It's Not Like I Want to Play the Role of a Misunderstood, Good-for-Nothing Prince in a Villainess Story! - Chapter 99: Church Raid

At the Headquarters of the Royal Capital Knight Order, where I came after a long time, things were placed messily as always.

While I was waiting in the guided cafeteria drinking a drink, a person jumped in making a noise loud enough to make the door hinges scream.

“Zeke-sama! You look well…”

“Hmph. We were waiting…”

The two stopped their words upon seeing my face.

They are making puzzled faces together.

“What happened?”

“No, your complexion is bad and you don’t look well at all but… right?”

“Umu… compared to that, only your eyes are glaring, and a little… are you taking meals?”

Certainly, I haven’t been taking much.

“Is Beldiha here?”

“The Commander is sleeping.”

“Hmph. I think he will wake up soon, but will you wait?”

Guu… my stomach rumbled.

“That’s right, then shall I wait while eating?”

While waiting and taking a meal with the members of the Knight Order in the cafeteria, Beldiha finally woke up.

“What is it, you are noisy; it echoes in my head.”

Beldiha came while scratching his head vigorously with a liquor bottle attached to his waist, but.

“Hee…”

The moment he saw me, the corners of his mouth went up.

Moving one of the members aside and sitting in front of me, Beldiha placed the liquor bottle on the desk with a thud.

“Just when I thought you stopped being a Prince, you have a good mug, don’t you? I don’t dislike it.”

He grinned and downed the liquor.

Well, it is the usual thing so that is fine.

“I came to make a request.”

“It’s not an order, right?”

“The current me doesn’t have such authority.”

“Hah ha, certainly that is so! …So, say it.”

As always, he is quick to talk.

“Beldiha, there was a dungeon in the basement here, right?”

“Ah, there is. Will you use it?”

“Yeah, also I want you to lend me a squad of the Knight Order.”

“Oi, oi, you are quite motivated, aren’t you. What do you intend to do?”

That is decided.

“We are going to raid the Church.”

At my words, the members in the cafeteria buzzed all at once.

“Seriously?”, “Is the Church okay?”, “If former Prince Zeke says so…”, “The Church guys were acting high and mighty so it might be okay”, “Zeke-sama always does outrageous things”, “Hmph. Even if so, we only follow.”

Each is saying their own impressions, but generally they seem willing to follow me, so that was good.

“Picking a fight with the Church is interesting as always. If there is an annoying guy, shall I cut them for you?”

“No, I guess I’m fine. I don’t want to leave only this opponent to others.”

Hearing my words, Beldiha freezes while holding the liquor bottle, which is rare.

He blinked his eyes rapidly with a surprised expression.

“What happened?”

“…I wonder. I heard unexpected words. Possibly is this what Ted was saying before about the ‘goodness of the gap’?”

“Eh, is this good?”

“No, I don’t understand the meaning of those words well.”

What is it.

I thought Beldiha awakened to my gap moe.

I would be troubled if a man awakened to me though.

“But well, if necessary take them as you please. If my power is needed, say it at that time.”

“Yeah, thank you.”

–So, I brought Garim, Debut, and the Assistant Commander Tarsen and about fifty others.

Yeah, I think I probably don’t need this many but there’s no harm in having many.

“Then, Debut and Garim. You two bring your respective squads and come inside together. Tarsen, I request the guard outside. So that no one enters inside.”

“Ha-ha!”

“Hmph. Leave it to me.”

“I understood. Also, is it fine to capture those who flee from inside?”

“Ah, if they resist, you may cut them.”

“Umm…”

Yes… one member raises his hand.

“Should I call it final confirmation… right now Zeke-sama isn’t a Prince but won’t it become a diplomatic problem? Is it okay?”

Ah, that matter. Yeah, yeah, it is worrying, right. I understand. I really understand. Yeah.

I float a smile so as not to make them worry.

“It’s okay.”

The member brightens up immediately seeing my expression.

“When this is over, we plan to go to the Papal Territory to bring back the Saint who is being detained unjustly, so we will talk together then. It’s okay, they will understand. …Listen, I will say it once more but absolutely do not let the guys inside escape. If there is a noisy guy, cut one or two as a warning and silence them. It would be good if there isn’t such a thing though, hahaha.”

When I laughed cheerfully at the end, the members also laughed. Good.

“Hahaha… wait oi Garim, Zeke-sama’s eyes are scary. His mouth is laughing but his eyes aren’t laughing at all. His resolve is set too much, right.”

“Hmph. The guy who laid a hand on Lady Misty is inside this, right? Then it can’t be helped. Shall we also set our resolve?”

“…Right. Let’s do it.”

Maybe hearing the voices of Debut and Garim speaking in whispers, voices of each re-energizing themselves can be heard.

Morale is perfect.

“Alright, each has a rope on their waist, right! Then follow me!”—–When we entered the church in a swarm, immediately an elderly man approached.

“Dangerous… with whose permission did the Knight Order enter here? This is a church, so to speak it is not an exaggeration to say inside here is Papal Territory, you know?”

“Hello, it is former Prince Zeke Carlaan. I hear Cardinal Magnus is staying here. Please let me meet him.”

“I am sorry, the Cardinal is currently talking with a guest. Please leave.”

He bowed respectfully, but it is nothing other than being refused politely.

“Umm, does that mean you cannot let me meet him?”

“I am afraid but…”

Is that so, then it can’t be helped.

I grab the man’s collar with my right hand, and drag him down backwards just like that.

“Do it.”

“Ha!”

“Wh, what!?”

In the blink of an eye, they tie him up.

“Take him outside just like that. If he shows signs of resisting, kill him.”

After that, proceeding to the back while tying up the guys who were in the church one after another in the same manner, we arrived at a somewhat wide room.

Two familiar faces.

Magnus and Albert were standing there.

“Zeke Carlaan?”

“Cardinal Magnus, it has been a while. Albert too, since the Papal Territory.”

“Do you understand what you are doing? To draw a bow against the Church…”

Bow? Hahaha, what I am holding is a sword, but even so, you say interesting things.

“The ones who laid a hand first were you people, right? To think you would target Misty.”

“That is…”

Albert looks down uncomfortably.

Well, I know Albert who was in the Papal Territory at that time didn’t do it.

But asking if he did nothing is a different matter.

“If you don’t resist, I will spare your life in this place, but?”

“Understood, shall we surrender…”

The moment Magnus raised his right hand smoothly.

“Zeke-sama!”

A black shadow approached me, and then…

“……!?”

Just like that, it became split in two.

“Ha…”

“……!?”

While Magnus and Albert float expressions of astonishment and confusion respectively, I pierced its face with the sword to finish it off, and then took the dagger that guy was holding in my hand.

The blade tip is painted black, and black miasma is coming out.

Poison… no, it seems it’s not just that.

However, there seems to be no mistake that this guy is the culprit who stabbed Misty.

When I turn my gaze sharply to Magnus, he must have understood the situation quickest.

“W-Wait. This is some mistake. I have no intention of resisting. Is it money? Position? Y-Yes. Let me help you become King. It’s okay, if I, a Cardinal, help, the King’s seat will be immediately…”

I cut off the extended right hand from the elbow with the sword.

“Aaaaaaaahhhhhh!”

I further kicked Magnus’s chest who was shouting while holding the wound of the missing arm with his left hand.

And, while stepping on the stomach of Magnus who was slammed against the wall and collapsed, I thrust the sword next to Magnus’s face.

“Listen well. Your misfortune is that you laid a hand on a partner you must absolutely not lay a hand on. Your good fortune is that you had your subordinate do it. If you yourself had done something, I would have killed you here. You are lucky.”

“Ha… hahi…”

The figure shedding tears just because an arm flew, wetting the floor with fear with a messy face, is a patheticness completely different from the face acting with composure until just before.

“Oi, stop the blood for him. Don’t kill him here.”

“Ha!”

“Zeke-sama, return blood on your clothes!”

“Later is fine.”

Next, I approached Albert who was standing still with a completely pale face.

“Wa… wa…”

He pulled out the sword attached to his waist in a panic, but I easily flicked it away from the side.

“Oi, oi, it’s dangerous, right.”

Despite his sword being blown away, Albert is frozen in that stance.

It seemed his thoughts were not working at the unexpected tragedy.

It looks like he is standing holding an invisible sword, which is a little funny. …Though I can’t laugh.

“If you stay quiet I won’t add any more harm.”

I said that, but there is no reply.

“Oi, are you listening?”

When I slapped his cheek lightly, he trembled with a start and then sat down on the ground as if collapsing.

Trembling without his focus meeting, the figure called ‘Divine Child Blessed by the World’ is not there, but is this guy okay?

“Why…?”

“Nn?”

“No one should be able to point a sword at me… supposed to be. Until now no one…”

What is he saying?

“Well fine, oi, tie him up.”

I ordered, but the movement of the Knight Order is strangely dull.

Come to think of it, Beldiha also said something like it’s hard to cut him.

Judging from the words he is muttering, the line of him being a guy who came from the other world seems unlikely, but possibly is there something?

I thought a little, and concluded that it’s too late for that now.

If I can attack, there is no problem.

In the end, I tied him up myself.

“Alright, then let’s join up with the guys outside and head to the Knight Order Headquarters.”—–“Ou ou, you brought quite a lot.”

When we finished putting the guys we brought into the dungeon, Beldiha came.

“Due to food relations, we can’t keep them in for that long.”

“Ah, you can release everyone except Magnus and Albert in a few days. I will finish it by then. However, absolutely do not let those two out of the dungeon. No matter what obstruction comes, if it’s Beldiha you can do it right?”

“Well, sure I can do it but…”

He looked as if peering into my right hand which hasn’t stopped trembling since earlier.

“What?”

“No, I thought maybe it was your first time.”

He doesn’t say ‘what’, but Beldiha probably understands the reason my trembling won’t stop.

I killed a person with my own hands for the first time… immediately after that I was excited so I had no sensation, but on the way back here, the moment I became calm, I vomited.

Even though I was stopped by Misty… no, I had to do it.

If I don’t think so, my heart won’t hold.

“So, where do you intend to go next?”

“I plan to head to the Papal Territory to take back the Saint. So I want you to lend me the members and horses just like that.”

“A raid leaving me behind, you have a good status. Keh! Do as you please.”

Beldiha spat on the ground and walked away.

As expected, maybe I angered him by ordering too many things.

When I was looking at the direction he walked, Tarsen walked from the same direction floating a bitter smile.

“The Commander was sulking.”

“Maybe because I said too many unreasonable things.”

However, Tarsen shook his head.

“That is wrong, probably that is because he wanted to go together with the Prince.”

“Ehh…”

I didn’t feel such an atmosphere at all though…

“Even so he was concerned. While the Prince wasn’t coming out of the Claudia Marquis House, he was frequently asking Debut and Garim ‘what is that brat doing now’.”

“Is that so.”

It was too unexpected so I didn’t notice at all.

Or rather, I wish he would say that kind of thing properly.

Beldiha has that kind of side, doesn’t he.

“Tell him I will bring good liquor again next time.”

“I understood, I will convey it. Also, is departure tomorrow fine? If we start now it will be night travel so that is a little…”

“Yeah, that is fine. I also have things I have to do returning to the Claudia house once. Let the members going tomorrow rest properly.”

“Certainly.”

I was saluted sharply by Tarsen.