Reincarnated into a Game As the Hero’s Friend

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“W..Welner you said!? Why are you here!?” The man named Rafed shouted. I could imagine what kind of expression he had now.

“Because I was here before you of course…”

Just as I was about to say ‘are you an idiot?’, the coachman tried to escape but ended up being beaten with swords still in their scabbards by my allies who had surrounded the carriages. Did he really think he could escape in this kind of situation?

“I guess I only need one person to get a testimony.”

“Y…you bastard!”

“Anyway, thank you for coming here since now I could beat you up myself.”

I also had deployed people to other places so no matter where they went, the result would have still been the same. Still, I never thought that Lestlatga would actually make this kind of move.

In the game, after the hero completed his mission in the Lestlatga, the country was never mentioned again but it looked like the country had a lot of hidden agendas in this world.

“I don’t have any obligation to answer that.”

Actually, I found it out by coincidence. If that guy didn’t tell me that people from Count Witthoft’s house, Count Bachem’s house and the Lestlatga Embassy kept meeting each other in the middle of the night, I wouldn’t know.

But because Count Witthoft only messed up with the Zeavert family, not with Lily, they got away with just a warning. I wondered what would have happened if that wasn’t the case?

In any case, it seemed like even the servants of the Bachem family had the habit of playing around… Really, did they think that money was water or something? The pr̲o̲s̲t̲i̲t̲u̲t̲e̲s’ information gathering abilities were amazing… Using alcohol and women, we smoothly gained information from the servants of the Bachem family. I must repay old man Bert for this information later.

“What about the soldiers of my country?”

“Well, they aren’t here. That’s all you need to know, right?”

I knew that when you use Skywalk you would be transported to somewhere deserted so of course, I had also expected our enemies to place some soldiers beforehand.

When I consulted His Highness regarding this matter, he prepared a large amount of Skywalk for me and then he had a diplomat of our country, who had been to Lestlatga before, take me there with a Skywalk. That was how I was able to get here.

On that day, I had also confirmed where I would appear when I used the Skywalk to Lestlatga and also where our enemy could place their soldiers. The reason I asked Lily to buy time until the evening was so I could take care of the enemy’s soldiers first.

Though while I was waiting for Lily, an unexpected situation arose so I was quite nervous.

I wondered how many Skywalks we ended up using to finish our preparations and how much they cost… Well, since Count Bachem’s property would be confiscated by the kingdom, would the kingdom end up profiting from this incident?

In any case, this Rafed guy mentioned my country, did that mean that he was a spy from Lestlatga from the very beginning? Also, he was deceived but he didn’t even realize it. I didn’t have any obligation to explain it to him though.

Rafed (I didn’t know if this was his real name) glared at me fiercely. Being stared at by a fat middle-aged man wasn’t scary at all, you know. I took one step toward him and he took 2 steps back. He glanced at the carriage behind him, then his expression hardened.

“Wait! I have hostages here. The hero’s family is inside the carriage with my knight!”

“Oh…wow… how scary…”

If he didn’t think that his opponent would have some preparations against that, he was either just an underling or he just wasn’t used to rough stuff like kidnapping. Well, I could find that out later. Torture was acceptable since criminals in this world didn’t have any human rights.

“Lily, are you alright?”

“Yes. I am fine.”

Lily’s voice sounded muffled because she was inside the carriage but she seemed fine and Rafed looked surprised.

“How?”

“You know Lily’s face because you have met her before but how about her parents? Did you bother confirming that the two of them are really her parents?”

An apprentice chef was usually working in the back so only merchants who had come to Zeavert House a lot would know his face. They thought Lily was a villager so they could fool her easily. Thus, they didn’t bother checking her parent’s faces. They underestimated Lily too much. This was the result of them looking down on commoners.

Just in case, I even asked Norbert to investigate if some strangers had recently seen the Hearthing couple. I had also investigated all merchants of the Commerce Guild who have a relationship with the Zeavert house via Mr. Bierstedt.

A little problem with this plan was when the female knight who decided to be a stand-in for Lily’s mom complained by saying, “is she really her mom, not her sister?” It was true that Anna-san, Lily’s mother, could pass off as Lily’s sister. She looked way too young.

Well, that wasn’t important now. It seemed like Rafed still wanted to say something but I was getting tired of hearing his nonsense so I slammed the handle of the spear in my head to the side of Rafed’s head. I was holding back so this attack wouldn’t kill him but I hoped to at least succeed in breaking a bone or two.

While glancing at Rafed as he was being taken away by my allies, I opened the carriage’s door bolt. The magic lamps inside of the carriage made me able to see Lily’s relieved face so I felt glad. I then turned to ‘Ali-san’ in the carriage and bowed to him.

“Lieutenant Goretzka. Thank you very much for your assistance.”

“No need to thank me like that. Viscount, you are someone I have high expectations for the future.”

When I first formed this plan, I never expected that the lieutenant of the royal guard himself would volunteer to play the role of Ali-san. I was flustered and even persuaded him that we could search for someone else, but Goretzka-san himself said he wanted to go to a battle once in a while so I relented. This world was surely full of muscle-brained people.

Goretzka-san kicked out the man who was lying on the ground. Whoah… he was merciless. That guy, I think his body was twitching?

“Still, it’s true that poison is quite effective for kidnapping someone.”

“He has poison with him?”

When I looked carefully at the man who had been kicked by Goretzka-san, I saw a small knife, probably a hidden knife, lodged in his thigh. Ah, that knife was coated in poison, huh?

Among the poisons you could extract from the demons’ body parts, there was paralyzing poison. The diluted paralyzing poison was also used as anesthesia for a surgical treatment. It was available for purchase in the Adventurer Guild. In the game, there was also a kind of poison that could kill the hero if left alone. The poison on that knife was not that sort of poison.. probably.

The tip of the knife almost pierced through the back of the thigh. It looked like these two didn’t bother holding back.

As I was thinking, the female knight threw something out of the carriage. Those were…damn. Did they actually plan to go that far against a commoner who couldn’t even fight? No wonder they both got this angry.

“There were 3 restraint tools used for criminal slaves hidden behind the backrest. From the very beginning, this man was waiting for an opportunity to use them on us.”

“I didn’t train so softly to the point I will give an opportunity for a mere knight to use those things on me.”

The female knight spat out, to which Goretzka-san responded. That man just had the worst opponent. There was no way a normal knight would be able to defeat Goretzka-san, the lieutenant of the royal guard. The female knight was here more as Lily’s companion since she would feel awkward being together with just Goretzka-san plus having another combatant in this kind of situation wasn’t a loss.

With the knight who was sprawling on the ground, Rafed, and the coachman, we had 3 prisoners. Perfect. I gave a signal with my gaze to our allies who were surrounding us to restrain the 3 of them with these restrain tools for criminal slaves, then after we got off of the carriage, I approached Lily and said, “Sorry. Weren’t you scared?”

“I am the one who said I will do it. Furthermore, everything happened according to your plan, Welner-sama.”

She must have been nervous, yet she still smiled. I felt relieved too so I unintentionally patted Lily on her head.

To tell you the truth, I was troubled about what I should do about Lily when I formed this plan. Unlike the Hearthing couple, Lily was a parlor maid so her face and voice were already known among the guests that came to the mansion, so it was hard to find a substitute for her.

Plus, I didn’t know if disguise Skills or magic existed in this world and I also didn’t know how much our opponent knew about us. Using someone to pose as Lily would work if our opponent was someone who had seen Lily for the first time but if not?

But then, when I explained this plan to Lily, she said she was willing to do it herself. I was pretty flustered when she said that and I tried to convince her not to do so but she kept insisting. The people around me also persuaded me, saying that I had no other option and I only needed to do this one time. In the end, I reluctantly relented.

I also made preparations for any other possibilities. For example, there was a possibility that they would go to Witthoft County or Bachem County rather than to Lestlatga so I asked His Highness to send some knights to both places.

I didn’t send the Zeavert knights since both Witthoft House and Bachem house were also nobles of this kingdom. Plus, Zeavert knights might be monitored by the enemy, so I thought the current arrangement was the best. Still, thinking about how many people I owe some debt to now made my stomach hurt again.

By the way, I never knew that even though Lily looked obedient on the surface, she was actually quite stubborn.

“Miss Lily was quite calm earlier. It seems she really trusts you a lot, Viscount.”

“Ah…um…”

Why did you say something like that, Goretzka-san? How should I react now? I was glad that no one from the Zeavert House was here… Suddenly, I felt a chill on my neck.

“Lily, go inside the carriage. I think we need to do one last ‘act’ before we return.”

“Y..Yes, sir.”

Lily obediently went into the carriage and the allies who were surrounding me immediately spread themselves around the carriage without me needing to say anything. Amazing, they sure were used to it. Goretzka-san and the female knight also took out their weapons from the magic bag. Just by looking at their stance, I could tell they were different from any typical soldiers. In fact, I wasn’t confident that I could win against Goretzka-san even if he wasn’t wearing any armor.

At any rate, I had already expected that ‘they’ would come to attack us again.

If there were too many of them, we could escape using the Skywalk but if it was possible, I wanted to finish ‘them’ off here.

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