Hero Side’s Circumstance

High-End residential area in the northern part of Babel.

It was a literal celebrity town consisting of children of wealthy merchants, royalties, nobles, and other big shots. Also, only part of Babel administration could enter the posh area.

In a certain room of a luxurious residence, Amelia kingdom's first prince, Gilbert Loto Amelia, kicked a table, toppling it.

「DAMMIT! DAMMIT! DAMMIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIT! I'M A PRINCEEEEEEEEEEEEEE! HOW DARE HE―― TO SHAME ME IN PUBLIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIC!!!」

Just kicking the table was far from enough for him to vent his rage.

Gilbert, despite being a prince was humiliated in the presence of many. Thus, it was only natural that he wanted to put the culprit who humiliated him, Kai Heineman to death.

And yet, strangely enough, Kai Heineman's lord, Rose, didn't even reprimanded him for what he did.

On the contrary, Babel's authority even judged that the one at fault in this matter was Gilbert; a one-week house arrest was imposed to him as his punishment.

「Princess Rose's royal guard, Kai Heineman, eh. Your senior knight, uhm… ah, Tamshi, woops―― AH! TANSHI-KUN!」

The slender, red-haired man with undercut stated so while snapping his fingers, trying to recall the name of Gilbert's knight.

「It's senior knight Tamri. Holy knight(Paladin), Hijiri-sama.」

A blonde-haired woman with bundled long hair corrected Hijiri's mistake immediately.

「Ah yes, it's Tamri-kun. Well, since he's Gill's favorite, he should be fairly powerful, right? Doesn't that make Kai Heineman who overwhelmed Tamri more powerful?」

The other members' curiosity was piqued by Hijiri's statement, then they started their own discussion.

「Kai Heineman is the holder of joke-like gift called [The Most Incompetent in This World], right?」

「Yeah, one who was abandoned by God, the shunned incompetent apostate. Are you really sure that he beat a senior knight? I mean, it is simply unbelievable.」

「Does that mean he used some sort of underhanded means? Else, doesn't that show just how useless Tamri is?」

The red-haired man with undercut, Hijiri, clapped his hands as he then turned around,

「So? What do you think of that man called Kai Heineman, Satoru? You met him once before, right?」

And when asked of the handsome black-haired man,

「He is just a small fry! I mean, all he can do is trembling in fear when the king ordered him to fight Geralt.」

Satoru replied so with loud voice and vexed look on his face.

「So he's at least weaker than Geralt-kun. Then, he can't beat us. Right, Mashiro?」

This time, HIjiri directed his question to a beautiful girl with long and glossy black hair.

「Yeah, in the current state, he's not a hindrance to the plan.」

The black-haired girl, Mashiro, declared calmly. With that single declaration from her,

「AS EXPECTED OF HERO-SAMA! HOW REASSURING!」

「VICTORY IS OURS!」

「WE WILL EXTERMINATE THE DEMON RACE TILL NONE OF THEM ARE LEFT!」

Relieved voices resounded from the entire room.

「So? What are you going to do about Kai Heineman?」

Hearing Hijiri's question,

「Naturally――」

Gilbert was about to finish but,

「Leave him alone.」

Mashiro declared so as if to interrupt Gilbert.

「DON'T MESS WITH ME! HE WAS EXTREMELY DISRESPECTFUL TOWARD ME! I'VE TO KILL HIM!!

NO ONE WILL KNOW THE CULPRIT AS LONG AS WE DON'T ADMIT IT!」

「Still no. Kai Heineman is Rena's and Keith's childhood friend. Killing him will only turn both of them into our enemy.」

「THEY WON'T KNOW AS LONG AS WE KEEP IT IN THE DARK!」

Mashiro was obviously dumbfounded upon hearing Gilbert's remark, and then, heaved a deep sigh,

「Now listen carefully, isn't the reason for the prime minister to keep watch on all of your movements because of your previous plan, the one that you executed without even informing us? Even if you try to assassinate Kai Heineman now, I can guarantee that it's going to fail due to some outside intervention. And if the prime minister spread that news in public, we will lose Rena and Keith's trust, and both of them will even leave the hero team.」

Mashiro spoke in a manner of admonishing a naughty child.

「Dammit!」

Gilbert could only suppress his anger, sit back in the sofa and trample the floor beneath his feet to vent his anger.

「Rena and Keith are important corner stones in the war against demon army. We absolutely cannot lose them. If it's for your personal interest, you can purge their entire faction along with his relatives after you win the crown contest and ascend to the throne. We can also help you far more easily then.」

Mashiro said so and then observed the room――

「We only have one goal, total annihilation of the monsters and demon race. That's the common mission of humanity!」

As she raised her voice in the latter part of her sentence, the knights in the room placed their hand on their chest at once.

「KILL DEMON RACE! BURN THEIR FIELD AND CITY! KILL THEM ALL WITHOUT EXCEPTION! JUSTICE IS WITH US!」

Which then followed a yell, answering Mashiro's remark.

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TN: The hero party is digging their own grave.