Chapter 118 : Chapter 118
Chapter 118. Radel Silvert Cretian Hearing (2)
‘Why am I here?’
Armandy was confused.
This was the first time something like this happened while attending the Academy.
He definitely went down to the dormitory lounge and found the 7th Princess, and.
‘Doesn’t it make you feel resentful? What’s with all the secrets!’
Was it from the time the 7th Princess, who approached Armandy, started pouring out her complaints?
That he got swept up in this ridiculous plan.
‘I’m telling you because it’s you, that guy is extremely suspicious.’
Whether she felt they had become closer during the last Dungeon conquest, Inette confided her inner thoughts upon seeing Armandy.
‘And you know what? That guy was outside last night during the exchange meeting?’
At those words, Armandy couldn’t help but be intrigued.
That there was information he, an agent of the Ability Management Bureau, didn’t know!
‘They say he was outside with the apprentice holy knight? Something must have definitely happened with the Inquisitors!’
Armandy had come down briefly while writing a report because of what happened last night anyway.
It was a headache.
There was nothing to write in the report. Even Armandy, a secret agent, hadn’t grasped the situation of how things turned out, having been swept up in last night’s commotion.
It was fortunate that the Princes and Princesses were all safe, but it felt uncomfortable to let it pass like this.
There was something more he didn’t know.
The intuition of an elite agent of the Ability Management Bureau was saying so.
‘You are curious too, right?’
So he ended up accepting the 7th Princess’s proposal.
To dig up information about the 8th Prince.
The result was the appearance of the 8th Prince tied up tightly before his eyes.
It was a situation where an agent of the Ability Management Bureau participated in kidnapping a Prince.
Radel was also laughing at Armandy, perhaps finding it amusing.
“Oh my god, to think even you would join.”
“……I know too, so please don’t laugh.”
Armandy felt shame.
Because even he thought getting involved in such a childish prank was embarrassing.
Even in the situation of being kidnapped, the 8th Prince showed no sign of being flustered at all.
Inette crossed her arms and said to Radel.
“You must have roughly noticed, right? The reason we brought you here!”
Radel made a bewildered expression.
“I don’t know at all?”
“You don’t know?”
Inette’s eyes became sharp.
“No, if something like this happens, shouldn’t you think about what you did wrong!”
“I did think about it. But I don’t know.”
Radel had an attitude that he had no idea at all.
Gusto quietly took Radel’s side.
“The Prince might not know.”
Inette tapped the blackboard and said.
“Uh-uh, quiet! The apprentice holy knight shall not take the sinner’s side!”
Then she went to Gusto and whispered.
“What are you doing right now? You said you would join too! Just stay still. Got it?”
And standing in front of Radel again, she said sternly.
“I said I would tell you when you were sorted out, but I can’t wait. It is true that you and the apprentice holy knight disappeared from the banquet hall last night, right? You might fool others, but you can’t fool my eyes.”
Radel nodded.
“Right. Both of us were outside.”
“Yes. So I asked him what happened, and he said there is no reason to speak if the Prince doesn’t speak. Then isn’t it better to ask you, Radel?”
Inette pointed at Radel with a face full of excitement and shouted.
“If you don’t want to suffer something more terrible here, you’d better tell the truth, you know? About the secret you have!”
Looking at Inette’s behavior, it didn’t seem like she did this with a particularly thorough plan.
It seemed she was just curious because Radel wouldn’t tell her.
What was unexpected was the fact that Gusto, Tunia, and even Armandy joined this plan.
I guess everyone has a lot of things they are curious about.
Radel pretended to be indifferent and asked.
“What happens if I don’t speak?”
Then Inette subtly stepped back and asked Tunia.
In times like this, Tunia, who was a former assassin, was reliable.
“What do we do?”
“Don’t worry. Even if I use just three of the torture methods I know, he will open his mouth.”
Since it was said by a former assassin, it was certain.
However, the person whose heart trembled at those cold words was someone else.
It was Armandy.
‘I can…… torture the 8th Prince?’
As soon as he heard those words, Armandy could feel his heart, which he thought was dead, beating.
The days he had been dragged around and suffered by Radel flashed by.
However, the opportunity for Armandy to pay back what he suffered from Radel did not come…….
Radel agreed too easily to speak readily.
Armandy felt somewhat aggrieved.
“You are yielding this easily?”
“Yeah. I intended to tell you anyway.”
Isn’t it normal for a person to get angry or something when suddenly kidnapped?
No matter if the 8th Prince is a nutjob, does this make sense?
Armandy beat his chest as if frustrated.
“No, shouldn’t you resist a bit more and such?”
Radel stared intently at his reaction and looked at Armandy with a face that had a lot to say.
“……Do you like that kind of thing?”
Armandy jumped.
“Am I crazy? Absolutely not!”
But the expressions of Inette, Tunia, and Gusto looking at Armandy were already changing subtly.
The more I deny here, the stranger person I will become.
Armandy had no choice but to close his eyes tightly, shedding tears inwardly…….
* * *
‘The 1st Radel Silvert Cretian Hearing’ began.
Radel stood in front of the blackboard with his arms tied.
The reason was that he couldn’t be untied yet because there was a concern of escape.
“Then I will ask first!”
It was the moment Inette was about to question Radel.
Bang!
An uninvited guest arrived.
Leon came to the meeting room, somehow knowing about it.
“What? How did you…… here!”
As Inette was flustered, Leon snorted and answered.
“I heard you knocked that guy out and dragged him away. I came to see if today was his memorial day.”
It seemed someone among Leon’s followers saw Radel being dragged into the first-year dormitory.
“By the way, what is this? A hearing?”
Leon glanced at Radel as if displeased.
“Is that guy a prospective Emperor or something? It’s an extremely arrogant event.”
“Excuse me, don’t you see I’m tied up?”
Radel shook his tied arms.
But Leon didn’t care.
“Come to think of it, I just happen to have something to ask too.”
“What?”
Everyone there looked at Leon.
Leon’s eyes turned to Radel.
“I thought about it after the debate ended. Why I feel bad even though I won.”
“You won but felt bad……?”
If you feel bad even though you won, isn’t it probably because your personality is bad?
Radel couldn’t bear to say it to Leon and had to swallow his words. Because Leon’s expression was very bad.
“The conclusion I reached is this. Somehow it feels like I played into your hands.”
Leon clenched his fist tight, perhaps recalling the feeling from back then.
“For me to feel like being controlled by someone. It is something that cannot happen.”
Inette muttered as if dumbfounded.
“Why does he think that far?”
“It seems he tends to think a lot usually.”
Gusto also shook his head and answered.
However, Leon was glaring at Radel very seriously.
His mouth opened slowly.
“Tell me. are you stupid or are you pretending to be stupid?”
Now it was Radel’s turn to be flustered.
Did he just openly ask if I’m stupid in front of me right now?
‘Is this guy’s social skill okay?’
Radel was the one who wanted to ask Leon.
It was truly an amazing personality.
Anyway, he had to answer the question.
Otherwise, it didn’t seem like he would leave here.
“Does that matter? Anyway, the action you will take is decided.”
At Radel’s words, Leon’s expression hardened.
* * *
Although there was an incident where Leon intruded in the middle, the hearing proceeded smoothly.
“Why did he come?”
Inette grumbled.
Leon went back more quietly than expected after hearing Radel’s answer.
“Thanks to him, didn’t it seem like a real hearing?”
At Radel’s words, Inette asked back.
“That question did?”
Did twins have some connection or something.
Inette was bewildered.
Radel was calm even though he was kidnapped and dragged here.
Anyway, Radel answered the questions faithfully.
That he felt killing intent from a Helsington professor, that he entrusted a request to Tunia because of that, that the professor called him outside, and even the fact that he was actually from the Black Order.
Hearing Radel’s story, Gusto’s expression became serious.
“It is certain that the Black Order is targeting the Prince. Because the Prince’s existence becomes a threat to them.”
At Gusto’s words, Inette asked.
“Becomes a threat? How do you know that?”
“It is information that came out when interrogating heretics a while ago.”
Armandy nodded inwardly.
‘So the Supreme Deity Order is grasping it too.’
It was content the Ability Management Bureau also knew.
The movement to remove a royal receiving unofficial support from the Supreme Deity Order.
If it was the Black Order, it was plausible enough.
To Armandy, how the Supreme Deity Order would act from now on was the key point.
However, there was a person who stepped forward before the Supreme Deity Order.
“So that’s why he called Radel out? Those Black Order bastards!”
It was exactly Inette.
“Are they crazy? To dare infiltrate the Academy and try to assassinate a royal!”
To Inette, this incident was an assassination plot orchestrated by the Black Order who secretly infiltrated to kill Radel, who has a close relationship with the Supreme Deity Order.
It wasn’t exactly a wrong story but…….
‘Perhaps that professor did so to find the black key rather than coming to kill me.’
Radel thought inwardly but couldn’t bring up a more detailed story.
Because Inette’s anger grew bigger and pierced the sky.
“What is this, are they trying to kill just anyone? What do they take a royal for!”
Inette was just displeased with Radel constantly getting targeted.
Like the Black Fang incident a while ago.
No matter if assassination is frequent in a royal’s life, this seemed like Radel was being underestimated too much.
It’s absurd enough that heretics are running rampant in the Empire, but they dare target a royal?
This was all because Radel looked like an easy target.
“Hey! Are you going to just leave this be? You will get rid of those arrogant bastards, right?”
It looked like fire would spout from Inette’s eyes.
Radel hadn’t definitely decided yet what to do with the Black Order.
But looking at how things were going, it seemed he would inevitably have to clash with them.
If they were targeting his life anyway, there was no method for Radel.
There was no choice but to eliminate the Black Order.
Radel nodded and answered.
“Of course I should.”
Armandy, who heard those words, opened his mouth in absurdity.
Even if the Black Fang was one thing, now he says he will eliminate even the Black Order?
The Black Fang was a single guild and a small number of people.
But it was unknown how much the Black Order was spread in the Empire or how many there were.
If it was to the point where even skilled Inquisitors of the Supreme Deity Order groaned.
How on earth can a mere Prince handle the forbidden magic they use.
Without even having Divine Power!
Armandy had to press his temples firmly as a headache rushed in.