A cold room with a stripped stone.

A few minutes after Catherine started waiting, the man showed up.

"We have brought sinners"

On both sides of him with shackles fitted and kneeling on the ground, guards with spears refrain.

Don't let them get away with it or hurt Catherine.

Diaz is the name of a man with a prominent barren beard, wearing a dirty shirt.

A man who used to be a servant of the Count's family.

He was the one selling information inside the Count's house through Night Python, but everything was exposed when his wife, who had been held hostage by Night Python, escaped.

In a way, he could be considered a victim, but it was certain that he had been earning small sums selling information before his family was captured, which ended up sending him to prison.

Forced labor in mines was likely to be mentioned if it came to trial...... but there are no mines in Count Keeley's territory, only in the form of dispatches to other territories. Now that the country is in great turmoil, it is difficult to work with other territories, so it was suspended and kept in prison.

So even though it's irregular, it's even more irregular if the countess called it in.

Diaz seemed restless about what was going to start.

"Take it easy. This is just my personal journey."

"Ha..."

Katherine had no choice but to describe it as' dojo ', not knowing how to put it.

I had plenty of time. I can't help but be seen as the countess just stuck her neck in the case out of curiosity.

But this was important to Catherine, who deserved to risk her life.

"You said you were spotted betraying by Illis. I was wondering if I could hear a little more about that time."

"Hey, I'm sorry I'm in such a painful place to welcome your daughter."

Dwarf's Guild Branch Manager (Master), who deposits Eltarev's Adventurer Guild Branch, stacked a binder like an encyclopedia on his desk, saying so in a frightened manner.

The Adventurer Guild also gathers information to provide to the Adventurers.

A material room is set up for the size of the branch, containing demons and other information.

The information room at the Eltarev branch was just a small one with three bookshelves and one desk for viewing materials. The smell of old paper was full.

The Branch Manager (Master) brings two cups of tea on the basin. One only had tea in it up to about half of the cup, and the branch manager (master) poured almost enough liquor from the top.

"... is that no longer a tea break for alcohol?

"It's just tea. To Dwarf."

Catherine glanced at the smell of cheap liquor standing up as she received the cup of those without liquor.

"The monster material is not much compared to the Wang Du branch... I hope you have something to look for."

The thick finger of the branch manager (master) turns the page.

Catherine came here to find out about the demons.

"What I'm looking for is an undead who has the power to read minds."

Listening to Catherine, the Branch Manager (Master) lets his crushed eyes in a state buried in his mustache.

"Heart-reading undead... magic, once anyone can read their mind"

"Mr. Branch Manager (Master). I thought you heard that the magic of exploring the mind is quite offensive to the surgeon."

"... is that it? I'm sorry. I'm not a good fighter. I don't know much about magic."

Undead who have the power to possess people and read their minds.

Diaz was impressed with his acuteness and feared for Illis, who noticed his insider.

But.

That Illis, I'm sure, was Rene... for Catherine, who thinks so, one case of 'Illis noticed Diaz's insider' seemed in a completely different shade.

Even the Adventurer Guild only gives obscure information about 'Not Durahan Road or Rich Road', which could be a clue to who Rene is.

- It's not like magic... Undead reading minds with ability?

Katherine was trying to feed on the data in the file.

"There are quite a few undead people who can do this..."

"Oh. Possession is a spiritual system. Undead can do it more or less"

"Well, isn't there a Durahan who can spiritualize and hike?"

"Durahan......?

The figure of Rene that Catherine saw in the Wang capital was indeed Durahan.

He also appeared as Durahan when he was executed and undead.

So if you think about it normally, Rene may be fine with Durahan...

"Durahan is an undead with an entity, so I don't think you can do that.

Hmm, even an undead with an entity can be a vampire or something... that's not like a spiritual body... "

"So what about Durahan, who can be turned into a person?

"Turn into people?

The branch manager (master) twists his neck like a marutai.

"I turned you into a person, and you have to be a levnant who looked like a person from the beginning...

No, wait, that's what I saw before, the strange demon description... "

The branch manager (master) who opened one of the files pointed to the data about a monster as he turned the page roughly.

"'Doppelshadow'?

"'Doppelgenger' is a monster you've never heard of."

"I know. It's a monster that turns into a human race."

"Doppelgenger changes his body, but Doppelshadow changes the body of the person he possesses and changes his face and stature. When it was an undead created by the Demons as intelligence agents, it didn't seem to achieve much."

An undead that changes the body of the person you possess.

If there is such a thing, are there Durahans who change their bodies and pretend to be people?

"You feel a little different...

Let's see more spiritual systems, shall we? "

"That's what happens when a guy who uses possession sucks." Rage Spirit is a monster. "

Branch Manager (Master) opens another page again.

"It doesn't hold a lot of power on its own, but it takes a body of people and demons. It flips and manipulates and fights in possession. Come on. With the experience of battle, the Rage Spirit stands cunning around more than the original owner of the body, and brings out all the potential of the body to produce an idiotic power that neither hates self-destruction."

"That sounds like a nightmare to an adventurer. If they beat up and fought my people's bodies..."

"That's it. That's why the high undead of the spiritual system is terrifying."

Katherine was going to tremble just listening.

Adventurers live in such a terrible world.

Terrible story, though. Katherine flashed when she heard "Take a Body or Hike".

- Yes... yes! For example, if you have a Durahan or Rich body ready and can hitch it!?

I was just thinking about being possessed by people.

Wouldn't it be possible for the undead to use their bodies?

That way, it also explains that Rene was Durahan or Rich.

"You can make Durahan or Rich, right?

"Ah? Oh... evil magicians and demons make it"

Katherine first decided to put aside the story of her flesh and think only of the characteristics of possession and reading minds.

- Read the mind... the strongest possible spiritual system undead...

Turned the page, turned it, turned it, and Catherine's hand stopped.

"This is it!

Katherine's thin fingers point to the spelled data.

It possesses wicked intelligence and high magic, plus the power to possess and manipulate people and others.

feed on the negative feelings that people have, such as fear and despair.

The name of the demon is the strongest corner of the spiritual system undead.

"Avis Spirit......? What is the top species of Rage Spirit? Possession-specific, but magical."

"When it comes to eating 'fear' or 'despair' minds, isn't that the same thing your mind can read?

"I don't know. If you ask the scholars who were in the Wang Capital branch..."

The Branch Manager (Master) is not pinned.

I noticed it was empty trying to drink tea, and eventually I started drinking it by pouring the liquor mixed with the tea directly into the teacup earlier.

"Like the named ones, demons can mutate. I don't know if it's going to work very well, even if it's based on the characteristics. The undead are most often magically created by demons and evil magicians. It's possible that it adds unintended traits...

Even so, did the lady try to find out anything like this?

"... listening to demons like that, and the... if I knew how to defeat them"

Katherine felt like she was lying, and she felt like she was telling the truth.

I can't help but wonder about Rene, but how does that feel after all?

"How to knock it down. What does the" Weaknesses "column say?"

"Uh..."

The Alliance's data is not an academic demon atlas, it's only practical for adventurers.

There are features and abilities, the use of loot, and what to do when encountered.

For Avis Spirit......

"'Weaknesses: Sacred Chi'... and not everyone in the undead is!

"No weaknesses, really."

One word pompous in the space for three lines.

Monster-specific weaknesses and the like did not exist by saying this, which meant that they had to be defeated by a positive attack method.

"... you will be reminded of hard things. But why don't you tell me?

What happened in that place that day "

The sleeping girl Aretha, opposite Catherine, nodded quietly.

This is a temple umbrella treatment center in Eltarev. Quiet ward rest room.

The light slipping through the window creates a sunny clump and feels warm on the white wood walls. It's a place where everyone takes a breather.

Aretha was the daughter of the Knight of the Royal Palace.

On the day of the fall of the king's capital, he was one of those caught by the soldiers of the undead and dragged out to the battlefield.

To sum up the story of the survivors, the 'hostages' were divided into three groups.

First of all, those who were first taken to the battlefield. This looks like everyone's dead, except for Katherine, who was released on the way.

Next, those who were taken to the second place of battle. In front of them, the knights were ravaged. But all the girls who had been caught came back alive.

Finally, those who were captured but freed as they were. Probably just didn't show up because of the settlement in the second.

Aretha was second.

That battle also left deep claw marks in the survivors' hearts.

A child who got depressed and threw herself in the river. A child who has become unable to live a normal life because of fear of darkness. The girl who lost her emotions and stopped laughing...

Catherine was mentally safe, probably because she didn't see the sight of the killing in person, or where she was scared from along the way.

Although Alisa was captured by the army of the undead and released safely, her mental shock left her speechless.

But she slipped the pen on the paper placed on the table and spinned the words.

'It's okay. More than that, we can't afford to get paid for this.'

Alisa's father is dead.

Normally, the families of the Knights of the Royal Palace who died in battle are paid survivors' favors, but in the current state of the country's collapse, you can't possibly get one like that.

She needed money.

Catherine gave the information that, although the deal that Alisa could get paid for was reciprocal, it looked like she was holding her life hostage, and Catherine had a little backwardness.

By means of a written statement, Alisa tells of the events of the day of the fall of the King's capital.

Knights disintegrated in front of the 'hostages' second line.

Laughing "Princess Rose of Grievances".

And... the girls who were released without any injuries.

"Aretha, the" Princess Rose of Grief "you saw must be a swordsman with no neck in a white dress."

When Katherine heard it as a reminder, an astonishing color appeared in Alisa's eyes.

"Dress?"

"Are you not?

Catherine asked if it was Durahan.

But another part seems to have caught on to Alisa.

'It wasn't a dress. Smudge, mundane clothes. Apron. One Piece'

Now it was Catherine's turn to worry about information that never occurred to me.

- Why, did you change...?

There was no doubt Rene, whom Catherine saw, was in a pure white dress.

So how did you get dressed differently in the fight?

- Did they magically burn their clothes and change them because they're naked?

But can we afford to worry about that in the fight?

And can I afford to wear clothes?

Or it wasn't the clothes that changed...

- I knew you were switching bodies...?

I have also changed clothes because my body has changed.

It is not natural to think about it that way.

But I doubt it's such a convenient thing to build a body.

"Aretha. Rene... Was" Princess Rose in Grief "as old as you or me?

"Yes, it was about 10."

"Could it have been silver hair and silver eyes?

"Yes."

That's crazy.

Would it conveniently be the same silver-haired silver-eyed thing Rene finds a 10-year-old like that?

If you're going to make an undead body beforehand and switch, say it's okay for adults or men, or I think it will inevitably be...

- Could the body be anything?

Catherine remembered the story of Doppelshadow. Physical changes.

If Rene can turn a possessed opponent into a Durahan who looks the same as himself, the question can be cleared. I don't know if such an undead could exist... otherwise it would be unnatural.

And Catherine's skin popped.

Girls brought here. I thought that was a hostage, but maybe it wasn't.

What would the Branch Manager (Master) have said about the Rage Spirit and its superior species, the Avis Spirit?

When you deprive an adventurer of his body and let him fight his people. That, I mean, if applied...

- Replace the girls with undead......!?

No way, that was a 'weapon of exchange' to fight Lawrence!?

Too blasphemous. Catherine was stunned by her thoughts.

Is it that the knights were fought against the body of their own daughter?

It's the worst hypothesis. Instead, I'd like to think that Rene was just dressed, but would she be able to afford to deal with Lawrence as strong as the god of war and "change because her clothes are no longer working"?

Besides, if you think about it, René is a vengeful man. You should want to fight in a way that tramples the mind of your vengeful opponent into metaphor. 'It's useless because I'm not the son of a royal knight,' Rene said when she threw Catherine out. I thought you meant useless as a hostage, but even unrelated children should have a one-off effect if you just take them hostage, which means Rene was looking for...

And when Catherine noticed, Alisa was stiff with her pen in her grip.

My hands are trembling and the pen I gripped draws a whirlpool of gucha on the paper.

"I'm sorry, you let me tell you something hard.

... the doctor!

"Ha."

The nurse, who was holding back in the corner of the room, urged Alisa to leave.

Catherine also gets tired and stands up to kick the chair.

- I need to tell your father this story ASAP...!

A ruinous reflection on Rene......

It would be outrageous if this were in the middle.

- But I... what do you want to do with Rene?

Catherine was impulsively looking into Rene so she could be moved by some unseen great force.

But what do you want to do with Rene as a result?

Do you want to take them down? Do you want to save it? Or do you want another ending?

Catherine didn't get it. At this time, not yet.