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"Why did you tell me more than six months ago?

"As a matter of fact, I was asked to look into you guys again because of your work in the war. I haven't been able to find out all the details yet, but I can easily find out if it's a place like Wang's Guild."

I don't think the Adventurer Alliance, a neutral institution, will be aggressive in informing, but it's hard for opponents to hide through at the top of their own country.

Besides, what King Patrick wants to hear is when he exorcised the bandits.

At that time, a lot of people knew about us because it worked flashly on buyouts, etc.

"As time goes by, my son, the third prince, is missing"

At the time, just after the third prince went missing, he probably couldn't connect me to the third prince's disappearance.

But it's not hard to link missing persons to those who carried out a massive crusade of bandits in the same period if you try to be someone who knows what the third prince was doing.

"Do you know anything about the missing third prince Pesh Meticalia?

"May I ask why you ask me that?

"What do you mean?

"What I did was only a bandit (...) crusade. I don't see how the missing third prince could have anything to do with that."

I'll tell you what I did by highlighting the part called 'Bandit' properly.

Apparently King Patrick is clearly grumpy about my word 'bandit' because he knows what his own son was doing.

"Let's stop exploring each other's bellies. The leader of the bandits you crusaded is Pesh, who was working under cover of his identity."

King Patrick says as he lowers his gaze.

Prince Randolph also eats his teeth like he chewed up a bitter bug.

As a royalty, I guess it's shameful that my own son or brother were bandits.

Two gaze shifted from me.

A small treasure chest (treasure box) appears at the foot of the gap to retrieve the pendant worn by the third prince. A pendant that has disappeared by magic conversion after a crusade, but it is possible to replicate it as long as it consumes magic.

"Do you recognize this pendant?

"... there is. It's a pendant that shows you're royal."

You understand what it means to have this pendant at my disposal.

"This is the pendant that the bandit regiment leader we killed had. You said something ridiculous about yourself, such as a third prince, but it was true, wasn't it? I never thought the bandits were really the third prince."

"Kisama......!

Herahela, laughing and saying, Prince Randolph rose angrily.

"Do you understand what you did!?

"It's a bandit crusade?

"No. You killed the third prince, Pesh."

"Then you admit it. The third prince, a royal family, was admired by the bandits..."

"Oh, that's..."

It can't be admitted.

But being admired by the members is because the members of the bandits themselves were soldiers who knew who the commander was in the first place, and they thought they would be safe in the future if they fought according to the instructions of the third prince.

"The leader of the bandits we killed was in the process of taking his men out of the fort that was Ajit, and he just knocked them down because they looked hostile over there. Hostages are unlikely."

"But..."

"Admit it."

Still, I said something. It was Prince Randolph who was doing so, but King Patrick admitted it softly.

"The bandits you crusaded are the ones my folly, Pesh, headed the regiment and whose constituents were supposed to serve the country as well"

"Father!"

"You keep your mouth shut for a minute!

Prince Randolph sits drunk by King Patrick.

Now there were signs of using some skill instead of just having a drink.

"You admit it very easily."

"I admitted to the act of foolishness. So I want you all to admit that you acted from the very beginning knowing who the bandits were."

King Patrick looked at Melissa as he talked to me.

I see. In the short term, it may have been difficult to explore even our identity, but unlike me, Sylvia and Ira, who were originally ordinary villagers, Melissa was the daughter of a lord and worked against the merchants in Wang Du.

We can't, but maybe we could have explored Melissa's identity.

From there a connection was created between Melissa and the third prince.

If we're in a situation where we're working together now, I can convince you why I'm helping.

"Yes, you're right"

Melissa has looked at me with anxious eyes to admit what she knew from the beginning.

I can't say anything in a situation where I'm facing the royalty, so I just hold Melissa's hand, which was held on my lap. So you calmed down a little. Turn your gaze to King Patrick.

"But 'in the midst of a request to escort him to King's Capital, he was attacked by bandits and destroyed the bandits for future safety'. It doesn't change that fact."

It is common for adventurers and bandits who take on escort requests to confront each other.

"That doesn't matter. Neither could we have stopped Pesh knowing his foolish deeds. By the time I found out about Pesh's plan, it was a situation where the bandits were already getting bigger and out of hand."

"Still, the bandits were no more than 300 in size. Crusading the Bandits should have been easier than waging war. Why didn't you?

"You think you can do that? Even though they are bandits, they are the kind of people who think that being their own people is really good for the country. There was no way I could send an army. I was wondering if I could handle it inside."

The result is the destruction of the Bandits, including the Commander.

The king didn't make it to take action.

"You had to realize at an earlier stage as king. And I should have stopped the bandits by meditating on my eyes for some sacrifice when I realized it. You didn't do it because your son was cute."

"That's right. Whatever your personality, it doesn't change you to be my son. It is also true that many of his rulers have enriched their lives. As a king, in the wrong choice -"

"It's the wrong choice!

Melissa put her words on King Patrick's dialogue.

I know what Melissa's trying to say. It is dangerous to make her speak now.

"Your Majesty has now said that many human lives have been enriched. How many sacrifices have been made in the process? They are killing many people who had a mediocre life as bandits to get territory. Can His Majesty say to those who have sacrificed, 'Your death is necessary for the future', etc.?

You can't admit the happiness you've gained by committing banditry.

How much of what they say doesn't make the sins they commit disappear.

"No, you can't tell me."

"Father! I can tell you"

I said something about Prince Randolph or something like that.

Despite the fact that we have Melissa, one of the victims, in front of us.

Having heard Prince Randolph's words, Melissa is still staring so hard that her gaze seems to kill her.

"If you're royal, it's only natural that you think of your country first. If you say it's a necessary sacrifice, I'll choose the path to sacrifice them."

Is that what you say?

To be honest, the more I think about Melissa, the more I want to dispose of her right now.

But whatever character they were in, they were royal - and heirs to the next throne.

If you do something bad, you'll be guilty even if this one is right.

If we're going to do it, we need to dispose of it so no one knows, like the third prince.

"Is the story about the third prince? Unfortunately, all I took home was pendants and other gear. I will also give you my earlier pendant free of charge. Instead, don't do anything to incriminate me in this matter."

"Well, you still don't have his body..."

King Patrick mutters.

It's not exactly the absence of a body, it's so decayed by Melissa's magic that you can't tell whose body it is.

According to what I heard later on when I stopped at Wang Capital, the soldiers who headed for the bandit crusade by the plague that we shed in lies were also killed by the plague. The bandits and soldiers are the same person, so you're not wrong.

"Is this the end of the story?

But it wasn't a story that made me feel too good.

We all have to calm Melissa down when we get home.

"Wait, I still have an explanation for the request"

"If the country is going to ask adventurers, I think we should ask S-rank adventurers."

"Even S-rank adventurers lack strength. And because it's you, I'd like to ask for a request I can trust."

Because it's us?

What do you mean you trusted us when you said you didn't get much about our information? It's no surprise that you've been judged to have enough combat power because of your work in the war.

"Could you take it on - Labyrinth Lord (Dungeon Master)"