Time Stop Swordsman With Romantic Concept - Chapter 38



38. Investigation

38. Investigation

“What about…… That’s all I’ve heard.”

Inside a room with 11 people.

Yoosung explained the work in the cabin as appropriately as possible in front of everyone.

Silence flows in the hall as if everyone is chewing on what Yooseong said.

“Really.”

Cruella was the first to speak there.

“Since you don’t know anything about us, the first person to enter the cabin is the leader, huh? That is an irrefutable logic.”

The quality of a leader is the will to take the lead and resolve the situation without anyone speaking first.

Excluding who is the strongest and has the highest social status, it could be said that Yoosung is definitely the right person to be the leader.

Cruella felt a little ashamed of that fact.

‘I was a commander from the first time I stood on the battlefield. A place responsible for the lives of many people…… I always wondered if I was worthy of such a position. I know as of today. I didn’t deserve it.’

Many fear her Cruella and accuse her of being her slayer, but many say she respects her and will give her life.

There was always a cause when she swung her sword and took her life.

For more allies to live.

Cruella didn’t say that much, but as she walked along her path, it was inevitably a thought.

She was a commander, but she never spared her own life, she always stood by her soldiers and wielded her sword, and she kept her privilege away from herself.

The highest person on the battlefield lives in a barracks for ordinary soldiers, but other nobles cannot do that.

Many of her nobles tried to keep her in check and undermine her, but Cruella covered all her political qualities with just her ‘her major on the battlefield’ and seized her prominent power.

She, of course, had only secured the means to fix her brother’s body, though she had never used that power for her own self-interest.

[ Dear Cruella. Did you come to cut me ]

[ Yes. ]

[ If you still have any loyalty to the imperial family, please take care of my daughter. So that one day I can stand tall as the sun of the empire……. ]

[ Name…… I will serve you. ]

Cheack-!

Why does the last face of the emperor come to mind at a moment like this?

‘Is this work also an extension of that? But. Even after the death of the emperor, the blood moon continued to appear…….’

Blood moon.

The more you look, the more unidentifiable the group is.

It is completely unknown where they are based, what kind of structure they are going back to, and how they are recruiting people.

Even if you catch and torture the lower end in action, they just cry out for their lives, insisting on their innocence and innocence.

Brainwashing.

What the hell did they do? When they acted, they were brainwashed hard, such as praising the blood moon, but once they were caught, only victims who were kidnapped and brainwashed were left.

Existences that truly seemed to have fallen from the sky.

‘The plane is the dimension. Maybe you can find out the true identity of Bloodmoon there. No, it can’t be related.’

Cruella was convinced.

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Just like the demons who appeared from the dimension and invaded the continent, similar forces are trying to invade their land again.

The other dimension is like their home.

She had no choice but to be interested in the other side of the dimension.

“Meteor.”

“Yes.”

“I’m sorry for leaving you such a heavy burden. I should have taken that role.”

“No. Who knew it would turn out like this? I don’t understand too well. If what I did was nothing more than recklessness, why would I be entrusted with such an important role?”

Yoosung suggested it there.

“How about something like this?”

“Tell me.”

“A leader is someone who ultimately leads everyone. Four people, including myself, must form a squad and explore the other dimension, but I don’t have the confidence to lead the crew. I wonder if everyone will follow my words as I am from a distant country and am not even a citizen of the empire.”

Yooseong looked at Cruella’s face.

“So I will also follow the princess’s command. I’ll do what I have to do as a leader, but the princess decides the number of people in the squad and the schedule for exploring the other side of the world.”

If I could shorten what Yoosung was saying now, it would be ‘I’ll take care of all the troublesome things, so I’ll hand over the authority to command’.

Cruella asked in surprise.

“Is that okay?”

“Yes. I don’t know why this number is, but it is said that only the number of people here can enter the dimension now. I don’t know much about strategy, and I don’t like to hear hate speech. If it’s Cruella’s order, she won’t be able to refuse anyone here.”

As Yooseong blows away her without thinking about hiding his intentions, she lets out a blank laugh as if Cruella is dumbfounded.

“I want you to play the bad guy.”

“I don’t necessarily mean that.”

Yoosung laughed bitterly as he let go of her pretense.

“What is good? I’m not used to such a role, so it’s my calling.”

Anyway, Yoosung was going to do whatever he wanted.

Now, there is an information gap between them and themselves.

If you are tricked and told that you have to do this and that, how will anyone verify whether it is false or true?

First of all, she pretends to hand over her entire position as leader to Cruella, who is the strongest and most powerful here, making her other playable characters compliant.

After that, she would properly roast and boil the cruella, and she would organize the dimensional exploration schedule and party members according to her taste.

‘Because I can’t do compulsory conscription in a position where I have to make a good impression.’

The game system itself is like that.

To explore the back dimension, the player must directly talk to another playable character and form a party of four.

However, in the game, it was not possible to communicate in detail with the characters in this way.

Those who don’t know that the world will perish if they don’t do it properly, refuse to search for the other dimension because they don’t feel well or don’t feel like it.

Then, you have to use the function to take them by force, but in that case, the favorability decreases and a vicious cycle of rejecting the next search occurs.

If you have a high affinity, it is usually accepted well, but there is no disagreement that it is a fairly annoying element.

Especially in the case of a character like Wayne, I just rejected the basics because everything was annoying.

Even when playing the game, it is difficult for Yooseong to raise his favorability rating to the extent that he has never received a gift of level 2 or higher from Wayne.

Even with Cruella as the player character, these functions came out the same.

[I can’t force her cadet to die because she doesn’t like it……. ]

Then it was said that it was not an obvious setup error to say such lines and then quietly back down.

However, since it was a game, there was a feeling that everything was allowed.

After all, they were just pieces of data.

However, it is different here.

Since it is Cruella’s order, who would dare to say ‘no’?

By making a proposal to go fight together, you can reduce the chance of losing your crush, and you can take him to the battlefield without hesitation.

It could be said to be a way to eat both the pheasants and the eggs.

“I can’t force the cadets into the battlefield by force. I’ll leave it up to you whether or not to contribute, but…… Still, it’s something that only the people gathered here can do, so I’d like everyone to participate. If you cooperate properly, I will give you a privilege in some way after you graduate from the academy.”

As expected, he brings up the word privilege casually, befitting a person holding a position in the empire.

“Also, we provide unlimited support for things like items, equipment, and artifacts necessary for battle. Whether it’s a famous sword or armor made by an artisan, just talk. However, only as much as is necessary for battle.”

A famous sword.

Armor made by artisans.

An artifact imbued with magic.

It seems that they are planning to give quite a lot of support.

‘Sure…… It must be a person who really thinks and moves. There were no lines like that in the game.’

No matter how you think about it, this is right.

Cruella is a person who holds so much power that it can be said that it is almost a double wall in the empire.

A small number of people are fighting to prevent a change in the world, and it was right to use that power to support them physically and mentally.

However, Cruella in the game does not do that.

Status is just a decoration for character, and it was hard to see him using it.

Rather, I wonder why I didn’t think of that when I was playing the game.

‘Yes. It’s enough for a game player to play a game. Would he care about such a detailed probability?’

Anyway, Cruella’s words must have been quite unconventional.

“Ohh… ….”

“Artifact….”

Looking at Anis, a petty aristocrat, and Yeon Hwa-ran, who is interested in magic items, are listening quite attentively.

The 11 people gathered there continued talking like that for a while.

“Then, let’s get together and talk again next time.”

But it can’t be like that forever.

About 4 hours later, we decided to disband at this point.

‘Meteor… ….’

Sitting alone in her office, Cruella evaluated Yoosung.

Skill, Reputation, Character.

He is a flawless talent to be entrusted with the role of commander of an exploration party exploring unknown lands.

If there’s one thing that looks bad, it’s his unique belief that he doesn’t cut lives.

Cruella saw that he kept his convictions even against a mere monster.

Only then will it be difficult to expect proper combat power.

‘But with that skill, I’m sure he can contribute to the battle even if he’s just playing a support role.’

Looking at it that way, Yooseong is a really outstanding person.

Cruella felt the desire to have him as her henchman.

‘However, I can’t be trusted enough to entrust my liver and gallbladder to a person from a foreign country whose identity I don’t know.’

With that thought, Cruella called one person.

He was someone I got to know when I was in the middle of my military life.

“Did you call!”

Scout Camilla.

Although he is now discharged, he is the person who was called the most by that name.

“I was thinking of entrusting you with a mission…… I don’t know if it’s a nuisance to you who have already been discharged.”

“It’s not thanks to Cruella-sama that my life was saved! Just give me orders!”

“Yes, thank you. I want you to go to ‘Ryo’ in the east and investigate this person.”

She had already done an informal survey when she entered the academy, but that wasn’t a proper survey.

Where she was born, how she grew up, and how she is related to her family.

Cruella intended to make sure her meteor was investigated.

“I will follow your orders!”

Receiving information about her meteor, Camilla gave a knife-like salute.