In a Different World with a Smartphone
# 24 Subhuman Country, and the King's Assassination.
A few days later, I finished copying the murals of the example underground ruins on my paperwork.
What helped was the unattributed magic "Drawing". It's magic that transcribes what you see onto paper or something. Ma, you're a copier.
It's not like I'm writing with a pen, it's just a photocopier because letters come up on paper. Looking at the photo screen of the phone, I photographed it on paper.
This magic means I got an external printer. I printed out some different confectionery recipes to try and was very pleased when I took them to Mr. Ael. However, I had to use "search" to find the ingredients. The amount was determined from the weight of the hundred yen balls I had. Notice it sooner, yourself.
Now, do you want me to deliver it to Wang Du? I spoke to everyone once, but he still cares to see the Duke, and I'm going alone. At a time like this, I can feel the feeling of discomfort with nobility and all that. There was no nobility in the original world. No, technically, maybe he was there.
Grab the photocopied documents and open the "gate".
I crept through the gate of light and stepped out in front of the main gate of the Duke's house.
"Whew!"
"Oh, excuse me"
Gatekeeper surprised by my sudden appearance. Actually, every time I come here, I surprise you. I'd like you to get used to it, but it doesn't look like it yet.
Is that it?
The main entrance opened and a carriage came out of inside. Are you going out? Was it a bad time?
"Winter Night Hall!? Thanks! Get in!
"Huh? Hey... Huh!? What is it!?
The Duke, who came out with the carriage door open, instantly pulled his arm and dragged him into the carriage. What the fuck!?
"No, I didn't know the Winter Night Hall would visit at this time......! Perhaps God sent you. You have to thank me."
The Duke began to pray in my face with excitement. Surely it is God who sent me here. Still, this haste is unusual. I wonder what's wrong.
"What the hell happened?
When I asked the Duke that, he sweated on his forehead and opened his mouth with a chopped voice.
"My brother was poisoned."
... What?
If the Duke's brother goes up, the king... right? The King's assassination?
"Fortunately, I was quick to deal with it, so it's still holding up. But..."
The voice was trembling as she held both hands and squeezed them out as she leaned down. My brothers are about to be killed, that must be worrying.
"Do you have any idea who did this?
"... there are people who think of it. But there's no proof. You'll remember, too, that Su was attacked. I think it's probably the same guy."
"But what about the king? Oh, assassins from other countries, that sort of thing..."
"Then it was still easy to understand..."
With one sigh, the Duke looks up. There was a bitter look there.
"My Kingdom of Belfast is surrounded by three countries. It is the kingdom of Mismid across the Leaf Reese Empire to the west, the Merician Mountains to the east and the Great River of Gau to the south. Of these, I have been with the Leafleash Empire in the west for many years and have made friendships"
Hmm.
"The Empire and I have had a one-off inviolability treaty since the war twenty years ago, but honestly it is difficult to say it is friendly. It's not weird when you attack this country again. And the southern kingdom of Mithmid, this is the problem."
"Problem?"
"Mismid is a newly founded emerging nation in the midst of a war with the Empire twenty years ago. My brother is forming an alliance with this emerging nation, trying to create restraint on the empire and a new deal. But there are nobles who disagree with it."
"Why?
If you don't know when the Empire and the others will attack, I think you should have more allies. I wonder if that's such a simple story.
"Because the kingdom of Mismid is the kingdom of the subpeople. A country inhabited by many subhumans and ruled by the king of the beasts. That's what I don't care about, old nobles."
"... What is it, that?
So you're saying that even if it's in the national interest because you don't care, it'll get in the way? And I don't know because I'm subhuman. If it's a beast that doesn't make sense, give it a hundred steps and you'll still know. The Beasts have a good conversation, and Alma and all that I've seen was a great kid.
"Once the Subhumans were considered inferior creatures and the object of scorn. He said it was a humble and barbaric race. But in our father's stead, we enacted a law to change that perception, and gradually that custom became obsolete. In fact, in Castle Town, the Beasts also walk normally and have nothing to discriminate against on the face. But there are quite a few elderly noblemen out there who don't approve of it."
"Is it discrimination"
"That's right. Why should we unite our hands with the kingdom of the lowly beasts? On the contrary, we should attack and destroy it and make it our own country. For the aristocrats who claim to be so, my brother is nothing but a disturbance."
I see. Could that old nobleman be the mastermind of this one? But you want to go that far? I had this feeling. Killing your own monarch, etc. If the king is more or less dead, aren't we the ones in trouble?
"If my brother dies, the throne moves to Princess Yumina, my only daughter. Perhaps that nobleman is willing to press the princess to welcome her own son or those of the clan as son-in-law. Maybe the person who kidnapped Su and tried to blackmail her into the story wasn't me, but her brother."
If your niece's life is spared, don't make a national deal with Mismid, huh? A princess of one country, I guess security is also tight. That's probably why I targeted Su instead... No, get on with it and make your son the son-in-law of a princess, or maybe it could have been. But somehow it feels like a lot of mischief.
If you find out, it's definitely an execution course, right, this. The villain in the epoch came to my mind somehow.
"So, what do I do?
"I want the poison off my brother. With that magic I put on Ellen."
Abnormal Normal Recovery Magic "Recovery". Is that it? Sure, then we can remove all the poison and sequelae. So did the Duke pull me off? There was a point.
While doing so, the Duke's carriage crept through the castle gate, crossed the bounce bridge, and led to the royal castle.
As the Duke rushed into the castle, a blowout hall filled with bright red carpets greeted us. The stairs stretching downstairs from the center of the front draw a gentle curve to the left and right, and the ceiling shows a luxurious chandelier gleaming as a beautiful star. Is that the Demon Stone of Light?
Running up a long staircase carpeted with the Duke, he's not like one man on a dance floor halfway up the stairs.
"This has been a long time, Your Highness,"
"Huh!... Count Bartha...!
The Duke looked at the man in front of him with a staring gaze. He's a thin head man in small, fat, flashy clothes. Somehow it makes me imagine a toad. I have a nitanita grin and look at this one.
"Rest assured. The man who was after His Majesty's life has been seized."
"What!?
"I am an ambassador from the kingdom of Mismid. Your Majesty has fallen for wine. Turns out the wine was from the ambassador of the kingdom of Mismid."
"Stupid......"
The Duke is incredible, and I'm surprised at the look on his face. If that's true, I'm sure there can be a gulf between the two countries, no, it's not weird that there's a war going on.
But I don't care. Too much is done.
"The ambassador is being held in a separate room. That's what the Beastman style did. Put your neck on and send it to Mismid..."
"Han! It's all up to my brother! Just let the ambassador stay in his room for a while!
"Really? It's a waste of words for every beast man... But if anything happens to Your Majesty, I can't stop the other nobles, can I? I know you'll probably say the same thing about me."
Count Bartha with a nasty grin. This guy. An old nobleman who discriminates against the Beast Man and opposes the King's policy. No, it's also a little poisoned the king...
As far as the Duke staring at the toad is concerned, that prediction hasn't come off. Yeah, this guy's a killer. Definitely.
"Then I am with this. I'm going to be busy."
That being said, the toad began gently down the long stairs. Getting busy? Because the king dies? The Duke's hand dropping off the bald Earl was shaking and trembling. All right, do you want me to punish that toad a little?
"Slip"
"Wow!?
The toad stepped off his feet and rolled down the stairs vigorously. It falls to the bottom without stopping and is thrown to the floor.
"Grr!
Eventually the toad rose and started walking, resting calmly. The maids around you and the knights of the guard are giggling and shivering. Shit. Are you all right?
The Duke, who was a pocan, turns to me with a tongue strike and asks.
"Is that you?
I thumb up silently and smile back refreshingly.
The Duke had a frightened look on his face, but eventually he returned the same smile.