Reincarnated into a Game As the Hero’s Friend

Chapter 55

The early morning next day. The sky is clear. As expected the punctual Mazell brought his companions here on time. I, the person that actually lived in the mansion, is the one that came last. I was fighting with the documents until late at night.

After everyone has assembled, the maid Tirulla pours us tea since its still early morning even though Ive eaten breakfast. This is Elrichs first time tasting this tea, but it seems like he liked it. As for Felix, he, as always, kept adding sugars into his tea.

Well done, everyone.

You too, Welner.

The plan and the equipment you told us to bring really helped us.

You were spot on when you suggested that entering the fortress from its toilets would be the most discreet way to proceed.

Frenssen is also present here, so I introduced everyone to Frenssen. After that I asked Mazell, Luguentz, Elrich, and Feli who had made a contribution to recapture Veritza Fortress to share their experience.

Feli said he just casually joined the battle in Hildea Plain and Veritza Fortress while laughing. Only Elrich is convinced by Felis words.

That being said, in the game Feli is supposed to join Mazells party after the battle in Veritza Fortress so theres a slight discrepancy between the game and the reality. Well, thats not a problem. For now, I need to verify the specifics of the battle first.

Im glad I can help. As for the equipment, you can use it for now . Also there are some things that I need to verify

What I wanted to verify is the appearance of that idiot, I mean, that eldest son of Marquis Knap, Magold. I thought he might be among the soldiers of death that fought the kingdoms army in Hildea Plain, but apparently no one has seen him in that battle

I thought someone would definitely see him or at least his corpses in the Veritza Fortress.

At least, I dont think I saw someone wearing noble-like clothes.

Yeah, me too.

I also told them his physical features (Ive only saw him for few seconds so I also cant provide too much detail though) but no one here saw someone like him. But then again, its impossible to expect Mazells party to have seen the face of every single enemys soldiers in the battlefield.

That guy, is he dead or alive?

Is he bothering you that much? Mazell asked me.

Yeah, I got a strange feeling about his disappearance.

I actually wont be bothered about him if he was confirmed to be dead like a fool he is, but the fact that even his corpse cant be found is strange. But well, since I had already entrusted Frenssen to investigate this, I can put this problem for later.

I will investigate this on my own. Now, lets hear your story.

Ok.

After saying that, I listened to their story about fighting at the Veritza Fortress. As expected, Dreax is a living armor. Because of that, they apparently had a bit of struggle.

Rather than Dreax, I was more interested in the Veritza Fortressss dungeon mid-boss..

So there was another mage in the fortress?

Not only did we find that there was another mage, we also found that in total there were 3 devils, excluding the Demon General.

I frowned at Luguentzs remark. 3? There were only 2 random encounter monsters in the Veritza Fortress dungeon.

While seeing me lost in my thoughts as I tried to recall the game, Mazell said, One of them was killed in the Hildea Plain battle and another one was killed in in front of the stairs leading to the third floor of Veritza Fortress.

This part is the same as the game. The difference is the third devils. It seems like right before entering the lord of Fortress Dreaxs room, Feli heard Dreax say, When that time comes, please help me.

What? That kind of scene didnt exist in the game, or rather, how can Dreax, the honorable Demon Generals, request someone for help?

No wait, maybe Dreax was asking for help from his subordinates? I mean I also often asked Max and other peoples help. But thats still strange. From what I know, all 3 Demons Generals are haughty. For that kind of Demon General to be asking someone for help?

It seems like theres been a drastic change compared to the game that I knew. Maybe it was because Felix joined Mazells party earlier than the game? I dont know. Is there any more difference compared to the game? Lets find that out first.

But when you entered the room, there was only the Demon General, right?

Actually, there were also two skeleton warriors and one living armour guarding the Demon General. None of them can converse.

So that part is the same as the game. Hmm that means there was another devil that escaped from that room. No, since this mysterious devil didnt participate in the battle, I cant really said he escaped

Got it. Have you all reported this to the palace?

Yeah, weve done that.

Although it might be useless to think about that mysterious devil, trying to remember about it wont do me any harm. This world has gradually deviated from the games story so I should be extra careful.

Anything else?

Hmm Ah! We found a black gem.

I was the one who found it! Said Felix with a smug face.

Hm black gem?

The same black gem that you found in the possession of the demon outbreak (Stampede)s mastermind?

Yeah, though the shape was a little bit different.

That black game is also something I never found in the game. Does that mean theres really something in this reality that causes all these changes? If so, what?

Whats it like?

Hmm It was about this big.

Mazell gestured with this hand. So the black game is about 2 times smaller than a fist. Its pretty large.

The whole gem is black. It gives out this kind of bizarre and unpleasant feeling.

Bizzare, huh. Can I take a look at the actual gem?

Sorry, weve already turned it into the kingdom.

I see. Thats a shame.

It will be better if I can see the gem myself. Well, theres no need to rush. I can just send a request to the palace to see it.

Elrich has been silent in the whole conversation, but he finally said, By the way, I heard there is something you wish to show us?

Ah, right. Let us talk about that next.

I always reflexively talk with Elrich politely [1] How should I put it? He always exudes the air of an amazing and competent man.

(Note: Welner always uses polite Japanese with Elrich, even in this conversation, while before when he was talking with Mazell he used casual Japanese.)

T/N:

Hi, everyone, Nisarah is here! So I have some information regarding sundays announcement of info dump trimming:

We will not be trimming down any information which is remotely important to the storyline so please dont worry. I mean, I, personally, also liked the info dump (Otherwise I wont translating this novel, right?) and I also think that the info dump is one of the charm of this story,

The reason why we made a decision to trim some info dump is because we are currently facing a very issue because of infodumps. Unlike website, we cant provide skip buttons on patreon as patreon doesnt offer that function. In other word, if someone is reading on patreon and wants to skip the infodumps, s/he cant do that. We are trying to strike balance between both types of readers. We have even purchased the LN of this novel and used that as a guide to trim down the infodumps.  We will keep the info dump heavy feeling of this novel, but at the same time, not letting it become overwhelming. While In all senses, this change is going to increase our workload in many way (especially our editor Fleeting and Nyx, praise editor-sama!) but this is the best we can do. Let us know what you think. Thank you.