Chapter 57: Assassination (2)
The enemies a Hero’s party had to fight weren’t just monsters or the Demon King’s army.
There was even an event where other nations, wary of the Empire gaining too much prestige after the Demon King’s defeat, sent assassins after us.
They couldn’t assassinate the Hero—if he really died, the fate of the continent might shift—so the target was usually me.
You’d think no one would be dumb enough to send assassins when weakening our party could cause the subjugation of the Demon King’s army to fail.
But no, there really were idiots like that. Countless ones.
They tried to replace me with their own healer to rack up achievements. Political motivations like that.
The assassins who came for me were all from a group with the simple name, “Shadow.”
They were the best assassins in all the continent, operating in every single country.
If you died to them, you’d get the [Shadow’s Assassin] bad ending.
That’s why I always made sure someone was on watch in the party. On nights when everyone was too exhausted to stay up, I stayed awake myself.
It wasn’t even a particularly hard bad ending to avoid. I eventually got so used to them that I could capture and interrogate them.
They were a mercenary group that moved for money. The clients changed each time—kingdoms, theocratic states, magic nations, duchies, underground empires, beastfolk kingdoms.