"- Oh, it's been a while, Nell."
Waiting in front of the cave in advance, I saw a shadow emerge from the woods over there, gently raising one hand and throwing words like that.
"... I don't ask you how you found out I'm here anymore... but you know, it's annoying that I came through this inexplicable forest and I couldn't help but feel relieved to see your face"
Even if they say so.
"No, that was a shame, you. If I'd been here three days early, I'd have had a good barbecue."
"... no, that's fine. Or a barbecue."
The shadow that appeared - the brave girl, Nell, overflows that word with a shuddered face.
"So, what do we do? You must be tired, and you want to come in the hot springs first?
"... it's the mountains I want to do that, but I don't actually have much time. I'll let you do it again."
With a slightly irritating look, the brave man said so.
"... ok. Well, let's just go inside."
Encourage her, and I'll go into the cave.
Chilly air that wraps around your body.
We go through it echoing the footsteps, eventually reaching in front of a heavy looking door.
I didn't hesitate to open the door, and walked inside. Beyond it was - an example inn with hot springs, behind Demon King's Castle.
"... oh, that? At the end of that door, you should see the castle in front..."
"That's inconvenient, so I just changed my destination. Oh, take off your shoes."
"Oh, uh, yeah, okay"
With Gallara and the inn door open, I accompany a brave man who looks somewhat unclear and take him to a room he has passed before.
I took out two of the seats that were piled up at the end of the room, and I sat down on one of them and scratched my horseshit, and I cut out to a brave man who had fallen back in awe at the seats I had placed face-to-face.
"- Well, then, let me talk to you"
"- Sounds like you were buying time (...). All the incidents that were happening in the city, like the thugs of the Devil's Sword that attacked us, were meant to turn the Lord's eyes all over the city, and that undead noise seemed to have been a measure to nail the soldiers of Alfiero's city to the city. However, because you resolved the noise quickly, you were able to run a horse to the Wang Capital immediately to report on the state of the city, and it was only thanks to this that you learned about the current state of the Wang Capital."
"... be, I see"
I smoke the hot tea that Leila brought along on the way, and then I hammer.
She came here today to tell you about the upside of the commotion we encountered when we used to go to the city.
Well, you promised me that before. Map came suddenly to reward the intruder, and I already suspected that the intruder's identity was "Oh, you came to tell me" at the point in time, even Nell.
And the information that came to tell me about it - is that there was a coup d 'état (...) in the country (...).
Apparently, the example fucking prince, stuck in a feather, has finally committed a conspiracy.
The first time he incited profit to recruit will, the destruction of the troops he sent, the second time he dispatched a brave man of his own accord, an important force, and the brave man's life and death were unknown - thus normally living, but apparently unknown in life and death while accompanying us for a while, even after Nell returned to the church to report, he was to remain unknown in life and death because the church used him as a pretext to oppress the prince. It's a scary world - because of the big problem, the damned prince, whose credibility has been completely discredited and is no longer there, seems to have gone on a bet of one or eight.
Well, there's only two ways for him to wake up. Dream of a one-shot reversal and go for a bet - or get involved in the others and blow yourself up.
This time, the fucking prince chose the former among his choices.
He said the zombie noise that broke out in that city was meant to keep the old man's eyes on the lord over there facing the whole city only after interrogating the blackened man I captured as an example.
Stop in advance the movements of the forces that would be on the side of the expeditionary opposition and the king, and in the same period stage a coup d 'état in the king's capital to quickly contain them before others come forward.
They didn't have any particularly blatant stoops that far in other opposition cities, but that city is situated on the edge, and here in the woods - the quality of adventurers and soldiers seems to be higher than elsewhere in the location of bordering demonic forests, which means it would be troublesome if they were rushed to support the king's side, which is why they tried to nail down the city with that zombie noise for the purpose of draining the ordeal, and other than that, with a demonic sword noise and similar incidents.
That stepping stone strategy was a brilliant success, and now the king is unknown in life and death, and the king's capital is said to have been laid full military control by the prince's pawn, with no other forces at hand.
I can hardly think about it. Especially if the king's life and death are unknown.
If he is alive, he can raise soldiers for the purpose of rescuing the king, and if he is dead, then the anti-prince faction can raise soldiers on the grounds that it is not the king's enemy or an orthodox government, but if life or death is unknown, he cannot make that decision and cannot reach a detour.
There may not be that much time you can earn with that, but if you put in place a system in the meantime, the anti-prince will no longer be able to get his hands on it.
- What matters to me here is if the prince stays on the throne of the king.
I've been putting a little bite out here. If the fucking prince takes full control of the army, the possibility of coming towards the real army is doubly conceivable. In that case, it's a delicate line as to whether the power of me and the dungeon alone can destroy it, and maybe we'll have a hand in Refi.
I don't like that.
Well, I can also think of the possibility of looking in my painful eyes twice and not coming back at me anymore, but we should assume the worst.
I didn't think about it, so for some reason, there's no way they're gonna stop coming at me.
Chip... Shit. Was it too long?
What to do with a fucking prince, I actually (...) already thought about it (...).
Even so, it's not that hard, the idea is to assassinate and smash him to death already with brain death.
What I was going to use for that was a golem called "The Doll of the Presence" that was in the DP catalog - well, in a nutshell, that's a remotely operated robot.
This golem, by connecting me to the path of magic, allows me to manipulate my consciousness onto the inanimate demon, the golem, and my body can attack the target while in a safe place.
I thought it would be effective for a situation like this one because if there were no user within a hundred meters radius, the remote operation would run out, so it would be necessary to get close, but this golem could also be exchanged for DP in a custom state that made me remember my skills just like any other golem, and could be finished to assassination specifications.
Well, I think it's quicker for me to get on board directly than to do something like that, but you don't know what kind of defense there is in a castle in the capital of a country.
Nothing. I'm not a suicidal aspirant, and if I were a golem on that point, finding and breaking it wouldn't be such a fatal harm just to blow up DP without me.
Therefore, I recently learned how sinful it is and encouraged Lil to hunt demons in exchange for this golem in DP...
"... what are you guys going to do about the prince?
"The Church fears if the Prince comes to power. The prince is quite hard-line, so if he came to power, he wondered if he could also exert great oppression on the Church. So he said he'd be stepping into the king's rescue operation in the near future."
"The king's life and death are unknown, aren't they?
"Yeah. But rescue operations"
... I see, is it going to be tough?
If it works out... right... is that better for me?
"- Okay, okay. Then let me give you a hand with that rescue operation (...)"
"Well... that would be very comforting if you were on your side..."
With a strange look on his face, he said out of words, "What are you going to do?" The brave man who asks.
"If the prince came to power, I'd be in trouble too. I don't want them sending in large troops this time because they have complete control of the army. As for this idea, I want the present king, who has never tried to enter the demonic forest before, to remain in power. Even if the king is dead, the anti-prince faction is originally opposed to an expedition to the demonic forest, isn't it? That would be more convenient for me."
Well, there's certainly a reason for that, except what you're thinking on the inside.
If I assassinate a prince like this, naturally the question arises as to who laid down his hand, and assuming that the assassin is found out to be me using some means I don't know, even if the current king is reinstated or the anti-prince is in power, he is likely to be hostile to me.
Naturally, a prince of a country was killed.
In that case, as mentioned earlier, the possibility remains that a large unit will be sent, not necessarily in complete peace.
Rather than that, it would surely be a plus for me in the future to lend a hand to these anti-prince factions and ostensibly make it a wind that they have defeated the prince.
"... but I don't think you can trust me if I tell the boulder that the Demon King will cooperate? I mean, I know you're a special freak among demon kings."
Ooh, I'll tell you what.
"I'm not going to let the boulders rip me apart. Here's the thing, your squire I met on the trip, like. Shall I wear a mask?"
"No, I think they usually find out... there's some crystals for appraisals..."
"It's okay, it's okay. I have an idea for that too. Leave it to me."
I smiled at the brave man with a slightly disturbing look on his face.