The Hero’s Brother Is Bound To Be Depressed

68 – New Hero

Four Princesses and Crown Princess of the Empire. Bella, the head of the sophomore department, was working on a plan in her private laboratory at her academy.

She said that Ilia had come to her lab a while ago, and that she had been contacted by the Grand Duke of the North that she had found a spiritual creature.

Because it wasn’t Bella who didn’t know the importance of spiritual objects, Roel and Ilia headed north and ‘accidentally’ got caught up in an incident and were planning to punish the wicked.

Based on the information received from Modist and her investigation team, a knocking sound came from Bella’s ears as she was thinking of tying together a family crest that was presumed to be the leader of the altar in the north.

Claire, a blonde haired and green-eyed female knight, saluted as she opened the door.

“Princess, there is a problem.”

“A problem?”

Bella, who was writing down her plans, looked up at Claire.

“It seems that there was a surprise attack at the villa of Prince Six. Currently, the imperial investigation team and the capital guards have been dispatched to the villa of Prince Six.”

Bella narrowed her eyes at Claire’s words.

Bella, who bought the information from her modist that Prince Six kidnaps her child every day and sacrifices her, watches with the idea of ‘accidentally’ intertwining with Roel and killing him according to Roel’s schedule. There was. However, someone interfered with his plans.

Bella asked in a cool voice with her heavy sigh.

“Whoa, what happened?”

“Because I also received an urgent report, the details are yet to come….”

Feeling frustrated with Claire’s answer, Bella stood up from her seat.

“Go directly to the site.”

***

The knights of the capital’s guard saluted Bella when she arrived at the villa of Prince Six on the outskirts of the capital.

“Are you here? Four Princesses!”

Bella asked as she entered the villa’s entrance.

“What happened?”

“Looks like there was an assassin attack. It is estimated that 18 people died, including Prince Six.”

The person in charge of the guards approached Bella and answered sincerely.

Bella asked, glancing at her hallway stained red with her blood.

“Isn’t there a monster named Rokt next to Prince Six?”

Rokt, who took second place in the swordsmanship sparring of the Imperial Knights, was a monster wielding a giant mace.

Of course, he was the one who was defeated by Claire next to him, but that was because the rules of sparring existed. If it were a real battlefield, Claire would not have been able to defeat the monster who healed in an instant and wielded a giant mace with power that surpassed that of humans.

“It is estimated that he was by the side of Prince Six….”

To Bella’s question, the manager scratched the back of her head, and she answered in a timid voice.

“Estimated… ?”

Bewildered by the manager’s answer, the manager stopped Bella from following the bloodstain to the basement with Claire.

“Well, we removed the pieces in the hallway, but…. The investigation team is still investigating the basement… It might be a bit awkward to look at.”

“Bugs.”

Ignoring the manager’s words, Bella went down to her cellar.

It was only then that Bella, who visually checked the appearance of the basement, knew what the manager meant by the word ‘estimate’.

There were shattered pieces of flesh and blood splattered everywhere on the walls and ceilings that filled the basement.

For the sacrificial ceremony. Except for the magic circle with unknown spells painted on the floor and ceiling and the corpses of children presumed to be sacrifices, everything was covered in flesh and blood.

Bella, stepping on the muddy flesh she felt on the soles of her shoes, gestured to the leader of the investigation team, who was saluting her, to come closer.

“Please report in detail what happened.”

“Yes. The lack of a body made it impossible to determine which weapon the attacker was using. However, when the corpses were all dismembered. I’m assuming that you used destructive magic. Using the blood stains and detection magic on the wall, we figured out that there was only one assailant. Since they all died at a distance, we assume that the attacker was not an assassin, but a wizard who had mastered high-level destruction magic.”

Looking around the basement, Bella, who listened to the captain’s explanation, pointed to a mixture of flesh and broken pieces of metal.

“What is this?”

Unlike other small pieces of flesh, this was a ‘lump of flesh’.

“Presumably, it is a Rokt Knight.”

Claire, who was next to Bella, flinched at the captain’s words.

“It is estimated that the body exploded with the mace.”

“It exploded with the weapon… ?”

Claire asked in surprise. Claire, who faced Rokt directly with her weapon, could imagine how strong the assailant was, and felt a sense of fear.

“Yes, it seems that he died without even being able to respond.”

Bella felt her head hurt, and she asked the captain.

“The sixth prince?”

“The corpse of the Sixth Prince…. Compared to the others, they are relatively moderate.”

“Relatively?”

Bella asked back, thinking that today there are a lot of people who give strange descriptions. As if to answer that question, the leader pointed to a long line of blood leading to the wall.

“After Prince Yuk was tortured to the brink of death, his chin, heart, and genitals were ripped off. He hung up against the wall and died of excessive blood loss.”

Bella raised her head along the veins and saw her sister hanging on her wall, her disgruntled look on her face.

This is how the death of a guy who didn’t even know his subject matter and committed ugly acts ended up like this.

If he had died at Roel’s hands, he would have been decapitated and died painlessly. Prince Six wasn’t very lucky either.

Still, it was worth seeing that the chin of Prince Six, who was messing around and talking dirty words in the imperial palace, had his jaw torn off.

Something strange caught Bella’s eyes as she observed Prince Six’s corpse with a slightly satisfied smile.

“What is the thing stuck in Prince Six’s eye?”

“Acorns. Judging by the wounds, it is assumed that they were driven into the eyes while alive.”

At the captain’s words, Bella snorted at her in amazement.

“Acorns?”

“Maybe it’s a mark unique to the attacker or something.”

I wonder if the act had any great significance. She imagined putting acorns into Prince Six’s eyes, but Bella didn’t notice anything.

I just wondered if my hands were dirty with the blood of the distasteful Six Princes and I felt uncomfortable.

“And there are eyewitnesses. He is also the sole survivor of the lodge.”

“There are survivors?”

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No matter how trashy it is, it was killing the prince of the empire. Couldn’t the assailant who did this be kind enough to spare the witness?

As if answering Bella’s question, the leader spoke.

“Among the corpses sacrificed. I guess you didn’t know.”

Bella, intrigued by the captain’s words, ordered a witness to be brought.

After a while, a girl with crumbly orange hair was picked up by a knight.

A girl holding her mummified boy’s corpse as if it were precious like a doll, as if her blood had been sucked out of it, had both of her legs cut off.

As her knight lowered her child to her floor, the child held Mira tightly in her arms.

“What is the corpse you are hugging?”

“These are the twins who were kidnapped together.”

Her child’s tragic story was beyond Bella’s attention. There is only her curiosity about her assailant who thwarted her own plans.

“Did you see who did this?”

Asked Bella, with a snake smile and a sweet voice as if to soothe her child. Her child gave her a small nod as she stroked the head of her brother, who was cradled in her arms.

“What it looks like. Can you tell me?”

The child, who had been looking at her brother with her dead eyes, lifted her head, met her gaze with Bella, and spoke briefly.

“A warrior.”

“What?”

“It was the hero who killed the monster.”

Tears welled up in the dead eyes of the child who said that.

Bella let out a heavy sigh, disappointed at her child’s answer, and Claire, who was standing next to her, said.

“The child appears to be in shock. It’s hard for a child to bear….”

At Claire’s words, Bella interrupted her with an annoyed gesture.

‘Who wouldn’t know that.’

Claire’s stuffy personality made her annoyed, and Bella heard a voice like the scream of her child in her ears.

“You are the hero who punished the monster who tortured and killed my brother! You will kill all the other bad monsters too! I will definitely kill you-“

A golden flash shot from the tip of Bella’s wand pierced her child’s chest.

The child who fell to the floor as if facing her brother’s corpse shuddered for a moment and then said, ‘Yong…’ Four.” He stretched her body.

“One Roel is enough for a hero.”

With her wand in her bosom, Bella turned her around, and she said to Claire.

“The sixth prince who kidnapped children and sacrificed them. Let’s assume that the righteous hero Roel killed.”

Claire asked back at Bella’s words.

“Roel-sama… Shall I accept it?”

Bella snorted at Claire’s stupid question.

“Roel is kind, not stupid.”

What power does fame exert? Already, Roel was aware of it. That’s why, even if he ‘accidentally’ gets caught up in an incident in the plan he made. To follow without opposition.

“If the assailant killed Prince Six simply to punish evil, he would have kept his mouth shut. If he killed Prince Six for some other reason, he will show up somehow.”

If it showed up, it would be enough to kill it somehow. Someone just did what they had to do. In the end, his plan didn’t change.

With this incident, even if Roel is a prince, he will be praised as a warrior who raised his sword for justice. He will be one step closer to the hero who saved the continent.

Then, naturally, ‘Hero Roel’ would be the most suitable spouse for the emperor.

Bella thinks so, while she smiles like a snake. Claire’s eyes did not fall off her child’s corpse.