Chapter 96

Today, it's three episodes.

Please be advised.

June. The ceasefire agreement had expired, and it was the moment to invade the kingdom of King Rosais.

It happened.

"Ughhhh!"

"Your Majesty, the King!!"

King Domorgal clutched his heart and collapsed.

Immediately, all the sorcerers in the palace gathered, and treatment began.

But despite their best efforts, King Domorgal passed away.

Without designating the next king...

In the capital of King Domorgal's kingdom, at the residence of Ald Domorgal.

There was a boy of about fifteen and a woman in her early twenties.

The boy, dressed in luxurious clothing, was clearly of high status. This was natural, as he was none other than Ald Domorgal, the master of this room.

On the other hand, the woman was wearing very shabby clothes. Her beautiful blonde hair revealed that she was a Germanic person.

Moreover, she had a considerable amount of fat in her chest.

If Alms saw her, he would have judged, "This is a heavy cruiser... no, a battleship class. Not a dreadnought, but something like Mikasa..."

However, her face ruined it all.

She was not ugly, and one could even say her features were very well-proportioned.

That was why the bruises stood out.

Most painfully, the shackles on her feet and the collar around her neck.

The chain attached to the collar was in Ald's hand.

Ald shouted.

"Oh!! My father is dead!! How joyous... I mean, how sorrowful!! What should we do now?"

"…I don't know if you ask me."

"Shut up!! You insolent spider!!"

Ald kicked the slave.

He kicked her stomach repeatedly and pummeled her face while straddling her.

While being beaten, the slave... Alice thought,

(I guess I have to endure for about five minutes.)

Just about five minutes later, Ald stopped beating Alice.

"Hey, Alice. Go and kill Pax."

"That's... quite novel."

Ald, who suddenly ordered the assassination of an important figure, and Alice, who did not refuse, were both remarkable.

It was as if she was going on a picnic rather than an assassination.

"…But won't you be suspected? If you kill Prince Pax in this situation, it will be obvious that you are the culprit."

"In this situation, the next king will be Pax. The least contentious choice is seniority, and the commander-in-chief of the planned invasion of Rosais is none other than him. I want to be king. It's better for the country to kill him now rather than start a civil war and kill him later."

Alice's eyes widened at this statement.

Ald grinned.

"Then what next?"

"Kill all the opposing forces in the capital. Use my private army. It can be done if we succeed in a surprise attack. Assassinate the powerful nobles with many private armies. Without their heads, the command structure will be paralyzed."

"…I see."

Alice sighed.

In the end, she would be the one standing at the forefront of the danger.

"By the way, what about Prince Carlo?"

"He's holed up in a mountain far from here. I can't kill him at the same time as Pax. I'll send soldiers to kill him separately. I don't order the impossible. I'm a good master."

A good master doesn't beat slaves to a pulp.

Alice thought, but didn't say, that he always asked for nearly impossible tasks.

She was used to being beaten, but it was better not to be.

"What about the remaining Pax and Carlo factions? I don't think they'll submit easily."

"I'll forgive those who submit. Those who don't will be executed. Most nobles will submit if their fiefs are guaranteed."

At least, it seemed to be a well-thought-out plan.

The key to the plan was Alice assassinating Pax and the powerful nobles with many private armies... but Alice was confident she could carry it out.

It would be certain at midnight.

But what about after that? Ald had no legitimate claim and would only be left with a bad reputation.

Assassination is not difficult if you only consider success.

The problem is that it's easy to predict the culprit by considering who benefits from the person's death.

A fair fight would be better for appearances, but solving it with underhanded means would only lead to scandal.

It would be a significant wound in the future.

Therefore, assassination is a last resort when no other methods are available.

King Domorgal had only three children: Carlo, Pax, and Ald, but there were many other relatives.

There was a good chance that someone would try to support another royal instead of the brother-killer Ald.

As Ald himself said, what the nobles sought from a king was the guarantee of their fiefs.

How many nobles would really think that the man who killed his brother wouldn't turn his blade on them?

A light and easy-to-carry sedan chair is the best.

Ald was too heavy and too clever to be carried.

(Well, it's none of my business...)

Ald wouldn't listen to reason.

He didn't even listen to the advice of his grandparents, so he certainly wouldn't listen to Alice.

A spider woman who gets cocky gets beaten.

"Do you understand? The operation is in one week. Prepare yourself. I'll also prepare."

"...Yes."

Alice nodded quietly.

One week later, at midnight.

Alice was on the roof of a house near Prince Pax's residence.

She could see Prince Pax's residence about twenty meters away.

"Well, shall we go..."

Alice extended her arm and aimed at the roof of Prince Pax's residence.

Swish

The thread that shot out from Alice's finger, making a silly sound, hit the roof of Prince Pax's residence.

The thread was about a centimeter thick.

Alice attached the thread to her feet and fixed it.

This created a bridge about a centimeter wide.

Alice calmly jumped onto it and walked across it, maintaining her balance.

She quickly landed on the roof.

"Well... Prince Pax's room is the third room from the right on the second floor, right..."

Prince Pax's residence was three stories, so she had to go down one floor.

Alice placed her hand on the roof. She produced a sticky thread from her palm and slowly descended.

She quickly reached the balcony.

Naturally, the door was locked. It was to prevent intruders like Alice.

There was no keyhole. They hadn't considered entry from the balcony, so it wasn't installed.

It was an impregnable defense. For anyone but Alice.

"Troublesome..."

Alice wrapped the thread around her finger. The strong threads gathered to form a sharp point.

"Here goes."

Punch

With a loud sound, Alice's finger pierced the wooden door.

The noise woke Prince Pax, who was sleeping.

"Huh? What? What the... Gah!!"

The thread from Alice's finger wrapped around Pax's neck.

Alice pulled the thread, tightening it around Pax's neck.

For a while, Pax scratched and struggled, but soon stopped moving.

"Well, I should head back soon. It would be bad if I'm caught. ...But even if I'm caught, I don't plan to be captured."

She would be beaten when she returned.

She didn't like pain.

Alice had the strength to kill Ald and escape, but she had been conditioned not to defy him.

Suddenly, Alice heard a commotion. Looking in the direction of the noise, she saw flames rising.

Ald had taken action.

If she didn't hurry to help, she would be accused of slacking off and beaten.

Alice rushed to the source of the commotion.

Carlo, to show his reflection on the previous war, was in seclusion in the mountains a short distance from the capital.

However, his life there was very comfortable.

After all, his place of seclusion was a villa owned by a Carlo faction noble.

It was very comfortable.

There, Carlo read books, flirted with female slaves, hunted, flirted with female slaves, read poetry, and flirted with female slaves.

Incidentally, Carlo had a fiancée.

Their relationship was good.

That day, Carlo was in a village at the foot of the mountain.

It was a village, not a town.

He had been coerced by the female slaves to go out and play.

Carlo was also tired of the greenery, so he disguised himself and played in the village, spending the night at an inn.

A soldier who had secretly followed him out of concern woke him up from his dream.

"Trouble! Master Carlo! A coup has occurred in the capital! Prince Ald has killed Prince Pax. The mountain villa is already under attack by Pax's soldiers! The soldiers are fighting, but they don't know you are here... Please escape quickly! A carriage is ready!"

"Wha!! What... No, I'll hear the details later. Let's escape quickly!!"

Carlo hurriedly woke the female slaves and fled the village.

Thus, Carlo accidentally escaped from Ald's hands.

Ald is the type who carefully checks if the shutters are closed but forgets to turn off the gas.

King Domorgal: "He's not bad in terms of intelligence and ideas, but he's weak at the fundamentals and makes mistakes..." in the River Styx.

By the way, Alice is based on Spider-Man. However, I only know his name; I've never seen the movies. I read the wiki, though.

You can think of her as having almost the same abilities as Spider-Man.

Incidentally, she is not blessed, but the blessing is related.

In a pure strength contest, Alms would win, but in a three-dimensional space like indoors, Alice is almost invincible.

To Ald, she is a rook. (By the way, there are no bishops, gold, or silver pieces.)