Ao returned from patrolling the area, but through Shiro he seemed to be reporting something to Emilia-sama.
Uhm… I had a very bad feeling about this.
“Toria-san, I’m going to Emilia-sama. It looks like something has happened.”
“Please be careful. The other attendants are here now, so we’ll continue with the preparations.”
Since it was on the way, I headed over to Emilia-sama together with Kent-chan and Maria. After all, we were going to the same place.
“Mommy, round bakes!”
“Oh my, Ken-chan. Thank you for running the errand.”
“Hehe!”
As I’d suspected, it had been Emilia-sama’s idea to send Kent-chan to the stall. With Maria-san staying by his side, there had never been any concern about his safety.
Now then, time to get to the real matter at hand. Since the subject was a serious one, Kent-chan was sent off with Maria-san to join the Margrave and the former margrave.
“Shun, look at this.”
Emilia-sama was holding a magical artifact small enough to fit in the palm of her hand. It looked like a hand grenade.
But surely this isn’t…
“Could it be an explosive magical artifact?”
“That’s right. And it’s a time-delayed one. See, it has something like a pocket watch attached. Ao has already removed the magic stone that powers it, so there’s no risk of it exploding.”
Whoa, it was planted there?
Even I was surprised.
“This was placed under the stage used for the wedding. The stage was completely destroyed once and reassembled yesterday morning. That means someone planted it sometime between yesterday and this morning. And to top it off, it was thoughtfully wrapped in garbage so that it wouldn’t be recognizable as a magical artifact.”
“There’s no space for a person to get into that location, so someone must have thrown this magical artifact in there like they were throwing away garbage. In that case, it would have been difficult to find the magical artifact.”
No matter how you looked at it, they had clearly intended for it to go boom right when the wedding festivities were at their height. What’s worse, it had even been disguised to look like a piece of trash, so at a glance there was no way anyone would notice it.
“If it’s hidden in places that only Ao can detect, then it will be difficult for us to find anything suspicious on our own.”
“That’s right. We may have only happened to find one of them, so I’ve asked Ao to keep searching the area for a while longer. Of course, we’ve already informed the guards as well, and they’ll be conducting a thorough search.”
Hmm… that would put too much of a burden on Ao though. We’d need to think of another way.
Ah… what about that?
“Emilia-sama, we still have some time left. How about trying something like this?”
“That’s an excellent idea. It would also allow us to enlist the townspeople’s cooperation before the wedding begins.”
So, even though it was a bit spontaneous, we decided to do various things before the wedding. The people in town are really enthusiastic, so I’m sure they’ll be happy to help.
This is translated by Yume Neiji. Kindly read at yumeneijiworks.com
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