Chapter 2 Episode 8
(Compulsory Quest 3)
Mikhail Banashu was being put in the place while being restricted by a rope.
Mikhail's heart beat rise high.
Three hours have passed since the time he was struck by the trap set by Ryouma and the others.
They were only being given a minimum care to stop their bleeding, and afterward, they get thrown into the carriage while being restricted by ropes.
And finally, it was the turn for Mikhail who was the leader of the previous surprise attack.
The tone of voice of the man is not coercive; instead, it was polite and calm.
It is still better to get interrogated by someone who turns their faces red and raising their anger.
"I've roughly heard the circumstance from your subordinates. Well, I guess you guys are people who are a bit disagree toward each other. "
Mikhail just kept silent while feeling somewhat uncomfortable with the man's words.
After all, not giving information to the enemy is the iron rule of war.
"Ah... You don't have to be that cautious. Because the chance you're going to accompany us is low. "
For Mikhail, the words of the man sound like a whisper of the devil.
"You're not going to kill us?"
"That is because, for the moment, I don't see it as necessary. "
The man declared as such and shrugged his shoulders.
Mikhail himself never likes murder. No, if he had to say then killing someone or something like that, he doesn't want such thing.
Such an assassination attempt was something that his knight pride cannot accept. However, he was being convinced that there's no other way to stops the noble ambition other than to do this.
When the girl saw the sign, she nodded and stepped forward in front of Mikhail.
"Then I will ask you a couple of question. Is it true that you're Rozeria Kingdom royal guard?""
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"Is the reason you've attacked the merchants' group have anything to do with the conflict that happens at the Rozeria Kingdom for the throne inheritance?"
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"Did you plan this surprise attack to protect the princess?"
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"You belong to the Knight faction, and up against the noble group?"
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"Rozeria Kingdom King died suddenly, and the first princess should've succeeded him as the successor, however, the noble group had stopped her from doing that, am I right?"
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"As for the noble, they support another princess, an illegitimate child, as the will of the previous king, is that not it?"
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Mikhail desperately tried to ignore the question that comes out from the girl's mouth.
And then the blond girl asked the last question toward Mikhail.
When listening to Sara's question, Ryouma's fingertip can feel Mikhail heartbeat has risen up.
"It was right huh. "
Ryouma shows a distorted expression.
Someone who obstinately keeping things quiet like Mikhail sometimes shows truth more than the one with the eloquent mouth.
Even without Ryouma's affirmation, Lione and the other can already grasp what's inside Mikhail's heart.
"I see.now... Damn Wallace, that bastard... we've been deceived huh... "
Words of resentment come out from Lione's mouth.
They get the injuries from the rain of arrows surprise attack which Mikhail leads.
There's also the thing about this quest comes from the guild.
Naturally, because of this, the trust they had in the guild so far has been lost, and hatred began to arouse.
"Well, with this, it was clear that Wallace had deceived us. "
Toward Ryouma's words, all the people in that place except for Mikhail nodded their head.
"Now then... the problem is the future. What are we going to do..."
"How about reporting this to the other guild?"
Bolts suggested that after hearing what Ryouma had said.
"No, I think that would be bad. We're sure that we've been deceived by Wallace, but, we have no proof. If you carelessly appeal to the other guild master without any evidence, we might lose everything instead. "
Toward Lione who refute Bolts suggestion, Ryouma nodded his head.
All should have been settled if he can kill the girl with silver hair that stands in front of him.
It was about three months ago, after the demise of the previous king, that a report was brought to the first princess who's in the middle of hastening the succession to the throne.
More so for the ruling class, their blood is necessary.
For that reason, they make a lot of children so that the clan's blood did not go extinct.
There's also times when they do it(sexual intercourse) with a commoner's daughter as a form of play.
In itself, there's no problem.
However, the rumor that they had thought will disappear in an instant, crawled around the kingdom in an instant.
And for the Knight faction, an event that makes it real happen.
And raise the matter about the former king will.
Everyone within the Knight faction doubted this as some kind of fabrication.
And the authenticity of the will that the noble have raised up becomes not necessary anymore.
However, on the other hand, she does not have much contact with the noble who dominate the kingdom's domestic affairs, due to not having much involvement in the kingdom's internal affairs.
On the contrary, the nobles are far weaker in term of fighting power; however, they held more political power compared the Knight faction, leading to the present condition where the neutral faction start to move toward the nobles faction.
And in that situation, good news comes toward the Knight faction.
It seems like they had planned to raise an army as soon as she entered Gerhardt Dukedom.
They thought that everything will be settled if they killed the child who was important for the noble faction movement during the journey toward Rozeria Kingdom.
This assassination was carried out based on such hopeful observations.
Originally he was a not a bright man even though he has the military power.
"I-It can't be... You can't deceive me!"
"Even if you say that... "
Hearing Mikhail denial, Ryouma shrugged his shoulders.
"Well, first please calm down. I will try to explain it. "
When he said so, Ryouma makes Laura stand in front of Mikhail.
"Well then, I will say this clearly. She's not the illegitimate child that you're looking for. "
"Lie!"
Mikhail shouting voice was high enough to reverberate and shook the tent.
"After all, the reason why you thought that Laura is the illegitimate child is because of this silvery hair, right?"
"That's right! A teenage girl with silver hair!"
Mikhail raises his voice.
He tries to confirm if everyone understands what he was saying.
"So, they leak it on purpose huh? boy"
Ryouma nodded toward Lione's words.
"Well, something like that highly possible if you think about it. After that, the noble faction then asks Wallace who's on their side to look for mercenaries or adventurers. With the criteria of a teenage girl with silver hair. "
"That was the reason we're being chosen. "
Toward Sara's words, Laura presented a question.
"However, Wallace is a guild master. Will someone take that kind of risk easily like that?"
Indeed, neutrality is the guild principle.
Looking from this point of view, one can say that Wallace action is remarkably inappropriate.
Is there the possibility that Wallace might not know about this as well?
The reason is that the merchant's carriage being empty.
Ryouma group being the only one that was given carriage with canopy is for the reason to make the knight think that the illegitimate child is inside the carriage.
So far, all the unnatural circumstance up until now has been cleared,
"... If that is the truth then... Is that guy had deceived us?... No ... But looking at this..."
Listening to Ryouma's reasoning, Mikhail leaked words of regret and lamentation from his mouth.
Ryouma then proposed something toward Mikhail who's crushed with grief.
"Even if you lamenting here, nothing will change, you know? "
Mikhail direct his gaze up and saw Ryouma's face.
By the end of the day, their request quest is to guard merchants group.
With that, comes one big problem.
In addition, he also escaped abandoning the merchants.
And right now, Ryouma and the others does not have any means to counter that.
After all, if what they did are being known, it will just become a stain for the Knight faction.
To make a plea that we're are being deceived at the person who actually deceives us, that just does not make any sense.
Until here, everyone should know their present situation.
Therefore they entrust Ryouma with the decision.
After this, the words that come out from Ryouma's mouth will change the fate of the Knight faction and the noble faction greatly.
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