1013 Crisis of Confidence, Lessons from Experience
With the efforts of His Royal Highness the Prince and his "subordinates", the originally chaotic situation in Tanzanian City has gradually stabilized over time, although this stability will be slightly deviated due to the fact that some of them are not accustomed to seeing the forces of His Royal Highness the Prince, but the Imperial Prince, who has obviously learned the means of differentiation and exclusion, will quickly eliminate these threats by co-opting the forces of other adventurers. Also thanks to the Players' Guild that had fallen to His Royal Highness, the protests against the Adventurers' Guild that had gone against the trend for violating the commission agreement had lost their original meaning due to the differences of opinion of the entrusted parties themselves, and this had to become a great help for His Royal Highness to eliminate stumbling blocks, and one of the important assets that enabled him to completely dominate the situation in Tanzanian City.
But this capital was finally challenged at the last moment, and began to become uncontrollable with the complete rise of the aristocratic faction.
"Therefore, the so-called act of blocking the return of the Imperial Noble Group is not secretly done by a certain family in our city at all, but the result of another self-directed and self-performed performance by Your Royal Highness the Prince! Didn't you take such great pains to act on this scene without considering the safety and feelings of our other nobles? ”
"Of course, the nobles of the empire are also in the consideration of my prince Chris, but that battle should not have existed in the first place, and all my means are only to draw out all the evidence of Violet's sinner and expose all her crimes in public......"
"Even so, you shouldn't put all the possibilities on those adventurers and escorts, our nobles in Tanzanian City are much more trustworthy than them, and the city lord has always been loyal to you!"
"It's just part of my plan, there's no way around it! Am I going to declare everything as a play of mine in that situation, and then just let you go? ”
"It seems that our Royal Highness the Prince seems to have encountered a big crisis."
Standing firmly at the door of the association hall, Duan Qing, who was supported by the white-haired woman, pulled a wry smile at the corner of his mouth, and then slowly retreated in the direction he came from to the group of players who were surrounding the door of the association hall at this time, and at the same time threw the voices from the impeachment meeting in the middle of the ruins of the central square to the back of his head: "I just met the person who is most likely to oppose his approach at this time." ”
"That's right." Xue Lingphantom Ice on the side also smiled: "Originally, all the nobles, including Romria, planned to avoid the general trend created by His Royal Highness the Prince and the imperial family behind him, but they were suddenly intervened by you......"
"I thought that people in the free world didn't believe in God." Duan Qing shrugged helplessly: "I didn't expect them to really be the same thing." ”
"Even if they can't believe in gods or anything like that, the justice of that judgment itself has been overturned." Xue Lingphantom Ice lowered his voice: "Whether in form or substance. ”
“…… I didn't intend to do that. ”
The voice paused slightly, and Duan Qing's footsteps then climbed to the stands on the second floor of the association along with his sigh: "I also have no intention of disobeying what His Royal Highness the prince has done, but this time I fought until the end of the result according to my heart, and it actually became a wall back and forth between the two sides." ”
"It's obviously the other party who hit the wall, right?" Xue Lingphantom Bing, who still maintained the support action, replied angrily: "Even the place where I fainted did not let people go." ”
"Aha, coincidence, it's all a coincidence." Duan Qing scratched his head a little helplessly: "Our lives are worthless, it's up to them to catch or kill, and in the end, you actually carried it back to the association, I really didn't expect it." ”
"You'll go and thank that Tristan yourself in a moment, he somehow jumped out to vouch for the two of us." Flattening his mouth, Xue Lingphantom Ice, who was about to raise his hand just now, then looked in the direction of the central ruins outside the stands: "Of course." ”
"We'll have to wait until this so-called impeachment meeting is over."
Following her line of sight, Duan Qing also turned his gaze to the vicinity of the central street full of crowds on the periphery of the Adventurers' Association, where the open-air meeting temporarily surrounded by His Royal Highness the Prince and the nobles of Tanzanian City was also under the gaze of countless ordinary citizens of the empire who had gathered here at this time, and they continued to quarrel as if no one was around: "Anyway, in short, this series of behaviors of His Royal Highness the Prince is extremely problematic!" He didn't have any hard evidence at all, and in the end he almost caused the destruction of the city of Tanzania! ”
"Watch your words, Lord Clomagus, it was the witch Violet who brought so much damage to the city, not our esteemed prince!"
"So the point is why do you provoke her, provoke that god-like figure! Don't you have a gentler way to deal with this? Even if it's to discuss it with us in advance! ”
"No, that's not the most important issue, Tver, the current results have shown the injustice of His Royal Highness, if everything starts from the point of 'His Royal Highness the Prince is wrong'......"
"No, His Royal Highness the Prince could never be mistaken! Violet is the one who secretly made poison and attacked His Royal Highness! We've gathered evidence from the Violet Tower! ”
"A preconceived conviction is not a conviction, Mr. Gomez, and besides, the mass search was all led by your Royal Guard Corps alone, and neither the procedure nor the process can be trusted."
"You, what did you say?"
"Why, you want to use force after you can't argue with it? This is an impeachment meeting against His Royal Highness! Put down the blade of violence and injustice in your hands! ”
Different from the atmosphere of supporting His Royal Highness the Prince in the previous two days, the citizens of the empire who were gathered around were also whispering to each other at this time as this temporary open-air meeting continued, and they had already witnessed the trial and the final result, and at the same time, they were surprised that this group of nobles who could speak well had reversed their previous respectful and upright attitude and dared to confront His Royal Highness the Prince. Also calm was His Royal Highness the Prince, who was sitting on the other side of the circular ruins, his posture of closing his eyes and recuperating seemed to be completely withdrawn from his previous state of madness, he quietly listened to the arguments between his subordinates and those imperial nobles, and only raised his head for the first time after a while: "Do you really want to do this?" Tristan Secretary? ”
"It is an honor to receive the love of His Highness." The middle-aged man sitting on the aristocratic side stroked his beard: "But since the discussion has reached such a point, presumably the rights and wrongs of this should not be something that I can judge alone." ”
"Don't forget what happened in Koskashire." His Royal Highness Prince Chris's gaze became a little sharper: "Could it be that you, who have returned to the empire for the first time, plan to be an ungrateful person in the first place?" ”
"His Royal Highness the Prince's rescue of us, we never dare to forget it." Tristan, who had bowed to his chest, replied in a low voice, "But...... Regardless of whether these two things can be compared together, if we only consider what His Royal Highness has done recently, the rescue we received that day has become a matter of doubt. ”
"You ——!"
"To use a word that adventurers once taught me, it's called a crisis of confidence."
Faced with the anger that His Royal Highness could not vent, Tristan Romlia replied with a meaningless expression: "Now you should no longer use His Royal Highness's honorable status to prevaricate these questioning words in the past, but should try to find a way to solve them." ”
"Isn't that obvious?" His Royal Highness's eyebrows and green tendons calmed slightly: "Even if you don't believe me and my royal guards, you should at least believe in my reputation and honor as a member of the royal family of the Frey Empire, no matter how much we do it, it is impossible for us to pretend to be a restorer to attack the noble convoy of the empire!" ”
“……”
"Okay, okay, let's change the angle from a more obvious angle." Facing the expressions of the nobles as if they were looking at idiots, His Royal Highness Prince Chris gritted his teeth and raised his hands: "Originally, as an imperial envoy, my original itinerary was to go to the Duchy of Elnifera, and it is impossible for us to know the itinerary of your return from the imperial noble group, even if we know, where did we conjure up the pretending to attack the noble group?" And how can they not show their feet under the resistance of the phalanx of fifty magicians sent by the lord of Romria? ”
"Captain Kane Carter has not been on your team, and we can assume that he has taken on the role of disguise." Faintly saying these words that made Prince Chris even more angry, Luxe Hangu, who was sitting in the corner of the nobleman's side, then turned his words: "But there seems to be no suitable explanation for the itinerary and the level of disguise. ”
"Even if the previous attack was not planned by His Royal Highness the Prince, what about the next one?" The city lord of Romria, who was sitting in the center of the noble square, then followed Lord Luxer's words and questioned, "Could it be that the enemies who attacked His Royal Highness and the nobles near the city gate are also enemies outside of your arrangement?" ”
"I planned the attack at the beginning, but it didn't stop there." As if remembering some unbearable memories, His Royal Highness Prince Chris covered his shoulders with a gloomy face: "As a charge for attacking the prince, it is enough for you as witnesses to see that crucial arrow, and I don't need to put myself in a real death situation, and delay our return to the city by the way." ”
"Hmm...... It doesn't seem to make sense. ”
In the silence of the imperial nobles for a moment, Tristan, who was still touching his beard, shook his head and replied: "Then let's assume that the previous two attacks have nothing to do with His Royal Highness, and the attackers are others, then according to His Royal Highness...... All this was done by the Restorationists? ”
"Needless to ask, of course they did it!" His Royal Highness Prince Chris sharpened his teeth: "They must have been aware of my plan a long time ago, and then took the opportunity-"
"yes, that's right, that's it."
In the abrupt pause of his words, Tristan's finger then pointed to His Royal Highness's purple-blue face as if he was choking: "It looks like a seamless cooperation between the two games, and in the end it was almost successful, to say that the Restorationist has no knowledge of this series of exquisite arrangements of His Royal Highness, even His Royal Highness himself will not believe it." ”
"Then here comes a new problem." There was a slight pause in his voice: "If none of this came from one of yours, then could you please explain - who, when, where, and in what way eavesdropped on your plans, and how did you subtly place your actions in the previous battle in full view?" ”
“……”
The atmosphere of the scene appeared with Tristan's words and there was a moment of silence, and then with the whispers between the citizens of Tanzania, there was a commotion buzzing, and the middle-aged uncle who was looking at all this then nodded with satisfaction, and his eyes fell on His Royal Highness the Prince who frowned on the opposite side again: "Do you have a clue, Your Royal Highness?" ”
“…… No, if that's the case...... No way. His Royal Highness's suspicious gaze involuntarily swept around him for a moment: "But why did they do this?" ”
"I'm not a weaver of fate who can foresee everything, and I can't see through their purpose." Slowly standing up from the side of the circular ruins, Tristan shook his head helplessly: "But there are some things that I can give as a person who has been in the Free City for many years to give some insignificant advice. ”
"If you can't draw conclusions from the process, then it's okay to reverse the conclusions from the results." Two unknown glints flashed in his eyes: "Since the final result caused by the plan is deviated, then it must be that what they want to achieve is different from yours, and this secret battle has even surfaced before the winner is divided, and the result is ...... It's our common failure. ”
"That's the real reason why I said that promise." He pointed in the direction of the gate where he and several other nobles had just walked: "No matter what happened in the previous battle, the final victim must not be their comrade, this is not only my insight as an old nobleman......"
"It's also the experience I have learned from fighting against those restorationists for a long time."
He smiled at the blond-haired man, his outstretched arm slowly pressed against his chest, and then gradually disappeared into the crowd behind him with slow steps under the slightly dumbfounded gazes of the surrounding nobles and onlookers.