Chapter 1 E 7 (Escape 3)
Dogagaga!
An explosion resounded.
The door not just opened but destroyed to Smithers.
"Now! Please enter..."
Seria voice resounded.
At first, when Seria was going to use flame based magic, Rolph thought that she was going to break the door by melting it with high heat.
However, Seria understood what Rolph worried about.
For Seria and Rolph who can use magic art, they will be okay, but for ordinary soldiers, it would be fatal.
That's why rather than doing that, Seria immediately cooled the door rapidly using ice related magic toward the heated door. Making use of thermal expansion.
A smell of rusty iron hung in the air, which is the unique scent of blood.
"This is..."
"What happened here..."
The two people at a loss for words.
The characteristic of his robe. Make her could not have mistaken.
"No~~~~! Grandfather!!"
Seria broke down and fall to her knees.
Losing herself, Seria holds Gaies body in her arms.
Even for Rolph who had gone to many battlefields, he's still not used to see a dead body with such merciless wounds.
And, if you think about the condition that Gaies neck is broken, one can see that the criminal deliver decisive blows to Gaies back where he's crouched down when his respiratory tract was blocked up.
"Just who did such a cruel act..."
A resentful word comes out from Rolph's mouth.
He just thinks that the weak had died.
For Rolph, he's a fellow soldier who has been fighting together for years
The flame of anger because of her grandfather have been killed dwelled in her eyes.
It is not good to have both commanders lose their calm.
After that, Gaies who's her grandfather took her in and brought her up.
Right now he does not have other choices other than try to calm her down for now.
She's a genius who at a young age have been appointed as a junior imperial court magician.
Although her calmness has been restored, the death of her family is still affecting her heart.
"Rolph-sama! Seria-sama!"
"There's a survivor. This person is still alive!"
In a few minutes, the soldier who tried to confirm all the body comes back reporting to Rolph and Seria.
""What!?"" Is that right?"
Rolph and Seria rushed toward where the soldier have been lying down on a sea of blood.
"R-Rolph-sama..."
The cracking voice is indeed coming from the body of a soldier that they thought have died.
"What had happened?"
"What had happened here?"
Since the person is a sole witness.
Because the soldier is the only person, who knows what had happened inside this room.
"What did you say?! A monster you said?"
Listening to the soldier worrisome words, Rolph's face turns pale.
They barely could hear the word monster but, they both unable to understand the situation out of it.
"R-Right. Oi! Anyone! Bring this person to a doctor!"
"Say it clearly! Grandfather is, what did it do to grandfather!? What is this monster all about?"
While desperately tried to control Seria who's forcefully keep on asking, Rolph ordered to carry the wounded soldier with a stretcher and rushed to the medical office.
"Why?! Why did you stop me!?"
Rolph feels that the appearance of Seria that flares up at him appear like a demon.
As expected, is this because of difference in experience?
After he went through the trouble calming her down, after hearing the soldier mentioned the word 「monster」, it immediately threw her mind and heart out of order once again.
What Rolph had said was a sound argument. Right now, if they conduct the unreasonable interrogation, then that bloodied soldier might die after all.
Rather than one soldier life, for her, it's more important to get the information regarding the one who robbed her grandfather life.
"That... Won't confirming the situation here more important than that person life?"
Thus Seria tried to fight against Rolph words.
However, Rolph keeps persuade Seria's heart calmly and put the situation in order.
"Indeed finding that information is important; however, only that man know everything that had happened. Even if we leave his injury and keep interrogating him, no useful information seems to come out. It would be meaningless then if he dies first before we get the information. Although it would take time then, won't that man recovery will be good for the prospect of interrogation in the future?"
After Rolph saying until that far, Seria is unable to refute him anymore than this.
The thing that she could not consent is that her family member becomes a victim of it.
"Fuu... I understand. Rolph-sama words are right. I'm very sorry for being upset."
After she had sighed Seria gained part of her calmness.
No matter how much a genius a person is, a difference in life experience is something that one cannot do anything about it.
"But still, the thing that man said, what on earth is this monster about..."
"Well, we will be able to know about it after the soldier gets his injury recovered. For now, let's put our hand on things that we can do."
After Rolph had responded to Seria's words calmly, he ordered some soldiers to resume the search inside the room.
However, Rolph judgment turns out bringing an unfortunate result.
What the voice come out from the soldier is definitely indicating something serious.
"Calm down! What happened?!"
Rolph angry voice resounded inside the room.
Several flammable goods are being kept inside the medicine storage.
He was relieved that at least the fire won't engulf the entire palace.
Rolph then began asking Seria.
A particular answer crosses his mind.
And the things that he cannot say about.
"I'm not sure.."
Rolph shook his head.
"I wish to report!"
The conversation of the two people getting interrupted by a soldier.
"Umu, go ahead!"
"I've confirmed the dead soldiers."
"And? the cause of the death is?"
The soldiers looked at each other toward Seria's question.
However, that's reasonable.
"Yes! The body with burned face that I thought was an otherworlder person..."
The soldier reported to Rolph hastily.
"What is it! Say it!"
Winced at Seria vexation, the soldier continues his report.
"Yes! The belt on his pants. If it were being left alone like that, the pants would come off from the corpse. To think that he fight while like that is..."
Listening to the report, Seria and Rolph complexion grew pale.
"Damn it! Rolph-dono!"
As she said that, she rush outside of the room.
"You guys, go alert the guard inside the castle!"
After Rolph giving the order, he chased after Seria.
An otherworlder with such power wanders around inside the palace.
Having determined at doing so, power overflow in his whole body.
The two used body reinforcement magic and ran through toward the medical office in 30 seconds.
One young man comes to us after noticing that we both have come.
"Seria-dono, Rolph-dono. Did something happen?"
"Orlando. The fire is?"
Toward Seria question, Orlando shifted his gaze toward the medical office.
"There's no problem. Though the entire medical office was ended up like this, before the fire spread out to the other place, we had the fire extinguished. It's just..."
Orlando says something ambiguous.
"Orlando! Hurry up and say it! What is that "It's just" thing? .. a while ago, we sent and injured person here! That person is?"
"Three dead bodies came out from the medical office, but it looks like they were not dead by fire. Besides, if we count the dead body... it lacked one body... I don't know about this injured person, though..."
Seria held her breath.
((Just as we had thought))
""Then!?""
Rolph and Seria voice overlaps each other.
"The injured person seemed to have a severe injury, and they immediately lay the person in bed. However, when the fire was extinguished, and after checking the medical office, there are only three dead bodies. By which, the bed was empty..."
Until there, Seria then interrupted Orlando.
Though usually unreliable, he's the third seat of Imperial court magician.
From Seria's tone of voice he could understand that it was an emergency situation and he switches his mind from normal to battlefield mode.
"The strength of the army is?"
With low and cold voice.
This is the proof that the situation is very dire.
"Understood. 「The supreme deity that controlled light Meneus. In accordance with the contract. Bestow Divine protection to me, Teleportation」"
Orlando who understood the situation immediately cast magic incantation immediately.
To chase after the shadow of the criminal.
"「The supreme deity of light Meneus. In accordance with the contract. Bestow Divine protection to me! Teleportation」"