Under the influence of the increasingly sinister atmosphere, the gazes crisscrossing among them gradually changed as well.
Aside from Rivi and Alice, the two children with little guile, everyone else had come to some realizations.
Megumin and Darkness both understood that someone in this kingdom wished them harm, and that person was part of the country's upper echelons—quite possibly a powerful noble.
Though Logcraft appeared calm all along, he had actually been targeting them from the very beginning.
Even Aqua had noticed it.
This useless Goddess only ever showed a hint of sharpness when there was no need for it. It was genuinely impossible to make fun of her for it.
In the end, it was Megumin, whose patience was not particularly good, who directly ignited the sinister atmosphere.
"Say, could it be that someone in your country can't stand the thought of us taking the support funds, so they attacked us?"
Just like that, Megumin neatly pushed both sides into open hostility.
"...I do not believe any noble in our country would do such a thing."
Logcraft stated this expressionlessly, but unlike the somewhat substantiated speculation from before, those words were now completely baseless.
"I believe the nobles of this country should at least be thoroughly investigated to find the despicable culprit who attacked Princess Alice in secret. Otherwise, as an allied nation, we of the Belzerg Kingdom would not wish for this meeting to develop into a diplomatic issue."
Darkness argued as such, her words and manner filled with the loyalty of one protecting the person she served.
And if their exchange had merely been a clash of words, Aqua's next statement directly offended the other side beyond repair.
"I've thought you were strange for a while now. You must be the one secretly raising these monsters, including