Boundary Labyrinth and the Foreign Magician

"- So... from now on, let me call you Mr. Mathius... In the name of taking care of Oscar and Vanessa, let me give you a trial. Because I'm close to my age, and because I can use life magic."

"Okay. I'll escort you both. The Duke should have this valor for his protection. I was wondering if it would be okay if you kept it in your nostalgia."

"Whoa. This is another interesting magical creature."

So I give Valor to the Duke. The Duke looked to have fun gazing at the received valor. Yeah...... Oscar, you're just Vanessa's father.

Valor to the Duke, I can free Cadkeus by following two escorts, Oscar and Vanessa. Leslie's surveillance and escort will also provide security inside the mansion.

"The demon that you two were wearing may have you move around the mansion."

"I understand. Okay, I asked for the rest, Clark."

"Yes, I'll take care of it"

Discussions in the reception room were also concluded when two Dukes of Driscoll and Clark exchanged to meet for future steps.

"Okay, I'll show you"

And Clark leads us to Oscar and Vanessa.

"Thank you"

"Since the case is a case, Mr. Oscar is protecting himself. This is Vanessa's idea."

... I see. We're taking the raid backwards and making it a reason for the two of us to consolidate in one place. It helps that this one is creating a situation that is easy to escort.

"Master Clark is also more relieved as far as I can to be on the Duke's side. Don't be too unscrupulous in a raid."

"I didn't expect you to worry about this old body."

Clark breaks up. Well... Clark seems to try to defend his husbands safely, and I don't think he'll get far from the Duke... at which point Clark could try to shield himself. But that's my job.

Through the carpeted hallway, climbing the mansion's stairs... and arriving at the Oscars' room, Clark knocked on the door.

"Lady Oscar, Lady Vanessa, I've brought a servant who used to talk to you."

"Go ahead."

As soon as I spoke in the room, Oscar responded.

Upon entering the room with Clark, there was Oscar and Vanessa sitting across from each other, pinching a desk placed between the walls. Admit what I look like and I'll stand up and thank you.

Let's use soundproofing magic just in case.

"Thank you for waiting. When I was getting ready, I was late."

"No. Dear Theodore, right?

Vanessa asks.

"Yes. I put on a disguise ring, and now I'm supposed to be Matthius. I'm a servant now."

"I get it. - No, I get it. Matius."

Mm-hmm. I have to make it look like a nobleman and a servant.

"Now, if you'll excuse me,"

Clark graciously leaves the room. Cadkeus left the room with him.

Let me start by trying to get you to look into things like the mansion intervals.

"What happens to talking to my father... er. I wonder what happened?

"I've made a lot of decisions. We have deposited Valor with the Duke, so we can keep track of the trends, and even if we are acting differently, we can protect them."

Right....... the two of you are going to lose your heads and explain everything...... in the meantime we shall keep everyone in touch with the old castle on the comms.

"... I see. Then I wonder where to set it up later."

Vanessa nods like she was impressed and shows herself conceived when she tells her about the steps set in her interaction with the Duke and makes her listen.

This time it's right to set it up from here rather than waiting for the raid. What is more pressing is if Leslie is behind this. So move on assuming that.

I have spoken to King Melvin when I stopped by the Royal Castle earlier, and the Duke will cooperate with me. Various conditions are in place.

"It has already been decided. Whether the position of the mastermind is true or disguised, we cannot inform the Duke of the intent of the raid without sending a letter of intimidation"

"Because of the nature of the other plan, you can read the next hand."

"Right. Executors have been caught, but without a separate team, the raid doesn't make sense. It's also a blackmail letter to make you smell like you have a separate team."

If the purpose is to inform us of the intent of the raid, it is absolute. The assailant has been captured, but if we don't send a letter of intimidation in the meantime, and we have a separate team, then we can't talk about it.

"Master Forseto and the others have arrived at the Inn. Lavine, Eclair, Ambram, they're all clear. '

And, Grace contacts the comms. When Ambram got home and passed on the information, he said that the avant-garde should have more, so Forceto and Zion and the others bought cooperation to get out. Certainly. Their power will only be good to rely on. Things are getting sorted out, and I think I know how this one should work.

Since Grace's communication machine could not be used due to lack of strength in the release state, the material is reviewed and the durability is enhanced so that it can be used even in the release state using the magic of structural strengthening.

Copy that. Nothing unusual at the moment. If the situation moves outside of the regular report, I'll call you every time. '

After I reply...... I will concentrate on the five senses link until something changes after that, gathering information and looking at how things are going.

Oscar and Vanessa also seemed to understand that now was the time to wait, and they decided to kill time by reading and so on, even though they seemed restless.

... Although I am concerned that this room may also be equipped with magic props for carbonated beverages, and that both of them are pouring them into cups for drinking. Apparently the Duke liked it a lot.

- And... the next time the situation moved was when it was completely dark outside and after dinner was over.

Oscar and Vanessa don't feel so good that means eating in the room, so I finished dinner with them, too, when I took a breather.

Someone knocked on the door of the room.

"It's Clark. I just received a suspicious letter to your mansion. My husband wants to talk to everyone, so he wants you both to come to the dining room."

... are you here? Face each other, nod, and then take them out of the room.

There's nothing unusual about the soldiers watching the garden. Leslie hasn't moved either. The fact that the letter arrived from the outside means it could have been planted in advance.

There will also be information available from the text of the threatening letter. Let's start by checking the contents.

When we reached the dining room with Clark's lead, the Duke and Duchess, Leslie and several servants were gathered. Dinner seems to have been cleaned up already and the dining room was a beautiful one.

"Are you here? Earlier, such a letter was delivered by a person named Curtis. I want to ask everyone for their opinions because of suspicious letters I don't remember."

And, the Duke makes the note appear to everyone. There was... Curtis's signature there.

Here...... do you name Curtis yourself? Okay, I don't know if it's a pseudonym anyway, but let me call you Curtis as a pseudonym for the mastermind thing.

"What was written? No, in the first place, who brought it?

Oscar asks the Duke.

"I haven't seen the contents yet. You're the public delivery guy who brought it in. He wanted to celebrate his family's birthday, so he also sent a letter to the courier asking them to see and deliver it after dinner."

… Can't a request from someone involved in the Duke's house mean he won't even listen as a courier?

"Now… let's read the contents in front of everyone"

When the duke in gloves carefully retrieves the note, he reads it up.

"- disrespectful, allowed to upset the rest of the night after dinner. How are you now? [M] If you are frightened by the anxiety of the raid, it means that our people have succeeded in their attempts. Or are you relieved to leave our people? For it is an error. It's not over, as you can see from the fact that I'm sending you your letters right now."

The Duke cuts his words there once and looks over at his surrounding face. There is no change in everyone's expression. Waiting for the rest to be told, something like that. The Duke will read more about the threatening letter.

"… I would like to make this request for direct access. What, it's not hard. To stop reconciling with the Grand Duke and try to maintain the relationship as usual. It means that there is no need to disturb the equilibrium of the three houses in the Kingdom of Verdogal and to recreate new relations. If this demand does not pass, there will be no intercession in the Duke's house, and there will be a new scourge. - Curtis."

... I see. It makes sense no matter how the situation falls after the raid. The font was also, um, disguised so that the handwriting could not be understood by the linear ones.

And by trying not to upset the equilibrium between the three houses, you are causing a disturbance so that those involved in the Grand Duke's side and the Royal side will also be added as candidates to the mastermind of the opposition to reconciliation.

It may have been assumed that the executioners would be caught and that some information would be leaked from them to account for the raids that had been carried out in the West End Port Department and the quality of those executioners.

Even if it ended up being the contents of that writ, it would have been something that would have been bright sooner or later in a magical interrogation if the executor had been caught.

... Usually we should follow up on the information based on the rubbing that the executioners had previously caused and what action they had to take to get released... If we follow the information in the way Curtis assumed, it could even be possible for them to grab false information.

I was watching the family, but we all had similar reactions. I guess Oscar and Vanessa were belly-working because they assumed a letter of intimidation would come, but Leslie also had a surprised look on her face. I don't know if it's an act or not.

Maybe you can't lure Curtis upset by sticking with the letter he's found from the raider's place as it is.

... I mean, we shouldn't fight on this guy's prepared board.

I can't grasp the truth about the content, and it's just useless to argue.

Curtis needs to be stuffed to the throat all at once in an unexpected way. And - preparation for that… the meeting and the rooting have already been done.

"Sir. Your majesty told me here, isn't that new method available?

"Oh. Right. I didn't think it would be useful in a place like this to have it ready to experiment later"

and the two engage in such an exchange. Let me tell you from the side I planted it, it's white, but only the great nobleman and his servants seem to be able to perform abdominal arts.

Of course, this is also the flow over the steps we met earlier in the reception room.

As the other family leaned their necks, Clark brought dried seaweed from the kitchen next to the dining room. This... is what I got everyone to go to the market and buy.

Clark leaves the dining room again when he puts it on the table.

"Seaweed...? What are you going to do?

If I thought we were talking about a blackmail letter, then suddenly the story fell in a different direction, and I guess I can't read the expansion. To Leslie leaning his neck, the Duke responds in a calm manner.

"Well - you should watch it for a while. Never touch the letter."

Clark, who left, soon returned again. Now I have experimental equipment such as glass bottles and beakers prepared for me by Rosemary.

"Mattius, you could use the magic of life. I'll show you the steps."

"Yes, sir"

Suddenly he receives a nomination from the Duke and comes forward pretending to be confused.

The method involves burning seaweed - adding acids and other agents to the solution boiled from its ashes and ashes to separate iodine.

Needless to say, Kiyoku Mishima - it is knowledge from a previous life. Well... you remember when you were in middle school. This is what chemistry teachers did by derailing the contents of the class.

The Duke tells me exactly what I taught him to do. Carve the seaweed into ashes - as the Duke says - and proceed with the work.

"We're talking about the rising steam being toxic. Be careful not to smoke."

"Let's open the window"

And, Clark.

"With wind magic... I think we'll be trapped"

How to pretend to be a novice and follow and chant with a serious look, from which you use fire magic, wind magic, water magic, etc. to fly moisture and separate the ingredients. If we trap the odors that have developed and stiffen and cool them...... iodine crystals were made.

"Is this all right, sir?"

"Uhm. Roast this crystal in a cylinder of vitreous and hit the letter with the rising steam"

Then the sweat component attached to the paper reacts, meaning that the fingerprints can be coloured and detected.

When I hit the rising iodine vapor on the letter, fingerprints surfaced everywhere in the letter.

"This is...!

Leslie's expression... changed. Open your eyes round.

Yes, fingerprints are not known in this world to be used to investigate, or to detect fingerprints from paper.

Just as we cannot take measures such as keeping hair and other remnants from being left with criminals if we do not know about DNA testing, we have no choice but to take measures if we do not know that fingerprints will remain on the threatening letter.

"I'm sure this surprised me... Will something like this prove it? I see the finger marks you touched, so what do you think it's gonna be?

and that's where Leslie has questioned the very ability to prove fingerprints.

Yes. It will. It's just a new way, it doesn't make sense unless the correctness of the method has been proven. But it is within my assumption that we will be talking about it.

When the Duke closed his eyes and removed his gloves, he touched the glass bottle and left his fingerprints before saying:

"Here's how... touching glass or something would leave a trace, right? I hear this swirl pattern has different characteristics for each parent and child, even if they are parents and children. They say that if you analyze it in detail, you will know who touched what. His Majesty the Ambassador of the Other World advocates it. Is His Majesty Melvin willing to incorporate this method into a new criminal investigation, trying to prove his correctness if he takes it from a sufficient number of heads and examines it? Whatever... If it can float off the paper like this, the range of applications will be wide"

The words spoken by the Duke… remain the words to which King Melvin replied to me when he suggested that we try to shake them in this way. I suggested it to King Melvin when he returned to the royal castle, and it's been rooted out.

In proceeding with the procedure, you let me use the character of a new object lover, the Duke. You don't have to let me talk to you.

The corroboration of the existence of the ability to prove fingerprints is still to come...... That would also be a matter of time. From Curtis, this is with a fire on his ass.

More importantly, for me, I don't have to discuss the correctness of the fingerprints or anything else already, and the killer's eye-catcher - if I have the information I can be sure of, that's enough.

"Whoever planned this raid… or his collaborators could be in the Duke's house. With reference to this pattern, find and identify the matching person. Isn't there an instruction form coming to the captured raider, too? If we find this one, we'll be able to detect finger patterns as well."

The Duke declares before everyone. So we can't just dispose of this threatening letter.

"I'll work with you. If you prove your innocence, you won't have to be a suspect."

"Just like my brother."

and Oscar and Vanessa in tune and touch the glass bottle to leave their fingerprints. Lady and Clark followed suit. Leslie... doesn't move a little further away. He looked like he was losing his blood from the look on his face.

Whoever it is, even the Duke and his children are cooperating in fingerprinting...... I can't make a reason to refuse. Sit back and wait for death, or move before you are reached.

Leslie was leaning over.

Don't miss a step at a time. Especially the magic moves. Attack magic without chanting can also detect omens if they are monoculars.

"Heh-heh..."

It was... a laugh. I'm shaking my shoulders small.

"Leslie. What's wrong with you?

The Duke frowns and asks.

"No, this is a surprise. How did an ambassador from another world find such a way? Or did you get it from some kind of book? In any case, I still don't know who I am."

Unwilling, only Leslie's head unnaturally rocks. And - I looked up. I found Vanessa breathtaking. There was a hatefully distorted look. Is this the look she saw?

And an unusual reaction to magic. Is this-!?

"Back off!

Step forward and expand the shield. But Leslie's actions were not what we expected. Fly big back, big dining room ceiling - stick it on your back in the corner.

eyes. Neither those eyes nor their movements belong to man. Horizontal pupils, like goat's eyes, are shimmering. Are you a demon? No... that's not the same, I feel like.

"He said he was planting a lot of things. They're no longer useful, either. Well, good. I'm finally free to move with a little tuning in. These kinds of moves are a reminder to Xing... but even from here on out, if I'm the one who shakes my dreams and my present, I have to show him that I can turn things around."

... this guy. Are you possessed by Leslie?

Earlier, I did see from around Leslie's chest... an inexplicable magic erupted that I didn't think belonged to a human being and tangled up on his limbs like a chain.

"... who is it? You are."

Stick it to the ceiling and ask Laughing Leslie. Leslie...... No, someone who borrowed Leslie's body said with a joyous look as he shimmered his eyes.

"- Dream Demon Grazheim. In Wagner-Driscoll's time, he was also known as the Great Dreamlurking Devil. This is... revenge for Wagner's descendants, boy."