The Ball of the Scarlet Rose is also a social gathering with the royalty and powerful aristocrats of neighboring countries.
Under a silver crystal chandelier or next to a vase decorated with colorful flowers.
Everywhere you look, noblemen are chatting in a friendly manner.
While observing who is talking to whom, and in what order they are going to greet each other.
There seems to be such tactics, but it's a world I don't really understand.
But there are things even I can understand.
That is, the decorated floor of the royal palace is incredibly beautiful.
Candleholders with golden goddesses and bright burgundy carpets.
Stewards lined up in long lines to deliver the food and glasses of wine, while the royal orchestra played a beautiful tune in the corner of the second floor.
I would like to introduce to you all our guest of honor, the Princess. Princess Ciel of the Republic of Brandar. Princess Daenerys from the Kingdom of Clareth. Princess Denalis of the Kingdom of Neuzela--
The princess really is in attendance, too.
As I hear her voice read out loud, I realize once again that I've come to an extraordinary place.
In the back of the throne room overlooking the floor, the members of the Ardenfeld royal family are chatting with each other. ......
'His Royal Highness Prince Michael. Over here.
His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales walks by at the nudging of the attendants.
The people around him bowed at once.
I bowed a little later, too, in a hurry.
His Highness the Prince walks right by me.
What is this space .......
I was stunned by the scene that was so unrealistic.
I'm just a commoner who grew up in the country, but I'm not sure if it's right for me to be in a place like this .......
I shouldn't have said that.
I'm at work now.
I've got to be on the job now, and Captain Gawain is counting on me to do a good job of guarding him.
I'm going to have to look around to see if there are any suspicious people.
But if you are suspicious, all of them look suspicious or not: ......
It's not easy. Here.
Standing next to Luke, I say to him
I'll do it. I don't expect that from Noel.
Say something like that.
I was so angered that I decided to definitely find someone suspicious before Luke.
You can't lose to Luke in his work as a palace magician.
If I can find and catch the bad guy that I've blended in here
"That's great Noel! How quickly you get results. You're the best and most dependable subordinate I've ever had! That's 200 million times better than Luke's!
Captain Gawain raved about me and
"That's great, Noel. It's a good job. You're the best in the third squad, Noel. Luke? He's great, but I think Mr. Noel is five billion times better.
Leticia and the senior members of the squad were also very friendly to me.
"Yes, no, it's a total loss. ...... I'm a competitor? No, no, no, no, not at all. You're 900 billion times better than me, and I can't believe I'm competing with you, the best of the best.
Luke admits defeat to me and hangs his head.
Then I am the champion of the world, and I shake my wine glass in a demon king-like way as all the world kneels down and sings an anthem in my honor.
'You're being weird and delusional again,'
To Luke, who says with a look of dismay
"Well, well, well, Luke is my best friend, so I'm going to give you half the world as a special treat. You can thank me.
When I said
"Yes, yes,
I was astonished by the response.
Oh dear, you don't seem to be aware of the progress of my world domination plan, Luke.
Well, let's find the bad guy for starters, shall we?
Thirty minutes later, I was wobbling around with a dizzy, exhausted head.
I don't know. ......
I have no idea who's fishy and who's not .......
I'll do something I'm not used to doing.
Luke sighs.
Suddenly one of the seniors comes up to him and says something in Luke's ear.
'Okay. Let's go, Noel.
Nudged out of the floor and then said to Luke in a whisper, "What was that?
'What was that?'
The change of placement. When the ball starts, we have to dance. So,
"Oh, I see.
They say that others will follow up with you to the extent that you will not be able to monitor your surroundings.
"You can get some rest.
"Oh, well, maybe I should go to the bathroom.
You are shown around and go to the restroom away from the floor.
'Why is the lavatory so far away?'
If it's not in a place where no one will use it, it can get raggedy in the act.
"Au ......
It was too much to say, and I couldn't argue with anything.
After struggling to handle an unfamiliar long dress, I was checking in front of the mirror to see if there was anything wrong, when a nostalgic smell suddenly hit my nose.
A strong citrus scent.
Bergamot?
No, it's not.
This smell is the scent of a potion made of bergamot.
The potion is a transformation potion made from a mixture of bicorn horn powder, witchweed, mandragora root, magic stone and bergamot berries.
I knew a lot about this potion.
When I was a student, I wanted to look like a grown-up sister, so I researched this potion a lot.
I'm too embarrassed to say it out loud.
It's nostalgic.
But how in the world can the smell of this transformation drug be found here--
Gasp.
I rush to the back of the room.
A strong, choking smell.
There's no doubt about it.
Someone has used a transformation potion here.
"Luke, come here.
"What? No, I'm a guy.
There are signs that the transformation drug was used.
Luke nodded seriously and went inside to inspect the private room where the potions seemed to have been used.
'It hasn't been that long, has it?
"I agree. The question is, though, what did you transform into?
"Perhaps someone in the hall.
Luke looks around the bathroom and activates his magic in front of the locked storage room.
《Discharge (Lightning).
Flashes of light that burn the vision.
The lock on the shed pops off.
"Hey, Luke!
"It's ruined if it's wriggled by a transformed opponent. There's a good chance they're stuck somewhere close by.
The door of the storeroom opens.
The one who rolled out from inside and collapsed was an old butler with a white beard.
Thank God, he's breathing.
It's like he's just asleep.
'You are one of the most trusted veteran butlers in the palace,'
"But why to the butler?
...... because we can give out glasses of wine. You can put a slow-acting poison in it.
"You can assassinate the target more safely.
Eye contact.
No more words were needed.
"Intrinsic Time Acceleration (Spell Boost).
Kick the ground towards the venue.
Please.
Please, be in time--