Unmotivated Hero's Tale

"I've got a lot to ask you, but I was wondering if you could tell me why some of the executives in the House of Lords have that name."

Alex, who brought Fernando into the room nearby, asks with his sword attached to his throat after pushing him against the wall of the room. The look was the usual nicotine, but Fernando couldn't help but feel the madness lurking behind its fox eyes.

"... because my predecessors were at the core of the House of Lords. To be more precise, the reason is that my predecessors took it to Lord Blau and it was a convenient pawn"

"Phew, so you inherited that position... I guess that's what I mean"

As if peeking into Fernando's expression, Alex puts his face a little closer to him. Fernando managed to say a reply even as he shook his voice at the killing, similar to the cold air that Alex wrapped up in.

"Yes. Exactly. Not for any other reason... but that's why I, a young man who is not a great nobleman, have a name in the heart of the House of Lords."

"I see. So when you're in line with the other noblemen and you're giving your name to a round-table meeting at Lord Blau's house, that's why."

"Duh, how could you do that? Only a very limited number of the kingdom nobles should know of the existence of a round table meeting that is actually determining the House of Lords' policy. Not to mention its internal configuration…"

Fernando is unwittingly upset by the term round-table meeting, which Alex saidly uttered.

Then Alex shook his neck left and right and smiled at him.

"Don't get me wrong, Mr. Fernando. It's not you, it's me. Heh heh, okay. Well, if I captured the people wandering around Yui, I'd have been part of your organization about half of the time. I mean, some birds sing a lot."

"... Really? Was it your fault that the watchman to Yui was missing?"

To monitor Yui's actions, the number of secret detectives the House of Lords was sending in will rise to double digits so far. Most of them, however, could not even report one thing and had disappeared at some point.

Hence, the House of Lords also thought that the Uys had taken some measure up to now, but when he understood that the man in front of him was responsible for it, Fernando deepened that fear more and more as he was convinced.

"To be exact, there's another one besides me. Anyway, besides you guys, the Empire, the Principality of Filament, and the Republic of Kisletin are working hard on Yui's surveillance. Well, most of it's just a use run, but some of them are unexpectedly mixed up with people who have information, and what's more, they're efficient information-gathering."

"... do you also know that you are ruling out secret detectives?

"Yui? I wonder. But I'm probably aware of it. He has carefully selected and reported the information he needs, and the stupidity of not noticing the source of the information is irrelevant to him. It seems I'm in charge around here, so I'm not saying anything in particular."

Alex responds to Fernando without breaking any grin sticking to his face.

Meanwhile, hearing the answer, Fernando opened his mouth toward Alex, who feared.

"But it is. Why would Alex do a job like this... because you are one of the best in our country without a sword? Why would someone like you do such a dirty job when it's not strange to get out in the sun..."

"Hehe, Yui's guy has a sweet spot. Someone other than him has to do these kinds of work. I don't know if I can be a lute in my abilities, but I can't leave it to him in my personality. He's Yui's light, in a way. So I take the shadow of Yui and do what I can't do personally even if I know he's the best. For example, if you were close to Yui, you'd be the deceased here."

The moment Alex says that out in a flat tone, Fernando understands that the man in front of him is not a joke and can seriously kill himself.

Therefore, he rushed to Alex to spin his words in order to buy a little time for thought.

"Stop joking, please."

"In you, I guess I was the one who liked jokes, Mr. Fernando"

Hearing words colder than ice and sharper than any blade, Fernando has a feeling of impending death in his chest. And with it, the appearance of what he was supposed to protect blurred his back of the brain.

At that moment he decided on one readiness and spoke with a resolute tone to the reaper in front of him.

"... what do you want me to do?

"Hehe, shall we go with the question? I'm pretty sure the House of Lords ordered you to go to Yui's empire this time?

Interpreting that he was willing to speak, Alex asks if it was the House of Lords that first painted this painting.

Fernando then shook his neck small and vertically, careful of the sword attached to his neck.

"Yeah, you're right. As for the House of Lords, if Yui died in Lemuriak, he would have thought it would be ideal... but unfortunately it turned out to be the worst, so he took aggressive measures."

"It sucks... do you guys see Yui's success in Lemuriak as such a problem"

"Because the intention to exclude Mr. Yui for the crime of territorial management failure has, on the contrary, made him financially completely independent. On top of that, if you keep going, you can say from the amount of demonic stones that are buried in that land, and if you suck, you can become the richest nobleman in the kingdom. If this isn't the worst for them, what is it?"

Already Remliak had a successive influx of workers because of very cheap taxes and the reputation that Rugelir's disease had been eradicated.

Some of them called it the return of the Demonic Stone Maniac Age, but gold gathers even more where men and gold gather together. And those inflows were leading to further development. Now that such a good circulation has begun to turn, Remliak is beginning to develop just as rapidly, as the times of loneliness have been lying.

"You're certainly right. I see, isn't it necessary that the people in the House of Lords cease to be confused? Shall I ask what happens next? What are you going to do with Yui this time?

"I know you probably understand... fly to the empire and have it cut off by the empire. That is the aim of the House of Lords. If it works, we can get rid of the biggest disturbers without contaminating our own hands."

Alex, who was peeking into Fernando's eyes, nodded slowly to his satisfaction when he decided that his words contained no lies. And when I let the back of my eyes glow slightly, I opened its mouth again.

"Perhaps, but when you combine assassins at times of need, that's probably the place? Yui's is sweet inside."

"... I'm not saying it's not. People in the House of Lords suggested it to me far away."

"So, what are you going to do? Depending on your response, of course, you'll have to disappear here."

Alex forcefully re-grips the sword in his hand and asks again.

"If I were you, I'd have to say the answer would be to Yui. If you say so, will you believe me?

"Come on, I don't know. Is that your sincerity?

Alex said so with a slight inclusive laugh.

And at the same time, his atmosphere changes.

Fernando couldn't help but remember his own sense of death. But on the contrary, when he glances at the reaper in front of him, he slowly utters a word full of readiness.

"... ok. I will tell Mr. Alex everything. And I'll put my life in your hands. So it will only be a while, will you give me some time? I still have things to do."

In response to Fernando's expression and words containing a strong will, Alex remembers what he looked like as a student.

Serious and brilliant, but honor student with a thin impression of a line somewhere. That was Fernando in Alex's memory.

But now, in front of his eyes, there was a man there who carried something to protect, without making him feel the fineness and other fine dust of the line he once had.

"Yeah...... apparently you're not lying. All right, let's hear what's going on."

Alex smiled slightly with his usual fox eyes and put the sword in his hand into his sheath.