The Undetectable Strongest Job: Rule Breaker

King's Capital Movements

"Hikaru...... it's okay. You don't have to feel responsible that far."

"This is just a wagamama"

Yes, it was just a wagamama.

You deserve it when a knight is condemned to death.

Hikaru did promise to "kill no one" in saving Lavia. Afterwards, it shouldn't be "what I found out," no matter what happens to the people involved.

"You don't have to feel responsible," said Lavia himself, the person you promised.

However,

"... I don't want to regret it, no, I just don't care"

"Don't you mind?

"If I missed it, why would they kill it? I'm a little upset with the way we're doing things here."

".................. ha"

Lavia sighed.

"You are... very confident."

"You don't like it?

"Yeah. I think it's hical, including that. If that's all you want to say, you can do whatever Hikaru wants. But I need you to promise me —— I have to. We have to risk it."

"Okay."

After sending Lavia to the inn, Hikaru headed to the Knights' garrison. Count Morgustadt's mansion would be just pulling away.

The reading hit and East and other knights were in the garrison, including investigators from the Wang capital.

The garrison -- that said, it is no less a mansion than the Count's mansion.

"... is he stupid?

In one of the rooms, there were three of them.

A jacket with white stripes on the blue ground. This is the investigator's trademark. It's just short over my ear, and it's like a soft Mohican. The hair is short overall and gives a sharp look to the surrounding area.

Two knights are sitting across the street from the investigator. He is a knight who was acting with East.

"I brought you some tea"

"Oh. Thanks"

The maid came in by pressing the container.

This way, I'm thirsty when I keep working late at night. Investigators prefer hot brewed tea even on summer days.

The investigator opens his mouth to make sure the maid leaves.

"Was he... the second son of the Baron's"

"Yes, he's an official nobleman."

Nobility without territory is called "official nobility".

In the Kingdom of Pawnsonia there is a law that "must be aristocratic" to hold more than a certain official position, thus creating a system of official aristocracy that gives the competent person a territory and only a title in order to hold an official position.

"Aristocracy" was an attractive thing for a competent human being, as the title was not limited to a generation and the annual salary was constant with or without territory.

Leaving it alone, though, will increase all the nobility. Therefore, instruction is given to the territorial nobility to absorb the official nobility by marriage as much as possible.

"Your father is not a Knights official, is he? The material is entitled 'IRS Involvement'. It would be number 2, which deposits the actual IRS takeover practice."

"I hear he's a strict father. You quickly discovered that East had no talent in arithmetic and made him a knight?"

"What is your assessment of the Knights?"

"It's amazing. There's no one better at training than him."

"... if you punch into a workout and you lose to bandits, you won't be taking care of them"

"There it is! I can't believe East lost to bandits..."

He said, "I lost to a boy bandit."

"Hmm."

When the knight came, another -- a feminine knight pinched his mouth.

"Something about not being able to tell the truth, or something?

"You may consider that possibility a nashi. Even through the magic of being able to discern perjury, he was telling the truth to him (...)"

"… so you can be fooled by hallucinations, etc.? I hope you finally mistake East for 'the truth'."

"Yes, I think it's possible."

The two knights lose their shoulders when the investigator finds out they're not tough on East.

"... I hope you don't get me wrong, but only the task of the dwarf is to reveal the truth. It's not about protecting the honor of the Knights."

"I know! Hey."

"Oh."

"... I hope you understand... by the way, about the murder of Count Morgstadt"

Pei, and the investigator turning the investigation letter at hand.

"At night, a thief breaks in more than a balcony, killing the Count. Then flee. Used to kill was a short knife with a name crushed, 32 cm across the blade. It was left at the scene. Two knights because the alarm bell rang —— you and Knight East rushed to the scene, but the Count had already done so. The scene was preceded by Countess Lavia-Di-Morgstadt. … this is definitely the report you raised, right?

"Yes."

"If so, since the Countess is the first discoverer, or suspect, it is believed that her transfer to the King's Capital was a particularly problematic instruction."

"Well...... right. But I didn't kill her."

"Why"

"There's blood back, if it's a short-knife. There was nothing like that in that kid's clothes."

"Then I ask, how long did it take between hearing the vigilance bell and getting to the Count's room"

The two knights look each other in the face -- only one was acting that day.

"Less than a minute?

"Wherever you are in the Mansion, that's about it."

Feminine knights also agree.

"Now consider the thief breaking in from the outside. It was raining that day, so the glass doors on the balcony were closed. If you open it, naturally the Count will also notice. Ring the bell there. A thief approaches the Count and kills him. And then —— before you arrive at the scene, the countess opens the door to confirm the thief, but the thief fled before that, right?

"Ah..."

So the knight seems to have noticed something strange.

"Miss Lavia said, 'I haven't seen any thieves'..."

"Yeah, that's what the report says. In such a short time, it will be impossible to kill the person who resists and escape. The Count didn't notice the approach, but you say? If the window opens, can you tell by the rain? Besides —— the Count has almost no appearance of resistance. I could protect my body with just a few words, even though I wore magic items as accessories."

"That hand item should be inactivatable if it is snug..."

"So it's strange that they didn't activate it until it was snug."

"Oh, well."

"In other words, the Count allowed the thief to approach so closely. The thief hasn't broken in through the window. If you think about it like this, there's only one person you can get close to, right? She's my real daughter."

…………

The two knights exchange their sights again.

"There's something strange about your current reasoning, but you're a strange face."

"... no, I do think the muscles are through... thanks, they don't stick. See?"

"That's right, investigator. If you're a real daughter, you usually allow approaching, don't you? But my real daughter doesn't usually kill her parents. Such a pretty girl..."

"You don't care what it looks like, idiot. —— Excuse me, investigator. Uh, well, we're not close to the Count either. I'm staying in Pond, and I was only planning on protecting you for one day. But there's something I can tell by just one day."

"Let's hear it."

The investigator's eyes glow.

"The Count was wary of the lady."

"Alert?"

"Miss Lavia says she's been kept in this mansion for the past few years. He didn't even seem to be allowed to go out. Wang said there's a mansion several times bigger than here."

"Are you saying you were under house arrest?... depending on what you hear," The Lady has a motive to kill the Count. "

"Yeah. But this also leads to the 'Count can't get Miss Lavia close enough', right? There is no such thing as" intimate patterns "."

"Okay. It's a very informative opinion."

"... you don't even take notes."

"Yes."

The investigator closes the investigation.

"The petty officer believes that the countess is almost certain to have been the culprit by her escape. Wang Du has contacted us with a Magic Communication, asking us to find anything that could lead us to her whereabouts."

"Magic communication... how much are you spending?"

Magic Instruction Communication was a communication instrument installed in the halls of lords everywhere.

It is often used only in emergencies to exploit large amounts of magic and catalyst. A few gold coins fly in one communication.

The Pond did not have a Lords' Hall, but it was installed in the Knight's Garrison.

That's what I used this time —— if you fly a horse, it'll be half a day from Wang Du to Pound, no, in about four hours.

"I apologize to the Inquirer, but it's too late to rush after he's escaped. And to my mind, it would be more of an escort adventurer, suspiciously."

"That's what Knight East thought, isn't it?

"You will be."

"If this makes the Rank C adventurer and the bandit who attacked Knight East a guru, I think his shame will snow, too."

"! That's right! As soon as it is--"

"The investigation is reaching out. This is useless, but it looks like Secret Service has been turned over to the adventurer who hit the convoy."

The two knights lost their words for a moment.

"And is it Secret Service? They're the kind of guys that work on the front lines of war, aren't they?

"They are adventurers, so I don't know what they're going to do. The adventurer will be a toothless man, such as the authority of the state."

"But not too much..."

"Okay?"

Conn, and the investigator fingered the table.

"The matter is brought to the attention of His Majesty the King. I must compile my investigation as soon as I can and report it to the King's Capital. I mean, I'm leaving Pond tomorrow morning. We need to gather all the information we need by then."

"Ugh..."

"Well..."

The two knights are frightened.

"You'll also know if (how) that makes Knight East a capital offense. Bandits and adventurers connected? Miss Lavia really killed the Count? Assuming a thief was breaking in from the outside, you're just as guilty of death as Knight East."

"Hih."

The knight, who was on guard with East that night, blues.

"Oh, give me a break about that. We have wives and children."

"I'm not the one to judge. But there are a few ambiguities in the course of the story so far. It feels contradictory. So please allow the use of the Magic Instrument to prove 'it is not perjury'. I'm not a criminal suspect. I can't force you to use it."

"Wow, I get it. All right?

"I don't mind."

On the table, something like a glass pen was removed.

The magic of spotting perjury —— that seems to be the magic guide that was put in it.

…………

Three people never noticed who was watching the whole thing.

Hikaru, who broke in with the maid's wagon, was listening on the spot until the end of the discussion.

Early next morning.

A little after the sun rises, the Adventurer Alliance opens. It was also winter and had to be opened from dark, and this early morning job was to dislike every receptionist, but Aurora was different. Just open it pale. Instead, I preferred the morning with very few adventurers.

"... oh"

There was a boy who came in as soon as he opened it.

Aurora speaks to him because there are no other adventurers.

"Do you ask for anything from the Alliance?

I thought he had come to make a request because he didn't think the boy was an adventurer.

That's about it, he looked young.

But he says by showing the Adventurer Guild Card.

"No, I'm here to take a request (...)"

"Ah... did I? I'm sorry...... Mr. Hikaru, you say. Because it was the first face I saw."

"I don't think I have a choice. I've only ever worked with Jill or Gloria."

Aurora was surprised that she already had experience ordering requests from two of her colleagues.

"So, uh, you..."