Chapter 205 (1/2)

Volume 3

The Simple Job of Only Perishing to the Hero Volume 6 Chapter 19

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Demon King Castle Second Floor, Ichika’s room.

That room, which was newly made by Ykslaas who was in charge of the repair work, did not have that many features, and the door with a simple design was always tightly locked.

Rokuna and Lemon were walking through the corridor that that room was connected to.

It was a corridor that should have had no one in it up until now, but before they knew it, Ichika, wearing black maid clothes, had appeared before the two of them.

Lemon was surprised by the sudden event, and hid behind Rokuna.

On the other hand, Rokuna talked to Ichika with a face that looked like she was used to it.

「As usual, you just appear all of a sudden. Well, it’s fine since I had some business with you anyway.」

「I had come here since I predicted that you would. There is nothing to be surprised about.」

「To begin with, being able to predict that is……No, whatever. Here.」

When Rokuna said that, she handed over a bundle of documents that she held under her arm.

「It’s the stuff that you asked for.」

After Ichika accepted the documents, she expressionlessly nodded.

She understood that it would probably be a swing and a miss this time as well, but she was honestly grateful that Rokuna would sincerely move the intelligence unit to investigate things for her.

「……Is that so.」

After thinking that Ichika would look through the documents later, Rokuna breathed a small sigh.

「But still, I was wondering what kind of guy it was when you expressly told me to investigate them……but as I thought, it wasn’t a normal person.」

「Eh?」

Ichika unconsciously said that at Rokuna’s unexpected words.

Maybe being satisfied from seeing a rare reaction from Ichika, Rokuna grinned and turned around.

「Well, all of the details are written in there. Be sure to read it.」

Lemon chased after Rokuna who said that and walked away.

Only Ichika remained in the corridor that returned to silence.

「……」

Ichika dropped her eyes onto the documents that she received from Rokuna.

It was an investigative report on a certain person.

Thinking that that person was already no longer living, if she could at least know about their final moments……that is what she thought when she made the request.

That person’s name, was Reina.

Called the legendary Maid Knight, she was also Ichika’s──No, 「Ria」’s, the life that she had before she was Ichika, shishou.

This time’s report, it was something that gathered Reina’s information within the Canal Kingdom.

The current Canal Kingdom was in a civil war situation due to the antagonism between the First Princess and the Third Princess.

It seemed that Rokuna had the intelligence operative try and slip in with that confusion, but similar to how things were up until now, it seems that they were immediately discovered for some reason.

As long as the intelligence operative couldn’t slip in, the information would end up being suspicious as they were only considerably fragmented rumors that were gathered, but it seems that Rokuna had carefully examined that and consolidated it in her own way.

Ichika flipped through the pages of the document, and her hands stopped in the middle of looking through a couple of pages.

「This is……no, but……」

Reading through the contents of the document, Ichika quietly muttered that.

She thought “could it be”.

However, she couldn’t think of any other possibility.

「This is unconfirmed information, but there is a rumor that a blue haired Maid Knight made contact with the previous king, punched him in the face, and escaped……」

In the investigation report, it was concluded that this was an event that the Third Princess side had arranged in order to trap the First Princess camp which had the previous king assume position as their leader.

They thought that it was a strategy in order to give the impression that the previous king and the First Princess were people corrupt enough to receive punishing strikes from the legendary Maid Knight and that the Third Princess was justice.

But, Ichika knew.

The person known as Reina, even if the other party was a king or the head priest, if she thought they were annoying, she would send them flying and run. She was a person that would easily do that.

That is why she thought “could it be”.

Since more than a hundred years had passed since the Hero Ryuuya’s era, she shouldn’t be alive if she was a normal Human.

With trembling hands, Ichika flipped to the next page.

There, the story of an intelligence operative who succeeded in making contact with a person who was thought to be that Maid Knight was written.

That intelligence operative also had no choice but to immediately depart the Canal Kingdom, but even so, within the information that they had gathered in that small amount of time, it was said that they had met with a person who appeared to be Reina.

They were mostly unable to converse, but it seems that that person said this.

In the event that there was a person searching for me, if that child answers what the menu they ate on the day we first met was, then I shall meet with them, is what she said.

On the report, there were scribblings saying that it was some sort of code, but that wasn’t the case at all.

That person, she wouldn’t do such a troublesome thing.

She would always take an insinuating attitude, but in truth, she was a person who was just as she appeared.

「Reina……」

Ichika muttered that.

There is no way she should be alive. However, she couldn’t think that it was anyone but Reina herself.

「……Are you, there right now……?」

Tightly hugging the document, Ichika made a distant look.

As if she were envisioning the distant Canal Kingdom.

After a bit of silence, Ichika’s ears came to hear the footsteps of someone walking through the corridor.

After suddenly noticing that sound and raising her head, Vermudol’s figure as he was approaching her entered her eyes.

「Vermudol-sama……?」

Ichika’s room was the only thing at the end of this corridor.

In other words, it meant that he had business with Ichika……however, when Vermudol looked at Ichika, he slightly knitted his brow and sped up.

Vermudol, who came making a *katsu katsu* footstep sound, stood in front of Ichika, and peered at her face.

「Ve, Vermudol-sama? U, um……Did you need something?」

「……No, it seems it was just my imagination.」

After saying that, Vermudol suddenly relaxed his lips.

「It looked as if you were crying. I wondered just what in the world had happened……Well, forgive me.」

Noticing that he worried about her, Ichika also expressed a small smile.