Chapter 55: City of Canals (part two)
At the time when Leandez Magic Academy was celebrating All Souls’ Day, there was an outbreak of young women from distinguished families being spirited away.
In the bustle, the dead body which flowed to the riverbank was one of the students who was being spirited away, it was Erica Aurelia.
The heroine, Chloe, searched for the truth of the case with her redheaded classmate Harold.
This was the rough plot of the third scenario ‘All Souls’ Day’s Spirited Away Case.’
Now then, what kind of person was Harold Nibelheim which was the capture target?
Burning red hair made into a ponytail, dark green eyes.
Among the capture targets, he was tall enough to compete as being the tallest one.
The protruding tooth that looked like a fang and the scar on his right cheek gave the viewer a wild impression.
An outlaw with a bad atmosphere and a cynical view against the world.
Harold entered as a King’s Scholar, a scholarship system for civilians.
But, originally he should have been a nobleman who was the successor of Count Nibelheim.
This was a point in common with Chloe who enrolled as a King’s Scholar while being a duke’s daughter.
It was also a few points of contact for Chloe regarding Harold’s secretiveness.
Harold was a western noble, but the blood of Visitor’s Clan was diluted inside him.
He was the descendant of indigenous people who dominated the mountainous region of northwest before the Visitor’s Clan arrived in this place.
Although the indigenous people were in harmony with the Visitor’s Clan, they didn’t lose their identity and still maintained their cultures and pedigrees.
This was why there were more red hair than blonde in the north-western part of the continent.
Although it was not as good as the four royal houses, Harold had a good life as the son of an old noble family.
His fate, which was originally supposed to have a stable life, would change completely on a certain day.
The cause was that his father, Count of Nibelheim, had been found guilty of a silver vein fraud.
Immediately after that, as an additional blow, the market price of silver made abnormal fluctuations due to the fine silver circulated from other territory.
Through these two incidents, the production of silverware, which was the main industry of the territory of Nibelheim, was hit hard.
Even though he was struggling to prevent the inevitable destruction somehow, it was all in vain, and the Count of Nibelheim was bankrupt.
Count of Nibelheim gave up his peerage together with the territory which he couldn’t rule anymore.
Due to being overwhelmed by the mental and physical stress resulted from this case, Harold’s father died of illness in despair.
Ruined, Harold who became a shell of his former self enrolled in Leandez as a scholarship student after the hardship.
That was where my knowledge of the game ended.
I hadn’t been aware of the truth of the case because I was killed in the middle of playing through the third scenario.
What was something related to Harold that became the cause of my death?
If it was the usual, after his downfall, Harold would unleash some type of monstro.
Then, I guessed the one who would be murdered first was me.
Anyway, drowning seemed to be tremendously painful so I really wanted to avoid it.
It was too much to drink plenty of cold river water in autumn and floated on the riverbank.
Aside from that.
The County of Nibelheim was a land bordering Lucanrant.
It was far from the Duchy of Aurelia and it would be difficult to always keep an eye for the fraud.
However, just working directly on the capture target didn’t immediately mean death flag avoidance.
The Trade City of Knot Reed where the launching ceremony would be held was adjacent to that Nibelheim territory.
It was my opportunity to destroy the death flag.
On this occasion, we would collect information on the fraud while we were in Knot Reed, and prevented the downfall of the Nibelheim family.
The main plan this time was to catch the con artist.
Of course, I was also going to check out the local phantom beast that was likely to be the direct cause of my death.
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Under the gray sky.
A pure white sail was billowing as it was being blew by strong wind.
It was the first time for me to travel by boat, so my heart was beating fast indiscretely.
While drawing a white wake on the dark green surface of sea, the large merchant ship owned by Duke of Aurelia went north to the north-western coast towards Knot Reed.
This route was said to be an old route of history which had been used since the opening port of Knot Reed.
The required number of days from departure until arrival was about ten days.
It took a few days to bypass the waters where the flock of krakens that exist in Knot Reed’s ocean were living.
Still, routes that diverged largely via the open sea had been favoured by safety-conscious traders.
I was walking on the deck with phantom beasts disguised as a cat and a small golem.
In this case, amidst the howling of the wind and waves, the creaking sounds of the hull, and the yelling of the sailors, our conversation wouldn’t be heard unless we were approached.
Thinking that way, we dared to stand in an open place like this for our secret conversation.
“In other words, don’t let Count Nibelheim get scammed, so that he won’t fall into ruins.
We should also make sure that Harold doesn’t make contact with the eidolon even in the worst case.”
『Erica, I feel like you are making a sloppy strategy the same as last time.』
He pointed out my sore spot.
Certainly I was a little sloppy, and there was a part in the plan where it was too optimistic.
“In order not to be too late, this time we will take countermeasures against the eidolon from an early stage, so it will be fine.”
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