The Villainess is a Millionaire Solver - Chapter 105

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Chapter 105

“Get a grip, Benjamin! No one could call that abuse of power. Benjamin was simply faithful to his duty of selecting trustworthy guild guard warriors.”

“Yes, Guild Master. I was simply faithful to my duty and….”

Benjamin’s face turned pale as he repeated my words. Two shadows fell over his figure. It was Aldensis and Zikren.

“Now I see your mental fortitude is quite weak?”

“And yet you still dared to act like that?”

The sight looked like a hamster surrounded by two dragons, perhaps?

Benjamin hid behind me and said.

“Those two applicants looked really strange to me, so I acted that way thinking I had to protect the Guild Master… Guild Master, was that wrong of me?”

“Absolutely not. You did very well. I can’t have such strange people around me.”

At my words, the brothers fell silent. They looked like they wanted to argue back, but….

Even they couldn’t deny the fact that they themselves were strange.

“I see. Though he’s excessively strict, it is indeed a good attitude for the Princess’s sake.”

“He looks like a mouse, but he does his job well.”

The brothers acknowledged it.

Benjamin’s face finally returned to a proper color. He quickly said.

“I’m paying such close attention to the Guild Master’s safety like this.”

“Excellent.”

Aldensis nodded.

“Continue to do so in the future.”

“Of course! The Guild Master is my benefactor. I’m serving with my life on the line.”

Benjamin clasped his hands together and spoke earnestly.

Not missing this opportunity, he quickly asserted his own value.

Was I worrying for nothing? With just that mouth of his, he wouldn’t starve to death anywhere.

Anyway, hamster thawing complete.

As I looked around with peace of mind, I finally noticed the gaze pouring toward us from the opposite corner.

“…We can provide that level of convenience to the Rosen Duchy.”

“Thank you, Your Highness.”

Two people were conversing while looking at me.

Ruellian, arrogantly raising his distinctly prominent violet eyes that stood out clearly even from afar.

And Sion, who looked like a gentle lamb standing next to this intensely impressive sect leader.

‘Aha.’

I nodded inwardly.

Ruellian knew that Sion used evil magic. Now he seemed to have finished his background investigation and was starting to reach out to the person in question.

‘Sion probably doesn’t have the slightest idea, does he?’

Thinking that way, the scene was incredibly amusing.

When I stopped talking and watched with great interest, everyone followed my gaze.

“Hm? Isn’t that Ruellian?”

Zikren shouted, then covered his mouth with an “Ah!” Anyway, no one heard because the venue was noisy.

We all went over there together. Ruellian also left Sion for a moment and came this way.

I asked him.

“What brings Your Highness to this place?”

“The Princess’s cousin has deep knowledge of northern monsters. Our conversation became very interesting, so I came out specifically to meet him. But….”

His gaze swept over the two people standing to my left and right.

“What are those two doing?”

“Ah, just something.”

Zikren awkwardly scratched his head and said.

“We took a brief leave to cooperate in finding Windfearer’s whereabouts.”

“Really? Did you absolutely have to use the method of disguising yourselves so awkwardly and following the Princess around? Wasn’t there any other way?”

“Haha. There was already plenty of trouble. This employee friend here seriously suspected us.”

Aldensis said with a laugh.

Listening to their conversation, I pondered for a moment.

‘By the way, since I’ve met Ruellian, it would be good to inform him of the current situation. How can I create time for just the two of us to talk? The flower research story has been used too much and won’t work….’

Just as I was thinking of various methods.

「Can you hear me?」

Ruellian’s voice reached my ear softly.

I was startled.

「Doesn’t work? Did I fail again? I thought I calculated properly this time. What on earth is that head filled with….」

I could hear him muttering to himself.

I was definitely startled just now.

But Aristina’s face was so haughty and cold, and her body movements weren’t dramatic like a princess, so it seems my startled reaction didn’t show at all.

‘I can hear you! I can hear you well!’

I quickly answered.

‘What is this? Magical communication?’

「I told you that contact comes to me through the divine power I planted in your fan. Just in case, I tried adjusting it so we could also have secret communication when we’re close together. Short and simple conversations should be quite possible.」

‘Good thinking.’

While appropriately nodding and responding to the words around us, the two of us had a brief private conversation.

「That aside, Princess. Sion seems to have discovered some crucial information. A person who holds clues about Windfearer’s whereabouts. That person is inside the Imperial Palace here, and he seems to be planning to visit immediately.」

‘What? So that side found out too. I spent billions to get that information! That person is probably Marquis Theseus, the swordsmanship instructor of the Crown Prince brothers.’

「What? I see. I considered various candidates but never thought it would be him. I’ve learned swordsmanship from him too, so I know it won’t be easy to meet him?」

‘We’ll have to try. See you there later. I’ll get there before Sion does.’

「Good.」

Then, an attendant shouted loudly.

“Princess is arriving!”

At those words, everyone turned toward the front and lowered their eye level.

Soon after, Princess Violet entered majestically with her attendants, her blonde hair tied in twin braids and wearing a sky-blue dress.

The Princess refused the maids’ offer to lift her up, placed both hands on the chair, and hopped up to sit.

“We greet Your Highness the Princess.”

Everyone offered their greetings.

“I’m pleased that so many guild masters have gathered for the announcement of the 【Imperial Guild Competition】 theme.”

The Princess said. It was a public occasion, so she was trying to speak each word clearly and accurately.

“As I’ve already revealed privately and you all know, I will officially announce it here. The task for this competition is to find Windfearer, which mysteriously disappeared 11 years ago. Now, are there any guild masters with questions or opinions about this?”

“Me! Your Highness!”

I quickly stepped forward. The Princess’s eyes gleamed shrewdly.

“Oh, Princess Aristina Bianca Rosen! What do you have to say?”

“It’s that our Black Rose Guild is also participating in this competition! Come on, let’s go! Benjamin!”

I submitted the application form and turned around to leave immediately.

“…?”

The Princess was speechless.

Coming outside, imperial advisors were standing in a line waiting with thick law books.

Cunning little brat.

Taking advantage of her brothers temporarily disguising themselves as commoners.

The moment they reported her, she could apply charges of imperial disrespect.

Or invalidate the report itself and conversely apply false accusation charges to have our guild sanctioned….

Various traps would have been possible.

‘But I’ve already moved to the next stage?’

We boldly slipped out of the Princess Palace.

The journey to find the sword had now begun in earnest. Aldensis said to Benjamin.

“You cannot enter where we’re going now, so take care of things here.”

“Understood.”

I followed the brothers with curiosity.

Aldensis and Zikren passed through several buildings via a complex route to ensure no one could follow us.

The place we eventually arrived at was the Imperial Palace Training Grounds.

Even Aristina, who had thoroughly explored the Imperial Palace while eagerly chasing after the Crown Prince, seemed to have never been to the area behind the training grounds.

After passing through the forest behind the training grounds, iron bar fencing suddenly appeared, blocking our path. I could see tombstones scattered sparsely across the grassy field.

‘So it was a cemetery.’

This was the Imperial Palace Cemetery.

Seeing me hesitate, Zikren said.

“It’s fine. The sun hasn’t set yet.”

“That’s right, Princess. The ghosts’ activities begin several hours from now.”

Aldensis also said.

Seeing people suddenly appear and seriously say strange things, the guard watching the entrance approached us.

“What’s the matter?”

Aldensis answered.

“We came to pay our respects.”

“This is not a period when visits are permitted.”

“We came to see Empress Florensia, who rests here as someone from House of Rosen. If it’s a direct ancestor within seven generations, visits should be allowed regardless of the visiting period, shouldn’t they?”

“That’s merely a nominal rule that hasn’t been practically applied for a long time. Just who are you people…”

The guard was being firm but then hesitated.

Since this was a sacred area within the Imperial Palace, the illusion’s power that distorted vision was somewhat weakened.

Therefore, brilliant golden hair and blue eyes could be glimpsed inside the hood of the robe worn by the escort warrior before him.

As well as the red hair and golden eyes of the other escort warrior.

Zikren pulled out identification from his chest and held it out.

“Andrew and Jack. Trying to learn the identities of these two individuals means prying into the Imperial Court’s top secrets. Do you really want to do that?”

When he asked menacingly with his vertically narrowed golden pupils flashing, the guard was startled and stepped back.

“No, sir!”

This way, I was able to quickly enter the Imperial Palace Cemetery.

‘They said they’d temporarily take jobs as day laborers for our guild to sort out the situation.’

In the end, it succeeded according to the Crown Prince brothers’ intentions. Even if it was in a completely different way than they expected.

The three of us hurriedly walked between several tombstones.

“This is a cemetery where relatively lower-ranking members of the Royal Family are buried.”

Aldensis explained.

“The cemetery for the Emperor, Empress, princes, and princesses is separately located further inside, and Master is staying at the caretaker’s quarters that guard that very place. We also learned swordsmanship there when we were young.”

Eventually, a cemetery surrounded by moss-covered stone walls appeared. Another forest was thick inside it.

“Let’s try calling out normally first.”

Zikren knocked loudly on the door.

It was quiet.

While we were waiting for a response for a moment. There was a rustling sound and someone appeared behind us.

It was none other than Sion.

“…?”

Seeing that I had come ahead and was already here, he was surprised and hesitated for a moment.

Right at that moment.

The door opened with a creaking sound.

‘Oh?’

I widened my eyes and watched the door.

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