Me and Arsya, we chatted in the meeting room about the possibilities of the one who is responsible for this incident. Rudy and Arsya already realized that soon they will go out from this city they will be blamed as one of the people who released the beast, though isn't directly, Rudy is the one who gave Arugos Kingdom expedition team permission so it can't be helped.
"Oh by the way master, why did you not tell Rudy about this? Why did you only tell me?"
Arsya then asked me.
What she says is right, there's no point in telling her only about what in my mind, I have my reason why I didn't tell Rudy about this. Then I answer her
"Hmmmmm, isn't like I don't want to tell him, I will tell him later, but it just… I thought if I tell him about this there will be more burden for him, I'm sure he has so many burdens to thinking about, like the safety of people in this city, the adventure, his family, the soldier, and the burden of losing the city, there's too much responsibility that Rudy have, I'm afraid that it will break him so that's why as much as I can I want to help him and telling you this to lightened his burden"
I'm worried about Rudy, I don't know why… but I see the resemblance of Andrian inside him, someone who I can call my best friend in the past, I regard Rudy too as someone who I can call best friend. He listens to all of the burdens in my heart and he even makes me changed a little bit and makes me open my heart to others, he even believed in me like all the people from Vega village even though I just meet him not long ago he still chose to believe me. Arsya too believes in me, maybe if she is in Rudy's position I will still worried about her.
When Arsya hears my answer she then smiled. Her smile is full of relief and happiness emotion, I just thought that maybe she is happy because there's someone else besides her who worries about him. She then laughs a little
"Hahaha you don't need to worry about it master, we already have rigorous training back in the village, this is nothing. And we even can abandon this city if you want it master and we already ready for anything as long as you master, and the village is okay we can abandon anything."
It makes me surprise, to think that she can say it casually that they can abandon the city, did you not care about this town or the people in this town? Rudy, Jade, and Arsya, the three of them they have similarities they only have their mind on me and the village it really scary how devout they are to me, it's scary how blind they're…
But…
"But… we hope… No, more like, we believe our master isn't someone who likes to abandoned people who is in trouble or even killing people without any reason, we believe you're someone who is kind and bring happiness to all people and someone kind and care about anything around him… we believe in him"
What Arsya said is really shock me, I realized.
Ah… I see now… It looks like I'm wrong, I realized it now how can it took me so long to realize it? I'm so stupid... They're not someone who is blind from what they believe or someone who believes just because they have the dream. Rudy, Jade, Arsya, The Elders, Master Aira, and all of the villagers aren't someone like that, they're believe in me because they believe that I'm someone that will bring the change in their life and someone who can they admire, they believe that I will not harm them, their family or the village, they believe that someone who they call master is someone who is kind and care to all of the people
Hahaha, I'm really stupid, all this time I believe that the reason why they call me master is that they have blind faith in the dream that they have. They put that dream as the hope for them and tried to believe it, they tried to believe that what the story in the dream is true and what the woman said in their dream is true, isn't that they will believe it immediately but 'they tried' to believe in it because they put their hope in that dream.
I smiled to hear it from Arsya, I was really happy to know what they feel about me.
"Yeah, you're right. Thank you for believing in me"
Somehow I feel ashamed of how immature I am. It looks like I must reevaluate myself before I judge someone, I must change my way of look at villager at Vega Village. And I feel embarrassed too when Arsya said she believes in me like that, it is the first time someone said it to me.
"Oh, by the way, Master, about Alcott… and your suspicion, what should we do? Should I tell it to Rudy and the official?"
Oh back to the topic are we? Well, I want to talk about that too.
"No, you can tell them later, it will be too late if you told them now, for now, I have a plan for Alcott situation"
I showed Arsya my mischievous smile. I have been thinking about it when the first time I feel something weird from Alcott's story.
"Ooooo you already have a plan? As expected of master Galen"
You don't need to praise me Arsya, it's just a coincidence that the situation like this, and I have an idea that fits this situation.
"Haha, you're too much praising me. Let get back to the topic, shall we?"
"Okay"
We begin to talk about the plan that I prepared for this kind of time, my plan is to clean Alcott's name and to lure the culprit behind Alcott team if there's someone who controlling Alcott from behind.
"My plan is to clear Alcott name so we didn't have any suspicion on him and lured the one behind Alcott team"
I begin to talk About my plan.
"First I want to move Alcott to another room, but when we move him from the room I want you, Arsya, to use sleep magic on him so he didn't wake up and second I want you to use illusion magic on Alcott room before we moved him, used the pillow so that pillow become Alcott and if you can, please use high ranked illusion magic so that it can deceive every one who came into that room"
I want to deceive the enemy if there's someone who is behind Alcott team. Arsya began to think about my plan, she looks at me with a serious expression. Arsya then not long after I told her about my plan she already gets a grasp of my objective.
"I understand now master"
She is really fast to understand same as Rudy, two of them are really clever.
"You want to use Alcott as bait, right? Because you said before if there's someone who pulls the string behind him, you believe that person will appear in this kind of time when all the people are busy with preparing for the flood since that person want to eradicate all evidence and witness, you believe not long after this that person will appear in Alcott room right?"
What quick thinking, in a short time like this she already know what I want, as expected of secretary guild Conrad city.
"Yeah, that's right. If there's someone who pulls string behind him and wants to kill Alcott, then we can rest assured that Alcott isn't the one who is behind the string. With this, we can capture that person and clear Alcott name from our suspicion"
I give Arsya the detail about my plan and answer her question about why she is the most compatible in this mission.
"Did you understand why I prefer to borrow you than Rudy and Jade?"
"Yeah I understand now"
She replied to me. Then I give her more detailed information.
"I have already seen Rudy power and how he fights from when he protects the people in the lobby, what I see he is someone who fights with utilize magic and using that magic to manipulation everything around him, and I bet he is a specialist in a fight with magic, he is midrange type and long-range fighter, though I don't know if he can be a close-range fighter or not"
Basically, Rudy is a magician.
"As for jade…well, I didn't need to say it thought… he is a close-range type with a destruction and brutal power, I already see her using her power and her magic when I was having a race with her, for me she is not suited for this mission"
"Yeah you're right master"
Arsya agreeing with me.
"And you, Arsya, from the skill and magic that you used to call me and to sneak… I believe you're someone who fights using all advantages that you can. Your magic power isn't exceeded Rudy and your power isn't exceeded jade, you're someone who fights utilizes the enemy's weakness, and that fighting style is very much suited for the assassin like you, am I right?"
That's my valuation of the three of them, I already saw how they used their power and I believe all my valuation is right.
"As expected… yeah, you're right. I'm most suited for this job"
She smiled and admitted it. My valuation is right, well, it's really oblivious thought if you are observed them from the first time you meet them. Arsya then asked me.
"But Rudy can fit that job too you know… ah, yeah, I forgot you don't want to burden him…"
It looks like she remembers my reasoning.
"Hmm I have a feeling that somehow maybe Rudy know about it"
Thought it just my speculation but I believe he must somehow have a vague idea about this.
"Oh, and Arsya can you teach me your concealment magic?"
From my perspective, Arsya is the only one that I know that can use the best concealment magic more than anyone.
"I don't mind, but why do you need it?"
She asked me curiously.
"I will be the one who catches the culprit, oh, and Arsya you will be standby from outside the building, use you concealment magic to hide behind the building and when someone out from the window, even if it's me… attack it but without any critical attack, you can attack his hand or feet to slow down that person, our objective is to capture that person"
My plan then begins.