The meeting place was surrounded by a vibrant atmosphere.

Una and the others were aware of the noise of the castle soldiers by the time they moved to the venue, but the reason was found when they reached the venue.

The Emperor, the Lord of the Empire, has not yet arrived at the venue.

The representatives of the nations are already in their seats, but only the seat of Emperor Caglias, who is supposed to be the presiding officer, remains vacant.

There can be no such thing as tardiness on the occasion of this Continental Conference, which determines the policies of each country.

If that's the host country, it's even worse.

"... what is this all about?

Orion groans anxiously.

"Phew... Did something happen to Lord Caglias..."

The pig answers as he fans the patties and fans.

Una opened her mouth with a stiff look.

"Ha, did you eat too much breakfast?

Shut up, sister.

Doss silently kills her sister and her thoughtful person with her gaze.

Sister to be Shun.

Kind of cute.

In the meantime, move to your respective seats.

Orion takes his seat and Una and Dos refrain behind it.

It was then.

"- Ladies and gentlemen, quietly! I pray silently!

Is it using the magic of speech expansion, a well-sounded voice wooden spirits in the venue?

It was the man sitting in the chairman's seat in the center who sent it out.

He must have been the prime minister of this country.

"We have a case in which we need to rush to the Emperor of our country, Lady Caglias. As a result, there has been a slight delay in progress. Regarding future dates - '

As far as explanations are concerned, it seems that this delay was unexpected even in the Empire, and that there are currently problems that the Emperor has to solve himself, so the meeting is delayed.

... very frigid.

In the first place, there can be no such thing as the top of the country itself, a project that should go on until it throws out representatives of each country.

You know very well that if you do poorly, you can create a gulf in diplomacy with countries.

reasons for making such an excuse, even though it is not.

That's easy.

Something happened to Caglias himself.

That, too, is quite something.

And I guess the prime minister and the castles haven't figured it out yet, either, to see from the surrounding conditions.

That's why I'm telling you I'm giving a stretch speech.

Shortly afterwards - the roar rang in the conference room.

"Become, what!?" "What happened!?" "There's an explosion coming from the outside!" "Kaaaaaaaaaaaa" "Oh, calm down! We're supposed to be okay here!" "What are the guards doing!

The knights are calm in their escorts, but the representatives of the nations panic as funny.

The explosion was coming from outside the venue.

That's just around the corner, too.

Possibly near the courtyard, Doss expected.

Doss acted fast.

"... Una sister, Orion, please"

"Okay."

"Ah, Doh, Mr. Doh!?

"...... eh"

Don't tell me. Doss jumps out the entrance to the conference hall and runs out in the right direction of the explosion.

Using all of the magic flow, sound vibration, and sensing ability, Doss aims to be the source of the explosion sound.

The place was still a courtyard.

Medieval European-style courtyard built inside Imperial Castle.

There is black smoke coming from some of it, and the trees that surround it are swept down.

"... um, is that...?

At the end of your gaze.

There were shadows there, although it was not clear that it was dispersed in earthly smoke.

A red based courtesy that is also a symbol of the Empire.

A tough face on short, cut black hair.

And - "Demon Sword Glam," a sword with the golden walking power to grip in your right hand.

Caglias Dir Hazan, the supreme power in this country. It was that person.

He bleeds from his forehead and his wounds are noticeable everywhere.

"... n"

One more.

Old man before him.

Doss looked familiar to that face.

An old man with horns on his grey-haired forehead.

When I returned to the dungeon, I was the adventurer Gizzie showed me.

A living legend of an empire that launched many legends.

The most famous adventurer in the Hazan Empire.

"Dragon Killer" Vared, master of "Crossing Borders" Beldee.

- "Silver Ghost" Lynn Soussey.

Adventurer of the Hazan Empire 'The Most Powerful'.

What Doss saw was how those two were killing each other.

A few minutes ago...

Caglias did not understand the current situation.

Why the hell do you think Lin Woo and I are killing each other?

When Lin Woo came into the room earlier, I thought he was here to confirm today's escort assignment.

But here's what Lin Woo said.

- He wants me dead.

Shortly afterwards, his weapon blurred Caglias' cheek.

And went into battle to keep flowing.

Breaking through the window and going straight outdoors.

Caglias screams as he sets up the Devil's Sword Glam.

"Lin Woo! Why are you pointing your weapon at me?

………

But Lin Woo doesn't answer.

But it was the answer in a way that was full of killings.

Put up a weapon like an octagonal stick in your hand and come towards Caglias.

- Quickly.

Its speed is such that even Caglias can be captured with critical naked eye.

"Chi, no."

Play the octagonal stick to be struck out with a sword and try to add a counter with a knife to return it.

But he immediately distances himself and the sword cuts off the universe.

Furthermore, Lin Woo waves the octagonal stick sideways.

Then, this time, the stick separated and struck Caglias as if it were a whip.

Countless sticks that strike from all directions.

Focus your leg magic and avoid this.

But at the moment of evasion, Lin Woo can be packed with time at once.

At that moment, there was a brutal grin on Lynn Woo's face.

"- Huh!?

"Sweet, Your Majesty! -" Permeable Strike "!!"

Rinwu's fist pierces Caglias' dovetail.

Awesome shock.

spit blood all the time and Caglias squatts on the spot.

"... why don't you be serious, Your Majesty?

Lin Woo looks down at Caglias with cold ghost-like eyes.

In contrast, the colour of perplexity floats in Caglias' eyes looking up at Rinwu.

"Seriously...... take it? There's no way I can get it out!

Says Caglias, spitting blood all over him.

"... Answer me, Lynn Wu. Why are you pointing your fist at me? If there's a good reason, then this is an agreement between the two sides, so let's rule this place out. If there's anything left to resent, let's hear it. I don't feel like pointing the blade at you without knowing why!

With a grand style, Caglias asks Lin Woo.

But Lin Woo laughs.

"Why…? Well, it wouldn't be sneaky to kill your Lord for no reason."

Twirling, I don't know what that means, but while turning the octagonal stick, Rinw answers.

Well, let's start with a message.

"Message......?

He said, "Well, I'm disappointed in you."

"... Huh?

What are you talking about? and Caglias thought.

I have committed as many failures as I want to be disappointed.

Well, the subject is mainly the Chancellor.

I've bothered Lin Woo and those around him... there's only one place to count, I should, maybe...

But Lin Woo's words that followed were unexpected for Caglias.

"I was hoping that you would judge that witch, but you wouldn't want that in this way."

"What the..."

Witch.

That's what comes to mind when they say it is one woman called The Witch of Reynolds.

That irresponsible woman who made Valerick and Beldee international nomination arrangements and pushed all the blame for it.

Leonaroid Reynolds.

At this Continental Conference, Caglias and Gerald, the guild chief of the magic city of Endumion, were going to let her lose her legs.

From the pursuit of responsibility in Operation Eldo Wilderness's massive crusade, it was a calculation to pull that witch off the prime minister's rank, raising the problems of subsequent processing, and even the current state of the country being left alone.

But that was harder than I expected.

Because something unexpected happened too much from the first day, I couldn't take the time to pursue her.

"'So let me do it our way from here on out,' that's why."

Lin Wu tells as he stares down at Caglias in cold blood.

"Complete... I mean, that's what she's offering..."

That woman.

Caglias recalls.

That mysterious dead man - Lias Aurora - who visited Caglias a few months before the Continental Conference began to announce the turn of Farbnil.

Was Lin Woo one of her people?

... No, you're not.

Caglias shakes his head.

I finally calmed down when I heard Lin Woo say it.

Apparently, the situation of years of friends betraying themselves made them lose more calm from themselves than they expected.

Absolutely, it's a serious lapse in the emperor.

"... Lin Woo, I want to ask you one question"

"What is it?

And Caglias tells.

"... who is your“ inside ”student?

"- Huh!?

Moments, intense heat lights up Caglias' eyes.

It's - it's anger.

The anger that my friend's flesh is being used by strangers.

With the passion Caglias waves up the Devil's Sword Glam.

But I am flattered.

Lin Wu stays distanced from Caglias.

Caglias asks.

"… now I have exchanged words with you and finally understand. Lin Woo, there's someone else in you."

That's right.

If you look calmly at Rinwu's flesh today, the quality of its magic is slightly different.

Signs of precipitated magic, like cloudy mercury, in the clear magic of silver.

of Caglias - the emperor of the Hazan Empire has “eyes” that discern the truth from generation to generation.

The moment I saw Lias, I saw him as a dead man, with absolute eyes that would not allow lies or falsehoods.

With those eyes, Caglias grasped Rinwu's current situation.

Above all...

"There's no way my other ally Lin Woo is turning his fist at me for no reason!!!

Caglias turns to Rinwu with a tremendous kill.

Keep approaching and waving the sword, but immediately Lin Wu takes a distance and flaunts this.

"... what? What are you talking about?

"Are you going to fall in love?

There was no stray in Caglias' eyes.

With certainty, he stares at Rinwu.

Then Lin Wu - No, “someone" looked like Lin Wu.

"'Pu...... hahaha! Hahahahahahaha!

It was not like an old man, it was more like a young man.

A slight laugh Lin Woo raised his face.

"'No - you didn't think it would be so easy to see through. Boulder, Emperor. You didn't have Dade's eyesight when you saw Senior Lias dead in one shot."

All in all, the language of a challenging young man far from earlier.

The trick, which plumps the hands of those who do not hold the stick and plumps their feet, is not Lin Woo's either. It's someone else's trick.

"You...... who?

With a faint grin on his mouth, he says, "He's in Lin Woo's body."

"'Nice to meet you, Emperor. I call myself a“ joker ”. With the life of Senior Lias, the Emperor's sword, the Devil's Sword Gram, has arrived."

"What...?

"'I'm sorry, but I don't have time to explain. Now, let the attack resume." "

Lynn Wu with the sound of a humming wind - no, the man named Joker packs his time.

"- Huh!? Chi!"

Fast.

I can't.

Countless split barbs pour down into Caglias like storms.

"Gu...... but ahhhhhhhh!

"'It's like a boulder to see me manipulate this body, but that's all I can do. I'm stronger than you.'"

Magic cages in Rinwu's gripping octagonal stick.

Then jump.

Run through walls and rooftops and accelerate further.

The incredible physical abilities and magical enhancements of the ghost tribe allowed for human detachment speed.

"'What do we do? You can't chase me with your eyes.'"

Strikes rolled out with words.

The blow, the blow, hits precisely the steep point of Caglias.

"'Indeed, the emperor's“ eyes ”are troublesome. Senior Lias gave me some advice, too. But... it doesn't make sense if you always move around super fast like this and turn to blind spots, does it? That's why I chose this human." "

Strikes rolled out one after the other.

I can't even get around using magic in time.

It is obstructed by rain-like attacks before the chant is over.

"Gu...... damn......!!

Caglias manages to absorb the attack, but desperately thinks.

(... Shit, I'll never get into the rest of the time...... abominable, but I do know how to fight Lin Woo...... good at the rest of the weaknesses......)

Caglias prefers a melee-specific way of fighting.

Arriving time of the sword.

In it, Caglias boasts an unparalleled strength.

In contrast, Lin Woo's specialty in combat is mid-range.

Attacks by octagonal bars and shelling by earthly magic, as well as multiple intrinsic techniques held by ghosts.

In fact, Caglias and Rinwu can almost be said to be one another in their overall combat abilities.

But the methods of warfare that we specialize in are different.

Proximity caglias and mid-range lynx.

That's why Lin Woo doesn't approach Caglias any closer than he needs to.

Be thorough in the midrange battle you are best at.

Now that Caglias has regained his sobriety, he will not have set up a "permeation”, as he did earlier.

Caglias is gradually caught up.

Short offense less than a minute in real time.

In the meantime, hundreds and thousands of attacks have been waged.

But the end of it comes abruptly.

Caglias was blown into the courtyard.

Among the run-down trees, Caglias stands up with blood paint.

"'No - boulders, the body of the empire's most powerful adventurer is different. Doesn't it feel good to be unobtrusive with the power of others? Hey, what do you do, Emperor? How do you feel now? How does it feel to be cornered by a friend of mine for years?

"... Looks like you want to piss off the rest for a while..."

With anger, massive killings overflow from Caglias.

The joker gets sloppy without thinking about killing him.

But he grinned at his mouth like he was getting back on track immediately.

"'... Ha ha, no - you sound scared. It's like a killer bin.... I'm scared, so I'll let it end here. For once, the line is tight, but it's time for it to become less effective." "

Joker can magic an octagonal stick.

Apparently, the other side can wear a keri with this blow.

Rinwu's attack is imminent on Caglias.

- I can't...

At that moment, Caglias was ready to die.

But...

Psst!!

And the dry noise sounded.

That's not the sound of Caglias being attacked.

More another, yes - sounds like someone prevented that attack instead.

There was a figure of a young man receiving an octagonal stick directed at Caglias.

"'... who are you?

Caglias stares blankly at the figure.

Then ask.

"Who are you...?

Youth do not answer.

Just one word, I said this.

"...... are you okay?

That was the look of Doss nestled in a faceless manner.