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95 - Clown in the Attic

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A ruin in a certain place.
At that place which was Randy's base, Lula, the designated calamity weapon otherwise known as Slingerland, crossed her arms and said.

“Well, what kind of tricks are you going to use to invade?”

Then, Randy, with a nonchalant attitude,

“None? I won't break into the academy though?”

Answered like that, so Lula opened her mouth wide for a few seconds, and then shouted in agitation.

“Wh, what did you say?! Did you send out a confusing notice just to enjoy the confusion! You bastard!!”

“Ah~... Let's explain in order. First of all, I requested old man Garda some things, right? All sorts of things. One of them is――this.”

Randy took out a piece of paper that was distorted in shape.
It's also letter-sized paper.
Lula looked closely at it and noticed that the handwriting style is polite, and they are all spelled out at length. This is...
For some reason, she blushed like a fire magic stone while reading it.

“Is, isn’t this a love letter?”

“Right, right. The one that Ekaterina sent to Josiah.”

“Whwhwha. How did you get it?”

“From its ashes?”

“Ashes you say...!?”

Naturally, the matter that Randy had asked Garuda to do included an investigation into [Sackwill Magic Academy].
Perhaps it’s the disposition of a person who used to be from A Empire, Garda thoroughly collected materials that could lead to information, from oversized garbage to kitchen waste, as well as ashes.
Restoring the original shape from the ashes is a task requiring perseverance, and it is so difficult that you need someone like Randy who can use multiple magic elements, or in an environment with an abundance of that level of talented personnel.
Leaving aside the restoration magic process, Lula asked a question.

“They’re all from Ekaterina addressed to Josiah... isn't there any from the other way around?”

“She's definitely keeping them, right? When you think about it like that, Ekaterina must be really in love with Josiah. You want to keep letters from someone you like, don't you?”

“We, well... isn't Josiah more harsh since he burned it right away?”

“Ha hahahaha! Because that’s the kind of guy he is!!”

But what did he plan to do now that he has a little proof?
Randy explains with the restored letter in his hand.

“What I'll do is put out an advance notice. And then I'll send these to Basili. That's it.”

“No, I don't get it. What will that do?”

“If something happens at the academy, it's automatically going to be my fault, right? In other words, it's a chance.”

“Are you praying that Basili will do something and make it look like you did it? That elf guy might be able to use magic circle breaker, but you can't just rely on others to do your job.”

“No, no. If there was an uproar saying that I might have invaded, the security guards would forcibly investigate the academy. Both Ekaterina and Josiah would be in a situation where they could not manipulate a third party's investigation. That is the chance.”

“Fumu...?”

Lula was not quite satisfied with the explanation.
She probably doesn't understand the flow of events in a bad way.
Randy continued.

“If another evil deed is exposed there, that too will be taken away. For example――if it turns out that some confidential documents may have been stolen, they’ll wonder which one was stolen. Just in case, they’ll check other confidential documents to make sure they haven't been stolen.”

“I guess they would.”

“Of course, they’ll also check the contents, but... when they checked them, they’d found out that some employee had embezzled. This is then another problem, isn't it?”

“No way! Does Basili intend to falsely charge Josiah with embezzlement and banish him!?”

“Well, I wonder? Right now, Basili wants Ekaterina no matter what, so it's probably just the first part of a plan to get rid of the nuisance. How it actually comes out depends on Basili. I’ll request old man Garda to send this thing (the restored letter) to the informant Basili hired. With that, my job is over.”

“...This is not an invasion is it?”

“No, no, getting involved in someone else’s love triangle is a kind of invasion of territory, isn’t it?”

‘No way it is!’ Lula retorted.
Neither of them expected that Randy's little [invasion] would turn into a tremendous commotion.

――――

(T/N: I'm losing some motivation on this series (maybe because I finished translating the last chapter some time ago), so my editing work might get sloppy from this chapter until the last chapter, well, you probably wouldn't care anyway, but this is also a reminder for myself.)

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