103 058. Imperial Prince Saw Him -2 Part One

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Inside the academy’s executive office.

I was still stewing in shock when I asked Ruppel the following question. “What are you even talking about?!”

He sunk into the couch and firmly massaged his temples. “Dead Necromancers were discovered dangling by their necks on the plaza. That was early this morning. According to what some eyewitnesses say, an ‘angel’ did it.”

Not just any Necromancers either – if they were from the Black Order, it’d be possible to come up with some excuses. However, the discovered Necromancers were wearing attires belonging to the envoy’s group from Aslan. To make matters worse, the victims apparently belonged to the kingdom’s aristocracy, too.

I asked again. “Who could have done that?”

“What are you saying? Didn’t you do it? Surely the Necromancer that serves you must’ve been responsible.”

“That’s definitely not true.”

All I did was simply raid a few Black Order hideouts for the sake of our subjects’ safety and uh, to acquire some new techniques for myself!

I spat out a groan and asked Ruppel. “Okay. Can you tell me where the dead Necromancers were found?”

**

Harman and I reached the plaza in question.

The surrounding avenues were in the middle of preparing for the upcoming festival, but everything had come to a halt due to the incident.

The citizens walking by were staring at the plaza, an expression of worry clearly visible on their faces.

‘Maybe the war is going to break out for real now?’

‘Didn’t Aslan’s envoy come to the city? And I heard that our Theocratic Empire declared war first. Could it be true…?’

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‘What? It isn’t Aslan declaring war but us, the empire?’

It wasn’t the Imperial Family, since if someone from the family made a move, then I would have received some kind of report.

In that case, maybe it was Aslan themselves?

Harman seemed to have thought the same thing as I did, judging from what he said in the next moment. “Could it be that Aslan’s own people did this?”

“For what purpose?”

Of course, I had already thought up of a few things in that regard. There was a pretty solid reason to go this far, wasn’t there?

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Harman replied. “The pretext for war, your highness.”

If Aslan really wanted to invade the Theocratic Empire, then this incident would be as good as any justification you could think of.

I muttered out. “However, judging from the envoy’s reaction, that couldn’t be it either.”

The crowd screamed and hurriedly ran away from the area.

Cracks began appearing on the demonic energy barrier.

What? The holy bullet failed to penetrate through it?

The undead Lich also got to witness this scene and the crimson glow in its eye sockets widened in shock. It stumbled back immediately.

-I see now. This is the reason why you were called the ‘angel’, isn’t it?

Dammit, the shot was too weak. I gotta fire another round. I should be able to accurately break through and hit the target this time.

I took another aim with my musket.

-It’ll be too difficult to deal with you as I am right now. We shall see each other again in the future. And when that happens…

The undead Lich’s glowing eyes burned in a crimson hue.

-I shall definitely kill you!

The Lich turned around and began dashing down the alleyway.