Chapter 509: Information - 2 (2/2)
This was good information. Reiko, who would have already learned this from Panse and Viola’s report, didn’t say anything, so he wasn’t lying. Therefore, Jin gave Fernand all 5 gold coins he had in his hand.
“Oooh! This is great! What a generous aristocrat. If you ever need me in the future, all you need to do is go to that tower over there in this park.”
Fernand pointed to a tower close to a sundial found in the center of the park.
“Just put something blue at its base. It could be a handkerchief or some other piece of clothing.”
“Got it. I’ll keep that in mind.”
“Well then, thanks for your patronage, Sir!”
Fernand bowed down and started to leave. Then, he turned around…
“Oh yeah, I almost forgot. The carriage is being escorted by 10 soldiers and 2 knights.”
…Then he left.
(Father, it seems that he wasn’t lying. What he said matches the information that Panse and Viola got.)
(Alright.)
Jin and Reiko talked in whispers, and then decided to return to their hotel room to make a plan based on Fernand’s intel.
“Now that I know the whereabouts of Istalis and Netros, we have to think about how to rescue them.”
“Can’t we just attack their guards?”
Lucas was as straightforward as ever.
“We can’t do that, Lucas. If we did, we’d only widen the gap between demons and humans even further.”
“Oh, y-yeah, you’re right…”
Shion seemed to be considering the future of the relationship between the two races.
Jin didn’t yet believe that he could fully trust the demons. Or rather, he was simply being cautious.
But Jin felt that he could at least trust Shion. However, he still needed to be cautious, because trusting one demon didn’t mean he could trust all of them.
For now, his mind was set on meeting Istalis and Netros and listening to what they had to say.
“Is there a way we can rescue them without causing offense…?”
Jin was deep in thought.
In the first place, to rescue them was a bit extreme. The Frantz Kingdom was entitled to its honor as well.
“If only I could switch them for replicas…”
But that was impossible, because Jin didn’t know what Istalis and Netros looked like.
“What if they happened to die, Brother Jin?”
“Ah, that’s it!”
Jin quickly supported Elsa’s idea.
“…But how are you going to do that?”
Shion seemed anxious.
“Well, let’s see… Something like ‘Someone who hated or feared the demons attacked the guards and burned the two demons to death’.”
Jin explained that their “burnt corpses” would be made by burning monster materials.
“The problem is how to make the switch without anyone noticing.”
“A smokescreen?”
“No, Elsa, that has a lot of uncertain variables to that. There has to be a better way…”
“Why don’t we just kill all of the guards?”
“Lucas!”
Lucas voiced his radical opinion, and Shion protested it right away. But it still gave Jin an idea.
“Right, but what if we could make them all faint?”
They should be able to incapacitate the guards without needing to harm them by using a paralyzer.
“In that case, we should make it clear that the attacker is a human.”
“And we need to determine where we’re going to strike.”
Elsa and Jin began to sketch the frames of a plan. They would later have Laojun fill in the details.
“We need to think about where to and how to escape once we’ve successfully rescued them.”
As she listened to Jin and Elsa discuss their plan, Shion’s face gradually became brighter. Just by hearing them, she somehow knew that they would be able to rescue her sister.
“Alright, let’s leave the rest to Laojun.”
With his incredibly high thinking speed, Laojun was more suitable for adjusting details and selecting time.
Jin would be taking care of thinking about what to do after they Istalis and Netros had been rescued.
Shion didn’t know what Jin meant by “Laojun”, but she was relieved to hear that they had finally come up with a plan that looked like it could actually work.