Evade The Hero and Flee!

Chapter 165

Chapter 165

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Hmm

Spreading rumours around proved to be so simple.

The princess was already called the most beautiful woman in the north, after all! And our dear hero had rescued her from the clutches of an evil dragon!

This story was already burning vigorously without me doing anything to it. But not only did I pour extra fuel on it, I even fanned the flames too, so how could it not burn like crazy?

And on top of that, I joined hands with said princess and began pressuring the nobles politically, too.

We secretly uncovered their corrupted ways, made them shut their traps and turned them into our allies.

This was the technique the Imperial Princess employed to periodically rob the imperial court clean, which was basically a den of devils as far as I was concerned.

All those nobles, panicking grandly after failing to figure out how they were robbed! The technique of gradually stripping those nobles down to their undies was so stupendous that even the prince, helping us out at the Ice Cream Princesss request, was freaking out!

She thanked me for teaching a high-level technique and even rewarded me with a rather fat bonus on top, as well.

Once the high-ranked nobles got robbed blind one by one, causing them to shut their mouths, it didnt take the lower-ranked nobles that long to figure out that something was wrong, prompting them to shut their mouths as well.

The princess, satisfied by the willing silence of the nobles, borrowed the mouth of the royal court and began to whisper certain things.

-Touch my hero, and I shall kill you all.

Uwaah. Damn scary

I had experienced similar things many times in the past but the Ice Cream Princesss threat was still powerful enough to make me shudder nonetheless.

But her threat proved to be super-effective in the end!

Nobles seemed to be shocked by another side to their previously gentle and reserved princess and nodded their heads in obedience.

After capturing the minds of commoners outside the castle walls and then manipulating the nobles of the royal court to her whims, she began enticing the bards to her side next.

Those bards added even more sweetness to the tale before spreading it around, and in the end, it even reached the ears of neighbouring kingdoms as well.

Just as they were beginning to get accepted as the norths official couple, the princess followed my plan and coaxed the hero into entering the high society. In the meantime, I worked hard to create rumours and spread them around.

One week passed by like that, then another week. By then, the rumours had morphed so much that they said the couple had already performed the engagement ceremony.

Well, then. Your Highness, its time to gradually close the net.

Yes, Sir Naruan. I feel confident of our chances. The princess nodded at my suggestion, a confident smile floating up on her face.

As that boys teacher, allow me to give you this advice. Hes very adept at escaping, so you must cast a solid encirclement first before moving out to conquer him.

Although what we have in place seems adequate enough You are Sir Heros teacher and the Great Sage, so I shall take what you said to my heart, Sir Naruan.

Why, thank you.

I was still not used to the nickname of Great Sage, but for the sake of my plan, I was prepared to endure any other titles, including the likes of Great Warrior or even Great Demon King.

Well, then. I shall head out, sir!

May the fortune in war be with you, Your Highness!

The princess left the meeting room looking a bit tense. While watching her leave, my heart began racing in anticipation, wondering how my plan would pan out. I patiently waited, and then

Sir Naruan!

About three hours later

Seeing the princess rushing up to me while calling out in a high-pitched voice made me realise that my plan was successful.

How did it go, Your Highness?

I did it, sir! I feigned falling over, and Sir Hero caught me on time. But I still fell to the floor and made it seem like Sir Hero had pounced on top of me. And a lady-in-waiting co-in-cidentally walked in on us at that very moment!

Although some of those words seemed a bit excessive when coming from a princess of a kingdom, this was still all a part of my plan.

While nodding, I revealed how satisfied I was with this outcome. Perfect, Your Highness.

Yes, it is perfect!

The rumours had spread within the kingdom in such a way that only the hero and his party members were oblivious of the situation. And after tossing in such a massive bait, various fish were bound to show up sooner rather than later.

Of course, we were talking about the information network of maids and ladies-in-waiting here! Which was even faster than the empires intelligence bureau when transmitting information! Apparently.FiNd updates on

Of course, this information network could be rather destructive, too. Thats because, when a story gets passed from one person to another in the network, itd gain a new aspect, a new flesh.

When the first witness starts the rumour by saying, So and so were holding hands~, those words would eventually morph into, So and so were already married and even have a child together~ by the time it came around back to the first witness. Thats how destructive this network was.

But then again, you could say that relying on it was the best decision to make in our current situation!

In that case, let us move on to the next stage of the plan, Your Highness.

Yes, lets!

The princess was already heavily relying on me thanks to my blinding achievements. Thats why she paid close attention to my advice and continued to carry out the plan.

And in the end

Im sorry? Instructor, what do you mean by engagement?

But, my disciple? The rumour has spread to all corners of the kingdom by now.

I stepped up personally to land the checkmate.

What are you even talking about, instructor?!

Uh-huh could it be that youre trying to back out of it?

I almost laughed out loud at the flustered face of the hero, but my poker face with the proficiency level at MAX didnt allow that to happen.

But instructor, I never stepped forward in the first place, so how can I back out of whatever this is?!

-Too bad, only my master is capable of doing something like that, though!

-Hmm. Well, I certainly am confident of escaping from a castle like this one!

I had already prepared an escape route in case something unexpected happened. But unlike me, the hero wasnt used to situations like this and as a result, his response looked amateurish.

Since time immemorial, a hero as an existence could transform overnight. Thats why I should eliminate one while his response still remained amateurish!

As your teacher, Im quite gutted by the fact that you are acting so irresponsibly like this.

It was right at that moment that the hero shot me a glare with an expression saying, What the f*ck are you saying, dude?! Morals! Where did you abandon your damn morals!

However, I chose to ignore him altogether.

Your Highness. Please give me some time to think it over.

I shall, Sir Hero.

In the end, the hero had to tuck his tail firmly between his legs, then begged the princess to give him time to think it over. The princess readily consented to his request.

But thats because this hunting ground had been laid out perfectly. She knew that the hero would never escape from here.

Oh, how foolish of you, Sir Hero! Dont you know that the longer you dither about, the worse itd get for you!

Thats what I was thinking while tasting the sweetness of victory.

Just like a third-rate villain who let his guard down against the hero still hiding a final triumph card!

#7 Their circumstances: A certain heros circumstance.

Sir Hero, this

Yes, I know. My instructor mustve had a hand in this. And his end goal is to

Currently, everyone except Hill had left the room. He was trying to tell me his opinion regarding this matter, but I had already realised everything by now.

Flee from us.

I agree

Never in a million years would I have imagined that the instructor could cook up a plan like this one. To think that hed entangle me with the princess and prevent me from going after him!

This was a marriage to a princess of a kingdom we were talking about. She should have received training in various disciples from a young age, so she might have some basic combat prowess. Even so, itd be a tall order for her to join the heros adventures.

As such, Id end up remaining in the Neidon Kingdom after marrying the princess like a son-in-law living with his in-laws.

That would definitely prevent me from travelling with the instructor. And hed utilise his particular set of techniques polished to perfection to make an utter fool of the replacement hero and flee.

I was confident about this. Confident that the only hero in this entire world equipped with the necessary tracking skills to locate the instructor was me and me alone.

That only I could successfully chase after my instructor and capture him!

Without me, at least one-third of the worlds religious organisations would have come together to monitor my instructor every single day.

Sir Hero, should I try to change Her Highnesss mind?

Nah. Shes already on my instructors side by now.

I couldnt be sure what the instructor said to convince the princess, but judging from her behaviour earlier, she would not be willing to give up on the marriage.

Sure, she was beautiful enough to rank as one of the top beauties I have encountered so far, but

Whenever I was with her, it felt like Should I say that an ominous chill ran down my skin as if I was a frog frozen before a poisonous snake?

There was something about her that made me instinctively want to distance myself from her.

A good way to overcome this crisis

I bit my lower lip so hard that blood began pooling inside my mouth.

Wasnt this one of No.17s old habits?

Ah!

The moment No.17s face floated up in my mind, I thought up a way to deal with this situation.

Sir Hero, did you think of a way?

Yes, I did. All we gotta do is to run away.

But will that be as easy as it sounds?

Yes, if the most qualified expert in that field helps us!

My instructor was the master of escape. The most dominant nation on the continent, Karuan Empire, threw everything and then some to capture him, yet he still managed to outwit them.

Someone like him would find it very easy to escape the encirclement of a small kingdom like this one.

But will Sir Narual even help us?

Never. But we need to create a situation where he needs to combine forces with us to escape!

The instructor told me something this one time. He said that todays enemy could turn into tomorrows ally and vice versa.

In order to survive, one must know how to properly differentiate enemies from your allies. But one still shouldnt forget the possibilities of enemies becoming your allies or vice versa, he said!

Hill, can you deliver a letter tomorrow? Without anyone finding out, and as quickly as possible, too!

High-ranking priests of our order are still in town, so it should be possible, Sir Hero.

And so, I wrote up a letter and handed it over to Hill.

[To: Mirua.

I found him. I found the instructor.

From: Your classmate, No.1.]

And just like that, I ended up playing my best hand against the instructors best hand.