Running out of the back of the house to chase after that disgusting bastard and douchebag Yulis, I found out I didn’t need to because Alice tackled Yulis to the ground and was using the short sword I gave her to hold the blade very close to his neck to a point that blood was coming out.

She looked like she really wanted to kill him, given the chance.

Alice forces Yulis to go back to the house with a sword pointed behind his back, while everyone else helps move the 2 unconscious Palning black knights back to the house to tie them up.

I told Maria that I had gotten injured on my right shoulder and asked her to check it out to see how bad it was.

My right shoulder practically turned purple due to that Eude guy swinging down his sword at me. Due to my direwolf fur, the strike only caused some blunt force trauma on my right shoulder instead of there being a massive slash wound.

She asked me to take off my shirt, but I refused and asked her just to give me a health potion instead because she would find out I’m a girl if I did that.

“Are you sure you want that? No need to be embarrassed, but I need to check if your shoulder is not broken or fractured anywhere.”

I told her it was fine and not to worry about it, and if one of the bones in my shoulder was broken or fractured, I would just ask her for a healing potion if that was the case.

Back at the house, we tied up everyone who wasn't tied up and put the bastard Yulis in the room he ran out of to get answers from him.

Standing next to Alice and pointing the tip of my sword at his neck to stop him if he started using magic or anything.

I was using my left arm because I couldn’t use my right arm too much; my right shoulder still hurts a lot even after the health potion. I guess I’ll have to ask Maria for a healing potion, but I have to deal with Yulis first.

“So, we meet again.”

I spoke to him with my default expressionless face and tone of how I used to speak, that of a high-born noble. He, who began to notice who I was, from Farsbarow, turned very white.

“What a coincidence; I can’t believe we’ve crossed paths again.”

I didn’t bother keeping up with how I speak, which is that of a commoner to a high-born noble, because after seeing him in Kinwall’s shop and overhearing his disgusting conversations about Alice, I knew that this guy was a stereotypical spoiled noble who is an idiot.

Thinking about it, no wonder Alice’s older brother, Claudius, managed to get Yulis on his side because two spoiled idiots tend to think alike.

If he is working for Claudius, it would explain why the head and successor are dead. He is an idiot, and they think so too, leaving them to underestimate him. Due to that, they must have been caught by complete surprise because idiots tend to have, whether by dumb luck or not, moments where things go in their favor.

Additionally, I’m guessing that he manages to get Yulis on his side because he is a certain kind of spoiled idiot, a charismatic one, which is really dangerous if he gets his hand on any kind of power.

“It’s a shame, really. I thought you would learn your lesson from the first time we met, but it seems you haven’t really learned a single thing.”

Yulis began shivering in fear.

“Honestly, I was planning on blowing up this building with you alongside you and your grunts, but you're just not worth it revealing my identity to.”

I look at Alice, who looks very surprised when I just reveal that I’m a noble.

However, I’m guessing she suspected that I’m also a noble with how I tend to act and know certain things.

Right now it doesn’t really matter since I want her to play the bad cop in the good cop bad cop thing because we need information before the city guards arrest them.

“Alice, could you please start by stabbing him in the kneecap first? Since you’re from the Lunslur family, a military family, I guess I could teach you how to torture someone without killing them; after all, he did kill your guards. Plus, judging from the team he sent after you, he seems like a tough nut to crack, probably.”

Seeing what I was getting at, she unsheathed my short sword and approached him, as he was begging me to stop her.

“Wait stop! I’ll talk, I’ll talk!”

Alice stopped shortly, just before she was about to stab him; if I hadn’t told her to stop, she would have really stabbed him.

“Okay, speak; we’re listening. I might even let you go if you do.”

Slightly relaxed, he began blabbering everything he knew.

As expected, he is a coward and is working with Alice's older half-brother, Claudius, to kill Alice, but he is using his family’s black knights behind their backs without informing them about it.

Not only that, he even began blurting out that he was going to go back on his word to kill Alice and lie to Alice’s older brother, Claudius, just to have her all to himself.

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What I heard frankly disgusted me and made Alice even more angry.

“So, you killed my personal guards just so I could be your slave?”

"Oh, please, be grateful that I decided to make you my slave. A noble without any magic is nothing more than a lowly commoner.”

He said it in a condescending and disgusting tone, forgetting who was in control here, which surprised and did not surprise me at the same time, mostly seeming from the disdain for people with no magical powers.

Alice took out the short sword I gave her, looking like she was about to kill him on the spot if he spoke another word, which I frankly would have let her if we didn’t have a plan to get rid of this guy without having more problems to deal with in the future.

“Wait wait wait!”

“No, you killed people I care about. Why should I let you live?”

I could hear the anger resonating in her voice; however, what Yulis spoke next surprised us.

“We didn't kill all of them; we kept some alive so we could lure you in when you escape from our grasp.”

With the tip of my short sword at his throat, Alice asks where they were, with an absolutely frigid voice.

“Downstairs, in-in the basement.”

After hearing that, Alice rushed downstairs to the basement while I returned my sword to my sheath because we’d gotten what we needed.

Relieved, his terrified face turned to one of relief and said.

“May I be released, please?”

He asks it in a meek and relieved tone because I was in control of the situation and he thought I was from a family that was higher than his, which all nobles understand hierarchy, even the really dumb ones.

He looked really relieved, thinking that I was about to let him go, and I was feeling a bit gleeful that he would think that because I wasn’t doing that at all.

With my sheath sword, I struck him in the head, causing him to be knocked out.

Going downstairs to the first floor after tying him up, I ask about Alice and how she was to Chelsie. She told me Alice was in the basement with Alex and Maria, who were tending to their wounds, and she was in a rush.

Walking the staircase to the basement, it was a dark, dingy place lit up with a few candles.

Seeing Alice, she of 3 people. One had his left arm cut off, the other had an injured leg, and the last one had a big slash wound across his chest. All of them were in their 30s with an air that made them look like veterans.

Crying, Alice said.

“I’m sorry, this is all my fault, Garner, Rollo, Arnald.”

Trying to comfort Alice, the guy with the lost arm said.

“No need, lady Alice. It’s our fault for being so weak.”

All of them nodded, then vowed they would not let it happen again.

Approaching them, I greeted them, and they thanked me and everyone else for helping their lady in her time of need.

We talk, and I inform everyone in the basement about the current situation and what we learn from Yulis.

All of them had grim faces when I told them about the Palning family's black knight working for Claudius, meaning that Alice going back home is not a safe place because if he was working with Yulis, who knows who else Alice’s brother is working with?”

Coming downstairs, Chelsie told us that she saw guards coming toward the building and we needed to leave right now.

It looks like we can’t really move them with their injuries; however, they would give us overwhelming evidence to convict the Palning family for trying to assassinate Alice.

“Hey, you three.”

Turning their head to listen to me, I said.

“The city guards are coming; we can’t move you in your current state, but can you do something for us?”

The one with the broken leg asked what my request was.

“Let the guard pick you guys up and tell them what happened without giving out our identities. I didn’t expect you guys to be alive, but it does give us overwhelming evidence to convict the Palning family, or at least Yulis of attempted murder.”

They looked at each other and nodded, agreeing to my request.

“Good. See you all in a couple of days.”

We all left the building by going out the back door without the city guards noticing us.

If things go well, we will see them in a couple of days.

We went to the adventurer guild to inform Iris about the success of our plan and about Alice’s guards, which was better than what we had hoped for.

We thanked her for her help, and I decided to go back to my inn instead of getting something to eat and celebrating with them because I wanted to rest after attacking the base where the Palning family was hiding.

As we exited the doors of the adventurer guild. Alex asked Lucia what was wrong because he had noticed Lucia sulking. She said that she couldn’t believe somebody like him would be able to defeat her in magic.

I interjected and said.

“It’s to be expected; he is a noble after all.”

Mages can grow their mana through training; however, nobles who are mages tend to have way more mana than commoner mages at birth, which is the reason why Lucia's spell is less powerful than Yulis's.

For some reason, Lucia's sulking turned to anger, and she had a vain pop out of her forehead. Did I make her angry?

Gritting her teeth, she looks like she wants to shout out something, but she storms off instead.

Seeing her storm off, I ask Alex.

“Where is she going?”

“Probably someplace to cool off.”

“Did I say something wrong?”

“I guess she is angry that you compared her to that Yulis guy.”

“Oh, I see. I should apologize to her then.”

I was about to run after Lucia, but Alex stopped me.

“Maybe you should apologize to her when she calms down.”

“I see.”

At the inn I was staying at, I went straight for my room, deciding that I was too tired to get something to eat. When I opened the door, the room was a mess. It looked like Mila’s bookstore the more I looked at it.

There were some small piles of books lying everywhere, just like her store, in addition to a lot of crumpled-up papers lying around the floor, making it a pain to move around.

This place is getting pretty cramped. I wonder if I should find an apartment to rent or a house to buy because if I sell my jewelry, it would be more than enough to buy me a house or two. However, the only problem is that people would get suspicious seeing me sell such expensive jewelry even if I acted like a noble.

I sat on my bed and took out a healing potion; my right shoulder was still injured and probably cracked a bone or two when I took that Eudo guy’s sword strike.

Getting from my bed slowly, I took out a healing potion Maria gave me and drank it. Then I gently moved to lay on my bed, thinking to myself that things ended with Alice’s situation surprisingly quickly.