Chapter 303 (2/2)

「……At your will.」

Mazenda made a bow, and left the throne room.

After closing the door, going down the hallways, and entering her own room, Mazenda went *pu* and burst into laughter.

「Good grief……that a troublesome person. I knew that she was a fool, but to think it would have been that bad. Just what did she plan on doing if I weren’t around.」

「Is that alright? If you give me the order, at any moment, I could……」

「You can’t.」

Speaking to the man that appeared behind her, Mazenda replied without turning around to him.

「It will be a problem if Narika-sama doesn’t stay like that.」

「However……」

「As long as Celis-sama is currently unusable, there is no substitute for Narika-sama.」

「Th, that is why I can go at any moment if you just give me the order!」

*Kon* Hearing the sound of Mazenda hitting the floor with her staff, the man was startled and fell silent.

「I would be fine with sending you if you could say that you could win against that Reina. Do I need to start explaining things to you from the fact that it would be meaningless to kidnap Celis-sama?」

「Eh, ah……」

「Idiots should just shut up. Putting aside the idiot within the plan, any more idiots than that just piss me off.」

Mazenda turned around to face the man who shut his mouth.

What was reflected in her vision was the figure of the man who had the position of Captain of the Staves of Light Chivalric Order.

With cold eyes, Mazenda looked down at that man, who had gone down to one knee and saluted while his face had gone pale.

「Listen and pay close attention. About that Chivalric Order member selection or whatever that Narika-sama thought of……mix in our pawns as appropriate.」

「Ha!? And, and how would I go about doing that……」

「Tsk, you incompetent little……Let’s see, some trash that wouldn’t be a problem even if they were to vanish……I think that some Adventurers would be suitable?」

Receiving Mazenda’s words, the man stood up and saluted.

「Understood. I shall prepare two or three people.」

「Please do that……Ahh, you know the objective, right?」

「Yes. It is in order to permeate our ideology even further, isn’t it!?」

「……That is enough. I will give you orders later, so just be prepared for now.」

「Yes ma’am.」

Mixing in a sigh as she saw the man off when he left the room, Mazenda brushed up her hair.

Why didn’t they understand that annihilating the participants was in order to defend against secret agents coming in. Even those Adventurers, it wouldn’t be a problem to silence and dispose of them after the selection was done.

She couldn’t have her way at all. Idiots can’t be used normally, but that being said, ones with smarts would think of unnecessary things. Someone in the middle would be the best, but there weren’t that many people like that. At the very least, Mazenda knew better than anyone else that there wasn’t anyone like that in Narika’s faction.

「It’s already the last stage. Even if I don’t do anything, it might be a castle of sand that will eventually collapse.」

Expressing a dark laugh, Mazenda thought.

She flowed a river of poison into a collapsing castle of sand, and laid out a ground of needles.How luscious would it be when the people who are lost in the fear of being injured expose their disgraceful behavior.

Just one more push. Even though everything would be smeared with despair and collapse with just one more push, unnecessary interruptions keep coming in here and there.

The legendary Maid Knight, Reina. Even though her alone was enough a nuisance, the Zadark Kingdom lead by Demon King Vermudol had put their hand in. Thanks to that, the plan was compelled to make a certain amount of modifications.

However, looking at it from a broad perspective, it wasn’t a problem.

No, instead……she thought that it even rolled into an even more interesting direction.「Fufu, fufufu. I’m looking forward to it.」

Mazenda laughed to herself in the room that had no one else in it.

Those who would see that smile of hers that was warped in evil……could not be found here.