Plot of the local lord(2) (Revised) – A New World Arc 9

Some time passed before Hana came back, the lord sure took his sweet time going through things. He won't find anything substance there since we keep our most valuable things in our inventory and my spatial storage.

Hana crouched back to our position after the lord and his guards left

"Well, looks like King Wieka has set everything up for us"- She whispered in my ear.

"What did you hear?"- I whispered back while covering Masamune's mouth

"Well, from what I heard there will be patrols here so that they will see who uses the house and whatnot. They will entrust this to people from the Welcia Magic Academy"- If so, this could work in our favor.

!I might need to warn you Hikaru, the classmates that goddess Ifrit does not brainwash will be unlikely to be put on watch here, you will be lucky if even one of them is put on guard here, they made too big of a stir wanting to bring the 2 of you back. This might ruin your chances!

"You have a point, Sia, any other suggestions?"- The situation is about to become more dire, we need to find a way to get rid of the 2 lords King Wieka mentioned. I wonder how we will achieve that.

"I do understand but what are we going to do now? We can't get into the house, he maybe has put a trap in there and is waiting nearby for us to come into the house. We can't be sure."- I looked again and saw a glimpse of something that looked like metal.

!Disarming the trap now isn't recommended, it will only alert them if they are hiding nearby, currently, I can detect 4 other presences aside from the three of you. It is recommended to wait until they leave so that you two can return to the house and disarm the trap!

"Masamune, I am afraid that the only thing we have to do is to wait here. We can't afford to do anything else, we might get caught and it won't be good for us to get caught."

4 hours later I checked with Sia again and she could no longer detect the 4 people that she mentioned before. It's safe to go into the house

!I detect a spike trap and a few poison traps. You can detonate them using your shadow tendrils all of them will activate at once. You need to be careful, from tomorrow you might see your old classmates patrolling around here.!

From safety, I let my shadow tendrils slither into the house. The moment they made contact with the floor all the traps triggered at once. A thick cloud of poison enveloped the cabin and we needed to wait more for the poison to dissipate after we cleared out the spike trap that was placed there by the local lord and his minions.

"I know Sia but what can we do to stop the local lords, I mean I know what I got to do to stop him but how do I get away with it?!"- Murder is the easiest option here, but we need to do it in a way that will allow us to get away and not be punished for it. I doubt King Wieka is sane enough to remember us after all the brainwashing from Goddess Ifrit.

At that moment an idea sprung to my mind, maybe I should make it look like a murder-suicide.

!You have the correct answer already. You can make potent poison with your Predator skill. I will gather the information about the lord's rival and then we can prepare to strike him down. We will arrange a meeting spot for the 2 of them and then we can kill them. But first, we need preparations to do this!

"Preparations, yeah, we might need those first, but what are those preparations you are talking about?"- I couldn't think of a way to get both Lord Welcia and Lord Ikrel in the same spot and place and make it look like one killed the other and then took their own life to escape punishment

!I am talking about a good enough moment for you 2 to let yourselves get caught by his guards and then tell him that you can get revenge on his political rival and then tell him to give you 5 days, you will then get the needed herbs to make a potent poison that you will then put it in his rival's glass of wine and then you can make the 2 of them fight and have the rival kill him with his own 2 hands instead of getting your own hands dirty. I also suggest getting friendly with his daughter, Fumiko Welcia, she suffers from an illness that reduces her mental capacity and height, but she has a lot of mana at her disposal. Getting friendly with her might also earn you bonus points with Lord Welcia, and from the information I could passively gather Lord Ikrel's son, his name is Rei wants to marry Fumiko so that he can take over the 2 Lordships, you might also need to eliminate Rei as well.!

"Sia, you are a genius, that plan is perfect!"- That's not something I could come up with on my own, maybe I am dumb.

"Wait, I don't want to have anything to do with murdering humans in this world. Sia, isn't there any other way?"- Hana chimed in on my talk with Sia.

"Why, that's our only way to do it, Hana. If he won't let us live then he shouldn't be treated any better than what he treated us, it seems fair to me. Don't worry, If you don't want to take part in any of these, I will be the one to make hard decisions as we already said, this is one of the harder decisions that I have to make for our sake Hana, not just our sake, but the sake of the world that we are currently in, King Wieka also said it himself, he would have executed the 2 Lords if Goddess Ifrit wasn't around. You don't know what the lords might have in store for us if we live longer than they expect us to."- Hana sighed and stared at me for a few minutes.

"What happened to Hana? What were you guys talking about?"- Masamune whispered to me.

"You shouldn't get involved, go back to the academy or the guild and tell what happened to the others, and then maybe they can get stationed here instead of the others who will snitch on us, got it?"- I whispered back to Masamune. He started to sweat, and fear was visible on his face.

"Yes, understood. I will try my best."- Masamune left and I remained with Hana to discuss what will happen going forward with the two lords.

"I don't know Hikaru, I am fearful of what will happen if we fail. I know it's our only option but still. I don't want to kill people."- Hana walked to her bed and sat down, her eyes trailing me while I moved through the cabin.

"I know Hana, but you need to know, this is the sort of world that we live in right now, there is no turning back now. The king already said that we need to do this sooner or later and I don't trust any human that follows Goddess Ifrit which is likely that the 2 Lords follow, the brainwashing certainly affected them. There are more things that you need to face out here, it's a jungle, this world is medieval and does not know things such as equality and other stuff that we have in our original world. You need to remember that in this world we only have ourselves and the other classmates that are willing to help us, but we can't trust the rest."

"I know Hikaru, but I still don't want anything bad to happen to anyone. I don't know what to say anymore. This situation just got a lot more complicated than I wanted it to. At least for me and my morals. I don't why you have to go above and beyond. We can just to the Kingdom of Admaris and then we can just live there"- Hana turned her head to look at me again, despite her face being expressionless I could still feel a tingling of sadness or sorrow in her voice, almost like she was disappointed.

"You don't have to worry, you can just stay out of this, I will take care of it if you want to follow me you can but I promise I won't let your hands get dirty"

"Just be careful, I will follow you where you go, I don't trust that you can take on every enemy you find alone, but I won't be killing people, not under our current circumstances."

I left the cabin to cool off, I don't want this to escalate further, so I need to clear my head and try to gather some of the poison ingredients that are available here, we are in a forest so it shouldn't be that hard.

"Sia, where are the poison ingredients located? Where should go looking for them?"- I have no idea what type of poison she has in mind for me to make or what ingredients from this world can be used to make poison.

!They are by that river where I extracted the Iron from, you can find plenty there. The plant you want to look for is similar to the Nightshade plant in your world only the little fruits are bright red!

I walked to the river as Sia suggested, I was there looking around finding all kinds of herbs and different shaped rocks that looked like they had other sorts of minerals in them.

"Which one of these is the good one Sia?"- I pointed to a bunch of plants. All of them look the same but have different shades of red.l

!The bright red one, 3 meters from your left hand"- Sia guided my view toward the red plant.

*Use skill: Predator* I used predator to devour the plant along with some flowers that were growing near it.

"Sia, can you craft the poison? Do we need anything else?"- I asked them while returning to the cabin.

!Doing that right now, I turned the plant fruits, steam, and the flowers near it into a fine powder that will kill someone in minutes without them noticing it. It works the same way as CO2 poisoning would kill in your world!

"That's good, now we have to wait for some time and then get caught, after that, I make him the offer and then we enact the plan. Did I get all of this right?"

!Yes, but if you have the chance to get close to his daughter you might want to do that first.!

"Understood"

I returned to the cabin, Hana was sleeping already, looking at her wet pillow she had cried herself to sleep. I don't understand why she wants no one to get killed, even in Japan people died and got killed no matter what they did. Well, in our world we had laws to protect citizens, here we only have medieval anarchy that reigns supreme every day. I am already sick of this world.

I was sick of my world pretty fast, and now I am sick of this one. I got angry in our old world whenever I saw Hana cry, I would get angrier if I was that reason, now I just can't sleep, well, not in peace at least. What have I become in this world?