I followed them up the window.

The scene that seemed scary to go up was the image of a wire approaching the princess’s neck.

It was sharpened so sharp that the reflection of the wire in the moonlight was hideous.

‘Even if I run that far, it’s too late.’

I had to interrupt him with something else, but fittingly, there were plenty of ways to interrupt him.

“… !”

The masked man, whose neck was caught in my hand, struggled.

It was a little surprising that there was no moaning.

My body was in pain, but it felt like my mouth wasn’t.

Quaang!

As it was, he threw the masked man away from the princess with the wire.

I dealt with the masked man who rushed at me once, and it was up to the one who attacked the princess with a wire.

I dodged the daggers of the masked people charging from all sides, got closer to him, and aimed the cotton at his neck.

Chirrr-

The wire he was holding got longer and tried to strangle me.

Caang!

I tried to cut the wire with cotton, but the wire was harder than I thought.

Does not matter.

Even if it wasn’t a sword, there were many ways to deal with it, and I hadn’t used an aura yet.

“I just need one.”

I listened to the nameless while avoiding the attacks of the guys running from behind.

Chow!

Except for the one holding the wire, all the masked people collapsed, spurting blood.

“Um… .”

In the commotion, the princess tossed and turned as if she would wake up late.

A wire was fired at the princess.

There was a hint of his will to kill at least one princess.

“If you ignore me, you ignore me too much.”

Did I look so incompetent that I couldn’t even stop the action right in front of me?

I stuck a piece of cotton into his thigh and reached out to grab the wire he had shot out.

A wire coiled around the aura-clad hand.

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Kah, kagagak-

The sound of iron plates scraping echoed.

I grabbed the guy’s head with my wire-wrapped hand and pinned it to the ground.

dig-

As soon as his body began to limp, a light appeared next to the bed, and a man appeared.

“what?”

It was the Count with a face that seemed to be regretting that things did not go as well as he had hoped for.

“Are you here?”

“Yes, but… .”

The Count looked around.

Half-decapitated corpses rolled around the princess’s bed.

“Uh, what is this… .”

The princess, who came to her senses belatedly, was surprised to see the count with me, and then looked at the corpses and, for the second time, she was so surprised that she made a blank face.

“Are you awake?”

“Yes… But how did this happen?”

The princess, who came to her senses faster than expected, tried to understand the situation with a calm face.

damn

The count snapped his fingers and used light magic.

A round orb floated in the air, instantly lighting up the entire room.

I leaned down and turned the upper body of the masked man I had just stunned.

I tried to take off the mask, but it didn’t come off as if it was made in such a way that it was attached to the entire clothing.

“I’m going to die of annoyance.”

hot!

He tore off the mask with force.

The faces of the raiders revealed like that were revealed.

“Um… !”

“Ugh!”

“They’re f*cking crazy.”

The count and the princess frowned, and I cursed in front of the count.

The masked assailant’s face was horrendous.

His entire face was covered with burn marks.

There was no hair, and the lips were burned to the point where it felt strange to eat rice or water.

In addition, the hand that shot the wire had no fingers.

It was in the form of a weapon wrapped around a palm with all of its fingers cut off and tied.

“Are you trying to destroy the evidence?”

I picked up the cotton and bit my lip, but that didn’t get me anything out of him.

Even the teeth and tongue that should have been in the wide open mouth were missing.

Instead, only empty, empty darkness took its place.

‘Is it an empire?’

The Empire’s assassination group.

Monsters who have lost their personality created by drugs and magic doping.

Looking at the man whose face was full of burns, they suddenly came to mind.

Few groups were capable of destroying and using people to such an extent.

No matter how talented they are or those who have been treated with drugs, they cannot function properly if a part of their body is missing, such as a missing finger.

There are times when they show weaker strength than usual, or weaker than normal people.

In particular, it was like a big penalty for an assassin to have to see the world with a very narrow view by burning his eyes.

In addition, memorization, which requires delicacy, cannot be handled properly because there are no fingers.

‘If it wasn’t for the Empire, there’s no way they’d make these guys.’

Taking advantage of Ahar’s attack on the kingdom of Serion, he had assassinated high-ranking officials of the kingdoms in the empire.

The description of the appearance of those in the group I used at that time was similar to this guy.

I don’t know the name of the organization.

It didn’t even appear in the novel, and I only know it as an assassination group created by the empire.

“Is it those guys again… .”

However, the Count’s reaction was unexpected.

He clicked his tongue and said he knew them.

Then he snapped his fingers.

Part of the count’s house was covered with alarm sounds, and soon knights came to the princess’s bedroom.

“Look for even the smallest evidence. And it would be good for the princess to move the bedroom.”

“Yes.”

As if it was a familiar situation, the count skillfully commanded the knights and brought the princess out.

“There will be a meeting tomorrow morning, so don’t miss it and attend on time.”

“All right.”

“Go away, princess.”

The count took the princess and left.

I left the bedroom and walked away scratching my head.

-Inaaan! Alas, the human is gone!

I sighed at the sound of a voice that hit me directly in the head, not in my ears.

***

the next morning.

There was an emergency in the count’s family.

An attacker came to the count’s house, which boasts the best security.

What’s even more shocking is that the knights and wizards didn’t notice the attacker while he was on his way to the princess’ bedroom.

“Did you hear? A deal blocked by Master Raymond of this raid.”

“I heard that too! If it wasn’t for the young master, the princess would have been in danger!”

Rumors of what had happened last night spread beyond the Count’s family to the city.

The rumors were called again and again, and there were many words that were quite embarrassing.

For example.

“I heard that Master Raymond predicted in advance that the raiders would come?”

“He liked the princess, so he was always hanging around her! Wow! Isn’t that too romantic?”

things like this

As I went to attend the meeting to follow the Count’s words, I felt burdened by the gazes I felt around me.

-Human, became popular overnight!

The hatchling struck me on the head with his front paw, as if it were strange that my name was spreading among the people.

“Are you here?”

When I arrived at the meeting place, the articles standing guard outside the meeting hall greeted me.

They looked at me strangely and bowed their heads.

“Brother Raymond is here.”

It was time they opened the conference hall door and stepped into it.

– Me, I’ll wait here!

“… ?”

The hatchling reacted violently and fell off my head.

Hatchling, curled up on a bench far from the conference room, trembled as he looked at the conference room.

I don’t know why you’re doing that

‘It was uncomfortable, but it worked.’

It would have been difficult to have a meeting while caring about hatchling, but I thought it went well.

Upon entering, all the count’s vassals were seated next to a long table.

And in the distance, the count sat on the high table, the princess sat on the left, and the seat on the right was empty.

Seeing that there were no other seats left, the seat next to the Count seemed to be my seat.

Ignoring the gazes of his vassals, he walked over and sat down.

“… Let’s start the meeting.”

With the Count’s words, the vassals opened their mouths, and the meeting hall became noisy in an instant.

“This is clearly disregard for the Countess!”

“We need to thoroughly uncover the background. How dare you touch a millennial customer!”

“We must gather wizards and clearly show them the power of millennium.”

The count raised his hand to calm them down as they shouted in unison.

“First, let’s take a look at what we find out about them. Knight Commander, tell me what you know.”

“insect!”

At the words of the Count, the Knight Commander stepped forward and took out various items from his chest and placed them on the table.

Badges and bloodstained notes that seemed to have been ripped from the clothes of the assailants.

“These are the things I found with them. First of all, this appears to be a pattern used by their group.”

The knight commander handed over the badge to the count.

The Count examined the badge and swept his chin.

“Also… .”

The count nodded as if he could guess who was behind it, and handed the badge to me.

‘uh… This… ?’

Examining the badge handed to me by the Count, I swallowed a curse in my heart.

The pattern of a red snake wrapped around a black sword.

It was a pattern very familiar to me.

As a symbol of the secret organization of the Empire, when Ahar attacked Serion Kingdom, it was an organization used when attacking other kingdoms in the Empire.

‘Why is this coming out here?’

Did the Empire’s secret societies come down here with something good?

And that too while ignoring the Millennium Countess.

Even if I went out of my mind, I went out firmly.

No matter how much the empire is stronger than the kingdom, the power of Serion Kingdom and the power of the empire did not differ much.

In Serion Kingdom, there were two sword masters and one archmage.

Below that, there were 8th Circle Wizards and 7th Circle Wizards.

Even if it was an empire with three sword masters and two archmages.

It was difficult to handle the Serion Kingdom while watching the other kingdoms notice.

No, even if it wasn’t even the kingdom, if the Millennium Earl stepped forward, the empire would have to be in trouble in many ways.

Because he was the master of the central mage tower.

Confronting the central mage tower, which might have stronger power than the empire’s mage tower, was a tough task for the empire as well.

‘But why did you do this? Are you really taking this risk for the sake of the princess?’

I honestly couldn’t believe it.

It didn’t even occur to me that he did this because of a princess who had a narrow position within the kingdom and did not show any particular strength.

The value of the princess was not too great for the empire to move.

However, it did not appear to be used as a hostage.

I see you want to kill me right away.

‘It’s difficult.’

I don’t know.

It was a mystery that he moved from the Empire.

“And you should look at this.”

The expression on the commander’s face as he handed over the note to the Count was very dark.

The face of the count who had read the note was equally dark.

They drool and glanced back at the princess.

Subtly concerned about their behavior, I reached out for the note.

“What is it?”

The Count removed the note from my hand and returned it to the knight commander.

“Read.”

“… All right.”

The knight commander bit his lip for a moment and then opened his mouth.

“’Princess Daria brings disaster to Serion Kingdom’.”

“… !”

“That, what… !”

All of the vassals were shocked by the words of the knight commander.

The princess also looked at the knight commander with widened eyes.