Dungeon Master Makeup Money (formerly known as Dungeon Master Funding)

Between glances.

This is the room used by the greatest emperor of the Empire to meet visitors.

Rio sits on the throne a step higher in the back between glances. Proceed from the back to the throne, which can only be used by the emperor or the nearest side. "I really think I'm an emperor" when I see him walking on a cloak that only the emperor is allowed to wear.

Being a tourist, I'm watching from the aisle that Rio went through. This place is invisible to the beholder.

"Face up."

"Ha..."

The people arranged in a lower place than the emperor were waiting for the emperor to come as he leaned down and looked up for the first time when permission was given.

Once again, I see the men who were brought to me during the sight.

Little fat men dressed in brilliant clothes, intelligent-style men with glasses, knights and soldiers, cooks and gardeners, and others as fragmented as servants and maids, had been brought in.

The number is - 20.

"Heh, Your Majesty... why was I brought to such a place?

The little fat man asks in a frightened manner.

This man is the count of court aristocracy. I usually work for Imperial Castle as an official, and today I still work as usual, but suddenly the Kingsguard knights have taken me to constrict me for taking me between sights.

This guy is a dwarf.

I ignore a man's words because I know Rio too.

"Everybody, I don't know why they brought you here."

"No......"

The intelligent-style man speaks for himself.

The truth was, we saw the members gathered and we knew how we were brought here.

All the Rangen clan.

Some of them were face-to-face for the first time since they were sent to the Empire, but they were confirming each other's identities by means of a code that passes between themselves alone.

"Huh."

Rio exhales.

"I'm busy, too. Let's stop this senseless rush."

Throw the list before the intelligent-style man.

The list also contains the information they were interacting with inside.

"Being a clerk, I had you record all sorts of events. It would have been easier for you to get information."

"What are you talking about..."

"It's fine to make excuses, but this one's already got enough evidence for credibility. If you want to overturn this situation, instead of convincing me with words, give me proof that you're innocent."

……

There can't be such a thing. They had acted with great care to avoid suspicion on their part.

That's why they have no incriminating evidence.

At the same time, there is no evidence to prove innocence.

Rather, suspicion will be further reinforced by the periphery of preparation if evidence is to be produced.

"... how did you get this list"

"Zido!?

Ask as the clerk's man gave up.

It's words and deeds that acknowledge our identity.

The Count blames him for that, but he doesn't seem to care about the clerk called Zido.

"This list was kept inside. There's no way our position can change where we just missed it."

I give up after grasping objective facts.

"I care more about how you got this list as far as I'm concerned than that. Aren't you?

"It's..."

"I haven't heard from you in the last two months, no matter how much I tried to get in touch with the inside."

Between an infiltrating spy and a hiding place, the information had been resolved by letting a flying bird hold a letter.

Of course, in normal birds, they are suspicious and dropped immediately. However, the birds handled by the Rangen clan cannot be ordinary birds. The bird was a specially trained and treated bird that could be returned to its base without anyone finding it once it was moved higher than the clouds. This is also a pedigree improvement that Rengen has achieved through years of research.

Intelligent to move to another location even if the location had been changed.

If we're going to hunt down the Rangen clan in a way other than the one we did, we're most certain to capture the birds and get them to somehow guide us to base.

I was able to learn how to exchange information when I seized the clan.

Many times the birds had come to deliver the information where there was a hiding place, but they had left all the birds unattended. If you do something that will shoot you down, you will let them know something happened inside. Conversely, nothing happens and the opponent turns right and left when he is informed of the situation where no one is present even if he moves to another base.

Zid was calmly trying to analyze the situation.

The Count, however, finds himself restless in a situation in which he does not know what to do.

Which was right?

Given the current situation, it might have been better to have rushed out of the empire like the Count and thrown out the mission or something.

But it's hard to get away with it because I own it.

"I want you to at least tell me how the inside turned out"

If it was a hiding place, it would have collapsed.

……

"... right"

Astonishing non-jid faces.

However, only Zido expected the inside to collapse due to the fact that no one was in any base.

"Looks like you're the greatest after all"

"Count Legista, who is there, has long been the only person to infiltrate the empire and make it easier to operate in the empire. He's not a hard-trained man inside."

Only those who become lords for generations are taught their true mission.

The man who was brought here until the sight of him was also just a man taught about the Lengen clan by his former lord when he became the head of the Legista family.

For that reason, Zido, who was dispatched directly from the inside, has a better position as a spy.

"That's why Non disagreed. I should have let this kind of clan thing go, but my predecessors..."

Even as a Legista family, I had no choice but to accept their request because the situation was tantamount to being held weak by the Lengen clan.

Still, it must be betrayal.

"Those who are here punish everyone with forced labour. The immediate line of the Legista family shall likewise be punished, except for those who have been married to other houses"

"Please wait! That means the family of Nong too......!

"Count Legista had three wives and seven children."

Among them, three daughters were married to other houses, and one lived at his parents' house.

There were three boys, and these days he had given up his job to his eldest son with the intention of letting the housekeeper succeed him, so he lived a leisurely and comfortable life. I don't know about the Rangen clan because it was before they gave me the governor.

But as an emperor, you can't forgive the Legista family itself.

"I don't even intend to treat my three wives, my three sons and my youngest daughter as civilians"

"Oh no...! My wife and children don't know anything!

"Your treachery is unforgivable."

"Damn!

The Count, who left himself to anger, strikes.

But there are many Kingsguard knights on this occasion. I can quickly be assembled on the floor in restraint. I've lived as a nobleman since I was born. It's supposed to be a humiliation he's never tasted.

"You should give up now."

"Zid, you may give up easily because you don't have a family, but it's not easy to abandon your life without one."

"It's a country that's going to die soon anyway. What happens when you see something like that?

"What is it..."

"What do you mean!?

Rio asks in the momentum of crushing the Count's question.

As emperor, the word 'the kingdom dies' must not be overheard.

"Come on? I'm not going to say anything. Now that the hiding place is gone, it is no longer necessary to be already infiltrated, so let me be free to storm it. You should spend a few days in fear, not knowing what I've done."

Niyally grinning jid.

The Kingsguard knights turn their hostility and weapons against it.

"Torture him for what he did, but find out."

"Ha."

Kingsguard knights trying to get all of the Rangen clan out of here somewhere.

It seems likely that Zid will act alone from what he says and does, but other clans may know something too, so we need to make sure.

"I don't mind torture. But I won't break my mouth easily."

Zido, who is trained as a spy, is naturally also trained to endure torture. It would be difficult for any Imperial torture officer to crack his mouth.

Get out of the sleeve between glances.

"Information, don't you want it?

"Can you hear me out?

"Of course."

Rio snorts in response to this question.

You can decide later on the reward.

Now it's more important to get the information out.

Travel to the side of Zido and whisper in your ear.

"What did you do -" Say it ""

"What? In that degree of word--"

At first I was a jid trying to resist, but I couldn't tell lies or lies to my questioning of ownership.