After choosing to leave, they regretted it.

But how to solve the problem?

The princess racked her brains but could not come up with a solution.

Seeing Heidi becoming more and more irritable in silence, Roderick felt even more anxious.

He already had the other party's leverage over him, and now he's suffered such a huge setback, which is even worse.

He was already too impatient to bear it any longer:

"Your Highness, please... please think of a solution quickly! Otherwise... otherwise I will really be dead!!!"

"Stop making noise!! You... huh?"

Heidi glanced at Roderick and suddenly an idea came to her.

Yes, what's the rush?

Isn't there something we can use?

Heidi, who had calmed down, smiled inexplicably and looked Roderick up and down with an uncomfortable look.

"You want to live, right?"

Roderick was terrified.

Of course he wanted to live, but his intuition told him that if he answered yes here, something bad would happen.

However, Heidi's patience would not be with him.

Faced with Roderick's hesitation, Heidi suddenly raised her voice:

"Tell me, do you want to or not?!"

"Think...think..."

Roderick nodded, having no choice, while the princess crossed her arms and smiled with satisfaction:

"If you want to live, do as I say."

"do what?"

"Now, go back immediately and pretend nothing happened. From now on, whether it's Viscount Edgar or anyone else, if they ask you about this, just say that I ordered the kidnapping."

"This……"

Roderick stared at Heidi as if she were a monster, not knowing what she wanted to do.

And Heidi continued slowly:

"Of course, since you are suspected of kidnapping a noble and have accused a princess, no one will believe you. So, they will torture you and interrogate you. You will have to endure it for a while before you change your story."

"Change your words?"

"Change your story to: you are the mastermind behind this incident. You kidnapped Ain to silence him and put the blame on me."

To put it bluntly, Roderick has to take all the responsibility alone.

If you ask him to say that he did it right away, no one will believe it. So you should tell the truth first and then tell the lie. This will make things go more smoothly.

And this is pushing Roderick into the fire pit.

His eyes were suddenly bloodshot and almost burst.

"You--do you think I'm a fool!? Aren't you just asking me to take the blame?! It was clearly you who planned this!!"

Heidi smiled contemptuously.

"Yes, I planned it, but so what? If you tell anyone, will anyone believe it?"

"This……"

"And even if they believed me, so what? I'm a princess, the head of the royal family of the Kingdom of Arte. In this country, no one can do anything to me."

With that, Heidi turned and walked into the room, picked up the wine glass on the table, shook it, took another sip, turned around and said with a smile:

"And you, President Roderick? You're nothing. Even if I ordered you to attack the nobles, you'd still be killed. Turning me in won't help you at all."

Roderick was speechless and almost wilted.

And Heidi has already gained an absolute advantage in mentality.

She strolled up to the almost desperate president and whispered:

"But if you are willing to take full responsibility, I promise to use my power and prestige as a princess to save your life."

"Not only that, by the time you're released from prison, I'll have officially inherited the throne. By then, I'll give you many rewards and ensure that even if you don't become the guild leader, you'll have plenty of food and clothing."

"Haha, isn't this a great deal? You don't lose anything, you don't have to pay anything, you can save a life, and you can get a lot of money. Why not do it?"

Rodri looked at the red-haired girl in front of him and felt genuine fear in his heart.

He knew clearly that she was digging his own grave.

He clearly hated her to the core.

But Roderick couldn't refuse her proposal.

When I came to my senses, I had already died.

"Very good, Mr. Roderick, you are a smart man."

Confident of her success, Heidi sneered, raised her head, drank the wine in the glass, and then licked her lips.

"By the way, there's one more thing."

Roderick, who had given up thinking, turned his head mechanically and looked at her.

"If someone asks you why you framed me, do you know how to answer?"

Roderick shook his head.

"Didn't you speak rudely to that guy named Ain at the party that day?"

"Just say that I was angry about your rude words to Ain, so I came to pick on you. So you hold a grudge against me and want to get rid of both me and Ain, so you kidnapped me and framed me."

This is Heidi's little plan again.

If Aize knew that Heidi was framed because she spoke up for him, it would greatly improve his image in his mind.

You can even create a great character who quietly helps you without asking for anything in return.

Combined with the previous act of breaking off the engagement, it dealt a heavy blow to Aize's psychological defenses.

Wow, after all these operations, not only did they resolve the crisis, they even turned it into a rare opportunity.

As expected of me, what a genius!

Heidi thought so with great satisfaction.

She waved to Roderick, who had slumped at the door of his room.

"Now that you know what to do, go back."

"I……"

"Remember, this is the only way you can be saved."

"……I see."

Having given up resistance, Roderick said nothing more, but just closed the door and left with a pale face.

Heidi, on the other hand, regained her previous good mood.

She poured herself another glass of wine, faced the moon outside the window, made the same toasting gesture as before, and continued to enjoy this wonderful night.

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Chapter 51 The Knights' Murderous Intentions

A few days ago, when Aize saw the shocking steak produced by Villian, he had an idea.

Even a little bit of magic that leaks out during cooking can turn the steak into a puppet-like existence, so is it the same for everything else?

Villian answered in the affirmative.

So, under Aize's guidance, Miss Witch carried out drastic renovations on the mansion.

Anyone can climb over the courtyard wall, or easily kick open the window or door on the first floor to enter the room, and waiting for them inside are all kinds of "surprises".

The walls of the courtyard will automatically rise, the doors and windows will repair themselves and become extremely hard, and the floor will turn into a man-eating trap at any time.

Cabinets and carpets have been transformed into something resembling predatory plants, capable of entangling or swallowing people and trapping them.

A soundproof barrier covers the entire house, ensuring that any noise will not attract the guards.

There are also puppets in the shape of Aize and Villian to test the intentions of invaders.

The whole house is like a large mousetrap.

Unless you are a brave warrior holding a holy sword who can chop down a city wall with one blow, or an advanced adventurer who has experienced hundreds of battles in the dungeon and is extremely sensitive to traps.

For others, once you come in, don’t even think about getting out.

It was originally prepared for the Adventurer's Guild, those scoundrels who specialize in doing dirty work.

I didn't expect to catch something other than an adventurer.

Aize looked at the lifeless corpses of several knights lying on the ground with a very bad expression on his face.

"Enchanted plate armor, blessed sword... they truly are the Holy War Knights."

Enchanted plate armor is armor that has defensive magic attached to it. It is powered by the wearer's own magic power and can be used even by non-magicians.

The Blessed Sword is a low-end version of the Holy Sword, forged in the workshop of the Holy City. It will cause an additional burning effect on all non-human species.

Currently, only the Holy War Knights can use these two types of equipment at the same time.

The Holy War Knights are all led by brave men without exception.

Did the heroes from other teams want to kill him? Or Villian?

Aize turned to Villian:

"Did you kill them?"

Miss Witch shook her head.

"No, I just used the traps in the house to restrain them. When I let them out, they were already like this."

"Suicide? Tsk—"

Suddenly remembering something, Aize bent down, pried open the mouth of one of the Crusade Knights, took out a small piece of white fragment, and his face changed instantly.

Villian moved closer curiously.

"what is this?"

"These fragments of dentures contain a deadly poison, used to prevent captives from committing suicide. This is an invention from my original world. Among all the holy war knights, only the knights under the Goddess' Blade are equipped with this thing."

Not everyone likes the feeling of having poison in their mouth.

So even though Aize invented this thing, he did not force his subordinates to use it. It was completely voluntary.

Aize himself wanted to install one, but using this thing would require pulling out a tooth.

However, with the hero's regenerative ability, the teeth will grow back the next day and will be completely unusable, so he will have to give up.

But no matter what, the thing in the mouth is enough to prove the identity.

Villian was puzzled.

"The knights under the Goddess Blade... aren't they your subordinates? Your subordinates want to kill me?"

The knights also saw the puppet in Villian's appearance.

Unlike the adventurers' kidnapping and abduction, the knights drew their swords and stabbed her without any explanation, intending to kill her.

The puppet that Violet placed at the entrance to scare Aize was the masterpiece of the knights.

"..."