The Best Assassin, Incarnated into a Different World’s Aristocrat
Episode XXII: Assassins Go to the Princess
Killed a large number of noble marchers.
Much more enemies and magicians than I expected, and if I didn't do this, the castle could have fallen before Dia's assassination disguise ended.
I didn't kill all the bad guys. Some just came to the battlefield without being ordered to.
... My chest hurts about that. It's an emotion that wasn't in my previous life.
I had made up my mind when I took this request.
If you want to save Dia, you kill the people who try to take Dia away from me.
It's impossible to help Dia if you choose the means.
So I don't regret it.
Only after you save Dia can you make a confession.
Now I just do what I have to do.
"Glad you missed your worst predictions"
It was worse to have been attacked with so much force than expected, but I actually also assumed the worst.
He gathers information about brave men and artifacts on the information network of the Balor Chamber of Commerce.
In it, I grabbed the information on the man most likely to be a brave man and the artifact the man had.
Clan hounds, Demon Spear Gay Borg.
The man is in this country.
I wonder if he succeeded in his rebellion against aristocracy? and hypothesized, and there was little evidence to support it, but there was.
If that hypothesis existed, it was even possible that there were enemies so powerful that they thought they were brave men equipped with artifacts.
But that worst anticipation came off.
That's all I've ever done. If you were here, you would have definitely come out.
I just can't stay alert yet.
The fact that we couldn't drop Vicone with all this force could also make us come as reinforcements.
"It breaks bones from here, too."
The battlefield has become havoc and breaking into the mansion has become much easier, but it is still difficult to reach Dia.
Dia's assassination cannot be done in any way. I mean, even the minister doesn't know he's going to take Dia out in disguise as dead, except in part.
Vicone's defeat is inevitable, and many of the ministers are taken prisoner and subjected to interrogation and torture. When that happens, it is also a consideration that prevents secrets from falling apart.
Therefore, we have to sneak into the castle alone, where noble armies have been attacking for three days but no one could break into it. Without anyone noticing that either.
It won't be possible for a regular person.
Still, I can do it.
I'd say it's the assassin's show of command.
There is a word to erase the signs.
That's not that the signs are actually gone. The body is present there, breathing, smelling and releasing body temperature, even if it cannot make a sound and be discreet.
As long as people live, they keep releasing traces of existence.
Erasing the signs can be described as a technique that puts itself outside the perception of others.
To do this, we must have a wider perspective than anyone else.
Because if you don't know the perception of others, you can't put your body outside of it.
Use original magic for that purpose.
The wind fills the perimeter.
A flood of information carried by the wind ravages my brain. A regular person would have burned out his brain.... but I used to deal with breaking information on a daily basis, [super recovery] and [growth limit breakthrough] to improve brain performance. That's why I can stand this amount of information.
This magic sees unseen places by letting the wind flow and converting changes in wind flow into three-dimensional vision.
It even picks up the sound and checks the situation, listens to the breath and heart sounds, and reads all the human behaviors that are within range by feeling the heat.
If we can see this far, we can even predict the future.
Derive an intrusion path sewn outside all human consciousness.
... before I was reincarnated, I could do something similar without relying on witchcraft. It is easy to do this.
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I snuck into the mansion trying to sew up gaps in people's consciousness.
Go straight to Dia.
I know where Dia is.
I didn't just use foul stone bombing to change the war.
It means two more things.
That's a message for Dia.
Use the foul stone and you'll realize I'm here, then you'll be sure to get your face out the window.
As expected, at the same time as the third bombing, Dia rode herself out the window. I know the location of the room because I saw what it looked like.
Reach the room where Dia would be, unnoticed by anyone, hands on the door.
It's locked. Use metallic magic to open it.
Inside the room were Dia and a magnificent man.
"Lug! You're really here!
She jumps into her chest as Dia twitches her beautiful silver hair.
Somehow, at this time, I realized that I had overtaken Dia's height, and I was a little happy.
Probably happy with all this crap because my heart is growing up.
Hold Dia tight and make sure she's plush.
The smell and softness of Dia I love.
I'm glad she's okay.
I'm just pale. Towahade's eyes were discerning why.
She almost ran out of magic, half a step ahead of her magic deficiency.
I guess I was desperate to protect the ministers at all.
"I would have promised. I definitely rush when Dia wants me to rush. I thought Dia called me."
"... he remembered me. Such an old promise."
I snort.
There's no way I can forget my promise to Dia.
That's how a grown man saw us hugging each other, with a seemingly complicated face.
The personality was not flashy, but there was a style and sophisticated beauty peculiar to real nobility.
"I thought you were my daughter with not a single floating story, but I didn't know you were distracting me. This will be the first time we have met in person. My name is Diml Vicone. That's the kid's father."
"I'm Lug Towaharde. I'm here to respond to your request."
"I asked him to take my daughter away, but he's going to take her away in a different way in this way. If such a man came, he should speak belly broken as a father, but he doesn't seem to have time for that either.... I told the ministers to dump Vicone and run. He says Dia and I must not be left behind, not to mention the end of how he locks us up, perceiving us trying to surrender to the aristocracy"
Proudly, sadly, with all sorts of emotions, Count Vicone shrugs.
I guess it's also to let the minister get away that he wants Dia to take away.
If Dia dies, there's no need for them to stay in this land.
I can abandon this lost battle and escape to scatter.
In that case, there is also the possibility of being able to flee.
Not to mention, it's even easier to escape in this mayhem war situation.
"What is Count Vicone going to do?
"I don't care if it's just me.... made me want to fight a little. So, after being as rampaged and attracting enemies as you can burst into, and making it easier for others to escape, you disappear. I'm going to lay low for a while and get ready to drive out the traitors. To bring this country back to its true owners."
This man has magic, too.
And if you're also an Earl, you've been trained since you were a young man.
And the man my father calls a friend.
If you only think about surviving by yourself, you can do whatever you want.
"I grasped it. Count Vicone, I will light this room. The muscle is Dia's suicide. Just some corpses are small and don't even look like Dia."
"Though I thought I had a big bag on my back. Is it a body?"
Third meaning using foul stone.
That's the procurement of the burnt body. I recovered one body that was blown away by the blast. It is machined slightly to make it look like Dia.
"Yes, you can wear the ring Dia wears on this corpse and burn it to make a fine Dia corpse."
If you imitate it like this in a previous life, it can easily be removed from tooth shapes, etc., but don't worry about it here.
"I envy Kian, who has a great successor."
I take the oil out of the backpack.
Oil plenty around the bed.
"It's the last performance. Dia, get your face out the window and scream. Here's what the line says. 'It's hard for someone to get hurt any more for themselves. I will not belong to anyone'. Close the window when it's over. Then light a fire."
"Uhm, good performance. Whoever is in command on the front line has heard him disguise Dia's death.... how confusing it would be to let the ministers escape. And Dia, that's fine."
"Yes, Father"
All ministers will not be helped.
I just interrupted the fight and got away with it, and some of them will definitely get caught. Even if I ran away from it, I don't know if my life would go well after that.
But still, there is more hope than continuing a hopeless battle here.
Because we know that, Dia did not defy this proposal. She is ready.
The truth is, you want me to win this fight.
Only Dia knows it's possible if we just win this fight.
Anyway, if I can only use the magic I developed with Dia against the brave, I know that I can kill all the enemy troops in this room.
We did experiments on deserted islands, but... they were powerful enough for foul stones to look like toys.
Dia can't help but ask me to eradicate the aristocracy.
But I won't. There is no point in winning this battle.
I understand that the plan I presented is the best way for more people in Vicone territory to help.
"Lug, you're always ready."
With a strong will, Dia turns her back and hands on the window.
He opened the window and opened his mouth with determination.
Now I'm almost done with my job.
All you have to do is go back to Towaharde with Dia and me.
You just have to keep everything going.... the moment I thought about that, a mighty chill ran.
Increase your magic with all your might, pull Dia's shoulders and shelter her back.
This is not good.
Maybe the worst anticipation I'd initially had hit me.