105 059. Imperial Prince Saw Him -3 Part One

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Harman reported the incident to the Imperial Family.

However, Holy Emperor Kelt Olfolse ordered us not to stop the upcoming banquet, and instead continue on with “meet and establish a diplomatic connection with the envoy”.

I was totally dismayed upon hearing this.

Just what was the old man even thinking? Did he really want to start a war? Or… was he separately thinking about doing something else?

Since the Holy Emperor issued his imperial decree, we now had no way to stop the proceedings from going ahead. But still, I asked Ruppel to come to the academy’s executive office.

Kelt Olfolse was probably cooking up a plan of his own, but as far as I was concerned, this event should definitely not go ahead. The whole thing was so dangerous that one misstep might result in the massacre of innocent citizens.

The banquet could be stopped as long as Ruppel and I had the same opinion. He was responsible for managing this diplomatic event after all. In fact, he should also be aware of how grave the current situation was, so I felt confident that he’d agree with me.

“Even if it doesn’t, so what? Admit that it was our fault and chase the envoy out from the empire’s soil? Huh! Why don’t you openly declare that Aslan is our enemy instead? How about you publicly announce that it wasn’t Aslan, but the Theocratic Empire who first declared the war! And by resorting to barbaric means of hanging several of the foreign nobles by their throats, no less!”

Ruppel roared out as his complexion got redder and redder. It looked like his head was in a chaotic mess right now.

He was right, though; if we chase out Aslan’s envoy without a solid reason, then it’d somehow look like the empire was admitting to murdering those nobles.

I leaned my head against the couch and continued on, “An undead Lich showed up.”

“I know that. Although, I’m a little sceptical considering it’s coming from you…” Ruppel furrowed his brows while staring at me. “But what are you so concerned about? The vice captain of the Order of the Golden Cross, Oscal Baldur is residing in this city after all.”

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“Is he that strong?”

“Well, at least he’s far stronger than Archbishop Raphael. Even a Progenitor Vampire won’t be able to win against him.”

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…That’s not the problem here.

Even the current me could stop the undead Lich by myself.

“Envoy Haima was asking about you. More specifically, he was asking about the one who took the lead in hunting the Black Order down.”

I frowned deeply. “What does that have to do with me?”

“To resolve any misunderstandings, he wishes to confront and speak to the one who personally annihilated the Black Order.”

“That’s such a stupid excuse.”

The undead Lich probably thought up of that one.

Ruppel quickly spoke in a conciliatory tone of voice, “The potential flow of this diplomatic event will depend entirely on your participation, Allen.”

“The undead Lich is a part of the Black Order. That very organisation also belongs to Aslan. This is an obvious trap, don’t you see that?”

“Even if we know the truth, we don’t have any physical evidence.”