Herscherik (Reincarnated Prince Series)

Shortly before Barbasse's hand touched the door knob, his hand cut the sky and the door opened. And the minister opens his eyes to those who appear before him.

"That's it, Barbasse.

Marx's sharp gaze, which rocked his redhead, shoots through Barbasse.

"What is it?"

Barbasse falls behind the curtain.

There was an incredible sight in front of him. William also enters the room following Marx, followed by Hershelik's butler and head. And to the last person in, Barbasse opened her eyes even further.

"Barbasse......"

The person calls him by his name, and Barbasse understands that it is not a dream or an illusion that he is seeing now. At the end of his gaze, a king who had been a bug on his bedside until the other day stood in his deacon's arms. Her cheeks are thin, but she looks better than she still does.

"Hershey, that's enough.

As they all entered Hershelik's private room, William threw words at the main part of the room.

"…… Buuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu

Hershelik blows out, coughs up and ends up opening and closing his mouth like a fish lacking acid.

"Oh, it was dangerous. I thought I was dying because I couldn't breathe to endure laughing on the way.

"Why..."

To the minister, who is stiffened up flashly, Hershelik smiles like an angel.

"He talked to me as funny as it really is and... Oh, by the way, I've recorded all the conversations since I got in here.

Hershelik says so, putting up the pocket watch he's been gripping and showing it.

"Not only do we have a good recording of the current conversation, but also the conversation of the assassins who attacked us on the expedition. Of course you've duplicated it.

Saying so and Hershelik remembered, the pocket watch that captured the floating magic glowed pale and played back an earlier conversation.

This is also one of the features of the pocket watch discovered by Ciro. If you incorporate a magic formula, you don't need a demon word to activate it. Thanks to this, Hershelik was able to record without hesitation, simply by grasping and remembering the pocket watch he had kept in his pocket.

"Why, no..."

Turning out Barbasse's gaze alternated between herself and her father and brothers, Hershelik laughed and showed her.

"Oh, why can the fathers move? That's easy. I got the antidote to the poison you served.

"No, the antidote."

I say I have it. But I'm guessing the prince in front of him also expected the answer. He blocked Barbasse's words with a constant grin.

"Oh, correct me. The antidote, rather than a neutralizing drug that suppresses the effects of poison, was produced. You could have easily predicted that you would use poison if you were cornered.

It's a successful measure twice. It was easy for Hershelik to predict that both Nostalgia and the assassination would end in failure and that it would be the last place to go. But like my father when the poison was used, it was visible that Hershelik himself would be unable to move.

"At the end of the day, you must rely on poison. And I'll bring you a deal.

Without the antidote that pairs with the poison, it wouldn't be a deal. Moreover, the antidote does not necessarily have the effect of speeding up the drug. So while Hershelik was conducting an internal audit to find the fraud, he had been looking for information about the poison. But I couldn't find it in the castle, and I was gathering information while I was out of the castle or the king's capital trying to find other ways to fix it. Still, I couldn't find any poison information.

"I thought I had to give up on the poison... but Gene helped me.

Pierce entrusted to me by her at the time of her death. The piercing was a storage medium, where the method of making this poison was noted.

"Thanks to this I was able to recreate the poison. And it became possible to make neutralizing drugs.

Cygel did the production of the neutralizing drug.

"I like Mark.

Saying so, he took it in two replies.

"Oh, but let Mark keep his mouth shut. Because he's prone to expressions when he's caught off guard.

And for the lead magician, he also said something serious.

Knowledge of Shiro was also needed to incorporate the magic formula when generating this medicine. On top of that, it used rare herbs and materials, but things went well thanks to a knowledgeable clo about herbs. Since Saijer, who is also the lead magician for the first prince, usually researches things of interest to him, he was able to secure his time without suspicion. But that's not what you can do overnight.

"Making neutralizing drugs takes time. So I dared to go to the border, as you said.

I dared to ride the minister's measures and turn his attention to myself as I went out to the border to buy time. That's why I've spent too much time getting suspicious, and I shouldn't be able to tell you that I'm creating neutralizing drugs. Of course I shouldn't have prolonged the battle, but I didn't think the battle itself would end in such a short period of time. Barbasse, who was cornered because of it, came out early to last resort.

(It was really critical.

No medicine was possible after the original appointment, and shortly after his return, Shiro went straight to Saijer's room and participated in the neutralizing drug production. And yesterday, Hershelik, who returned from his presence at Louis' birth, was told that the prototype of the neutralizing drug had been completed.

"There is no respite we are experimenting with. I don't know if this medicine will work.

This is a bet, telling them so Hershelik nodded and turned to his suffering family with neutralizing drugs. And after everything I've told you, I gave the neutralizer to my family.

And as a result, Hershelik won the bet.

By the way, Silo and Saijer, who had been completely up all night for three days, are now asleep, like dead, after making sure that it worked. Cro, who supposedly spent almost all night helping generate the medicine, is around flat, that's Hershelik, who I thought was an ex-confident.

"I originally thought it was strange. Why didn't you use poison on me?

Hershelik couldn't figure out why Barbasse was going around against himself. Like my older sister at the top, why didn't you do that when you make her look sick and kill her quickly?

But I noticed.

I wonder if I can't kill myself in the same way. And I noticed a difference with my other brothers.

"The difference between me and my family...... is the presence or absence of magic.

This poison was a medicine that degenerated magic. Unusually consume magic artificially by degenerating magic, and consume health and vitality to make up for it if magic runs out. From the side, it's an unexplained debilitation.

This poison does not work in itself for Hershelik, who has no magic at its origin. On the contrary, the more powerful a person is, the more effective the medicine is. Royal humans have greater magic than ordinary people. Among them, Utel, which had enough magic to jump out of its vessel, became serious due to the high recoil of its magic consumption.

"This poison is a drug that degenerates magic and runs wild. So royalty, whose magic was higher than that of ordinary people, led to death. But it doesn't have the magic to do it. It doesn't work for me. So you couldn't make me look sick and kill me, so there was only one way to get to the forceful hand.

You can't pretend to be sick, and Kro, a former secret detective who doesn't miss the dark behind on Hershelik's side to assassinate him, and Oran, who won the militant tournament lightly, are holding back. With the addition of the magical genius Shiro there, Hershelik's blind spot is almost gone. No assassination was possible, and no cages could be entangled with my daughter. That's where we used this invasion of the Imperial Army.

And as we made the neutralizing drug, we also found a connection with another case as we proceeded to analyze the poison.

"I am told that there was a part in common with the Church medicine and this poison, or a very similar part.

Medicine for physical strengthening seized in a church terror incident the other spring.

As a result of the study, the medication for physical strengthening strengthens both magic and vessels by transforming magic, and further strengthens the body with amplified magic. A strengthened body needs magic, and when you stop taking medication, your enlarged magic, vessels, and strengthened body will no longer be able to be maintained, your muscle strength and immunity will drop, your body will weaken, and you will end up dead.

With its physical enhancement drugs and poisons, we found common parts that we couldn't accidentally explain, such as the necessary herbs and magic formulas.

In the past, Hershelik speculates that this poison was coincidentally produced during the study of medicines for physical strengthening at the national research bureau. And when he found out about it, the minister secretly obtained it and disguised the previous king and his sons as sick and assassinated them.

When the assassination succeeded, the study of physical enhancement drugs was stopped, and the experimental materials were placed in a tightened vault of the magic bureau, and the existence was forgotten. At the same time, all the people who participated in the study have disappeared due to accidental deaths, illness and death. In other words, the mouth was sealed. Now the complete truth was buried in the darkness. Except for the materials in the vault.

"Barbasse, you were concerned that the materials in the vault would be visible again.

Research materials can also be described as state property. Because it might be useful in the future. So it will never be destroyed.

Someone might be interested in this research in the future and resume the research. At that time, he was informed of the existence of drugs and poison and threatened to be noticed that the royal disease was in fact an assassination.

"So I found out a few years ago that the church wanted this medicine, and you sold it to the church to hide the evidence. Now the castle has nothing left to trace the poison to, it should have.

Hershelik retrieves the documents that were in the inner pocket of his jacket and puts them up.

"Definitive evidence obtained by the Count of Luceria. That is proof that you sold this medicine to the church side through Count Grimm.

The paperwork was dated about five years ago and was a secret book placed in the church.

"It doesn't say his name. But if you appraise the handwriting, you'll know whose handwriting it is. … I have seen many documents for the past three years.

Having read many documents, Hershelik was able to tell who wrote them in handwriting, not to mention all the officials.

For example, the letter Soldier, my father, is a beautiful and polite word that flows, but I have a habit of punching dots at the end of a sentence. And the handwriting in this clandestine book was a habitual character with a strong brush pressure and raised right shoulder, which was quite elusive when I started reading it.

"These are your letters, Minister Barbasse.

"……… where did that happen?!

In Barbasse's words Hershelik makes his pocket watch look like an imprint.

"It was remembered in Klaus' pocket watch.

Hershelik recalls.

'Besides this. The pocket watch your daughter has, try not to lose it. It's the only thing that can help you.

That's what that informant said. This pocket watch did help me, Hershelik thinks. He remembered the magic of the junction and held himself so that he could handle the magic himself without magic, and even recorded the statements of the ministers as evidence of immobility.

But the best part was this secret book. This secret book cleared my uncles' minds for the murdered forefathers and Hershelik.

"If it's just this secret book, it's just evidence of embezzlement. Sin is lighter than intimacy with other countries. That's why Klaus didn't choose this evidence. But I left it in this watch.

Hershelik looks straight at Barbasse.

"You didn't set Klaus up to help Count Grimm. This secret book came into Klaus' hands in an unexpected way and made himself dangerous, so he killed Klaus before he came out to light.

Grimm was also only a throwaway pawn for the minister at a time of need. On the contrary, Grimm perceived it from his highly natural crisis-sensing abilities and might not have dared to destroy only this clandestine book. Even so, there are parts of the grime that have fallen out of Klaus' hands.

"It all led to one.

Hershelik looks at the minister who is unable to move when he breathes out loudly.

"Let's end this now, Barbasse.

Saying so, Hershelik threw a copy of the secret book at the minister's feet.