"Sage Grecas, it is you two who are moving beyond the set point (...), including around the palace. One Individual Identification Pattern… matched Chuta."

There are two strange moves detected by the Sovereign Circle.

"Thank you, Meti. But the other one seems to have some sort of magic bond."

"Yeah, I thought you were probably a wizard."

If you're not a chuta, there are suspicious signs.

Are you a surgeon who is somewhat confident that you are acting alone, or are your people hiding? Either way, there seems to be some suspicious person plotting something suspicious.

Inside the palace, besides Ergonote and Southout and other dignitaries during the ceremony, are the chiefs and their squire who rule the local tribes of Israel. Further guards and officials serving in the Governor's Office surrounding it. Including even the Inclamed citizens, who make their daily living around the palace, that number rises to hundreds.

It is impossible to detect and check them all magically, so apply them to a "sieve".

That's where I pay attention to the people who started "unnatural movements" in the palace.

Hundreds of human movements are viewed as a single 'image' by the enemy kingdom (circle) and compared using an autonomous driving technique (appct) superimposed over time series in seconds. From the information obtained through these magic computations of the image processing system, individual travel distances and vector displacements are analyzed and narrowed down to only those who appear to be making obviously unnatural movements.

As a result, the tactical information display (tactics) showed two light points. It's a blue light point that seems to be a chuta and a yellow light point that makes particularly strange movements. Actually, there's another blue light point, but that's the Special Assistant monoredder, so I'm ruling it out.

The yellow light point "Unknown" repeatedly appears and disappears, stirring the magic waves of this enemy junction (circle).

The place starts here in the 'courtyard' on the north side of the palace. A place like a vestibule that goes about a hundred mertes down the hallway in the palace to the former royal settlement behind it. There's definitely a suspicious figure there, but there's no sign of a patrolling guard around. It would be because security is focused on the outside of the palace during the ceremony.

The blue light point indicating the chuta draws closer and closer to the mysterious' Unknown ', a place like the maintenance passage provided on the palace wall. Looking out the toilet window, it looks like a construction scaffold for exterior wall repair is being put together and communicated there for a courtyard.

"You got out of here......!

"Where the hell is Lord Chuta headed?

"Behind the palace, it looks like an area reserved for former royalty. Although Monoreder said it remained destroyed and is now only used for storage. I don't know what Chuta's up to."

Did you see the nostalgic 'home' you saw through the toilet window, as Lentomia put it, into abrupt action?

On the other hand, I think it's childish, and as for Chuta's behavior, which is calm and somewhere agreeable, I don't think it's natural.

"I've got a bad feeling about this."

"Isn't that the scope of what you were assuming (...)?

"No, I guess I'm starting to deviate a little from my assumptions"

Lentomia still looks like she can afford it, but I was starting to rush inside.

What the fairy Metius calls an assumption is a secondary (...) effect that can happen by bringing Chuta here.

Meaning, for example, that Governor Ergonaut will be working more for the job.

On the other hand, the special aide confirmed the conversation between Ergonote and former Prince Algort, making sure it was him, while obtaining various information about Israel at the time... that also made sense.

In the first place, it is not my discretion to bring Algoat, a former third prince, to the ceremony in Isravia.

The warmth of Her Royal Highness Princess Snoovel and the thoughts of the Secret Intelligence Unit of the Interior Ministry of the King's Government. In addition, there was an order from the Royal Army Chief of Operations, Philagalia (...).

- It's corner bait (feed). Let's do a broiling of central figures fanning the Israelite dissidents.

As far as I'm concerned, I didn't want to honestly follow the instructions to "burn the subject out of the feed with the presence of Algoat". Because I am not a member of the military, and I am a faction under the care of Her Royal Highness Princess Snoovel, the Ministry of the Interior.

But if we reduce the number of sparks lurking in Israel at all, it will be Ergonote's backup fire.

As a farewell, I also thought that if I could do something like expropriate,

But things seem to be starting to move out of that thought due to Chuta's own will, or the interference of a mysterious figure.

"Let's hurry up, guys"

Luroni and Lentomia walked faster in my voice. I'm in the middle of a ceremony now. If you rush out, you'll feel it's an anomaly and make an extra fuss.

It is also possible that the target's aim is to induce such agitation. If so, it could become a spark that will provoke noise ourselves. We should move carefully here.

Rendezvous with Special Assistant Monoreder on the way. He said that Chuta had gone out and was going right and left, but he told me that he was tracking with my magic and that there was a wizard lurking from here on out.

"Then I bring knights and wizards as reinforcements!

Monoreder said so and did not run, but hurried back to the path he had come even as fast as he could. It's to go get knights and wizards from the kingdom who are on alert in front of the front entrance.

"If we can't handle this alone, you can back it up."

"Phew......! Greg usually relies on others, too."

"Say what. I'm a part of the kingdom, too. You can't help working on your own."

"Sounds like it's not grey!

Lentomia moves her elf ear and laughs.

While striving towards the back and pretending to be calm, I notice that the hallways in the palace are decorated with many paintings by Tsukunei Kuneis.

There are still traces of what was once destroyed by the Demon King's Army invasion, but it has been fairly repaired and well cleaned. Thus healing wounds and faint, various paintings, such as the landscape painting of the oasis, the painting of the Rin Israelite soldier, and the abundance of food, are embellished with not so great a forehead.

From what I've seen, there are no paintings depicting Hemperoza, and it looks like one decorated in the large hall in the front shown earlier.

As I passed in front of the painting, I felt a slight fluctuation of magic, and I took a ha-ha-ha breath.

"This is... the ritual that makes up the magical kingdom. Magic!

"What's up, sage Grecas?"

"No, because the painting is magical. I was wondering if it might be the junction that's protecting the palace."

"It was that court painter, Tsukunei, wasn't it? You can think about it."

"Um, there's also his signature"

Is it a kind of junction using paintings arranged in the palace? The whole building may be covered with special junctions, but I'm not sure from inside the stone building.

With that said, from the painting of The Girl of Mercy and Peace, modeled after Hemperoza and Plum, the power felt was so overwhelming that it also seemed like a kind of magical power exerting a kind of holy power.

At the same time, I felt the magical fluctuations used in the painting, and I realized that it was something close to "ancient magic," which I once called "original magic (protomagina)".

- Are you saying that Tsukuney Kneith is using 'ancient magic'?

Once upon a time, during the Neo-Isravian unrest.

Manipulated by the treasures possessed by the Ghost Corps of the Millennium Empire (CYSAMPEDIA) and the Conference of Sage Design Management (ARCHITECT), The Hundred Mile Love Text, she has fought us with the magic of painting.

The magic was a modification of an event using a painting - that is, a terrible magic that reconstituted matter and twisted the event.

It turns out later that it was the result of the addition of treasure tool power to the magical power she had herself, but now that I think about it again with my current knowledge, it's a trait unlimited to 'ancient magic'.

But now I don't have time to pry any further.

While we were thinking about it, we went behind the Royal Palace.

Looking around, it's a desolate 'courtyard' of about twenty merte squares. The enclosed space of a stone palace building may have once been a beautiful garden.

"There! It's Lord Chuta!

I could see Chuta walking staring at a point. A boy in plain clothes could have come here without a guard finding him inside the palace, probably because he knew his way out.

"Chuta!"

"Lord Grey!

Me and Lu run out at about the same time. Ten merte. Is the red-haired boy walking ahead, blurry, manipulated by something?

and then.

"Sage Grecas, High Output Magic Reaction!

"Greg, it's dangerous!

Metius and Lentomia scream almost simultaneously.

"Ruh!"

I rolled out Sage's Boundary like a shield with a high output.

The moment I put it up louder to shelter Lu, the silver light hit me, Pan! splashed like mercury with the bursting sound of

"Nyah!"

"Damn!? Who...!

- Warning, melee magic battle. Enemy, detect battle junction development!

"Sage Grecas! We've surrounded the entire area with connections."

"None?

The tactical information display (tactics) has issued a warning. The whole 'courtyard' is covered with wall-like junctions that you can't see.

Sandy walls change to shaded gray, and the color of the sky changes to purple.

"Ho...? We tried to launch a celebratory fireworks (...) from the outside because of the strong bond at the hands of our treacherous (...) Ripper (...)... but it was quite a pleasure to have a small and large mouse hung."

Gong......! and when I wondered if a black vortex had blown up in the air, a disastrous face appeared. You look young, you look so old, you look creepy.

"Oh, that's horrible!

"Awkward, I'm not good at it..."

Screaming and hiding herself at the collar Metty, Lulu drooling her cat ears.

"Poor former prince (...) and... who is our enemy, the wise Grecas. This is exactly what happened when the duck was roasted."

The tone of my voice is calm and restrained, but I gradually feel anger and joyful emotions coming up on the table.

"Uh, yes, yes. I'd like you to introduce yourself. You're busy."

I shake off the cloak of a wise man and deliberately provoke him disrespectfully. I put my hands on my hips and let my shoulders shrug on my face above me.

"There's a young man who doesn't know courtesy......! (Washi) is... Zoldakszaian alone, presbyterian supreme intelligence... Guardolph Heideln Zach Reedburn"

"Leadburn......?

It is the most powerful (...) use of 'ancient magic' that fought and defeated at Demon King's Castle. It had the same surname as Zachfriegel Liedburn.

"It's an auspicious day to thank the man who killed my son."

A creepy face over the sky distorts into nibbly and madly delightful.

"Oh! What a father you were, this is rude"

"Don't call me Father, you crazy bastard! The purpose of disrupting Israel again is not to change......! First of all, sage Grecas, I'd like to thank you for tearing you apart here."

"Oh, boy, you've got a problem"

Continued