……I’m terrified. I need to hope that he won’t say “Let’s battle” afterwards.
How am I supposed to tell this to everyone else……?
Marius claps his hand once again.
“Let’s end here for today. We have your rooms prepared. Please stay here for a while everyone. Oh, that’s right. The current Head of the House of Vladi is also present at the basement of this castle, so all of you may want to meet him.”
The meeting ended there with those words of his, so we have no choice but to exit this room.
Marius Tepes—. I realised very well that he’s the ringleader of this coup d’état and that he’s a dangerous fellow within a few minutes of seeing him.
We left the throne room while having the man clad in black—Crom Cruach, within our sight—.
We are taken to the room they prepared for us after we left the throne room.
Sensei who is feeling unpleasant from his discussion with Marius mutters.
“……He’s a man that I find hard to believe is a Vampire.”
Rias also nods.
“Yes, you won’t find that many Vampires that will take action to satisfy his own greed over his blood and pride.”
Certainly that man called Marius is clearly different from Elmenhilde. I only heard him talk for a bit, but I did feel that he’s honest about his ambition.
Sensei narrows his eyes.
“That’s why fellows like him are dangerous. Since he can easily break the rules made by his clan after all. The coup d’état must also have started from there. And the one who went along with him were those nobles. Marius needed the cooperation of politicians for his own ambition. The politicians that agreed to his actions fulfilled the two desires of being strengthened by the Holy Grail and to get rid of the dissatisfaction they had towards the current government. It must have been easy for them to defeat the King’s side if they had the Evil Dragons that were revived by the Holy Grail with them. ……And the one who gave them such opportunity was “him”…… It’s something that was achievable with the terrorists and the rotten nobles since this country is shunned from the outside world.”
……A family feud that happened in the country that doesn’t have any contact with the other forces huh. And the terrorists got involved with them. And us that got dragged into it. Hmm, this is just filled with troubles!
I ask Rias while walking through the corridor.
“Where is the actual Head, the King of Tepes?”
I’m concerned to what happened to Marius’s father.
“…….He was fatally wounded and escaped from this territory.”
So he was wounded. It seems like there was quite a battle here. As long as that guy has that insanely dangerous Evil Dragon as his bodyguard, I can understand if the other side was helpless. I don’t know how strong the King of Tepes is, but they have no choice but to run if they had that thing as their opponent.
“Didn’t the King of Tepes’s side ask for any help besides the Carmilla’s faction?”
I ask just in case. Sensei breathes out as if he is grieving.
“Yeah, they probably haven’t. Since the Khaos Brigade was involved in the shadows, the other forces will strongly negotiate to allow themselves to come in to this country and that is something they don’t want right now. We were allowed to enter as an exception though.”
So they won’t ask for help from those besides the Vampires even if their country is at the risk of being in danger huh. I can only think that they are crazy if we come this far, but they may have their own kind of values…… So I don’t quite get them.
I then ask Azazel-sensei the question that bothered me in that audience room.
The thing about Valerie talking to the space where there was no one present.
“……Who was she talking to?”
Sensei says it while putting on serious eyes.
“……The dead from that world.”
The dead……huh.
“You mean……the souls of humans that went to hell, the realm of the dead, or the Underworld?”
The things I can only imagine are the souls of the dead…… Something like angry spirits and cursed spirits.
Sensei continues.
“If there are souls of humans, there are also souls of other beings……she was talking to beings whose origins you can’t tell nor what kind of state they were in.”
“I-I don’t get it……”
“Just think that she was talking to something you can’t really understand. …… Her mind has been contaminated quite a lot for overusing the Holy Grail,”
Her mind has been contaminated huh. I think I can understand that. ……She didn’t seem normal just from her look.
Rias nods at Sensei’s words.
“Yes, I realised that right away. –How Valerie Tepes’s heart and emotions weren’t normal.”
Yeah, I also think she was in the state as Rias described. Her eyes were shallow and her expression wasn’t natural.
“……What happened to Valerie……”
Gasper looks gloomy. The one who is the most shocked among us is him. He has been putting on a face as if he is about to cry ever since he saw Valerie’s face.
If it’s him from a bit before, then it won’t be weird for him to burst into tears in this situation.