When I closed the office door, I heard a big sigh behind me.

Looking back, Harris, the butler, trembled little by little with his hand on the door knob.

The clean work cultivated by experience, the tough guts that don't scare you no matter what happens, let alone upset you, is completely out of his control now.

No longer had a sharp look or a shadow to see, it was like a small animal thrown into a vast garden.

"I'm sorry too, Mr. Walkins.Now I'm trembling.... "

"Hey, you know how Harris feels.Rather, I appreciate the patience until I get back to my room. "

Walkins hung up his mouth with pleasure as he whistled a squeaky dry sound.

"I didn't feel alive."

I guess so. The Lord who serves suddenly begins to confess his sins, so I guess I didn't feel comfortable being an obedient butler. "

"I thought my heart would stop."

Having finally regained his usual tone, Harris slightly adjusted the distortion of the collar as well as the partition.

"But was it good?"

"Did you reveal that I was the one who put my hands on the Summon Monster?"

"That person is still on the Queen's side.At last, there is also the possibility that Walkins' plan will be torn apart by the Queen..... "

The story revealed to the summoner, Maddy, is the truth without lies or lies.

Of course, with the help of the expert, Walkins was the only one who actually reached out to the magic team. If we thoroughly investigate, it may not be impossible or impossible to obtain evidence of his involvement.

In that regard, there is no other foolishness that strangles one's neck.

"Queen Rebecca seems furious about the 21st saint, Kirishima Run.The queen didn't know there was a mistake in the summons until the other day.I mean, I didn't get a report from the Queen's people.Just once. "

"The Queen's desire for the King is real.Nothing else - a clue to saving the King's life If the Summon Monk had ever concealed that there was a problem, the Queen would have thought "betrayed."

"So, in this case, we should not engage in family harassment, but rather seek neutral clarification of the facts.The Queen understands that, so they're sperming the lizard's tail.--it's easier to understand, simpler, clearer, and more than anything else, the guilty need it now. "

With the rhetoric around him, Harris's doubts seemed to wander.

But Walkins didn't intend to answer like this.

"Sin of deceiving the queen. An inconvenient issue at an important ceremony involving the King's life.Without cover, they tried not to take the saint Kirishima Run from the beginning to protect what would not have been so important. "

I'm sure the Queen's men were going to take care of it when the aliens got mixed up.

You could have killed him right after he was summoned.

However, from the beginning, I intended to strengthen my cohesion by summoning several fellow humans at the same time, and train them as a more tough group of warriors.

What was Kirishima Orchid's position in the group and what did others think of it?

We couldn't kill him until we knew where he was.If Kirishima Orchid had been an important figure in the group, the saints would have recognized the people of this world as enemies.

"They're good at 'doing what they never did'.It is best to lay down a decree and discredit the facts with power.This time, too. Powerful men, such as ministers and some knights, repeat what they do not know and try to sin against powerless men. "

"Beyond that was Summoner Maidy."

"It's been investigated that the Summoner has been neglected by the Queen.As I told him earlier, they're trying to create a convenient scenario that says, "The Summoner did it to hide his mistakes."

Sitting on the chair, Walkins extended his arms wide open.

"The Queens are already working on a plan to get rid of the Summoner.What happens if a Summoner suddenly starts suing for innocence in such a situation?Even if it is a claim that hates me, I cannot easily be summoned to justice without the proper evidence. "

"If Summoner Maddie betrays Master Walkins here, it won't pay....."

"There is no physical evidence. When I complain to the magic team, it sounds like an escape of responsibility.And even if I try to get on with the Summoner's words now, what happens to the testimony they have claimed up until now that it was the Summoner's arbitrariness?The ministers who were ordered to testify, whether they were lying or not, would be disadvantaged in the justice arena.When we get here, it's too late to fix the orbit. "

Rather, a person who relied on this confession and immediately sold Walkins would have been a different person.

At an early stage, it is better to keep it to a limit and not pull the tail later.

"Well, because of his personality, he won't pretend to sell me lightly.I'm not such an asshole. Instead, the light of salvation was just shining in the dark, so I guess I'm jumping alone by now. "

The triple white eyes narrowed, and Walkins slowly twisted his left and right fingers.

"Well, the actors are all here. We're not going to go ahead with the plan."

"Yes, but..."

Knowing everything that was going to happen, Harris lowered his eyes slightly as if he had seen something painful.

"... I apologize for your disrespect."

Yeah?

"Do we have to do this?"

The plans they are going to pursue are barbaric acts that can be described as inhumane.

Harris vowed to give his soul to Walkins as one for a prosperous future.

As a human being, it was also true that the plan from here hurt my conscience.

"I can't directly deny the question" Is there anything else I can do? "But as I said before, "If we get here, we can't fix the orbit anymore."

Walkins stared at the distance with his chin on his hands.

"To make Pearl's son the next king, there is not a single line - many difficulties stand in the way.If we do not disable them all at the same time, our ambitions will not be fulfilled.That's what you knew from the beginning. "

"You're right."

"That's why I had to rely on the devil's curse.Don't let him live, don't kill him. Until we're ready, I need you to keep the throne safe. "

"If you can see the dark clouds and leave the throne, everything will go back to the blisters."

"I know, right? When the king is cursed, we have no choice but to go back."

With a fierce smile like a snake, Harris felt his spine freezing.

But it was a common heart and courage that I had before me, and I didn't give up on my attitude.

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"With the discovery of the twenty-first saint, Kirishima Run, the Queen seems to be furious."

At the same time, the ministers on the Queen's side were meeting secretly to discuss how to get through the upcoming vote.

"Indeed, I told the Queen that there were twenty saints summoned.But in fact, there was a twenty-first saint.Was the reported minister unaware of its existence or deliberately attempted to conceal it?The Queen is trying to reveal it. "

The only people gathered here are, of course, trustworthy interlocutors who were deeply involved in the saint summons and shared all the information.

Those who have been in charge of summoning, educating, and training saints.

The meeting was attended by two officials who have a diplomatic role, but there is no problem with them.

He is an official who usually handles state secret-level cases.It is impossible for information to leak from their mouths.

"The failure to get rid of Kirishima Run is above all a pity.I can't believe it was hidden by Walkins. "

"The reasons why Walkins protected the deserters are still unclear.It's a little creepy around there. "

"Yes, I have no other reason to believe that it was supposed to be until we made a false report to the Queen.Otherwise, risk and return are not commensurate.If we had told the Queen of the existence of the escaped saint, Walkins would have been guilty of hiding him. "

"I didn't know you were protecting the Kirishima Run from your disproportionate current position to the risk of losing it.I don't think it's insane. "

"But the fact is, that unexpected act of sanity is going to strangle us.Walkins didn't read it until now. "

Looking at the participants who exchanged opinions individually, the minister in charge of the whole saint summons controlled them in a strict tone.

"There's nothing we can do about it.The agenda is not about reflection, but about where responsibility lies. "

There was no other Walkins hiding Kirishima orchids, but it seems difficult to blame him.

Queen Rebecca was the first to (...) conceal the existence of Kirishima orchids.

It was reported that there were only twenty saints summoned, but the twenty-first one, who should not have been there later, appeared.

It is self-evident that someone had received a report that differed from the facts, and it is no longer inevitable that someone should be held responsible.

"Who first concealed the 21st saint?The queen must clarify this in a convincing way. "

Whether that was true or not was irrelevant to the Queen's minister.

Rather, to be honest with the fool, the minister who made a false report while participating in the summons would of course be held guilty of the Jinsei Knight and many other people involved in the summons who did not dispute the report.

If someone is held responsible, the damage to the Queen's side will be minimized.

"Are you done with the magistrate?"

"Rest assured, I have selected trusted knights to testify that Summoner Maddy has planned this on her own initiative."

They don't know.Fortunately, the coordinates of the summons were skewed.Thanks to this, one of the summoners first met the saints, and later the knights and ministers confirmed the success of the 20 summons.

"We're supposed to be irrelevant in the first place. We didn't even know the 21st Saint existed.Because the Summoner arbitrarily hid Kirishima Run somewhere before we met the saints. "

A few relieved breaths are leaking.

It means that it is impossible for us to turn our hands on the investigation.

"Let's settle about Saint Kirishima Run first.... let's move on to another agenda. "

Two officials, who remained silent on the agenda earlier, appeared long ago.

"It's been a while since the Saints left, but what about the surrounding countries?Any movement? "

"There are no other major movements.Even though that kind of threat was released from the royal palace, there is no sign of vigilance or even doubt. "

He is now cursed by the Devil King, wandering through the half-dead and half-life, but when he was in service, he was a good king who made various achievements.

One of them is the signing of a ceasefire agreement with a neighbouring country.

Originally, the area was peaceful, and there was no overt war, but territorial or customs problems led to the outbreak of conflict and the sacrifice of a small number of people.

I have taken various measures since the time of the ancestral kings in order to manage the current situation.Due to the achievements of the current King, he decided to enter into relations with his neighbors "without any wars or conflicts, and without increasing unnecessary troops".

"It is only an unnecessary enhancement and does not mean abolishing the military service itself.The point is to strengthen our military capabilities so that we don't intimidate our neighbors. "

If you disobey the agreement, you may be attacked and defeated.If such a power relationship remains, the significance of entering into an agreement will disappear, so I think it is the ultimate natural drop.

"The problem is that the King's body is not pleasant.If the King were to collapse like this, he could see the country in chaos and be attacked by neighboring countries against the agreement. "

"Nevertheless, if we are prepared to intercept in advance, it will be inevitable that we will turn a blind eye to suspicion that our country is seeking to renege on the agreement."

"If we are judged to be a threat and pointed out as an unnecessary arms build-up, the agreements we have reached will be famous and innocent. Now we're going to fall."

Unnecessary armament enhancements are impossible.Then it would be no problem to expand armaments if it was imperative.

But that's just a convenient misinterpretation of the agreement.If that happens, there is no point in entering into an agreement from the end.

"But it depends on how you take it.The neighbors will not be silent if they increase their armaments in preparation for the possibility of being attacked by other countries. "

The minister goes on like nothing.

"To save the king's life, I summon a brave man to crush his original demon king.What is worthy of unnecessary arms expansion?The neighbors won't object. "

The fact that the King is sick means that the neighbors have a faint sense of it, even though he hasn't said it publicly.

No matter how many agreements we have, we cannot let go of the politics of other countries.There's no doubt that spies and messengers are lurking.It's about each other.

It is unclear whether there is a country where even the culprits have been identified, but the fact that it is due to some external factor can be predicted to some extent by the way officials behave.

"Besides, the saints are only about twenty children.You can't rape them because you don't tell them the true purpose (...).The saints will no doubt try not to carry out their mission. "

And the minister shall not look evil, but shall tell those gathered together at the congregation.

"The Devil's Curse, huh? Even if it were to be de-cursed, the plan would not change.That's how much the body and mind are eroding.Even if you return to the throne, you will not last forever.... I'd like to increase my strength to prepare for an impending war. "

Both the side room and the queen had already cut off the king's future.

On the queen's side, how do you protect Prince Alec, who will inherit the throne after the current king dies?How to make the country prosper.That was above all else.

"In order to do that, we need to settle this disturbance peacefully first."

"There are several occasions where you can help the queen and the prince from here on out.We must somehow restore the trust that was causing the crack. "

And the secret meeting was over, and the gathered men returned as if nothing had happened.

The Summoner will take all the blame.No doubt about it.

It was only two days after the meeting that Summoner Maddy visited Walkins' office and went down to the military gate swearing allegiance.