Chap 42-Master, No Way?

 

“Well, it’s so-so. Should I have just kept them all alive and investigated further?”

I regretted killing them all a little, but soon shook my head.

Since the Thieves’ Guild is in the slums anyway, it won’t be difficult to find out.

“Wh-What?”

I pierced the heart of this remaining Commune guy and killed him.

I can’t have him captured and spouting useless nonsense.

“Wh-What’s going on?”

Arietta asks me cautiously.

“Princess, I need to frame someone.”

When I stuck the Magical Needle into Sera, I saw Sera preparing a report to give to Ailia.

I also confirmed Sera’s handwriting in the process.

So, you see.

How about fabricating some evidence?

It’s actually a possible scenario. Since I only have suspicions, I’ll create some evidence.

Wouldn’t this be enough to connect Sera to the Commune?

And that Commune is the Demon King’s Army?

Wouldn’t it be fun to paint a picture?

The Commune is the vanguard trying to overthrow the Demon King’s Army’s Imperial Army. And Sera is leaking important secrets to that vanguard.

Ailia will be treated well.

First, I sorted through the belongings from the dismembered corpses.

“Fortunately, nothing comes out.”

Just some small weapons. There’s no other information left.

Well, if there was, I would have seen it all just now, so there’s no problem.

Then it’s perfect for manipulation. It would have been troublesome if there was a letter left behind.

Well, weren’t these guys prepared to throw their lives away here? They wouldn’t have had the spare capacity to pack anything.

“Does anyone have paper?”

“I do. I prepared paper for writing, just in case,”

Riel gave me a piece of paper.

I’m wearing gloves, so I wouldn’t have left any fingerprints.

I took out a pen and wrote on this paper in Sera’s handwriting.

I didn’t forget to coat it with magical power to erase any fingerprints.

“What are you saying?”

“Ah, that’s for later fun. You’ll find out later. In the meantime, get used to the corpses. You’ll be seeing them often.”

Arietta glares at me again.

No, you have to do that much.

We rested for a while.

I had to look like it was hard and appeal that we were the ones who fought these Commune guys as much as possible.

After some time passed, and Arietta and Riel got used to the corpses, Gustav finally found us.

“What is going on?”

“Instructor, you’re too late.”

Gustav silently examined the surrounding corpses and picked up a fallen mask.

A pure white mask with a candle drawn on it.

Gustav carefully held the mask with the Latin Commune’s emblem on it.

“Could it be, the Latin Commune guys? And this demon?”

“Yes.”

“Ha, did these guys even infiltrate Schperen? The other students are all passed out in the cave. Tsk.”

It was true that the Commune guys didn’t kill the other students.

They must have left the skilled ones who seemed like they would cause damage alone and threw only the students who made eye contact into the cave.

It’s clear that they only targeted Arietta.

“I don’t know what’s going on, but it seems like they’re replacing the instructors or something.”

“I’ll have to dispatch an investigator. I’ll give you a return scroll, so let’s go back together.”

“Yes.”

And around the time they were caught up in this situation.

Arnold was said to be playing around. Even hugging his fiancée.

-I just matched my words appropriately and snitched to Gustav after class.

“They mated during practice!”

“We hugged, but we didn’t do it!”

“That’s right! We have the dignity of nobles!”

“I saw it all, you know? These guys were hugging here while we were fighting! You’re telling me they hugged and didn’t do anything? You might as well entrust a jewelry store to a thief!”

Looking at their faces, I pushed forward because it was real.

People’s expressions always reveal everything.

Unless they’ve been professionally trained to hide their emotions, their expressions will usually show on their faces.

So, I enthusiastically emphasized this to Gustav.

“Are you sure about that?”

“People’s faces always reveal the truth, right? Look at them, they’re sweating on their faces. Isn’t that the kind of atmosphere that naturally happens when men and women are kissing and sucking?”

Gustav stared at Arnold and Clara as if he couldn’t believe it.

He must be thinking, what the hell are you doing during class?

The other swordsmanship department students who joined later looked at them with various emotions, such as disgust and envy.

“Hmm, it’s certainly not time for you to share love during practice. Whether you mixed your bodies or just kissed and sucked, you’re getting a deduction.”

Of course, while we’re suffering, they’re trying to play around and get points?

No way.

Of course, it would also be necessary to find out more about the Latin Commune.

Because.

If they had a branch in the slums, the Thieves’ Guild would know about it too. It would be strange if Master didn’t know.

That evening, Schperen was in an uproar.

Among the students, Arnold and Clara were talked about as vulgar couples who shared love during practice, even while other students were being attacked by the Commune, thanks to Ciel’s accusation?

On the other hand, the professors and instructors seriously convened a meeting.

Of course, it was because of the Latin Commune.

“Huh, so the Commune guys have even entered Schperen.”

“I heard that the Imperial Army is investigating the Commune in the capital.”

The Imperial Army, having received the news, immediately began investigating the Commune.

In particular, they obtained the cooperation of the Bathory family, which had established a business (Thieves’ Guild) in the slums.

“It’s already too late. We should have raided that place a long time ago, but the problem is the practice.”

“It seems they got information from somewhere.”

“That Bathory young lady’s combat skills are outstanding. She even protected Princess Arietta against the Commune guys.”

The point to note in this practice was Ciel von Adelheid Bathory, who fought against the Commune.

Of course, Princess Arietta also fought, but in terms of the situation, it was determined that Bathory killed most of the Commines.

Frankly, the professors who were interested in the succession to the throne, even if they didn’t participate in the faction because she was just a young lady from a Baron Family, were slightly ignoring her. A pretty great person has been assigned to protect Princess Arietta.

“The Ailia faction or the Kailon faction will have to be nervous.”

“Have you investigated?”

“This came out of one of the corpses.”

Gustav, who attended the meeting as an instructor, carefully took out a piece of paper.

The contents were not worth seeing.

Princess Arietta is doing practice. The dungeon structure is like this. The instructor arrangement is like this.

The plan should proceed in this way, etc.

It was written in a very diverse, detailed, and specific way.

It was enough as evidence because it was actually reality that you couldn’t believe.

“Hmm. Then it must mean that information was leaked from within Schperen.”

“You shouldn’t see it among the professors or instructors. There’s ideological verification, and most of them have bad feelings about the Commune, so there’s no reason to participate there.”

Even before the Commune began to run wild in earnest, Schperen’s faculty was the same as it is now.

Most of the professors are from wealthy families, and there are commoners, but they are destined to live by succeeding.

Looking at the Commune’s ideology of distributing the wealth of the well-off to the workers, the professors of Schperen have no choice but to hate them.

Of course, there were no new professors who came in later. Then you can gradually narrow down who the culprit is.

“Then should we see it as one of the students?”

“Then let’s check the handwriting.”

The professors spent the night verifying each student’s handwriting.

It wasn’t that difficult.

It was enough to check the handwriting of the assignments submitted by the students.

“It’s similar to the handwriting of Sera, a student in class 2-C.”

“Sera?”

“She is Princess Ailia’s maid.”

At the words of a professor, a cold silence briefly lingered in the meeting room.

It was understandable because the word princess was mentioned.

If royalty was mentioned, the succession competition could also be involved here.

“Are you sure?”

“Even if you compare it to other handwritings, it’s so unique, and there’s no one else besides this student. Moreover, if she’s a second-year student, she also knows the structure of the Schperen Forest.”

It fits quite well.

It’s too unusual to be a coincidence.

The handwriting is the same, a second-year student who knows about the forest. Moreover, even Arietta’s participation in the practice, which can be known by investigating as a succession competition faction.

Everything fits together.

“The owner can’t not know what her maid is doing, right?”

“I think Princess Ailia had another maid. I’m sure she said Mary. She’s in the same class as Sera, right?”

“That student is in the hospital because of what Princess Ailia did.”

Everyone already knew Ailia’s nature.

So, although the truth is completely different, the professors thought that Ailia had done it again.

However, this time it’s a little different.

It just so happens to be the Commune. Moreover, that Commune was also a demon. What does this mean?

Ailia may be related to these things.

“What if Sera did such a thing under Ailia’s orders?”

“No way. Even so, would she?”

Even so, Ailia is a princess.

She’s the body to be targeted by the Commune, not the position to be directly involved in the Commines.

Would it really be like that?

On the other hand, that maid Sera is in the position of a maid, and I know that her aristocratic family is not very well-off.

Maybe Ailia couldn’t do it, so she was aiming for this opportunity.

“It’s subtle to say it’s a solo act. Maybe the Commune side put in such a note in preparation for mission failure.”

“Whether it’s manipulation or not, the one thing that’s certain is that this must be reported directly to Schukat.”

“Let’s send the evidence.”

Schukat.

In fact, it was the Empire’s police organization, and recently it was in charge of searching for the Latin Commune.

Unlike the knights of the Imperial Capital Security Force, who were privately involved in factions, they were absolutely neutral in factional struggles.

They would investigate properly.

I cut off an outing pass from the rose hall’s warden and visited the Thieves’ Guild in the slums.

Coming into this damn guild building, which smells of alcohol after a long time, there was an elf dozing off at the reception desk that I hadn’t seen before.

An elf with navy blue hair. The color is unique.

Originally, most elves are blonde.

If you look closely, the blonde is either lighter or darker, and the eyes are blue.

This elf has navy blue hair and sparkling blue eyes.

Ruru the Nutrition Elf came to mind, and I thought it was a bit special.

I had no choice but to tap her on the hand to wake her up, and she opened her eyes wide and got up.

“Welcome to the Thieves’ Guild. And I was thinking for a moment. I definitely wasn’t dozing off.”

“Wasn’t dozing off?”

Is that kind of speech popular among elves recently, like Ruru?

I wonder if Kayla will do that next time I meet her.

No, that face and that speech don’t match. Well, that’s besides the point.

“I’m the receptionist Dordo. You can call me Dodo.”

“Are you Ruru’s friend?”

“I introduced her to the job myself. She is my fellow elf.”

Come to think of it, she said she was an elf who hated the World Tree.

Maybe Dordo is on that side too.

“Okay. Dodo. Go and call the Bathory family head.”

“I can’t do it until you call me Dodo!”

She’s burning up alone over her name for no reason.

Okay. Well, what’s so difficult about that?

She glared at me for a long time, so I sighed and decided to call her as she asked.

“Okay. Dodo, hurry up.”

“You should have called me that sooner. Guild Master. A woman with big breasts is looking for the Master!”

Why am I treated like that? I’ll call her Dodo next time.

Well, my breasts are big, but are they big enough to be called “big”?

Arietta certainly glared at me like an enemy every time I took off my clothes, but I don’t know if it’s because of that.

Why are women so obsessed with breasts?

Before long, I heard a voice telling me to come in from across the hallway. I entered the Guild Master’s office.

“Okay. What’s going on? It’s not a day off.”

“Okay? It’s not ‘What’s going on?’ I came about the Commune.”

I hope you don’t say you don’t know.

Our great Master wouldn’t be with such rebellious people. That’s what I think.

“Okay. What about the anti-imperialists?”

“Master, didn’t you know about the Commune? I heard they were in the slums.”

When I looked into the Commune’s brain, it was clearly in the slums in my memory.

The slums are practically in charge of the Thieves’ Guild.

In other words, isn’t this the Master of the Thieves’ Guild practically hiding the Commune’s capital branch?