「What now? We should go to the castle before the princess gets kidnapped.」
「Indeed, but listen to this interesting story.」
「What, a story?」
「Oriel ran away from the country, and the soldiers already gathered to make pursuit.」
「Oriel running away does probably mean that the princess already left.」
「All the soldiers are elites from the Royal Guard. Though they should be sent to fight against Gal.」
「Isn’t it only a coincidence? It could be a strategy meeting, right?」
「That would be good, but what if they are preparing for something else?」
「It’s too early to jump to the conclusion.」
「Yeah, We don’t know their numbers and their aim. What is the army thinking?」
「That’s not our problem for now unless they plan to chase for the Princess.」
「We should go back to the inn and contact Yuki. I don’t know whether he will lose, but winning will be hard thing.」
After that, we reached the Inn and got into contact with Yuki.
『Humph, it’s a difficult matter.
「Yes
『I’m not yet able to conclude, I don’t have enough information.』
「Contact me when the army starts their move and also try to estimate their numbers.
Understood, we will contact you when the time comes」
『Try to find who is leading the army … And whether there is any strange human being mixed within the army.』
「A strange human? What do you mean?」
『It’s hard to explain, basically, you should look for someone not usually found within an army, like a minister, a merchant or a messenger from the kingdom.』
「An official, in order to move the army?」
『Not in order to move the army, but more in order to take over another country, is that a good reason?』
「I don’t understand, can you please explain as I got no idea what he is talking about.?」
I asked Curse who probably understood it better than me.
「Mauve-San, Yuki probably mean to 「Please stop the assassination of the King if you can」
『Exact』
「Right now, if someone suspicious is with the army when the King gets assassinated, he will be regarded as innocent.」
「I disagree because he’s not around the scene, wouldn’t he also be considered as a suspicious person?」
「Yeah, but that’s not what he is aiming for. He will hire an assassin and pretend to suddenly know about it. Quickly bringing the army back, he’ll be able to earn himself high evaluations. They will say something of the like “this country’s Minister is a good man, loyal and intelligent”.」
「Obviously.」
「Furthermore, this army consists of this Country’s elites. The King himself will be blamed for is own assassination, because he sent all the army to do a meaningless fight. This will
lead the Royal Family in a really dire situation, They will still exist, but without any power.」
「And that crafty man will seize all the power.」
Afterward, Curses asked Yuki about his own thought on the matter.
『Magnificent, it’s almost up to my thoughts. Do you want to replace me as the Dungeon Master?』
「I refuse, it would remind me of my younger days, as the lord’s son I did not have any freedom.」
『Such a pity. Nonetheless, it’s necessary to stop the assassination in order to break the enemy’s plan.』
「It will prove to be really difficult…」
I can’t understand at all why they worry this much…
A simple matter, we could end it only by saying to the King he might get assassinated!!
「…」
『…』
Yuki and Curse stared at me with a blank gaze. I wonder what is wrong about what I said?
As I thought about it, Reija placed his hand over my shoulder.
「Think carefully, we have no relation to the King. He would throw us in jail for less than this. Think about his face and how he will get insulted if some mere commoners like us say something as unbelievable as this.」
So it was like that, how troublesome.