Master of the brave.

Late at night, even in the late opening hours of the liquor store and during the hours of sleep.

One boxcarriage was running ragged and wheeled down the back street off the main street of Teito.

"There's also an easy job in the world to just sit there and get paid so much"

Kelvin, who was sitting in the two-seater seat, was speaking firmly to the man sitting next to him and manipulating the carriage.

"And it's not at a very bright time, it's something you're sneaking around at so late a time, isn't it?

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"Neither the city gates nor the officials look like they can inspect your luggage, and this is quite great..."

"Shut up. Just shut the fuck up for a second!

Kelvin blocks him from continuing to talk, and the man sitting next to him says out in a grumpy manner.

"But don't you mind? What are you carrying with Kosokoso by hiring people with scratches on their tibia like us for a high salary?

"We can shut up and carry what we're told to where we're told."

"It's your job to carry, and my job is just in case... but this much vigilance means your luggage is actually quite a treasure?

What do you say we take this carriage with us every load? "

A man stared at Kelvin, who said in a light-hearted tone.

"Oops... a joke - it's a joke. You don't have to look so scared, it's such an easy job to get paid for, right? I won't imitate losing a job I finally found on purpose."

"... there are two handicappers in the back as well. If you imitate badly, you have no life."

"Yes, sir."

Kelvin tried to shrug her shoulder in a way that made her joke go away.

The man had been staring at Kelvin's side for a while, but Kelvin made him try to make a big stretch through it unintentionally.

"Me, I'm asleep, so wake me up when you arrive"

"Hey!"

A man roughed up his voice at Kelvin, who really began to take a sleeping stance, so that he could hang onto the back of your seat, but Kelvin closed his eyes.

"He said it's okay. Just in case something happens, I'll work for your salary."

Kelvin lets you wave flirtatiously.

The man tongued angrily at the attitude, but sighed as he gave up, re-gripping the reins.

Kelvin has shut up, so in the back street down in the night book, only the sound of a horse's hoof called Pacca Pacca and the sound of a wheel called a rag echoes around him. From time to time, I also heard wild dog barking, bug voices, etc.

Because time is time, there are no public places.

There was nothing to block the carriage's path, but care for the luggage in the boxcarriage, or the man is driving the horse with cautious handrail judgment.

So I didn't realize.

There is a strange tension in Kelvin's body that seems to have closed his eyes and fallen asleep quietly -.

When the boxcarriage plugged into the corner of the street - a strong flash severely tore the darkness apart and burned the eyes of the man who was your man.

"Gwwwwwwwww!?

Horses stormed surprised by the flash, and the boxcarriage clashed as it swung across the alley to make a huge noise to the building.

And when the shock struck him, the man of thy Lord was thrown out of his seat, and slammed into an alley.

"but... Ugh..."

Kelvin, who was jumping off the carriage just before the collision, looking sideways at the man who had lost consciousness due to the burning pain in his eyes and the pain that struck his whole body, shouted loudly to hear him in the carriage, which had stopped when he took his passive and woke up physically on the spot.

"Enemy!

Kelvin's voice was the one that made his voice strong, but on the other hand, he let him wave a flicker loose.

Two shadows run over to Kelvin from a light source with intense flashes of light.

"Damn... what?

"... a raid?

When the door of the boxcarriage passenger car opened, two men came out from the inside, trying to curl.

A black coat that hides his face with a black mask and his outfit melts into the dark.

He had a sword in his hand that had not yet been pulled out.

"Apparently you two are."

Referring to the shadow of Kelvin rushing over, the men pull out their swords, throw down their sheaths and set themselves up.

Seeing that, the person rushing over also stopped again.

"Damn...... my head flickers"

Kelvin snuck in without sound behind the two black masks spilling so. Light rushes at the same time as both hands touch the shoulders of two masked men.

The two broke on the spot when they drew their bodies in a freak for a moment.

"... Phew"

To a breathtaking Kelvin, the shadow that had been rushing towards me approached me, feeling terrified and so on.

"Good luck. Fukuchi ~"

Thank you for your hard work.

Leno asked her boss, with a grinning smile on his face, peeking into the two masked men who were falling and lying in fear and so on.

"Now... what was it?

"It's magic. It's for torture."

"... oh, yeah?

Kelvin nodded delicately to Lino, who was subtly drawn.

"It's a granting magic that adds electric shock. If you add or subtract power incorrectly, it kills you, but depending on how you use it, you can lose your mind and continue to inflict good pain."

From the mouth of the black-covered man that Wedge was trying to tie up, Leno stared with a cramped look at the bubble blowing out.

At that time...

"Ki... do this..."

Another black-covered man looked up at Kelvin only.

"Oh?"

"... just... sooooooooooooooooooooooooo"

Kelvin walked over to Stasta and the man without expression.

The dull sound of GO!

A man is silent.

"Hmm... you were pretty tough"

Kelvin shrugged with a voice that seemed impressed as he shook down his right leg and struck the man's head against the cobblestone.

"In this way, some individuals endure this magic, so it takes a lot of proficiency to use it effectively."

(You don't have to be skilled at anything else)

Listening to Kelvin speak with a good face, Leno and Wedge thought at the same time.

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"I wonder if I should take this and... and this one too"

Lino dives into the carriage box and locates the baggage that was loaded inside.

"Hurry up, please. I will leave before your consciousness is restored."

Kelvin rushes Leno as he looks around him.

"Copy that. Oh, Wedge, let's take this book too."

Residents should also live in the surrounding buildings, but no one showed their faces.

The carriage crashed so hard.

I should have woken up surprised no matter how deeply we were sleeping, but I guess we were afraid we'd get involved.

The guards are told to turn their hands from behind and rush here late.

After a while, Leno jumped out of the passenger car.

"Fukuchi, I think I could bring out the blind potato's"

Rino reports to Kelvin by tapping the bag the wedge holds.

"Okay. Okay, I'll get back to you if you need anything, so please both go back carefully."

Kelvin saluted and then waved his hands off to the two running away, waking up an unconscious lord and realizing

"... Gu"

"Are you okay!?

And speak to you with a voice that you are worried about.

"Yes... what the hell...?

"We've been raided"

"What, to?

"Don't worry. Those who have raided have been driven away, and two other people than me have now gone after the thieves."

"Right..."

The man of your man sighed like a ho.

In fact, the two masked men are letting them lie in the shadow of an invisible building from the carriage.

Later, it should be retrieved by the Guards.

"So, what's the package?

"It's okay. However, I think the impact of the collision into the building caused my luggage to fall apart."

Thanks to this, we can also delude the traces that Leno has identified.

"Ku...... that's no choice. Is the horse safe?

"Yeah, from what I've seen, you don't even seem to have broken your leg."

"You, can you move the carriage? Let's get out of here before the guards get here."

"... what about the two of you that went after him?

"If this one moves, we should go back to the rendezvous point."

"Okay. Where to?"

Kelvin was always unloaded where the aristocratic city approached, although he had provided escorts like this about three times before.

Ahead, it seems that only trustworthy servants can go to places where their employers are located.

It would be for caution.

But this situation where my eyes are burned and I don't know when my guard will rush to hear this noise.

Your man makes the decision to have Kelvin deliver the package.

"I'll give you directions where you're going, hurry the carriage."

Copy that, sir.

Kelvin was giggling as he lent the man his shoulder and let him sit on your stand.

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"You can't do that at all! What am I supposed to do with this amount of material, you know?"

Jade gave the look of a bitter worm bitten to the man of the Mage who gave rise to a seizure and yelled at him.

The same unscrupulous attitude towards the Marquis' man.

Jade shifted his eyes to the hemp bag that was piling up in the corner of the room when he controlled his men, who were distracted by the Wizard, who said disrespectful things to the Lord.

The size of the hemp bag is just enough for each adult to fit in.

The hemp bag, illuminated by the candlestick lights, was dyed red and black, with blackish dirt spreading on the floor.

When Jade urged his men with his jaw as he sent his gaze toward the hemp bag, his men followed the instructions and walked toward some hemp bags.

And when I put the hemp bag on my shoulder, I followed the room that was being built in this basement.

Just next to Jade standing at the entrance to the room, the men in charge of the bag will pass by.

"Ugh..."

Jade accidentally laid his hand on his nose as he leaked a groan at the awesome smell that pushed him through his nose into the brain.

"Kukukuku......"

A mocking laugh.

The magician was distorting his mouth into a form of laughter and shaking his body.

Hearing that laugh, one of Jade's men, who was out of the room, looked back.

Turn your angry gaze at the Mage Master, but watch Jade wave his hand like he's just going, keeping his emotions down a lot.

But still, I gazed all the way at the magician.

But as soon as I had eyes with the Wizard, who looked up from under the hood, my men's faces were slightly blued.

And he hurries out of the room with his feet.

If you stay here forever, just like the contents of this hemp bag, you could be the victim of an abominable specimen.

"Poor quality"

A demon conductor shrugged as he distorted his mouth and dropped off the rear of the men leaving the room.

"All I've been brought in here lately is like useless scraps. This will never complete my research."

Jade opened his mouth as he was silently listening to the stupidity spilled by the magician.

"Number should be sourcing"

"Shit, it's not like you just have to count it. Don't you see? Almost there... Almost there!

"How long has it been since you keep saying that? I've got everything I can fit. At your peril, I took that Konrat Heisenberg legacy from Lyon and showed it to you.

It's because I expect from you and I'm waiting for results. Don't forget that. "

"Then you'll have a better quality experiment, as I say. As young as possible - right, the noble daughter I brought in before, etc., is good. Bring it quick."

"Shit, it's easy for me to say"

"For experimentation, even poor quality materials. But it has to be of better quality to verify whether it has succeeded.

Until now, only two materials have satisfied me. Then I don't know if I really succeeded. In order to be certain, further experiments need to be repeated and verified.

In the first place, if you succeed, your battalion will be greatly enhanced, won't it?

Why don't we deduce it from the nobility of your faction? [M] If your house ordered, it would be easy to get as many of them out, wouldn't it?

"Stupid thing... they're our backers too, aren't they?

Jade opened his eyes unexpectedly.

The sound of voices sounds awkward.

Indeed, before, Klefdorf had rounded off a thousand horseman named Fayle, who belonged to his own faction, by making him chase the blame for the defeat.

But at that time, he only disposed of the unprofitable against the faction.

It was actually a privilege created by Jade to hold him accountable for the defeat, but there was also a clear reason for it.

But to be the subject of a magician, if you let a missing person out of your faction, if you do poorly, there will be suspicion against the Klefdorf family and the faction will collapse.

Where is it that there are those who do things that weaken their factions?

"The completion of research is of the highest priority, but we are not going to offer our fellow countrymen who support our faction.

They're paying a lot of money for your research. "

"Shit."

I heard the Wizard smashing his tongue small.

"Then why don't you see it appropriately from the nobles who are hostile to you?

I'm not noble, I'm a knight. Your father is the General of the Central Knights. You could fool as much as you want into bringing me here, right?

"So what are you going to do about the knight who disappeared after the order of the Knights Commander? Same thing.

Besides, the Knights have already noticed and moved our movements. Even though it's on schedule, it won't have to stand out any more. "

"Shit... that's not what I care about. If you want to get in the way, you should get rid of it."

Jade accidentally glanced back at the magician, but he couldn't even look at Jade, and when he threw what was the only drug in the pan he hung in the furnace, he began to stir.

The irritating smoke rose from the pan and the room was filled with intense odors.

Not surprisingly, Jade took out his handcloth and covered his nose and mouth.

I also feel a little pain in my eyes.

In the meantime, the Magic Instructor kept spinning the pot on the nose mix.

"But those two things that you've succeeded in, are they really going to work?

"I don't."

In response to Jade's question, the magician who was stirring the pan responded instantly without even looking back.

"I don't know how much I can use it without trying."

"Hmm..."

To Jade, who puts his hand on his chin and thinks about it, the Wizard exhorts him further.

"If the Knights are in the way, why don't you hit them? It's a good opportunity to test your performance, and you're in good shape for collecting specimens, right?

"I told you I don't want to make a stand out imitation"

"Then I'll have to prove it."

Jade heard the response and exhaled loudly as he was annoyed.

"... I have an idea of a material with strong magic"

"Hmm?"

"You must have the powerful magic you demand."

"Shit, bring it on as soon as you can! Right away! Now!

"It's not that easy to bring in."

Jade told me to throw up.

"What's that? If it's the name of your house, you can barely do it, right?

"Things are just things, I want to pay full attention"

"Hmm... you mean it's hard to bring it into the capital? Then you can take me to the previous location and I can go."

"Is research good here?

"If you can get something of good quality, I don't mind bringing it in there. Besides, it would be more helpful if we could count them in close proximity to your possession later, wouldn't it?

When the magic conductor only distorted his mouth and laughed, he looked up at Jade.

"Right. Plus, no matter how many slums you're in, it's hard to overhunt in a short period of time.

As I said earlier, the Knights are just depressed. It might be time for you to reach out. "

"Shit... well, sure. Looks like someone else is sniffing around about me besides the Knights."

"Besides the Knights?

"It's a personal matter. You don't have to worry."

Jade frowned at the words, but the Magic Instructor turned to the pot again without saying anything more. As it was, I went back to the task of slowly stirring the contents of the pan.

"Hmm... but let me order my men to be prepared, just in case? Until it happens, it's not a good idea for your presence to come to light."

"When what?

"In less than a month, there will be a goodwill visit to Lyon. Nobody would believe that in the name of the most cordial visit. Petersia is also showing frustration"

"Shit, you're not interested in me when it comes to countries. But..."

"It is the day when the envoy progresses through the Empire. Achieve results by then. Let me show you what I can do with all the investments I've made."

"So far, so good."

The magician laughs at the couscous.

"Shit, well, I thought it was time to use it in action, too. Fine. You can use it to the fullest."

"Let me do that"

When Jade said so, he turned his heel back and went out of the basement of the building early enough.

On the premises of the Imperial Palace, near the outermost wall in a section where there are a number of study buildings of the court magicians.

It's the least visible place.

There are noises in spite of the late night.

When I saw it, one carriage had stopped, and the men who had gone outside earlier in charge of the hemp bag were just unloading their bags from inside.

Apparently, after unloading the package, he's going to pack the hemp bag he carried out of the basement.

Jade wrinkled his nostrils at the smell that drifted, albeit better than the magician's lab, when he said he had gone out because of it.

"Good luck"

"Klaus."

Klaus, a belly-hearted subordinate, spoke to Jade, who watched the work without even seeing it.

"There have been reports of raids on those who appear to be knights."

"Right."

"Looks like they repelled it with an escort, but about two of them are missing"

"Missing?

"The story of those who stayed together said that they had pursued those who attacked them, so they could have been captured on the contrary. So just in case, I'm going to put an escort on him at my side, okay?

"Allow it."

"Yes, sir."

Leave that word and the signs of Klaus disappear.

Turn around, there's no one there already.

Jade walked out with the men packing hemp bags in the carriage on their backs.

I didn't realize until the end that one man was dropping him off after that.

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Across the city, southeast of the Imperial capital, lies the house of Leno Van Harren.

Leno's house is a subordinate but clean aristocratic family in the 'Sir' position. His history as a jazz family is shallow, and tracing his lineage back to his great-grandfather, he is a pharmacist's family.

But it was because his grandfather, who became a knight without succeeding a pharmacist, made remarkable achievements on the battlefield that the Harren family was to be named to the last seat of the nobility.

Most of all, Lino's father did not go down the path of becoming a knight, like his grandfather, but chose the path of a pharmacist that his ancestors inherited from generation to generation.

If no one in the clan remained in the empire knights or in official positions, he would have had to return his aristocratic status, but the Harren family remained named for the last seat of the aristocracy, as Leno was admitted to the knighthood school by his grandfather, who spared it.

The mansion of Leno's home, the Harren family, such a foam nobleman, was the same ordinary private house as the civilian houses lining the city.

A variety of medicines are arranged in the table as shops.

Lino, who returned to his parents' house with a wedge, spoke to his mother, who was the store's number, as she jumped in through the store entrance.

"Mother, I'm home"

"Oh, Leno, are you home? Wedge, you're here too."

Wedge's house is also near here, and the two are childhood friendly.

We both have a history of being trained by Leno's grandfather to enter the knighthood school.

He came inside the store trying to give in to his big body, Wedge also bowed his head and greeted him with a peck.

"If you're both coming home now, I wish you could reward me with a letter."

"I didn't come home on vacation. Hey, what about your father?

I think he's in the work room.

Following her mother's words, a peek through the living room that followed from the store into the workplace behind the house revealed a father who was distilling somewhat in front of the fire.

"Father, I'm home"

"Welcome home, Lino. And you, Wedge, are taller again."

Leno's father, who stopped and stood up for the work, was surprised to see the wedge that went on to enter the work place after looking at his cheerful daughter's face narrowly.

"There's your grandfather upstairs, too. Show me your face."

"Yeah. I'll show my face later. I came to ask your father for this first because when your grandfather catches you, it's a long story."

With that said, Leno took some sachets out of the sachet he was getting for the wedge and a vial filled with some liquid.

"What is this?

"I came back today to give your father a look at what this drug or herb fried"

When you take out vials filled with lots of liquid from the bag, powdered herbs, and a variety of other powdery or solid objects, spread them over the table in the room.

The father, who saw those things spread out by Leno, had opened the lid and scratched the smell for a while when he first took the vial away with a careful hand, or ascertained the touch of the fried herb, but gradually he looked harsh.

"I have some idea... is this a Knights mission?

"Yeah. You know what I mean?

"I can't say for sure that I won't look into it, but none of it seems like a regular drug. If we should find out what works, it's gonna take some time, okay?

"Yeah. Please. As soon as possible."

"Tell your mother to leave the rice behind because I'll be caged in the work room for a while. Then, this room is off-limits for a while.

Thank you. There seems to be a mixture of prohibited medicine-like products. These medicines are difficult to handle. Tell your mother and grandfather, too. "

"Okay."

Lino nodded.

My father as a pharmacist is top notch.

Without a desire, even the Empire would be skilled at getting into five fingers.

I have opened a shop in Shirai because I hate my official position, but so many times I have received requests from the Imperial Palace to a pharmacist with court.

I've never seen that father look so harsh before with his daughter Leno.

When Leno and Wedge were taken out of the work room and dropped off his father's back as he returned to the room, Leno returned to his mother to encourage Wedge to convey his father's words.

And at a later date, the results of the investigation were delivered from Leno's father.

It was noted that the drugs were all theatrical drugs and that certain formulations made and taken might have the effect of showing a strong reaction with magic.

Its potency was the effect of suppressing magic by allowing it to be taken.