Chap 49-Can We Properly Investigate That Person Named Ciel?

 

Even if that were a lie, wouldn’t it be natural to be suspicious considering their relationship?

I need to do something about this.

The Edenberun family is practically in charge of military power within the Ailia faction.

If such a family can’t exert its power like this, what should I do?

‘Should I just openly eliminate them?’

The thought crossed my mind for a brief moment.

No, if nothing else, that Bathory girl was the problem.

At first, I thought she was just a girl who talked big, but she’s good at exploiting people’s weaknesses.

Her skill in inciting people is extraordinary.

I need to come up with a plan.

“And that Kailon guy too.”

So, should I raise an army after all?

The imperial family members of the Empire, regardless of gender, receive military training and are assigned a position.

Especially Ailia, who is aiming for the throne, is no exception.

Therefore, she is not ignorant of military matters.

That’s why she confidently leads the noble faction despite being a woman.

Conversely, one of the reasons Arietta is looked down upon is that she didn’t receive the military education that everyone else does.

In the worst-case scenario, I’ll have to cause a stir before Edenberun falls.

I can start by cracking down on Kailon’s threatening forces.

Anyway, Kailon will probably just continue playing vice president, so it shouldn’t matter.

“No. No. That’s still a last resort.”

Honestly, the Ailia faction is the one that can mobilize an army the fastest among the current factions.

However, the biggest problem is that the commander of the capital defense force of the imperial capital is the Lion King Alex.

Of course, he’s technically a student on leave from Schperen, but his close aide is in charge of the capital defense force on his behalf.

If I’m going to launch a surprise attack, I’ll have to seize the capital.

But is that really going to be easy?

My father, the Emperor, declared the succession war and knows the history of that bloodbath, so he’ll probably just keep watching from above.

Occupying the imperial capital will be difficult.

And Shukat will side with the capital defense force since he’s in the police organization.

“Damn it, I can’t do anything.”

Those pathetic commune guys failed, and Ailia herself, who only spread rumors, has become a nuisance.

Then I have to deal with Bathory at least.

I’m stuck in a situation where I can’t do anything.

Now that I think about it, could that Bathory girl have been aiming for this?

“Wait, am I completely blocked now?”

I’m stuck in a situation where I can’t do anything.

Ah, so that’s how it is.

Then all that’s left is to show off my skills fairly and squarely in this Schperen.

This is definitely not the kind of fight Ailia wants.

Kailon has already stepped into that side. But now that things have come to this, there’s no choice.

I’ll take the lead in Schperen so that Arietta can’t rise up no matter what she does.

That’s what I’ll do.

Ailia, who just wants to live a long and quiet life rather than aiming for the throne, would be dumbfounded to hear such words.

The throne is very important to Ailia.

Unexpectedly, Ailia has been discriminated against for being a woman.

A princess cannot become an Emperor.

She wanted to break that mold.

That’s why she hated Kailon and Alexander, not to mention her incompetent younger sister Arietta, who ended up like this because she led the way.

Therefore, Ailia’s fight is not over yet.

“The Hero… No. No. There’s no point in borrowing power from a Hero in this state. I’ll only be humiliated.”

I don’t know what that Bathory bitch will do next.

That damn girl is really good at inciting people, just like the commune.

Ailia decided to carefully grind her teeth and build up her strength again for a while.

On the other hand, Kailon was more relaxed.

He leisurely watched Sera being captured and Edenberun and Erjet being rumored to be perverted couples who were having sex during practice.

This is what it means to watch a fire across the river.

“Ailia, you stupid bitch. You’ve been bitten hard by a mad dog.”

“But that mad dog seems to be quite dangerous.”

“Yeah. I guess so.”

That mad dog doesn’t miss opportunities easily.

But she’s not trying to lift her master up. She’s just dragging her opponent down.

In other words, let’s all go down together.

That’s what this woman is thinking.

Even though Ciel herself doesn’t know it, the major nobles of the Ailia and Kailon factions have also started paying attention to Ciel because of this incident.

Edenberun was badly burned this time, so the Kailon faction had to be on high alert.

Fortunately, the Lion King Alex doesn’t know this side of things well.

“Keep an eye on Arietta and Bathory.”

“Yes, Your Highness.”

“Then I should meet the president too. Bathory has made Edenberun a puppet, so I need to prepare too.”

Kailon planned a new stage.

And.

The problem is that it wasn’t just Ailia and the other factions who started paying attention to Ciel because of this attack.

The commune that carried out the attack on Arietta.

They also recognized the woman named Ciel von Adelaide Bathory, who killed all the commune members.

The Latin Commune was interested in the attack on Arietta in Schperen this time.

The dead commune members were highly skilled, even though they were killed by Ciel.

They even deployed loyal members who had been forcibly turned into monster summoners by a dark magician and devoted themselves to the commune.

In addition, they deployed elite members who survived the surveillance of the imperial capital and their leader, Yagoda.

But they were subdued.

Moreover, according to what I heard, they were completely defeated by a woman named Ciel without being able to subdue anyone properly or show the power of the commune properly.

“Wouldn’t it be difficult for the imperial capital branch for now? Should we withdraw?”

“I heard that a woman named Sera was captured.”

“Isn’t that Ailia’s close aide? She shouldn’t be a member of the commune.”

“I heard it’s because she passed on information to us. And maybe a competitor who tried to attack Ailia in the middle was playing tricks.”

The Latin Commune, which has its base deep in Latin, didn’t know the situation in the imperial capital properly.

Someone leaked Arietta’s information, but could it have been Ailia who leaked it?

The executives swallowed their groans.

It’s like we helped them in their competition.

“The operation we carried out has helped their competition instead.”

“That’s a relief.”

“It’s a relief that our imperial capital branch wasn’t caught.”

The Latin Commune’s branch in the slums remains intact.

Of course, the Thieves’ Guild, which can be said to be the leader of the slums, is a bit of a concern, but no matter how much of a Thieves’ Guild it is, it will be difficult to find the Latin Commune’s hideout.

That’s what the commune’s executives thought.

Of course, the leader of the commune, who was watching this meeting, knew that the Thieves’ Guild and the commune were on thin ice.

‘Those thieves are probably using us to keep pruning.’

Well, it didn’t really matter.

For now, I have to be satisfied with collecting information about the imperial family and nobles in the imperial capital.

It’s difficult to start a war against the Thieves’ Guild, and in the meantime, the executives were burning with anger.

“Ha, shouldn’t we take revenge?”

“No, now is the time to be quiet. Yagoda died as a demon, no less? Where did he get the drug to become a demon? Our cause is being questioned because of that.”

Yagoda’s demonization.

This was something that even the executives didn’t know about.

‘Of course not. I handed it over.’

Of course, I didn’t think he would die so absurdly.

Yagoda’s skills were reliable. I thought that if he became a demon, he would definitely subdue the enemy more than anyone else.

According to the news, Arietta didn’t suffer any damage at all, and a woman named Ciel annihilated the commune.

That’s impossible with the power of an ordinary person.

To catch Yagoda, you’d have to be quite strong, even among the star sign holders.

Of course, if Ciel heard that, she’d want to argue about whether that’s really strong, but the commune, which doesn’t know Ciel’s identity, couldn’t help but be confused by this incident.

“Still, isn’t it like we missed the princess who could have been captured most easily? It’s all because of that Ciel girl!”

Ciel, Ciel.

The name Ciel, which has been coming up in the commune meeting since earlier.

The leader racked his brains and remembered that the name Ciel was similar to the name of the leader who led them, who led the workers.

The man, who had been listening to the executives’ meeting, raised his hand and stopped the executives’ meeting.

“Wait, her name is Ciel?”

“Yes, leader.”

“It’s similar to Sien’s name. Surely not.”

Sien.

A heroic figure who shouted for the struggle and unity of the workers and worked hard for the workers’ uprising that day.

I thought he was dead, but according to information obtained by infiltrating the kingdom’s intelligence department some time ago, Sien of the hero party and their spiritual leader Sien were identified as the same person.

However, Sien was only treated as ‘missing’ due to the concealment of the upper echelons of the kingdom, so the commune was also saddened by this.

Thanks to that, the Latin Commune gained even more strength.

Because that hero of the workers was trying to defeat the Demon King.

Surely it’s just someone with a similar name.

Or is she a woman related to Sien?

It’s too extreme to figure it out with just one name. But something. Something was strange.

“Can you properly investigate that Ciel?”

“There’s a commune member in Schperen, so it’s not impossible if we set our minds to it.”

However, the member in Schperen is not a student, instructor, or professor, so it’s difficult to find out information properly.

That’s why I found out about Arietta going out for practice from the slums.

If I were to move the member in Schperen, I would have to worry about being exposed.

However, the leader felt something ominous enough to take that risk.

“Then let’s find out.”

“Then, for the time being.”

“For the time being, only investigate Ciel carefully.”

“Yes, leader.”

The executive meeting ended like that.

Maybe that Ciel will be of great help to the Latin Commune in the future.

‘Burning physical relationship forged in the midst of the commune’s attack!’

Arnold and Clara decorated the front page of the Schperen Academy newspaper.

The Edenberun and Erjet couple were ostracized in the class.

Well, it’s only natural to be criticized for doing such a thing during practice, but what can I do since it’s all karma?

We just have to watch over them kindly from behind.

“It turned out like this.”

“Wasn’t this what you were trying to do?”

Arietta said bluntly.

Well, that’s not what I was trying to do.

It seems that Arietta is worried because she has become noticeable because of this incident.

I don’t care. On the contrary, there will be fewer guys who will mess with me because of this.

That’s right.

I didn’t touch them and stayed still, but they suddenly bit me.

They won’t even dream of trying to fight me.

“No. I just went there to tease them. So, have you decided whether to get a tattoo?”

“Well, that’s. Um.”

“Why are you being so wishy-washy? If you’re going to give me your body, give it to me quickly. I’ll engrave it in a really seductive way.”

I licked my lips and put on new gloves.

These are not the gloves I usually wear.

Work gloves for tattooing.

They have added functions to give spells to the tattoo.

“Isn’t it a bit dangerous?”

“Don’t worry. I’ll do it well so it doesn’t hurt.”

I took out a magical tool that I made myself for tattooing.

It’s based on my Magical Needle.

It’s in the form of a needle, but unlike the usual way of tattooing, you just have to draw on paper.

What will the princess’s answer be?

Honestly, if she doesn’t want to draw on her body and likes things clean, there’s nothing I can do. But personally, Arietta is not in a position to be picky right now.

Leaving aside the demonic star, I have to try this and that to protect Arietta since there was a commune attack.

So, I personally want to force her.

If possible, I want to hear it directly from the princess.