"Free City... Lanarita..."
"Based on the clues, they should be somewhere near this city!"
Sword Saint Kureha arrived at Lanarita's gates. As she looked at the city before her, her eyes held confusion, incomprehension, and a trace of unease...
She simply could not understand how the Heroes she had seen as so upright could be spies for an enemy nation.
They had shown no gratitude for His Majesty's favor! Instead, they had killed the Princess, burned down the palace, and even attacked His Majesty.
Remembering her time with those two Heroes, she found it difficult to believe such a thing. Yet the evidence lay right before her. Only Heroes could attack Heroes. The two Princesses had vanished without a trace, their fate unknown.
Rita and Bianka had also fled in fear of punishment...
Even the Bow Hero, who had pursued them, had met with an accident.
One fact after another lay before her, along with the Empire's mocking accusations. Especially since she had defended the two at the beginning, some had even assumed she had known all along and was one of their accomplices.
If she had not been a descendant of the prestigious Clyret family, as well as the strongest Sword Saint in history, she might have been branded a traitor as well.
Kureha did not care about the slander from those in the Imperial Capital! She only wanted to uncover the truth. Even if every piece of evidence proved that their claims were true, she still wanted to confront them face-to-face.
Too many incidents had occurred recently, plunging the Empire into no small amount of trouble! It was not merely the attack on the Emperor several months ago—the demon race had also undergone earth-shaking changes.
The previous Demon Lord had been rather brutal, fiercely xenophobic and aggressive! He