Chapter 4.9 (2/2)
This particular subordinate usually had a very straight face, but he was showing me a variety of expressions today. Was this the power of the teacher as well?
“Anyway… we’re going back.”
“Back… where?”
“The Imperial Palace.”
His eyes widened once I said this. Hah, he really is showing me all kinds of faces today…
“I thought the princess betrayed us?”
“The princess? You think we have the time for her?”
“…You mean…”
“Right. Since the matters at Howling are all sorted out, we’re going back.”
“…Does the emperor know?”
“Nope. But I have enough power in my hands to do something like this.”
There is something that even the teacher doesn’t know about.
The reason why the Organization fell so fast. Teacher’s calculations were perfect. If he knew about all the variables involved, everything would have gone as he had expected.
“There’s a lot of things we need to clean up.”
“…Right.”
The one thing that the teacher didn’t know about was the fact that the Empire was the one that supported the Organization. This was something that not even the boss of the organization knew about. The Empire thought that it would be good to have an evil force they could control, especially when they knew that there would always have to be evil in the face of good. In essence, this Organization was only there to help the Empire detect and destroy corrupt n.o.bles and officials.
Well… all that only half-succeeded because of the teacher’s Utopia project.
“…Things will get busy again.”
“Because we need to start from scratch?”
“If the Empire’s going to create a new evil organization, it’d be better to be under the emperor.”
“But he was talking about killing teacher? Do you even know how fragile teacher is?”
“…The definition of ‘fragility’ in my head must be slightly skewed.”
When I glared at him, he shut up. Wasn’t he usually the silent type? When’d he get so loud… ah.
“By the way, I’m going to go on a vacation?”
“…There’s a lot of work.”
“Work hard.”
“…Miss!”
“Shut up. I’m going on a vacation. Haven’t gone on any in a long, long time.”
“We don’t get vacations…”
“The laws regarding the people who work for the Empire are really nice, ha.”
“We don’t get included in those laws… No, in the first place, we’re in a secret organization.”
“…Go on a strike or something, then.”
I made a small pout, and walked out while blocking my ears. I think someone’s shouting behind me, but… I can’t hear~
But in any case…
“If you think you can run away, just try it.”
Try it if you can.
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