Walking all the way around the fort and grasping the internal structure, Setuna returned to Sheila's bunk once. I left the room to make sure Sheila was asleep and Ragna wasn't failing to be on guard, then went outside from the second floor of the fort.

The Night Forest was not an exaggeration to say that it was closed to the Book of Darkness and nothing was visible.

It is as if the trees are disturbed and the fort itself is about to be swallowed, and in fact, it blends into the landscape because it is half swallowed. There were also several places where tough tree roots were breaking through the stone walls and stone floors of the fort. In decades or hundreds more, this fort will be a complete part of the forest.

On the second floor of the fort, there was something like a watchtower, where Esq and Doreen stood. The light on the Demonic Crystal lamp isn't on either, because if you light the light, you'll find out that there are people using the fort. Even inside the fort, there were a limited number of good places to use demonic crystal lamps. Only spaces where there is no light leaking outside are allowed to light up. Although the kitchen felt like it was somehow misleading by minimizing the amount of light.

I don't even need to be that careful, on the other hand, I also wonder if we should be that careful. The Knights of Benoagard are not the only ones following Sheila's footsteps. We should assume that the whole Abard thing turns to Sheila's enemies. We must not allow ourselves to be distracted not only by the royalists, the Sails, but also by the Sheila people.

How many people, like the master of the "Shimmering of the Stars" pavilion, sympathize with Sheila's condition and help her even with her life?

The more I thought about it, the wiser it might have been to cage in the abandoned fortress behind the woods instead of lurking in some city. I would have been able to hide in the city, but I wouldn't be able to take it easy so far.

"Oh, isn't Setuna's husband?"

If you want to find this one, that's the word Esq-Soma has been saying. My neighbor Doreen bows her head to the ground. It's a big deal, so I guess it just looks like a little bit of motion.

"No, I think I should say Admiral."

Setuna turned into a strange face at the words Esq had been twisting her neck.

"General?"

"Uncle Negro deserves you better. If you married Princess Sheila, you can stay with her husband."

"You gotta be kidding me."

"Ma, is there no reason to marry just Sheila"

"I'm gonna get mad."

Setuna looked up to him as he reached next to Esq. When sandwiched by the two upper backs of Esq and Dorin, he's about to lose pressure. Esq, Dorin, not only was he taller than Setuna, but he was also in good physical shape. Both muscles and skeletons look better than Setuna's. If you do it properly, can you beat Doreen as well? At least I don't have my hands or legs on the esc. Even when confronted at the Cizelle liquor store, Esq decided to use a summoning weapon because he had provoked it, thereby taking victory. If Esq had tried to settle in a battle of hand-to-hand karate, it would have been Setuna who had lost.

Summon armed.

At that time, it was the black mask that Setuna summoned using a false surgical formula. Not a black spear (chaos blinger), but a mask that resembles a dark black mask (mask of disper). It is the summoning arm of Craig Zem-Midnas and part of the power of the black spear.

I didn't think it would work that far, but I was sure I could summon it.

The Black Spear destroyed the Dark Black Mask and absorbed its power. The absorption of the dark black mask made the black spear stronger. That's true. Evidence of this is the burial of an immensely powerful dragon under one blow. If it had been a black spear before, it would have been nearly impossible to draw that much power. At least, to Setuna, I couldn't. If you think about it, you can absorb the dark black mask and say that the black spear has become stronger.

but I also thought that was it.

If the dark black mask is truly part of the power of the black spear, isn't it strange that the ability of the dark black mask could have been used? It can be a pitch-black spear (Lance of Designer). If the Black Spear was originally equipped with power, it shouldn't have been surprising if it could have done the same.

It was a bump production, but things happened exactly as Setsuna thought. He succeeded in summoning a black mask with the ability to embody a dark doll very similar to Reaper. This leads Setuna to see new possibilities for black spears. That means you can use the absorbed subpoena weapons separately. Lance of Designer will also be able to summon, and what will be Edge of Surst, means that at the dawn of absorption, he will be the summoning arm of Setuna. Of course, that was ahead of Setuna and the Black Spear's victory over Edge of Thurst and its users, and not something to think about right now.

Anyway, Setsuna found a new way to fight. If we could use a black spear and a black mask separately, there was no doubt that the battle would be much wider. In that sense, meeting Esq was never meaningless, and I was grateful.

"That's a joke."

He came laughing with his hands flickering. A light smile, but no malice there. So Setuna does not gaze upon him, but upon his shoulders. I can frankly bump my thoughts, too, because he has nothing else to offer.

"That's a bad one, you."

"It's often said. That's why I'm not suited to represent the captain."

"Really."

"It's awful."

Now it was the version where Esq flaunted his shoulders.

"I don't know if you're here."

"Admiral doesn't have a terrible mouth depending on the other guy?

I'm sorry.

"I didn't say that. But it's easy to understand."

"It's easy to understand..."

"Yeah. You also know very well that they care about Princess Sheila. I thought you kept your eyes off the princess."

"I wanted to look around the fort. And Sheila's asleep, and Ragna's on it."

"Hmm... what's that dragon-like reptile thing, really, what the hell?

"So it's a dragon."

"Really?"

"That's deputy commander, dubious"

It went like Dorin was impressed, but from the mouthfeel, it just seemed like he was making a fool of himself. I knew from the beginning that Dorin-Nog wasn't comfortable with Esq, but his words and actions had gotten particularly bad since Setuna's identity was found. That said, like Esq's words and deeds, there's no malice there, so Esq doesn't pursue it too hard either.

"He was so big, he wasn't that cute."

"Hmmm..."

'Cause even I struggled.

"There's a dragon kill in the Zalwarn War?

"Oh."

"There's no such thing as a dragon..."

Even though Setsuna explained, Esq looked unconvinced. If you haven't seen the actual Ragnacia-Elm Dorrus, it's a natural reaction. Now he's just a little creature to the point where he fits into Setuna's palm. Where Setuna and Sheila testified, it was also impossible not to imagine. Still, it's not like he's just a lizard, though I should have understood by his unraveling of humanities and his use of magic.

"Believe it or not, Esq's on his own."

"Well, I don't believe it"

"Hey."

"So, it's a joke."

Half of what you say and do is a joke.

When Setuna is half-eyed,

"No way."

Esq looked here and laughed coldly.

"Eighty percent is a joke."

Setsuna called on the spot.

"So, what are we gonna do?

Setsuna inquired when the smell of dinner began to drift from the fort. It seems it's time for dinner, and I heard a bulge and footsteps from inside the fort, and my attention to it flickered. I had to laugh at the mercenaries poking at the impossibility of running without making a sound.

"What do you want me to do?

Esq tilted his neck.

From the lookout outside Fort Sensar's second floor, I thought I had a good view of the forest, and I couldn't see anything. In the days when this fort was used, it may have been possible to look around the fort, but then hundreds of years later, the sight of the watchtower was blocked by countless trees, and only the darkness of the forest darkened the sight.

The humid, air-filled world is filled with cold night winds, and all the animals are heard squealing.

"Sure, as long as you're hiding in this fort, you won't find it that easy. It's deep in the woods off the streets, and the fort itself blends into the landscape. If you lurk your breath in the fort, you won't be discovered first"

"Right? Sasu is me."

"That's good. But that won't solve it forever, will it?

"Think carefully, Admiral of Setuna"

"Hmm?"

"What is our purpose?

"It's about making Sheila serve her purpose."

Setsuna responded instantly. It wasn't enough to be asked again, or until I thought about it. That's what Setsuna is here for. It infiltrated Abard only to make Sheila serve her purpose, and nothing else Setuna had thought of.

I also know that I need to think about it.

Setsuna has a position.

Not ordinary people with a lot of power, etc. I'm not a good person to walk around in freedom. But right now, I just needed to think about Sheila, and I just wanted to look at her. Otherwise, you can even protect her.

"Right? What's the princess's purpose?

"Face to face with Her Royal Highness Queen Celis."

Celis Rae-Abard. I mean, Sheila's mother, and Sheila is going to listen to her directly from her mother. Why does Celis wish Sheila's death? Sheila's only purpose was to find out about it, and there was an atmosphere that she didn't care about the rest as long as she could find out about it.

My real mother denied everything. It couldn't have been impossible to do so either.

So Setuna has to stay at her side.

"Right."

"... I mean, first you have to know where Her Royal Highness Queen Celis is. In the meantime, we have to work out an infiltration plan, not something we're going to do overnight."

"I understand that... Your Highness is not in the king's capital?

"Eighty-nine, you'll be in the royal palace of Bandor, the king's capital."

Esq has told me with a smile.

"Well, you don't need to find out where he is."

"Nevertheless, there is also the matter of His Majesty's Shadow Warriors, and you will never have come over to investigate"

"... So, how do we find out?

"I've already hit my hands on that"

"The master of the Star Glitter Pavilion must be doing his best."

"Oh... that shopkeeper"

"It is the formation of the princess's virtue."

"How popular was Sheila?"

"It's enough to split the country in two. Even the Admiral."

"Why am I out there?

As Setuna looked up at him with her mouth pointed, Esq had the usual sarcastic grin.

"Because the Admiral is Setuna, isn't he? of the Black Spear."

"Oh."

"A black spear setuna. Hey, you're a Gandhian hero and you're known by the Gandhian people for your overwhelming popularity. For the first time in national popularity, you know, outnumber that military teacher."

Esq's eyes glowed cold.

"If there's a campaign to hold the Admiral in Gandhia, Gandhia can split up, too."

"That's not gonna happen"

"How can you say that?

"I won't let you wake me up."

When Setuna affirmed, Esq did his gaze toward the fort. Chasing his gaze, a woman stood at the entrance and exit upstairs. Sleeps slightly on long gray hair. It's Sheila. I was staring at this one with a blurry eye. There was a ragna over his head, and when he saw where he was emitting light, he probably used it instead of lighting.

"How can a situation that has moved once be done on your own?"

"I know."

Behind Setsuna's brain was the figure of a woman who would make a monologue in the halls of the Heavenly Wheel Palace. The Queen's standing movement, which ends in the national popularity of the Beast Princess, was not what she wanted or anything else. If I tried it on her, the water would be a good place for sleeping ears, and as a result, there should have been no other good nuisance because the triumph to the King's Capital had been rejected. And Sheila's popular heating created a confrontation between the Sheilas and the Royal Palace, leading to civil unrest.

Sheila tried to stop it.

She had no intention of becoming a queen, and a faction called the Sheila faction itself was unnecessary. Because she was part of the Abard royal family and the next king thought it was fine with her brother Sail. But her cry was also vain, and the conflict between the Sheilas and the royal palace deepened and developed into war.

It was in the middle of something like that that Sheila left Abard in disillusionment.

"Because Sheila was."

Setuna said a gentle greeting to Esq and Dorin before leaving the watchtower.