Tens of minutes after the surveillance began, several guards deployed around the perimeter gathered in makeshift tents.
Prepare the assembled table and chair and start arranging dishes on top of it.
Probably ready for lunch, definitely because we're starting a fire next door.
All right, I've been waiting for this time.
"Risha, it's time."
"Yes!
Speak to Risha and reposition.
Well, I hope you get some useful information.
"Karina, how are things around you?
"Nothing particularly wrong with that."
That's superimposed.
The monster seems to be getting rid of me by Leesha, and when I leave, rumor thieves will have trouble getting their hands on the guards so close.
It's bad for Karina, who brought me here as insurance, but I've never been over it without insurance being used.
"... ah"
Then, about enough time later, Reesha leaked her voice low.
Give me the paper and feather pen I brought with me for a time like this.
I thought I might miss hearing the key story while telling this one, so I brought it.
"It doesn't have to be the same word for word, so write down the story."
Risha nods without saying anything, letting the pen she receives run to the paper in a sarcastic manner.
The expression is serious in itself.
Take a peek in from the side...... well, this is interesting.
"... progress?
Karina whispered small in her ear to keep Risha out of the way.
The exhalation is irritating to my ears.
"... I feel like I'm right on target. I want some of the guards to have questioned the tariffs."
"That's right, then. It's like a realm made up of adventurers and merchants with streets. If you do anything to keep that foot away from me on purpose, of course."
That's not all, Karina raised her eyebrows when I said.
"I hear there are rumors whispered to me in the realm by Makoshiya. You're the mother of our current lord, Ales M. Geolas, or the wife of our former lord - she's missing."
"What!?"
Karina pushing her mouth all the way.
I put my index finger on my lip to make it quiet.
No matter how far away you are, if you shout it out, you'll hear it.
I'm here for a picnic with my lunch box, a place I can't say.
Whatever we are, it will be very difficult if Karina's identity is broken.
"He hasn't decided it's a case yet, but he says he's suspicious because neither the maid nor the Kingsguard have seen him in the last few weeks"
"I was often sick, so didn't I just sleep or go to the doctor?
"Assuming that's the case, I also think someone seems to know..."
I don't know what the maids in this world are treated like.
Anyway, if you're even forbidden to question your master, if it's your job to look after yourself, you should be visiting once about your disappeared mother.
Assuming that story was not widespread, was it made fun of, or refused because the lord himself would take care of it?
Either way, it's no different that it's unnatural.
It would be reasonable to assume that there is something.
And this is how it's rumored because everyone thought so.
"... Wait a minute. Karina, do people know that maybe she went missing?
"Yes, Master Grace M. Geolas. I've seen you several times while accompanying Sir Hargrave on official business. He's a kind person who can't be separated from anyone else, and he always behaved like a hand cook when he visited Geolas territory."
Pieces of the puzzle that start to align one information after another.
"Could that hand cooking not have been made with milk or butter? For example, yes - stew or something."
"Huh? Yeah, you got it. Rabbit meat stew. He loved Grace."
Unexpectedly the edge of my mouth leads up.
Milk, butter, flour, carrots, onions - now we know where the ingredients were going that were thinner or higher in price.
"... hey Rosie, you look so evil right now"
"I'm connected, a lot of things."
"Huh? With a stew?
"Yes, in stew. It's like I was waiting for someone to solve it, because the mystery was there."
This is a message, so to speak, to make the family of lords turn their gaze.
Although the mystery of who the hell is for what remains, the answer is always inside the realm.
great transformation in the realm, and the love of the lord's mother becomes thin from the market.
These two things are seemingly unlikely to interact.
What if that happened almost at the same time?
It's a little too violent to clean up by chance.
"... Karina, how well is that Mr. Grace known to the people?
"It's not like they know. Because sometimes I came to the city of Cassia as much as I used to make stews out of my hands for the poor kids. There must be no one in that city who doesn't know Lady Grace."
I see. That would be convenient.
Convenient, convenient?
No, not as convenient as it sounds...
"... you think too much"
Shake your head off and shake off the process that came to your mind.
"All right, then let's spread rumors to the city that Mr. Grace is missing. For one thing, we should be able to create as much incentive for Wang Du to intervene."
If the lord's clan is missing, there is no wonder the king's capital moves.
If there are any moves involving injustice in the realm, I'm sure we'll take action to contain the King's capital.
First of all, a pre-emptive strike.