121 Episode 121: The Identity of Doubt (1/2)

Today's game was over and I was strolling around town to change my mood.

The town of Tatsutron, where the ritual of Princess Ryu and the ritual of Emperor Ryu are held, was busy as if it were a festival, combined with the many shops reserved for visitors.

Or is Princess Ryu's ritual itself a festival in this town?

”Mm-hmm. That's a busy city festival.”

The village festival in my hometown was small and whispering.

Perhaps it would be nice to come out into the outside world just to be seen this sight.

”But it's not good that I honestly can't enjoy it”

I walk into an alley with a familiar feeling on my back in my previous life.

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”... not here!?”

The shadow that came in the alley panicked that there was nowhere to see the person who went in first.

”Yes, please don't move.”

As soon as I entered the alley, I jumped onto the roof of a nearby building and hid, landing soundlessly behind the person I followed and shoving a sheathed knife on its back.

”Huh!?...... when!?”

Um, it's a detour for a killer.

I thought you were a resident of the backyard that attacked us in connection with the 800 Century Game.

”Why were you following me?

……

Are you not willing to answer?

Then nothing. No.

”Okay. Then we'll stick it out to the guards.”

”Huh!? ma, wait!

The guard tells me to stick it out, and I rush to look back here, but I gently press the knife on my back to threaten him.

”I told you not to move, didn't I? If you're doing something backwards, I'll stick it out to the guards. If not, explain why.”

”No, I'm not doing you any harm.”

Um, then I'm talking about why you were following me.

”I am of the Dragon Emperor who came to protect His Majesty the Dragon Emperor.”

”Dragon Emperor”?

Uh, sure, when you say dragon emperor, you were a nobleman in this country who had contact with Mr. Liliera, weren't you?

You're just not very strong as a faction.

When I leave the tailman I named the Dragon Emperor, I give him permission to turn around.

Dragon Emperor people look back slowly to avoid stimulating this one.

Yeah, you're surprisingly young.

I guess the tail was sweet because of the lack of talent of the weak aristocratic faction.

I mean, this guy looks familiar...

”Ah, someone who has been in contact with Mr. Liliera during this time”

Yes, this is the one who has mistaken Mr. Liliera for Princess Dragon and said he wants to meet the Dragon Emperor.

”Yes, my name is Bakin Wappage. The title is Knight Sir.”

”Sir Knight?

Huh? I didn't think you were noble. ⁉

This kind of thing is what ordinary ministers do...

Sir Knight is the lowest of the nobles, but still, it's not like he doesn't have a minister.

I can't believe our Lord himself was tailing us on purpose.

Maybe the Dragon Emperor is a pretty weak faction then...

”Uh, why would a nobleman tail you better?

Yeah, I'm getting anxious about the boulder.

”I'm ashamed that by the time I came to this town of Tatsutron, my comrades and men had fallen off because of the anti-dragon imperial obstruction. I'm the only one who got there.”

”Isn't that civil unrest anymore? ⁉R”

No matter how much factional strife, it's nothing but civil strife to kill all the nobles in your country.

I mean, there's no such thing as factional strife anymore. ⁉

”Oh no, there are no dead on the boulder. If there are a large number of dead in the nobility, albeit lower ranks, there is a possibility that those from other countries will intervene in the name of cooperating in the reign of His Majesty the Dragon Emperor. Never, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever,

I see, because you like the fact that the Dragon Emperor is not here, you mean that you don't do too much and on the contrary make it easier for the Dragon Emperor to reign.

”Nevertheless, we, too, do not want to make a debt to another country for the reign of His Majesty the Dragon Emperor. The bigger it is, the weaker it will be in later inter-state negotiations. Well, because of that, there was a common interest between the two sides, and it was only ironic that I was able to get to the town of Tatstron.”

Mr. Bakin laughs masochistically when he is sad that he was lucky enough to get to this town because of his weakness.

”So Bakin... Dear. Let me get back to you, why have you been following me?

You're going back to this topic after all, aren't you?

I know because Mr. Liliera is mistaken for Princess Ryu, because I'm just one of them.

Mr. Bakin also looks at this one with a correct posture.

”Then again, Lord Rex...... no, Master Rex. I'd like to ask you something.”

Master Rex? You?

Why would a nobleman take on me?

I'm getting a bad feeling about this...

”Dear Lex, are you... aren't you the Dragon Emperor? ⁉ ●”

”... ha!?”

yeah ⁉ why ⁉ why do you do that? ⁉

If you know I could have followed the Golden Dragon, Mr. Lune, why would Mr. Bakin come to such a conclusion?

”Yeah...... why does that happen?

I try to calmly ask Mr. Bakin why. [M]

”Yes, that's because Lord Rex is not joining the Dragon Emperor's ritual”

”What? Huh? Why do you think I'm the Dragon Emperor?

Yeah, I have no idea.

I know why the Dragon Emperor joins the Dragon Emperor's ritual to let him know he exists, but the Dragon Emperor because he's not? Why not the other way around?

”Dear Lex, all the escorts of His Majesty the Dragon Emperor, starting with Princess Dragon, are participating in the ritual”

”Yeah, that's right”

But you're not the only one in the ceremony.

”That's sort of an alley. If everyone is participating in the ritual, there is a danger that they will not be able to deal with it when something happens.”

”Yeah, that's what I thought too”

Then why?

”After Princess Long refused to see me with His Majesty the Dragon Emperor, I decided to look for His Majesty the Dragon Emperor on my own.”

”Oh, really?”

Well, I guess that's natural.

You can't just give up because you can't let me see you.

”But searching the town for the dark clouds did not meet His Majesty the Dragon Emperor.”

Yeah, there's no dragon emperor in the first place.

”So with all due respect, I decided to keep an eye on you. I was wondering if you and His Majesty would make contact.”

Um, that's also well... you know what I mean. Even though we don't know who the Dragon Emperor is, it doesn't necessarily mean the Dragon Emperors believe it.

”But there was no contact at all with His Majesty the Dragon Emperor.”

Yeah, I've told you many times, there's no contact between the Dragon Emperor and us in the first place.

But there was one person who couldn't even explore the information.

Huh?

”That's you, Master Rex.”

”Uh, didn't that just get out of hand because I'm looking into it by myself?

'Cause it looks like Mr. Bakin's people are retiring for interfering with the anti-dragon imperial.

”Yeah, so we hired low-ranking adventurers in the Adventurers Guild to place them as undercover detectives all over town”

”Eh ⁉”

I hired Mr. Adventurer. ⁉

”Even though it's low rank, it's fine if you just let them keep an eye on you all over the city.”

Shit! I didn't think you'd ask the adventurers to keep an eye on you!

I mean, I wanted to try that request, too!

Sounds cool, like the story of Big Swordsman Rygaard's bread and milk!

I'm talking about the Big Swordsman Rygaard sticking around for days to grab the tail of a leaping villain, but it's kind of plain content, so popularity is a bad idea.

But in the story, Rygaard seems so delicious eating bread and milk.

There's a lot of sinister, plain, but enthusiastic fans of Rygaard's line, ”It's not just the adventurer's job to fight with the sword, kid,” when you catch the killer.

... No, I'm not, I'm not.

”In a report from an adventurer, you confirmed that an athlete can't get out of the inn only when he plays a game. But for some reason, multiple adventurers have confirmed that you are dining with the dragon princesses.”

……

And, shit. Ah!

I messed with this.

Did you find out when you rendezvoused to dine with everyone after the game?

Mm-hmm. This is trouble.

”Master Rex, aren't you in disguise and participating in the ritual of the Dragon Emperor?

Not good, Mr. Bakin totally mistakes me for a dragon emperor.

We have to do something to deceive this.

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”Well, that's troublesome.”

After that, I managed to escape Mr. Bakin for a reason, and I was gathering everyone to explain the obvious.

”I never thought Mr. Bakin would suspect me for that reason.”

”Nevertheless, you certainly don't know where Mr. Rex is, but you can't help but suspect him”

”Why don't you just tell me who your brother is disguised as?

”I think it's pointless. Even if we reveal who Rex is now, we suspect that Rex is hiding his identity and participating.”

Gyro, I reject your suggestion that Mr. Megli is pointless.

”On the contrary, do you want me to tell Lex that's the way to get everyone's attention?

”That's now too, isn't it? Then why didn't you tell me first?”

Um, it's not going to work.

”Then the next best thing to do is for one of us to disguise ourselves as Mr. Rex and take part in the game, right? If all the other masked players go to the game in a situation where Mr. Rex is there, I think that guy will admit that Mr. Rex is a siro too”

I guess that's all I have.

Then everyone will have to know who I'm disguised as in order to replace the game.

”Then we'll have the gyros disguised for Tyran's game.”

”Yeah, it's nice to meet you... ⁉ How do you know ⁉?”

”” ”” What now ”” ”

Er, ⁉maybe my disguise, ⁉⁉R

”Er ⁉ Did Tyrann mean my brother? ⁉”

Good, Gyro, you didn't find out.

I'm very surprised you found out about the disguise, but with all this, I think I'm going to manage to deceive Mr. Bakin.

... I thought the prospect had collapsed slightly.

”No, I can't play this game because it's my next game.”

”I was in the game before that, so it's impossible to replace it.”

Oh, my God, Gyro, you and Mr. Norb have found it difficult to disguise themselves in relation to the game back and forth.

”Then you want the lilieras to join you? Exactly. I'm a wizard, and I'm about to lose my temper when it comes to the melee.”

Mina tells me that surrogacy is difficult because she is a wizard.

”Well, I can't take Tyran's armor because I can grab his chest.”

”Well, I guess I can't either.”

and Ms Liliera resigns that it is difficult to replace her due to problems with the structure of the armor.

”Damn, this is the one who was given it!

”Can I be jealous, Princess Ryu? ⁉

For some reason, Megli and Lune stare at Mina and Liliera with a tremendously murderous look.

”I can't schedule it either, though”

”Shh, excuse me. I can't seem to do it either, and I was wondering if it would be difficult with my master because of his height.”