought about it.

“Hmm. His heart will run away. . . . Ah!! I might have understood.”

“Eh? Ursch-kun, so you understand now? What do you mean?”

“I was appraising the pig masks while putting up the defensive wall underground. Only there was one person who had two names.”

Two names? I’ve never seen such an appraisal result before. What do you mean?

“It’s strange, right? Why is there two names? Huh? I wanted to look into it a little more, but Isabella and the pig mask were moving around at a great speed, so I could only read the appraisal results by name. I didn’t have much time. But thanks to Chris-sama, I understand why there were two names.”

Having said that, Ursch-kun wrote the names on the ground with a stone he picked up.

Ryan Hillson

Aaron Nick Hillson

“‘Aaron Nick Hillson’ is the name of the current Viscount Hillson. And, ‘Ryan Hillson’ is the name of Viscount Hillson from four generations ago. Ryan Hillson was a sorcorer who belonged to the magic division of the Kingdom of Roserial and the first Viscount Hillson. He’s the one who solved a certain case and was promoted to viscount.”

“Why does the name of the first Viscount Hillson overlap with the name of the current Viscount Hillson?”

“I haven’t been able to appraise it properly, so this is just a prediction. It might be a forbidden technique. I’ve only read about it in literature, but it seems that there is a way to with your own blood for generations and take over the body. So, if you don’t defeat it properly, the operator will run away to the next body. Isn’t this what Chris-sama was talking about when he said ‘his heart will run away’?”

The next body with his own blood. . . Is it the heroine Marieta, or her half-sisters, Miriana and Barbara?

It’s no good!!

Moreover, if there are illigitimate children other than those three, I can’t even guess anymore. I can’t think of a way to chase it. I feel like it can definitely escape.

“Well, what is the ‘proper way’ to defeat the practitioner who uses that technique. . . ”

Before I finished, I thought that the ground behind Ursch-kun had spewed up, and Viscount Hillson jumped out of the ground with a lot of dirt. He looked back in surprise and bit Ursch-kun’s neck and tore one equipped [Anti-Soul Necklace] and the meat of his neck.

When tearing off the necklace, it seems that there was a large burden on Ursch-kun’s neck or head, or because the meat of his neck was torn off, the remaining [Anti-Soul Necklace] that wasn’t ripped off judged that he died instantly, and as the necklace shattered, Ursch-kun was instantly resuscitated, but Ursch-kun continued to fall forward.

When I hurriedly supported Ursch-kun’s body, I heard Alice-chan’s scream.

“Chris-sama!! Chris-sama, please pull yourself together!!”

Ah! There it is! They’re in another bad situation! I know that they wouldn’t let them actually die at this point in the series, but that is one huge cliffhanger.

I had such a hard time translating this chapter. I spent more than 20 minutes on translation apps and Japanese to English dictionaries just trying to make Chris’s explanation understandable before finally giving up and deciding to come back to it. Then I read the next 3 sentences and realized that it wasn’t supposed to be understood. I seriously wanted to cry.

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