Chapter 474: Meeting Before Going to Lunch

Perhaps thinking that restraining us too much would make us suspicious, Department Head Garcia released us after that, and we were able to return to the inn.

Even saying preparations for tonight’s assault, we only need to carry a change of clothes and weapons. Originally it’s three men, so the luggage itself is few. Therefore we store it all together in my mana bag.

Then I conveyed the information I saw about Department Head Garcia to the two.

"Is it true?"

Is Bill’s surprised voice. Dee also didn’t know, and is looking down thinking. His face is gradually becoming more and more serious.

"With that, Department Head Garcia might also think that I noticed Department Head Garcia’s true identity. If so, when we enter Department Head Garcia’s house he might intend to surround and kill us. Even with such a danger, should we go to Department Head Garcia’s house?"

I tried asking. However,

"We should go."

Dee says clearly, different from his face until just now.

"Why? We might die, you know?"

I ask, feeling like, can he assert it that far?

"That will be understood by the atmosphere if we go. In the first place, he can’t prepare to kill us that quickly, right? Besides, if he intends to kill us, I think it would be at tonight’s assault site, not Department Head Garcia’s house. Trying to kill three people at home in the daytime, how high is that hurdle. Rather than that, a site where there is killing is still the most suitable. Even if we die, he can make the excuse that it was force majeure."

Bill also nods at Dee’s words. Now that he says it, that is also so. Dee continues,

"However, if what Marie-sama saw is true, that Department Head Garcia is probably a big shot among big shots of the Empire’s intelligence organization inside the Mainz Kingdom. I believe Department Head Garcia was a hereditary knight position of the Mainz Kingdom. Therefore his father should also have been a knight position of this town, and if so there is a possibility he has been an Empire dog since his father’s generation. There is also a possibility he is the ringleader of the Empire’s intelligence organization. I thought the Empire intelligence agents nesting in the Royal Capital were being manipulated from somewhere, but instructions might have been issued from this town. That might have been Department Head Garcia? Right."

"Is he that big of a shot?"

"Yes, the possibility is sufficient. Who is the one manipulating the Empire dogs nesting in the Royal Capital? Where are they pulling the strings from, it was skillfully hidden and a long-standing question, but the beginning of clarifying that has come into view."

"I see, is it that amazing a thing? Then we have to capture Department Head Garcia alive. Killing him would be bad, right?"

"Of course. By all means we want to secure him alive and make him spit out about the intelligence network inside the kingdom."

While talking, I came to understand that it seems to be a more serious matter than I thought.

"While we are here, won’t Department Head Garcia escape or something?"

"There is a possibility, but however, that probability is quite low. From now we are scheduled to receive Department Head Garcia’s wife’s home cooking. That means he has a family. Whether he can throw away his family and flee to the Empire. Even if he can leave this town with only himself, I don’t know if he can reach the Empire. Besides, I don’t think the Empire will forgive someone whose identity has been exposed. Won’t the Empire side try to kill Department Head Garcia?"

Dee says quite a scary thing.

"That’s right, rather than going to the Empire it would be better to stay in this town as is."

Bill is nodding along with Dee.

"Even if he stays in this town, won’t he be captured and a miserable end await him?"

To my question Bill,

"Not necessarily. On the surface he continues living here as is, continues his life here. There is the method of continuing life forever with his duties and position as is."

He says he can live as the top of the intelligence organization.

"Is such a thing possible?"

"Yes. He just needs to become a member of our intelligence unit. Continue as an Empire intelligence agent and enter under our surveillance. Flow 90 percent fact to the Empire, mix in 10 percent deceptive information. Observe what kind of reaction the Empire that grasped that deceptive information shows."

He says it easily, but can such a thing be done?

"I see... But, won’t he be suspected by flowing such lies?"

"What, it’s fine. In the first place, information that gathers from intelligence agents, if even half is true it’s the better side. Even the Empire’s intelligence department probably doesn’t fully trust Department Head Garcia’s information. The more important the information, the more it smells of lies. Sorting the gathered information is also the role of those at the top of the information department."

"I see, now that you say it, that is indeed so. I’m convinced, amazing!"

When I show admiration, Bill makes a happy face,

"No, but the ability and responsibility of the one who judges that truth or falsehood is something tremendous. For example, the story of Her Majesty the Queen’s scandal, or the story of the Marie Kingdom’s successor."

He talks while raising his nose a little. The examples are too raw. I want to hear both.

"Hey!"

Poked in the elbow by Dee, Bill comes back to himself.

"I’m sorry, Marie-sama. I think you understood from the talk just now, but we intend to make Garcia defect to our camp. After lunch we will take time with Department Head Garcia and persuade him. When we were talking about ’Appraisal,’ I was looking at Department Head Garcia’s face, but indeed he appeared quite cornered. I think that when his true identity is exposed, he thinks of dying but does not think of fleeing."

Because Bill says it in a quite assertive tone,

"Amazing. How can you say it that far?"

I ask, and Bill with a serious face,

"This kind of experience is not once or twice. Therefore, please leave the matters after lunch to us. Marie-sama should just play with Department Head Garcia’s family."

He says smoothly. But he seems quite confident. That side looks harder, so I’ll leave it to them. Playing with the family, what should I do to play with the wife? If there’s a daughter, that would be better. Will something like that go that well? I’m confident against mature women, but how should I deal with a little girl?