Under the surface, Orsted gave off a heavy dull feeling.
His expression was incomprehensible for a minute, it's more frightening than usual.
Honestly, it's scarier for me with the helmet on.
Hell, why does he even have it on now?
Just take it off....
"King Dragon Kingdom's King, Leonard Kingdragon was an apostle of Hitogami. Probably, the warlord Jade or a Shirone kingdom general was also an apostle. By manipulating these two people, Hitogami cornered Pax and drove him to suicide."
This was Orsted's conclusion.
There were two apostles
First he manipulated the King of KDK to assist Pax.
By doing that he planted the 'awareness that he must meet the expectations of the King of KDK' in Pax.
Give him the Princess, give him the Death God, have him put the country into a good state.... then manipulate Jade to orchestrate his failure.
The flow should be something like that.
Since Hitogami can see the future, he would have easily understood who can force Pax toward suicide, it would have been obvious.
"... who was the final person?"
"The other person, Vista's King..... the probability is high."
"That reminds me. The Death God said something, and it seems there is a possibility that the Demon Lord Badigadi was once an apostle."
"...... If that demon lord was an apostle, he would have shown up by now, we would have seen him."
Ah, certainly.
That guy stands out...
Though in this case, my existence should be an anomaly for Hitogami.
For this reason I won't necessarily meet with a person who is an active apostle.
But, I wasn't able to notice the intent of Hitogami.
I'm pathetic.
"In the future, will we be destroying Jade... ?"
"It's too late."
Emotionlessly, Orsted spoke.
"For that, I'm very sorry."
"Before that, I had made an error in my predictions. After killing Leonard, I shouldn't have left everything to you. Thinking about it, I should have then went to the Shirone Kingdom... but still..."
After saying that much, Orsted went silent.
It feels like his motivation has run out.
This failure, is it that severe?
"Or maybe, there is someone who could substitute for Pax?"
"There is no substitute."
"There is nothing?"
" .... "
"Orsted-sama, are you alright?"
Then a voice called out from behind me.
There was Zanoba peering in from the rear.
From when did he arrive?
Perhaps he was here from the beginning.
Since he did not speak, I thought he was waiting outside.
"Zanoba Shirone...."
Orsted also seemed to have just noticed him now.
No, in reality, he really may have just noticed him now.
With that helmet, he shouldn't be able to see a thing.
... Also, I just noticed, but his voice is able make it through as well.
Which means he's able to breath as well.
Zanoba took a single step forward and bowed at the waist.
I have no idea what kind of expression Orsted is making.
But, thanks to the helmet, he should be giving off a slightly better impression.
Ah, then this was the reason he was already wearing the helmet when I came in.
He actually felt a sign of Zanoba before I entered and put it on in advance.
"You could have just expressed your gratitude to Rudeus. Wouldn't that have been fine?"
"No, there is more then that."