As Ruelra looked at Kite’s increasingly bizarre appearance, she chuckled.

At that level, even if Viscount Gart were looking directly at them, he would surely not recognize them.

In the game, she had transformed for fun a few times and found this utility in the mask that had been stuck in the warehouse.

Ruelra straightened her shoulders and confidently moved her steps.

She had felt it before, but compared to the royal city, there were fewer guards.

Except for the two armored knights in front of the castle gate and those guarding around the banquet hall where the party was held, there seemed to be no guards elsewhere.

“I understand now why they don’t want to have parties in the Royal Castle. I felt it when I went to Duke Kuran’s residence before, but there are no guards.”

“That’s true. At that time, Duke Kuran might have thought that he had nothing to fear since he had the power to create and control monsters, but I didn’t expect it to be the same all the way to the king’s residence.”

They stood in the shade of the dark garden, visible only in the dim light.

Except for two knights in armor in front of the main gate, there were no other guards to be found.

“What should we do? It seems difficult to sneak in.”

In response to Kite’s question, Ruelra spoke confidently with a self-assured face.

“What’s there to worry about? Dealing with those two won’t be a problem at all. We’ll subdue them by force, set the teleport location inside, and then teleport.”

“Knocking them out?”

“No. They are witnesses who can tell others what we looked like. What do you think? Can we handle those two and get inside?”

Kite smiled as if to say not to worry and started running ahead.

“Reveal your identity!”

Upon discovering Kite running towards them, the guards, with tense expressions, raised their long spears to block the entrance and asked who they were, not allowing them to enter.

However, Kite didn’t answer; instead, he sequentially punched each of them in the jaw.

Despite hitting them with the least amount of force possible, the people who received the blows couldn’t even make a sound and collapsed to the ground.

“Oh no, did they faint?”

Looking down at the guards who had been hit and fallen, Kite muttered with a perplexed expression.

“I told you to go easy.”

“I did go easy. Having dealt only with monsters, I forgot that humans are such weak beings.”

Ruelra lowered her head and entered while saying, “Let’s teleport after marking the location. Originally, I was going to mark and return right away, but since we’ve knocked them out, let’s go further inside.”

“Should we?”

Ruelra and Kite casually headed toward the interior of the castle as if they were out for a stroll.

“This is the side of Duke Kuran’s residence.”

As Kite pointed to the left, Ruelra murmured as she shifted her steps towards the main hall visible in front of her.

“Inside, there seem to be no ordinary people or guards. Since this side looks like the main building, let’s go in and head towards Duke’s residence.”

Nodding, Kite positioned Ruelra behind him.

Then, carefully placing his foot forward, they walked inside the corridor as if taking a leisurely walk.
Even though there were no visible people, entering the nature where the king stays naturally made them feel tense.

After walking for a while, they came across a small hall-like place. The moment they entered, a commoner coming down from the second floor noticed the two.

“Who goes there!”

As the commoner shouted, Ruelra, who had just taken off the hood of the cloak she was wearing, revealed her face, making a fierce expression.

“Aaah, monsters, monsters! Monsters have infiltrated the royal city!”

With the commoner screaming, doors opening and closing, and footsteps echoing from all around, Ruelra said, “I’ve set the teleport. Run. Now, after teleporting once more in front of the Duke’s chamber, we’re done.”

Because they didn’t know what might happen later, they planned to teleport to two difficult-to-enter places in the royal city.

Namely, into the nature and into Duke Kuran’s chamber.

“Let me show my face too.”

Kite, as Ruelra did, took off the hood and exposed his face.

“Aaah!”

The commoner fell backward, struggling to move back while screaming.

Seeing that, Kite grabbed Ruelra’s hand, and they started running outside.

“Over here, it seems to lead to the Duke’s chamber, doesn’t it?”

Pointing to a small garden in the middle of the corridor, Kite immediately turned in that direction.

They passed through the garden and climbed back up to the building. Looking at both entrances, they saw the thin curtain swaying on the left that they had seen before.

“It seems to be the opposite side of where we went in.”

In other words, the entrance to Duke Kuran’s chamber was connected to the gardens of both the nature and the main chamber of the castle.

“There they are!”

Turning around, they saw people from the main chamber pointing at them across the garden, yelling.

“Come this way. Let’s go inside, set the teleport, and use the return.”

There were large columns standing at intervals in the corridor.