Chapter 272: Faking A Death (4)

Perseus POV

We met in Tehios, a neutral territory so the demon lord can't go wild without being seen as hostile to Tehios and starting the war early.

I've even set an address of the meeting spot to a place close by to a base of spies from my village, I can get help if the demon lord turned hostile. I know that he'll be coming here himself, and with him...he'll bring along Kano...and the white rose. The latter would be to confirm her death.

I rented out a whole building for today, in it is me, Buddy, and the 2 roses, and it wasn't long till I felt the presence of about 4 dozen people, 4 stood out. Lachlan asks the demon lord, Kano, and the white rose duo, the 3 who are assigned to be his bodyguards.

I then started quickly putting on my act. I put my head down a put, my hands gripped together on the table as my face showed frustration and stress as the demon came into the room with 'Lilith's' body laid out across the table, cold and lifeless.

And there is the white rose, if it wasn't for my act, I would have a face of envy and disgust, this motherfucker is handsome. Their family is just a bunch of good-looking abnormals at this point, but I can't say anything if I have a few of their female family members as my love interests.

He's 186cm tall, looks to be a lean athletic guy in his late 20s, with white hair, and blue eyes, and has a similar smooth white skin just like his parents and siblings. his name is Alban if I remember correctly.

The lord by his side is Colin Halsbury, a pretentious name. 184 cm tall, looks to be in his 30s, and has dark purple hair, and dark green colored eyes. They all came fully dressed in their cloaks and armor.

"What happened?" Lachlan said in this demanding but calm tone as he beckon the white rose duo over to inspect her body.

"We went to the black rose altar, all the way on the moon." I answered as I then bite my hand and forced a small tear out of my eyes, "We were on a small quest to find the treasures left behind by the moon and sun god before they disappeared, as I've detailed in the letter, we were careful, but what I left out was...we were confronted by a monster with 11-stars guarding the final and strongest treasure.

"I...I prefer not to talk about the details too much, but we were guided by a remnant of the sun goddess to use certain treasures to fight the opponent after losing to it once, we were successful the second time...but you can see what happened."

"I'll be honest, Perseus Silver, some of my men, kano here included, think that you could have done more to protect her. Even Amethyst, despite their squabble, does not believe what you wrote in the letter." Lachlan responded, "A 10-star general who served the kingdom with absolute loyalty for a few decades, a strong woman who always completed her duties early for some spare time...

"But for her to die, a smart woman like that, there are suspicions against you Perseus Silver, even without that letter, we know that you've brought along the 2 future saints of the north and the west with you, why do they look well despite being so much weaker?

"Some speculated this as murder, it is well known that your people have always preferred being with humans and the heroes than with us, not just that, you give me an outrageous statement of someone or something existing with the power of an 11-star. Give me a good reason to abolish all these statements brought upon you.

"I like you, and I prefer to not be your enemy, but you should know that all your statements are outrageous, even if I was the person who said to find an 11-star being, I would be ridiculed, and what? It can somehow be beaten by a miraculous set of weapons?"

"I don't know what to tell you, no one is more frustrated about this than me, Lachlan. I was there, and I couldn't do anything, the opponent was far too strong, and in a short moment, most of us were knocked out, Lilith was left remaining alone to hold out, and just as I got back up..."

I just went silent, I'm not gonna bawl my eyes out and everything, I forced a tremor into my voice, trying to mimic the quivering of genuine sorrow. I did everything.

"Just believe me." I said in a more quiet tone this time, "I'm just as frustrated as you, she showed me her sweet side while no one was looking...she was gentle and compassionate, even in her last moments, she just smiled...I don't know what to do man, I did my best, but even the black rose can't revive the dead."

I even used my powers as Loki to put into those words. It did earn a slight momentarily pause of sympathy.

"The magic on her body..." Alban said once he was done with the inspection, "There are traces of magic much stronger than mine and Leilah's, so it definitely resembles that of an 11-star, and there are other various traces of magic that are unfamiliar to me and yet seem to resemble that of a god.

"I can't remember it clearly, but it does somewhat resemble that of my father and creator, so his claim of an 11-star attacker is true." he then turned to me, "Though I don't know if he was purposefully careless to get her killed or not, for now, we can just do as what Lilith requested."

"Kano, take her body and bury it in her homeland with the highest honor." Lachlan ordered, "As for you Perseus Silver, don't think that this is over, I will meet you again, and I will ask a lot more questions, and the moment I find you suspicious, I will kill you."