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“… … .”

“… … .”

After Bella took Verratti.

We sat there for a while. Alice let out a deep breath, as if her tension had been relieved, and Claire and Leo, who had been caught up in something they had never expected, still had blank expressions.

And then, Alice, unable to bear the silence that had continued for so long,

“Oh, really!”

And he shouted.

Then he turned towards me and said.

“Say something!”

“What do you mean?”

When I asked her sincerely, Alice said as if she was frustrated.

“You know, it was too dangerous for the princess to be there, or it was something that could have been resolved even if I wasn’t there, so why did you choose that strategy?”

“Do you want me to scold the princess?”

“No, that’s not it… … .”

Alice rolled her eyes and blushed slightly as she spoke.

“Of course.”

I spoke to Alice as if I was pouring cold water on her.

“It’s something that could have been done by someone else, even if it wasn’t the princess, and it’s obvious that the princess could have been seriously injured due to an unexpected variable.”

“… … .”

Alice’s shoulders slumped as she heard me.

It may be my imagination, but the white rabbit ears still on my head seemed to be drooping a little.

“But that doesn’t mean that what happened today wasn’t something the Princess didn’t do.”

And at those words I added, Alice raised her head again and her ears went up slightly.

In fact, there was no one else other than Alice and me who could have created the current situation.

Lucas is on the run. Well, he didn’t really run away, he just stayed away for a while, but it’s impossible to give work to someone who’s not there. Even if he could, Lucas is so well-known that Verratti would’ve run away as soon as he saw Lucas.

Jaden is also impossible for the same reason.

It might be easy to get information from Bella, but her face shouldn’t be known. So at least someone else should make the arrest. In order to arrest Verratti, who is almost always in a place where there are many civilians, it was necessary to lure her to a place where there would be less civilian casualties even if there was a fight.

But if Bella does it herself, her face will be revealed to Verratti. They say they can solve it by killing her, but that will only increase the vigilance of the law enforcement agency.

The remaining brother was the same. He had a similar role to Bella, and was already gathering information in another country.

All that’s left is me and Alice.

I am someone that the law courts are extremely wary of, so I cannot just carelessly ignore them. On the other hand, Alice is someone they think is nothing special, so she is one of the people they can lure.

The country of the law is the country where I personally confirmed that I had become the ‘Emperor’s Plenipotentiary’, beating out Alice.

And perhaps, there was a grave misjudgment there.

Alice will not be able to ascend to the throne as the next emperor.

… … Well, that makes sense.

The current emperor is a strange person to anyone who sees him, and although he is not related by blood, legally there is no difference in status between the prince and princess, and one of them is active as a captain of the knights, and the other one is carrying out the emperor’s full-power role at a young age.

Those who haven’t heard the ‘personal stories’ shared directly between the Emperor and his children… … well, it might be confusing.

At least Alice was the perfect being to attract aggro.

Even if it weren’t for Alice, Verati would have been caught, but what the imperial family wants is to steal the Northwood secretly.

There had to be no special incident to take Verratti out without the Duke of Northwood knowing. If Alice hadn’t been the bait, things would have been a bit more complicated.

The royal family probably doesn’t know exactly what the ‘state wants’.

“Well done. Bringing out results is also a skill. ”

That’s why I told Alice so.

“Is that so… … ?”

“Yeah. It’s a bit bothersome that she was dressed like a bunny the whole time she was threatening me.”

“… … .”

Claire, who had just come to her senses to the sound of our conversation, said something like that, perhaps out of jealousy. Alice realized that her outfit was seriously embarrassing, so she quickly uncrossed her legs.

“Sa, the other person was also wearing a bunny outfit, so it doesn’t matter!”

But Alice quickly got up from her seat as she said that.

*

“Yeah. There were no other troops.”

First, I went back to my room and talked a little more with Leo and Claire about things I hadn’t been able to say in front of them.

“So you’re saying it was a bluff.”

I nodded my head as I heard Alice speak confidently.

Of course, no matter how strong the Emperor’s power is, deploying troops within Northwood is a separate issue. Requesting Northwood troops to move is an even bigger issue.

It’s not that the system didn’t have troops, but it’s a different story whether those troops are active in Northwood.

It was also fortunate that Verratti did not properly tell the reason for his coming until the very end.

Leo and Claire probably wouldn’t go around telling other people what they heard, but it would be best if no one heard it.

“… … You actually know a lot of things, right?”

While I was still silent, Alice asked me cautiously.

“Yes.”

“Ugh.”

But Alice just snorted and didn’t ask any more questions.

“I don’t know how you know such stories, but you know.”

As Alice spoke, she pointed to a table in the middle of the large room. There were four chairs surrounding a small round table.

Even though the Duke’s room is just a guest room, it looks like it is ready to receive guests.

Well, even if you go to a luxury hotel, would they be prepared to this extent?

As I pulled out one of the chairs and sat down, Alice sat down across from me and said,

“Even if I ask you how you knew that, you wouldn’t tell me.”

“… … .”

I thought for a moment. What should I say?

“The way I figure it out is my greatest talent. I can’t just tell anyone.”

“Yeah, well, I have a couple of secrets I don’t want to tell anyone.”

I was curious about that, but decided not to ask. If it was a secret that needed to be told, Alice would tell it someday.

“Still, I want to know a little bit.”

Alice stared at me intently. Her expression was calm, and her clear eyes were shining vividly. Her face did not have the kind of expression that threatened me.

just-

“I want to ask you, not as a princess, but as your sister.”

Alice paused for a moment.

“Is that ability you have ‘precognition’?”

“If you say prophecy, are you talking about something like the one written by the person who handed down the prophecy to the royal family?”

“Yeah.”

“No.”

I could answer that one question for sure.

“Then, can you predict it with detailed calculations?”

“No.”

This time I was able to answer with certainty.

I heard that it is impossible to perfectly understand the world and predict the future with Laplace’s Demon or ‘perception’. Perhaps at least the laws of physics apply equally in this same world.

“It’s not a calculation or a prophecy, but does that mean you can know the future?”

“Yes.”

“… … .”

Will Alice be able to find out about my abilities through this question and answer?

It could be, it couldn’t be.

If it is not a prediction or calculation, then what else can it be than saying that you have experienced that future directly? And if you deny even that, then it would mean, ‘I just move as I want and it happens.’ In fact, at that point, it is a realm where you can call it a god.

Alice wouldn’t judge me as a god, so she could probably guess at my abilities without having to hear it directly.

So, if I wanted to hide my abilities, it would be right not to even answer like this.

But for some reason I wanted to answer like this.

It wasn’t a conclusion reached after much logical thought.

I just wanted to do that.

“… … Okay. I won’t ask for more details. ”

Alice answered as if she had come to a conclusion in her own mind. Alice glanced at the clock on the wall,

“Are you tired? Thank you for hanging out with me until late at night today.”

That’s what he said.

“No. I just followed because I wanted to follow.”

I nodded slightly to Alice and answered.

Well, even if I didn’t follow, I was thinking of going alone.

So there was no need for Alice to apologize to me.

Because, to be exact, I almost ruined Alice’s plan.

“Please call me if you need any further assistance.”

“… … Yeah.”

At my words, Alice nodded calmly.