Legend

"My name is Keuken and I work for Master Theorem. Thank you for accepting it, even though it was sudden."

The woman named Cuken bows her head deeply toward Dusker, who is at the end of her gaze.

The rain-wet robe had already taken off because he naturally met with Dusker, dressed with an emphasis on ease of movement.

From the side, she didn't seem nervous, but the woman who named Cuken instinctively feels the bottomless strength of the Dusker at the end of her gaze and, above all, of the elk holding back on her side as an escort, thinking that when she returns to the other side, she will hear one or two of her stupidity about Theorem.

Dusker nods back and opens his mouth without even noticing how Cuken was doing like that.

"Oh, I heard you were going to turn the person with this marked dagger as your liaison.... I'll give it back."

Passing the dagger that Dusker had to a nearby knight, the knight approaches Cuken and gives him the dagger.

Keuken, nostalgic for that dagger, bows his head small and opens his tease.

"Thank you. So, it's quick..."

"Oh, that was a decree. What kind of story?

"One first. Dear Theorem, with the help of His Royal Highness Vihella, we are expanding our power. Of course, it would be troublesome if other factions found out that the Third Prince was imitating it, so they wouldn't be able to find it."

"I hear stories about that area. Lord Vihella is very popular, isn't he?

"Yes, thanks to you, the forces of war are gradually gathering. … Although the main premise is that you can trust someone, the number of people is gradually increasing."

"I guess."

It was an elk that frowned slightly when Theorem's name came out, but he immediately erased it from his expression and nodded at Cuken's words.

The duel on the Seremouth Plains made it a one-off convincing elk to understand the position on the other side, but they still can't imitate running everything into the water right away.

Min realizes that in his account as a companion who has walked with Elk for years rather than as his wife...... strokes his back softly to calm such an elk.

Cuken, who doesn't realize at all that he's having such an exchange, then opens his mouth.

"And the next thing I know, to be honest, it's not too much to say that I was sent this time to give you this information."

"Hmm? Aspiring... what kind of information?

"Among the Bestian empires, there is an organization called the Bell of the Soul, which undertakes dark things behind it like assassination, kidnapping and fanning. Of course there are other organizations in this hand, but this organization, the Bell of the Soul, is known as a group of great arms."

Elk's eyebrows are flaunted again by Cuken's words.

Basically, if you try to make it a straight personality elk, I don't really like the organization behind its hands.

Of course I know it's more evil than being a high-ranking adventurer named Rank A.

I guess I didn't say anything about watching such an elk, but Cuken goes on to explain about the bell of soul quenching.

"It is also said that the bell of soul control also attaches importance to its in-laws as a back organization, giving thanks and giving back betrayal. In fact, the nobleman who tried to seal his mouth while asking for the job behind him before had reached the worst end of his life as much as he wanted to avoid making it into words."

"Is that the organization behind the stronghold? … I don't know if I'm being prescriptive, but I've already been in contact with it."

To the words out of Dusker's mouth, Cuken bows his head with a look of sorry.

"Yes, I heard rumors of a city I stopped by before I came to this village. If I had come another day earlier, I would have handled it a little more appropriately... sorry"

"What, never mind. Our escort wasn't particularly damaged. The wounds are mild and are expected to heal in a few days."

"Thank you"

Ming, who watched Cuken bow his head, opens his mouth like he thought.

"Cuken, you said. How well do you know about the organization Bell of the Soul?

"Unfortunately, the details...... since it is originally a secrecy organisation, the information on the personnel you belong to is not very widespread. In this world, with some arm, it's normal for names to spread quickly."

"Right.... By the way, do you know anyone who can take the means to use someone else who is completely stranger without fighting for themselves? And he has the ability to paralyze the pain and exert far stronger power than usual."

Cuken opens his mouth to think for a few seconds about Min's words and see if there was a verse that came to mind.

"From that modus operandi, I was wondering if it might be someone called a puppeteer. However, we don't know much about detailed M.O. Somehow the person you capture doesn't die, but he's going to be in a coma... so he doesn't really come out on the surface much more often than it is such an M.O., and at some point he's become known as a puppeteer."

"Dollying, huh? Sure, there were a few of them."

I guess you remembered last night's battle. Rhodos groans abominably.

It was Rhodos guarding the stairs with the other knights, but I don't feel any pain among the thugs who have been trying to climb the stairs... even more I recall having an opponent with unthinkable powers.

Because of the small number of people, he succeeded in working with the knight to crush his joints and disable them, but this one was still in a coma, just like those Ray and Seto defeated.

"That's what a nasty opponent's been after. Is it the nobility of this country who hires them?

Cuken nods back at Dusker's words as he asks with a fed up look on his face.

"Yes, but nobility is not that important a position."

"I guess. It was the upper echelons of this country that invited me in the first place. I don't think you're going to release an assassin on me until you buy someone that upset. But then..."

It was a dusker I thought of for a moment, but I immediately get a convincing look on my face.

I don't even have to think about why I was attacked.

In fact, wasn't it reported by Rodos and Ray and the knights?

"Family and acquaintances died in the war,"

"Yeah. Especially since many soldiers, knights, or nobles have died in this war. Naturally, it includes things like being a heir, or a fiancé, or a friend."

"... even so. War, huh? I don't know what to tell you, you're from the Bestian Empire, but it was the Bestian Empire that attacked me in the first place. As for this one, I just intercepted it."

"In the meantime, as far as I'm concerned, I can't say anything about that area... whatever it is, it's definitely the ones hired by someone with a grudge against Larks Borderline Uncle or Deep Red"

Even for a queen, I guess it's not funny to get your hands annoyed with something like this.

That was natural, too. Because if it were, we would have to move towards the rescue of the third prince with Theorem and Vihera.

Even for this liaison role, it should have been more regular reporting by those below. But beyond grasping the movement of the organization behind the bell of the soul, Cuken was to come without such imitation.

"Just one thing. There's something I want you to be aware of."

The gaze of those who were on the spot gathers to Cuken, who tells him in a changed manner.

Larks border uncle dasker, rank a party thunder god axe elk, his wife minn.

In the gaze of everyone, including those three, Keuken continues to explain without looking cowardly at all.

If anyone on this occasion had looked at Seto and seen Cuken lying back, such a grand explanation that he would have doubted his eyes.

"The bell of soul control, also famous as an amazing arm within the Bestian Empire. I can't get in touch a bit or softly more than I am with that much tissue. Which means you can't even ask for it."

"But they're the ones who actually attacked us in the previous city, aren't they?

What are you talking about? Cuken nods to the words that came out of Rodos' mouth with such a meaning.

"Yes, from what I've heard… I'm pretty sure it's the work of the soul-quenching bell, especially given the way those who are unconscious. I mean..."

"I see, is there any possibility that there is more to it than the person who cannot ask for it is asking for it?"

"I thought Uncle Larks was right. The reason for the delay in delivering this information is also around. When I got the information that the Soul Bell was involved, especially when I saw the names of the people who hired it, Master Theorem also decided at first that it was demanding or something. But the information was too specific, and I was dispatched because I was able to retrieve it."

Hearing the words, Dusker frowns.

I didn't feel uncomfortable about Keuken, I felt uncomfortable about the situation in which someone was hiding behind me.

"That's a pain in the ass.... you still don't know who's behind it?

"Excuse me, Master Theorem is running out of hands too... how many minutes are the 3rd prince faction in small numbers..."

It is the popular Vihela that is moving to do something about that small number of people.

But still, there was no way I could do this right away, and it was obvious that the painful darkness would continue for a while.

"... well, isn't that nice? Originally, Ray's role was to draw the Empire's attention. If you think about it, I don't know what the mastermind of this case is up to, but it's a success in attracting the majority of people."

Elk tells as if to blow the air that was going to sink.

"Besides, if you know there's someone behind it, then that would do anything. Especially that Ray, huh? I can only think of the sight of the trapped person chewing his throat out, even if it was filled with traps."

I guess we all get convinced of that word because we each know enough about the existence of Ray.

For some reason, Keuken nodded to agree, but this is because he saw Seto, Ray's submissive demon, up close earlier?

"I have heard from His Highness Vihella and Master Theorem that it is so deep red...... no, is it amazing who is Mr. Ray?

"If it's awesome or not, it's definitely awesome....... hmm? You, Theorem's men, you were in the war, weren't you? Didn't you see that flaming tornado?

To Dusker, who asks strangely, Cuken smiles bitterly and shakes his neck sideways.

"Unfortunately, I wasn't in the spring war. By order of Master Theorem, I was a little off the force."

"I see. Well, I know there's a lot going on, so it sounds better not to ask what you were doing"

"Yeah, that would help. As far as I'm concerned, I'd like to see a flaming tornado that I hear about once. I don't want you to look so easy."

"I guess that's natural. But even that thing made Ray famous. Especially in this Bestian Empire, the name is better known than in the Kingdom of Mireana if it is bad. With the tornado of fire, which became synonymous with deep red."

Dusker whines as he remembers the sights he saw on the battlefield.

Even as a Dusker, I knew Ray was the one standing on his arm from the time he defeated Oak King.

But it was totally unexpected that he still had the ability to get there.

Most of all, you're right that Dasker betrayed my expectations in a good way.

Hearing such Dusker's words, Cuken thinks of flaming tornadoes swallowing, burning and ravaging people even though he didn't actually see them with his own eyes.

It would be because of the words of Dusker, who was watching the sight in person.

"... well, let's just say that. That's off the record. Let's go back to the bells and the dots of the soul. You think we're gonna set this up on our way to the Empire?

"To be honest, I don't know. But if the motives of those who asked the bell of the soul are revenge, it is quite possible. Don't be alarmed...... needless to say I have the thunder god axe or deep red. Excuse me."

"No, never mind. By the way, what's Cuken going to do now? You're gonna stay here for the night and then you're gonna go back under Theorem?

"Yes. I would like to do that if I could. I mean, it leaves right in this rain..."

"Okay. Let's tell the village chief to get a room. There's a place to stay, but given your nature, you'd better stay with us."

Cuken bowed his head to Dusker's words and ended up staying at the village chief's house on this day and leaving the village with Dusker line the next day, parting on the way.