Chapter 585
Louise heard a shocking story from Heinrich.
Even Louise noticed that there was a secret behind the allied army’s excessively easy advance. He also thought there was no need to mine it right now.
However, it was hard to believe even after hearing that the Demon King was in charge of the vanguard.
However, if that is true, it is understandable that the empire had no choice but to keep silent.
When this truth starts to spread, people will doubt the demon king’s intentions.
Just as Louise feels confused right now, if this fact spreads to the allies, big things will happen.
That’s why the Empire has no choice but to pretend to be their arrangement while receiving the help of the Demon King.
“It seems certain that the Empire is more than a tacit cooperative relationship with the Demon King.”
It is also difficult to see that the son fell for the devil’s candy coating. If that was the case, Heinrich would have no reason to remain in the Allies. His life was in danger, and he didn’t leave in a situation where he had no choice but to leave.
“The Empire… … . Demon King and… … .”
His son could have been taken away by the demon king.
However, in other words, the Demon King tried to save her son.
“If there is a truth we don’t know, what do you think it is?”
“I do not know. If the demon king didn’t want the gate situation… … . Then why the hell did this happen… … . Why is the empire hiding the truth… … . I’m not sure.”
The Demon King did not tell Heinrich about the truth that would be dangerous if he knew.
Heinrich looked at Louise in confusion.
“sorry. I didn’t want to confuse you. but… … . I feel like I have to tell you… … .”
“… … .”
Louise couldn’t help but understand why this was happening without thinking deeply.
Most of the people who know that the demon king is the source of all evil, and some who know the truth abet the belief of such people.
But if there’s any other truth to what the gate debacle is known to all.
If it’s true that the Demon King really didn’t want the gate situation.
Then what will the world be like?
If this situation, which is exerting a strong bond with hatred for the demon lord, collapses, humanity will end as it is.
Heinrich looked at Louise’s confusion and finally lowered his head.
“I may have been possessed by the demon king, but… … . I can’t help but think that way… … .”
“no. well said well said… … .”
Louise still couldn’t get out of the confusion, but she couldn’t help but praise her son’s courage in telling her about the secret conversation with the demon lord.
Louise’s mind was confused by Heinrich’s words.
What kind of existence is the demon king, what is the truth behind the gate incident, and what is the empire thinking?
I don’t know anything.
But even if there is a truth that everyone in the world doesn’t know, does it matter?
Whatever the intentions, the gate incident happened, and it must end, and it does not change in the face of any truth.
It’s still snowing.
It is snowing.
Snow piles up.
Snow covers everything.
The land, the buildings, the trees, the frozen river.
cover all
The gate crisis is like this snow.
When a heavy snowfall falls, everything is buried.
When the heavy snow falls, everything else loses its importance.
You have to clear your eyes. To keep it from covering everything up and destroying it, you have to keep clearing it.
Just as you have to clear the snow before it swallows the world, in the end nothing matters but the snow.
The truth, too, was no longer visible and unimportant, buried under a snowstorm called the Gate Crisis.
The gate crisis must be over.
That absolute proposition has buried all truth and justice.
Therefore, another absolute proposition that the buried truth is not important.
Louise von Schwarz couldn’t help but realize that.
But if the demon king is really such a being.
You are fighting in the forefront to end the gate crisis, but if no one in the world notices it.
“If what you say is true… … . If that’s really the case.”
How fearsome and strong is the Demon King.
Also, is it a sad existence?
“Sad. all of this.”
Louise looks up at the sky and exhales like a lamentation.
* * *
Heinrich and Louise walked the streets of Temple in a daze.
What the devil said to Heinrich could have been a lie.
However, it is also difficult to see that the demon king lied. If I was going to cheat, wouldn’t I have to say something first?
It’s dangerous, so let’s go together.
If you follow me, I will tell you what has happened so far.
He said nothing but that, and even quietly withdrew when Heinrich refused.
Heinrich’s opinion was the result of thinking and judging himself about the devil and what was happening in the Allied Forces.
It was a very frightening story to Louise that the Demon King had been keeping an eye on the Allied Garrison until now, but in the end, it is true that the Demon King did not even try to deceive Heinrich.
In fact, it was true that Heinrich’s life was really in danger. An assassination attempt had been made, but Louise hadn’t dealt with it.
Heinrich would have died if Louise didn’t help.
The Demon King did not want Heinrich to kill his brothers or be killed.
That’s why Heinrich wanted to join.
When the demon king came to visit Heinrich, he didn’t say anything other than that there would be an assassination attempt.
So there was only Heinrich’s judgment.
Thinking so made Louise strange.
He is hated by his brothers and his life is in danger. And she didn’t know the truth about Louise either.
“I am the youngest.”
“Yes, sister.”
“Leaving… … . Wasn’t it right?”
“That must have been right. at that moment.”
“Yes, you were dangerous and you would have no idea what was going to happen. I did that too… … I didn’t know you would do it.”
Heinrich’s choice to remain in an uncertain state of safety had to be regarded as a foolish act.
“There were various reasons, but… … . I pictured what would happen if I left. It seemed that it would affect our soldiers and officers, the royal family, and even Kernstadt.”
“ah… … .”
Louise couldn’t help but be dazed because she never imagined that Heinrich would have such an attitude.
“Even with my lack of hair, I knew people would get those stares and glares.”
“… … .”
“So I decided not to leave.”
Whatever the reason, it becomes betrayal.
The people from Kernstadt will receive the attention that the people from the Tuan Church, the Als Church, and the Principality of Saint-Ouan receive.
Because I thought about it, I didn’t leave even though I knew it was dangerous.
At those words, Louise felt suffocated.
“and… … . If I had left, none of this would have happened, and there would have been no time like this. forever… … . You wouldn’t know anything.”
Not all of his siblings hated him. He would never have known that there was someone who was just holding back because it was difficult to deal with.
“I’m glad you didn’t leave.”
Heinrich looks at Louise.
The war changed a lot, and it made so many people miserable.
But not everything is turning for the worse. Heinrich suddenly became a person who could think of many things.
Feeling moved and apologetic, Louise couldn’t find the right words to say.
Louise couldn’t help but be very grateful to her son, who knew the truth and was grateful rather than hating her, and happily accepting the situation.
How long did you walk in that pleasant silence?
“… … hmm?”
The two of them had no choice but to stop at the sound of a distant voice.
On the other side of the road they were walking on, a group of guards were blocking the road.
“Is this a restricted area?”
“I guess so… … .”
The guards didn’t say anything to Heinrich and Louise, but the shape blocking the road clearly showed that it was a controlled area.
As I walked aimlessly, the car entered a place I wouldn’t normally come to.
“I guess… … . It looks like a university site.”
“Right. Then you might not know.”
But it’s a restricted area. Louise and Heinrich look at the site and the buildings beyond where the guards block the road. As if staring itself wasn’t a problem, the distant guards didn’t pay much attention to the two.
But is there any reason to control access?
There were extremely few passers-by, so there would be no one who would dare to step there.
“If there are no people coming and going, if it is a controllable area… … .”
There must be something going on inside that is classified as confidential.
And the scale of the guards visible from a distance was unusual. I don’t know what they’re doing, but with that level of security, something bigger was going on inside.
“It seems to be a magic university.”
Heinrich looked at the information board and nodded slowly as if he knew what the university inside the access control area was.
“It’s a magic university… … . Yes, I see you are researching something.”
Louise nodded in agreement, thinking that the Empire deserved to treat it as a secret.
“Are you going to make another titan or something? If such a weapon is developed again, it will be good for everyone… … .”
“It’s not going to be a Titan. I was told there was no room left to build one more machine.”
“okay? Then, why not make another large magic weapon or something else?”
“Anything would be nice if it would help the war.”
“I guess so… … .”
Titan.
Seeing its majesty, Louise felt a sense of fear as well as a shudder. I thought again and again that it was fortunate that those steps were ours.
Those who resisted the Empire, even if it was the Demon King’s army, would be trampled by those steps and disappear into dust.
The Empire is doing something at the Temple College of Magic. It’s not a titan, but it’s working on something.
“Probably classmates from Class B were included in the study. They say they are at the Temple, but I rarely saw them return to their dorms from the Magic College.”
Heinrich couldn’t know the details, but he could guess that the research going on there would include Louis Ankton, Christina, and Anna de Guerna.
“Didn’t Project Titan include a child named Adelia? your friend… … .”
“Yes, it was.”
The power cartridge made by Adelia was also a great invention, but the Titan is an achievement that surpasses it overwhelmingly.
But this time, other classmates are also involved.
what kind of ailment would that be?
“All of your friends… … . There are only grotesquely brilliant children.”
Children from Temple 2nd grade.
Louise couldn’t help but think that there was a strange gathering of people with monstrous talents in that school year.
Geniuses and geniuses are strangely gathered together.
Isn’t that such a terrible coincidence?
Louise and Heinrich walked slowly through the snowy streets of the Temple, leaving Magic College behind.
* * *
Ludwig left the headquarters of the guard with a hopeless expression.
There was no way the ruins of the collapsing temple could kill Ludwig. After saving Rowen’s body from a pile of stones in a collapsing temple, Ludwig was confronted by guards who had come to clear the scene of the fire.
And he was handed over to the headquarters of the National Guard, saying that he would fully cooperate with the investigation.
But the answer Ludwig heard stunned Ludwig.
‘… … It is difficult.’
‘It’s difficult… … yo. this?’
‘yes. I don’t know if he was arrested on the spot. If not one or two, but dozens of mobs stormed the temple and scattered… … . If that’s not an organized crime, but an accidental crime… … . Finding the suspects is very difficult.’
‘I saw it with my own eyes. Those who plundered the temple and fled… … . Not all, but I saw straight through. I remember.’
‘Ludwig. The population of the ecliptic now exceeds 100 million. And if it was committed by people in the refugee camp who were not even properly identified… … . In fact, catching the culprits is close to impossible.’
If the assailants are hiding somewhere in the maze-like alleys of the refugee camp, finding them is impossible.
‘And the weather is like this… … .’
Now that we are in a hurry just to deal with the heavy snowfall, there is no useful manpower, and even if there is manpower, it will be almost impossible to find the culprit.
Ludwig didn’t know what to say.
The reality of Gradium is that it is almost impossible to catch the culprit unless it is done right in front of your eyes.
Accidental crime, accidental arson, accidental looting.
Because of that contingency, it was virtually impossible to catch the criminal, and the guards predicted that it would be impossible even before starting the investigation.
The deep tiredness felt on the face of the person in charge made me feel that he was not saying this because he was insincere.
‘but… … . Just like this, just like this… … . are you passing? No investigation, no nothing. Just?’
The reason why the guards have the right to immediate execution is because at least the guards have the cause of maintaining social order.
However, if an incident occurred in which the social order completely collapsed, and they gave up on this job, what would the guards have done so far?
Shouldn’t the guards have the right to kill people at will if they don’t do their job?
Seeing Ludwig’s bewildered expression, the head of the guard let out a deep sigh.
‘Ludwig-sama, and in the first place, this case… … . It won’t be under our jurisdiction. Even if you want to investigate, you won’t be able to do that.’
‘What is that… … . Sound?’
‘This is an incident of arson, looting, and murder that took place in the temple of the Five Great Priests.’
Ludwig had a certain intuition about why the head of the guards didn’t know me.
‘The Knights Templar have the authority to do this.’
There is no will to investigate, but even if there was, it would be something that could not be investigated.
The scene was cleared, but the Templars were saying that they would investigate the case on their own.
‘I don’t know if even the Templars can properly track down those who did this… … . I’ll probably have to hand over the case data to the Templars.’
Hearing those words, Ludwig came out of the district guard headquarters.
Rowen is dead.
Most of the people who stayed in the temple died.
And, finding the culprits is virtually impossible.
Ludwig wanders the streets in a daze.
Archbishop Rowen.
He had many oddities, but he was by no means an evil person.
It is unknown whether the purpose of the mob was food to be inside the temple or outrage against the Tuan cult.
However, Rowen, who could not even rest properly while wandering the streets to help people, was literally and brutally murdered.
why.
why so far
But can’t you get caught?
Exchange the lives of people who could save tens of thousands for a piece of bread?
That makes no sense.
Something like this shouldn’t exist.
Even the guards say they won’t be able to find them, and they can’t afford it in the first place.
Ludwig is not overconfident.
I don’t think I can do what the guards can’t do.
This is a job that requires brains, not strength.
And it requires the power to get involved in the case.
Ludwig reached that point.
Even if you want to get involved in the case, you don’t have the power, and you don’t have the brain to solve the case.
I need help.
someone’s help
Really, desperately needed.
The people who did this should be punished.
Ludwig thought so and walked down the street with his eyes wide open.
