Kekkon Shoya no Deathloop~Nosuji Reijou wa Nando Shindemo Megemasen~

"I guess Roberto tried to assassinate the Duke's bride because he wanted to be the Knights Commander. He's a dirty man."

"A Knights man would do that. But why the Duke's, and the bride? My daughter-in-law wouldn't have anything to do with the Knights"

"I hear that's a complicated situation. Everything seems to involve that dreameater in the case..."

That's what the guests at the tavern talk about with their reddish faces as they tilt the glass. Hearing a voice that reached outside the store, the man stopped.

It's been a little over a week since that wedding night. Nowadays, the entire Wang capital held up in the attempted assassination of the Duke's Bride by a candidate for Knights Commander. Everyone feared the presence of an assassin who had not appeared in eight years, was angry with the Knights, sympathized with the young Dukes - and praised the King for perseverance in trying to bring the criminals to justice.

Our king will not relent even if the nobles are opponents. It was the opinion of many of the people that he was fair and great.

"... but whatever you say this time, you were impressed by the fairness of His Majesty the King. His Majesty has revealed all the facts that His Majesty the former King hid because of his inconvenience. No matter how many kings, I can't do this."

"If I suck, I'm talking about how my credibility with the royal family can fall apart.... But even though his parents were murdered, the duke who had become His Majesty the former king is also a duke. How pitiful is that? If His Majesty hadn't helped me, it would have meant crying all the time."

... With a pitiful grin on the voices of people who don't know what's going on, the man goes down the street to sew between the shadows again. Eventually, when I reached the front of a small private house, standing securely in the gap between residential districts, I knocked at the door without even knocking.

The furnace fire has already been dropped and the interior is dark and cold, even though it is not long after sunset yet. The furniture is only sparsely dotted and the sense of life is extremely scarce.

The man goes further back in the way he is used to. Then, in the darkness, there was an old man who relied on the lights of the candlestick to read the book.

The old man has no way of noticing the arrival of a man, and scrolls the page. The man also says nothing and stands silently straight on the spot.

After sounding the rubbing sound of paper for a while, the old man shrugged pompously, as he finally remembered to speak to the man, keeping his gaze off his books.

"... you"

"Master, thank you for waiting. Sorry I'm late."

The man bows his head respectfully. And when he saw the old man nodding, he sat down slowly, exhaling, in the chair across from him.

Noticing the behavior of a man who exposes his fatigue, the old man gradually looks up.

"Looks like you're wounded, but you're in battle"

"No way. Look, about a week ago, I would have snuck into Vlage's castle hall, too. That's when I got caught up in the unscrupulous gesture of the example bride. Because of that, I got hit with my arm and my abrasive."

"What do you mean?"

The man says nothing and tries to flatter his shoulders. And "Aww," he screamed briefly, stretching his body.

In the tragedy in front of him, the old man frowned.

"... you look scattered"

"Hey, this was a good place to make a big mistake. I didn't expect you to ruin everything you planned."

"So I told you not to deal with the Baltic people.... So, how'd it go?

Towards the old man, the man nods deeply with a strange face.

"My master was right. That one, you're looping.“ The Baltic people repeat the same time they die. Never can others kill. "-- I didn't know it was true."

"Not all Baltic humans cannot be killed. But if you had taken the advice of Non and pulled your hand from this plan, you wouldn't have done so much damage."

"Don't blame me for that. It's a plan we've been planting for eight years, right? It's not that easy to convince people to give up because they might not be able to kill the Baltic people."

Once again, the man clasped his shoulders carefully this time.

The old man distorts the corner of his mouth to the tune of a play-handed man.

"--Heh. Well, when Nong was younger, he turned down the Baltic rumors as old people's bullshit, because he had a painful mouth. I can't tell you how great it is."

"Are you talking about the female knight Gardenia?"

To the man's inquiry, the old man nods small.

"Oh. That woman, too, crushed the whole plan, as if she had foreseen all the thoughts of this one, a quote that survived no matter what. That's enough to make you think you're repeating the same time."

"It was more than that this time. Kathrea found out who Ines was and captured her, took Serenia out and rendered Risel powerless to look. Because of that, I had to withdraw all my men, who had sent me in little by little over the years"

"Ho."

The old man moved his eyebrows curiously, closing the book he was spreading. The flames of the candlestick shake, and the old eyes gleam.

"-- that's not all. I actually heard her go over the details of“ incense ”towards Ines in detail.... That night, we said we didn't use any incense. You can already think of this as a definite loop."

"Was it so grasped?"

"Unfortunately. Perhaps she was killed by incense several times. 'Cause I just showed him incense and he was terribly alert."

"What happened to the incense object that it was left in the castle?

"I gave it to Cattleya. We no longer need to collect it."

The man deposits his body on the back of the chair and mocks his chest with his left hand. And I wrinkled my face just a little like I remembered the pain.

"... If you couldn't kill the bride, you would have at least killed Serenia Vlage. If you kill Serenia and threaten it's Duke's turn next, Riselle Rosso could continue to use her as a puppet, and even if it fails, her death will surely have caused discord within the Vlage family. The Duke couldn't have said what the Knights would have done if his sister had died, either. Compared to the murder of Cattleya, it's a trivial thing, like what you get from the murder of Serenia, but at least you could have continued with the plan."

"I can't help but say this about what's past. Unlike them, we can't start over."

Throw up a throwing dialogue and the old man gets a flashing look.

The man could not forbid to laugh bitterly at the fact that his mentors were all set and screwed by the Baltic family.

"That's true, but quite a shock to me too...... Well, but I'm glad you took my master's advice and made some changes to your plan. If I'd stuck with the Katrean murder, I wouldn't even have had this pitiful reflection by now."

"If you drop a looping human into a trail of inescapable death, you could repeat eternal times unconsciously. Then it's too barren."

"That's why I dared set Katrea free, although I was half-hearted about the loop. And if there was any indication to her of a plan perception, she also gave instructions to desist from the Katrean killing and move promptly to the Serenian killing. If you get looped over and over again, that's all you'll learn.

Anyway, it was the liver of this plan, bearing in mind the possibility that Cattleya would loop when she died, not give her any information and switch targets for murder before she was dealt with.... so Katrea shouldn't have died so many times. I thoroughly asked my men who were lurking not to show her any moves that would make her realize she was an assassin. And yet, how could my hand have been revealed in detail? "

"Perhaps he lost his own life many times to perceive our existence and hold back the plan. After all, the Baltic people are out of their minds"

"You didn't look like the kind of lady I was thinking about."

The man reminds me of the bride.

I knew from the bottom line that she was rarely experienced in martial arts for the Baltic family. It was also heard that there was something slightly unorthodox about it for the children of nobility.

But you don't have a lot of physical ability, and I didn't expect you to follow the man who jumped out the window and try to get yourself out of the window. She is a very good lady.

I felt like I had a glimpse of the cause of being overlaid with loops in that unscrupulous behavior of hers, but the man stopped thinking there.

When I thought about it more than that, I felt like I was in a bad mood.

"... how thoughtless to think that that light-headed lady ruined everything"

"It's rare. Isn't it a long time ago?"

"There will be a lot of untrained. Until a week ago, it all went well. Eight years ago, I arranged some flashy killings for the plan, of which the killing of the former Vlages was a great success. By killing them, the foolish royal family took the liberty of deepening the conflict with the Duke's family, the Vlage family to an isolated presence within the aristocratic society, and the Knights became a hotbed of corruption and neglect.

Sooner or later, around the Vlage family, it was visible that large ripples would arise again. And as you can read, this time by successfully abetting officials eight years ago, I was able to take on a major job: the murder of the bride by Riselle Rosso. If it continues to work, the Vlages will disintegrate and a dispute will erupt between the nobles who are after their wealth. But the more corrupt Knights and the Royal Family could not have been a great deterrent, and a chain of further killings would have been created in the country. "

"So, in the end, you say this country was collapsing?

To the old man's inquiry, the man laughs. But soon he turned his naughty grin into a mockery and shook his head without force.

"… Here's the result"

"In the first place, the very plan of overthrowing the state was nothing more than an assassin. We are murderers. Conspiracy is not a specialty.... I should have given you a few more minutes."

"I can't help it, because eight years ago, you told me to collapse this country from within, and my neighbor gave me that already in advance of attractive rewards. To maintain a diagonal organization and I also took on this request with the utmost determination. In fact, without this request, the organization would have collapsed because of financial difficulties."

Sigh leaks from a man's warped mouth.

"So in an attempt to succeed in this request at any cost, I named what a small embarrassing street name I had dream-eater, and repeated the killing using a troublesome method of poisonous incense.... Yet now speaking of dream-eating, it is synonymous with an incompetent group of people who have a large number of them but can't kill a single young lady. Now moving to a neighboring country is not going to be a big job."

"We don't originally have a name in our organization. That's a name to throw away."

The old man strokes his jaw as he deepens the wrinkles carved into his face.

"Go back to just nobody and do the normal assassination (every single one). To the west, there would have been a country with repeated skirmishes. There, we might still have a job."

"Is this a re-challenge in New Heaven and Earth, away from the familiar land, in these days when assassination operations are on fire? If this happens, would you like to open a restaurant during the day as a side business? Fortunately, we have plenty of people."

To the man's funny joke, the old man frowns. Then I looked away and told him to throw up.

"... utterly, abominably. I didn't know Gardenia was going to pull into the countryside and let his grandson into the Duke's house to get in the way of the organization."

"I won't run out of regrets, but I'll give up cleanly already. It's too incompatible to kill a human being and an assassin. I don't even feel like reversing this, then. Here, let us roll our asses and flee to the gap where Roberto and the Vlage family are contending. … So, may I?"

"Non is almost retired. You, the head of the organization, decide what you want."

"... really, no face"

Again, the man drips his neck. When I moved, the pain ran, but I tried not to put it on my face.

—— At any rate, I wanted to see which direction this case would roll in nearby. So the man went out of his way to leave the poison in the castle.

With poisonous incense, we can steam back the fact that the royal family hid it eight years ago. If the Duke with blood on his head could use it to sell fights to the royals and assassination masterminds, there would have been an inter-nobility struggle between the assassins themselves. In that case, it is possible to connect the National Overthrow Plan next, although it is not along the same path as had been envisaged.

... The man had such pale expectations sneaking up on him, but in the end the Duke chose a path that did not conflict with the royal family. On the contrary, he forced the royal family, which was supposed to hate him, to hold flowers and try to converge things. The rumors that are spreading throughout the Wang capital may also have been circulated by the Duke himself to prevent the King from escaping from “your role as wise man”.

As a result, the king gathered the respect of the people, and the rapists were to be judged. The queen will also have to lose her surroundings and make a big deal of herself for a while.

This is a very impossible story such as the overthrow of the state.

For a man, this was also quite a miscalculation.

... but there was no feeling of wonder and hatred in the man, although he was willing to regret his own demise.

Either that or an interest in an incredible phenomenon that had no sense of reality aroused the man to speak of puffiness and doubt.

"Nevertheless, how did the predecessors learn the secrets of the Baltic loop"

"... their original ancestors were just mercenaries, but said they took the head of the general during the war and earned nobility as a reward for it. However, it is impossible to think normally that a presence equal to a miscellaneous soldier would lead to the loss of the enemy general's neck. And for such beings, kings and generals targeting the effects of war, it would have been a glimpse."

To the words of the unexpected old man, the man rounds his eyes.

"In other words, the Baltic ancestors overlapped the medals by looping, and our ancestors repeatedly failed to process that intrusive heroic hall, and learned the secrets of Baltic?

"We're talking hypothetical. I don't know the truth. Of the numerous kills, they are often forced to lick hard acids, which may just happen to lead to the conclusion of a loop. Whatever it is, it must have been the same as Non's, and there must have been no certainty in the generations before."

"Or maybe that family has a loop ability. What a gay story, it's embarrassing for an assassin to say, and he couldn't argue very strongly"

To teasing remarks, the old man sharpens his eyes.... but coughed one up and flushed the man's words to the side.

"It cannot be considered a great harvest to find that rumors of the Baltic family that have been whispered from generation to generation were genuine. You should incorporate the Baltic family and the Loop into your organization's code so that this kind of failure will never happen again."

"Code, is it?... Right."

The man looks down at his right arm. The broken arm was still red and swollen after a week of injury, with ripe fruit but a great deal of heat.

Just a little bit involved, like this. We may not have anything to do with Baltic humans if we move to another country, but for the sake of our successors, we should also firmly tell the afterlife, 'Never come close to the assassin crying clan'.

"So what about the code, borrowing her name and naming her" Cattleya policy ”so that we don't forget this lapse?"