Running Away From The Hero!

“Are you sure, Your Majesty? ”

Three days after Ast was dispatched to the Imperial delegation, Leah spoke to me with an uneasy expression.

“You don't trust the astronaut? ”

Leah knew what she was talking about.

Is it right to send Ast to the investigators? Out of a mental shock, she was the first to think about it.

“Yes.”

“Huh…? ”

And the answer came back immediately.

I lost my words for a moment because of the answer that was not like Leah.

“Asts are pretty good! Are you sure you can't get a body? ”

Preserving the body is the work of the wizard who accompanied it, and it is the work of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to show the body to the families after that.

All Ast has to do is simply move the body from the Peleros Kingdom to the Karean Empire.

Even an incompetent person could do something like this.

How could an AST, highly regarded within the Empire, not be able to do this?

Even if it were that curious, they wouldn't give me a noble title.

He was my deacon because he was different from the others, but giving him the title of nobility was a reasonable reward for his abilities.

I assure you, personally, I did not place him in the position of honorary nobleman, and since then, as baron. He just gave me that job as a reward for what he did.

Therefore, I was slightly angry.

“Leah, aren't you underestimating Ast? ”

His underestimation is like underestimating my view of him.

Leah, who had been with me the longest, and not anyone else, made such an assessment that it was a bit of a blow to me as well.

“Your Grace.”

But Leah looked me straight in the eye and said I was wrong.

“Sir Ast is the opponent. ”

“I know... huh? ”

I think I can understand what Leah is saying.

“You can't... Leah, you can't... think like that, can you? ”

No way. No way.

In common sense, no matter how astral.

“You don't think that's possible? ”

“Well, that's ……. ”

Unlike Leah's straight eyes, my eyes were shaking very roughly.

“Can you confirm that? Sir Ast won't go to another kingdom and cause trouble? ”

“I... can't. ”

Leah told me to admit defeat.

Leah had lived more than half her life together, but this was the first time I had been defeated by Leah by words.

“Yes, it was an asthma. I sent an astronaut! ”

It was as Leah said.

The opponent is an astronaut. No one else is the astronaut.

I, the Imperial Court and the Imperial Court, can't believe he's going to go to another country and do something like that.

Was Leah's lover shocked to death, too? Is that why he's making these bad decisions?

“It can't be undone, can it? ”

“Yes. Even if it was on the ground, it's time to arrive now. ”

One of the empire's proudest, well-organized roads has never been so grumpy.

What could Ast possibly have done? Heart starts beating.

“Still... no big deal, right? ”

“Lord Ast himself... must be restrained?" ”

Unlike the beginning of the horse, I was unable to answer Leah's words after the question mark.

And three days after that.

“Ah……. ”

“Lord Ast……. ”

Thanks to Ast, the Empire has also joined the war in the Central Region.

# 28 Their Reason: A Villain's Reason

“Is this it?”

“That's right.”

“Well done.”

I thank the soldiers of the kingdom of Peleros for escorting me on behalf of the other investigators I left behind.

“No, I'm not.”

I think I've been trained to back off a little bit, but I think I want to get out of here fast.

It's the mood, isn't it?

“We'll be going now. ”

I don't think you've read my thoughts, but the soldiers who brought me in disappeared quickly without hearing my answer.

“Will you go, then? ”

After the soldiers disappeared, this time, a gate character with glasses was waiting for me.

“Sure."

I feel something strange as I nod and follow behind him.

People in this country have heard bad rumors about me, why are they so weird?

I am close to you but only three steps away to guide you.

You avoid looking at it, and you stop trying to talk to me.

Like someone told me not to get as close as I could.

If you ignore it like this, you can't blame it on your feelings.

“No way…. ”

Is she the princess? Has she been spreading my evil tales all this way?

“Oh, that can't be right. ”

“Yes?”

I whispered to myself, but the gatekeeper in front of me must have heard me.

You look at me like you have a problem, but you don't look me in the eye.

Why do you keep looking at your body instead of my face? Is my body that coveted?

“No, I'm not.”

But this is a foreign country.

I don't have to deal with foreigners or anyone who avoids me. It doesn't matter what reputation you have here.

No, I'd rather give the Empire an empire full of complaints.

“This is it.”

“Are you here?”

Following behind the gateway that led me like that, I met a few widows who followed me to escort me.

“What happened to the body? ”

“I've been waiting for Sir Ast, the head of staff, to arrive. ”

Tsk! Mind where you're going.

I have to touch them first before I can sell their names when the horses come out, but unfortunately, the first time I checked the status of the bodies became me.

“Because of the procedure... …. ”

Nothing much to do, though. Nothing to do.

“I checked with a light heart, but why does this come up? ”

This is a trap. A trap of resonance, not a trap of the Empress!

That damned princess must have prepared a massive Mola to screw me over!

“This……. ”

“The symbol of the Kingdom of Mercia. ”

I tried to roughly identify the body of a man named Pukes, a diplomatic minister who had split his sword with Lord Leah, but his right hand was clenched so tight that it was too thin.

And I thought there might be something going on, but....

People are supposed to check for things like that, so they spread their fists.

“Why am I holding this...?" ”

On that fist was a small but distinct token engraved with the symbol of the Kingdom of Mercia.

“This can't be.... ”

“You're probably right, it doesn't seem like a trick. ”

Ugh.

I can grind my teeth by myself.

You little runts! I was confused from the beginning, but I can't believe you dropped your token!

“Most likely a trap. ”

“That's not magic, is it? Can you put stuff in a hard hand when you have postmortem spasm? ”

It was filled with a feeling that I had been holding in my hands since before I died.

“Any chance the assassins dropped it on purpose? ”

“Of course I do. ”

We use it all the time.

After they deliberately dropped the tokens elsewhere to fight each other, they hit their heads behind their backs. It's a great way for villains to use it.

But...

“Probably not. ”

“Is there a reason? ”

“Just a hunch. ”

“Th-that's it? ”

“Yes, Sense. ”

There are too many awkward places for this expert to do it.

My career as a member of a rogue organization seems to have been far too futile.

Of course, there will be many partners who can deceive me.

If this is a plan that they have devised and established, then it may be part of their plan to proceed in such a vain manner.

But did they know I was coming here?

Were you aware of my information from a rogue organization in another country, an employee of a rogue organization and a spy for the empire?

Definitely not

Our Howling, one of the largest organizations on the entire continent, could not have been so easily informed.

“Feelings, aren't they too inappropriate? ”

“It's pretty obvious if you throw a little bait. ”

“Bait...? ”

“Yes.”

If they're this lazy, they'll take even the most lazy bait.

“Let's check the level of the enemy. ”

“How? ”

I don't know how.

“Bring in every alcoholic among the investigators. ”

You have to taunt me.

# 29 What they are: What the tavern is all about

Boom!

“Ah! Damn it! ”

A bar in the Kingdom of Peleros.

A man slapped his desk roughly and shouted.

“This is so annoying! ”

“I don't want to work! ”

“I want to keep drinking! ”

It looked like a local prude shouting for more booze, but no one in the bar touched them.

“Oh, what's wrong with the taste of alcohol...? ”

“Liquor is good for Imperial liquor. ”

“Aigoo! It's usually polite to drink outside the country, you fools. ”

Their efforts to conceal their identity were imprinted with a silver dragon crest that symbolizes the Karan Empire.

“Empires, why are you drinking here? ”

“I heard roughly that people like representatives were invited to the royal family, but the ends weren't. ”

“So you come to this cheap tavern? With the Empire Army salary, it'll be pretty good.... ”

“You mean you don't want to spend money in a foreign country? ”

Even when the knights of the country came, the empire army came to the tavern, which was too shabby to notice, so of course I had to gather my eyes.

Some people are interested in empire soldiers who only listen to words personally, but even more so, they expect the drunken Imperium to tell a funny story.

Alcohol paralyzes human reason. There is no secret to a man who is mentally paralyzed.

What a drunken Imperial soldier would say!

As if answering everyone's expectations, one Imperial soldier uttered a profanity and shouted loudly.

“You bloody mercenaries! You sneak up on a diplomat and kill him! ”

The tavern was quiet for a moment. Bombs were fired from the start.

“Dammit! Goddamn mercenaries. Thanks to you, we are the only ones who suffer. ”

“Stupidly leaving evidence behind. How stupid are you? ”

“Is Mercia really a military empire? It's too lame to be an assassin. ”

Everyone doubted their ears.

They all know why the Imperial Army came to their kingdom.

The mass deaths of the Karean Imperial diplomats in the central country, and they had designated the perpetrator as the Kingdom of Mercia.

“Will you protest against the Kingdom of Mercia? If there's such perfect evidence, we can't rule it out. ”

“Yes, of course. I never thought the Kingdom of Mercia would make such a mistake. ”

“The evidence is too clear. Even the signs of the Kingdom of Mercia I stumbled upon are worse than that. ”

Khh!

A bottle of Empire Soldier's wine grows louder and louder as he curses at the Kingdom of Mercia.

On the contrary, there were fewer and fewer people in the tavern.

“Is this enough? ”

“Maybe.”

“Then let's just have a drink with peace of mind. ”

When all the people in the bar saw their seats up, the relieved sighs started pouring in real drinks.

Information has already begun to spread across the Kingdom of Peleros.