Re:Zero - Jobless Reincarnation: Succubus Sword God? I don't recognize it!

Chapter 424: One Hour Outside the Abyss, and Three Minutes Inside the Abyss

"What did the Man-God tell you in your dream? Apostle of the Man-God."

"I said! Don't kill me! It hurts!!! He. He told me to use Rudius to get close to Allen Boreas Greyrat."

"and then?"

“No more.”

"Very good, go to hell."

The "interrogation" words from Countess Lilson's mansion ten minutes ago could not be heard by others.

The magic car that was driving in the opposite direction of the person being interrogated had already arrived on the road in front of the gate of the murder scene.

"Sylphy~~Hey~~Sylphy~~~"

The curtains of the carriage fluttered in the wind. Sylphy, who was communicating with Ariel, seemed to hear someone calling her outside the carriage, and she turned to look out the window.

Rudy's delighted face was seen peeking out of a window on the third floor of Countess Lilson's house, waving frantically at Sylphy!
——An acquaintance has arrived! Sylphy, please help! There is a murder here!

What good luck! Ariel-sama will surely be able to properly handle this body!

Sylphy:
She just frowned as she looked at Rudy who was having a 'joyful time', and casually tapped the gear shift under the steering wheel of the magic car. As more magic patterns of the blowing technique were activated, the speed of the magic car suddenly increased.

hum~~
The car drove away from the gate of Count Lilleson's mansion like a gust of wind.

In the blink of an eye, it disappeared.

Rudy: "Wait! Hey!! Wait! Sylphy!"

Rudy was standing at the third-floor window, bedraggled by the wind.

The faint voice of Qixing floated behind me.

"It seems like you're not very popular."

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"Mr. Rudeus is really popular. I heard that he and Mrs. Lilson have been very close in the past year. It seems that he has adapted to the customs and practices of the capital."

In the magic car.

Ariel sat next to Sylphy, still the same as before, with her blond hair elegantly styled and the hem resting softly on the front of her clothes. She held Sylphy's hand and spoke with a smile.

He looks like a wise and benevolent ruler.

But there are some dark circles under my eyes that even makeup can't cover up.

Beside her, with a click, Sylphy returned to normal gear and looked at Ariel with a slightly embarrassed expression.

Sylphy has become thinner, and the worries she has felt over the past year are evident on her face. The baby fat on her cheeks has completely faded away:
The chin is pointed, the ears are pointed, the nose is pointed, and the head is also pointed.
The hair on the head is round.

The soft white hair was tied up, with two delicate little braids surrounding the hair at the back of the head, forming a hairstyle similar to a flower bud.

This kind of hairstyle derived from braids is quite popular among the Asura nobles. Ariel also uses braids to push the hair on the sides of her ears behind her head to look more dignified and majestic.

Sylphy, with her thin cheeks, looks very suitable for this hairstyle.

To a certain extent, it weakens Sylphy's thin and petite appearance, making her long neck completely exposed, making her look very noble.

In terms of demeanor, she has completely shed the frail attitude she had a year ago, and even the action of pressing the gear just now looks very elegant.

——However, this change can hardly be called active:
Before Sauros went south, after Sylphy brought her parents to visit Boreas, she was already recognized by everyone in Boreas as the unmarried young master's wife.

This is not entirely a good thing. To some extent, Sylphy is restricted by her family.

After Izuruti proposed to go south to search for Alan, she wanted to go with them.

But whether it is Hilda, whose mental condition is getting worse day by day, or Philip, who has not been able to build up his power in the king for many years and has too few people he can trust, so he is in great need of manpower, he needs to provide help.

She is the most suitable and trustworthy candidate.

With this in mind, Sylphy, who had been thinking about taking care of the rear for Alan, found it even more difficult to convince herself to go with Izoloti to find Alan.

Sylphy is essentially a decent, family-oriented wife.

"I'm sorry to make you laugh," Sylphy said, looking at Ariel with her head bowed slightly. "Actually, Rudy went there to raise some necessary funds. As you know, the development of the magic car is very expensive, but the method is a bit strange."

Ariel nodded, touching the carriage frame beside her, feeling the more stable body of the carriage due to the change in the material of the four tires, and sighed.

"The magic car was unexpected. Dilic praised Mr. Rudeus highly, although many people in the capital only saw its strategic value and status symbol.

But if one day, the cost of this magic car can be controlled, does it mean that it can be more easily popularized among the people?

In this case, the mere existence of the magic car will bring more revenue to the people. At the same time, if the regulations of the magic car are expanded and equipped with wider carriages or cargo beds, some difficult-to-transport goods will be easier to circulate between countries.

Is this the charm of developing magic? It seems that we have been going in the wrong direction in the past. We clearly have magical creations like the Altir River as a reference, but we have not been able to develop something more meaningful over the years. "

Sylphy looked at Ariel's thoughtful expression, paused for a moment, then let herself smile and asked softly.

"In that case, Your Highness, can you make additional investments in Rudeus's research institute?"

Ariel gave a wry smile.

"I've just told Sylphy that my assets are stretched to the limit. I understand that Sylphy wants to speed up the search for Alan, and I'm anxious, too. I want to find him, too. But whether it's the additional investment in the search and rescue team or the additional investment in the research institute itself, it's difficult for me to do it at the moment."

The light in Sylphy's eyes dimmed a little, but she didn't show it on her face at all.

"Is the First Prince's persecution of Her Royal Highness becoming more rampant?"

Ariel nodded, and even though she was well-educated, her face still showed visible anxiety.

"Ever since my father, now His Majesty the King, fell ill, their actions have become more and more excessive. A few days ago, they found some far-fetched reasons and took some of my properties in the free zone, saying that these properties could be operated in collaboration with his own properties. He would use them on a lease basis for ten years, and then return all the profits to me."

"You agreed?"

Ariel murmured. "I didn't agree, but the noble who was in charge of that part of the industry under me agreed."

Sylphy: "That sounds bad."

"Yes. I am just worried about the health of His Majesty the King." Ariel said halfway before realizing that she was too weak in front of Sylphy and that it was not appropriate to say this. So she forced a smile and stopped talking. "Let's not talk about this anymore. I promised to invite you to dinner today. Fill your stomach first. The chef in the mansion has been..."

Sylphy opened her reddish-brown eyes and watched Ariel introduce the types of food, but her thoughts were no longer on those 'delicious' meals.

Ariel is trying to maintain her personal relationship with Sylphy.

why?
Because it is difficult for her to contact Boreas, who is under the command of the First Prince, and it is also difficult for her to contact Philip who secretly supports her, but recently the situation of the "Second Princess Faction" in the capital has taken a sharp turn for the worse.

Because the king was in poor health, the battle for the crown prince began, and many nobles began to take sides.

The current head of the Notos family, who had publicly expressed his support for Ariel, is still nowhere to be found. The attitude of the Notos family in Milpotz is ambiguous, and they are just short of solemnly declaring that they have nothing to do with this Paul Notos Greyrat.

If some old guys who knew that the old master preferred Paul to Pilemon were not still struggling to hold up the situation, they would have expelled Brother Paul from the ancestral home long ago.

The second princess was not as strong as Boreas, who was "highly valued" by the king.

So they all joined the First Prince's army.

Gravel was now in high spirits, and he no longer cared about winning by assassinating Ariel and destroying his reputation. He simply took advantage of the situation and continued to erode the manpower and financial resources of Ariel's subordinates, as if he was going to crush Ariel from the front. To be honest, if Rudy's Sevenstar Chamber of Commerce had not clearly stated its support for Ariel, the latter's power would have completely collapsed long ago.

He wasn't the only one waiting for Allen's return.

Ariel's voice was still gentle beside her ear, but Sylphy had almost dug her nails into her palms.

Four hundred and nine days.

It has been 409 days since Alan disappeared.
you.
Where exactly is it.
Allen
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"Where is Alan now? How is Alice doing recently?"

At the Boreas Mansion, no one combed Hilda's hair today because Sylphy was picked up by Ariel in person early this morning.

That's what it should be.

In the bedroom on the second floor, a pair of hands were combing Hilda's fiery red hair in front of the dressing mirror.

Hearing Hilda's voice, his hands paused slightly, then returned to normal.

Philip, who had shaved in the morning, looked up at Hilda in the mirror. His brown eyes and his wife's gray eyes looked at each other through the mirror.

Philip narrowed his eyes and said with a smile.

"The latest news is that Alan is currently helping father. As you know, the Wanglong Kingdom is restless. Before father left, he left Gileno in the capital, so he is also short of manpower.

As for Alice, Gilenu went to visit her. Before he left, Gilenu said that the Sword God seemed to value Alice's talent very much, so he wanted her to stay there. "

A year had passed, and except for her pale complexion, Hilda looked much better than she did a year ago when she was dispirited. She smiled at Philip.

"That's it"

"Yes, but with Alan around, I feel more at ease with father. After all, Alan is very stable in all aspects."

"Too."

The air fell into silence. Hilda did not ask Alan whether he had sent back the letter like she did half a year ago. She just watched her husband combing her hair.

After a moment, Philip put Hilda's hair up, looked at his wife in the mirror, and smiled with satisfaction.

"Then I'll go to work?"

"Good~"

Philip looked carefully at Hilda's expression, and with a smile on his face, he nodded, patted his wife's shoulder, and turned away.

With a creak, the door was closed.

Hilda looked at her own grey pupils in the mirror, then turned her head and looked toward the window next to the dressing table.

There are no trees outside the window.

This is not the Boreas Mansion in Fitoya Territory.

The mansion had been razed to the ground in the great disaster.

The trees, naturally, are gone too.

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Separated by a door, the moment Philip closed the door, the smile in his bloodshot eyes disappeared in an instant.

He turned and left the bedroom, going all the way to the study.

When I opened the door, I saw the chessboard that Alan left behind.

Philip walked over as usual, tilting his head to look at his son leaving the 'chessboard'.

——The first step is to clean up the situation in the capital, take advantage of the situation to kill James, and at the same time severely injure the second prince, removing him from the list of candidates for the crown prince competition.

——The second step was to start a fight with Darius under the command of the First Prince. This was still a means of building momentum and was still to be known to everyone. This made the nobles under the command of the First Prince afraid of being affected, and they left the command of the First Prince and continued to wait and see.

——The third step was to kill Darius, turn against the first prince, join the second princess, and support the second princess to ascend the throne together with Notos who was already under his control.

What he wants is to choose a truly obedient 'king'.

This is Allen's choice.

What a great game.

Philip should have continued to play the game for Alan, and he thought so.
But in fact, over the past year or so, Philip found that he could not focus on the situation in the royal capital at all.

He looked away and walked towards the desk.

The paperwork piled up like a mountain:

Analysis of the disaster landing points, rescue progress, and post-disaster reconstruction work, as well as.
There are numerous missing persons reports.

He walked up and picked up the message that had come from Paul in the south early this morning.

Allen's name did not appear on the death list.

A sigh.

In fact, many people go through their entire lives without knowing what they really want.

Phyllis was lucky.

To him, those "great journeys" that he had once confirmed in the past now seemed like flowers in the fog when he looked back on them.

He was blinded by the fog, and he felt that the fog surrounding him was all he was looking for.

Now, the fog has cleared.

The 'father' got punished.

Click, the pendulum clock in the study is shaking.

- 7:17
Outside the deep sea, an hour has passed.

In the Deep Sea
The battle has just ended.

Countless corpses of sea creatures turned into charcoal, and together with the minced meat on the surface of the ocean, they were roasted into a dark "ice surface" that could be used as a foothold.

Alan was standing on the hardest piece of ice made of corpses.

With a hissing sound, the flame on the bone spur that he was using as a knife went out.

three minutes.

Three thousand seven hundred and forty-two sea tribe rebels.

Total destruction.

(End of this chapter)