"... Sylvia-sama"

"Because you can't escape."

Sylvia shakes her unreliable shoulder and says in a voice that still makes her cry.

"Since I was little, I was angry that I couldn't do it well.... I always thought that if I failed something, I would be easily killed."

"Sylvia..."

Leechee remembers what she was told.

At a young age, he told me that when he caught a cold or was injured, he was attacked by the fear of being left behind. Maybe it wasn't about the troupe, it was about the intelligence organization.

"I can't be with Mr. Gootheil."

(Sylvia...)

Sylvia leaned down and muttered in a sad voice.

Leechee remembered the words Sylvia uttered in tears.

I know best myself. I'm not close enough to be a knight, so it's only natural that I shouldn't be tied. "

"I can't recognize myself beside him any more than anyone else...!"

Leeche's left chest hurts a lot.

However, the person who had been silent until now opened his mouth.

"--No need to be pessimistic, Princess."



It was Raul, dressed as a knight, who said with a smile.

Sylvia looked up at Raul, who was standing there at the edge of the wall.

“Humans who actually move in intelligence activities are a commodity for organizations. No matter how good an agent you are, you will never reveal the face or the" identity "of that face to others."

"Ah, um...?"

Raul spins his words.

That's what Leeche and Arnold talked about beforehand on that wall.

"Sylvia knows that only the very end of the organization that hired Sylvia is an agent. That is natural in order to maintain the quality of intelligence. If it is known that the singing princess who is active in various countries in the world is an intelligence agent who is close to the bureaucracy, we will never be able to expect such activity again.”

"Oh... that might be the case." What the hell are you...? "

Without answering Sylvia's question, Raul grinned.

After that, I turned to Arnold and told him that I would take a form that would allow him to make a statement.

"Well, Your Highness Arnold, as I reported, it was some kind of mercenary organization that used Lord Sylvia."

Raul smiled in his mouth and spun words like the first thing he reported.

“It's not an organization that serves a particular Lord, it's an organization that travels around the world and follows employers who pay the highest rewards. By their very nature, these people tend to hide their distant agents in relatively small numbers.”

"Knight, that means that no matter how prominent the faces of the 'Front' are, there are not many people who know that the 'Back' is intelligence, right?"

Raul nodded as Leeche reminded him.

Arnold didn't make much of Raul's opponent, he said pale.

"In" "disposing" of the ends, the organization will throw in all the hands it can hold.... if we crush them all, no one will know the face of the agent. "

I mean, Sylvia.

Leechee briefly summarizes what Arnold and Raul were telling her.

“People who want to kill Sylvia....... if you catch all of them, you'll be able to live without risk to your life."

……

Sylvia caught a glimpse of Leechee.

"... what's that supposed to mean..."

"As the knight said, the" front face "of the agent in the intelligence organization is a serious secret." Only the people in the organization who hired you know that Sylvia is an agent. ”

Raul has extensive knowledge of other intelligence organizations. Raul's conclusions would be trustworthy.

"Finds that the organization you were using is more or less a mercenary-like group. In other words, it is completed only within the organization, and it does not disclose any secrets to the outside world. Doesn't Sylvia have any idea about the nature of this?"

"That's right, but..."

"The organization should come to seal your mouth with all its face.... everyone in the organization is willing to kill you."

I've done a trick to make it unavoidable. Because this situation, which would be frightening for Sylvia, would be an opportunity to change her mind.

"That's why, Master Gootheil... you don't have to protect Sylvia on your own."

"Leechee-sama...?"

Your Highness Arnold promised to cooperate.

Leechee straightens her spine and tells her straight.

"- We will now begin planning to protect Sylvia and make her happy in the future."

"What...!?"

Leechee stood up from her chair and grabbed a piece of paper she had secretly prepared and spread it out in the middle of a large round table.

“The broad outline of what I want to do is simple.”

What is depicted here is an outline of a plan that I worked out with Arnold and Raul in the evening.

"In the future, we cannot continue to protect Sylvia from the future or escape from the organization." If so, it's best to wipe out the enemy and eliminate the danger. ”

"But, Leechee-sama! Even though it's a total exhaustion, it's not that easy to talk about..."

“Of course, this is a plan that will come about with Sylvia's cooperation. And for the troupe."

Leechee said that and pointed to the sentence written in the center of the paper.

"After all, this plan is called the" "Kaori Plan" ""

And look to Sylvia.

"The singing princess on stage and the armed intelligence unit aiming at it. ― ― Because it's the first big catcher to be formed because of its composition.

……