58 – Interrogation

Iluen, who was captured at the border of the elven kingdom, was surrounded by knights and soldiers and headed for the palace.

Those passing by were puzzled by the way the princess, Iluen, was being escorted as if escorting a criminal, instead of escorting her as usual.

She was still known to the common people as the hero of the warrior’s party.

When she reached the palace, another day Luen passed the gate with heavy steps and reached her parade ground.

There, her men, who had been captured from refugee camps, mansions, and knights’ barracks, had been captured in advance and were sitting on her knees.

Aard and the rest of the Knights broke away and headed in a different direction from Iluen.

Iluen was dragged away and she had to approach the queen.

“Huh.. Her Majesty the Queen!! Why me…”

Seeing the figure of her queen, her illuen approached her and tried to absolve her of her own sins, but

The knights under the direct command of the queen blocked her way with swords, and she had to turn back.

“At this point, she should have realized what she did wrong…? I guess you don’t know yet? Iluen?”

“Yes.. Yes? That… what is that…”

“I wished that our princess, Illuen, lived truthfully…”

“I… I feel unfair!!”

“What is unfair?”

She recklessly got up from her seat and shouted to her queen. Iluen broke into a cold sweat at the words of her queen, and she could not answer.

“No, you know what you did wrong, so don’t you feel unfair?”

“That… that…”

Iluen talked to herself and she secretly turned her head to look at Ard, but she noticed this and her queen’s knights blocked her way, so she couldn’t even send or receive signals. .

“Where are you looking like that? Iluen?”

“……”

“For the next five minutes, Illuen, I will give you a chance to tell the truth. So I hope she will think carefully about why she has been called here.”

The Elf Queen sat back on her throne and looked down at her to wait for her five minutes for her illuen to tell her the truth,

Beside her, the elders of the elves who wanted to trust Luen at least like this were sitting and watching.

Five minutes later…

“As expected, we, Illuen, are not truthful elves.”

After waiting with her eyes closed for five minutes without saying anything, the queen stood up again and spoke to Iluen.

Illuen, who had been sitting idly by her many worries, looked back at her queen in amazement.

“Didn’t there be an arson incident in the elven forest in the north just a few days ago?”

“Yes…?”

“Moreover, the area where the arson was set was a place that the hero had to pass through to go to the Fjord Empire, right?”

“Ah… No. I… I… I never did.”

“…..”

The Queen has been blindly trusting the information she has known, sending hundreds of investigators and even her own knights in the past few days without her Iluen.

The evidence following this had already been handed over to the elven elders.

Actually, this place was not a place for Iluen to confess her sins, but a place to protect her last conscience.

Iluen’s attitude did not miss the Queen’s premonition.

“So you’re saying that the massacre of the half-elf village was not a long time ago?”

“……Yes?”

“You would deny that you used your knights to brutally kill half-elves and kill half-elves with your bows, even those half-elves who tried to escape by jumping into the sea?”

“I… I never did!”

Iluen was startled and shouted at the queen with her blushing face,

At the appearance of Luen on such a day, she smiled as the queen had expected.

“Ask me to come in.”

As the queen finished speaking, some elves, now old and retired knights, were entering…

Seeing them, Iluen took turns examining all the surprised faces, and the elves who entered finally turned their heads and avoided their gaze, as if they knew Iluen well.

“Hello each other. You must know each other well.”

“Ah… No! Her Majesty the Queen! I don’t know them!”

“Oh yeah?”

The Queen came down from the podium where she was sitting and where Iluen was sitting on her knees.

“Princess Illuen, the knights under her command, will you continue to evade by saying you don’t know? Do you have any evidence here?”

The Queen threw some papers at Iluen…

In that place, the troops to which the knights belonged and who they were under were written in detail.

“……”

Seeing this certificate-like document, Iluen kept trying to make excuses for her, but

She had nothing to say unless the Queen knew how much she knew.

“Don’t worry. Princess Illuen.”

“…..?”

“Behind that door are the survivors of the half-elf village at the time, as well as witnesses to the arson in the northern elven forest.”

“…That… That could be…”

Iluen’s expression had many meanings…

It wasn’t enough for her that there were survivors of the half-elf village, and she gave up on the fact that she couldn’t get out of here no matter what she said.

*****

The news of the Horon Kingdom’s invasion of the demon king’s army and the invasion of the demon castle and the defeat of the four kings quickly spread throughout the continent.

In the kingdom of Argen, where the warrior party will return soon, all the people of the royal capital came out to greet him at the news of their return.

“That… Hero?”

Among the party of warriors who should be congratulated and cheered by people in a little while, there was one person who was uneasy…

“Why? Kir?”

Wearing the red uniform of the Kingdom of Arjen, rather than the black uniform of the Demon King’s Army, which he had never taken off since his birth, Kiru’s face was blushing as if he was embarrassed by his appearance.

“That… Just… Wouldn’t it be nice if I stayed private?”

“Why? Now you are in the same warrior party.”

“That… But…”

Kirr didn’t say anything in particular, but neither did his red uniform, nor did he touch his ears with his hands…

Anyway, the problem was how humans would accept the fact that he was a Dark Elf, who used to be the Demon Lord’s army.

She had been assassinating quite a few human aristocrats in the western part of the continent until just a few days ago, so it seemed that she was worried about a couple of things.

Of course, no one knows that she was an assassin, except for her fellow warrior party members and Edwin siblings.

It didn’t seem like that was the case.

“No matter how much you think about it, it makes no sense. The Dark Elf, the Demon King’s Soldier, has a party of warriors… hahahaha…”

“It is possible. Regardless of whether it’s a Dark Elf or a human, you defeated Dantalion, the Four Heavenly Kings.”

“Sniff… But…”

Kir seemed hesitant, perhaps afraid of the fact that he would become a warrior party and go out in front of people.

As Lucia, who was next to her, including me, held her hand, her face changed to a little more comfortable.

Karen and her assassins under her command are not yet open to the public due to the nature of their work.

They went into the Arjen Palace before us and were waiting.

I haven’t talked to Edwin yet, but so far our warrior Patina allied forces have been using the intelligence department of the Eritre Empire to get information about the Demon King’s army.

In the process of conveying information to the northern part of the continent, a lot of damage was suffered due to a lack of time error or accuracy.

In order to make up for that shortcoming, the assassination team was changed to the intelligence department belonging to the kingdom of Argen.

We tried to minimize the damage by identifying information on our own rather than relying on other countries anymore.

Of course, due to the nature of running an intelligence agency, the budget will be high, but if you buy and sell information like the Eritre Empire, it will be more than enough to make up for it.

Because I know dark elves well, I pride myself on being the strongest on the continent in acquiring information.

“Hero, we will soon enter the royal capital.”

The voice of the coachman, Roman, could be heard even inside the carriage, and soon the shouts of the people who had found the carriage could be heard.

“Long live the warrior!!!”

It seems that we haven’t even passed the gates of the capital yet, but the shouts of the people from within the capital have been quite loud.

As they entered the royal capital escorted by hundreds of heavily armored knights, people celebrated as petals fell from the sky.

People were cheering wildly even though we hadn’t opened the windows yet.

And after a while…

As we approached the palace, the carriage stopped, and Roman gave us a sign that we should get off soon and approached the door of the carriage.

Jumping.

As the door opened and I got out of the carriage first, the shouts of the people gathered at the bottom of the hill where the palace was located reached their climax.

Then the shouts continued until Lucia and Irene descended.

Kir has to get off last…

Kir, who is still in the carriage, holding onto the hem of his red uniform with his hand, doesn’t even think to move…

“What are you doing? Without getting off?”

“……”

Kir raised his head in amazement at my words and was slowly… Very slowly moving towards the door.

“It’s okay. You can get down.”

In preparation for any unexpected situation, knights in heavy armor stood guard around the wagon.

Edwin showed a smile as if he was okay and held out his hand to Kir.

Killer, holding Edwin’s hand and getting off, seemed to be conscious of the people around her by closing her eyes…

Woong, woong, woong..

At the place where people gathered, they seemed to be talking to each other about the dark elves in red uniforms of the kingdom of Argen…

“Waaa!!!!”

It didn’t take long for the buzz to turn into cheers.

Kir looked around with an absurd face…

And Edwin’s meaningful wink that prepared this stage…

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