A Famous Traitor and Treacherous Genius

199 – At That Time, an Imperial Assassin Appeared (1)

Even if the kingdom and the empire create an atmosphere of reconciliation through mutual exchange, of course there are still sparks of conflict.

It is most abundant in the kingdom, and exists to some extent within the empire.

The Habsburg emperor did not completely quell the flames of strife.

You can unify everything by force, but you don’t overturn everything because of immediate fatigue and annoyance.

-Just because a spider came into the house, it’s similar to no one going through the entire house looking for mosquitoes.

The emperor once said something like that.

He didn’t like being bothered that much.

The same goes for me.

Although it is a situation where I must step forward, I don’t necessarily want to step forward when I don’t have to.

So what now?

‘It’s time to step up.’

When you disguise yourself as an insect remaining inside the empire and act as an assassin for the empire.

“Pfft!!”

Hernández quickly blocks the sword.

Judging from the fact that they accurately block the herbivorous attacks of the Imperial Sword, it appears that the Knights of the Golden Dawn have also done at least some training against the Imperial Army.

‘Then how about this?’

Quickly retrieve the sword and thrust forward.

It seemed like an honest stab, but I released magical power by lightly pressing the device on the handle.

Pa—-ang!

“!!”

Hernández’s eyes widen as he prepares to ward off the stab aimed at him from the side.

The eye that reacted momentarily was pierced by the blade aimed at me, and the blade ‘burst’ out of my sword and flew towards my chest.

Phu-uuk.

The blade of the sword, fired like a crossbow, plunges into Hernández’s chest.

If he had been wearing a breastplate or chainmail under his t-shirt, it would have been lodged less deeply, but a thin shirt is not enough to block the blade emitted by the aura.

“This…”

Whisk.

Hernández gets down on his knees.

Even with a blade stuck in his heart, he is forced to use mana to stay alive, but the only thing he can see as he survives for a few more seconds is the death of his comrades.

“aaah! These scum of the empire!”

“Why did you blame us for the destruction of your country?”

There was no hesitation between Lord Platinum and Carlos’ sword.

Rather, he was doing his best to deal with the Golden Dawn Knights, perhaps determined to kill them himself in order to ease the burden on his opponents.

And to give one more reason, there must be a certain amount of anger in the actions they ‘committed’.

“Why are you trying to kill us?”

Hernández asks with half-closed eyes.

Although he was already certain of death, his eyes seemed as if he wanted to die knowing the reason.

“Are you really the descendants of a fallen nation?”

“…”

“But why?”

According to common sense, there is no reason for knights who perished from the empire to come to Lemberi Camp and attack the Knights of Golden Dawn.

You may be curious about such an unusual situation –

“You guys die. By the shadow of the empire.”

I took out an item in a paper bag from the pocket of my black clothes.

“That’s…!”

“You will die by the Empire’s assassination squad.”

“If you did that…!”

“War.”

I took out the silver powder and sprinkled it on Hernández.

“Myself. I don’t like peace. “I like war.”

“Hey, crazy…! You, no way…! Mercenary-“

Deeply.

Blood flowed out of the heart of Hernández, whose mana was exhausted, and he fell forward helplessly.

“…”

I stepped back without a word.

Then he gestured towards the assassins who came with me, and soon the smaller one went up the stairs.

Several seconds.

“aaah!!”

A woman, wearing only her underwear, with bruises all over her body, looked around with tears streaming down her face.

“Hee, hee hee…?”

All the knights were killed, but although they were somewhat scared, they did not scream.

It looks like he’s seen this happen a few times, but he probably feels more ‘good luck’ rather than knowing that he could be killed as well.

“Check.”

“Yes.”

The shadow that has grabbed the woman extends its hand towards the woman’s lower abdomen.

Weeing.

Soon the mana began to shine, but no reaction occurred.

“No, boss.”

“…It’s difficult.”

“Shall I kill you?”

“Hmm.”

Sir Carlos pretended to wipe the bloody sword from behind, but I held out my hand to him and shook his head.

“Not necessary. The purpose has been achieved.”

“OK.”

We turned around.

“Hey, over there!!”

A woman called us from behind, but we just ignored it and ran outside.

Ta-ah.

The moment we widened the distance, widened the distance further, and arrived at the temporary shelter we had already prepared.

“Huh.”

I took off my mask, and Sir Carlos and Sir Platinum also took off their masks.

“Hey, boss.”

“There is nothing around. You can rest assured.”

I deliberately took off my blood-stained black clothes in one go and immediately picked up the shovel I had prepared.

“What kind of action is this? It’s a meaningless action.”

Sell the land.

“But if you try to give it meaning, it is an action that has no possibility and cannot be done.”

When I shovel with an aura on the blade of the shovel, piles of dirt are scattered around the ground, like scooping up jelly with a spoon.

“The previous emperor of the Thersian Empire was destroyed or subjugated 13 countries by force. It is said that quite a lot of time has passed since then, but in that time, one country could have secretly annihilated a squad of knights of the kingdom with three people. You can develop a certain amount of strength.”

“What is it like in reality?”

“There is no such thing.”

The Habsburg emperor acted thoroughly.

So I decided to act thoroughly.

“Sir Carlos. Was Gray Gibraltar here?”

“No, there wasn’t.”

“Who is the supreme elder of the elves allied with Gibraltar, and the knight of the Knights of Gibraltar who was dispatched?”

“There was none.”

“Yeah. We didn’t kill them.”

The conclusion was that someone killed him, but the killer was never us.

“Within an hour at the earliest. 10 a.M. Tomorrow morning at the latest. If that woman does not report it, the headquarters, which senses something is wrong with the instructors not coming, will dispatch someone to search for her whereabouts. And they will find it. Extermination.”

There is no more meaningless action than trying to give meaning to something that has no meaning.

“The investigation will begin. A person has died, but the students won’t know. Why? All their actions are being ‘recorded.'”

I pointed in the direction of the villa and pretended to use my hand to film the projector.

“It looks like they were trying to do something by killing a person and then recording it with a video magic stone. If that is revealed, it will be a fatal blow even within Golden Dawn.”

A person died.

The moment when you feel indignant at death itself and find out how you died.

“What kind of judgment will the Marquis de Barcel make? Regarding the traces of a group of knights raiding a woman sent by the Viscount. And that woman is not actually the Viscount’s Gasol; she is a prostitute called by the Viscount. If you say it was.”

“…”

“A deviation from the entire Knights of the Golden Dawn? Or the unfortunate knights who were killed while disguised like that? I don’t know. Should we really focus on something like that?”

Everyone will know that it was not a person, but an animal that died.

“Those who try to cover up the incident will make a fuss about it, and those who try to give meaning to it will spread all kinds of delusions based on some evidence.”

“Traces of the Imperial Swordsmanship remaining on the corpse. The assassins’ conversation ‘recorded’ on the rotating video magic stone. Slurred Kingdom language. And…”

“Witness.”

A woman wearing a robe that looked like the curtains had just been hastily torn out.

“The unidentified assassins who killed the kingdom’s knights used magic on their abdomen, then pretended that something was wrong, pondered whether to kill them or not, and left. That’s right. This is just right.”

From the empire’s perspective, an investigation into this massacre will begin using all possible methods, but the kingdom is different.

“There is magic for no reason.”

Field reenactment magic.

A magic that follows the flow of mana and analyzes past scenes based on the movement of traces of mana.

“Even if you use the magic that is the pride of the kingdom, the evidence you get is the same.”

Even if you use all those miracles, the result is the same.

“Descendants from the empire and the fallen kingdom appeared as assassins.”

That’s enough.

“The culprit is not Gibraltar.”

“…”

“And there is no one below Saint Geo who has the ability to recognize the truth.”

* * *

A time close to midnight.

Hwieuik.

The drake folds its wings and lands in a nearby clearing, and a knight in golden armor lands on the ground.

“Oh, Captain Zeros…!”

A Golden Dawn knight with a red face and a slight odor of alcohol greeted leader Zeros with a contemplative salute.

“Report.”

“Well, that is.”

“Report.”

“…All members of the Golden Dawn ‘Golden Bird’ platoon, including Hernández, were killed.”

“Ha…”

Leader Zeros covered his face with his hands and headed straight into the villa.

“Chief… “

“What is the situation?”

“No one knows yet. We are the only ones who checked.”

The Golden Dawn knights inside were ready to draw their swords at any moment.

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If the culprit is revealed.

“I see…”

Traces of battle.

Scattered blood traces.

And a body that has not yet been recovered.

“Step back. I will use magic.”

When Leader Zeros took out a large spherical magic stone from his chest and poured out mana, golden energy flowed out.

Click, click, click.

With a sound like winding up, the golden mana flowing from the magic stone begins to take the shape of a person.

“Ugh…!”

“Oh my…”

Several people are doing something with one person on the sofa.

It was too vulgar to describe in words, so no one said anything.

And then the big light picked up one of the fallen people and headed upstairs, while the rest were sitting around the table eating and drinking something.

Ta-da.

The moment you hit the glass into the air.

“!!”

A dull, heterogeneous white color, different from the gold color, appeared, and soon he started moving his hands around.

“Two adult men, one adult…Female. Three-member group.”

Each golden light tried to stand up and respond to the attackers, but they soon began to fall one by one.

“That’s…!”

“The Empire’s swordsmanship…?”

Slowly, slowly.

One by one, the golden lights fall down after being cut by the imperial sword.

The fallen golden light falls exactly on top of the corpses lying on the floor, as if its bodies were stacked on top of each other.

“Ha…”

The very last.

The driver, Hernández, tried to respond, but his heart heaved and he fell to his knees.

“Other evidence…”

“…There won’t be any. From the beginning, you confirmed everything with the reproduction magic, right?”

The subordinate knight pointed to the place where the body was cut with a serious expression.

“He was killed by the Imperial Sword. What does this mean?”

“Do you want to say that the two high-ranking knights and the remaining middle-ranking knights were killed by imperial assassins?”

“I mean… “

“It would be better to just die quietly.”

Leader Zeros gritted his teeth with a red face.

“The Knights of the Golden Dawn weren’t poisoned, but were cut to pieces by assassins coming from the front?”

“…”

“Still, we are looking for you. This is a challenge to the Golden Dawn. Whether the culprit is an Imperial assassin, an Imperial soldier disguised as a student, or a completely different third party disguised as an Imperial assassin and trying to kill us…”

The leader tightly grasped the sword at his waist with one hand.

“Kill. Definitely.”

Lembury Camp, first day.

So, nothing happened.