“...... If we accept the plan to wait for a second assassination here now, once Prince Narris's forces are defeated in the royal city or the fact that Her Royal Highness Princess Loris has been controlled by someone at the inn is revealed, if we want to leave, we will most likely have to face an all-out pursuit from the unrestrained royal family of Lorris, do you understand?"

Gurney nodded with a somewhat dull face.

"I see, Uncle Vincent. ”

Seeing that Gurney understood what he meant so quickly, Vincent nodded in relief and spoke.

"Actually, Gurney, you don't need to be so low, the Great Elder told us from the very beginning of this operation that as long as we make a big enough fuss so that the Soran Sect will not leave the Western Plains in the next year and a half, our mission has been considered successful, as for assassinating the Holy Maiden or supporting Naris to ascend to the throne, although these purposes are also important, they are not necessary tasks after all...... As long as our plans in the Beast Forest can be carried out smoothly, then we will be a big step closer to our ultimate goal, and by that time, we will have a chance to take revenge on these Solan villains. ”

Gurney nodded, straightened his face with a slight sigh of relief, and regained his usual calm attitude under Vincent's satisfied gaze, looking at the fat president who was sitting at the head of the long table.

"Okay, I get it, so Uncle Vincent, what do we need to do now?"

"Wait a minute, I will personally go to the other people's hiding place and give an order for them to attract the attention of the royal family of Loris in Alrant City or to a few nearby towns, while the three of you will take this opportunity to go to the other side of the star tide to confirm where Ali Ali's child is, if so, take the two of you to the place we agreed on before and we will leave Arlan together, if Ali Ali is not there, you must contact me as soon as possible." ”

"Well, I see, but Uncle Vincent, Lord 'Explorer' and his men......"

"Hehe, Gurney, you really don't know the strength of that lord," Vincent said with a smile, "we just need to ensure our own safety, as for the lord and his men, as long as they want to leave, the power of the Loris royal family cannot stop them." ”――

To be honest, Cheruth didn't believe in soul swaps in the first place.

It's not because she's not imaginative enough, it's because this otherworldly setting is about souls. When she had just traveled to the Otherworld, when she was a little girl, she and Grey Wind were in the Warcraft Forest listening to Heran talk about the enlightenment of magic.

On the continent of Ares, there has been much controversy about the existence of souls and how to define them. The people of the soul school believe that the soul is the most basic form of life, and that people and animals are only containers of the soul, and not the necessary conditions of life in a broad sense, while the anti-soul school believes that the body of the so-called "soul" is actually just a collection of spiritual energy with its own will, and it is not something new and unknown, and the relationship between this collection of spiritual power and the living body itself should also be equal, and there is no relationship such as an origin container.

However, whether it is the soul school or the anti-soul school, there is one thing that all scholars insist on, that is, whether it is a soul or a mental spirit collection, there is a one-to-one correspondence with the corresponding living body, which may be easier to understand in the words of the soul school: a soul can only fit into one body, and even if the soul of another person uses some way to seize control of another body (such as mind control magic), it does not mean that the other party has integrated his soul (will) into the controlled body, but through some means to make the other person's soul no longer able to interact with his own body normallyAt the same time, let the other person's body mistake the foreign will for the instructions of the ontological soul to obey.

So Cheruth's conclusion is that in the setting of this other world she has traveled through, the relationship between the soul and the body is like a key and a keyhole, and you may be able to pick the lock to pry the mechanism in the keyhole, but if you want to use any key other than the original key to open the door, it is wishful thinking.

This kind of understanding can be regarded as almost common knowledge on the continent of Ares, and from the history of the continent of Arles, there has indeed never been any rumors such as the upper body of a soul possessed ghost.

However, today, in the hearts of Cheruth and Charlie, this perception has been completely broken.

“...... You say, 'You're Sekaria)?"

Chelsea and Charlie have strange expressions, especially Charlie, and Chelus believes that if someone suddenly jumps out on Earth and tells her that he saw the apple on the tree fly away from the sky without falling, she will definitely have the same expression as Charlie is now.

"Lord Eders, please don't be kidding, the situation is urgent, and we don't have time to play any boring games with you. ”

“...... Huh?"

Eddes looked at Xia Li and Cheruth in confusion, obviously not quite understanding why his words would cause such a reaction, and then Eddes seemed to realize something, he raised his hand and touched his face, but unfortunately he touched the place where his face had just been slapped by Cheruth, and subconsciously took his hand away and screamed in pain, and then he looked at his hand and was stunned.

"Hey, my hand ......"

For a moment, Eddes suddenly seemed to think of something terrible, his eyes widened, and he woke up looking down at his chest and legs for the first time.

"My body...... How, what's going on......"

With a look of disbelief, Eders even ignored the fact that there were two girls here, Chelus and Xia Li, who were standing here and looking at him, and actually began to carefully and seriously touch his body up and down with his hands, and with his movements, his face actually showed a frightened expression...... From Cheruth's point of view, if this expression was faked by him, then even if she was deceived, there was nothing to say.

"How, how come! my body?!I, I, I, this, this is not right, this is not my ......"

The blonde young man wanted to bend his knees and hug himself with his hands as if he was chilled, but when he saw his bent legs and big hands, which were obviously only for men, he screamed and shook off his limbs at once, as if he had seen the most terrible thing he had ever seen in his life.

“...... Hey, you...... You calm down......"

In the face of such a performance, even if Edus and Xia Li hated Edus, they could see that something seemed to be wrong, but just when Celeth was about to appease Eddes and let him calm down, Edus, who heard the voice of the wolf girl, suddenly raised his head, and the look in his eyes was completely like a drowning man seeing the last straw.

"Cheruth, Cheruth, it's not true, I'm not Edus, I, I'm Sekaria, believe me, I don't know why this is the case, but I'm Sekaria!"

"Uh......"

Cheruth is not a native of the other world, so although she is psychologically accepted for the one-to-one fit between the soul and the body here in the other world, she is not as convinced as a person from the other world like Xia Li, in fact, if another strange girl came over and told her with this sincere and eager expression that she was Sekaria, she might have believed it, but the problem is that this is Edus...... No matter who she is inside, just looking at this face, she already wants to refuse to accept every word this guy says on a physiological level.

However, just when she was struggling in her heart, the anxious Eddes seemed to see that Chelus and Xia Li didn't believe her, so she gritted her teeth and spoke.

"Cheruth, I know it's hard to believe, but I'm really Sekaria, if you don't believe me...... We used to change clothes together when we went to my brother's dinner party at the royal estate, and you had a little mole near your navel and a place behind your thigh—hmm!"

"Ahh!!h

Eders...... Or that Sekaria with Edus's face was not able to finish speaking, and a certain wolf girl who was ashamed and angry directly hit him (her?) in the face, of course, through some kind of shameful way, it was almost confirmed that the speaker was Sekaria (at least the inner soul is her) Cheruth did not bless the fighting spirit, but just punched with her own strength, Rao is so, and the blonde young man who is in a weak state at the moment was also directly knocked to the ground by this punch.

"Ah......h That one...... Are you alright......"

Seeing that the other party was beaten to the ground by herself, although her face was flushed, she still quickly withdrew her fist and squatted down a few steps forward, originally wanting to reach out and help it, but when her hand stretched out, she looked at the other party's face and froze suddenly.

"Ahem, I, I'm okay...... Cheruth, you're really hitting hard......"

Hearing this, Cheruth couldn't help but feel a wave of resentment on her face.

"You, I, who made you like this! Even if you know it in your heart, you can't accept it at all when you see the person who speaks! Stupid Leah, think about my mood before you speak!"

That's right, Cherus can almost confirm that the person in front of her is Sekaria, in fact, she just didn't think about it this way before, recall carefully, since Eddes woke up, whether it is the tone of his voice or the attitude towards her and Xia Li, in fact, he is exactly the same as Sekaria usually, but because of this face and "soul swapping is impossible" This preconceived view is what makes the two of them just feel disgusting to be treated in this way by Edus, and they don't realize it.

As for those later words...... Cheruth remembers clearly that at the welcome dinner night after the official opening of the Four Chambers Competition, when Cheruth and Sekaria went to the royal manor venue in advance and went to Sekaria's personal lounge to change clothes, she was ruthlessly trained ♀ up and down ♀ by the princess who usually hid and did not show her ladylike manners ♀...... Aside from Sister Greywind and Heran, only Sekaria knows so much about herself......

However, although this is indeed to help Cerus confirm Sekaria's current state and identity, but when she thinks that these private information of her own is actually coming from Edus's face and mouth, Cerus feels that she can't stop chilling all over her body, if it weren't for the fact that the psychological reason reminded her that it was probably Sekaria in this person, so she couldn't be ruthless, I'm afraid she would have used her master-level fighting spirit to stage a head flowering.

Seeing that Cheruth's little face was flushed and angry, and she was obviously aware of how lethal it was to say those words in front of Edus, and she couldn't help but apologize a little embarrassed.

"Uh...... I'm sorry Cheruth, but I really don't know how to get you to believe me. ”

"Hmm...... Well, that's true...... In short, the following is not an example. ”

“...... Well, can you interject?"

Xia Li, who was left to the side, looked at Cherus and Sekaria (Eders) with an extremely tangled look on her face.

"That is, uh, Cheruth, he...... Is she really Sekaria?"

Cheruth raised her hand to her forehead.

"Anyway...... I think I can confirm it, after all...... If that person had known this, I wouldn't have let him live until now......"

On the other hand, Sekaria didn't care that the pain on her face from being beaten by Cheruth had not subsided, she pursed her lips and opened her mouth a little broken.

"Xia Li, I'm really Sekaria, if you don't believe me, we both changed our clothes together at the graduation farewell dinner held by the student union at the manor in the academy a year ago—"

"Ahem, ahem!!" Charlie interrupted Sekaria's revelation with a violent cough, "Well, okay, I see, you are indeed Sekaria. ”

Chelus couldn't help but glance at Sekaria, who was facing Eddes, a little speechlessly.

“...... I said, why is the evidence you use to prove your identity all these things. ”

Sekaria blushed - it was the first time that Celeth had seen Eddes blush because of her body...... Evil - said: "If you want to prove your identity, you can only use some intimate things that only two people know about are the most effective, and there are only so many private things between girls......

Cerus looked at Sekaria, then sighed silently.

“...... Leah, although I now believe that you are Leah herself, ...... At least before you change back into your original body, you should try to change your mannerisms, words and deeds, the original image of Eddes is already very unpleasant, and now your soul uses a girl's expression and tone in his body is really ...... It's too lethal. ”

Xia Li nodded violently.

“..................”

“...... Do you think I want to do this!!!" (To be continued.) )