To Another World... with Land Mines! Volume 10 by Itsuki Mizuho

Author:Itsuki Mizuho [MIZUHO, ITSUKI]
Language: eng
Format: epub, pdf
Publisher: J-Novel Club
Published: 2025-01-06T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter 3—A Noble Wedding Ceremony

Late in the afternoon, Arlene-san came to visit us in our room. “Would you happen to have a moment?” she asked.

According to our contract, we were free to rest during our time in Clewily. The sisters hadn’t been asked to spend time with Illias-sama, so we’d assumed she was very busy, but...

“Of course,” said Haruka. “We don’t have any particular plans.”

Flexibility was important for adventurers. We couldn’t just tell Arlene-san, “We’re not on the clock right now,” so we welcomed her in and offered her a chair.

“Thank you very much. We’ve managed to gather some intelligence, so I felt it would be appropriate to share it with your party,” said Arlene.

“Intelligence? You mean about the ambush that we ran into on the way here?” I asked.

“That’s correct,” Arlene replied.

That was the only information they’d plausibly share with us. Actually, though, do we as bodyguards really need to know about the assailants’ backgrounds? I’m somehow kinda nervous about this.

But despite my trepidation, Arlene-san proceeded to tell us what the House of Nernas had learned. “Having spent some time gathering information, we are now in a position to say there is a very high chance that the Yupikrisa Empire had a hand in this,” said Arlene.

“The Yupikrisa Empire? That’s the country directly south of the Lenium Kingdom, right?” Haruka asked, tilting her head in confusion. “I’ve heard we aren’t at war with the empire. Have relations deteriorated to the point that they’d attack Illias-sama on the road?”

As far as I was aware, the Yupikrisa Empire was just a hypothetical rival for now. It made no sense to me that they would sneak into a place far from the border and try to attack the child of a minor noble.

Even if they’d succeeded in kidnapping Illias-sama, I wasn’t sure how valuable she would have been to them. The kingdom would never have agreed to meet any of the empire’s demands in exchange for a mere viscount’s daughter, nor could the empire have gotten much ransom out of Viscount Nernas. In fact, it would make more sense to me if the Holy Satomi Sect had hired some skilled assassins to kill Illias-sama.

“To put it bluntly, they had no need to target our house at all,” said Arlene. “It seems we were only attacked because there was a high likelihood of success even for a small group of assailants.”

Arlene-san went on to explain that some of the other wedding guests had been attacked en route as well, in each case by a small group of assassins. All were representatives of smaller houses with only a few weak bodyguards.

“Not even the empire could easily infiltrate a foreign nation using large numbers of soldiers,” said Arlene. “It’s likely that their objective was simply to obstruct the wedding.”

“I see. How, though?” Haruka asked. “The Barony of Dias doesn’t border the Yupikrisa Empire.”

“True,” Arlene replied, “but the family of the bride is at odds with the empire.”

According to Arlene-san, the bride’s father bore the title of Baron Aesi.

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