Because of the seriousness of this case, the Dorudia warrior tribe immediately began their investigation.
And the investigation result is, one suspect found, a female warrior.
Pursena Adorudia.
She returned to Dorudia Village just a half year ago, she is the daughter of Adorudia tribe's chief.
Being the top scorer among her graduates in the Magic University Ranoa, she brought back excellent results to her village.
"I fulfilled my mission and came back as a candidate for village chief, Rinia is the lost cat-nano."
And she talked about what happened in her years in Sharia. Immediately after that, she joined the warrior group of the Dorudia tribe.
This places families head said, [She is in the first list of candidates both in Dedorudia and Adorudia]. Her name has soared high in the Dorudia Village.
But, it’s not something that she could easily get used to.
To become village chief, she must serve as warrior chief until the previous village chief retires, in addition she must show ability befitting of someone who can lead others and gain trust from her warrior subordinates.
Pursena has enough ability and experience leading others so she is actually already a fine warrior chief.
Usually before entering the warrior group one needs to go a journey to see the world, Pursena was already away from her village for more than ten years, but she still lacks experience with the warrior group.
With that said, the current village chief Gyes provided her with a training period.
She will work and study inside the village, as a warrior chief she must remember her group members's faces and odor, then someday become village chief... that is how the original plan was.
It wouldn't be an exaggeration to say that it’s an elite course.
Pursena, by using her advanced healing magic to the fullest, she gained the warriors trust in an instant.
It seems Gyes also determined that she passed his test,
After this rainy season it would have been time to pick a son-in-law, assuming the warrior chief declared that she wanted it.
Then that incident happened.
The day that incident happened.
Around midnight of that day.
Pursena was on duty to guard the warehouse.
In the warehouse, there was a large amount of preserved food stored for the rainy season.
Every night it’s guarded by a team consisting of two people.
And the one who was paired with her that night was Kanalna, a warrior from the Adorudia tribe.
That day, Kanalna's body condition was a little bad.
She was wounded the previous day when she was repelling the demons that attacked the village, and that injury had an after effect to her body even after it was already healed.
She said herself that this wasn’t that important, but the testimony said, [When it was time for the shift change, her face was already blue colored.]
Like that, Pursena was opposing her to attend to her duty and gave her an order as warrior chief, [Go back to your home and take a rest, I will take responsibility in your place.]
Following her order, Kanalna decided that it was better for her to go back to her room and sleep.
She intended to only sleep for a bit, but maybe because of her body's instinct to heal her injury, Kanalna slept soundly.
Then, early morning of the next day.
When it was time for the guards to switch, one person arrived at the warehouse.
But when he came, no one was keeping watch in front of the warehouse.
Not feeling confident, he tried to peek inside the warehouse----------.
The food in that place was eaten by someone, with some trace of meat around her mouth, Pursena was sleeping in the warehouse with a full stomach.
Caught redhanded, Pursena was immediately arrested.
In Dorudia Village, stealing food during the rainy season is a felony.
The warriors's evaluation of her took a 180 turn, she was forced to resign from her position as warrior chief.
Naturally, she also won’t become village chief.
This is why she was thrown into the jail.
However, the main suspect Pursena said.
"That day, I was unconscious because someone hit me from behind, and when I came to I was already inside the warehouse!"
"Someone wants to frame me! That fucking rascal-nano! Boss, please-nano! Please catch the true culprit!"
"Surely, there is someone that didn’t want me to become the village chief! Minitona and Terusena are the most suspicious ones!"
"That alone is already strange. If I was the culprit, I wouldn’t do something like this to my target! It was very obvious that after sending Kanalna back to her room, you immediately ate small portions of the meats!"
Pursena kept claiming that she was innocent.
I also had some experience in it myself, my first impression of people from the Beast Race, is that they're easy to give a false charge.
It is one of their forte.
If she really isn’t the one who did that, then I will help her.
With that in mind, I try to do a little investigation.
Part 2
Dorudia Village, the village where the Adorudia tribe and Dedorudia tribe live in harmony.
To raise Holy Beast-sama, many village warriors attend to him to protect him, so that they won’t be short in power, many children are reared and the married people usually have many children.
Now they’re a very large family numbering about 500 heads, and they live above the trees.
With a stream of muddy water outside during rainy season, their houses look like islands.
The chance that the culprit is an outsider is almost none.
If it was, then it’s someone who can move like me and many more difficult ideas come to my brain.
The main suspect Pursena said, that inside the village the line of men who want to mate with her is long.
Then I immediately get my assistant Yasu and my helping inspector Gyes,
I began to collect evidence from the testimonies of people that were involved in this incident.
"This mean, Yasu it’s time to go!"
"Who is Yasu nya?"
"It’s you Rinia. Now I will call you Yasu, a certain assistant from a certain country."[1] [2]
"Oh, so that’s it..."
Inspector Gyes also didn’t say anything.
Thinking that this is useless, but now is the time to move.
Part 3
・"First testimony, the one who found her in the morning, warrior Gimel"
"Are you the first person who found her?"
"Yes."
When I saw this youth, I got some sense of deja vu.
Somehow, I got the feeling that I saw him somewhere before.
So I asked.
Gimel → Ask → Event from the Past [3]
"You, have we met somewhere before?"
"Yes, ten years ago when I fell into the water you’re the one who helped me."