SSS-Class Suicide Hunter

5.

Just because you don't do something doesn't mean you can't do it.

“Summon the Blue Lion Knights. ”

As soon as I came out of Raviel's bedroom, I ordered the Duke's gazor.

The duc's widows were in a state of panic. Well, that's embarrassing. I have never interfered with the Duke of Ivania.

In the case of those servants who kissed at the bottom of the cold hallway for half a day because they had blood on their hands, their faces were crumpled.

“Ma'am, with all due respect, you can order the Knights...!" ”

“Did you think I wouldn't find it? By the way, there it is. ”

I pulled the family crest out of my arms.

“Raviel has given me power. My orders will soon be carried out in the name of Ivan. If you don't want to turn your job into a rebel, take this opportunity to do it quietly. ”

"......."

The acolytes bite their teeth and look at the family tree. If you keep staring at it, it's like the family tree's gonna turn into a fake one.

I laughed bloody.

“Why? If in doubt, run to Duc Gurinsey and ask him if he's telling the truth. I mean, of course, one more step of pride and already trampled pride, but it's a valuable experience. It will nourish your life. ”

“…… I will take orders……. Duchess.”

“Oh, thank you. ”

I took the family crest and shook hands. I gestured at the most infuriating angle of the human being, which means I was following a master pose. In what sense is the best example?

“Then I'll get to work. What are you doing? Do you eat family food with your butt? I thought Ivan was giving charity to the believers, but I didn't know he was giving free food to the absentees. My wife was too neglectful in her housework, wasn't she? ”

“... Knng! ”

“If you have time to make a big fuss, take your orders first. The knights are summoning. ”

“Knights, summon! ”

The servants scattered their horns, leaving a "Let's see."

Of course, I wasn't scared at all. They'll leave it to me when they're warm enough to expose him to poison.

It won't take long for them to realize that they didn't take me down, that I took them down.

“Sylvia evanile. ”

“Oh, yes. Go, Lord..."

I summoned Sylvia after the summoning.

The gasoles that followed me had already taken control of the Duke's Star Bow. Their sidekick waited in the hallway outside the bedroom, and Sylvia, formerly known as the Golden Ladle, was also included.

Sylvia glances at my face.

“I'm glad I feel better than before.... ”

By the way, from Sylvia's perspective, I've been back in the bedroom for an hour.

In fact, Raviel and I played for two weeks and days in a row. Time perceives each other differently.

“Well, what did it look like? ”

“Do you want an honest answer or a good answer...? ”

“Just answer honestly. ”

He said, "I thought he was going to push himself beyond the limits of the word 'crazy' by smiling on his lips with his eyes turned upside down. ”

I made a bitter smile.

The way Sylvia talks like that means that my mood has improved a lot. I think I look good enough to tell jokes.

“Sylvia, I need to ask you something. ”

“What?”

“You used to date the Crown Prince. Quite seriously, I'm afraid. And by the way, did the Crown Prince really love you? ”

"......."

Sylvia frowns.

“…… Wow. This is another unexpected question. ”

Even though my eyebrows were slightly frowned, my noble arrogance was twisted on my face. It was an eardrum for good and an eardrum for bad.

I don't think so. He's the Grand Chamberlain of our family now, but he was originally the one who divided the Imperial Society with Raviel.

“Love? Well. Did His Highness love me? If His Highness asks me if I've fallen in love with him, he'll say yes because I seduced him, of course. Hmm. ”

Sylvia taps her chin.

“… maybe, no. Well, it wasn't love that Lord told me. ”

“Why do you judge me so? ”

“The Prince has never looked for me since I was taken from him."

Sylvia was briefly factored in.

“Do you know what I talk about most when you and I are alone? ”

“I can't even imagine. ”

“Use your imagination. It's a backstory. It's a backstory. Whenever we gather together, silver lily love.... Ah, now it's time to call me Sir. Anyway, it's the talk of the Duke of Ivanca. ”

Sylvia sighs and shrugs.

“It's not just because we deliberately walked on a date course that is visible to students. Someone saw us jerking off, and they wanted us to run to Duke Ivanca and yell at him. ”

“To offend Raviel? ”

“Yep.”

“What a silly couple.... ”

“Oh, would you do that? You, uh... I'm sorry, but Gaju knows best, right? Duke Ivanca is a man who will not be swayed by what others do. ”

Sylvia narrows her eyes.

“Her only weakness was love. Love. His Highness couldn't shake the Duke of Ivan unless he was having an affair with me. That's all I knew. ”

"......."

“Studying, diplomacy, administration, compassion, advice. Maybe even swordsmanship. Born in the most noble imperial court in the empire, there was nothing better than the Duke of Ivanca. ”

“So you wanted to be intimate with him and feel like he was higher than Raviel? ”

“Yes."

“What rubbish. ”

“Never seen garbage before? ”

Sylvia pounces.

“There's a lot of them in the world, people like that. ”

A lot.

The problem is that even if there are many such people in the world, he is the emperor.

“…… I've left it alone as a warning so far to stay calm. I don't think so. ”

Sylvia looks up at me. I also looked at Sylvia and said,

“I'll get it down.”

Sylvia opens her eyes. But that was it. That was the extent of Sylvia's surprise.

Instead, Sylvia's words surprised me.

“Hmmm. I'll disagree with that... ”

“Why? A loyalty to an old lover? ”

“Loyalty is the sound of eating a turtle shell. No, it's just that it's much more convenient for His Majesty to succeed as Emperor. ”

“What are you talking about? ”

“He can't rule the empire so well after he becomes emperor. ”

Sylvia insisted.

“Ten years, at least. Five years in a row. In every corner of the empire, the sound of condemning the emperor's incompetence and ferocity will begin to erupt. The nobles and the people. So, that's when you take down the emperor from the Duke of Ivanca, that's when it's totally convenient, right? ”

"......."

“Well, now, of course, you can change if you want to change the Crown Prince. Easy. The empire is being passed over to Ivan anyway. The people still don't know what the Crown Prince is like. If King Ivanxia wants to become the Great Depression of the New Empire, from the moment he gains the support of the people.... …… what is it? Why are you looking at me like that? ”

“No. I'm a little surprised. You had a political head, too. ”

Sylvia looks like she's chewing the poop.

“Hey. If it weren't for Lord Gaju, I'd be a Prince and Empress, so I could have brought down the Duke of Ivanca...?" Yep? ”

Yeah, I was. Sylvia was also a regretter.

“That's appropriate advice, but the Grand Chamberlain is confused about something. ”

“A mistake?”

“Yes. I will bring down the Crown Prince, but I don't want Raviel to be the new Emperor." ”

“Eek? Why? ”

I answered boldly.

“Of course. If I were emperor, I'd keep Raviel busier than I am now." ”

"......."

Sylvia opens her lips.

“…… for real? Is that what this is about? ”

“Rather, I don't know what more reason I need than this. ”

“This is crazy again.... No, it's not. If it's the owner, then I'll stay. Dammit. Being with you makes me sick to the point of weighing the world down. ”

Sylvia scratched her back head, muttering, "That's probably why we can love each other."

“By the way, do you want to leave the current imperial court alone and take over the Crown Prince? Is that right?"

“I saw it right away. ”

“Hmmm…. I have to establish one of the two, or the three, or the first, or the fourth, or the second. Dammit. I'm the only one with a strong imperial influence, so I'm the Lord's counselor, right? ”

Sylvia grumbles.

“If you recommend me as a candidate, I'm the second pope. You don't have the power to think for yourself, but you don't have the power to fuck yourself like His Highness did. It's okay.”

“Does this man have the temperament of a nobleman, or will he become a nobleman if he becomes emperor? ”

Sylvia snorts.

“If there were, would His Highness have kept Bowie? ”

He was also the Grand Chamberlain who was beaten with facts.

6.

The next day, I ventured into the Imperial Palace with Raviel.

Even in the imperial palace, it was not a palace in the real capital. Sormwyn grew into the second capital, and a star palace was installed to suit its importance. The emperor was just stopping by.

"If it were a palace in the capital, you wouldn't be able to order poison to the acolytes. ”

Raviel said.

“But this place is different. Apart from His Majesty's attendants, the servants who were in charge of the Huddle usually brought the Crown Prince's men. It would have been easier to poison them. ”

Of course, it was comparable to everything.

The Crown Prince used all his connections and power to carry out the assassination operation. However, there were only two acolytes who were actually responsible for poisoning in the Starpalace.

When we didn't know he'd been attacked by the Crown Prince, we now know who was involved in the poisoning.

The last two weeks of fun. During a break close to full moon, Raviel and I were not just stuck in our bedroom enjoying the afterglow of retirement. Servants' families, family affairs, relationships with the Crown Prince. We have all the information we can find.

“P-please have mercy on my family...! Feel free to enslave them. I will cut down my body and throw it into the sea, but I will take it with me. Please. Please, just family..."

Eventually, we were able to get a simple acolyte confession.

The criminals' confessions were immediately reported to the Emperor. At first, the rebellious emperor had no choice but to moan after directly punishing the perpetrators.

“Foolish. Was the child so foolish...? ”

The emperor groaned.

Although he lacked it, he was the son who made him his successor. I can't help it. But I was ready to bring greater sorrow to the Emperor.

“Your Majesty, the foolishness of poisoning the duc is already alarming, but the foolishness you need to examine is even more devastating. ”

“…… What is it? Lord of the world.”

The emperor treated me as the monarch of the limbo system, not the Duchess of Ivanxia.

In the official statue, I strongly admire the emperor, but in a secure space like this, even the emperor has not shown dignity and face.

“She has now left the hunt with her side of the hunting party. Intelligence says the place isn't light enough for a hunt. ”

I tightened my head.

“He even has a barding on his horse. Isn't he overarmed to hunt beasts? ”

"......."

The emperor's cry subsides into darkness.

He only bites his own son. He was the clever monarch of Bondi. I would have calculated the hidden meaning in my words at once.

The emperor turned his head and ordered his Grand Chamberlain (the same old man who made me his adopted son).

“Go to the front and rear gates immediately to inspect the guards. ”

“Yes, Your Majesty. ”

Immediately, the old man checks the security at the Star Palace and returns.

“Your Majesty, there is nothing wrong with the front gate, but the men guarding the rear gate have left their seats, and not even half of their minions are in the garden. ”

“Ah.”

The emperor was pitiful for a long time.

“He is definitely.... Did you mean to do harm to Jim? ”

No one answered.

Raviel was silent at all times. Just being here was enough for Raviel.

Confessing the poison, giving a detailed confession, revealing the Crown Prince's intentions, etc. Words that were at risk of being interpreted as defiant to the emperor ( 24544;) came only through my mouth.

Even when I spoke to the Emperor, I spoke as a representative of this world, not as Ivan's wife. It was better not to get caught later.

“Your Grace, summon the Prince who has left the hunt here. ”

I urged him to take the last wedge.

“If the Prince is proud of himself, he will answer the Emperor's call. There's no reason to refuse the summons. But if the Crown Prince really was planning on doing all this, he would run away fearing that the plan might come to an end. ”

“... Good. I will.”

The emperor sent a messenger on my recommendation.

I feel like I'm suffocating.

After a long time, the messenger returns. The Imperial Grand Chamberlain whispered something to the messenger. The Grand Chamberlain opens his mouth as the messenger leaves the throne room.

“Your Majesty.”

“Is he coming...? ”

“I beg your pardon, but His Highness has turned his horse and left with his servants. ”

There was silence in the throne room.

In the meantime, the emperor seemed to be five years older. Despite the arrival of humans from other worlds, he was the emperor who ruled the empire as peacefully as possible, maintaining his calm, but his rebellion seemed to have severed his mind.

“Duke……."

The emperor summoned the Duke for the first time.

Raviel lowers his head slowly, as if he was waiting.

“Yes, Your Majesty. Tell me."

“What should I do with the duc...? ”

“The Sovereign will always be loyal to you. ”

I have no intention of rebelling against the Empire using this case as an excuse. That's what Raviel said.

The emperor shut his mouth again.

Silence flows.

“…… what I really can't do to you. ”

The voice from the mouth of the emperor was closer to the father of a child than a monarch ruling the empire.

“I knew right away that my son was lacking and foolish. I also knew you were a bright kid. Even if you do not have enough, you think you can save the country if you receive your help. Even that was a judgment blinded by denial. Even that.”

“…… Your Majesty. ”

“This story has been over since your eyes were sold to the baron's spirit, leaving you behind. How can you blame your son for being so stupid? My stupidity is greater. ”

“Since the days of our spirituality, His Majesty has always been attentive and kind. ”

“I'm sorry.”

The emperor closed his eyes.

“…… the Prince is no longer the Prince of the Empire. And not the son of Jim. ”

At this moment, the Crown Prince's fate was decided.

When you are born, you are born an prince, but not when you die.

“Let the Duke of Ivanxia take care of this. ”

That day, I led the Duke's knights after the Crown Prince.