Hellbents
Chapter 102: Emergency Meeting

The next day, an emergency meeting was held to discuss yesterday's blast incident. King Dion immediately gathered his vassal ranks along with other important figures. Marvin voluntarily became the chief investigator. Ava, who plays Princess Eve and Duke Frost, was also cast due to their involvement in the live events. After saluting the person with the highest status in the room, the king, the meeting began with a serious and somber atmosphere.

Marvin immediately explained the findings resulting from the investigation. Considering it was still only yesterday the tragedy occurred, the team formed work very quickly. “From the five incident locations, we found traces of artifacts from copper material among the ruins of the building. Traces of which were left at the scene indicate which storms of fire and air triggered the explosion. It is also related to the attempted assault on Princess Eve and Duke Frost while on his way back to the palace.” One of the mage staff present showed him pictures taken as evidence, including a familiar artifact that almost claimed Ava's life if she had not used her observation skills.

But even though Marvin was trying to explain, one of the nobles there could not be patient. Count Wildingham, one of the supporters of the noble faction that Ava met at the dance two nights ago. “How is the security check from the palace soldiers to the extent that they did not detect any signs of tragedy yesterday?!” the man kicked the table, his hands as light as rumored.

Besides being an unfortunate incident because of the great casualties of life and material, this act of terrorism also seemed to be a painful slap to the reputation of the royal family, especially when Edodale was supposed to celebrate the heart of its establishment to 1500 years. Therefore, the noble faction will not waste this opportunity to criticize indirectly the work of the monarchy, if the result of lowering the power of the king is even better. They still did not dare to directly denounce the royal family, Marquess Terelui— who is now a commoner since her royal status was revoked due to the careless actions of her daughter, Marquess Terelui, clearly still imprinted as a warning so that the noble faction does not mess with the royalty faction.

“Ehem, Count Wildingham, please calm down first. Prince Marvin still explained,” King Dion cleared his throat, watching the movements of everyone there with his firm eyes. Indeed, what Count Wildingham did could have been considered an impolite act before the king, but the situation did not support King Dion to rebuke him further.

“Security checks and surveillance are implemented as optimally as possible. But the modus operandi carried out by the perpetrators is to detonate the artifacts they carry along with themselves, in other words suicide bombs. Due to the crowded scene due to residents and tourists visiting the festival, the perpetrators freely melted into the crowd.” The answer Marvin gave clearly shows the prince's lack of experience in political warfare. Although what he said was the concrete facts of the investigation, King Dion seemed dissatisfied, while the other party seemed eager to fret his response. So Ava acted first. “What identity of the perpetrator has been found?” tanyanya, cut off the flow of the previous dialogue. Now it is too late if there are less preventive measures.

“Thanks to Princess Eve and also Duke Frost who managed to catch one of the perpetrators of an attempted act of terrorism, we get a significant clue as to their origin.” A logo was emblazoned in a hologram of magic, eyes surrounded by seven circles and complex curves.

Everyone present except Ava immediately gasped.

“Cannot be!”

“Gosh!”

“Do not joke!”

Suddenly noisy meeting. Anxious whisper and worry buzzed like a bee in the room. Ava did not really understand the meaning of the logo, but seeing the reflex reaction that branched from everyone's fear and rejection, this means bad news.

“Please relax!” Once again King Dion spoke up, his gaze louder than ever.

It was only when the people at the meeting table managed to control themselves that Marvin continued his explanation. “True. As you know, this is the logo worn by the demons that ravaged the world hundreds of years ago.”

Ah, Ava gets it now. The devil, in other words the greatest enemy of the world.

“Although this is a logo that the demons wear according to the history books we know, it does not mean this is a sign of the appearance of the devil. We believe more that there are radical groups of devil worshipers who deliberately terrorize the inhabitants of the kingdom of Edodale to arouse fear.” Marvin's argument has a point, or such an opinion is what calms their hearts more, so more meeting participants nod in understanding.

But unlike Ava, the girl glanced at Ellijah who was sitting upright next to her. The man's status window has “devil” contractor in his race column.

The devil contractor, in other words the one who is under contract with the devil, is at least the definition that Ava created. Does that mean that Ellijah had met the devil in person until they managed to make a contract? Doesn't that mean it's true that demons have descended into this fantasy world?

And if they're down, there's gonna be a major disaster soon, right?

... In recall, Ava recalled Ib's concern about a collection of strange phenomena that occurred from a few months ago. More frequent outbreaks, monsters that appear not in their native habitat, as well as villages affected by zombie outbreaks. Not to mention the explosion yesterday.

Ava could not immediately conclude that all of this was caused by the actions of the devil just because of a matter that happened to be suitable. At least he had to thoroughly investigate and detail the horrifying history caused by the war with the demons hundreds of years ago.

...

Uh, but come to think of it, those things aren't his business, are they?

Ava's main goal is to stay here so that she gets the promised item so that she can return to her original dimension, not take care of the other world.

In addition to acting as the royal princess, Ava does not have to intervene.

However, unfortunately the girl's relaxed mind had to be rejected by reality.

At the end of the meeting, King Dion himself gave her instructions, “Seeing the precarious situation now, Princess Eve intends to calm the public with her innovation, right?” Ava knew a king's sentence was not a request, but an order. After all in the list of tasks that he had to do as a princess, the first number written directly by Eve was “Creature the vision of the kingdom, its main king”. In other words, according to.

So even though Ava was internally shaking, either from anxiety or anger, from the outside all that seemed was Princess Eve who nodded lightly and said, “Alright, Your Majesty.”