Chapter 417 – Chapter 42
“It’s a trap.”
Lillian spoke assertively.
“I’m not sure, but the risk is high. We should refuse.”
“Shouldn’t we kick them out now?”
Vaneth and Neledriel showed strong resistance to Rick’s proposal.
“Baby. Rick Hauter did not get the position of Grand Master by force. He is smart, but he is a person who boldly pursues what he thinks is right without the slightest hesitation. If he targets you, he will attack you with special weapons that I don’t even know about. .”
So much so that he even dissuaded Charlize from confronting him.
“But to get the cooperation of the Guardian Corps, I have to meet them.”
“In politics, you don’t lay out the main point from the beginning. There’s no way someone of Rick’s stature doesn’t know that, so there’s a high chance that he’ll make an unreasonable request on purpose and make them reject it.”
Kaicent, who was preparing for an unexpected armed situation, thought deeply about the girls reacting negatively.
“I’ll see you anyway. I don’t need an escort.”
“Kaycent!”
“Why do you want to take the risk?”
Kaicent was unusually stubborn and insisted on meeting.
Everyone was worried about him, but they didn’t know that he was putting himself in danger.
“Look at my actions from the perspective of someone born and raised in this world.”
Kaicent became known to the world as a heterogeneous person with violent tendencies by beating up the prince of a kingdom.
After that, he suddenly disappeared from the Western Continent and escaped to the Western Continent with the help of a dangerous Lee Jong who was spreading poison in the Eastern Continent.
Received high treatment in a dangerous country that decided to accept foreign species, and was adopted as an adopted son by the Raiblim family, whom he had no acquaintance with.
An unknown heterogeneous boy who was hated for an unknown reason by Nozgna, the evil god of this world, and escaped the trap created by his followers.
“…”
The women, who thought of Kaysent’s actions after he revealed his presence to the world from the perspective of indigenous people, were speechless.
This is because it was the highest level of dangerous species that could not be stolen by the humans of this world.
“I don’t know about our relationship, but he must have confirmed that I am being treated well. He wants to find out the kingdom’s tendencies through me.”
“I thought that might be the case, too. But that’s just a prediction. It’s just a possibility. No, it might lead us to think this way.”
“There is nothing more dangerous than a decisive person harboring malicious intent. They will not calculate profits or losses.”
The human mind is chaos itself.
Even if he had made up his mind to follow the boy’s opinion, he might change his mind and try to kill him if he judged it to be dangerous.
Thanks to Kaicent, they learned about women’s happiness and lived a second life. They wanted to prevent the situation where Kaicent and Rick would face each other.
-Everyone. You probably haven’t forgotten my existence, right?-
“Ah.”
-As long as I am there, no matter what he does, there is no way he can kill his master.-
Artemis, who thought that this would remain on the parallel line, stepped forward.
-We will protect the owner with a surface shield generator and self-defense nanobots. And you can feel at ease if you place a furniture-type bot in the meeting place so that you can subdue your opponent at any time. –
No matter how wary the opponent is, they will worry about some kind of device being attached to the furniture, and they will never imagine that the furniture itself is a weapon.
Especially in this world where machine intelligence has never been experienced.
“I think this is an opportunity. As a person who will live in this world in the future, I hope that the Guardian Corps can at least clear up any misunderstandings about me.”
“… Ha. If you say such amazing things, even Mom can’t be stubborn.”
In the end, Charlize surrendered.
Afterward, the other women declared their surrender, and a private meeting between Kaycent and Rick was concluded.
* * * * * *
‘Is it a mental attack?’
Rick, who was very alert and alert, almost lowered his head when he came face to face with Kai Cent.
The elegance felt from the boy was because he felt like he was a higher being than himself.
Because he displayed his spirit, he took the brunt of his opponent’s spirit.
‘No. If it was a mental attack, these should have sent a signal.’
Rick, who wanted to meet Kaicent from the beginning, is carrying various items that can protect against mental attacks.
In other words, this feeling you feel is natural, not magic or a supernatural ability.
“My name is Jean Resili Raiblim Kaisent…”
“My name is Rick Hauter.”
Although he met Rick, Kaicent greeted him passively because he was aware of the danger.
‘Is this boy Kaicent? As reported, he is a pure white boy with a mysterious aura.’
Rick let out an inward exclamation at the mysteriously white boy from his head to his eyes.
‘It’s my first time. Until now, I have never seen a person as beautiful as a work of art.’
The video included in the report did not capture all the boy’s mysterious charm.
After fiddling with the mental defense items he was carrying and confirming that they were working properly, he sat down facing one of the tables.
“Can I speak comfortably?”
“Yes. Please do so.”
“Thank you. I’ve wanted to meet you for a long time.”
“Why is that?”
Instead of answering, Rick put his hand into his arms.
Kaicent reflexively flinched and tried to defend himself, but what came out of his arms were several documents.
Seeing that it was clean and without a single wrinkle, it seemed like a space expansion spell had been applied to the inner pocket.
“These are the facts our investigators learned while investigating you.”
He recited the story from the time Kaicent joined the Wolf mercenary group until now.
“After meeting you, the movements of Queen Lilian, who had been running a mercenary group under the pseudonym Wolff, changed radically. Especially as a heterogeneous machine from another world called Artie and a heterogeneous elf called Lilith joined the mercenary group.”
It was the same as what Kaicent said after assaulting Prince Gerade.
“What I don’t understand the most are the two people. Queen Lillian, who wanted to regain the kingdom, and Count Akina, the noblest nobleman I know. -At the time, his title was Count.- These two people never abandoned you until the end when you had an accident. On the contrary, Count Akina helped you avoid punishment.”
Kycent could understand why Rick wanted to meet him.
He sees a high possibility that he brainwashed the two people in some way.
‘Brainwashing… Isn’t it?’
They pressed two people with their dicks to turn them into females who obey the dicks. Does this also count as brainwashing?
Huh. No matter how much you think about it, that’s not brainwashing.
“I did not subject them, or anyone else, to brainwashing or similar mental attacks.”
“Oh. Then why did they help a foreign species like you? In the case of Queen Lilian, she was almost executed by association?”
Kaycent’s claim was confirmed to be true through the ‘tool’, but Rick, not satisfied with this, pressed harder.
The more emotional the other person becomes, the easier it is for you to know the truth.
“Me, Lillian, and Akina are in love.”
“Knock!? Cluck! Cluck!”
Rick, who had consistently maintained an aggressive attitude, coughed at his shocking remarks.
Kaicent and Lillian may have romantic feelings.
This was one of the possibilities they had predicted.
But it’s Akina!?
She is a married woman!
“Now… You, now… What…”
“It’s not just that.”
The boy even mentioned the names of other women and said that he was in love with them all and that they were planning to get married once the country was stabilized.
“…”
Rick pledged to maintain composure no matter what shocking content was revealed.
However, the composure was broken when something that even the collective intelligence of the Guardian Corps could not have imagined came out.
Whether he was shocked or not, Kaicent explained why he had assaulted Prince Jeride.
“I know that the violence that day was wrong. However, at the time when I was looking for news of my lover who had told me about love for the first time, I had no time to think rationally…”
“Now… Wait a minute. Wait a minute.”
Rick got up from the chair, moved his body, and took a deep breath to focus his distracted mind.
After pacing around for a few minutes, he finally regained his senses and sat back down in his chair.
“Did you know that among the women you mentioned, there was a mother-daughter relationship? And speaking of Priscilla, wasn’t Queen Lilian’s fiancé Frederick placed under a curse and turned into a woman?”
“Yes.”
“And yet you’re going to take them all as wives?”
“Yes.”
“…”
What is this, you bastard?
How can you be so confident while talking nonsense like this?
“For your information, Lillian, Priscilla, Akina, and Tang Xueying are pregnant with my child. Once the danger in the western region disappears, we will have a joint wedding with everyone.”
This is a fact that will become known someday anyway.
At first, Kai Sen was worried that it would tarnish everyone’s reputation, but when he actually talked about it, he realized that it wasn’t a big deal.
“You… Did you become an emperor in the original world?”
“To be exact, they were members of the royal family.”
Only then did Rick understand Akina’s incomprehensible actions.
She is not a greedy noblewoman who switches sides just because of territory or a title.
However, if you change sides to follow someone you love, it’s a different story.
“Even if I were to be able to return to my original world right now, I would remain in this world. My goal is one thing: to clear away the danger in the west and live in peace.”
It’s true this time too.
No, everything is true from the beginning until now.
These are 100% pure truths, with no mixture of lies and truth.
The tools he has are capable of detecting even the truth that mixes lies with truth or cleverly avoids important information.
How many lies of the insidious species have been revealed through the power of this tool.
I should be happy that he didn’t react, but now I desperately wanted this silence to be broken.
‘And this half-boy took back Queen Lillian and her country without any reward. People of different species with different values collaborated. Also, all of those heterogeneous species are female. If the keyword is love, everything is connected… !’
So.
The principle of behavior of the group that caused great confusion in the Western Continent.
It was a love centered around Kaicent?
Wouldn’t just kill them here be for world peace?
“That’s all I have to say. If you have any questions, please ask.”
I will tell only the truth without any lies!
Rick, seeing the pure enthusiasm in the boy’s eyes, had to throw all the numbers he had guessed so far in the trash.
“Huh… What the hell… Huh… Heh…”
Shocked, he could only utter a blank expression and remain speechless.
He thought he had seen it all from the bottom, but today he has to admit that he was too arrogant.
“That Count Akina…? The woman I saw… Was a noblewoman with the uprightness of a knight…”
What shocked me the most was the Akina part.
I’ve only seen her a few times, but she showed me the most trustworthy example of nobility.
That’s why she couldn’t hide her shock that she had committed such a traitorous act.
“That was only looking at her external side. Akina was suffering from the gaze of her husband and people who did not accept her as a woman.”
Kai Sen played a video of her bio device in external mode to show how much people misunderstand Akina.
-I’m from the West~~♡-
-Please do so today as well~♡-
-Haaa~♡ Seobang’s body temperature and smell♡ I love it♡-
-Seobang♡ hehe♡ I just wanted to sing♡-
“…”
Akina, who appeared in the video that appeared to be recorded from Kaicent’s first-person perspective, was not the girl Rick knew.
She was neither the strongman of Origin nor the guardian deity of the Harlot Kingdom, but merely a woman in love.
Instead of giving orders to everyone with a stiff face, she is a lovely woman with a gentle smile and a longing for love.
That was Akina’s true appearance that people, including herself, did not know.
“The leader of the hardliners currently established in the western region is my enemy with a bitter relationship. Only by completely destroying the opponent can I break the cycle of resentment.”
Kaicent explained about Kang Myeong-cheol in order to return to the initial tense atmosphere.
“Please help me. We must prevent him from becoming more powerful than he is now.”
Kaicent held the table and lowered his head, desperately asking for help.
Not an adult who considers any conditions or benefits.
From the perspective of a boy asking for help from an adult.
“…”
Rick looked at the boy bowing down and asking for help in front of a potential enemy who had no idea what he might do.
It is not for a cause such as world peace.
She does this for the people she loves.
It’s like…
“I guess I’ll just go out now.”
“…”
Thinking of something, Rick walked away, leaving behind Kai Sent, who lowered his head.
* * * * * *
“Grand Master!”
“Are you okay?”
“What didn’t that guy do?”
When Rick returned to the break room, the waiting counselors and guards began conducting mental checks.
After waiting until it was confirmed that his mind was normal, he opened his mouth to his relieved subordinates.
“I will support the Kingdom of Lucia Archenel.”
“Yes?”
“Why is that?”
“What condition did Lee Jong set…?”
Questions poured in from the counselors, but Rick answered with a smile full of emptiness.
“The young boy head of the household stooped down to ask for help. Shouldn’t he help as an adult?”
“?”
“It’s just a joke. I’ve confirmed that a heterogeneous boy named Kaicent and the leader of the Foreign Press Association have a very bitter relationship.”
With those words, Rick called her maid and asked for another meeting. He said he had something to think about and sat down alone.
“Tsk. It’s really absurd.”
When he found out the identity of the Kingdom of LucyArcanel, he repeated, ‘This is absurd,’ and giggled until the meeting started.
His henchmen, who confirmed several times that his mind was normal, had to tilt their heads as they did not know what he had seen and experienced.
