The Chancellor, woken up in bed, sighed when he heard about Cleo's assassination.
"Has His Highness Linus gone too fast?"
Before you fight a mighty enemy named Calvin, clean up a trinket named Cleo.
I guess I meant to that extent.
But the results are crude.
I have failed to set up an assassination, and I am getting paid back.
Linus was competent, and he kept the faction well together.
It wasn't foolish, but Linus' future ratings are as determined in this case.
I can't rewind or anything, and my chances of becoming a crown prince have disappeared.
More than that, the Chancellor has something to worry about.
"- Who the hell moved Kensei?"
There are currently four Kensei recognized by the Empire.
One of them has been sent to Cleo's assassination.
Of course, I'm not the Chancellor.
Though it is also believed that Kensei cooperated in the assassination of Cleo with a view to prosperity, it is also a dubious story that a swordsman who seeks strength seeks so much power.
The report says Kensei executed the assassination at his discretion, but it's likely someone ordered it.
The Chancellor has a mouth angle up front with the report.
"Nevertheless, I didn't think it was so strong"
Liam has defeated one of the Empire's recognised sword saints.
He is Cleo's biggest supporter.
I fought with my sword out to protect Cleo, a certain.
The Chancellor will change clothes.
When I touched the watch, my bedtime clothes switched to work in an instant.
"Well, don't get busy from now on"
There will be a fuss in the palace.
Cleo's assassination noise is not.
The second prince - Linus' leg is broken.
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One night after the incident - even after noon, I couldn't move from inside the palace.
I've been under investigation since last night.
The place is like a meeting room, but I'm the next Duke - the current Count, so a fancy meeting room is available.
I sat in a fuzzy chair and had a cup of tea with a samurai.
They are surrounded not only by high-ranking officials, but also by knights and soldiers who work in the palace.
I can't rest my mind on this.
"- Hey, you got lunch yet? I'm in the palace because of you, so give me a full course."
Nevertheless, I don't care with one samurai.
If you want me to deal with you, bring in more beauties in dozens.
This is the Count!
A high-ranking official - a high-ranking official - was irritated by my attitude.
"Count Banfield, do you know what happened last night?
The royal family was about to be assassinated in the palace - that's all that matters if you ask, but in this world there's really a fight to wash blood with blood on a daily basis in the palace.
In the first place, I call it a palace - a whole continent.
It's no surprise there's a case, like every day.
"What do you make so much noise about? As usual, I guess."
"Don't you see how big a case this one is!?"
I gracefully drank tea before a senior official told me to understand a little.
Nonetheless, the high-ranking officers gathered to look into me, the military, but... are they not low-profile? Bring a better one.
I feel light-hearted and not motivated at all.
"Huh - more than that, I have a lecture this afternoon. Let me finish this quick."
A high-ranking official held my head in my attitude.
"It is on His Royal Highness the Second Prince to advance and retreat. I want you to feel more nervous."
"That's tough. I was just worried, too."
- You can say that a lot.
"I mean it."
No, I was worried about His Highness Linus, too.
Poor man who made a mistake and sold the fight to the wrong person, as well.
I'm glad he has an angry personality.
It was more troublesome to be here on a positive offense.
It would take time, and I was going to continue my inheritance dispute with Dallas - but thanks to Linus, one competitor disappeared.
By Linus himself, yeah.
It may be important to these guys, but from me, it's over.
Second prince Linus - he is a man who is already finished.
It wasn't my opponent.
In the first place, I didn't feel like losing.
It's like kicking a pebble in the way of the road with your feet and rolling it over.
I didn't intend to be investigated.
Well, no matter how I fall, my win is unwavering, so this is also a kind of licking p.
I'm just hanging out with the palace guys.
"By the way."
"Something?
I ask questions to senior officials.
"To whom should I file an application to be Kensei?
The title of Kensei is more important now than the Linus case.
"Count! Stop joking!
"You're kidding!? I'm serious. Look, I have to spread the flash to the world. What spreads to the world as the strongest genre is a return to Master An! So give me the title of Kensei."
"What are you talking about?
I'm a bad guy, but I'm going to give you back what I owe you.
My master took care of me.
But the world really thinks of flash as minor swordsmanship.
Then I'll have to spread the word.
You have to let them know that the strongest genre is a flash.
"Okay. Then bring the three remaining sword saints. If we defeat all three, the Empire will recognize us as Kensei, right?
A high-ranking official held his head in front of me.
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After noon.
Linus was dripping in the large room to which the nobles returned.
Until recently, the nobles of their faction had gathered for countermeasures meetings.
But Linus laughs powerlessly.
"Don't give up on what yet, is. - I'm done."
I had noticed the whiteness of the nobles, but now I had no temper to be angry.
Linus is not incompetent either.
I didn't think I could rewind from here, etc.
"I misjudged Cleo. No, that kid - I insulted Liam. My defeat is definitely caused by that man"
I insulted him with a frightened child on the border, but he shouldn't have.
I had to crush it with all my might from the start, or I had to do whatever it took to hold it in.
If - if this result had been known, Linus would have lowered his head himself to draw Liam into the faction.
Such a hypothetical story is pointless, but Linus can't help but think.
Where did I go wrong?
That would undoubtedly have just called Liam.
"- You had hit the Chancellor's reading. That man has only manipulated the Empire behind his back for years."
When you squeal like that, one man slowly shows up from the floor.
Instead of a knee-jerked outfit, he had a liquor bottle in his hand.
The man with the mask - he was a man I knew very well.
Linus laughs.
"You're the one who's gonna kill me."
He was a person in an organization where Linus put his hands together.
"Your Highness Linus, you are no longer worthy of use. Our new master is heartbroken by this one. - I accepted your words so that it could be resolved immediately."
Linus deposits his body on the back of the couch.
And I saw the liquor the masked man had.
"That's my favorite booze. That's nice of you."
The masked man is sorry to see Linus show a calmer attitude than usual.
"Don't you cry?
"This is all the ugliness I've exposed. I will henceforth be counted as one of the fools in the history of the palace. Well, I'd like to dress up at the end of the day. I'll get you a glass. Wait a minute."
When you touch the wall of the room, the gimmick moves out and a shelf emerges from the wall.
It wasn't just the dishes, it was the liquor.
A knob is also available.
"This liquor goes well with him."
A masked man opened a liquor bottle for Linus, who prepares to drink in a calm manner.
Linus is unfortunate.
"You're the last person to drink. I've thought about the possibility of this happening a few times."
Linus, who made the glass pour alcohol, offered the glass to sip it off at once and then soak it up again.
Eat the knob and ask the masked man.
"Teach two souvenirs of the underworld. From you, who is the man the emperor deserves? Is that your brother? Cleo?"
The masked man laughs at the bumps.
"Now Your Highness might have deserved His Majesty the Emperor"
Linus, who heard of it, drinks well.
"Let's be honest here and be incited. Well - who moved behind this one?
To the second question, the masked man answers.
"It's in my job not to talk about my client's qualities."
"Yes, it was."
As Linus grinned, he took his breath away as he closed his eyes and slept.
says the masked man.
"Really, if you'd shown me that sooner, this wouldn't have happened"
The assassination noise caused by one dull prince dictated himself after he confessed all his sins - cleaned up as.
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About a week has passed since the assassination.
I was meeting with His Highness Cleo at a palace where I had not yet regained my composure.
"Your Highness, you're not well"
"Really? Oh, I guess so."
I wasn't blocking it, but it seemed like I was sinking.
Is it okay to this extent?
Damn, a good man can't be depressed because the person he's been trying to kill is dead.
They can't think that it's over with defeating the enemy.
His Highness Cleo starts talking to me in front of him.
"I don't have many memories between me and Brother Linus. But my brother sent me here as a spy to talk to a servant."
"Did you say anything?
"He even looked down, but he felt sorry for me. If I didn't do anything, my brother wouldn't have moved to assassinate me."
It's kind.
But kindness is pointless.
I also experienced terrible betrayal in my previous life, but at that time I tried to convince myself that it was my fault too.
I also endured irrational manipulation.
And the result is that all the bad guys end up making fun of me.
"It was His Highness Linus who came to kill me first. You don't have to be sick. Besides, if you lose, it's your turn next. If you don't want to, you have to fight."
His Highness Cleo looks at me.
"The Count is strong. Too strong - I'm sure you don't know what it's like to be weak."
What a thorny word.
But let me tell you something.
I know exactly what it's like to be weak.
In any case, he was a weak man in his previous life.
He was a weak man used to be good with all the bad guys.
I can barf back at myself like that.
"I understand more than anything else, such as the feelings of the weak. If you're weak, if you can turn to the side to take it, it's what goes around. Your Highness sees the weak as sacred, doesn't he? - Weakness is a sin."
His Highness Cleo looked at me and narrowed his eyes.
"Though I don't think the born strong can understand?
"At least I understand it better than you do"
You just called, and Tia's here to serve.
And he'll report it to me.
"Let's change the tea. Then Lord Brian, who's in the realm, said he wanted to talk to Master Liam."
Let's give it a break, I guess.
I'll take a seat.
"Calling me in peace. If it wasn't Brian, he'd be executed."
And I left the room.
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Cleo, who was interrupted, looked at Tia.
"You behaved rudely to the Count. We'll apologize later."
Tia respected Liam and wondered if she would be angry.
But Tia's just laughing at Couscous.
"Something?
Tia looks at the door to the room where Liam left off.
"How far does His Highness Cleo know about the Banfield family?
"I hear Lord Liam has improved an area of poor management since he was a child. Thanks to securing a resource satellite with massive holdings of rare metal?
That would be Liam's rating from the public and such.
Everyone appreciates all the power and military power of Liam today.
Territorial management was brought back to life thanks to Rare Metal.
"I also saw in the dossier that Master Liam inherited the status of Count when he was five years old"
"- I hear that some nobles push their territory against their children. But you were really there."
Unknown Cleo was surprised that the rumors were true.
In the first place, interaction with nobility has only recently begun.
The nobles who were the lords who made up the faction are the lords of the many but serious categories.
There are no stories of pushing territory on children, etc.
"It seemed like a terrible situation at the time. Squeeze taxes from the people and force them to use hard labour to crush them. Then you were even in debt because you couldn't afford the luxury. I was flabbergasted to see the material. I wonder if people can make it this far."
"That's a terrible story. But if you stay here, you'll hear a lot about it. I've only heard it in the story, is it true?
"It's true. It is unthinkable now in the realm of Master Liam, but the people suffer on many planets within the Empire."
Tia breaks her heart paranoid about Liam's feelings when she sees such territory.
"What did you think of the noble Master Liam seeing such a territory? Even if my life is painful, I have been snorting at moderation for decades. Young Master Liam must have been a poor beautiful boy! He's cuter, healthier, more honorable than he is now - and such a Liam has developed his territory enduring a painful life of poverty! Whether strong or not, I also gained the strength to train myself and even defeat Kensei - Ya, I can't stop coveting!
Imagine Liam at a very young age, saying, "If only I were on your side then!," he regretted.
Cleo takes his gaze off the tier.
Because I thought it was kindness not to look.
(The knights at the Count have a lot of strangers)
Competent, but Tia is an unfortunate knight.
Cleo glanced back at me again because Tia had apologized for "excusing me" when the paranoia was over.
"Well, to say what you wanted to say, Master Liam was what Master Cleo called a weak man. No, you're in a weaker position than Mr. Cleo thinks."
Cleo leans down.
"- Right. You said bad things to the Count."
(You mean you've lived a harsher life than I think? Guess you couldn't forgive my cheap remarks)
Cleo reflected and apologized to Liam for coming back.