Life in Another World as a Maid Mage

--About an hour ago.

Having entrusted Niklas with the operation at the reception hall, Joan, who had received a report from his men at the Knights of the Cathedral, noticed the hasty footsteps and turned to you. A cathedral knight jumps in from an open door. He was the knight entrusted with guarding the back gate. He saluted the abbreviation.

"A man named Miss Hildegardo's manager is coming to the back gate."

"What, at a time like this?"

During the Birthday Festival, restaurants are permitted to open even in the middle of the night. Therefore, even if you are out of town at this time, you will not be blamed. But no one comes to the cathedral, which is already closed.

Joan blurred his eyes. He also sharpens his gray eyes when he looks at Noah, who is dressed as the chapel knight beside him - who is next to him in the Niklas squad.

Unlike the Knights of the Cathedral, whose main duties are to guard the cathedral, the role of the Knights of the North, who belong to the Royal Knights, is not only to preserve the community, but also to control and investigate crime. Professionals on this road. Now that some crime is about to be committed by taking a ride on the music festival, they're on their way from here.

"It is now time to look around for the lady. I want you to tell me how to handle it."

"Okay, I'll go."

Joan nodded toward Noah, telling the knight who was waiting on the way to report to return to his position, and proceeded with Noah to the packing place near the back gate.

When I opened the door of the place, which was kept at room temperature as old as magic equipment, a man who was sitting in a simple chair accompanied by two knights stood up. Linen hair with a habit of stroking behind the man shakes and feels fluffy and floral. The scent of the hair washing agent.

"I'm sorry for being late at night. My name is Runal Orstet from Elvestam Hall."

The virtuous man smiled at his white face and presented his business card with a graceful gesture. The ivory cardboard with the emblem resembling the Goddess of Song is printed with the name and contact information of the runal along with the name of one of the most prestigious opera houses in King's Landing.

The emblem also looked familiar to Joan. It was also used in posters announcing the music festival. The emblem of the singing princess who will be the most popular feature at the music festival.

"I thought the singer in charge might be in trouble here."

Runal made a slightly puzzled expression while saying so.

"I said I was going to see a friend and came out without permission. I watched the notes and rushed after them... no, they came. I hope I managed to jump into the city at sunset, but I didn't find it in the hotel I thought I was... I was about to find it at this hour."

There was an excuse to start talking about the jacket he was wearing. The collar was tailored to a characteristically stylish shape, probably in fashion. Fabric and tailoring are first-class. I think guests from King's Landing wore it well.

You can see it even among the lower aristocrats who cultivate the fields with their people. This is the tailoring of Lilleholm, a famous brand that the gentleman admires in the country. It's not an easy substitute to buy at the salary of a hired person.

(As the second most famous hall, the manager makes a good profit.)

With that in mind, Joan ran casually through his whole body, looking at his feet, and he glanced at his eyes.

Still a fashionable braided boot with some snow and wet marks. I was told that I had just polished it.

That's weird.

With a slight doubt, I checked his whole body again.

I was too pretty to be running around this time after a long journey. I can hardly see myself lying on the grass. It's unlikely if you took a carriage around all the far-sighted inns, but it's some unrealistic way to get around looking for people. And the hem of the coat, which is hidden under the knee, doesn't seem to be too wet as it walks around the snow path. Did you just walk on such a good road that the boots in the example don't even have a little dirt on them?

(Speaking of which)

Joan sees Runal's hair. The smell of the strong fragrance of hair washing agent that I felt earlier seems to be the same as that felt by my colleague who took a bath. Yes, it smells like it hasn't been long since I bathed.

She looked strangely pretty and smelled like she was taking a bath. There is a contradiction between what he said earlier: "I jumped into the sunset and have been running around the city ever since."

Looking at Noah next door, it seems that he also felt uncomfortable with something else. I admire the self-portrait that I did not throw away my observation eye, but I immediately tighten my mind.

"... you know?

Asked by the anxious runner, Joan turned to me, staring at him silently.

"- Oh, no, excuse me. I do protect one woman, the Knights, who is a singer."

"The Knights? Oh my God!"

He dyes his face with astonishment and makes a face of bitterness.

Joan was uncomfortable with the dramatic change in his young daughter's fondness for a sweet face. It seemed odd to me to do it just because I heard you protected me with the Knights. Besides, I only told the singer's woman that I didn't mention her name. But Runal doesn't seem to suspect that the singer is who he's looking for. I remember getting caught up in that.

(... no, I don't think so. It is not judged by preconceptions)

A case involving a singing princess. I was suspicious because I was told that there might be an intrusion or contact from someone with only a low conscience related to it. But the Knights of the Cathedral are the guardians of faith for the faithful of the Order who serve the Virgin of Charity and Healing. It is not good to doubt people by accident.

The question at hand is whether the man named Runal is a fact or not.

"Excuse me, Mr. Runal. Do you have anything other than a business card to prove your identity?"

"... eh?

Joan accompanies Noah's question with an unexpected question and a woeful runner.

"Many dignitaries and dignitaries will be accommodated during the Birthday Festival. Oh, and I can't go in there."

"... oh, I see. That said... oh, yeah! I have her notebook. I hope this proves it."

Playing with his nose as he remembered, he retrieved the note that was between the notebooks. A postcard with a family crest engraved with a watermark and a rounded female letter that looks like a young girl jump.

"'To Mr. Runal. I'm going to see a friend. Don't worry, I'll be back by the next job. Hildegardo."

A letter with a very short sentence. Looking at it with Noah, it seemed as if it was just a letter without any eccentricity.

--The adventurer man, Alec, discovered forgery from just one letter, suggesting that there was only a conspiracy. If he holds the status of illegitimate or prominent position in a higher-ranking aristocracy, he will have the opportunity to learn how to spot forged documents, but is he also from some aristocracy?

"... I see."

Noah nods after a period of silence.

"I'm sure Miss Hildegard is in charge here. Please come in."

"I apologize for the inconvenience. Sorry for the inconvenience caused by the singer in this hall. We must return to King's Landing as soon as possible and discuss it with our superiors."

Inspired to raise her hips, Runal distorted her favorite face into anguish. The eyes sparkle with excitement against the bitter expression, making the contrast and the discomfort that the current dialogue has felt for this man even deeper.

I was just telling him I protected Hildegardo. In contrast, Runal seemed to think she was being held as a sinner. Does this man not realize that there is no subtle interaction between the two sides?

The two knights who stood behind him also appeared to have similar evidence. Noah carelessly looked at the two of them. One is a knight of the Knights of the North. When he nodded with his eyes, he said he would return to his position and left the packing place. To set up a plan to surround this stinky man.

Go to Knights headquarters with Hildegardo at Joan's helm.

For a short distance, Runal curled up without asking. Hildegardo was jealous of Felicia, and in the meantime he began harassing her, and lately, a little too many times.

She denied the harassment. I can't swallow the testimony, but suppose harassment was a fact, how about this man just saying bad things like other personnel? Instead of covering up for her, who should also be said to be a business partner, she seems to be trying to create a bad reputation and impress the sin as a sure thing.

Joan walks in front of a room as he pushes and kills the discomfort he is holding. It's one of the sleeping quarters that I'm sending to Hildegard. The knight who guards both sides of the door salutes. Noah, who was guarding the runner, quietly uttered his words as he put his hand on the handle of the door.

"- Where, Lord Runal. She came here to see Miss Hildegardo's notes, but did she leave anything else on where she was going?

Runal glanced back at Noah.

"Huh? Anything else...?"

He answers with little trouble.

"No, just the note I showed you earlier."

I see.

That doesn't seem to make any sense.

But Joan felt it.

--- Hand-packed.

Noah's hand rests on Runal's arm.

"Excuse me, Mr. Runal. I see something suspicious in your behavior. I want to talk to you for a minute."

"What about it?"

The little runner smiled as if he didn't understand the reason.

"Suspicious? What are you talking about?

"--The note only said 'I'm going to see my friends'. But you came to Tris as you deserved. It didn't say where I was going, but it didn't."

The point made him bluish. Joan thought it sounded like he could hear a noise.

"Eh, no... but I thought I was going to see my friend, so I thought I'd go back to Felicia..."

"That's it."

Noah pointed sharply at the contradiction in the answer.

"Earlier you said Miss Hildegard is jealous of Miss Felicia and harassing her. I don't really think it's a friendship."

"Eh, ah... there were times when I was close..."

"But why can't you tell me that you're headed for Miss Felicia? Not to mention being harassed with jealousy. I don't think it's the first person I think of with one of the words," I'm going to see my friends. "

"That's...."

Runal finally silenced at the folding Noah's words. Just moaning and wandering.

"There's more to it. I am also worried that you said you protected the Knights as if you were a sinner, but if you've been running around for a long time, it's suspicious that you have little disturbance. On the contrary."

Noah's hand, stretched out vigorously, grabbed the collar of Runal's coat and exposed his chest in a rough manner. I saw it from the collar of a coat with a well-known brand dress shirt that was gluey and invisible. The smell of softness and soap floats.

"--A shirt that looks like I've just changed into a smell that I think I took a bath with. After looking at the notes and chasing after them, I could afford to take a bath somewhere instead of running around for hours looking for people after a long journey that took several days. I am prepared to even prepare a new shirt. Don't you think it's unnatural?

"Um, I bought a change of clothes in the city I stayed in..."

"Perfectly bespoke Lilleholm shirt in the middle of town."

Ha...

After Noah's relentless pursuit, Runal exhaled a strange mixed voice.

Bloody pale face, sweaty skin not suitable for this season, shaking lips.

(... I see, this is a sinner.)

A genuine sinner who comes to the cathedral in repentance for a different reason.

As unusual and ugly as it was, Joan almost lost sight of his duties. This poison is too powerful for him who spends his days in such a sacred place, devoting himself to the Virgin of Healing and Love and praying for the peace of the people and the forgiveness of the sinners.

But I managed to look at the man in front of me, then.

"... that, Mr. Runal?

The back door opens and Hildegardo, whose hair is slightly disturbed from inside, rubs his eyes and peeks at his face. It seems that there has been a disturbance outside.

"Why are you here?"

Asked in a slumber tone, Hildegardo shook his hair and sighed at Runal's bloody eyes.

"This one too! This woman's on the loose! This woman tried to get rid of that little girl! I just helped him!

There was a deep red shadow in the man who was trying to catch his daughter standing by, shaking away the knight who controlled both sides while cursing dirty. At the next moment, it is attached to a bright red adhesive object, and the runner bends over and kneels on the spot.

Joan, who was aggressively sheltering Hildegardo behind him, looked down at a man depressed at his feet with aversion.

"Lori! Don't kill him!

Slime, a magician wizard with a man named Alec, stretched out his tentacles and formed a circle while holding him captive. I suppose that means you got it.

Soon the knight who was under siege seized him, and he finally thought that he was wearing a rope. The runner was drooping.

Lori, who remained attached until the man was restrained, returned to rugged color. It seems to turn red when it enters a state of emergency.

Then Lori, who was away from him, approached Hildegardo, who was standing trembling behind Joan, and stretched out her tentacles and slapped her arm. To forgive her, she twisted her frightened face. He rushed along with Louis to support his body, which was about to collapse, and led it to the back of the room, where he sat gently.

"- Miss Hildegard. I didn't believe that man, but I'm sure your charges aren't cleared yet. So you'll be staying here for a while."

Hildegardo nodded loudly at Noah's quietly descending voice.

But her charges will soon be cleared.

Joan had such a hunch as he stared at her with her mouth full of tears and a warm herbal tea that he had carried at his behest. And that hunch will not go unnoticed, and a few days later, her innocence, escorted to King's Landing, will be proven.

"- Yes."

Carina smiled bitterly at the end of her mouth.

"You're an idiot. I wish I had waited in King's Landing, but he... couldn't help but see for himself the results and came directly."

He's quite a cautious man. That's how she smiled at the sigh.

Runal that he was following Hildegardo from King's Landing. She checked until she entered the cathedral, then returned to the inn, where she was supposed to spend the night. However, I could not wait until the next day to say that it was lucky to go to the cathedral again. When I heard that she was protected by the Knights, it was that ugliness that promptly scored whether she had been captured or not.

Let me ask you just two more questions.

Alec opens his mouth.

"Are you responsible for the harassment in the hall of King's Landing?

"... yeah. Except that the stage lights have fallen... it's all me."

She admitted that she had prepared it and made it look like she had prevented it.

I see. Okay, one more thing. Isn't it just because you're a character that's not in the scenario that you're targeting Shiori?

It was a boiling malice that I had been pointing at many times. What does that mean?

Carina raised her face and stared at Alec, then turned her gaze to Shiori.

"... you guys aren't just business partners. If you look at the two of us, you'll see."

The eyes that had regained their coolness swayed.

"Especially when Alec sees Shiori. With those calories in my eyes, I wanted you to see me too."

Helge is right in front of me. Standing next to Felicia, he glanced. And at the next moment, I said my face was severely distorted and stuffy.

"... it's my fault."

"No"

Carina shakes her head.

"I was wrong. I'm sorry."

There was so much love in the fiancée that was stipulated in the arrangement between the houses that it was far from being held by a man and a woman - but it was he who had the first burning love. He casually called out to himself, who was clearly in the plain category in the theater, where there were many gorgeous singers and stage actresses. It didn't take so long to be in favour of him treating me like a lady.

But he wasn't looking at himself, he was next to a friend (Felicia).

"Ferris really took everything I wanted. Now Hildegardo is trying to take the Ferris."

Then, regretting her gaze at Shiori, she smiled enviously.

"I heard that it has not been many years since you came to this country, and you have built up a firm position with a high reputation, and you - even a nice lady - were... deeply envious."

Low and insane envy and jealousy for women who have acquired something they did not have. The shallow thoughts drove her to a bold crime.

But is she aware of it? The underlying feeling of superiority is overshadowed by being overtaken by those who despised it inferior to themselves.

--Wasn 't that emptiness filled with a sense of superiority that you wanted but couldn't get?

Carina turns away from Siori and looks down at Niklas next to her. Nodding, he takes off the Knights of the Cathedral cloak and gently puts it over her head. Fineness and caring to avoid further shame. He turned his arm around his back and urged her to walk quietly.

"Hey, Carina."

Felicia calls out to Carina.

"I was the one who pushed me up to the princess's seat. I'm the one who brought me to this place. I could never have come here alone without knowing what was going on. I appreciate it. Don't forget that..."

I can't see her expression hidden in a deep cloak. However, the trembling lips carved a slight smile and muttered something small. A few drops of Shizukuzuku that fell on the floor stained the floor.

Carina, surrounded by several knights and taken with her, is silently escorted by her colleagues who were watching the course of events. Those who lowered their eyebrows and buttocks on the shavings, those who fell down in tears, those who stared at their steep faces, and those who distorted their faces on complex expressions - each of them set aside his former companions with various thoughts in his chest.

After a while, the figure disappeared in the corner of the hallway leading down the stairs.

"--I 'm sorry, I guess...."

Felicia leaks a small tear from the edge of her mouth, scratching her golden brown hair. Helge tended to hug the shoulder.

The remaining knights look at them carefreely while moving for their work.

"... you know, Alec."

"... what?

She looked up at Alec, who was looking at the door where Carina disappeared while holding herself.

I don't know what's gonna happen to him.

What sin will you be charged with? There were no dead people, and the poison used was not such as to cause death. But there is no change that it was malicious.

I don't know.

Alec wrinkled between his eyebrows as he pressed the antidote he had taken out just in case.

"The fact that I tried to get you to take a lethal dose of sleeping pills, and then how you're treated for harassment in King's Landing, will change a lot."

The presence or absence of intent to kill. She herself denied stage lighting in particular, but whether it was true or not would change the outcome. A direct hit would certainly have been catastrophic. Needles in costumes and shoes crafted to break heels can kill you if you make a mistake.

"Alec, Ciori. Can I talk to you for a second?"

The knight who had begun the site verification called out to both of them. They looked at each other and then nodded.

― ― The incident on the eve of the birthday festival was thus brought down. And this fact will lie outside until the next day's birthday festival is successfully concluded.

After this, Karina Svanholm and Runal Orstedt were escorted to the King's City and officially handed over to the Knights of the King.

After a rigorous investigation, Runal admitted that he was the main culprit, that Carina had committed the crime after being instigated by him, and that Hildegardo was innocent.

--Runal was embezzling part of the expense. Even the Elvistam Hall, also known as the first theatre in King's Landing, is a five-finger singer, and the cost of advertising and performing on stage is enormous. Though some, the money I was wearing would be quite a sum. That is why I was able to wear all the first-class goods that were worthy of upscale gentlemen.

Runal, who was spotted by the third singer, was intimidated by the story. He was forced to drag Felicia and Hildegardo out of the princess's seat somehow if he didn't want to reveal this fact, but nodded for fear of his own ruin. One of the reasons is that he promised to hire me as his valet, who would be a new singer if he succeeded.

Having had some interaction with Felicia and Carina through Hildegardo, he was slightly aware of Carina's inferiority. He skillfully instigated the inferiority and succeeded in bringing her into the crowd.

They then turned their hands and separated Felicia and Hildegardo, skilfully spreading rumors as if Hildegardo was harassing them after jealousy. And when the confrontation between the two became known, Felicia was asked to join the concert. Seeing this as an opportunity, Runal planned to use the concert to kill them socially.

Carina forged Felicia's letter as instructed by Runal, wore a golden brown hat, deceived Felicia's name, and handed it to the postman.

It was Runal who hired some adventurer of a bad nature to take on any kind of work as long as the money was loaded, and asked him to make contact with Helge as if he had contracted a shana cold. It seems that Carina's hunger meant that Helge was chosen.

Carina secretly poisoned the drinking water of the carriage in which the men were riding during a few hours' break to Tris. I dared to arrive in Tris and set it up so as to prevent the symptoms from progressing and being stopped in the middle of the city, making participation in the concert itself impossible.

After that, things proceeded as they were written. It would have been a miscalculation for both of us that the organizers hired the adventurers as auxiliaries, that the singers themselves strongly wanted it, and that the adventurers they hired were skilled with all sorts of knowledge and experience. Only a few hours after their visit, they discovered that the poison incident and the letter Hildegardo received were forgeries.

Carina was therefore suspicious when she jumped off the scenario and tried to correct the moving story, and Runal showed up thinking that it was unnecessary to see the success of the scenario she had worked on. The end of an attempt to keep oneself cowardly by using crime as a means to satisfy greed and destroy sin.

"You chose too big a stage to hit a boxing match. At least we could have completed it in the hall of King's Landing."

Niklas, the knight who held them captive, later said so.

Runal Orstet and Karina Swanholm were subsequently tried, each acquitted and sentenced to imprisonment. The singer who threatened the runners also admitted to working on the stage lighting in the hall, which was also punishable by several years' imprisonment.

We have to talk about this at a later date.

Karina Swanholm, who left early as an exemplary prisoner, stopped by her parents' house and then visited the nuns' home, which houses Tris Cathedral. After leaving home and sending days of prayer and labor for several years, she began to travel around as a patrol nun.

Later, the topic of a patrolling nun who was admired by the dark singing princess from the dark blue nun rose to people's rumors. It is uncertain whether a woman named Carina was this Carina Swanholm, who visited prisons, medical facilities, orphanages and other places, and comforted people with a little play that became a "live movie" using songs and phantom magic.

However, it can only be said that there were exchanges with prominent figures such as the great actress Felicia, who once reigned as the singer of the King's Capital, and the famous flute players Helge Lundine and Archbishop Connie Envali, as well as Duke Alexei Frenvali, the founder of the Adventurer Training School, the predecessor of Tris Magic University.