episode_0177

One night a week later.

Sena and I are riding a carriage toward an inn in Roman.

According to a report from the Intelligence Department, Amon and his demon worshipers are scheduled to meet tonight at an inn in Roman City.

They held regular meetings, but since they were proficient in magic, their main activity was to secure their identities rather than installing eavesdropping magic.

But tonight will be a little different.

“Your Highness, is it really okay? It would be better to ask for cooperation from the Holy Knights…”

I shake my head and say to Sena, who looks a little worried.

“That is not possible. The size of the demon worshipers is not yet known. They are active in Roman, but we need to know about the whole group called Demon Worshipers. Only then can we bring out all those hiding in the dark.”

Sena seems to understand what I’m saying to some extent, but can’t shake off her fear.

She opens her mouth cautiously.

“But if you are truly a demon worshiper, I think we alone will not be enough.”

I tell him not to worry.

“We have stationed a lot of soldiers nearby just in case, and my sister is also hiding, so don’t worry.”

As far as I know, there are 5 people gathered, including Amon.

They all deployed reinforcements thinking they might deal with demonic energy.

“We can just watch them from the inn room upstairs, where demon worshipers regularly gather.”

They paid a large sum of money to the owner of the inn where they were meeting to give Amon and his group room 201, and remodeled the upstairs room so that they could see from above to below.

Sena’s anxious face doesn’t ease at my words.

Soon the carriage stopped.

I open the door and get out, and hold Sena’s hand as she follows me.

“Thank you…”

I nod as I look at Sena, whose face is slightly turning red.

“Please go in.”

A shabby inn.

I see no one at the counter, so I ring the doorbell.

-With my daughter…

“Yes! Let’s go.”

A rugged-looking man comes out from inside and speaks.

“How many people?”

“There are two people. Is there room 301?”

The man’s expression hardens slightly at my words.

“It will cost a bit more, are you okay with it?”

“I know, but I already paid in advance.”

Let’s tell each other our passwords, and the man gives us the key and says.

“Yes. Here’s the key. I hope you have a good day today.”

So let’s head to the inn room.

“Sena?”

When I call Sena, her face gets hot and she answers with all her might.

“Yes! Let’s go… let’s go!”

So I go into the inn room with her.

-Percussion!

“Sena? My complexion is bad. Are you okay?”

Is it because it’s the first time I’ve come to an inn alone with a man?

What is Sena, a nun who doesn’t know anything about the world, thinking?

I’m a little curious, but there’s no need to ask.

Seeing Sena fidgeting restlessly, I sigh inwardly.

“What are you doing? I’m sitting here.”

When I pat the sofa, Sena hesitates and says, rolling her light green eyes wildly.

“Well… I find it easier to stand.”

She looks frustrated.

Thinking that it would be foolish to step out here, I nod my head and deliberately head to bed.

“Then I will stay here.”

It will take about two hours for the demon worshipers to gather.

In the meantime, check briefly to see if there are any holes that can be used to spy on the room below.

An unlit room with no one in it yet.

I think about looking at the furniture dimly with the moonlight coming through the window.

Not bad.

Even though it’s a small hole, it looks good.

Currently, intelligence agents are deployed from the lower room to the opposite room on both sides.

Nana Senaya will spy on the situation below and record their conversations in the left and right rooms.

“Good, no problem.”

I get up from the floor.

So I lie on the bed and wait for time to pass, and Sena sits on the sofa without me and waits for time to pass.

-Togak, again, again.

There is such an awkwardness in the room that the sound of the gears of the clock turning in the room can be heard loudly today.

Haha… I can’t stand it anymore.

I, who can no longer overcome my instincts, look at Sena and say.

“Sister Senna. I can’t stand it anymore.”

“Yes?!”

Sena says, overreacting to my words.

When I got up from the bed and strode over to the sofa… she shook her shoulders excessively.

“… Don’t do this! I… I am a nun who serves God.”

I was dumbfounded as I watched her close her eyes and wrap her arms around her shoulders.

Really, what is this nun thinking?

I don’t know what she’s imagining because she’s remembered as the most perverted heroine in the original work…

“Sister Sena. I don’t know what the hell you’re dreaming about, but… I can’t sleep so much, so I’m going to get some sleep. Please wake me up if you sense anyone downstairs.”

After saying that, I lie down on the bed.

Soft pillow.

On top of that, you slowly lose consciousness.

“Grand Duke… Wake up.”

I open my eyes to the touch of something shaking me.

“Umm… Sister Sena?”

“Shhh… People came in below.”

Those words bring a spark to my mind.

“Okay. Come here.”

When I point to a small hole in the floor, Sena nods in understanding and we both look at the small hole.

***

A room that looks like a hole.

A total of five men can be seen holding bright candles in the room.

They are all covered in long robes, so their faces cannot be seen in detail.

Does this mean that Amon is among them?

“Alpha, when will the imperial palace be destroyed?”

Although it is not clearly visible when viewed from the ceiling.

Everyone in the room appears to be wearing a white mask.

“Beta If you do it hastily, you are bound to fail.”

This voice is… Amon.

I’ve only heard it once, but it’s definitely the same voice I heard at the restaurant last time.

“Damn… Do you know how angry the great man is right now? Didn’t the plan go awry too much?! Surely the Demon King should have been resurrected from hell around this time!”

Amon answers those words.

“Did I also think that Valorang would die at the hands of his child? Tell him not to worry. If the Justice Party falls into my hands soon, the empire will be in chaos, and the number of human sacrifices will increase, making things easier.”

Then another man opens his mouth.

“Not only that! How do I get the Demon King’s vessel? Currently, the royal family members except the Emperor and Princess Joy are either too young or too old. To take down the imperial palace, you have to defeat the soldiers of the Grand Duchy, but how can you take down the imperial palace with such idiots?”

In fact, my non-Roman soldiers can lay this city in ruins if I give them the command.

No matter how large the numbers are, it makes no sense to have equal numbers of professional soldiers, farmers, or merchants just because they carry pickaxes and shovels.

As I look at Sena while listening to the demon worshipers’ stories, I see Senna covering her mouth and trembling in shock, unable to look at the hole.

I shake my head inwardly, looking at his eyes filled with astonishment.

How can you be so surprised after just seeing something like this?

Of course, it would be a huge disaster for the people here, but Sena, a high-ranking nun in the Vatican, could be so weak.

I feel strange that she is quite different from the firm and strong-willed woman in the original.

but…

This may be because, unlike the original, the Empire is not a total mess.

After the success of Valorant’s coup, Roman is depicted as being in despair.

The Grand Duke’s army committed massacre and plunder at will, entered the Vatican, dragged the Pope away like a dog, and tried to forcibly hold the coronation ceremony for Joey, but the Pope ultimately refused and died on the spot. After a hasty meeting of cardinals that lasted less than an hour, the Pope It is said that a new .

what…

Compared to that situation, it wouldn’t be so bad if the people of the empire were just protesting.

So, I don’t know where the brilliant, tyrant Theodora and the rock-like saint with a strong will have gone in the novel.

“Don’t worry, I’m thinking about that even if you don’t.”

worry? It’s dumbfounding to see a meeting of demon worshipers that, at first glance, seems very sloppy.

Should I say that it feels like they don’t have a systematic plan like Ioanes or Savinelli and just do things by telling them not to ask?

Amon makes very groundless claims compared to the hard work I do in the imperial palace.

“Think carefully! No matter how strong the Grand Duke’s army is, if hundreds of thousands of Roman citizens attack the imperial palace, it will inevitably collapse! A minority cannot defeat the absolute majority.”

what the…

I can’t help but sigh.

There is a huge difference between the regular army and the militia.

This is especially severe in places where there are no gunpowder weapons.

If a knight and a peasant, who literally carry heavy armor and weapons all day long and prepare for battle and war, fight, the knight has no choice but to win.

If 100 knights and 1,000 peasants were to fight, I would bet all my money that 100 knights would win.

Of course…

If knights who know how to manipulate mana attack the militia on horseback while heavily armed…

The farmers are scared and have no choice but to run away.

It would be difficult for an ordinary militia to penetrate the knights’ heavy armor, and the militia would be busy running away when they first saw their comrades dying in front of them.

To put it simply, you can think of fear as being contagious.

A life-threatening fight against powerful people who seem like they will never be able to win.

And it’s strange if you don’t feel fear and fear when you see a colleague bleeding and turning into a piece of meat in front of you.

Even experienced regular soldiers tend to run away when they see their troops being overwhelmingly defeated…

Even more so, if you are a person who only makes a living, you will collapse more easily.

In fact, in the story, Valorant thoroughly trampled Roman City with an anti-aircraft force numbering no more than a few tens of thousands.

But when I see Amon talking so thoughtlessly, I feel dumbfounded and like a fool.

Did I prepare for this long to deal with a guy like that?

When I think like that.

“Alpha! I don’t know if it’s because you’re a commoner, but there’s nothing you can do with the militia in the Grand Duchy’s army! If you say such strange things one more time, I will report your ignorance to the Great One.”

“No! Why is Delta doing this?”

A man named Delta, who had been listening in silence until now, speaks angrily.

“How long has it been since he came to the Babylonian Empire without being able to destroy it? Don’t you know how bad you feel?”

When the man named Beta came forward, other people also came forward and spoke.

“It is already difficult to obtain human sacrifices by deploying troops from Nicaea to Adria and Jarl. You say such leisurely things. I am so dumbfounded.”

“That guy is Alpha. I’ll have to tell the leader to suspend you.”

Then Amon speaks.

“Haha, just kidding. Actually, I was just trying to pick on God’s agent who is secretly watching us from the upstairs room.”

Senna and I freeze at Amon’s chilling words.