Things are tough.

Father Gapon is temporarily on hold, but with the help of the Demon King, he will try to attack us.

Army soldiers will be here soon, too.

It's impossible to get out with the two wounded, and Lucy is underneath the stone.

As it is, I lose to the enemy, and Lucy, as well as Claire, can't help me.

If I get caught that way, I won't even be able to teach Philia magic.

But I couldn't possibly abandon Lucy in front of me.

I tried to use magic to get Lucy out of under the stone.

But before that, one figure approached with tremendous speed.

I thought it was an enemy attack, and I set myself up, but the target was an unexpected person.

She was a beautiful brown-haired woman with a fine sword.

"Hey, Solon, and Lucy."

The opponent was Leticia, former head of the Basileus Adventurers' Corps.

Now he has made it a Knights of Salvation executive and is also a participant in the Free Alliance.

Leticia, along with Lucy, had planned to overthrow the imperial government. So it's supposed to be me or Lucy's side.

Leticia is a war adventurer, and with her, it might be possible to rescue and escape Lucy.

But this was my hopeful observation.

When Leticia waved her fine sword, suddenly I couldn't move.

I didn't know what was going on, and I was stunned.

"What imitation, Mr. Leticia?

"I did magic to you. It's a powerful technique that constrains behavior."

"Why?"

"Even if I were here in this situation, I wouldn't be able to help Lucy. Now you alone should give priority to escape."

Shit.

Leticia must have come to help Lucy, too, but she decided to get out once she saw the situation.

"If you go back alive, you'll have a hand in helping Lucy again"

I felt my body move against my will.

I held Claire, and I was about to leave the place early.

It is manipulated by Leticia's magic.

When I managed to look back at Lucy, I told her, "I will definitely go and help you."

Lucy nodded as relieved.

In the next moment, the stone comes down and completely separates me from Lucy.

Against my will, I ran out to escape.

I thought Lucy was in a collapse, and I didn't care.

"There's a simple magic barrier around Lucy, so you can't let marble crush you to death."

Leticia says short.

"Besides, Lucy isn't going to be killed right away because she's going to be the king of demons"

That's right.

What Leticia says is true.

More than this, I need to think about getting out once and helping Lucy out again.

Guards appeared on the way, trying to stifle us, but in vain.

The opponents of the soldiers are the Commander of the Basileus Adventurers and the Deputy Commander of the Knights of St. Sophia. Objectively speaking, I think there are few soldiers or anything like that who can fight each other.

Nevertheless, with the number of soldiers, it is certain that it will no longer be an easy battle.

We reached near the entrance to the Army and Navy building, but there were twelve or three soldiers there.

"Capture the intruders!

The guards, along with an extremely mediocre hanging voice, attacked us.

As Leticia grinned and flashed the sword, the bloodshed rose and several soldiers were desperate.

I will wave my magic sword too, striking down the soldiers and defeating them.

Leticia doesn't seem hesitant to kill the Imperial soldiers, but I'm not.

They should just be faithful to their duties and have no sins whatsoever.

Army swordsmanship, for better or worse, follows the usual path.

Naturally because they train to fight in groups, but conversely, the sword muscle is easy to read.

The Duke's house, where my father was a butler, also had a military-going tutor.

I have been taught the sword by him to be a butler who can protect my husband.

So, to some extent, we know about swordsmanship in the military.

That's why I was able to anticipate the sword movements of the soldiers.

Two soldiers strike from the left and right, but I pull myself back.

They rushed to draw their swords as their aim went mad and they were about to slash each other as they were.

In response to them disfigured, I wielded my sword with one hand and knocked one down, while the other put a kick in his abdomen to smother him out.

Claire was also a fluttering foothold, but she had managed successfully to protect herself.

In an instant, me and Leticia cleared the soldiers and succeeded in clearing the way out.

Then he shook off his chaser and fled to the dim alley of the Imperial City.

"Well. Now you're a traitor."

Leticia tells me to be funny.

I realized my face would give me a bitter look.

Eventually, the Secret Police of the Emperor's Office Part III will be stepping into my mansion as well.

Though I don't think that any immediate harm would be done to the inhabitants of the mansion more than Philia is a princess......

"Anyway, you won't be able to go back to the mansion for a while. Come to our safe house."

I had no choice but to follow Leticia.

I also have to make allowance for Claire.

Eventually the shady alley ended.

Good afternoon, knocking on the brick building wall, the door appeared there.

I guess I was magically hiding it.

Leticia opened the door and I stepped into the Free Alliance safe house.

"Welcome back, Solon"

I had a beautiful clear voice.

That was the voice of a girl I knew very well.

"Phew, Dear Philia!?

Philia smiled at me as I moved.