Reincarnated into a Game As the Hero’s Friend

“There seem to be a couple of complaints that some decisions were one-sided, so an investigation has been raised.”

High Priestess Malavova came from a noble family and had quite a few family connections. It appeared that decisions were often made in favor of her family members. I, myself, had thought that church priests were honorable, but when I looked at it this way, I realized that they were quite practical.

However, even if these allegations were true, they were probably not the government’s main purpose behind this investigation. I believe that their intention was more to investigate the church as a whole, and to keep Mazell away from the church’s influence.

“Other noble families are also expected to come, right?”

“Yes, Viscount Schrünz and Baron Drezeke are coming for different reasons.”

The legal person responded to my question. I remembered hearing the names of both of them, but I had no impression of them. In addition, a nobleman who was originally supposed to join the investigation was unable to attend today due to a change in his schedule. I wonder if it means that they were short of manpower.

“Viscount Schrünz has more experience as a civil official.”

“I understand. I will follow their lead.”

When I responded in this way, the lawyer let out a sigh of relief. If we’re talking about titles, we’re on the same rank. I did not want to take the lead, and to put it more bluntly, I was not good at administrative work. I would be more than grateful if I could delegate the practical work to someone else.

Recently, the Prime Minister had given me a lot of troublesome work, so I’ve become able to do at least the basics, but I felt mentally fatigued because the work changed before I got used to it. It was a blessing that the work was not difficult because it was only a disguise.

With this in mind, we arrived at the church. When we got off the carriage, the atmosphere was strangely noisy. Moreover, in front of the church, there was a line of people who looked like a group of knights from some noble family.

Perhaps sensing the uneasy atmosphere, not only Neurath and Schunzel, but also Annette-san, immediately joined Lily’s side. Then I asked Neurath to go check on the situation.

“If it isn’t the Viscount.”

This voice. And looking closely, I recognized that family crest. I wonder why it was him who greeted me, well, for now, I had to respond politely.

“It’s been a while, Count Yerring.”

“Indeed, Viscount Zeavert, I have also been busy nowadays.”

He said my name in an even louder voice. It was not strange for him to be in the church, but the presence of the noble knights and myself in the church might cause unnecessary misunderstandings among the public…or not. Was it more likely that they came here intentionally to make a big commotion? It would seem that they have sniffed out my plan of visiting this location today.

“Oh, and is that the Hero’s sister? I am Count Anshelm Seigl Yerring…”

“My name is Lily Hearthing. My greetings to you, Count Yerring, for this opportunity to meet.”

For a moment, Lily reacted as if she were surprised or frightened, but she quickly responded with courtesy. However, the fact that her end of the sentence was somewhat shaky was probably due to her inexperience and the unfriendly look in Count Yerring’s eyes.

Before Count Yerring could say anything to Lily, I shielded Lily behind my back, and Annette-san also moved into a position behind me to cover Lily.

“I beg your pardon, but I did not expect you to be visiting the church.”

I said this in a very loud and contentious tone of voice. My voice was loud enough to be considered trying to create a commotion.

The Count looked surprised for a moment, but then smiled.

“Well, you see…” (Count Yerring)

“Please excuse my rudeness, but I couldn’t spare time to talk to you right now. I have some business to attend to. I would be happy to schedule a meeting with you at a later date.” (Welner)

Without giving him a chance to respond, I immediately followed up. He might be trying to get the people around us to know that Count Yerring and I, with the knights in tow, were both involved in the investigation of the church together.

So, by showing that I was not involved with the Count, it made it clear that our reason for visiting the church wasn’t the same even if we both brought knights with us.

The Count had a sullen look on his face, but it didn’t bother me that people knew that we were not on the best of terms. In fact, I was thinking that this man might be a potential enemy because of the previous incident, so this was even a good opportunity for me to get to know him.

“Is this an urgent matter?” (Welner)

“Well, it is not so urgent but….” (Count Yerring)

“Then I’m terribly sorry, but then can I ask you to please schedule a meeting with me on a different day, okay? Let’s go!” (Welner)

Count Yerring probably wanted to give the impression that the relationship between the nobles and the church was bad, but I also appealed to the fact that the two of us were not on the best of terms to begin with. We were unlikely to get along with each other anyway.

I urged Neurath and the others to leave the Count behind and head for the church.

I had a feeling that today was going to be a long day.

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