Currently, Rio is inside a royal castle hut.

Christina and Flora were quickly protected when discovered by the soldiers.

Then, somehow, in the meantime, only Rio was to be held captive and banged into a cell.

So Rio found out that Christina and Flora were princesses of this country.

Then three days had already passed.

Minimum sleep, meals, and all other time will be devoted to the investigation.

Since I got here, Rio's day was complete in this cabin.

More than three-fifths of the day is investigated due to physical sleep.

"Spit the information you know"

How many questions will it be on the third day?

I'm even disgusted with the words I'm tired of hearing.

"So it's like I said. I just happened to pass through the alley, and those kids... witnessed the kidnapping of Lady Christina and Lady Flora. And I helped it. That's all."

I almost said those kids made the investigator's face look worse.

When he guessed it and called it honorable, Rio told him the same statement in a fed up manner.

"Don't lie. Aren't you a spy?

A chain of questions of the same content follows.

"No, sir."

And, Rio denied it briefly.

"Hey, I admit it's true that you helped Christina and Flora. It's hard to believe."

In a strangely playful tone, the investigator man speaks.

"That's why I'm investigating him peacefully. But if we're going to get any more annoying, we need to change the means."

The prison environment, lengthy investigations, and the attitude of the investigators are becoming intimidating.

Rio even remembered a certain respect for the investigator, who said it would be convenient.

"Heh? What means exactly do you use?

Rio smiles with a slightly defiant eye.

Then the investigator grinned back at Rio's chest.

Keep up the momentum and slap Rio's face to the desk.

"Fuck."

Again, lifting Rio's head and slapping him right in the face against his desk, he bites into his mouth and Rio bleeds.

I'd at least like to strengthen my flesh and reduce the damage, but trying to manipulate magic doesn't work.

Somehow the hands on both hands inhibit the control of the body's magic.

"Isn't that unnatural? A child like you wins by dealing with four armed adults, albeit gruesome. And an orphan with no training whatsoever. It's weird if you hit me by accident."

I can't untie you, but the investigator man shook his neck to the side.

"It's like an impossible three-sentence play made by a civilian. You see what I'm saying?

When you point your gaze at Rio as if to stir up your parents' revenge, you pull up Rio's face with your hair grabbed,

Then he slapped his fist straight into Rio's abdomen.

"Kaha."

The man smiles contentedly when he sees a small groan coming out of Rio's mouth.

I'm sure he has a sadistic personality.

Rio distorted his face to the pain in his stomach.

"His Majesty the King is giving you the utmost consideration. Anyway, I helped His Royal Highness Princess Christina and Flora. Naturally."

Then what does this do?

While anger builds up in Rio.

"But you are also dangerous. The reason is just like I said, but suspicious. You're too suspicious. Some exercise of strength is also unavoidable in order to extract information. Do you understand?"

Grab your head and peek into Rio's face from close range.

Their gaze overlapped, but Rio grinned like a little fool.

"I don't know anything you don't know when you say that"

Rio responded instantly without any stray.

I can't answer anything else because it's true.

"Hmm. Can't you tell the criminals to understand His Majesty's will? Well, I'll ask you succinctly so you can understand."

That being said, as provoking, the investigator man strokes Rio's face perfectly.

"In short. I'm telling you to tell me what's behind this. Is he here? I wonder which nobleman he is."

To out-of-target reasoning, Rio sighed for the first time.

"That's why I'm telling you I don't know. Ask the executioner, dammit."

While Rio was talking, an investigator punched Rio in the face.

"All the executioners are dead. Killed. You're the only one who survives."

When I heard the words, Rio looked surprised.

For a moment, I wondered if the damage I attacked sounded.

But if there's magic to recover the injury, reconsider that you should be using it to interrogate him.

"He was murdered. Why?

"Know what? It's poison. They said the meal was poisoned. I'm glad your meal wasn't poisoned."

When questioned, such facts were told by the investigator's man.

"Eh."

To the words, Hilarious, and Rio felt his whole body get cold.

So easily poisoning the executioner that the mastermind behind this kidnapping has entered the interior of the Imperial Castle.

But how is it that I have not been killed?

That's because even if Rio were alive, it wouldn't hurt or itch for the masterminds.

I immediately thought so.

Because Rio and the mastermind are not involved in any way.

Even if Rio is investigated, I guess it doesn't matter to the masterminds.

So I dare avoid the risk of poisoning.

Then I can say that my life is safe for the first time.

However, in relation to the mastermind, there is a limitation that

If you do it badly, you could be killed by the state.

It is a country that treats the person who rescued the royalty in this way, even if there are charges.

If it stays this way, torture will likely escalate more and more.

That way it's not weird to be killed eventually.

(Shit. It really kills me if I stay like this......)

Rio's frustration increases with anxiety.

I really wish I hadn't helped Christina and Flora if this were the case.

That way you shouldn't have been tortured like this by now.

This is the result of acting flushed by emotion.

I was scattered then, but in the end, I thought that selfish people would gain.

"Well, how about that. Are you scared? Spit out the information and you won't be afraid to die, will you?

Rio laughed with his nose, saying something off-target with a good look.

The look on his nose seems to have hit him again.

"Whose instructions? It's my boss's view that even though there's no direct connection between you and those gorots, there was an indirect relationship via the mastermind."

Rio is sick and tired of it.

It is as if it would be inconvenient otherwise.

Rio thought that maybe even a power struggle within the court was involved.

If that's the case, it explains a lot.

That the transporter men were easily poisoned, that Rio was not poisoned, and that Rio's investigation is rigorously conducted to make him confess.

We will calmly analyse the current situation in the information given.

Perhaps there are people who gain and lose money in this kidnapping.

First, a gainful person set up this kidnapping and killed the executioners to destroy the evidence.

And a person who loses money is in a predicament (cuckoo) and trying to get the information to spit out of Rio.

Assuming the king is a mastermind, it is unlikely that there will be any because the king would be a ruthless person pawning his own daughter.

Therefore, a gainful man would probably be a leading nobleman other than a king.

It is also unlikely that the King will lose money because it is difficult to assume that the King has the motive to do this to the person who helped the royalty.

So perhaps the man who loses it is also a leading nobleman other than the king.

Then it follows that Rio is involved in a dispute between leading aristocrats.

(No kidding)

Rio had a mad grin on his heart.

The leading aristocrats who lose that money are powerful enough to force an investigation against Rio, and are hard enough to look into Rio.

Then, unless the person who loses that money thinks it's white about Rio, Rio is not going to be released.

It is difficult for Rio to dispel that suspicion.

Beyond being so suspicious and rigorously investigating so far, you should be able to try to get him to confess because lying is okay if you do poorly.

(If a leading nobleman who loses that money is being shattered in this case, it should be easier for me to lean towards a helpful scenario)

I had no choice but to call it there anymore.

"What was the man who sent you the instructions? Aren't you really the younger nobleman's younger brother? I got combat training there, didn't I?

Without getting tired of it, the investigator keeps interrogating Rio.

He was slapped to provoke petapetas and cheeks with a stick in his hand.

"... Pep"

Rio spit a bloody spit at the investigator.

I just wanted to clear up some of the depression I'm feeling right now.

My destiny will not change to the extent that I defied this man.

This man can't kill Rio unless he has an order.

"... you!

The prison door opened when a fierce man tried to yell at Rio.

A man rushes to correct his posture when he sees the person who emerged from the door.

"This, my Lord Deputy Commander of the Kingsguard Knight!

"Good. How's it going?

The man who showed up was named Alfred-Emar.

He is the second son of the Count Emar family and deputy head of the Kingsguard Knights tasked with protecting the royal family and the court.

Alfred glanced at Rio as he waved into the room and told the man so.

"Ha. We also exercised some strength, but we still never break our mouth. Attitude is defiant. Think of it as a combination of spiritual strength that you can't think of as a child."

Hearing the words, Alfred puts his own hands gently on his mouth and shows them how to think.

"So, what about... His Excellency the Knights of Kingsguard?

An investigator man asked in a tone that seemed to care about something.

"The captain says he's busy with this one. I came instead."

The words seemed to have a slightly frightening colour on Alfred's face.

Explaining the situation to the man, Alfred stares at Rio.

"Hmm. You saved the princesses, orphan."

…………

Alfred's harsh voice echoes in his chamber.

He is still young in his thirties, but the pressure to be unleashed is so intimidating that he is unlikely to be able to withstand the constant.

But Rio ignored the question from Alfred.

"The disrespectful!

Screaming, another Kingsguard knight, who was holding back next to Alfred, beat Rio up.

As he shifts his body and shocks as far as possible, Rio stares back at the knight with a cold gaze.

"Huh..."

The knight in sight accidentally took a half-step back, pushed by Rio's gaze.

"Fine, I don't know what else to say to a stray kid."

Alfred stares at Rio so that he sets the rules, and Rio stares straight back at Alfred as well.

"I see... na"

Staring at each other for about a few seconds, Alfred slowly shrugged, as if he had figured something out.

"Hmm, get that kid out to the training ground outside."

"I understand! Just like I was told. Move!"

When the ordered investigator pulled the chain stretching forcefully from the collar worn on Rio, he handed the chain over to another Kingsguard knight.

Rio doesn't particularly resist, but follows the man as he is pulled but left behind.

The barn is in the basement, but the training ground is outside the ground.

The exterior of the Royal Castle of the Kingdom of Beltram is not a narrow castle surrounded by rigid stone walls, but a highly artistic palace based on white stone.

However, robust walls surrounding vast sites have also been built to withstand incursions from external enemies, some of which are profitable.

The castle was littered with luxurious valuables, with columns lined equally at intervals in the wide corridors facing the outside where Rio was currently walking, and with vermilion carpets on the floor.

During the journey it was to be seen as a giro by the guards and servants of the court.

The knight in the guide travels with Sassa, so he doesn't have time to watch carefully.

(You're like a monkey spectacle. No, is it worse)

The sight of Rio is a weave of sympathy and contempt.

It was the same look that wealthy residents who walked through the city and rarely showed.

When his eyes met, the servant sassy missed his gaze.

"Here we are."

As it was, Rio was brought to the training ground.

Around us aristocrats and their knights serving the kingdom gather like wild horses, like a kind of spectacle.

So when he was given a mock sword, Rio was set to confront a single Kingsguard knight in the center of the training ground.

They were to be fought without knowing why, but I had no choice but to question them.

Now I decided to focus on the battle in front of me.

Fortunately, the clue that was inhibiting the movement of the magic was removed.

Worst of all, this will strengthen your physical abilities and allow you to escape with forced breakthroughs.

But it's not too late to try and escape.

Because that's the best way to make it easier.

A Kingsguard knight with a simulated sword and a metal light armor and shield has hit Rio with a gaze that looks down.

The distance between the two is approximately ten meters.

The Kingsguard knight never moves on the spot just telling him to call.

The opposing Rio also stares silently at the Kingsguard knight.

Rio, who doesn't even have a sword to put up with, but only some powerful men at the brink of sight felt that somewhere Rio was not just a child.

But the confronting Kingsguard didn't seem motivated by Rio.

When I tongued about Rio's condition, I decided to set it up from myself.

"Ha!"

Packing up the intermission at that rate, he fires a blow as hard as he can at Rio's torso.

What I have is a training mock sword.

But from the power of being caged, I wouldn't be sorry at the level that it hurts if you hit it.

Feeling a clear sense of hostility, Rio decided to avoid the Kingsguard knight's sword.

Avoid clams and attacks by slamming your body sideways by half a step.

Then a stunning colour appeared on the Kingsguard's face.

And those around them who watched it opened their eyes wide.

Reinforced with a minimum of magic, Rio instantly sticks a simulated sword to the Kingsguard's throat so as not to miss that gap.

The training ground quieted down.

"Ma, wait! I was just alarmed about that one! I'm serious next time!

The Kingsguard knight, aware of his own loss, objected as he panicked.

There was something wrong with that, the silence stops, and those who were in the training ground lose their laughter.

"..., ku, ha, ha! I didn't expect you to make excuses for losing to such a child. The quality of the Kingsguard knights has also fallen. Now we can say that this failure is unavoidable."

and said one of the nobles who was watching a mock fight in the corner of the training ground with a purposeful loud voice that could also be heard by those around him.

"Yeah, yeah! It's exactly what the Duke of Jugneau said. That's an excuse that the proud Knights of Kingsguard would make."

The aristocrats around the man stood up to agree with it.

A group of aristocrats in a remote position were listening to it with a look like they had chewed up a bitter bug.

Rio looks at the sight with no expression.

"The fool! Chill your head! I know you've been alarmed, but losing is losing. If you're an honorable Kingsguard knight, accept the loss honestly."

Put a drink in the Kingsguard knight where Alfred was confronted with Rio.

The Kingsguard knight bowed his head as he seemed to regret that he had calmed down after hearing the Deputy Commander's words on the boulder.

Alfred shifts his gaze towards Rio.

I look at Rio with some thoughtful expression, but I immediately opened my mouth.

"Hmm, brilliant. Boy, now you've proven to be strong enough to help Kristina and Flora out."

"Does that make any sense?

To Alfred's words, which were a little high-pressure, Rio asked without looking cowardly.

"Oh, I can get an immediate word of gratitude from His Majesty the King. It would be a great honor. You will also be sent back to me at that time. [M] A room will also be provided. We can get out of the house."

It was completely one-sided and pushy from the top.

I have no doubt, either, that the King is an absolute being and that everyone is a fearful subject.

That's the way it is.

Whatever I could get out of the barn, I didn't need the king's word.

"… it's an honor"

Alfred smiles slightly at Rio's reply, which is largely ungrateful.

Staring at Rio with a gaze that looked down as it was, he opened his mouth.

"Hmm, for now, we should go back to the room we've got for you today. Prepare a magician to take care of the wounds you received during the investigation."

"Thank you"

I was dissatisfied with the fact that it was a person belonging to the same organization that caused the injury in the first place, but at first I conveyed my gratitude.

Thus Rio was finally able to get out of the barn.

She was treated for an injury and when bathed, she was taken straight to her room.

It was a girl several years older than Rio who was there.

I would still be in early teens and such.

But the beauty of the girl boasted such a glow that a well-known artist could not produce even if he risked his life.

If judged in a nutshell, it is a complete beauty.

The girl opened her mouth taking an exquisite moment when she bowed deeply to Rio, who had come into the room.

"Nice to meet you. My name is Aria-Gavanes. I work for the Royal Castle as a female apprentice, but this time I was entrusted to take care of Master Rio. Best regards,"

And, on the enabler side, where there is no glimpse of any emotion, the girl said.

It was a beautiful voice without precipitation.

"Thank you for this, be polite to someone like me. My name is Rio."

With all due respect, Rio returned a polite greeting without looking like he cared much for the girl's beauty.

If the opponent is committed to being polite, it is Rio's stance to treat this one with politeness.

And vice versa.

It wasn't a way of thanking me according to the manners of this country, but there was a surprising color in Aria's eyes, although it was very slight, in Rio's response, which quite went into the hall.

It's something that we wouldn't know without the corresponding observation, but Rio realized it.

Apparently, even if it's faceless, it's not emotionless.

"I will serve on Lord Rio's side while I am in the royal castle. Orders you to do whatever you want."

But Aria was also quite something, and she never showed any more curiosity about Rio.

"Then just ask me one question. Can we get out of the royal castle immediately after receiving your word from His Majesty the King?

"I'm sorry. I don't know anything about that. The sight with His Majesty the King is tomorrow. I was wondering if you would tell me about Rio's treatment."

This means that such substantial house arrest could continue beyond tomorrow.

Rio felt disappointed in the response as expected.

But it's not worse than being put inside the house.

"I see. Thank you"

"No, because that's what I do. If you don't have any other questions, I'll bring your meal. What do you say?

"That's great. Thank you very much."

Not eating as busy food as a few days, Rio responded with a year-to-year smile.

(There's nothing I can do about it. Let's eat as many extravagant meals as we can instead of compensation)

While thinking strong in his mind, Rio gave thought to the court dishes that would be carried.