Unmotivated Hero's Tale

"You're annoying. So how was the end?

Alex smiles and speaks to Yui as he awaits his return to the embassy's own office.

"Well, I guess it's a good place. The soldier, His Royal Highness, was quite a good man."

"A good one...... right. I see it's easier to give than that fox father."

"Ability is fine. On the contrary, I think you're a brilliant man. But compared to your father, you seem really nice."

The more honest nature than I expected to see during the talks. Yui, who felt it coming from Noyne, let people praise him for being good about him.

"Hehe. Well, that's why you avoided negotiating with the Emperor's Palace. But with that look on your face, it really looks like we're on schedule."

"Oh, thanks to you. Catching them individually is troublesome and risky. So I suggested that if I could, I try to get a grip on it, but the military crown prince accepted it safely."

With a bitter laugh, Yui slowly sits down to his desk when he says so and deposits his body behind his back.

"Is that a risk? Well, even if you try to catch them individually, if you hit them badly, they could dive into the basement early."

"Yeah, there's that too. So, as planned, they agreed to move at His Highness's birthday celebration."

"As planned...... right. But he wouldn't have thought he was being fed and things were moving this time."

Listening to Yui's achievements, Alex says so with a slightly sarcastic grin.

"I'm not going to use it as bait. I'm just saying I didn't think of any other opportunities to just bring them together. Like I said, it's a pain in the ass to catch them individually, so it's only natural that you want to put them together and exhaust them as much as possible, right?

"But neither do you, Zeliam, believe that your rooting for food suppliers has given you the authority to select them."

If there was a noise on the spot, Alex would have opened his eyes and stunned himself, mouthing it like nothing, Yui scratches his head slightly out of sight.

"I didn't have to be a food supplier. It just happened to be in the hand I was hitting, and that was the one that hit me beautifully. As far as I'm concerned, I don't want to waste my food, so I wanted the cleaners and garden maintenance guys to turn around."

"Ha, sounds like you. But don't you have to worry about them noticing?

"Well, you've got a lot of ideas to make it into a natural form. Besides, it's easier for the Crown Princes to find out than for the Zeliams to find out. That's why I took care of the area. But I figured I'd use the expense I needed for a time like this. Whatever the source of the expense..."

Yui, who said so, laughs bitterly, recalling the amount spent for this manipulation and its bearers.

"Oh, that's an example expense. But you bore the expense so well, O'Maysen, that your spirit of atonement is going to tear me up."

When Alex says that while pretending to keep his eyes down, Yui holds his head while holding his temples down.

"... I see. I thought it wasn't, but it was still you, Alex. Threatened him to let him give you money."

"Ha, I threatened you too much. I just asked him in my own way why he was trying to spread demon stones all the way to other countries without authorization. Well, it's true we talked about hurrying up and needing a little money."

Yui also knows better than before that in the demon stone distribution process by Omersen, he is hiding transactions outside the contents of the contract. However, it was originally intended to be missed as a yui when it came to respecting Emersen's insistence and position and getting some money into his pocket a lot.

At a time when Alex found out, however, such an end was well thought out. Therefore Yui could not help but sympathize with him, thinking of the heartbreak that Emersen, who was not here, would have suffered.

"I don't hate that spirit of trying to hide from me for even more profit. Well, if we're gonna do it, I guess that means we should have done it a little better."

"Hehe. But I think what you're trying to do is worse than what I did. Induce the assault plan to stand on the killer's side, and now leak that information to the Crown Prince's side, who is supposed to be the victim, to manipulate their movements...? I wondered what would happen when I first heard this story from you, but it worked out surprisingly well."

"Unfortunately, that doesn't mean it's 100 points out. I wanted real supporting documents that Zeliam would really have squeezed if he could. It's not a substitute for this circumstantial evidence."

Yui grinned bitterly as she took the forged documents she showed Noin out of her nostalgia and broke them on the spot with Billy.

"The fact that you've had it before means you just showed it to the Crown Prince. If so, I don't think you realize it's a very fake you made?

"Well... I don't know about that. Noyne, you may not notice, but there's a scary person behind it. He may have noticed. But even if it is, the results will be the same."

"Well, did Istarts say that Zeliam was suspicious?"

After his meeting with Yui, Noyne, who had popped out of the office, was taking his feet under Rialto, his father.

"... did Your Majesty have any idea?

"No, that's not it. But the assassin didn't come into our room the other day. If it weren't for that many high-ranking officials involved, it would have been very impossible."

Naturally, the security of Lend Castle, the emperor's castle, is the strictest in the country. And that could also be said to be a castle laid with the strictest security net in the West, since the Kelm Empire is one of the most powerful countries in the West of the continent.

It is not usually possible for thieves to enter the space where only the royal family resides, located in the deepest part of it. Consequently, Rialto had predicted right after the incident that something of that status was chewing on this one.

"I see...... sure"

"So, what's he going to do?

Rialto looks like a child who can't wait to have fun and asks about going to Noyne.

"That's it, but ostensibly, he wants us to hold a celebration as planned"

"Hmm. I mean, are you going to roast the rats together? We can't smash their nests."

"You're right. His aim was to attract them to the celebration and to get them all covered on the spot."

Nodding at Rialto's view, Noyne speaks that way to affirm it.

"Well, so what are you going to do about that specific way?

"Yeah, that's it... actually, in carrying out a specific operation, he says he wants to borrow something from His Majesty"

"You borrowed it?

Rialto leans his neck unexpectedly to the unexpected offer of Noyne.

"Read this for more information"

To the emperor with a suspicious look on his face, Noyne hands it straight to the emperor when he takes a single letter out of his pocket.

Upon receiving the letter, Rialto turned quickly to the text in progress. And as one glanced at its contents, he laughed at the next moment.

"... haha, I see. No, it's really funny. Heh heh, that's good. Tell him I got it. Tell them that you will also attend the festival."

"Sire!"

When the Emperor peels his eyes at what he has said, Noyne speaks out in a panic.

"Hey, it's Noyne. I'm not impressed that there's going to be a fun festival, but we're just going to get ahead of ourselves. Don't let it get in the way of you, of course... No, I'll mobilize the Kingsguard for this one so we can cooperate. Let's do it."

"Kingsguard...? But it's too much fun."

"Isn't that good? Besides, I want to see how that guy works in the field. Actually, don't you want to see it, too?

With a meaningful grin, Rialto says so.

Then, Noyne became a face with a peek inside, and dared to avoid mentioning his own affairs.

"Yui Istarz… you seem to be attracting so much interest"

Just like you.

"... I do not deny that you are an interesting person"

Sometimes he made Yui criticisms by standing up until before, and Noyne accepts the emperor's point, even with a slightly refracted look on his face.

"Hehe, apparently you could have thrown away the preconceptions. That's fine. There's nothing beneficial about being prejudiced or detrimental. Okay, more noise than that. Are you still planning to meet with Istarz by this celebration?

"Yes, I have to have a few more packed meetings, so I plan to meet confidentially on a few occasions."

In response to the Emperor's inquiry, Noyne replied immediately just saying it was right.

The moment he hears it, Rialto leaves a grin on his face and advises Noyne in a serious tone slightly different from the one he had just heard.

"Then look closely at him."

"Sire?"

Rialto in front of him smiled as calmly as before. But the word, obviously, weighs differently than before, and Noyne is slightly puzzled.

"Look, Noin. That man is really interesting and more dangerous than that."

"Yeah, I'm gonna know that."

Noyne responds to Rialto's words by saying what is normal.

But Rialto grinned bitterly as he shook his neck left and right toward Noyne, who returned such a reply.

"No, you don't know his powers yet. Well, for example, the document you said Zeliam grabbed, it's probably a fake."

"What?... But!

"Heh heh, the Istarts guy ate you a cup. Think calmly, there's no way that Zeliam's guy will ever keep the paperwork he's supposed to have gripped? Well, if you think about it normally, you might realize that, but the presence of my daughter who snuck into your room clouded your eyes."

When Rialto told him so with a laugh, Noyne gave him a hazy look.

Because of the presence of a creha that entered his room unnoticed by anyone, Noyne thought that Yui and the others had been able to obtain classified documents from Zeliam, but if he thought calmly, he could not have been left with such documents.

"But... what the hell is he doing with the fake paperwork?"

"You probably tried to advance the clock needle. Anyway, this is another country for them. There are limits to what they can do. That's why I've prepared it for you to push that back against you, which would have reached Zeliam's throat. Heh heh, that's what I should say."

When Rialto speaks happily as he rubs his jaw, Noyne immediately turns to his father and asks.

"So should we destroy our cooperation with him?

"Discard? Why do you need to do that? Whether it's in our country's interest to get on his muscles or not, there's no harm in it. For, at best, you can pretend you're being deceived. No, the guy who showed up might have figured out that Prep would have spotted this and still missed it."

Predicting the thoughts of an unknown brunette youth on this occasion, Rialto told Noyne so.

Noyne, who gets the word, resurfaces the figure of the man he just interviewed in the back of his brain, and once again speaks the name.

"Yui...... istartz......"

"Look, Noin. I repeat, the man is really interesting and more dangerous than that. That's why keep up with that guy at best. That would never be a waste to you."