After choosing to leave, they regretted it.

He was the one who slapped the adventurer at the banquet and almost kidnapped Anna on Noble Street. He was someone who could talk to Aize.

Aize was secretly delighted, but in order to get the point across, he didn't show it. Instead, he stood up and walked over, pretending to be surprised.

"I went out to do something and just came back. What do you mean I'm not dead? What happened?"

Chapter 108 Dangerous Mission

Facing Aize's question, several guards looked at each other, and no one dared to respond.

After all, it is not fun to come back and find that your house has been completely blown up, leaving not even a speck of ashes.

In their minds, Aize is Lord Sheen's friend, so it is not easy to say such things.

Aize also understood their thoughts, smiled, and sat down at their table:

"No hurry, take your time, I'll treat you to this meal."

"Uh...thank you Mr. Ain!"

Seeing the other party being so attentive, the guards quickly put aside their concerns.

While sitting back at the table, he also told Aize what had happened before.

The cause of the mansion explosion is unknown, and no one who was in the room at the time was found. The biggest suspect in this incident is actually the princess of the kingdom.

Hearing this, Aize sneered twice in his heart.

It turned out to be an attempt to frame Heidi, which was totally unexpected.

He nodded and took the initiative to fill the large wine glasses in front of several guards.

The head guard rubbed his hands, picked up the wine glass and drank it all in one gulp - after all, the salary for this job was not high, and there were not many opportunities to drink freely.

And after a few drinks, asking questions is of course much easier.

Aize asked:

"The suspect is Her Highness the Princess? Is there any evidence for this?"

"Hiccup—evidence? I'm not sure. I heard that many residents of Noble Street and the brave Uriel saw it with their own eyes. The details... Hiccup—I'm not sure."

"Uriel?"

Aize frowned.

Although Uriel, the captain of the Silver Star team, is not on the same team as him, they have a good relationship and cooperate well with each other. It can even be said that they are more like teammates.

I didn't expect her to come to Tafia too.

"So, where is Her Royal Highness Princess Heidi now?"

The captain's face was already red, but he continued to drink glass after glass while answering questions:

"After the incident, I was taken to Lord Sheen's house. I'm not sure where I am now..."

"Don't know? Aren't you responsible for the security of Sheen's residence? You don't know whether Her Highness the Princess has come out or not?"

The blushing guard shook his head:

"I don't know, I don't know. Lord Ain, you don't know, but these past two days, Lord Brian... the Duke, has been here, and the security of the mansion has been taken over by Lord Brian's guards, so we're so idle..."

Aize raised his eyebrows.

In other words, the entire lord's mansion is now completely under Brian's control, and Sheen's guards have been excluded.

This is not normal.

If Sheen was really in Bryan's group, there would be no need to make things so ugly.

But he did it, which means that Sheen did not participate - at least not of his own volition.

His current situation is probably not much better than Heidi's.

Aize continued to pour them wine calmly, and then asked casually:

"Even if he's the Duke, this is still Sheen's territory. Doesn't he have any objections to someone interfering like this?"

The captain of the guard waved his hand:

"I find it strange too, but this was Lord Sheen's own order, so we should just do as he orders. Why ask so many questions about noble matters?"

"Oh, you ordered it yourself?"

"Yes, on the morning before the Duke arrived... First, he asked us to withdraw the defense of Noble Street, and then he gave us all a holiday... Hiccup——"

"Before arriving?"

"Yes, before arriving."

"Does it look normal?"

"Uh... pretty normal?"

This is strange.

How did Brian threaten Sheen when he and the others hadn't even arrived yet?

Could it be that Sheen volunteered and I guessed wrong?

Or...

"Did anything happen the day before Duke Brian arrived?"

"The day before... uh..."

The captain of the guards drank so much and so fast that he could hardly hold it anymore and his eyes became more and more unfocused.

But I still scratched my head and tried hard to recall:

"Nothing happened during the day the day before, but at night... I wasn't on duty at night. It was a friend of mine. How about I ask around for Lord Ain?"

But then he shook his head again:

"No, no, we can't ask him now. He seems to have taken his people on some secret mission."

"Secret mission?"

"Yes, it's not just him and his men... but also Lord Sheen's old butler. We haven't seen him since that night. He said he was on a mission and wouldn't be back for many days."

"...I understand. Come on, let's drink!"

Having figured everything out, Aize didn't ask any more questions, but just kept urging them to drink.

Soon, several guards were lying on the floor of the restaurant.

There was no way out. They saw their faces and knew that "Ain" was not only alive but also in Tafia. If this fact were to get out, it would be very dangerous.

But Aize didn't want to silence them easily, so he got them drunk.

As long as they didn't wake up before he left Tafia, it would be fine.

After finishing his work, Aize returned to the original table. At that time, Villian had been observing silently without participating.

Seeing him come back, I hurriedly asked:

"how is the situation?"

"Hmm... I'm not 100% sure, but the Xien in the house right now is probably a puppet."

"Puppet!!?"

"Well, I'm afraid Brian visited Tafia the night before he actually arrived, replaced Sheen with the golem, and silenced the witness."

If it was an ordinary incident, Aize would tend to think that Youxian was caught.

But this time, all the evidence showed that Brian had a very high-level witch providing various support. In this case, the cost and risk of replacing the puppet was far less than uncontrollable coercion.

Besides, the house is full of Brian's people, so even if the puppet Sheen reveals some flaws, there is no need to worry about being exposed.

Violet's expression was solemn:

"If that's the case, where would the real Sheen be now?"

Aize shook his head:

"Who knows? There's a small chance he's dead. If he's not dead, he should still be in the city."

In this situation, if Sheen is not killed, it must be because he is still useful.

Since it is useful, it must not be hidden too far away, nor in a dangerous place, nor can it be too conspicuous.

It would definitely be more suitable inside the city than the messy outside.

But the city of Tafia...isn't it a small place?

Aize closed his eyes and thought for a while, then sighed helplessly and said:

"The only way is to sneak into Sheen's house and take a look."

"No!"

Villian slammed the table and stood up without even thinking.

"If your guess is correct, then that house is now the enemy's base camp. It's too dangerous! If anything happens, even I may not be able to rescue you!"

truth.

How could Aize not know the risk?

But at this point, things have reached a stalemate for us.

Brian's chess pieces are falling into place one by one, and the plan is progressing steadily. The scale of this plan may even affect the entire human world.

Therefore, we must break the current predicament.

It's no big deal to take a risk for this.

Aize said firmly:

"We have to do this. There is no other way. We are running out of time."

"Then I'll go!"

"No, I have to do this."

Villian lowered her eyes, the same resentment from before seemed to slowly gather again:

"...You really don't want to take me with you!? Am I not qualified to share the danger with you!?"

"...This is too exaggerated. Besides, when did I ever say I wouldn't take you with me?"

Aize sighed, stood up, grabbed Villian's shoulders and said seriously:

"Listen, I'm the one doing the infiltration because I have a more important task for you, one you can handle but I can't. My safety, the outcome of this incident, all depends on your performance! Can I ask you for a favor?"

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Constantine left the camp and rode his horse as fast as he could towards the half-blood village where Aize was.

When rescuing the half-bloods before, the reason why Aize asked him to escort them back to the village was so that he could find himself when such an emergency occurred.

Now it’s being used.

Since it was already late at night when they set out, by the time Constantine finally arrived at the central mountains, near the village, it was already dawn.

There is one last section of mountain road——

"who is it!?"

A dark shadow suddenly flashed in the forest beside him, and Constantine reined in his horse and stopped vigilantly.

The sword was immediately drawn out and held in his hand.

"Come out, I know you're there!"

The next second after he shouted this to the woods, there was a noise in the bushes and a figure slowly walked out.

"I've been following you for hours, and you've only just realized it now. What would you do if I were the enemy?"

A girl with black hair, silver armor, and a holy sword.

It was Uriel Rainford.