Chapter 138. The Deal They Do Not Know
His Majesty the Emperor or the head of the Ability Managent Bureau.
If the report card had to go to one of them anyway, the Ability Managent Bureau was better. Even if Radel was the top student, he didn't want to boast about his report card in front of His Majesty the Emperor.
But going to Ivan to receive the report card wasn't entirely appealing either.
Radel asked Armandy, who had co to his room.
‘Armandy, what would you do?’
‘If it were , His Majesty the Emperor would be better.’
‘Why?’
Armandy had an expression asking the obvious.
‘Because he is your father, Prince. Couldn't you receive a prize or sothing for doing well.’
I didn't think of that.
Radel reflected on himself for not thinking about receiving sothing from the Emperor.
But wasn't Ivan also like an uncle if strictly speaking?
Seeing that he asked to et because of the report card anyway, it seed he had sothing to say…….
Looking at the Ability Managent Bureau building, Radel vowed to get sothing out of it if he could.
* * *
Armandy was walking towards the Director’s Office of the Ability Managent Bureau.
“……I have a bad feeling about this sohow.”
He had returned to the Ability Managent Bureau as soon as the Academy vacation started.
However, the Ability Managent Bureau didn't deploy him imdiately to another mission.
Although he had gone to deliver a letter to the 8th Prince’s Palace in the anti, he hadn't even finished reporting on the mission to monitor imperial family mbers or undercover missions, as well as things that happened at the Academy.
Amidst this, a summons from the Director.
Although Armandy hadn't neglected his duties as an Ability Managent Bureau Agent, there were many corners that pricked his conscience secretly.
Especially regarding matters related to the 8th Prince, he had nothing to say even if questioned by the Director.
Getting involved in the 8th Prince’s affairs and raiding the Black Fang Guild, helping the 8th Prince conquer the Academy Dungeon in the middle of the night, bringing internal data under threat, etc…….
All sorts of uncomfortable things ca to Armandy’s mind.
It was then.
A person he didn't really want to see appeared from the opposite side of the hallway. It was his colleague Pirenzo Korva, who was undercover as an Academy liberal arts professor.
“What are you doing here.”
“What about you, what brings you here.”
Armandy retorted bluntly at Pirenzo’s words.
The two who encountered each other in the hallway of the Ability Managent Bureau started a staring contest.
While glaring for a while, Armandy asked first.
“Don’t tell you are also on your way to the Director’s Office?”
“You too?”
Both of them had received a summons from the Director’s Office. Realizing that, Pirenzo and Armandy’s expressions darkened.
Pirenzo opened his mouth with difficulty.
“Honestly, I ca prepared.”
“Prepared for what.”
“Is there anything else for us to be prepared for but one thing.”
“Don’t say ‘us’. It feels dirty.”
When Armandy shuddered and refused to be grouped together, Pirenzo also made an uncomfortable expression.
“Do you think I’m doing this because I like it. What reason would there be for you and to be grouped together. It must be because of the 8th Prince.”
“Ha……. That is true.”
He had no choice but to admit those words.
Thinking about it, Pirenzo was the only person in the Ability Managent Bureau who could understand Armandy’s feelings the best. Because both were in a position of being threatened by the 8th Prince.
‘Should I call this fortunate.’
Armandy was confused whether to feel relief that at least he wasn't the only one suffering, or to feel repulsion that he had sothing in common with Pirenzo, whom he wanted to be involved with the least.
Pirenzo paused for a mont and said.
“Even if the Director imposes disciplinary action, I intend to accept it willingly. I want to take responsibility for my choices.”
Was it really a choice though…….
Armandy wanted to ask if it wasn't due to threats rather than a choice, but just shut his mouth.
In fact, Armandy had similar thoughts.
If one did sothing wrong, one must take responsibility.
Disciplinary action was sothing he had already co prepared for.
However, when he opened the door to the Director’s Office, Armandy had a premonition.
That perhaps sothing worse than disciplinary action might be waiting.
“Armandy, seeing you here makes even gladder?”
Waiting for them in the Director’s Office was the 8th Prince.
At the appearance of him, the culprit of everything, Armandy opened his mouth unconsciously.
Pirenzo was the sa.
“No, why is the 8th Prince here…….”
“Professor. I am glad to have an opportunity to see you like this during vacation.”
The 8th Prince spoke nonchalantly and offered a handshake to Pirenzo.
Even after shaking hands with Radel, Pirenzo couldn't grasp the situation and asked once again.
“What brings you here?”
“It’s not a place I can’t co to. I ca because there is sothing to receive from the Director.”
Radel spoke calmly, but Pirenzo was greatly flustered.
An imperial family mber frequenting the Ability Managent Bureau itself made no sense.
What kind of organization was the Ability Managent Bureau.
It was an organization that managed and monitored imperial family mbers with Abilities.
That an imperial family mber, who was a target of surveillance, was sitting confidently inside the Ability Managent Bureau.
“Well, that’s not important. You just need to know that the talk with the Director is finished. What’s important is that from now on, you two have to follow .”
Unlike the flustered Pirenzo, Armandy was used to this absurd situation.
Although he thought it was unusual from the mont he delivered Ivan’s letter to the 8th Prince in the first place. He couldn't help the ominous feeling.
‘What is this, this feeling of being sold off……?’
* * *
Before Armandy and Pirenzo arrived at the Director’s Office.
Radel was drinking tea with Ivan.
“It is good to see you after a long ti, Prince.”
“So am I.”
Ivan Chartrion, the head of the Ability Managent Bureau, observed Radel answering calmly. It seed like just yesterday when he wrote the recomndation letter for Academy admission, but he had grown and returned in the anti.
Not just surviving, but being the Academy top student.
Thinking it was indeed a decent investnt, he took a sip of tea.
“I saw your Academy report card well. It was impressive.”
“I was lucky.”
At Radel’s words, Ivan chuckled.
“I am also from the Academy. But I have never been the top student even once.”
Well, since Ivan was also an imperial family mber, he would naturally have graduated from the Academy.
Ivan paused for a mont as if reminiscing about his school days, then opened his mouth.
“Although they say luck is also skill, there are things that cannot be done with luck alone. It was possible because of the Prince’s efforts. You have done much better than I expected.”
Ivan praised Radel and took out the report card from his bosom.
“However, there must be those who hate and envy this report card.”
His eyes shone sharply.
“The better grades the Prince achieves and survives, the sharper knives soone will aim at the Prince. Am I wrong?”
Radel shook his head.
“No. The Director is right.”
“The reason I brought up such words to the Prince is to make one proposal. I want to trade the wish ticket the Prince possesses.”
Wish ticket…….
The only wish ticket Radel possessed was the one he received after yielding the Hunting Competition victory to the 5th Prince, Venus.
However, that was a wish ticket where Venus said he would grant one request.
It wasn't sothing the head of the Ability Managent Bureau would show interest in.
“The Prince might not know, but the Esven Marquisate, Prince Venus’s maternal family, is not an ordinary magician family. Since the establishnt of the Ability Managent Bureau, it is a place where agents have never infiltrated even once.”
It was said that it was so secretive that all employees working inside were people who had worked there for generations.
Entry for outsiders was virtually impossible.
“I do not wish for much. Just visit there once with our agents.”
Ivan said he didn't wish for much, but wasn't he trying to penetrate the security of a family that had never been breached using Radel’s wish ticket.
It wasn't content that was particularly good for Radel.
Because he could have asked for a rare magical beast with Venus’s wish ticket.
To have to blow it like that.
As Radel pondered, Ivan whispered in a secretive voice.
“Instead, I will pay the price for the deal sufficiently. Is there anything you want?”
Ivan asked Radel and tapped the report card with his fingertips a couple of tis.
Tap, tap.
Radel recalled the words Ivan just said.
The better grades he achieves, the more people aim for Radel’s life.
Right now, Ivan was giving Radel an opportunity through a deal.
“Yes. I thought of what I want.”
As soon as he realized Ivan’s intention, Radel opened his mouth reflexively.
“Lend agents of the Ability Managent Bureau. Don’t you have to monitor anyway.”
“Hmm. You an agents of the Ability Managent Bureau.”
“I am not asking you to lend them continuously. Only when I need them.”
A smile brushed past Ivan’s lips.
“Then until when do you an to borrow them……?”
Radel didn't hesitate this ti.
“Until I graduate from the Academy.”
Like that, a secret long-term contract unknown to Armandy and Pirenzo was concluded.
* * *
“It’s good going all together. Isn’t it, Armandy?”
Radel asked Armandy sitting next to him in the carriage.
Although ti was delayed a little due to stopping by the Ability Managent Bureau, thanks to that, he gained companions like this, making him feel reassured.
Now that he didn't know what happened in the territory, moving alone was dangerous.
No matter how much he thought about it, borrowing the two was an excellent choice.
Radel looked at Armandy with a refreshing mood.
But Armandy had a sour expression throughout since departure.
“Yes, very…… good.”
Pirenzo was the sa.
The two were prepared for disciplinary action but didn't want to keep getting involved with the 8th Prince. They just wanted to pay for their sins quickly and leave Radel’s side.
But sohow, instead of getting further from Radel, they were getting closer.
‘I hope you move exclusively for the 8th Prince for the ti being. I will allow so degree of autonomous action. However, do not omit reports.’
Even the Director betrayed their expectations.
Armandy and Pirenzo wondered if this made sense, but they couldn't disobey orders from the top either.
They felt unjust.
Was there truly no way to escape from the 8th Prince’s grasp?
At that ti when they were struggling against unreasonable fate, soone appeared in front of the carriage.
“Stop! You savage humans!”
A group of Lizardn was blocking their way.
“If you don’t want to die, hand over what you have and leave!”
These Lizardn were those deployed as the second unit because the colleagues who left to block the road in the morning disappeared.
Because about ten colleagues had already disappeared, they selected and brought only stronger and more threatening warriors.
Thanks to that, they had nothing to fear.
A Lizardman swung his sword and shouted.
“If you don’t co out right now…… Ugh!”
Bam!
In an instant, the Lizardman flew sideways and was slamd.
Pirenzo had gotten off the carriage before anyone knew and dealt with the Lizardman.
Zip!
This ti, an arrow of wind flew and pierced the Lizardman’s thigh.
Armandy was already chanting the next spell.
Watching them attack the Lizardn indiscriminately as if they had caught the perfect prey, Radel smiled a pleased smile.
As expected, he thought it was a good idea to bring companions.
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