Chapter 44: Chapter 43

43 – Plan – 5

When the chairman heard the plan, he looked at me with concern, but he probably thought there was no other solution, so he eventually accepted. The final blow was that Quinn had already begun destroying her evidence.

I went to see Priscilla and Rosaria and explained the plan to them. With the chairman at the forefront, we attacked Alexander as soon as daybreak and detained the recruit.

“What is this! Chairman!”

It was as we expected. Because Nica was caught, the Succubus Queen had taken care of the situation one step ahead of him, so the bastard sat unnaturally calmly, and only after his body was tied up did he start to glow.

The dozens of nuns next to her did the same. They followed their master quietly, but when their bodies were tied up, they began to struggle, claiming that they were all innocent.

“Do you think the Starlight Church will get away with treating me like this? “I will formally complain about this to the Academy!”

“That depends on who you are. So don’t do anything stupid.”

But the chairman was firm. After Ingrid created a magic circle nearby and a space where no one except a few officials could enter was completed, Jake searched the carriage.

And after a while, I came out completely empty-handed.

“There is nothing in the carriage, Chairman.”

“Did you search properly?”

“Yes. With the help of Professor Ingrid, I even used detection magic to search…… “The only item that was presumed to be a magic tool was a temperature maintaining device.”

While Jake and Ingrid found nothing, there was a new arrival. It was an imperial investigator and a high-ranking priest of the Starlight Church whom the chairman had contacted in advance.

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After hearing the news that the church’s guard was connected to a succubus, the imperial investigator rushed through the portal, and a high-ranking official heard that the nominal saint’s guard, that is, the Pope’s own son, was arrested on charges of collusion with a succubus. So did the priest.

“What on earth have I done? “It’s unfair!”

“I have received solid news that you have colluded with a succubus. That explains to some extent the evil behavior you committed at my academy. So I had no choice but to investigate.”

“I don’t do that! Even now, hundreds and thousands of nuns and priests are going to the front lines to treat the wounded, but they are in collusion with demons! “What on earth are you looking at me for?”

When the guy heard those words, he looked truly aggrieved and jumped up. She denied it with all her might, saying that the nun had never done anything like that.

That statement worked. People, led by the investigator, searched the entire carriage again, but they could not find the magic tool used to hide the monster that the chairman had mentioned.

It was natural. It would have been better if they had invaded as soon as they caught Nika yesterday, but already 12 hours have passed. It was harder to believe that no work had been done in advance.

“Look at that! I’m innocent! “It’s disgusting that you’re arbitrarily accusing me of colluding with demons!”

When it was said that no evidence was found, the guy gained momentum and even openly used informal language to ridicule the chairman. The chairman, knowing what would happen later, calmly accepted the ridicule.

“Look for Baeknal somewhere! “This matter will definitely be protested directly to the empire!”

Why did they wait until the next morning when it would not have been enough to attack as quickly as possible and gather all the remaining evidence?

This is to give them time to prepare and, conversely, to make them fall into the illusion that all evidence has been destroyed. They were properly caught up in the operation.

Our goal was to kill that Alexander, not to destroy the Starlight Church. If that were the case, I would have thought of a different approach rather than approaching it this way.

Of course, the church will have to be destroyed someday.

“Can you take responsibility for what you just said?”

The chairman grinned. I had no intention of looking for evidence in the first place.

We were planning on making it ourselves. The evidence is so clear and clear that you can’t even protest that it was fabricated.

To that end, the chairman allowed the high priest to treat Alexander as he wished.

Move him to a room prepared by the church, have them tie the knot of the rope themselves, remove all surveillance magic, and have them conduct a body search, etc. I accepted almost all requests to avoid any nonsense later.

If you do what you ask, you won’t be able to find fault. The reason I asked for the surveillance magic to be removed was probably to discuss a solution there, but it would be useless to discuss it for a hundred days anyway.

Jake and Ingrid protested, saying they didn’t know what they would do, but they calmed down when the chairman told them to leave them alone.

“You requested to speak alone with Alexander, student Mira Krait.”

“Yes.”

Not long after, I got a chance to meet him alone. Now was the real beginning.

“Why?”

“I can’t tell you. “You went inside with all the surveillance magic turned off and had a good chat, but you’re the only one asking me why?”

The high priest fell silent and eventually agreed, even though I insisted that I could not speak openly, perhaps because they had requested something. Instead, he was searched very thoroughly.

I heard that they even told me to embody eternity and leave it outside. I gladly followed suit. It’s better to have no weapons anyway.

“Why are you conducting a body search?”

“Because Alexander is empty-handed. “I don’t know what you’ll do if you go in hiding something strange.”

The high priest was blunt but gave me a look that seemed to look down on me. They seemed to think that this would probably be our last struggle. Otherwise, there is no way I could express that kind of confidence.

I faced Rosaria, who had arrived first, in front of the room where Alexander was trapped. Rosaria’s face was half-blushing, wearing her saint’s clothes that were barely a scrap of cloth.

Pretending to show respect, she adjusted the angle so that Rosalia’s face could not be seen from behind. Rosalia also clasped her hands and slightly opened her lower breasts with her fingers, pretending to accept my greeting.

Suddenly, a bottle containing succubus pheromones flowed into the sleeve of my uniform. This was the method he strongly advocated as the safest way to receive the pheromone.

I thought I must have thought of this even though I was going to be so embarrassed.

“It’s really okay, right?”

While I was hiding the warmed bottle in the corner of my sleeve, Rosaria whispered softly.

“Of course. “Who am I?”

“Well, it’s shameless to say this from the person who asked for it. Don’t push yourself too hard. Because I know that the situation is really messed up. In any case, you can just send it back without killing it. Huh? Understand?”

“Okay, okay. “You don’t have to worry.”

“You said you had a plan, so of course it should be okay…… Don’t get hurt. Please.”@@novelbin@@

I answered appropriately and went inside. Rosaria didn’t seem to notice that I had remained silent until the end when she asked me not to hurt her.

“Welcome, Mira Crait.”

Alexander Reinhardt, loosely tied with a rope, greeted me with a face that was close to a sneer.

“It’s good to sell. “There is no surveillance, no magic tools for surveillance, and he is resting comfortably in a room like this, not in a prison.”

“Because I didn’t communicate. I am innocent, so this is a natural action. And, isn’t it instead very tightly bound like this?”

“You know that if you apply just a little bit of force, it will come loose, right?”

“Haha, no way.”

He smiled slyly. When I sat down, he relaxed and leaned back against the backrest, as if he was no longer nervous.

“I am sorry to tell you this, but why did you decline my invitation to dinner yesterday? If you had come, you would have been able to taste various delicacies. They are all children raised for that purpose. To be exact, my father raised me. “My father is a very good man.”

“Because there’s no need for that.”

“Heh heh. You’re also good at lying. There’s no way a burly man would be interested in something like that. Or perhaps on the other side…… Oops, excuse me. Just joke. Joke.”

Unlike the times when he got angry and even spoke informally to the chairman, he was still kind to me. I smiled and asked a question.

“Did Queen tell you to become friends with me? “Are you going to make me think of you as a friend by giving me all this and that?”

He flinched, his body shaking slightly. It’s because I’m so bad at managing my facial expressions.

“Haha. “Queen, I don’t know what you mean.”

“Since we all know that you are possessed by a succubus, why don’t you just admit it instead of lying? It’s more comfortable that way. Yes?”

His face regained its calm at my reckless question.

“I really don’t know what you’re talking about. Didn’t I tell you? There is no evidence that I was in contact with the demons. Or did you bring any proper evidence from somewhere? If there is evidence, of course they should be punished. But it’s not like that, is it?”

‘He confessed with his own mouth that he was the culprit.’

I scoffed inside. If those words had just been recorded, the investigator would have been questioned again. It was such a stupid statement.

If you have evidence, you will be punished harshly? If it was really unfair, they would have argued that the evidence was fabricated. Even though he didn’t do it, there was a ton of evidence showing that he was the culprit.

In the end, saying something like that means that the destruction of evidence has already been completed, and at the same time, it means that he is confident that he will not be caught.

“It seems like you don’t know something, so I’ll tell you. “There are two things you are very mistaken about.”

I fumbled with the inside of my sleeve. He looked at my hand with a very nervous expression.

“First of all, if I wanted to live, I shouldn’t have locked myself in a perfectly soundproof room like I do now and left out all the surveillance magic tools and magic.”

A small bottle sticking out of my sleeve was held in my left hand. The guy’s expression hardened when he saw the pink fog inside.

“Do you seem to know what this is?”

“Well, I don’t know. I’m fine…… ?”

“I don’t know. You wrote it last night too. It’s for use when taking Rosaria with you, but they’re testing it out in advance. “You probably had to prepare in advance after hearing that we were coming, so it must have been a shame that we couldn’t use it for a long time?”

“…… “Are you just calling the saint candidate’s name arbitrarily?”

“Then what about you? “I guess you don’t even remember what you did yesterday?”

I calmly shook the bottle.

“And the second. I won’t find any evidence. You can make it. “Dead people can’t talk anyway, right?”

“…… “What did you say?”

“Why didn’t you understand because it was a metaphor? “Would you like me to tell you directly?”

I stood up from my seat. The guy’s body shrank slightly.

“I’m going to kill you here.”