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Chapter 38
Sealed Warehouse
Arken Empire, Imperial Palace Underground Prison.
Soldiers wearing guard uniforms shouted.
"Hey, it's shift change time!"
"Ah, shit...... What are you doing not hurrying up?"
"What are you talking about, I got here before the scheduled bugle even sounded."
W ê b̃_n̈_ŏ ṽ еl̄ Еn ǔmã
"Ugh, you son of a bitch, I'll pay you back exactly for what you did later."
The guard made a face of disgust and proceeded with the handover.
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"More than that, it's been a while since there were people in this prison."
"Come to think of it, you went on deployment, right? Are these guys really demon worshippers?"
The man asks what he felt while on duty.
No matter how much he thought about it, he couldn't feel anything but the impression of starving commoners rather than demon worshippers.
Wе̇ b n o v̇ е l _Е nu̇ m̄а̊
"I don't know about the ones we caught, but they were with demon worshippers."
"Wow, real demon worshippers? Isn't that just something they used when cracking down on agitators?"
"Those bastards seem to be the real deal. We caught them in a raid."
"Real demon worshippers appear, and the country seems to be going to ruin."
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At that, the shift guard glared.
"Don't say that kind of thing carelessly anywhere. If I report you, you'll be arrested as a demon worshipper right away?"
W e bn̂о vе̇ l Е̃ n̈ŭ m а̄
"Oh my, scary. Stop it and let's just change shifts quickly. I have to go meet Ashley today."
"Why he likes that bar hostess so much......."
The shift guard checked the guard's prisoner capacity table, and his tongue-clicking stopped.
"Hey, this bastard missed one and didn't even count the numbers properly?"
"What are you talking about?"
"You reported catching 12 prisoners."
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The shift guard pointed at the total and said.
"But why are there 13?"
"What nonsense? There were 13 when we brought them in?"
"What, man? We reported tying up 12 ourselves and bringing them in, would we be wrong?"
"You're the one saying I'm wrong? I counted them one by one as I put them in! Come see for yourself!"
"Oh? Wanna bet 1 golden?"
Ẇ е̃ b̂ṅоv̄ е l̈ È ṅ ümа̃
"I can do 10 golden too, you bastard!"
"Okay! 10 golden. Get ready, you bastard."
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The two walked to the prison holding the heretics with confident expressions.
They counted the exhausted, collapsed group one by one with their fingers.
"One, two, three, four......."
After counting from the right end to the left end, the winner was decided.
E̊ ñ û m̄ а̀
"It's 12, you retard!"
The shift guard smacked the guard's head.
"What? No way?"
Unable to believe it, the guard counted along too.
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"Huh?"
Just as he said, there were only 12.
Е̄num а̌ .іd̀
"This bastard, you caused a huge mess. Did you drink on duty?"
"Ju-just a little, man."
"What little! Ugh, you're getting sent to the brig! If you don't want to go to the brig for drinking on duty and negligence, get 10 golden ready, got it?"
"Agh. Tsk....... That's weird."
The guard tilted his head and looked inside the bars.
The powerless commoners just waited for the day they would die.
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* * *
Meanwhile, inside the Imperial Palace,
"As expected, it's not easy."
Brown hair, angular jaw, and distinct features.
A face that looks like he's heard 'you must have made quite a few women cry' more often than 'you're handsome.'
Zed Swallow.
Е̃ nu m̊ă
He avoided people's eyes and went into the bathroom, looking into the mirror.
"Like I need two eyes, my ass. I need them, yeah."
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He was in a very displeased state.
The process of entering the prison and escaping from it.
All of it required skills only usable by those familiar with it.
'This is none other than the Imperial Palace.'
Ẇӗb.nȯ vе̇ l̆ Ĕ ǹü m̃.à
The moment someone knows an escape happened, an emergency is declared immediately.
What happens when an emergency is declared?
The continent's best knights and mages will swarm to catch Zed, and then Zed will be caught for real, no excuses.
So he really had to appear and disappear like flowing water.
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It's not an easy process at all.
So Zed used his experience to devise a method.
Е̃ n u̇mа̀
'Like abandoning a partner at a party.......'
The key is slipping away when the other party is drunk on the atmosphere.
That makes them think what they were seeing wasn't real, and they only realize it after everything is over.
The process itself was easier than expected.
No, it was even easier than abandoning a partner at a party.
At least they don't rampage waving weapons while screaming Zed Swallow's alias.
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'He might actually have some talent.'
Having escaped like that, Zed snuck into the servants' changing room as he'd scoped out beforehand.
At first he worried if there'd be a size fitting him, but there was no need.
Because inside were uniforms made to accommodate all sizes.
'Looks like more than one or two die here.'
Lives like flies.
Е.n ům̀а
Dozens die as a baseline, lives replaced the moment they die.
It's possible because they treat servants like consumables.
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It was not a pleasant thing for Zed.
Because it's not someone else's story.
'Ferda Valdrova.'
He thought deeply about his superior.
Е ň ŭm а. і d
'What am I to that human?'
Judging by his speech, a man who's not just direct but rude.
But even that rudeness didn't feel malicious.
Others might not, but Zed could definitely feel it in the nuance of his words.
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'Feels like a human dealing with a person for the first time.'
Someone who's never properly communicated, only had one-sided conversations.
Ẁ.е̃ b̃ n̈ о́v еl Еǹüm̀ a
The typical traits that appear when such a person tries to communicate showed up in Ferda too.
The time he could feel that was right before the tea party, when he asked for advice.
-How do you talk with women?
He never imagined he'd ask a question befitting that age.
Zed excitedly gave Ferda advice based on his own deeds and experiences.
Based on that advice, Ferda's reply after finishing the tea party was this.
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-You're lucky to have that face.
He still couldn't tell if that was an insult or a compliment.
Anyway, in this operation, Ferda put up that there were documents related to his younger sister.
If that's not a lie, he'll find out what their current relationship becomes.
"Phew, good. Shall we go to work now?"
After checking the mirror a couple times, Zed started moving according to plan.
Wë b̂ n̊ о̃v е l̄ Ӗ ṅům̄а̇
The moment he set foot in the Imperial Palace,
"There, you."
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A voice calling someone echoed through the corridor.
And in that corridor, there was only Zed.
"Who are you?"
Zed muttered inside his mouth.
E n̂ ú ma
Like I only need two eyes, my ass.
* * *
Ferda placed his hand on the Orb of Truth, and the Orb of Truth asked Ferda.
-Do you swear that you do not follow demons and do not follow their resolve?
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Ferda heard that question and thought this.
'Orb of Truth my ass.'
Е̇ n uma.і̇d
Ferda snorted inwardly.
The Sealed Vault also records how this Sealed Vault was made.
What's embedded is not a tool for the Orb of Truth to see through people and judge truth from falsehood.
'The real important thing is the voice reciting the oath's text.'
That voice containing magical power.
The moment one's mind is stolen by the Orb of Truth, that voice shaking consciousness for a brief moment is everything.
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The orb merely judges whether it shook or not when hearing that voice's content.
'Just misinterpret it.'
Since Ferda thought to just hate everything, it was a very skilled task.
-Do you swear that you do not follow demons and do not follow their resolve?
The voice asking again.
"Regent-nim? Are you alright?"
Е_nǔ mӓ
Even Yuren asks Ferda, wondering if something's strange.
Now he must answer.
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Ferda needs the demon's ancient book.
But his heart belonged not to demons, but to Valdrova.
"I swear."
The second question flies in.
Е n ů m а
-Do you swear that visiting this vault is not born of private desire?
All of this is for Valdrova.
It wasn't even something to ask about.
"I swear."
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-Do you swear that you are loyal to the Empire?
'The Empire.'
Ẅ еb̆ n оv̊еl Ё_n u̇ m̂á
Must collapse.
"I swear."
After a moment, the Orb of Truth glowing blue began judging and its color changed.
-Proven.
The changed light was green.
Ferda removed his hand from there.
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'This kind of thing is the Sealed Vault's passage procedure?'
It seems shoddy, but it's a procedure that strikes a blind spot you can't help but fall for if you don't know.
Ferda still finds it absurd even now, and ended up snorting.
"It's a really funny item, isn't it?"
As Ferda stared down at it quietly, Yuren cut in.
"Yeah, a funny item."
È ňu ḿa .їḋ
Leaving that funny item behind, Ferda and the magic investigator went inside.
They went down the stairs for a long time.
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Riding the endless spiral staircase down, they finally set foot in the first Sealed Vault.
There were storage cabinets, and inside were stacked sealed copper pipe tubes.
It was the Record Sealing Place.
A place recording the Empire's shames that must not leak outside, or great events that could have destroyed the continent.
Еn̄u.m а̂ . і̄ḋ
Ferda used the records here to lure Zed in.
'I thought he'd have arrived by now, not yet?'
Since contact wasn't possible either, he doesn't know how the situation is turning.
He had to leave only the belief that he'd really handle it well on his own.
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'Maybe it was an operation that didn't need that guy after all.'
It was a joke he threw at himself, but not a funny one at all.
Ŵ е b̃ṅ о ṽе̌l̂ Ӗn̊ŭm â
Zed was absolutely necessary in this plan.
"There's nothing interesting to see. Besides, they're all things you don't need to know."
The words sounding like they were trivial contained a warning not to touch rashly.
Of course Ferda had no intention of touching them.
He threw a question at him, if only to lighten the mood.
"Don't you think you'd want to see a place like this at least once when you enter?"
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Yuren nodded.
"Of course the urge to see comes sometimes. Despite appearances, I'm a person with a scholar's disposition."
"So have you seen them?"
"Not a single time. There's no need for me to know things I don't need to know and make things difficult for myself."
He was a man with professional convictions rare in this rotten Empire.
That's why he could become a magic investigator too.
W̆ е̂ b́ n̄о v̌е̌l Е ñ ümа
After just sightseeing the exterior for a moment, they immediately moved to the next location.
The important thing is the second Sealed Vault even deeper below this.
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They went down there with Yuren.
Going down like that, Ferda could feel it.
'A familiar smell.'
The groans and tempting whispers flowing from clumps of dense malice and curses.
Wе̂b̆ n òv e̊ľ Е̌ ǹŭ mа̇
They circled around Ferda like eels surrounding a corpse sunk at the bottom of a lake.
Yuren, also conscious of the deepening, asked Ferda.
"Are you alright?"
The answer here isn't 'Of course.'
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"What is?"
"It's nothing, haha."
Еň ūm̊а̇
Yuren left his suspicion behind and walked again.
He must not show that he's feeling something.
Showing insensitivity that feels nothing to deceive was the priority.
The darkness thickens.
Candles try to brighten the surroundings somehow, but repelling all that darkness seemed impossible.
It was a strange energy that would make ordinary people instinctively feel physiological disgust and danger and retreat.
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But Yuren takes the lead and enters.
Ferda followed him in.
Like piercing through a giant curtain, Ferda's view suddenly opened wide.
"......Hah."
An exclamation burst out involuntarily.
Rather than a Sealed Vault, it looked like demon worshippers' secret vault.
Е n ú mâ
Among them, one item caught in Ferda's eyes.
A book on the central display stand, on a completely different dimension from the other trash.
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An item with a black cover looking deeper than the thick darkness, sealed with silver chains.
'Barbatos's Shadow Arts.'
It has the epithet of Secretive Demon, but since it's a Great Demon in its own right, the sealing strength is high.
"How is this place?"
Ẅ е̊b̈ṅ о̌ v̆е̃l Е nǔ m ӑ.
At Yuren's question, Ferda answered reflexively.
"Since it's a place of demons, it certainly reeks of a disgusting energy."
"Haha, no need to stand on ceremony. It's full of wonder more than disgust."
Wondrous.
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Right, it truly couldn't help but be wondrous.
The high-density mana spewed by cursed grimoires and sorcery books.
En̂umа̄ ..і̇d̄
Anyone would be enraptured if that wrapped their whole body.
A feeling that if you allow even a little, overwhelming power will course through your body.
It whispers that it's like sweet rain in a drought, more intense than being relieved at the limit of the five desires.
"No, it's just disgusting."
But Ferda came out firm.
Even when he actually lived in hatred, he never once considered this mana good.
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Ferda, at the height of his hatred, was one who smashed what he couldn't have.
And this mana wasn't Ferda's, nor could it ever be.
"Is...... that so?"
Yuren tilted his head.
"It's a bit strange...... A mage of your level would normally be at least a little entranced......."
He turned his eyes and gazed at Ferda.
W̌ е̄ḃ n о́ v̈el E̊ nu m̀ а̊
His gaze was quite different from before.
It wasn't because of the strange current flowing in the Sealed Vault.
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It was him revealing his true colors he'd hidden.
"Whatever, doesn't matter. The important thing is that the two of us are here."
Yuren put down Gamigin's Necromancy Book he was holding on the floor and turned his head.
His face was full of the disgusting killing intent he'd hidden.
We b̌n̂ о̀ vе̇l̊ Е̇nu̇ m̈ а̊
It's a look that truly suits this room.
"I wrote a scenario while coming here."
"Let's hear it once."
"A scenario where I came to the Sealed Vault together at the Regent's request, fell for the bewitchment in this Sealed Vault, and had no choice but to dispose of the Regent...... How is it? Doesn't it seem truly credible?"
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Ferda listened and rested his chin on his hand.
From those words saying he'd kill him, doubt came before fear.
Еn̊ um ȧ.і d
"Does this place kill people without mercy if they're bewitched by black magic?"
"There are no exceptions for black magic. Under the almighty light, there is no mercy."
A fishy smile hung on Yuren's mouth.
"Even if it's the Grand Duke's Regent."
A truly needlessly strict country.
"If I die, you won't get out alive either?"
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"No need to worry about me. Unlike you, I have quite a few escape holes."
Escape holes for killing the Grand Duke's Regent.
He wasn't curious about what route he'd escape through.
What's important now is that he's trying to kill him.
It was what benefit comes from that.
'He seems to be doing this even knowing what'll happen if I die.......'
Ẅ е̃ b̊ǹ о̌ vе̌ l̆ Е n_u̇mа
Unlike when he was a fiancé-elect, Ferda is currently a fiancé.
From following Valdrova's surname to being practically family with the Red Dragon.
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Killing that family would surely birth revenge, and that revenge would be aimed at the Empire.
It was an act on a completely different dimension from the Eradication Corps bastards who come just to gnaw at some property.
'Does he rather wish for that?'
Inside the Imperial Palace is someone willing to do something that could flip not just the Empire but the continent.
Еn̆ uḿ а̃.і̊ d̃
Suddenly the Orb of Truth he'd passed through came to mind.
He passed all the oaths.
The reason he could.
'He seems to know the Sealed Vault's secret.'
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Since entering here, he's done nothing but lie from start to finish.
'As expected, there's no good bastard among Empire bastards.'
W е ḃ ń o v̇ е l Enū m̃ä_
In this situation driven into a corner, a smile hung on Ferda's mouth.
"Why are you laughing?"
"Nothing much. Just didn't think the childish scenario I wrote would actually come true."
"A scenario you wrote?"
Yuren, who was smiling, tilted his head.
"I drew a scenario where I stop the investigator's rampage trying to lure the Regent into a trap. Unlike yours, mine is actually happening."
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Ferda needed Barbatos's Shadow Arts grimoire.
To do that, he had to kill the magic investigator.
Whether he's actually clean or not, it's not a matter that concerns Ferda.
"Thanks to you, the thought that I'd have a burden on my heart is lessened. Because I can think of it as cleaning up trash."
At those words, the smile on Yuren's face vanished completely.
"Do you think the likes of you can kill me?"
Е n ù ṁ а̃
What he said was blasphemy beyond imagination in the common mage's conventional wisdom.
He is a Master Mage who reached the 5th Circle.
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He's recognized even on the continent, and holds a position high enough to have high status within the Empire.
But Ferda's circle is at most 3rd Circle, just a Magic Walker.
"If you don't believe."
Mana gathered in Ferda's right hand.
En̆ ǔm̊ a
"Won't you know if you check directly?"
Magic was rapidly fired from Ferda's hand.
A sphere too fast for any mage to predict flew toward Yuren.
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