episode_0056

“No way. The Inquisitor would not refuse an order from above.”

Because he was such a precious person, I was curious about the Inquisitor, even though my teacher was an Inquisitor.

There are a lot of ominous rumors out there, but how many people don’t wonder how many of them are true?

“Is it really right to give me such a precious assignment?”

“Didn’t you do something great by discovering the evil spirit altar this time? It seems like Arthur Priest’s activities won’t end with this one time.”

“I was lucky to find it.”

“It was also great to collect the evil spirit altar. It must have been thanks to not neglecting learning when I was young. It was very admirable.”

Bishop Haman seemed to not see me, who was crushed by the burden.

It was true that we would benefit greatly from having the Inquisitor join our group, so we could not refuse the Bishop’s offer because it was burdensome.

“… I will relay this message to the princess and ask for her opinion.”

“There’s no need to worry about the part you’re worried about. Since he’s a friend who just came out, he won’t be swayed by any temptations.”

It’s a familiar story.

That’s why it’s more burdensome.

That means that such a great inquisitor is only working to protect me.

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After parting ways with Bishop Haman, we stopped at one more place before returning to the temple.

It was the house where Princess Rasiel stayed.

It was a place unknown to anyone.

Because there was an unknown force targeting the princesses, it was necessary to hide their whereabouts as much as possible.

It was also unsettling that those who had been so actively trying to kill the princess were now completely silent.

“Are you here, priest?”

The knight escorting Princess Rasiel saw my face and welcomed me.

Princess Rasiel, who was scolded a lot by Princess Kanabi for wandering around alone in the beginning, was currently under the protection of the knights who had been escorting Princess Kanabi.

That is, it means that we are acquainted.

“I came to see the princess.”

“Please come inside.”

I went into the door that the knight opened.

I thought it was just an ordinary house, but perhaps because it was where the princess lived, the interior was extraordinary.

‘How much is all this?’

Even to me, who is blind when it comes to high-end furniture, these pieces of furniture looked expensive.

And after standing and waiting for a while, Princess Rasiel appeared in light clothing.

“Arthur Priest!”

Princess Rasiel ran over and started asking questions.

“How is your sister? Does she look okay?”

“Yes. There was no problem. The medicine worked very well. If you don’t move for a long time, it’s normal for your muscles to lose weight, but that didn’t happen at all.”

“It’s a potion that has been passed down through generations in our royal family. Of course, it should have that level of effect.”

Princess Rasiel raises her chin and shows off her pride in the royal family.

It seems like he doesn’t know that it just blends in with his appearance and makes him look infinitely cute.

“How is the next labyrinth exploration going?”

“Ha… That part… .”

Princess Rasiel sighed deeply, as if she had a headache.

“Things are more complicated than I thought.”

“Can you elaborate?”

There were more than one or two reasons why Princess Rasiel was in trouble.

“It’s not easy to save people. And those guys moved.”

“Are you talking about those who were after the princesses’ lives?”

“Yeah. My sister suddenly lost contact and pressured me. She said that I should take responsibility for not leading the punitive force properly even though she knew my sister was sick. I said I would do it in my sister’s place, but she refused because I was young. And soon, that guy will be the leader of the punitive force. In my sister’s place.”

That guy would be the one responsible for all this.

“Who on earth is harassing the princesses?”

“You know it so well, but you insist on confirming it with my own mouth. He is my brother and my sister’s younger brother, but he is also inferior to others who were born from another womb and are only half related by blood.”

If we look at the royal family tree of the Deltrak Empire, there is first one princess above Princess Kanabi.

However, I heard that the first daughter was not treated so well because she was born from a palace maid’s womb and not the empress’s child.

‘Why did you say that she was the Empress’s childhood friend?’

It is said that she is also the daughter of the Empress’s wet nurse.

They say he treated her very well when he was growing up with the Empress, so how bad must it have been for him to get hit in the back of the head?

Princess Kanabi is the first daughter of the Empress and the second princess of the Empire.

And below him was the first son born to a concubine, and the empress gave birth to a second child, a daughter, and soon after died of an illness.

“The first son born from a concubine. He is hell-bent on killing us.”

Although she is a concubine, she is said to come from a fairly wealthy family.

However, the emperor did not make her empress.

“His Majesty chose a new empress instead of making her the empress. And the son born to that new empress is six years old this year.”

In my opinion, it would have been normal for a concubine’s son to try to kill the new empress’s six-year-old son, but there was no reason for him to try to kill the princesses.

“Why is he threatening the princesses?”

“Because my older sister is great. His Majesty likes people with outstanding abilities. And my older sister has been great since long ago, so His Majesty has favored her.”

This meant that Princess Kanabi, who still had legitimacy despite the death of the empress, had a higher right to the throne than the six-year-old son born to the new empress.

“Besides, it is too dangerous to touch the new empress now. The new empress has not lost His Majesty’s love yet. Of course, if we are eliminated, the new empress will be next. By then, his love will have moved away from the new empress.”

Princess Rasiel seemed to already know that love was not eternal.

“Then, will you lead the punitive force in place of Princess Canabi?”

“Yeah.”

“… You’re definitely in trouble.”

“It’s also a shame that the punitive force support fund that I used to receive as my sister’s share has been cut off. It was quite a lot, you know.”

In the meantime, Princess Rasiel is said to have formed a punitive force using the money she had and the support from the palace that Princess Kanabi was receiving.

However, since the prince took it in the middle, it was something that Princess Rasiel, who had been excited about collecting money that had no owner, might have felt regretful about.

“Don’t worry, just because you don’t receive the grant doesn’t mean you don’t have money.”

Of course not.

‘How could anyone, let alone someone else, think that the royal family has no money?’

The biggest problem now was how to prevent the prince from interfering with our work.

He had his subordinates constantly interfere with him, so how bad would it be if he came here himself?

“What kind of person is the prince?”

“A stupid, greedy, idiot pig.”

“… Princess?”

As soon as the question of what kind of person the prince was came up, a violent curse came out of Princess Rasiel’s mouth.

It’s natural for someone to curse at you to that extent, since you’re a life-threatening person.

Even though he knew that, he couldn’t help but feel flustered because he wasn’t used to Princess Rasiel swearing.

“Greedy, greedy, petty, mean, lazy, unlucky, and sentimental!!”

Growl-!

Princess Rasiel growls as if she were an animal.

“It would be better if that kind of person disappeared from the world.”

It’s the same on that side, but this side also has a deep-rooted grudge.

Even though they were only half blood related, it was heartbreaking to see family members unable to kill each other.

‘What is power…?’

Indeed, even priests who follow God’s will and study fight among themselves because of power, so how much more so must civilians be.

I closed my eyes for a moment and prayed, realizing the truth of the world.

“What makes me even more angry is that there was an order not to enter the labyrinth until that guy came! That guy must have been doing something.”

It has also become difficult to save people.

Because everyone wants to enter the labyrinth, those with some skill have already been put into separate teams.

To make matters worse, I was unable to enter the labyrinth.

“It’s only been a month since my sister fell asleep… .”

When the prince arrives, there will be many attempts to find out where Princess Kanabi is hiding.

If the prince leads the punitive force and achieves great feats while Princess Kanabi is asleep, he may lose the Emperor’s favor.

You can’t help but feel resentful that he disappeared without giving any details, citing illness as an excuse.

‘Now that the medicine has been taken out, will the Emperor know the situation?’

But seeing him pretend not to know that his own son was trying to kill the princess while fighting for the throne, he didn’t seem like a very affectionate father.

“I’m sure they’ll approach you too. It’ll be hard, but I hope you’ll do your best to protect your sister.”

When I see his young face filled with fatigue, my sympathy grows.

“Of course. I will do my best.”

I came to tell Princess Rasiel that the Inquisitor might have to join the party, but I ended up hearing a lot of lamentation.

“But why did you come here today? I guess I ended up talking a lot about myself.”

“Ah! That’s because there was talk of sending someone from the church for escort purposes.”

“Escort? Are you worried that we will neglect to protect you?”

“No. That’s absolutely not true. Didn’t you discover the evil spirit altar this time? That’s why they’re trying to assign me someone. I know that the princess is reluctant to have outsiders, but they’re taking that into consideration and are assigning me an Inquisitor. They say he’s someone who just finished his training and came out to practice.”

“You’re going to give me a heretic inquisitor??”

Fortunately, there was no need to explain what the Inquisitor was.

Princess Rasiel’s eyes widened at my words.

“Yes.”

We have to search the labyrinth.

An inquisitor who must find the altar to the evil spirit.

Even if our goals are different, if the path we take is the same, wouldn’t it be okay to be together?

There was a high probability that the same thoughts were passing through Princess Rasiel’s head.