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"Let me hear your report."

"What?"

"The arrival of the fleet should have been a few days away if I had anticipated it. That's what brought me home so early. Looks like you didn't fail your mission because you have a target behind you, but it's too soon. A couple of days after things happened. What the hell happened?

"Yes, sir."

Young man talking about what happened in Alistair.

That he tried to kidnap and blackmail my people, but failed because he had a good escort on him, and that he changed his target without stopping there to make Mr. Miriam suffer with poison.

And all my people got caught in the process.

"Right."

After hearing all the reports, the chief squeaked just one word.

"Is that all!? They sacrificed themselves to help me. Please rescue me as soon as possible."

A young man desperately complaining.

For the young, those who sacrificed themselves to help themselves. I was desperate to help a little sooner.

Even this one was cheap if some kind of concession could be made to the extent of freeing the hostages.

"You don't need anything."

But it seemed completely uninteresting to the chief.

It's not just the chief. The executives in the back on the left and right don't seem to care either.

"Why not!?

"If we're going to free the hostages, we're going to have to make some kind of concession. But I'm not going to do that."

……

Young man unable to say anything to the words of the chief.

"Okay. It's not for the people who live in it. I have people for the inside. No matter how much people sacrifice, we have to make the survival of the inside a priority. Sorry, but I don't have time for pawns."

"... ok"

A young man pulls back as he bites his lips off.

"Are you sure?"

"The word of the chief is absolute in this. If the chief decides not to think about it, it's pointless where I put the words in line."

I will obey the chief's decision for all that I was devouring.

The people sitting next to the chief seem to think the same thing.

"You guys want to disagree?

"That said, you still had to introduce yourself. We are the leaders responsible for bringing together those who are inside. We have a lot of authority, but not enough to overturn the chief's decision."

"That's what I'm saying."

Says the man sitting at the right end and the woman at the left end.

If you say that it was put together by the four leaders, you mean that those captured by me are someone else's men.

Easily truncate your men.

Sometimes there is no benefit to catching it as it is, but I don't like the idea any more.

"... the captured people decide to confine themselves to jail until their life expectancy runs out and give them only one loaf of bread a day. A situation where you can't move your body satisfactorily because you continue to exploit magic, and you still can't stand hunger and get bread in your hands. You can live like that."

"Absolutely. That's the chief's decision."

The leader who led him to this mansion without looking upset nodded.

"Lord, it's pointless"

"What's going on?

"They seriously follow a man named Chieftain,"

Melissa talks to me in a nutshell.

According to her, the younger generation, the younger generation, is not that young, but the younger parent generation does not see any tendency to get lost in following the chief's decision.

This seems to be the result of education close to brainwashing.

'So you're saying you can't use that hostage?

'It will be. Or, if the chief will overturn the decision'

See the old man sitting in the center.

"Heh heh..."

The chief was laughing when he realized he was being seen.

I see through this mood.

'I can't do that. I've seen greedy nobles and stuff before, but I can feel the same signs from my grandfather in front of me. That old man cuts off things that are no longer needed if it's in his interest. Even if it was my own men before'

I found out what the chief was like in Illis.

The decisions made once by a greedy person therefore do not imitate them in such a way as to easily overturn them.

"I understand your stance. You have no idea what it's like to be used as a tool by a chief."

……

I won't answer anything.

Take silence as an affirmation.

"Are you sure that's all right, too?

"Of course."

The young man nodded, although his expression was bitter.

... Now I have my word.

"Okay. I'll get rid of them right over here."

It would be time to get down to business.

"So, what do you want me to do?

I want you to intimidate people.

When asked, the chief rises up and walks toward the shelf behind him.

They were prepared from the beginning, and they come right back to me with the book of purpose.

"What's this?

When I took the book that was placed in front of us, it was sandwiched in a page where there was a "" so I opened the book.

There was a line of names inside that seemed to be some material.

The problem is the preciousness of the material being recited.

-Leaves of the Divine Tree

- Beard of the Divine Beast

- Hestia Ore

Several others have been listed, but I've given up checking everything along the way.

"No way, you're not gonna tell me to prepare this."

"Well, no way"

"Bullshit......"

"Please don't be ridiculous!

Melissa roughed up her voice.

"Some of the stuff written here is like it's already lost or you only get it once every few years. It's impossible to get it in a few days."

"Then you can take a few years to get it. Besides, if you're a labyrinth, there's no way you can get something you've already lost."

Indeed, even objects that have lost their manufacturing methods [magic conversion] can only be obtained if they consume magic.

You wanted to use us for that reason.

"The labyrinth lord of the Kingdom of Estalia can't be burned to this point if he goes out too far to threaten because of his deep involvement in politics. The Emperor of the Glenvarga Empire is for the same reason. The labyrinth lord in the Gargan chair of the Gardis Empire was unable to contact even the eagle"

I couldn't help but breathe in the information.

Previously I had tried to find out about other labyrinthine lords by relying on Noel's received divinity or gathering various pieces of information through the Adventurer's Guild, but I had no idea. That's what the Lengens had already grabbed.

Prince of the king of the kingdom of Métis has been pulled out properly, but that labyrinth is shallow, so I guess I didn't count on it.

"There were other candidates, but you were the only ones who seemed to rely most"

Shows the seven materials depicted by the chief with the book open.

"If I collect these, I'll give them the antidote."

I got the word.

However, there are certain things to be checked as gatherers of materials.

"What are you going to use such a precious substitute for?

If the material is going to be used for dangerous things, we have to think of another way.

"I'm sorry, but I can't teach you the purpose of use. If you really want the antidote, all you have to do is desperately collect it."

In order to free the hostages, just hand over the materials without worrying about the purpose or anything.

When I think of Mr. Miriam, I am certain that it is not the case that I care about the purpose of use.

"This is..."

The labyrinth nucleus looked at the list of materials and noticed.

"Be careful not to put it on your face."

Disguise yourself as calm as possible.

If you become aware of the purpose of use, you will lose this advantage.

Now you should make me laugh from my spare time.

That leads to alarm.

"Okay. Don't worry about the purpose of use."

"Fine."

'It's troublesome. The only thing I can think of that could be made of that material is rejuvenating drugs. "

... I need to be careful not to put it on my face.