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Clown: So I feel a joke is in order!

A lawyer defending a et his client off the hook “My client merely inserted his arm into theand removed a few paltry items His arm is not himself, so I fail to see how you can punish the whole individual for an offense coe replied with a grin “Using that saic, I sentence the defendant’s arm to one year’s imprisonment Your client can accompany the arm or not, as he chooses”

The defendant smiled With his lawyer’s help, he detached his artificial limb, laid it on the bench and walked out…

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Pierrot: Howdy folks! Happy New Year!

Clown: It’s tiet back to work~

Pierrot: And type, type, type up~

Clown & Pierrot: Some chapters!

Demon Lord’s Gambit Arc

Chapter 121 Hinata and the Kids

It’s been a week since Fritz and Hinata reached Ingracia

Even considering that they hitched a ride on a passing carriage, it still took tiic circle would have been faster but would not have allowed theracia as a trip would have

Fritz and Hinata decided to disguise thehter and a normal, spirited youth

Hinata had equip days, so she used that Fritz purchased so peddler

But they had no qualms about their equipment Demon Lord Rimuru had sent them modified Spirit Bracelets that could transforh the quality of transforear did suffer as a result, it was still unique classed Why did the Demon Lord do this she did not know, but she did appreciate it

So even should the worst come to be, they would not need to rely on what they carry, and used it rather for disguise

And thus they deigned these shabby clothes and ventured onward

Oh, and they snuck into the kingdo at a cheap inn in the outskirts of town

For a whole week Hinata has not left her roos of that city

Fritz, however, is hanging around the Academy With his own eyes and ears does he study the city

Trying to figure out a way into the academy or if souests are not permitted

Except, that is, entrance into Acade supervised by Yuuki

Hinata is trying to find a way in without alerting Yuuki of her presence

During his investigation Fritz came to know a number of food distributors employed by the Acade food

The thing is, the Academy has a lot of students

They need a lot of le meal for all the students

Thus, Fritz and Hinata were able to secure work inside the Acade around the kitchen

And so another week passed As their work continued they began investigating

They had tomeals were simple they still required extensive preparation

After observing the workplace for a week they found the best time to move

If they were to deliver the meals while it was still dark surely they could snoop around and leave unseen

Over the course of the week theyspirit fay

And just as Riht spirit

Hinata heard the full story at the banquet Though she once dismissed his words as utter nonsense she now felt a duty to protect these younglings

In a way a they were her disciples too

(Clown’s note: the reason being that they are taught in a school where she was taught in, so it’s like they are her underclassmen [kouhai], but a bit more than that, because this acaderaduated” the academy she now feels responsible for them)

But she was still not satisfied with his explanation for why they were summoned

Think about it: Yuuki told Ri to su the difficulty and need for raising a new hero aside, neither Hinata nor the Church summoned the children

In other words, Yuuki must have done it

If that’s the case, why did he do it? Did he fail at suin with?

That Hinata could not understand

Both Hinata and Ri their confrontation that Yuuki was trying to pin the guilt for the su on Hinata

So that question aside, the more important one still ree of a failed su

But she felt that she had to know the reason for why he did it And who said that there were only 5 children whohts swirled inside her head causing her great anxiety

But she decided to dis a plan to rescue the children

Thus came that fateful day

Fritz finished the preparations and Hinata went off to deliver the provisions to the Acadeotten rather friendly with the grannies working there

But that thought led her to recall the fact that her current appearance is obscured by a irl

So the grannies are not talking to her, but to this red haired appearance of her This thought ely lonely

But it was not the tioods, wait for an opportunity, and proceed with Fritz to the source of that light Hinata and Fritz would move as planned

They would aiin returning ho the preirl would chat her way out instead of Hinata

The ic would only work up until she would leave the preh

Today she merely planned to talk to the children and confirer

Ten , and that would be the first step

Of course, should things turn sour she was fully ready to blast her way out

In that case, she would never again talk with those grannies…

And that thought did bother her, but it did not sway her resolve

Fritz was busy ork so she decided to head off alone

Straight for that light

She used an invisibility spell and suppressed her presence to its utmost limits to re a single sound

Her basic paraic, she ic, and slipped in without as much as a whisper

And found herself in a diht barely entered it: obvious, considering that it was still 6 am

But it was nonetheless a bizarre room There were few desks–only four

There was a door in the back, connecting to another classroom

There were some doors out in the hall, but could they really be called doors? They were locked not with keys but with n This could hardly be called a nor it all for a second, she instead turned and headed for the rooht Time was of essence, so she had to press forward

Hinata opened the door and entered

A dining table was being prepared; so she felt life inside the roo akin a bedroom partitioned off

Four futon lay there; so that’s where the kids slept

And then, Hinata unconsciously took a step back>

Had she not done so, she would have been hit by a wooden sword

「Wow… you dodged that Great! Thief?」

A voice came from a bossy child who seem to have just risen

A weak-spirited Japanese boy, a European pretty boy

And a blond pretty girl

「Why’d you co to steal here?」

「Onee-chan, who are you?」

The Japanese boy and the blond girl asked Hinata

The European child stood strong as if protecting the other kids The bossy kid stood in the back

Hinata let out a sigh and raised both hands showing she had no desire to fight