-interrogation time, blockheads everywhere-

“lets start from when we just summoned into this world. did you and the king have a secret talk somewhere?”

shuu start to asked

“i, i only heard from my senpai, he said that the king planned to have the heroes getting strong enough to defeat demon king and i am to help the plan to succeed”

“why did you need to get us to become stronger fast?”

“our country situation has been bad for long time, so we decided the best way to become renown is to defeat the demon king. that way, no other countries can ignore us and will have no choice to follow our doctrine”

hearing it directly now made them sure that the averunks kingdom indeed planned to use them at start

they had heard directly from the abona king that the king of averunks had lied with them and conspirated to using them for their own selfish reason

and because of their plan, their now missing friend is involved and cannot be find anywhere

after some time, they finally found out that the king subordinate, someone thought as a cooperator is founded recently and locked underground for further questioning but the man keep claiming he’s innocent

wants to find out the truth themself, they come here to join the interrogation

arisa and shuu is looking a bit dejected, and yuya only stare hard to the man

continuing to asked him a question shuu continues

“i see, then..”

“did you, no. the king.. planned to kill the fourth hero, mika?”

asking the question that they want to know the most, the man continues

“ye.. yes, but i’ve only been given order to paid a certain mercenary group. the one hearing the plan directly from the king is my senpai. i only heard they need to kill a certain girl and bring her corpse intact if possible”

hearing that makes shuu feel disgusted and he continued

“and that certain group name?”

“i.. i only know they're been called wolf brigand unit. their leader is a big man, but at that time he was wearing iron helmet so i don't know details. ”

everyone feel it was useless to question him further about the group, so shuu change the question

“why is the king planned to kill mika?”

“its, originally doesn't have to be the fourth. anyone is fine as long one of the heroes dies, the others would fight harder if one of them is said to be killed by demons. originally it was supposed to be happened in man eating forest where a sight of death is uncommon”

the man continues

“but since the fourth is planning to leave the country, the king afraid she would tell other countries about our summoning. so he hasten the plan, is.. is what i think”

“did you heard this plan from your senpai?”

“n.. no, i eavesdropped the discussion between the king and senpai.”

“did you heard anything else?”

“o.. only that they received news that the mission is succeed and the mercenary group is preparing to go back to claim their reward, but after that there’s no further news about them. and the monster invasion happened shortly after that”

hearing that, the heroes face looked grim

if that’s true, then mika is already..

“thank you for your cooperation. mind if i asked for one last thing?”

the man only nodded slightly

“did you, heard or know any news or rumor about the fate of fourth hero after that?”

hearing that, the man seems to looked down, and then..

“i’m sorry, but after that i was only focusing to surviving once the country is fallen and hiding my identity. i haven't heard any rumors or news related to fourth”

hearing that shuu looked to yuya

“he’s not lying, at least”

“ i see, sorry for taking your time”

saying that to the man, shuu deactivate his skill and the heroes prepared to leave

but the man stopped them

“ple, please wait..!”

and begging the heroes

“after hearing that, you understand that i’m just a victim right? the one making plans and at fault is the one above me. i.. i only following orders and didn't even participate in killing the fourth hero!! i’m not at fault here, i’m just a victim! so why must i been taken responsible? it was all the fault of the king of abona with a blood of lowly demi humans..! had it been not because of that, our policy of human supremacies are..”

hearing that, the hero stopped their tracks

yuya prepares his spear and looks like he wants to prepare his spear to stab the man

but

stopping on his track, arisa shouts first

“HOW CAN YOU SAID SOMETHING LIKE THAT SO EASILY!?”