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Chapter 79 - Old Friend

Now it's time for ghost hunting!

It was only me, Lina, and Blobby who enters the haunted building.

Lina asked the key from the seller and the seller happily give it to us when we said he doesn't need to come. We just said we want to check the building before deciding to buy it.

"Lina. You don't need to come if you're afraid."

I can see clearly that her hand that holding the key is shaking. She's afraid but still choose to come. Even Victoria choose to not appear and let Blobby takes control. But in the end, their memory is shared. Victoria can see what Blobby sees.

"I'll come with you. I'm the one who suggested this building after all."

"That's very brave of you. But I don't want anything happen to you so…"

"I'll come with you…"

She said with her voice shaking. I guess she is worried about me.

"Fine. You can come. But stay close behind me at all time, okay?"

"Okay!"

She stuck behind me and her chest is touching my back. Awesome!

But I can't move freely if she's holding the hem of my sleeve like this.

"You can grab the hem of my shirt. That way my movement won't be restricted much."

"Okay!"

Now there's a bit distance from her body. Her chest no longer touching my back. What a shame. I should have told her later.

We enter through the front door. There are not many people outside at the moment, but usually, whenever someone entered this building, they would watch them with great interest. That's also why I choose to come here in the morning when people are not around.

"Excuse me! Is there any ghost I can talk to here? Bring me a ghost that can speak human language!"

I entered the haunted building and asked to see a ghost that I can have a conversation with. It might be weird… no. It is weird to do this. But I don't have any other way to exorcise ghosts. I just entered the building boldly and challenge the ghosts here. I haven't used my aura yet since I don't know if it can work or not. I will try to hit it with a normal attack first.

"Who dares to enter this building? You will suffer for eternity!"

Here it comes! Back then I saw about five ghosts here. And all of them are coming right now. The leader of the ghosts must be the one in the middle. The one with the upper half of a woman that keep floating. The rest have men's appearances.

That she-ghost is the one who talked. While the rest… I don't know if they can talk or not. They just waiting for the she-ghost's order.

"Who are y-"

"HUACHAAA! Oh? I can't hit her."

Instead of waiting for her response, I just swung my fist at her. It went through her body.

"You dare to hit me? How dare you lowly mage- GUAGH!"

"Oh? I can hit her if I used aura? Then it will be easy."

"Wait wait wait wait wait! How can you touch me?"

"I'm using aura."

I answered her as I prepared to swing my next punch.

"Aura? You're not a mage?"

"My magic level is still weak so I mainly used aura. Were you an aura user in the past?"

"Yes I was. And I was pretty popular- hey! Stop trying to punch me!"

"I don't have any interest in your past. Now that I know I can use aura to hit you, I will destroy all you ghosts who put a curse on me!"

"Wait! What curse?!"

"After gaining aura, my special ability is my vision. I defeated All-seeing Eye to get it. Do you get it now? I used my eye to see into this building about three days ago and since then, I was obsessed in purchasing this building. Knowing my personality, being obsessed with a haunted building is not something that should happen to me. So my guess is that there's a curse or charm magic that has been cast on me when I peeked inside this building. Then I know now that I can hit you with aura, I'll exorcise every ghosts here."

"Wait! Stop! Please! We can talk about it! I don't want to die even though I already dead!"

"Shouldn't it be that since you're already dead, you're experienced in… dying?"

"Wait! I know what happened to you and it was unintentional! Please let's have a chat! I can also undo the charm magic on you but it might takes time! If you kill me, the charm magic can become permanent!"

"…fine. Explain."

Looks like we can converse with the ghost. Since we no longer need to fight, I can let Lina walk on her own. No longer need to grab my shirt.

"Lina, since I don't need to fight anymore, you can let go now."

"No."

"…wanna hold my hand?"

"Yes."

Lina let go of my shirt and hugged my arm. I can feel her chest touching!

"…damn riajuu."

"Wait! Where did you learn that word?!"

I heard something familiar from she-ghost. It was what Victoria called me before!

"Riajuu? From a friend-"

"Sonia! Is that you, Sonia?!"

"This voice! Victoria? Is that you, Victoria?! Where are you?!"

"Over here!"

Victoria left my arm and returned into her blob form.

Does she knows the ghost? Don't tell me I was right when I joked about the ghost being Victoria's old friend?

"Victoria! You're a slime!"

"And you're a ghost!"

"Don't tell me, that ghost is your old friend?"

"Umm… yeah. More like we were both disciples of my master."

"Alright. I understand. We need to have a chat but before that… Lina, can you please go to the seller and purchase this building for me? Please do it before he knows the situation is under control and they want to raise the price."

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"…"

"Lina? Please. I can only count on you."

"…will you praise me later?"

"I will praise you whenever you want."

"Okay. I'll be back soon."

She really wants me to praise her that much? I already know but she must really loves to be praised by me.

"Now, let's return to the topic. That ghost is your fellow disciple and she knows how to lift the curse she casted on me unintentionally?"

"Hmm… where do we start?"

Victoria slowly tells me the story about her relationship with the ghost in the past.

That ghost used to be Sonia. A fellow disciple of Victoria. And they were rival as well. Maybe that's how Sonia learned about words like riajuu.

Victoria was a beautiful girl. I can see that Sonia is quite beautiful as well. Don't tell me her humanoid form is the real Victoria?

"Hup! This was my real form in the past life."

She changed into her humanoid form but there are few differences than her usual form. It's just her legs are shorter, her chest and butt is smaller, her face is not that different from usual. I guess she only changed some parts that she doesn't like, huh?

"Well, except she wasn't all black like this. She also usually wear brighter colored dress."

Said Sonia who knows about Victoria in the past.

Sonia was jealous of Victoria. Especially when her crush had a crush on Victoria. But Victoria doesn't like him.

Trying to win him over, Sonia ended up needed to defeat a succubus for her special ability to manifest.

"So that's where the charm magic come from… have you finished undoing it yet?"

"I'm halfway there. I'm not as proficient in this as back when I'm still alive."

The story goes and they have grown up and live separately. Away from each other and never heard anything from the other.

"It's done. Now I will continue the story."

Sonia finished undoing her charm magic casted on me. Now I don't have any obsession toward this building anymore. But what is it that makes me charmed toward this building? Not on her?

It was because she died in this ground. It was this land that I get charmed by. But since it was still her magic, she can still undo it.

"How did you die? And how did you end up being a ghost? Along with those four ghosts over there?"

"I died after getting seduced by a mage. That mage had ulterior motives to kill all aura user. That is why I hate mages in general. I already had many lovers back then. The ones who still stay with me are these ghosts hanging around with me all the time. They can't speak now that they're ghost. I'm the only one who can. On my last breath, I casted a powerful charm magic in hope that mage will be seduced and tried hard make me survive. But it didn't work on him. Instead, it was this land that my magic worked. Then somehow, I and my lovers ended up becoming ghosts and whoever see or walk this land, they will be charmed by my magic. Someone got charmed and built this place. Since I don't want to stay in the wild, I let him build this place and once the building is finished, I scared him to death. Ever since then, whoever bought this place will be chased away whenever I got bored since I can't leave this place."

So that's why I got charmed by this building. Wait!

"That mage who killed aura user! Was that the same mage who killed you as well, Victoria?"

"Maybe. He said he wants to kill all aura user. So after he killed Sonia, he should be going to another aura user one by one until he ended up killing me."

"Sonia? Do you know who that mage is?"

"I don't remember much, but after I died, before this place was built, there was a rumor about an Evil God who massacred strong people. If those strong people are aura user, then…"

That means the Evil God is the one who hunted aura user. Then someone at this very moment is trying to become Evil God himself, or maybe even revive the real Evil God.

Worst case scenario, he's reincarnated just like Victoria, and slowly trying to get his power back and conquer the world.

Destroying the cult becoming harder and harder now.

Chapter 80 - Another One?

"Does this mean we're up against someone from the past who killed every single aura user?"

"What are you talking about?"

I was just guessing the identity of the one behind Evil God Cult, and Sonia curious about it. So Victoria told her about the fact that I returned back in time thanks to the ability of the black slime.

"I'm also curious about the truth about this black slime. How can this slime has the ability to let someone go back into the past? Then the fact that Victoria never appears in my past life as well. We can only guess about this. Maybe if Blobby can talk, she will tell us something. Victoria, can Blobby talk or not?"

"I don't know. Ever since I was reincarnated in this black slime, I never communicate with Blobby. In fact I always be the one in control until you summoned me and make me your contracted monster. After that, I need to defeat a lot of monsters to be able to have more time in control of this body. I knew that this slime has the ability to turn back in time, but I could never use it in the past. There are also many other abilities that were locked until Roy's summoning element level improved."

There's too many things I don't know about. Like the truth behind the Evil God Cult, and about the Black Slime and how Victoria's soul ended up in the body of that Black Slime.

I only got this far depending solely on knowledge of the events that's going to happen and my own body. There are also several other things that were different from my past life, so I can't always depend on my memory of my past life.

More importantly, at the moment, there's something I have to do.

"Now that reunion time is over, let's exorcise some ghosts."

"No! I want to live even though I'm already dead!"

"That's two things I never would have thought to be said in a sentence."

"Wait, Roy! Why don't we let her be and be the guardian of this building? She can help chasing away intruder."

"But won't they be charmed by this land and come again?"

"I'll try to undo the magic I casted in this land!"

"Then there's the fact that there are four ghosts of men here. I will live with my girlfriends here so I don't want them to peek on my girls. I'll exorcise them and let you alone live."

"Nooo! Is there any other choices?"

"Nope. It's either you alone survive or all of you get exorcised."

"Ugh! Fine… I want to continue living."

"Alright. You've made your choice."

I approached the male ghosts one by one and exorcise them with my aura.

"Ghost Killer Punch!"

"Darling!"

"Ghost Killer Kick!"

"Honey!"

What? So she has nicknames for each of her lover.

"Ghost Killer Head-butt!"

"My Trophy!"

"Wait, what?!"

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The ghost Sonia said some weird nickname to the third ghost I exorcised.

"He's used to be someone else's boyfriend until I stole him away from her."

"And you called him your trophy?"

"Yes."

"What about the last one, then? Ghost Killing… what else is there? Ghost Killing Knee Strikes!"

"Mr. Handsome with perfect smile!"

"Too long!"

I killed all the other ghosts leaving only Sonia alone behind. Although I just killed her lovers and she screamed out their names, I don't think she feels sad at all.

"You're not sad at all even though I just killed your lovers?"

"They were just men I toyed with. I have no real affection toward them."

"They died and stayed here for nothing if you said that. Now what to do with you? I can't just let you stay here without doing anything."

Even though I told her I will let her live(?) I don't know what to do with her.

"For now try to leave this place."

"I can't. I'm stuck in this building. At first I was stuck in this land, then they built this place and I can only stuck in this building."

"If you can't do anything, I'll exorcise you."

"I can help you take care of any trespasser! I'll be the watch dog of this place!"

Did she just say she's willing to be a dog? That mean I not only have a unique summon, I will also have a unique watch dog.

"If you don't want me to exorcise you, you have to lift the spell that you cast on this area! You will undo your charm magic you casted in this place!"

"Sorry, I can't!"

"If you can't do it I will exorcise you!"

"Hiiiii! I'll try my best! I don't know how long will it be, but I'll do it!"

A ghost who's afraid of a living being. That's funny.

"Roy, aren't you too harsh on her?"

"I think so too. But she's already casted her magic on me. Even though it's unintentional, I already decided that she's hostile and I won't hold back against her."

"Well, if that's what you want, I won't say anything else."

"What about you? I thought you two were rival?"

"Only she thinks that way. She had a crush toward a man who had a crush on me. I rejected him so many times and that's why she thinks I'm her love rival. I don't like him one bit though."

"Why?"

"He's an aura user. And at the time, most of aura user has a body even bigger than the guards of Mellian city that you taught. Men with big muscles are not my taste so I thought of being single my whole life. I prefer someone like you. Muscular but slim. Instead of someone with biceps bigger than a girl's waist."

Damn! If they're bigger than Mellian city's guards, then aura user of the past are all beasts!

Well, size doesn't matter! What's matter is usefulness! That's what matter most!

Wait! I forgot something important!

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"Victoria, did you just say you prefer someone like me?"

"Yes I did."

"Was that a confession?"

"Yes. But you only need to say yes once I can fully take control of this slime at all time. I can only stay a little past 12 hour at the moment. Once I can be in control, I'll be your lover."

"That's great! But… is this how easy to get lovers?"

Victoria admitted that it was a confession but I need to answer only after she can fully take control of the black slime.

But… first is Kayla. Then Sophie. And now Victoria. If this is how easy to get a lover then…

"How come I can get three girlfriends in just a few months but I could only stay single for a whole lifetime!"

"You have terrible luck."

"You don't have any charm as a man in your past life."

"Shut up and do your job, you shitty ghost watch dog! Or I'll exorcise you!"

"I'm sorry!"

I yelled in anger because both Victoria and Sonia because they were right.

I had terrible luck with women that I have to endure dozens of times being rejected. I also lacked charm. I mean I'm not that ugly, but no one wanted someone without confidence.

I guess I was too timid in the past. I never had any confidence.

I used to only had one element, and my summon is Blobby. I had to try my hardest to be able to survive, but with how weak I was, I didn't have any confidence.

Then as I manage to collect money, I tried to go to medical school, but I was the oldest student there. In fact, there are many professor who's younger than me. I was around 30 years old at that time, and most of the students are those who had just finished their introductory school. Which means most of them are around 16 years old.

Surrounded by people around half my age and richer than me, I lost more my confidence.

Then as I finished medical school, no hospital will accept me because I was too old.

It was way later after I thought of using Blobby as weapon and accidentally managed to be able to use aura, my confidence raised.

Then the stupid me decided to join the war and died soon. I died because of overconfidence.

That is why I'm a coward now. A coward by choice, not by nature.

I gained aura and its special ability, get a lot of friends and allies, but I still choose to be a coward.

Like how I killed the Orc Emperor. I can defeat it on my own, but I choose to stick with the others and get everyone's help. If I do it alone, I don't think I can finish it unscathed. I will most likely be injured greatly.

And fighting the All-seeing Eye without using magic or have any companion, I took care of that after sparring with it for a few days. And even after all that planning, I almost lost one of my arm.

That's why being a coward is a good thing since I can find more way to survive.

I guess that's what makes me different from my past life.

Back then before I gain aura, I was just a man without any confidence. I was also so stupid that I dare to confess to multiple girls. Those were not bravery, just stupidity.

But now, I'm a confident coward.

I'm confident that I can escape through any danger.

Then when I'm with the others, I only made decisions that will make them stronger but won't push them too hard. And I made sure that they will be safe.

Confidence do changes people. Even though I'm a coward, I still have three girls confessed their feelings to me.

But for three girls to fall for me… it was way too surprising.

Chapter 81 - A New Aura Teacher

Right now, we were waiting for Lina to complete the transaction to purchase this building. Since we now have managed to… subdue Sonia, we won't get attacked by the ghosts anymore. The other four ghosts are all disappear with my Godly Ghost Killing Skills.

Sonia right now is trying to undo the magic she casted on this land back when she was on her deathbed. It was really strong since the magic hasn't been weakened even after thousands of years.

Victoria is telling Sonia while she's working that she came from another world, and the words that she taught Sonia like riaju are coming from that world. Let's ignore the fact that Victoria is trying to bring Sonia to becoming fujoshi like her.

Sonia also seem to have a lot to tell about the last thousands of years she stuck in this place. Although she said they were rivals, they seen to be getting along just like sisters. A

"By the way, why was I not affected by your charm magic like the others in the past? I know I ended up getting obsessed by this place, but when it happened to other people, they got it worse, right? And I somehow realized I was charmed and try to fight it."

I asked Sonia why I'm not affected as much as other people when I heard that many people has bought this building because of her charm.

"Yeah. Usually those who are affected won't throw a punch at me right away. They ended up getting scared and try to negotiate with me. Then as I absorbed their life force little by little, when their condition got worse, they will sold this place again."

"Wait! Why are you absorbing life force when you're already dead?"

"It helped me maintain the ghosts of my four lovers. Actually I had more before, but since they needed life force to stay in this world, one by one they disappear until there are only four left. Those four are the ones who got seduced by me the most."

"And now they have gone you don't think much about them anymore. And won't it be terrible if you stay and suck my life force? I think it's better if you just disappear."

"No! Please, no! I don't need to suck life force anymore since I don't have anyone left! All the ghosts with me are already dead. I'm here because of the magic I casted in this land! Please don't exorcise me!"

Sonia's begging me to not exorcise her. But I can't trust her yet.

"Victoria. Can I trust her words?"

"I think you can. Although she's annoying, she's actually pretty reliable. If she says she won't do it, then she won't."

"I don't know. I mean you only know her from back when she was still alive thousands years ago. Who knows how she is right now after a long time?"

"Then believe in me who believes in her!"

What the heck is this slime saying?

"You lied to me about the meaning of riaju and fujoshi."

"Ugh! Just let her stay for her usefulness, please! Then I will add more time in hunting more monsters!"

Victoria begged me to let Sonia stays.

"Why are you like this?"

"Why won't I be like this? She's the only one left who know about me when I was still alive! Don't you have anyone like that? You were time traveled to the past so you should at least have someone that you can depend on, right?"

"I had one. But at the moment she hasn't been born yet. And who knows if she can still be born again after I changed the future?"

"…LOLICON! This guy is a lolicon!"

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"Again… another word I don't know appear from her mouth."

"It means someone who loves minor!"

"No! I'm not a pedophile! She was twenty when I met her when I was forty! Which means she will be born in five years unless I changed the future too much that she won't be born in the future. And I know her through her husband who was my patient. They built an orphanage together and I often go there for checkup on the kids."

"I see. But you're still an adult from the future who makes someone in her fifteen as his lover!"

"And you're a thousand years old granny who just confessed to that guy who is not even a tenth of your age!"

"… let's stop this conversation before it gets any worse."

"You started it! Anyway, fifteen years old are already considered as adult so it's fine."

I just asked why I'm not affected too much by charm magic, then it turned into exorcising Sonia again, then it got into this?! We have strayed too much from the topic.

"I'll ask again. Why am I not affected too much by the charm magic?"

"Maybe because you were travelled back to the past? Mean your mentality is too strong. My charm magic doesn't work well on those with strong mental defense. Most aura user have strong mental defense, but you're stronger than that. I can still charmed those aura user in the past, but it doesn't affect you that much."

"I understand. I mean he even has Shameless Survival Arts. Those who proudly say he's shameless have strong mental defense."

Hearing Victoria's explanation about my shamelessness, I also agree with her.

"It's good that I'm shameless then."

"Why are you so happy about it?"

Before I answer Sonia, the door to the building is opened. I saw Lina looks like she has already finished the transaction and she also bring the others.

I told them about the fact that Sonia was a fellow disciple of Victoria. Then Victoria introduce her to everyone.

"Since we have bought this building, you can choose which room you want. By the way mine is the biggest room in the third floor."

"You already picked yours?"

"Since I'm the leader, of course I picked the biggest room. My harem might increase as well. I mean Victoria just confessed today."

"Really?! I knew you will join soon!"

"Let's get along, Victoria."

Said Sophie and Kayla respectively.

"Yeah. Thanks you two. But I refuse to hear his answer yet until I can fully take control of this slime. Although the answer is obvious, I won't do anything a lover do yet. I might regret it a lot during the time I'm not in control if we do things like lovers. Although I'm not in control, my mind still works."

"Then it just need time, right? I'll be going to the capital tomorrow. You can stay here, catching up with your old friend, and hunt some monster if you have the time. I'll just summon you once I get there."

"Okay!"

Victoria now used her humanoid form that she usually takes instead of taking her real form back when she was still alive. It makes Sonia mad knowing the one she called as her rival can change her shape however she wanted.

The others, although they haven't gotten used to talking to a ghost, knowing that the ghost is an old friend of Victoria, they slowly accepted her.

Well, Kayla and Sophie are both doing fine talking to her normally. Sam pretend to not see Sonia. Lina is holding my arm as she sits next to me, while Angela… she's talking from the kitchen while we were talking in the living room.

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"Angela! Sonia doesn't bite!"

"She might not bite! But she can curse! She just casted a curse on your beloved before, Kayla!"

"Angela, we talked to a slime on daily basis. So why can't you talk to a ghost?"

"A ghost and a slime are different!"

Kayla failed to persuade Angela out of the kitchen.

"It will take time until she can get used to Sonia. More importantly, I thought you girls are trying to teach Ellen's party how to improve their magic control?"

"They refused. Even with Ellen's approval, they think it's embarrassing to be taught by a beginner level mage and a C-rank hunters. They choose to enter the dungeon right away this morning. I think I'll just stay here and cultivate my magic. We got a lot of high quality magic stones after all."

"Can they climb the slippery holes?"

"Someone among them can fly. And she's quite slim so it won't be too hard for them. She will bring a rope with her. That's what Ellen told me. I just let Angela taught Ellen the basic of magic control in case something unexpected happened."

"Okay. They are really narrow-minded despite having an S-ranker with them. Or maybe because they have one, they don't want to listen to anyone else?"

But this way, I can hope for their growth after I got back from the capital. I'll go alone by foot since it will be faster. But it might still take three days at most to get there.

"Oh, Sam! What about the unknown magic stones? Have you find an appraiser?" I asked Sam.

"Not yet. And even if I found one, they need to be someone we can trust."

"Sigh… I wish these eyes can appraise things."

"You might be able to."

"What?!"

I was surprised to hear a response from Sonia. I forgot that she's also an aura user just like Victoria in the past.

"If you defeat more monsters that have special ability in their visions, you might be able to evolve your own special ability."

"Really! I never know that! Our master never told us that part. Have you experienced it yourself?"

"Not me, idiot. You. Back when your special ability manifested, your wings is really small. Barely enough to lift your own weight. Then after you defeat more flying monsters, your wings grow bigger and last time I seen it, there were 3 pairs of wings behind your back."

"Really?! I thought that was because I'm getting better in using aura!

Victoria surprised to hear how her wings grows in the past

"That might helped, but I've seen it firsthand that it grows the more flying monsters you defeat. If you never know about it, there's a chance that your desire to get that special ability is not shown anymore, so you won't feel anything if you find the right monsters."

"Does that mean I have to defeat it without anyone's help and only through my own strength like before? That's hard…"

Just defeating an All-seeing Eye took me a lot of preparation. Who knows what kind of enemy will have a vision special ability?

"Master. I'll help you looking for monsters with special ability related to vision in the library. Maybe I'll find one in some old monster encyclopedia."

"Thanks, Lina! I know I can count on you!"

"If you want better eyesight, then eat carrots!"

I heard a voice coming from the kitchen. It was Angela who advised me to eat carrots to help my eyesight.

I don't know if it will work or not, but it's worth a try.

Chapter 82 - Failure Exploration

Roy left Cassau to travel to the capital on his own. He didn't even bring Victoria with her and told her to catch up with Sonia and defeat a lot of monsters. This way, Roy's summoning element will be able to improve at a faster rate. But Victoria need to be able to take full control of the slime before Roy's summoning element could improve.

Victoria fought all the monsters easily, by using her martial arts skill and increasing the weight of her weapons. And whenever she founds an enemy that has a good vision, she would capture them to give to Roy so he can improve his Divine Vision. Most of them are hawk type monster.

She capture them, and put them in a cage that Lina bought. Lina also told Victoria any type of monsters that has good vision. She didn't just look for monsters. She also looked for magic item that will help Roy. She's a very loyal maid.

…although how she became loyal was weird.

Roy just complimented her a few times and she already worshiped him.

Not just that she's a loyal maid, she's also a perfect maid. It wasn't long since Roy has left, and the whole building already cleaned up. She can also cook well. And if there's something Roy wanted, she would look for any information about the thing Roy searched for. That's why she diligently reading many books about monsters in the library.

About the new place that Roy just bought, it's a three story building. The first floor has the living room, bathroom, kitchen, and dining room. The second floor has eight room, and the top floor has five room with one room being the biggest. All room has balcony.

The biggest room at the third floor is taken by Roy. Then in front of his room there are four rooms. Three of them are taken. It was Sophie's room, Kayla's room, and Victoria's.

Victoria said she also wants some privacy and her room will also be used by Sonia the ghost. And although Sophie has her own room, she prefer to sleep with Roy at night.

For the second floor, two of them are already occupied. One by Angela, and another by Sam. Sam didn't want to stay there. She said she want to leave once she found a place for herself. That place will be her office as well.

As for Angela, she said whatever room she's in, she doesn't want a ghost entering it. Sonia agreed after receiving a glare from Roy.

Lastly is Lina. She occupied one of the empty room in the second floor for just the first night. After that, clearing a spot in the first floor, she said she will make a room for herself in the first floor. It was because she's a maid. That's what she said.

While Roy is leaving for the capital, the girls are doing their own business. Victoria is defeating monsters, and Lina is reading books at the library.

Kayla, Sophie, and Angela stays in their own room to cultivate using the high quality magic stones. They were hoping to be able to improve fast. All this time, they almost never cultivate by normal means.

They would try method taught by Roy that he learned from the future, or by Victoria's method from the past. Both method doesn't use magic stones, but they help greatly in magic control. At least the method taught by those two are good for improvement without using magic stones.

Now because of the dungeon exploration, they found a lot of magic stones with some of them are still magic stones of unknown elements. Sam is trying to find someone who can appraise them.

While the girls from Roy's party are busy with their own things to do, there's another party who just got themselves into a problem.

It was Ellen's party, Gladius.

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They managed to climb up a slippery hole and continued moving forward. They don't have any light element mage with them so they used Ellen's fire to light the way. Not just that it wasn't as bright as light from light element mage, it would also waste their oxygen.

Ellen who was told that by Kayla decided to only let small fire so the party will still have a lot of air left. She doesn't know what Oxygen is, but she knows how good Kayla's party members are. That's why she decided to trust Kayla even though her party members disagree with her.

"Ellen! Air is everywhere! So what if we light a bit more fire! We can't see things otherwise!"

"Nana! This is our first time exploring this dungeon with narrow path. And those girls… and a guy are better than us in fighting at closed space! You have to trust me!"

"Don't forget that you're just a newbie in this party! You might be an A-rank hunter, but I'm more experienced in exploration! Just do as I say!"

The leader of Gladius, Nana, insist that they will be fine. She said she was experienced in dungeon exploration, but the dungeons she explored before have bigger space inside. She was right that a bigger flame won't hurt them. But the story if different if it's just that.

The party has encountered several monsters, some are even as strong as the Cyclops. And Nana just told her party members to fight as usual. Although she told her party to not use big scale magic, it still too much for a closed area.

There are two fire mages in the party. Luckily, one of them is Ellen who keeps refusing to use magic bigger than a fireball. That was why the party can still continue. But that's the reason why they don't know yet the fear of losing oxygen.

But that's not all. There's one thing that Roy forget to tell Kayla and the others. There's a huge danger in this dungeon other than the monsters or the lack of Oxygen.

It was the fact that since the unexplored area are above the main path that was well-known already, there are many path with hollow area below them, at the main path.

Roy didn't have the need to tell Kayla because they can only use small scale magic. But if someone used big scale magic, they will be caved in.

And as it happened now, the opponent this time are Cyclopes. Five of them.

The area that Gladius is in right now is bigger than most area in the dungeon. It fits more than five Cyclopes. Which also means the Cyclopes has a lot of room for big movement.

And someone used a powerful area of effect magic.

"Chaos Lightning!"

One of the party member used an advanced level lightning magic.

"Wait! Tiff, don't do that!"

It was not Ellen who shouted. It was Nana.

"Why?! It's not like I used a fire magic that will burn all the 'Oksigen' like Ellen said."

"Not that! This dungeon makes us climb from the main path! Which means it is hollow below us!"

"Oh no!"

Just as Nana said, after the magic hit the Cyclopes, they were all defeated. But the impact is too strong and their foothold can't handle it.

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Grumble

And so, the strongest party in Cassau, Gladius, got caved in inside the dungeon. With no one able to help them.

…Except maybe for someone whose ability far beyond common sense.

The day that the party Gladius got caved in, there was chaos inside the guild. It was the day that Roy left for the capital. News travel fast to Kayla and the others.

It was Victoria who heard about it first since she just returned from hunting checking on the request.

At first she didn't know that it was Ellen's party. But when she heard that there's an S-rank hunter in the party, she checked with the guild staff about the member. That was how she found out that it was about Ellen's party.

She didn't panic. Instead she just went home to her new house and report it to the others during dinner.

"Seems like Ellen and her party got caved in."

"What?! How?" Angela asked.

"My guess is that her party member still used strong magic to fight there. We also forgot to tell her that the area below them should be hollow knowing that they need to climb." Victoria replied calmly.

"What should we do? Should we help them?" Angela asked again.

"How?"

"I got some ideas. We can't help them out of the dungeon, but we can at least help them survive."

As Kayla about to tell them her plan, someone knocked on the door.

"EXCUSE ME! IS KAYLA HERE?!"

Everyone surprised to hear a loud voice from the door. But Victoria able to stay calm because she also know the owner of this loud voice.

"Come in!" Kayla replied.

"EXCUSE M—AAAAH A GHOST!!!"

"Ignore her. Can I help you?"

"OH RIGHT! ELLEN TOLD ME TO COME HERE IN CASE SOMETHING HAPPENED TO HER! SHE TOLD ME TO MAKE HER PERSONAL REQUEST TO SAVE HER AND HER PARTY! SHE SAID THE REWARD IS HUGE!"

"I understand, but can you lower your voice? It's dark and you're bothering the neighbor."

"I'M SORRY, I CAN'T!"

"Alright. We also want to help Ellen. For now, please tell us your name." Kayla asked the loud girl calmly."

"IT'S JEWEL!"

Chapter 83 - Need To Survive For A Week

After deciding to help Ellen's party, Kayla told Jewel to go home. It was already dark after all and… it's also for the health of their eardrums.

"Kayla, you said to help them, but how should we do it?" Angela asked

"I didn't say I can help them out of the dungeon. I said that I can help them survive until help come. We are still just a bunch of beginner level mage. Even more, our leader is away at the moment. Who knows when he will come back? The capital is a long way from here. Even if he goes all out, it's not a distance he can take in just a day."

"I believe he can. But he's not someone who want to spend all his power just to get to his destination," said Victoria.

Then she continues, "Roy told me that he will make a portal so I can go there instead of just summoning me. He also said that he will make a portal daily to let him know if there's some news. Although it would be just for a few seconds. And I don't think he's the kind that willing to help someone who want to go on dangerous situation on their own. He already know that Ellen's party doesn't want to be taught magic control by Kayla. I think he hated those kind of people with too much pride."

"It's not that he hated them. He just doesn't care about them if they are strangers to him. But Ellen is someone he knows so he might help. But there's no need to ask him to return. We just need to help Ellen's party to survive until someone rescue them. If they haven't been rescued until Roy returned, then we will ask Roy to help them. After you get summoned by Roy, I want you to try persuading him to help Ellen after he returns," said Kayla to Victoria.

"Okay. Since Roy isn't here, you're the boss. After all you're the one who learned the most from him."

"Thanks. I have a plan to let them survive for much longer, but the one who'll do the work will be you, Victoria."

"…you're such a slave driver. Just like Roy who told me to hunt more and more monsters."

"Actually, wasn't that your own fault? It was you who started fighting on your own so Roy just leave you be."

"Shut up, Angela! So? What should I do?" Victoria asked Kayla.

"Dig up a hole where they are being caved in."

"Doesn't that mean I will rescue them on my own?"

"It will be great if you can do that. But the chance it happening is small. We don't know their situation at the moment. I just need you to open a hole at least enough for you to enter. Then you will go in and out to give them supply enough until help come or Roy returned. I think he can save them right away if he wants to."

"You have a lot of faith in him, huh? As expected of the first wife."

"Are you fine with me being the first wife?"

"I don't mind. In the end, it will be me who will stuck with him the longest since I'm his summon."

"I don't mind either. I just want to be with him," said Sophie.

Then as the atmosphere changed with the topic turned into Roy's wives, the ghost, Sonia approached Angela and asked something.

"How did a guy like that be so popular? He even married three girls."

"Actually he isn't married with anyone yet- AAAAAH!! A ghost!"

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Angela who just realized that Sonia was next to her, run away to her room.

Meanwhile, there are two girls who don't really care about the accident that happened to Gladius.

"Lina, you're cooking is great as usual."

After knowing how much Lina loves to be praised, Sam would always give her compliment in every possible moment.

"Thank you, Sam."

Since she's no longer Sam's maid, she started to call her name. Now they look like friends or sisters.

"You're not taking part on the conversation? I thought you love him as well?"

"I'm his maid. It will be great if that happened?"

"What's wrong?"

"I'm just too shy. And this distance we have right now is good enough for me. Maybe one day I'll tell him myself."

"What if he's the one who confessed first?"

"Then I'll happily accept it."

The girls then finished their meals. And Victoria left right away to the dungeon. It was already night so the gates are already closed. And all the shops are closed so they can't buy foods for Ellen's party. They can only bring them in the morning, so they returned to their own rooms and start cultivating.

Victoria who has just arrived at the dungeon, see a portal appeared in front of her. It was Roy's summoning magic. Victoria can see Roy is preparing the tent.

Knowing Roy's limit, Victoria spoke before Roy could ask her anything.

"Ellen's party got caved in! I'm trying to help! I only got two hours left at most so goodbye!"

After hearing the situation, Roy stopped his magic. He can only summon the portal for a few seconds so it was really helpful that Victoria knows about it.

Roy doesn't really care about Ellen's party, but he tried to guess what Victoria and the others tried to do. He can guess correctly that the girls are most likely will try to ask for Roy's help if they can't rescue Ellen and her party.

After the connection was cut off, Victoria looked for Ellen.

She doesn't need to enter it through the entrance since the area that got caved in affected the surface. She just entered through that sunken ground.

She dig up the rubbles and enter through a small opening. She also carried something with her. Small enough to enter the hole she entered.

She saw the corpse of Cyclopes, Orcs, and other monsters. They are the monsters that inhabiting the dungeon.

She also passed through several treasure chests. But she ignored them because her time is limited. She only has one more hour before she can come out again tomorrow.

Digging deeper, Victoria can't find Ellen. Then realizing that the dungeon goes up after taking the main path down, Ellen's party shouldn't be too deep at the bottom. She continued to search not too deep.

Ellen soon heard the sound coming from the outside.

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"Help! We're here!"

"Ellen! Is that you?!"

"This voice, Victoria? It's you?"

"Yes. It's difficult for normal human to get here so I came. How's the situation?"

"We're okay! One of my party members is using her ice magic to build a block of ice to block the rubbles from falling! It won't hold much longer! Please rescue us!"

"That's impossible. But I can help you survive until rescue come. Wait for a while and I'll open a hole connected to the outside. Then we will bring you food and water enough to let you survive until help come."

After she answered Ellen, she finally made a way to Ellen.

"Oh, hey! I found you!"

"A talking slime?!" One of the party member shocked to realize that the one Ellen talking to is a slime.

"Even if you said you can help us survive, there's no point if we got buried under the rubbles. The Ice blocks are started to melt. Once they were all melted, we will be buried and there's no hope for us left."

There's also the fact that the dungeon can't be affected by earth magic. The ground and the wall in the dungeon was made by unknown material. They can be destroyed but earth magic is useless against these materials.

"Ice magic will melt with time. But if you use earth magic as support, it will last longer." Victoria said calmly.

"But earth magic doesn't work in the dungeon!"

"That's why I brought some dirt from the outside. Earth element mages will do their jobs here. I'll go outside and bring you more."

"Okay, thanks! As for water, I'm also a water element mage. We'll be fine."

"But you should still preserve your magic. Who knows when the rescue will come? And thanks to the dungeon being caved in, there are no more hunters interested in this place. They might come but only to dig up the treasures that got buried. If they tried to rescue you sloppily, you might end up being buried more and more with no hope in escaping."

"So there's no hope, huh? I guess we'll all die here."

"Not exactly. If you survive, I know Roy can help. But he's away and the earliest he will return is in a week. You just need to survive for about a week."

"Can this Roy really save us? Then why isn't he coming right now?" someone asked Victoria.

"He's not someone who cares about strangers. Although he knows Ellen, they are not close enough to be friends. Even more, you refused Kayla's offer to teach you magic control. I believe he doesn't think well of your party."

"What does magic control means? We're already advanced level mage!"

"It means to use the minimum mana to cast magic at maximum power. You wasted too much mana if you don't have magic control. You can also manipulate the shape of your magic. There are a lot of functions, but the one who knows about it the most should be Roy. Well, I don't have much time so I'll leave for now and return with some fruits. After that, I'll see you tomorrow I guess?"

Victoria then left and returned again carrying dirt and fruits.

The next day, she brought some water and food as she said. She brought a lot in case Roy will summon her soon and they won't have enough supply to last long until rescue come.

Then the day after that, she didn't come.

Chapter 84 - Sneaking Into The Capital

"How were they?"

I asked Victoria.

Yesterday, Victoria told me in hurry that Ellen's party got caved in and the girls are trying to help them. Now it's already dark and I summoned her because the capital is already in sight.

I hurried here because I want to help the girls. It's not that I really want to help Ellen's party. It's that because Kayla and the others decided to help them, I decided to help the girls.

If the girls don't want to help, then I won't. It's that simple.

After I summoned Victoria, I asked her what they were doing and how's the situation with Ellen's party.

The girls are doing fine. Lina is trying to help with looking for monsters with possibilities of having special ability related to vision. And Victoria is hunting monsters and caught some small monsters with good vision.

Sam is working as usual, the ghost is undoing the magic she casted, and the rest are cultivating.

I heard from Victoria that Sophie also tried to help improving my vision so she build a garden in the backyard and plant carrots with the help of Lina.

There's a small backyard behind the building enough to build a small garden for carrots and possibly other vegetables. Although at the moment, it's all planted with carrot's seeds.

That's what Victoria told me after I summoned her.

Then I asked her about the situation with Ellen's party. There's also a water mage among them so they won't lack water. The air circulation is fine as long as they don't use fire magic to burn the Oxygen. I also bring them some dirt from the outside so they can support the rubbles from burying them. The rest is up to them. If they had a quarrel or fighting among themselves, the situation will get worse." Victoria explained.

"What about good news?"

"What good news?"

"The treasures. The dungeon got caved in so no one should be able to explore it anymore."

"Oh, that! I brought out some treasure chests that I can to our house. Some of them are underneath the rubbles so I just leave them be. I told the girls to only open it once you have returned just in case some of them have traps."

"Awesome."

Last time I checked, there were no treasure chests with traps in it. But I don't know yet if that's still the case. It was smart of her to wait until I return.

"You're not going to ask if there's anyone who can save Ellen's party?" Victoria asked.

"Hmm? I bet even if there are any, they won't help unless they will get a huge reward. By the way, is there any reward?"

"None from the guild. Ellen's party just destroyed a dungeon full of undiscovered treasures so their reputation is falling. Even more with their attitude and pride, no one likes them."

"Right. They even refused when Kayla tried to teach them magic control."

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"But Ellen has prepared about it before she explored the dungeon. You remember that loud girl you met back then? The one who asked for help because of bandits attacking her village? Her name is Jewel. And Ellen asked her to come to us in case something happened. She also prepared a reward for us."

"Nice. She's getting smart just with one time exploring the dungeon. I guess I should help her at least."

That was why I hurried to the capital after hearing the news from Victoria yesterday.

If I go at normal pace, I should be able to arrive tomorrow evening even with fighting the monsters. But I ended up quickening my pace and arrived this evening when the capital has just closed the gates.

"I will sneak into the capital now and look for some evidence of the cult or betrayal of the kingdom. I should be able to find one and present it to the king. I think I'll meet the king tomorrow night after collecting some evidence and found a member of the cult."

"Okay. Do you want to put on your disguise now?"

"Sure. But I'll refrain from the name Kuro. It sounded so similar with our bald friend, Kron."

"Then what should you call yourself? Clarence?"

"That's a stage name. And it might be found out later. Let's have another one."

"What about Ninja?"

"What's that mean?"

"They are someone who did covert mission. Like sneaking or even assassination. And you're about to do covert operation so it fits you."

"Then call me Ninja when I'm in this disguise."

"Wait! Ninja doesn't wear armor like this! I'll change it into clothes Ninjas would wear."

Then Victoria changed into an easy to move clothes with a mask that only cover my mouth and my hair. My eyes are still visible.

"It sure does feel like something for covert operation. And it's easy to move as well. But why is my eyes are not covered?"

"It's not like anyone will found out about you from your eyes. Brown eyes are common after all."

"It's not that. What if the queen ended up falling for me after seeing my charming eyes?"

"…that's impossible. The most likely things for her in her mind is asking if this guys is a clown."

Ninja! I'm Ninja! I feel like Victoria is just using me to fulfil her fantasy desire. But that's okay. I mean even now I sometime tried to do things I can't do in my past life. So I understand her well.

I climbed the city wall with the grappling hook. Although transformed into Ninja costume, she's still made a grappling hook on my right arm attached to the costume. Is this Ninja's equipment?

I can just run on the wall, but it will took time to reach the top and someone might be able to see me. And since I don't want to be found out, I activate my Divine Vision only to see the surrounding area. Not to focus in one spot. At least I won't until I reached a safe place.

And my presence detection without using Vision Divine has improved as well. But still, it's better if I can do things faster. So I keep using the grappling hook whenever I want to reach a place I can't reach with just my jumping power.

Good thing the grappling hook is silent. It's because it is Victoria. If it's a real grappling hook, I guess it will make a sound. But I have never seen one before so I don't know if this thing exist in this world or just in Victoria's world.

I finally reached the highest point of the capital city of Kingdom Tatrama. I'm on top of a building called library tower. It's a tower filled with books or documents from all around the world.

There are ten floor in this tower. From the first to the fifth are free to enter as long as you register at the entrance. Then above them, you need a special pass. With the tenth floor being only few people can pass.

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Anyone thought that the top floor is reserved for the king. But that's wrong. The king gas a special room at the basement. With only the king himself and probably the one who managed this library knows about.

Even I thought that the highest floor is for an extremely secret information. But seeing with my Vision Divine, I can see that most of the things up to tenth floor are not really a secret. The secrets documents are well hidden in the basement.

I don't know why these things are stored here if they are not really a secret. But I can guess from how some of them are old fairytale about overpowering an empire or fighting the authority.

I have read some of those stories in my past life and I know some of them are banned in the country. I guess many people with power don't want anyone to read those things.

And what's hidden inside the basement are secret of this kingdom. Although I can't read them all since this is too far away, I think that place is fine unless either the one who manage that place or the king himself is part of the cult.

The king is fine, but I don't know the one in charge of the Library Tower. It was a secret even until the day I died.

For now, I'll try to locate anyone suspicious. Since this is the capital, everyone is suspicious.

Are there anyone with another explosives inside their mouth?

I looked over the palace where the king resides. There, I found that the palace has a lot of hidden passages. So I try to look for a place in the palace that can only be entered through a hidden passage.

And I found one already. It's a room without a window. And there are many path connecting to that room. I guess that place should be for someone in charge of protecting the king. After all, there's a hidden passage on the king's chamber's ceiling connecting to that room.

Suspicious!

Knowing that Wendy is a member of a secret agency of the king, and one of the agent ended up betraying the country and framing her, that place is something I have to check.

Hmm? There's someone entering one of the hidden passageway. Is he the owner of that room? I need to get closer to the palace to know what he's hiding.

I left the Library Tower and get to the top of the palace. There, I used Vision Divine to see what he's hiding.

I see something written on the wall that I missed before. It said 'Hidden Protector's Chamber'.

He seems to be writing something. Then after finished writing, he enters another hidden passageway toward the ceiling of the king's chamber.

I looked at the king's chamber and see the king is prepared to go to sleep with the queen. The queen is currently pregnant so the king rubbed the queen's belly carefully.

I remember that the crown prince should be born around this time. So I guess it will be in a few month.

But… after her son was born, the queen fell into depression. I think I understand why after seeing it now. I'll tell her and the king when I sneaked into their room tomorrow.

I entered the secret room while the owner is busy keeping watch of the king.

Hahaha! I found it already! An Evidence that can prove he's a traitor of the country!

Before I forget, I tried to focus my eye to the man who's peeking on the king.

As expected! There's the same magical explosives inside his mouth!

After seeing everything I needed, I left the palace and the city to rest outside. I can't have any evidence about me entering the capital.

Now I just need to think how to make a great presentation to the king after sneaking in.

How will I make a great impact and be trusted by the king? Should I practice my dialogue for tomorrow?

Chapter 85 - Hiding Under The Desk

After all that practicing, I think I can perform well. Although in the end, most of it will need improvisation.

I also change my voice with the help of air magic. With Victoria's advice, I alter my voice by breathing in Helium. Of course so that I won't die, I need to exchange the Helium with Oxygen some time.

My voice is really funny. I just hope that the king will focus more on what I say rather than my voice.

Now it's already evening and I am preparing to sneak in again to the palace.

"Hey, Roy. You can trespass the king's palace easily but why can't you do it at the governor's place at Melk?"

"I entered the king's palace through the hidden passage. The security is tighter because it's the place where the king rest and do his jobs. But not many of them knew about the hidden passages.

As for the governor's place, there's no hidden passage. It means most of the people there should be related to the cult. That's why the members of the cult can enter and leave the governor's place freely. Unless I want to raise commotion, I can't enter it. I need to have some kind of invisibility technique to enter through the door since all of the windows are locked."

I answered Victoria's question.

Although the security is tighter in the king's palace, the governor's place is much harder to sneak into.

"You know what? Hidden passages are supposed to be a secret and hidden in the most inconspicuous place. And you just entered them easily."

"It's all thanks to Divine Vision. If not for these, I don't think I can go to the king. Now, shall we go?"

Victoria wrapped around my body and turned into Ninja's outfit. And then we sneaked into the capital and enter the palace through a hidden passage.

Then I entered the king's chamber when no one is around. Not even the peeping tom.

I hid myself under the desk. Sitting under the desk while hugging my knees.

Since this chamber is where the king and the queen rest, the king never takes his works here. Maybe he did it in consideration of the queen's pregnancy.

The queen is taking a bath right now. Helped by palace maids.

I have no interest in pregnant women or taking the wives of other people. So I don't peek on the queen for long.

But the maids are all… Wow!

Does being hot is a necessary requirement for being hired as a maid?

Let's stop here and focus on the task.

…focus on what? All I'm doing now is waiting.

I'll just spend this time reassessing about the king from what I knew in my past life.

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His name is Albert Tatrama. King of Tatrama Kingdom.

He's just 23 years old right now. About two years ago, the previous king died because of an illness. The previous king has two children. A son and a daughter. And his son, Albert, became the king after his death.

Albert was known for being a good king. At least that's what happened in my previous life. He's doing really well against the cult. In fact, in thirty years when we got to war, it was because he's eradicating all the people related to the cult. Whether they are a nobility, rich merchant, guild master, or a general, he didn't give them any mercy.

Since the cult's influence in the kingdom decreasing, the cult has no choice but to use forceful means. And that means going to war with this kingdom.

After knowing the truth about the Evil God Cult, many other countries join hand with Albert to destroy the cult. After that… I died not knowing what will happen after.

What the hell?!

Now that I think about it, won't it be fine if I don't alter the future? The kingdom are doing fine, but I returned back to the past and change so many things!

Well, I don't care much about it though. Since I'm doing this for my own selfishness.

Whether the world will be peaceful or come to ruin in the future, as long as I'm fine and all the people I care about is fine as well, I won't care much about the world.

What if… I gained a lot of harem members from all over the world? Then I have no choice but to save the world, right?

I think I will stay in this country. I hope there won't be a time when I have to leave this country knowing how charming I am to girls.

"Hey, Roy. I don't know what you're thinking but I feel like it's something that won't happen. Please focus on the mission… but we're just waiting here, huh? Well, don't dive too deep into your own imagination."

I feel like Victoria is getting better at reading my mind. Maybe it was because we're connected as a master and his summon.

Back to the king. He's doing well against the cult and he's getting more and more powerful after other countries decided to make alliance with him. He's also quite strong, reaching Advanced level even though he's busy. I don't know his current level but if he can reach Advanced even though he's so busy, that mean he has the talent in magic as well.

The crown prince also learnt a lot from watching him. He's the hope of this kingdom. I think I heard him making a speech about how much he wanted to be like his father the king.

Although the king seems doing well, the queen doesn't.

Her name is Marie. I heard that after the birth of the crown prince, the queen succumbed to an illness. She managed to live but she fell into depression. It's great that the king is watching her so she has someone to rely on.

But now I know the reason why the queen became that way. I hope I can help her with her situation.

The illness she caught was actually a mental one. She is…

Oh wait! Seems like the king and the queen is here. Now I just need to wait for the peeping Tom to arrive.

Hmm… He's taking too long inside that hidden room. Is he suspicious of something? I mean I did copying all the evil plans he wrote down. Maybe I messed up a little? Like dropping an ink or forgot to return a paper to its original places?

I hope he won't notice.

Then I saw him taking something out of his bag. It's a drawing of… the queen!

Don't tell me he's got the hot for her?

Wait! Now that I think about it, the queen was never left the castle after delivering the crown prince. Maybe this peeping Tom knows the reason and use it to his advantage and make a move toward the queen?

No. I'm just thinking too much. My imagination went wild at the moment there. Let's believe that the queen isn't someone like that.

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After all, I finally found out that he's the one who makes Ms. Wendy suffer.

After killing Wendy, the king found out the truth and made an order to kill him.

I just found out yesterday that it was him after knowing his plans. He thinks that by writing down the plans, no one will know about it because he's in a hidden room. But such things won't be able to get pass my Divine Vision.

What?! Now he frame the drawing and put it on the wall, then he's kissing it!

Please, hurry up and get here! I'm sick of watching your idiotic actions! Hurry up!

I truly wish he would accidentally use magic on his explosive device inside his mouth so he can explode right his own head. But I need him alive as evidence to give to the king.

I have waited until both the king and the queen fall asleep. Just as the two of them fell asleep, the peeping Tom finished making out with the drawing.

I need something to erase that image from my mind. It was sickening.

This is the first time I actually hated to have this special ability of mine. But since this is an important matter, I have to endure it.

Finally, he's here! He's right above the desk I'm hiding. I think his gaze is concentrated only at the queen even though his job is to protect the king.

Time to make my appearance!

"Wake up, your majesty! I have something important to tell you!"

I spoke after altering my voice with Helium.

"What?! Who's there speaking in funny voice?!"

Now the two of them are awake because of my loud and funny voice. It will be soon when the peeping Tom will enter.

"I am Ninja! Please wait a bit, your majesty."

As soon as I said that, the peeping Tom break through the ceiling of the room and landed between the king and me.

"Be careful your majesty! I will pro-"

"You're my target!"

I grabbed the peeping Tom's arm and threw him down to the floor. Then I hold his head with one hand while the other is grabbing something from the inside of his mouth.

"Where is it~? Here it is! Your majesty, I want to give you report about the existence of an evil organization which this guy who just said he wanted to protect you belong. This is an explosive device attached to the back of the tooth that they all have."

"What?!"

The king is confused. But I continued.

"And here are some of the evil plans this guy prepared. I copied them from his room. It's a secret room near this chamber."

"You!"

Seems like this peeping Tom is shocked to hear that someone found out about the organization's existence and his plans.

Now then, the king is reading the documents I gave him after turning on the light. I don't know why he did this right in front of a trespasser like me, but if he thinks that I can be trusted, then that's good.

I hope I won't put too much stress to the pregnant queen.

Chapter 86 - Lie Detector King

"These are…"

The king was shocked when he's reading the documents.

"What's written there are only some of the plans he wrote that I copied. There should be more inside his room. I'm here to tell you the danger that the cult this guy belong to."

"That man is lying! I belong to the kingdom! My duty is to protect the king!"

"Oh yeah? Then why are you hanging a picture of the queen in your room? Then you kissed the picture over and over again."

"What?! Eeeew!"

The queen reacted as if she's disgusted. Well, I did get disgusted as well.

"Right, Eeeew. That's the same reaction when I saw it."

"Your majesty! He's lying!"

Trying to frame me for lying, he's desperately using his magic to attack me even when he's in a difficult position. As expected for the one who became the king's secret protector.

But I'm way faster than him. I just smacked his head and he can no longer focus on his magic.

"Argh! You…!"

As I smacked his head and his magic was cancelled, the king looked at me right in the eye and said something unexpected.

"You there with the funny voice. What's your name?"

"Ninja."

"That's a lie. What's your real name?"

Somehow I feel like he can tell whether I speak lies.

"Ninja is my disguise. It's obvious that I didn't come here so my identity would be revealed. If your majesty want to find out who I am, find it yourself. And I advise you to not make it as your most important mission to find out my identity after knowing the existence of an evil organization. And even if you do find my identity, I want you to keep it a secret."

"…that's not a lie."

"Your majesty can tell?"

I asked the king how she can tell that I'm not lying.

"I have a secret that I only told to few people. My wife the queen and my sister are the only two people I can trust. It's that I can tell when someone tells a lie."

The guy I pinned down and I were so surprised to hear that the king has such a big secret. I guess that's why he found out who the traitors are in my past life.

I guess I need to test him.

"I'm the most handsome man in the world."

"…that's not a lie. My lie detecting ability can only work with feelings not the fact. If you feel you're the most handsome man in the world, my ability won't react because it was based on your own feeling. Other than your name, there's no lies coming out of your mouth."

"That's awesome! By the way, me being handsome is a fact."

"I doubt that. In the end, it's just personal preferences. What about your voice?"

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"Well, it's actually a kind of magic."

"Magic, magic, magic, Maagiiic!"

"Wait, what?!"

Somehow Victoria suddenly… singing? Why would she start singing at this moment!

I have prepared many things for the report to the king and now all of them are useless!

First the peeping Tom's doing something Eeeeew to the queen's picture. Then the king's ability to detect a lie. Then suddenly Victoria started singing? What the hell?

"What was that?!"

"Not important at the moment."

"I can tell that you're not lying. Does that mean you're here with someone else? The voice is coming from you, though. Just after you said 'kind of magic'."

"Magic, magic, magic, Maagiiic!"

"There it is!"

(Shut up Victoria! Why would you start singing here?!)

I whispered to Victoria.

(I can't help it, okay! It's some kind of rule coming from my world!)

(It's a different world now so don't do that!)

Can't she just be quiet at this serious moment? I was about to tell the king more about the cult and what their plans are that I remembered. Though I don't remember much since I didn't care so it would only be little information. But with this king, I hope he can take care of the cult faster now.

"Albert. I can't sleep if you're this loud. You can detect lies so can you trust this Ninja?"

"Sorry, dear. But you're right. If he wants to kill us, he could have done it easily without alerting us. I think I can trust him."

"Then go discuss it somewhere else. He found a hidden room with my picture, right? I want you to go there, find more evidence, and burn down that picture."

Whoa the queen just giving order to the king! I guess now I know who the real boss in the royalties is now.

"But what about your security? I can't just leave you here alone."

"Ah! Actually I have the ability to see through things. So I can check on her even when we're in another room. That's also why I know what this peeping Tom doing before he came here."

"…that's not a lie but a rather disturbing ability."

The king is a bit disturbed about my vision ability. Well, that's obvious when he has a beautiful wife.

"Don't worry. I'm not into married women."

"But you're a man as well. So you still interested in beauties, right?"

"Albert. Does that mean if you have his eyes, you will…"

"Let's chat in another room! How do we get there?"

The king is still a man after all.

"Wait a moment. I need to bring this guy as well. I need to dislocate his bones so he can't move."

"What?!"

The guy tried to protest but I'm much stronger than him. I need to bring him for questions and also just in case he tried to cast magic again.

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Now the things I practiced all night since yesterday can no longer work. It all ended up with me needed to do more improvisation. But at least I gained the king's trust. Just because I never told a lie other than my own name.

I cover the mouth of the guy I pinned down and started to dislocate every joints. Even the fingers.

There's still a muffled scream but the queen never looked away from him. She's quite a scary lady.

"We can go there from the ceiling. If your majesty put a chair on the desk, you should be able to reach there."

"…you're doing such a scary things in front of the king and the queen, then you gave an order to the king?"

"Just go, Albert! I don't want the noise to bother my baby. Oh, since Ninja can see-through things, then can you check on my baby?"

"…I'll do it later."

"Great! Now, go!"

We climbed to the ceiling and crawl in the hidden passage.

After listening to the king, it seems like the guy I pulled in the hidden passageway with cloth covering his mouth is called Tim. So he's a peeping Tim not peeping Tom, huh?

"And? Why did you trust me enough to tell me your secret? As for this guy, I think I know the reason. His life is numbered already and dead man tell no tales. That's why you're not afraid of him telling anyone."

"You're right. As for you, it was because you didn't tell any lies. At the court, many people tells lies. And I can't find the truth on my own. Then you came and put some of the puzzle pieces. I think I'm getting a clearer picture of what's going on."

"I see. Oh? We're here. Let's enter the room."

We soon reached the room where the one who should be responsible to the king's protection and the king's secret agency live.

I say should because Tim was doing the opposite of it.

As soon as we entered the room, the picture of Queen Marie greeted us. And the king burn it without hesitation.

"Ah! I forgot that it will be hard for us to breathe if I start a fire in enclosed space!"

"Don't worry about that."

"You're… not lying. I don't know how you do it but there's no smell of smoke at all."

Of course it was because of air magic. If I told him how amazing air element actually is, then he can narrow my identity into someone who can use air element really well. And I think I'm the only one in the world who can do that. Or at least in the whole kingdom. And in the present since many people in the past can do many things with air element. And if there's no one else who came from another world like Victoria who knows what air element can do.

"Alright. Now since the picture has been burnt, I'll show you where the rest the evil organization's plans are. I think that most of them are just Tim's own plan. But some of them are things that I know."

I show him some paper with plans to destroy several cities including Melk. Then I told him the possibilities of aristocracy involved in the plans. Though I didn't say who because I have no evidence.

"All of these are his plans?"

"Yes. Although I only know some of them will happen. I don't know about everything else. And there's not a single contributor's name written in the plans so we don't know any other traitor."

"But you can see if there's anyone who has explosive devices inside their mouth. You decided they are from the cult."

"Yes. Although I don't know if those with higher positions in the cult has the same device inside their mouth or not. But at least those who have it are considered evil to me."

"I see. I think I know some people in the court who should be involved with some of these plans. They lie a lot and it's disgusting because my ability always activated around them."

"Just interact with them like usual. I know you're smart enough to take care of those things if you want to."

"Is that why you're telling all of these? So I can take care of everything?"

"Yes. I'm just one man and so are you. But you're a king. You can do many things I can't. That's why I want you to know all of these things."

"How do you know about all these stuffs?"

Should I make up some stories? I don't think so. If he knows I'm lying, there's a chance that he won't trust me anymore. I'll just give him a hint then. If he's smart, he would notice what I mean.

"This is not my first time."

Chapter 87 - Informing The King About Future Events

"Not your first time? Don't tell me that this is your second life after returning to the past. That seems impossible."

Whoa! He got it right in the first try. He's good. Really good. No wonder this kingdom can survive so long fighting the cult.

But it's not like I want to hide the fact that I returned to the past to the king. I just don't want my identity to be known at least for now, while I'm still weak.

I don't mind the king find out who I am. I just don't have many people I can trust. If he knows who I am, then if by any chance my identity got leaked… I don't want to imagine what would happen to the others.

"I can only tell you what I know. And the first thing you need to know is that I don't know much about the cult. It would be you who knows about them outside of the members of the cult themselves."

"Wait, what?! You're really came from the future?!"

"HMMMMPF!"

It is normal for anyone to hear that I'm actually from the future. Even Tim was so surprised.

Tim who is being pulled by me looked at me in shock and I crouched down and said something that will put him into despair.

"That's right. I didn't plan to tell anyone about it at first. But since the king himself already told you his secret that no one else other than his family knows, that means you will die soon. As for me, he won't kill me because of the information I have. So, we will interrogate you first. It doesn't matter if you lie because the king will know you're lying."

I took of the cloth that covering Tim's mouth and he started to yell at me.

"You think I will say anything to you! If you coming from the future is true then our plans worked in that timeline! Doesn't matter what you do now, our plans will still work! And even if you come from the future or the king himself can detect a lie, it won't matter if I don't say anything!"

After Tim's banter, I looked at the king to check if he said any lie at all.

The king shook his head.

"No. He didn't speak a lie at all. It will be difficult to interrogate him."

"That's right! No matter how painful you will torture me, I won't say anything about us!"

Then the king said that he doesn't lie again saying torturing Tim will be useless.

"That's fine. You're about to die anyway so how about you listen to what will happen in the future together with the king. You will be satisfied knowing most of your plans worked. But in this timeline, they won't work since we'll be stopping them. Or at least some of them that I knew about."

"What's that mean?"

The king confused with my words.

"Well, even if I am indeed coming from the future, I don't know everything that's going on. I know mostly things that happened near me or from stories I heard in the pub or my allies when I decided to join the war. After all, back then, I'm just an average civilian who doesn't care much about the situation around the world. It was around the time of my last year that I learned more about the situation. But since I'm changing the future, most of them shouldn't happen in this timeline."

"Aren't people who came back to the past supposed to be overpowered and know everything?"

"Those are just from stories in books. And I was just a civilian who doesn't care much about the world even after the cult did something so close to me. I chose to live as a doctor. In a village at the countryside. So I don't know much.

Rather, now that I experienced it myself, I was confused with the protagonists of the stories about returning to the past. They seem like to know everything and have extremely good memory. I mean, how could they memorize everything as if they knew they would go back to the past? And the authors just made their protagonists experience all important event in their past lives themselves."

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"…now that you mentioned it, I can no longer read similar novel about second chance the same ever again."

And so, I told the king about the things I knew about the cult, their plans, and what he did that I knew.

"So… I was doing well even after some cities got destroyed. But you died before you know what happened after the war."

"Yes. I told you this because I want you to take care of these evil organization called Evil God Cult." I replied.

During the time I explained about some events that happened in my past life, Tim kept changing his expression. He was happy when the cult's plan worked, but he quickly changed his expression into that of a disappointment because I have told the king to prevent all that to happen.

At least Albert know with Tim's reaction how evil that organization is.

"You're making me take care of the whole organization?"

"Of course! You're the king after all!"

"What about you? You won't fight?"

"I will fight. But I'm just one man. I don't think I can even protect a whole city. But you're a king. You can make everyone in the kingdom move with just a word. More importantly…"

"More importantly?"

"I will have more free time if you take care of the cult. I can spend more time with my lovers."

"That's your real intention?" Albert asked

"Of course it is! You will know if I told you a lie, right? So you should have known that I haven't spoken a single lie at all other than my name."

"But you haven't told everything as well."

"I'll tell you more when the time is right."

"...alright. Thanks for telling. Now what should we do to him?"

The king pointed at Tim who has a large bump on his head.

It was because he tried to use magic from time to time. But I smacked him on the head every time he tried to use magic.

"We'll kill him. It's not like he will say anything. Shall we go back to your room? Seems like your sister is accompanying the queen in your chamber. She seems pretty hostile toward me."

"Then I'll go first. I'll tell her you're a friend."

Oh! I'm the friend of the king! What a surprise!

Wait! There's something I have to tell him first.

"Before we return, I have something to tell you."

"Huh? You're not making any funny voice again. Is this your real voice?"

"Even if you find my identity by my voice, I trust you to keep it a secret. You remember the part that I'm a doctor and I have a see-through vision, right?"

"Yeah."

"It's about the queen's pregnancy…"

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I told him what I've seen with my Divine Vision.

Both the king and Tim was so shocked. Even more than when I told them about the future.

I also tell the king about the condition of the queen after the birth of the crown prince.

"I see… thanks for telling me but… sigh. I need some time to clear my mind before I return. You can kill this guy first."

"Okay."

"Wai- Ack! Uuuh…"

I choked his neck with my right hand using full power. He couldn't say anything before his death.

No matter how much he adores the queen, he has no place in this kingdom after I showed the king proof of his betrayal.

He died with a broken neck.

"Your majesty can go first."

"Honorific now? You don't need to use honorific on me after all this time talking without it. Just call me Albert. Being put in this position, I need friend I can talk to."

"Good luck finding one."

"I have found one. But he doesn't even tells me his name. I'll figure out his identity soon though."

We returned to the king's chamber with him at the front so he can explain it to his sister.

"You trusted a man who broke into your room with your secret that you kept from me for years? Are you crazy?"

"It was because my ability that I know I can trust him. He hasn't spoken any lies all this time other than his name."

"Then tell us what he told you! I'll decide after listening about it."

"Okay. Ninja, please tell her."

Albert just told me to explain it to his sister. But I refuse.

"You tell her yourself. I'll be drawing all the hidden passage in this palace. I don't think you know everything about this palace."

I said with my funny voice.

"Oh, thanks. That will be helpful. But can you at least cover the corpse first? I don't want my wife to see dead body."

I grabbed the curtain and use it to cover Tim's dead body. Then as he started explaining to his sister, Shirley, I drew him all the hidden passages in the palace.

"Here's the map. Destroy this after you memorize the content."

"Great, thanks."

I gave the map after he finished explaining to his sister.

"Now, I'm here about your majesty the queen's condition."

Now I changed my voice into a more serious one. Not my real voice, just adjusted it a bit. Because I don't know if the queen or the king's sister can keep a secret or not.

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