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45 – Chancellor’s Arrangement

When they heard that Gerhilde had woken up, all the children ran out of the room and ran to her.

Her power was happy that she had woken up, and he hugged her and cried, rejoicing at her reunion.

Leaving Gerhilde with the children, I returned to the room I was staying in.

The purpose was to open the safe found in the mafia’s hideout.

I didn’t have time on the spot, so I just brought the safe with me, but I guess I should check it now.

Honestly, it makes no sense that the small-scale mafia operating in Nevan City, which is close to the countryside within the empire, is handling so much Jormungand poison.

In all likelihood, there will be someone behind it, and the clue to that background will be in this safe.

I held the small safe with both hands and twisted it with force.

Quad! The iron safe collapsed with a sound.

At the same time, a gap appeared between the safe door and the safe, so he stuck his hand in and forced it open.

…If what’s inside is expensive goods, it may be damaged, so it’s not a good method to use, but after all, what’s inside is paper.

Even if it is a little crooked or torn, there is no problem in reading it.

「Is there anything that could be a clue?」

When the safe door opened, I asked a question about Reinforce leaning against one side of the desk.

As expected from the sound I heard when I shook the safe, what was inside was a collection of various documents and a piece of paper with content that was presumed to be a letter.

There was also a bag with gold coins, but I didn’t care about this so I threw them over there.

Ledgers, letters…

The ledger contains a list of customers who purchased Jormungand’s poison.

Most of them were people from the slums who were addicted to drugs and desperately bought drugs little by little with their savings.

And among the customers, there were even names of noble families.

And those are high-ranking noble families whose names you may have heard of within the empire.

Of course, it is unknown whether the drugs were purchased by the family itself or someone in the family personally, but there is a nobleman among the buyers.

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If you had such nobles as your customers, it was natural that they would be of great help to you.

…And among the customers, there was one name I knew really well.

“…Freud Ira Halfas”

「Huh? “Is it that bug?”

“Ha, so these guys didn’t know that the law was scary and were just running a drug business.”

All the remaining medicine was burned and buried underground, and the members of the organization were destroyed and buried.

The Changgwan they were operating undercover has been destroyed by Zikrune and is in ruins, so there will no longer be a way for them to obtain Jormungand’s poison.

… I thought the crown prince was an asshole, but I didn’t get anything except that he was a great asshole.

“The empire is so f*cking rotten.”

I roughly picked up the stack of documents and threw them away, then turned my attention to the letter.

Most of the contents of the letter were nothing special, but I was able to learn one new thing from the last letter.

In the mafia’s hideout, women become addicted to drugs.

It was none other than their source.

“…Ha, look at this.”

「Isn’t this guy a real idiot?」

He is the crown prince again.

Prince Freud liked to seduce and play with women.

If he was a beautiful woman, he was famous for seducing everyone, regardless of whether they were foreigners, nobles, or commoners, and then throwing them away.

Of course, after the crown prince’s notoriety spread throughout aristocratic society, noble daughters began to avoid him.

But leaving aside the nobles, what happened to the commoners?

The answer was here.

When this idiot got tired of the women he seduced and played with, he filled them with drugs and sold them to the mafia.

Women who became victims became playthings of the mafia, and that is what we discovered.

I started doing this two years ago.

Even when I first met him as a warrior, this crazy guy was doing this.

For a moment, he felt like he wanted to just run up and tear this guy down for revenge or something, but he held back.

This guy needs to fall even more horribly, so he is not satisfied with just going and tearing him to death.

…Should we ask the Demon King to pay more attention to this guy and execute him?

As I was thinking about that, it suddenly occurred to me.

A package came to me through Zikrune, said to have been sent by the Demon King.

When I searched my pocket and took out the package and opened it, what was inside was a small box.

When we opened the box carefully, what was inside was a dark red gem.

「What is that?」

“…Well?”

Demon Lord Elaine, it must have some meaning since it was something she sent, but I couldn’t figure it out.

I looked closely at the gem, but I didn’t feel anything that could cause any harm.

It didn’t seem like there was any magic.

When I was about to put it back in the box, wrap it in a package, and put it in my luggage, I heard a knock on the door.

“Who is it?”

“It’s me. It’s Gerhilde.”

When I asked them to come in, I opened the door and Gerhilde came in.

She came in looking the same as when she was talking to the kids earlier, and bowed her head to me.

“I heard that you excluded those who were a threat to the children. Thank you.”

She posted a thank you note.

For me, I just attacked those who messed with young children because I thought they had gone far beyond the line.

…I had no idea there were drugs there.

“No, it was just annoying to me… If you came all the way here, you must have some business, right?”

“…Yes, actually, I heard from Zikrune and Rossweisse… I heard that there are people in serious condition.”

She nodded at Ger Hilde’s words.

Women discovered in the mafia’s hideout.

Women sold by Prince Freud.

Now, the toxins have been removed from their bodies through Rossweisse’s measures, but they have not yet come to their senses.

Because the drugs have already eaten away at their bodies, there is no telling whether they will recover or not.

Even if you recover and come to your senses, you will have to live with the aftereffects for the rest of your life.

Those girls…

“Won’t you give me permission to heal them?”

“What?”

There was enough power to somehow heal those women.

For Gerhilde, the support-specialized Valkyrie.

“…Are you ready, Laceys?”

“Yes, father. …But is it really okay if you don’t go with us?”

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At the Prime Minister’s residence there, Raysis bowed his head to his father, the Prime Minister.

The Prime Minister closed his eyes.

In front of the prime minister, his son Raysis and his daughter Raina were looking at him with faces that looked like they were about to cry.

“I can’t go yet. Neither can your mother.”

“Father…”

“Dad…!!”

“If we do that, he won’t be fooled either.”

Lasis informed Prince Freud of the news about Lady Lucien and said that he had a plan.

Of course, he had a plan.

But it was never a ploy to bring Lucie and me to her crown prince.

“Your Highness will think that your exile under a different name and identity is ‘disguise.'”

“…Yes.”

“If you want Your Highness to believe that, wouldn’t it be possible for me to go away too?”

As his plan, Raysis proposed to the Crown Prince that several soldiers, including himself, lie about their identities and go into exile within the Republic in order to get closer to Ru Siena.

He secretly approaches Lu Sienna, kidnaps her, and brings her to the empire.

Of course, it was a plan with a high chance of failure, and it was a ridiculous method, but it was also true that there was no other solution.

However, this plan was a plan prepared by the prime minister to make his family escape.

A fake identity prepared by the Prime Minister in advance and a confirmation of asylum using that identity.

Raysis planned to use this to run away to the Republic with his family and live there under a false identity.

He is deceiving the crown prince by saying he is planning a plan to drag me to Lucie.

“As soon as I’m ready, I’ll go with his entourage.”

“…I’m sorry, father. If only I could have led you properly…”

“… From the beginning, that guy was a shrewd guy. I guess that’s why I prepared such a fake identity.”

The damn prince, Freud.

When the emperor fell and that bastard pushed away Prince Jaden and firmly established himself as the crown prince.

The Prime Minister decided that the empire was now gone and was making plans to escape.

Just when you were ready, the resurrection and attack of the Demon King’s army came as if it were fate.

At a time when war clouds were hanging over the empire, there was no option not to use the prepared plan.

“…Take Reina and go first. I will take the opportunity and leave with your mother.”

“I understand, father.”

Raysis left the imperial capital with his younger sister Rayna and his prepared soldiers.

Even though the Crown Prince knew that he was leaving, he thought that Raysis was going to Lucie to get me, so he took no action.

By the time the crown prince found out that Raysis had really run away, it would be too late.