On the morning of May 7.

The four visitors, who had traveled all the way from the town of Montenegro, left Ronald's mansion early in the morning.

Among them, Patricia and the two investigators, after a night of adequate rest, appeared to be light and energetic. Among them, Dominic is the only one with thick dark circles on his face.

His face was frighteningly pale, as if he hadn't slept all night!

But even so, as the leader of this group of visitors, Dominic still brisked himself and bowed to Ronald, who saw them out of the mansion:

"Mr. Ronald, thank you for your hospitality last night."

"Although it was still a short time, we all felt the thoughtful ......"

Just when Dominic was about to continue to say a few polite words.

Out of the corner of his eye, he followed the continent of Curpis and glanced in the direction of the village. Then Dominic saw Il, who was happily walking outside with a basket of flowers on his wrist.

"Let's go!"

"Mr. Ronald, I'm sorry."

"The development work of Montenegro cannot be delayed for a moment, I am short of time here!"

Even before he could finish his sentence, Dominic could no longer maintain his composure as a nobleman.

He even said goodbye as he stepped into the carriage first, as if he had stayed outside for a few more moments and would have been attacked by something particularly dangerous.

“……”

The three men who had been left outside the carriage looked at each other.

In the end, Patricia, who had the best relationship with Ronald, turned her head and looked at Ronald with a puzzled look:

"Ronald, what did this guy do in the village before you brought him back last night?"

In the face of Patricia's inquiry, Ronald's expression was extremely innocent:

"Patricia, I guarantee that Mr. Dominic was not in any danger last night, he was just a little frightened when he bumped into the scene of a few spellcasters in the village dealing with the problem under a very unexpected circumstances."

Hearing Ronald's answer, Patricia and the others didn't say anything, and after saying goodbye to him one by one, they got into the carriage.

After all, what Ronald said was exactly what they perceived.

Dominic is indeed in a poor mental state, but at the same time, there is not the slightest sign of damage in his body. No one would ask for trouble in this situation when faced with a canon holder.

And just like that, it didn't take more than a few minutes.

The carriage was driven by the coachman and headed west.

With Ronald's remarkable hearing, he could even hear the sound of Dominic in the carriage loudly ordering the coachman to continue to speed up after the carriage had left a certain distance.

“……”

"Huh? How did the people go? ”

At this time, Il, who came out of the rear village, also came to Ronald's side.

The smile on this guy's face at the moment has not diminished at all, looking at the carriage where Dominic and the others are leaving, she even has some complaining feelings:

"I said I wanted to take care of my business, so I didn't buy anything and left."

"You can save it!"

Ronald couldn't help but roll his eyes at Il.

For this guy who is just wearing a human appearance, Ronald did not ask the other party to forcibly adopt human values, but only imposed restrictions on what Ilr could do.

"You give me a chance to go back to church and help Hopkins get those people back who took the wrong medicine!"

"If you don't do this well, you look good!"

In the face of Ronald, Eir did not dare to treat him like Hopkins at all.

Just hearing Ronald's order, she showed a flattering smile, and then raised the basket in her hand:

"Actually, I'm here to deal with this!"

"If I want those guys to resist that pleasure on their own, the plants I have on hand won't be enough, so I'll have to collect some other things and transform them to achieve the corresponding purpose."

Ronald's eyes widened:

"Then you go! Also, you are not allowed to do this kind of thing again! ”

"Yes, yes, it's all up to you!" Ilr nodded in agreement, then carried the basket of flowers and followed the road into the Joiz Forest.

……

Seeing that Il went to collect medicine, the guests who saw off him had already left.

Ronald turned around and took Kostadt behind him, and returned to the mansion together.

Go back to your bedroom and sit down.

Ronald unfolded a book collected by the Adler family in front of him, and his eyes revealed deep thought.

Kostadt, who was aware of this scene, immediately asked:

"Sir, do you have anything on your mind?"

Ronald nodded and replied:

"That's right, Patricia brought me some news last night."

"In addition to the problems that are developing in Montenegro, Grad is actually preparing to form a team to go to sea in the near future."

Kostadt immediately realized what made Ronald think:

"Is the latter news about the mysterious side?"

Kostadt was completely right, and Ronald immediately opened his mouth to explain:

"Before the decisive battle between Springs and the wizard of Barrier Mountain, the [Nine Rings Secret Society] also revealed that it had an original book that could parse the original text. At that time, in order to obtain this thing, the powerful people of various universities in the world organized and carried out an expedition for this purpose. ”

Just hearing the beginning, Kostadt could guess how troublesome this matter was:

"What other developments will follow up on this expedition?"

"That's right." Ronald confirmed Kostadt's speculation, "In the past few months, it was very difficult to transmit information about the world that was isolated from each other because of one side of the world, and now, the news from that side has finally come back." ”

"The [Nine Rings Secret Society] has set a huge trap on the Southern Continent, sweeping away all the spellcasters who have gone there to seize the original scriptures. At the same time, the original texts on the top spellcasters were also left there because of this incident. ”

"Now that the news has returned to Greed, a new and greater expedition is about to begin, under the pretext of avenging the dead."

"Patricia is here at this time to remind me of this, and to see if I have any intention of getting involved."

Kostadt asked tentatively:

"What do you mean, sir?"

"I didn't answer directly, but revealed the idea that I don't plan to leave Curpis for the time being." Ronald shook his head slowly, "The expedition's affairs have just completed the process of spreading to all parts of the world. Rather than crusade against the remnants of the [Nine Rings Secret Society], I would rather stay here and wait for news from Heloise. ”

Costa nodded in understanding, and then presented a result of his own thinking.

"Sir, in the current situation, the purpose of this kind of massive expedition should not just be to crusade against the [Nine Rings Secret Society] or seize the original text, right?"

Ronald showed an appreciative expression:

"Of course!"

"In addition to the purpose you said, I am afraid that they also want to redefine a safe and reliable shipping route in this complex world environment. For a coastal state, stable conditions for maritime trade are also necessary. ”