“He’s in the study.”

In response to the serious reply from the secretary, Ambh’s boldly protruding lips slightly retracted.

It meant that her father hadn’t just passed on the work and left in a hurry but was also trapped together in the deluge of pouring documents.

So, while Ambh’s desired investigation into the missing servant was postponed, she remained buried in paperwork for quite some time.

At the sound of the knocking, Ambh, with a brighter face than usual, raised her head towards the door and shouted, “Come in!”

However, contrary to the expectation that the door would open soon, it didn’t budge at all, so Ambh unconsciously leaned her body forward.

“Excuse me. Miss of Taren.”

And then, from an entirely unexpected place, came a completely unfamiliar voice.

No, she would have stood up, but instead, she banged her knees hard against the desk.

If Ambh had known that the bandage wrapped around Olivia’s foot was intended to cover severe bruises caused by something like what she had just experienced, Ambh would have shown a tearful smile, finding common ground with the princess.

However, without knowing this fact and only receiving an unexpected and excruciating pain, Ambh remained hunched over the documents, groaning.

“Um, there… Are you okay?”

It took some time for Ambh to answer that question.

While clutching her skirt, trembling legs, and groaning, Ambh, having barely raised her head, confirmed the unfamiliar person who had entered the study.

The man who tried to take her away when they fled from the Norden Kingdom.

The one who serves the princess, and whose name is surely…

“Isaac?”

“It’s Akindel, but you can call me Isaac.”

Shrugging his shoulders as if it weren’t a big deal, Isaac, while Ambh with a wrinkled forehead full of doubt, nodded with teardrops
An entirely unexpected reaction came back. Ambh, still in awe, didn’t stop with just an exclamation.

“Can you teach me how you did it? If you can come in, you can also go out, right? If you can handle Tarenzer like this, you can handle almost anywhere! If I learn, I could too…”

“No. Absolutely not.”

Before Ambh finished her sentence, Isaac cut off the rest of her words with a firm denial.

Even though Isaac had prepared the next words to be able to counteract whatever forced logic this rare and noble person in front of him might come up with about the fact that ‘it can’t be done,’ Ambh gracefully retreated.

“I see.”

Confronted with unexpected reactions in succession, Isaac momentarily lost his words, and Ambh, with an innocent face, casually asked, “So, what brings you here?”

Even in response to her question, there was neither blame nor suspicion about his unauthorized intrusion.

It wasn’t even a role to point out why the wrong person should step forward and not accuse.

Thinking that those who serve me, the princess, and even the successor of Taren, who serves that person, are all strange individuals, and the old saying that such people gather together is indeed true, Isaac, who thought he was involved in the ‘together,’ decided to faithfully answer Ambh’s question.

He slightly covered the fact that he was involved in the ‘together.’

“You mentioned a missing servant…”

Listening with a keen interest to Isaac’s explanation, Ambh slammed the documents down and exclaimed, “Two out of three people in a love triangle disappearing or dying! This is… huh? This is…”

Ambh abruptly stopped speaking, struck by a sudden change.

Isaac, who had a sin of causing this abrupt change, looked at her cautiously, licked the dry corner of his mouth, and then opened his mouth again.

“Is there any suspicion?”

This time, the expectation that even the ‘mu’ of unauthorized intrusion would come out was nicely avoided.

“A murder case involving several men and women tied up together. I don’t think ancient gods will be involved in such a matter.”

Having heard that much, Isaac decided to ignore the unauthorized intrusion himself and replied.

“Isn’t that better? The possibility of assassination is completely eliminated since it’s an incident unrelated to the princess. It’s an ordinary event that can pass by without any issues.”

In response to Isaac’s extremely sensible words, Ambh nodded.

“I wanted to help the princess. Honestly, I have no idea how to approach gods or magicians. My father strongly insisted that if I see a magician, I should run away, so there must be somewhere I can catch their tail.”

“Ah…”

In response to Isaac’s logical words, Ambh nodded this time.

“The story I just told is just my speculation, and the incident is not over, so the possibility is still open.”

“But it sounds too plausible.”

“You need to deduce the facts based on clues, not fit the facts based on predictions. My predictions are just predictions, and it’s to prioritize the investigation targets to find clues.”
Isaac didn’t understand his own long explanation, but as the slightly sulking Ambh’s face gradually brightened, he couldn’t help but keep his mouth shut.