Chapter 205.5
Their mission was to assassinate the Viscountess Melrose, who was misleading the Crown Prince. However, Clara had given them strict orders not to attack her by force, but to retreat if the situation was dangerous.
The objective was not to kill her quickly and surely, but to ensure her elimination before the Crown Prince’s graduation. To achieve this, Clara informed them that it was important to forego the opportunity and concentrate on gathering information.
Of all the opportunities to assassinate the Viscountess, this time Clara had assigned them to this Inn town on the border between the royal capital and Lester’s territory.
At first, the girls, who were also assassins, thought that there were more suitable places for the assassination. However, after their agents, saved by Clara’s “foresight,” infiltrated Lester’s territory, they discovered why they could not kill her elsewhere.
During her travels, the Viscountess Melrose never slept in her own bedroom. She was always in the bedchamber of Amol or Nathaniel at night.
Only the well-guarded bedroom of Crown Prince Ervan should not be allowed to be entered yet, but Clara foresaw that in this Inn town, where there was only one high-class inn and many knights staying apart from each other, they would surely be able to take action.
To be precise, foresight was only half of the story. In the authentic history of the Otome Game, the heroine, after being attacked by assassins, tactfully discovered a passageway in the attic that even the innkeepers had forgotten about, and saved the Crown Prince’s life.
Not that the viscountess would have noticed it either, but Clara foresaw a high probability that she would use it to serve her purpose. Of course, there was no way for Bibi and the others to know that such knowledge of the game was the source of their information, but they believed it was also Clara’s foresight.
“As Clara-sama said, the Dark Side guys are not coming. I’ll settle this before the only Dark Side knight, that butler kid, joins them.”