"- - - I do ask you how you are. Earlier, Princess Claire was captured by someone."

I want someone to praise me for suppressing the upset to the point of silently crushing the wooden knife I was holding, despite hearing Balad say that.

It is difficult to understand the meaning of the words that Balad utters, and for a moment the thought stops. At the same time as the thought, the movement of the body stopped, but one side of the wooden knife, which had been snapped by its clap, fell zero out of his hand, and his body moved reflexively to the feeling that the weight felt in his palms would be lighter. The fragments of the wooden knife fell to the floor and the body received movement before making a sound, which also resumes the thought that had stopped.

In my rapidly moving head, why? Why? When? For what? and many words were followed.

"Master Doyle."

As soon as I was about to be confused by a storm of visibly floating doubts, I heard Balad calling me with a voice that pushed me to death. Ha, ha. And when I saw Ballad, who was rarely a werewolf, I slightly regained myself.

Calm down! If you can get up to me, there's nothing you can do!

Tell yourself so, breathe as much as you want. Then take a breath and slowly, spit out a certain amount.

And I just spit out all the air in my lungs and breathed in fresh air, and I gazed at Balad.

"- - Easy. For more information, listen in your own room. Take your stuff and follow me."

"- No."

I will wait a while until Balad's gaze, which was shaken to represent disturbing emotions, is fixed, and I command him to say it where his eyes have captured me. When you're confused, you just have to give them an easy life. By the time I get back to my room from here, Balad's thinking will be calm as well.

... because I'm not going to be able to judge calmly right now either.

The calm part of me decides that even if I listen to him now, he becomes emotional and probably won't be able to judge calmly. It would be a habit as a nobleman cultivated over the years to have oneself, no matter how rough the emotions are, to be able to calmly make judgments like this if his husband or his men were on his side, as they did when he dropped off Master Gray and Jin and the present situation.

To Ballad's appearance cleaning up the towels and stuff he had prepared for his break, he said, "Hurry up! I feel like saying." I just questioned Balad as an emotion in this place with lots of other people's eyes, just spreading the noise on the prank. Go help him, gather information. If he gets noticed, it's hard to move.

Now that Master Gray and Jin are restrained by the royal castle and unable to move freely, I'm the easiest to move around in school. All I have to do now is gather information carefully and quickly to keep it out of the public eye and help Claire before she's in danger.

"Thank you for waiting."

- We're going back.

"Yes!"

Clean up the crushed and broken wooden knife in the subspace to keep it out of sight, and take Ballado out of the training ground. At that time, he activates consciously the [elegance of the upstream aristocracy] he had recently unconsciously used to avoid being taken extra time, and walks straight without giving him a voicing gap. Cover the inside of your rough chest with a smile and intimidate your surroundings so they don't notice.

That way, all the students who were scattered around each other were free, paving the way without opening their mouths. Open your mouth thinly and smile without turning a blind eye to the students who fall in love with me, and take Ballado to the workout.

I go for my dorm room as I hear the sound of a pattan and a closed door on my back. Sometimes after school, there were quite a few students on the road from the worksite to the dorm, but like the worksite, they kept walking without stopping. And on the road to getting back to my room feeling like I was walking longer than usual, I even repeated unanswered questions about who the hell did Claire for -.

As I was delayed in my thoughts, my heart sounds, which I heard constantly, were terribly deaf.

Among the quiet aristocratic living spaces, this room is home to a quiet high-ranking aristocratic room. Bang the dark candy doors where artisan moves shine! and open it with a rambling trick and I enter the room.

"Balad!"

"As usual, after today's class, Master Claire said she boarded a pick-up carriage with the samurai. But the carriage doesn't arrive at the entrance to the Wang capital even when it's time. I couldn't even get in touch with the escort knight, and the gatekeeper looked around and somehow spotted the royal carriage near the entrance to the Wang capital. The escort knights were rolled in the carriage, and they said there was no sign of Master Claire and the samurai! I woke up, talking about the escort knight, pretending to be a bandit or a bandit, but the sword muscle was someone who had been trained."

"Sure?

"This is the information Alan told me, so I am sure!

"Okay."

When you entered the room, you asked for information. Ballado briefly tells me the situation. I guess I was able to settle down during the time I got here. Balad's report was summarised succinctly.

It was surprising that the source of the information was Father, but Balad, who asked to collect the information, was probably in contact with Mordo, so it's not an unlikely story. Some of them may have been strange to hear from there, so it was lucky that Balad happened to be in touch with Mordo.

From your father, the Kingsguard knight of Your Majesty, you can assume that the information you now know is everything Balad told you.

Put your arms together and think of the possibility that you can think from the information given.

Approximately three hours after class. The middle part is roughly halfway between the higher part and the Wang capital. He said the carriage had been abandoned at the entrance to the Wang capital, but you should probably think it was just after leaving the middle section that he was attacked.

There are two main purposes for kidnapping. If you want to force the royal family by multiplying the central mess, or if you need help with Claire herself. There is no other possibility, but it is unlikely that the only bandits and usurpers will strike a carriage with a large royal family crest. Oh, these guys are good at keeping themselves safe, so they don't do reckless work.

- It's unlikely an accident or an idea, is it?

Make such a hypothesis from the little information given.

The theory of an insider multiplied by Si Yingjie's retirement can also be considered, but then the carriage can be hidden within the Wang Dynasty. Carriages rot in the king's city. If you cover the entire carriage for delivery with cloth and even hide the royal family crest, you won't find it that easy. It would be easier to create your own alibi if you were to hide Claire more late in discovering things.

Yet it would be more natural to think that the killer took the carriage purposefully to the entrance to the King's Capital, where it was easy to find it, because he dared to discover the carriage and turn his suspicious attention to the nobles now gathered in the royal castle. Then I know why I bothered to leave it somewhere easy to find. But then, it is easier to bear sin if a carriage is discovered within the King's City, not outside the King's Capital.

But it was outside the King's Capital that the carriage was discovered, for whatever reason.

............... the killer couldn't get into Wang Du?

I nod in my heart at my hypothesis. The killer doesn't have a pass to enter the King's Capital. Or when I think of it as someone who can't keep it a secret when I go in, it sticks.

Student pick-up carriages, like Claire's carriage, can almost barely make it through the gate with a brief examination, but that's because the owners of each house meet the gatekeeper before enrollment, and those whose carriages and horses are the same but unfamiliar are checked with the pass and inside. Merchants travelling to and from other towns and cities, of course, have baggage inspections and pass checks, which make checks even more demanding when they are from other countries. So the killer had to leave the carriage outside the capital.

I have accepted that I will be revealed early that I am willing to sin. However, if we work carefully, we will not be able to abandon the slightest possibility and disperse the search hand. It's a very effective hand in the current situation, where there are only a limited number of people available to search for Claire because of the retirement commotion between the grandfathers.

When that happens, there are multiple kidnappers. There are a number of people who combine their abilities to easily roll the escort knights attached to the third princess, or allow them to do so. Since the former is difficult, it should be assumed that the killer has a double digit or platoon size. And those who do not deserve to enter the King's Capital, or who have reason not to, and who also have cunning and head turning there.

......... Speaking of which, you said that Dr. Das had been told by a merchant to form a crusade, but he hadn't even encountered those shivers yet.

The first time I heard of people wandering along the border was two months ago now, because it was definitely just after the sleepover. They said there was no noticeable damage, so they underestimated it, but if the merchants had deliberately witnessed it and spread the rumor while taking great care not to engage with the teachers, it was likely that they had been ready for quite some time and had been watching the opportunity.

- You troublesome bastards.

A wrinkle creeps all the way between my brows at the statue of the killer, which is gradually taking shape. I accidentally pounded my tongue, but Ballado, who I should have heard, just shook his shoulder to keep out of the way of his thought, mouthed and waited still for my life. I got my mind back on Ballad like that, and I got him to start thinking again.

If we are fully prepared and executed, we naturally also have an escape route. If the plan was prepared to go around as I imagined it, Claire would have been captured after knowing she was the third princess of the country, Claire von Majesta. If so, there is no danger to life right now. But if the crime becomes a domestic offender and not a foreign offender, it creates another danger. You better hurry up and rescue Claire.

......... I'm just afraid you can't say enough with the confidence that I think right.

That's about it, I'm upset right now. I'm not surprised that Claire's kidnapping news would shake her mind so much, but she reminded me that Claire's presence was greater in herself than she thought.

Claire, I don't think an individual would resent you enough to be kidnapped. And if it is not a hostage to the royal family, it is believed that the killer has found value in Claire herself. Until they say they want it, but I think Claire has the value she wants to grab it. If so, I know someone who fits the statue of the killer and has the motive for it. And I can predict where the executioners are headed.

But it's more dangerous to say that my thoughts are right than to be aware of my upsets.

............... I'd like to hear the other guy's opinion.

It is risky to rely on unsubstantiated hypotheses. At such times, it is best to listen to others' hypotheses with the same amount of information. If your opinions are close to yours, that's all you can prove about the hypotheses you've made.

But unfortunately, Master Gray, who most wants to borrow his head right now, is Royal Castle. It takes time to get in touch with Master Gray from the school, and the Ballads and Lutze are people on the side that are used rather than in command, so I don't rely a bit on referencing opinions.

I want a human opinion that guides the answer by adding a few different elements, absolutely without saying anything extraneously. What's more, I'd prefer someone who doesn't try to profit from the story on this one.

Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait.

If I think of someone in my head who can rely on me right now and meets the conditions, I will erase them. As I explored memories with classmates, teachers, and recently involved people from those close by, I came up with one person who would have the abilities I was looking for right now.

Like me, I'd be upset, but he could push it to kill it and think calmly, and then I'd just take him there and pay him enough, or rather sell him a favor, and there's one good person in this school.

"Ballad."

"Yes!"

"Did I tell you it was Claire and the samurai who got caught?

"Yes! I'm Marquis Bloom's warrant lady. Both Princess Claire and Master Bloom have the same dark hair, with green eyes, so it's possible they couldn't tell!

"- I couldn't tell, hey"

Just because the hair and eyes were of the same color, it can't be without being so much from the countryside that I can't tell the princess of my own country. In the first place, the colors are the same, but Claire and Serejayla have completely different facial lineages. If you're listening to the traits, you can't possibly be wondering which one is Claire. And it's almost impossible for a countryman to have a trained sword muscle, etc. So at this point, the line that was thin from the original name of so many countrymen disappears completely, and it can be concluded that perhaps the culprit is from another country, in terms of remaining possibilities.

Then there are a few countries adjacent to this country, which of them I will talk about, but I think there is only one country that can do this. A little added to the possibilities of other countries, but the culprit would be confirmed by the point that Serejaira had also taken them. In that country, Claire's maid has a motive to take her away with her.

Though I'm sure of it, I don't really want you to hit it.

I am almost certain that the hypothesis I have just made is correct in the information I have heard from Balad. But to move into action, I want a credible push. Claire is in trouble, and she will never be forgiven for mistakes or failures in case. Claire's rescue must be done carefully and quickly, secretly but surely.

Then there is one action I will take.

"Ballad."

"Yes!"

"Get in touch with Lutze and the others as soon as possible and get them ready for battle. Be careful not to get caught in the eyes of teachers or other students."

"Yes, I did. Dear Doyle,"

"I've got to stop by before I leave"

Confirm your outfit as you tell Balad to. You don't seem to need to change with the shame of waving your sword at the workout until earlier. This outfit makes it difficult to break your identity from clothing, and there is no shortage to fight.

I checked the outfit for defects, and I tried to take out the espada and stop it. Because I thought that the belt knife would stand out evil if I thought of a place where people were going to pull it.

"I'm coming because I don't have time. As soon as the Ballads are ready, wait at the stable. Just pretend to take care of the horse and be ready to leave."

"I understand. - Sounds like you're offering, but where is Master Doyle? If you need anything, it's faster for me to carry it, and I know that Doyle himself is less conspicuous than being moved."

If I told him that with my hands on the door, he'd finally settled down. Ballado undertook my life at his usual rate. And he asked me if I was mistaken for something I needed, like a place to stop by.

"I'm just bringing Lute"

"- What?"

"I want people I can use. He is a famous horse and can analyze the situation and act and direct with his own extraction. Besides, it's the woman you wanted to get even if you risked fighting and selling to me. I don't have any worries after I let them work. It's a good idea, isn't it? - - It's a waste of time, I'm coming. Hurry up, too."

"Hey, wait! Doyle..."

Shut the door, ignoring Ballad, who gives a surprise to my candidate. Before Ballad came after me, I ran out to make sure there were no signs of people in the hallway.