The Devil Does Not Need to Be Defeated

go.  

 

Something major happened with the Capital then.  

 

The [Assassination Branch] of the Old Demon Faction infiltrated the Capital and begun a massacre.  

 

Originally, this shouldn’t have been possible.  

 

 

The Capital is covered by a very high leveled barrier.  It’s basically impossible for demons to get into the Capital without anyone noticing.  

 

Even if they did have a very powerful spatial magic user, allowing them to pierce the barrier, there’s no way that they could have brought so many people past the barrier without raising all kinds of alarms.  

 

At most, the mage might be able to enter the Capital themselves or maybe destroy the barrier around the Capital.  

 

However, the Palace will definitely notice the moment the barrier is destroyed and proceed to fight back in a frontal battle.  With the strength of the National Knight Order and the Royal Knights, even thousands of Old Demon Faction will be able to do nothing more than be defeated.  

 

However, what happened instead was the worst possible case.  

 

Thousands of Old Demon Faction assassins manged to infiltrate the Capital without anyone being the wiser.  

 

The reason this happened was simple.  

 

They had someone working with them from the inside.  

 

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Someone within the Capital was working with them.  

 

And that person is very highly placed within the Capital.  

 

That person was the girl’s mother.  

 

“What did you say?”  

 

When he head Diere’s words, Shien was flabbergasted.  

 

In response, Diere was utterly indifferent.  

 

“You didn’t mishear.”  Diere spoke indifferently, “It’s that mother who worked with those of the [Assassination Branch].”  

 

“Why?”  Shien spoke somewhat disbelievingly, “Is she a demon race spy or something?”  

 

“Of course not.”  Diere denied as she continued on calmly, “You know the status of the Arbin family.  Thus, the wife for the next head of the family must also come with quite the status as well.  Given that, how could she possibly be a demon spy?”  

 

Since her status is very high, there shouldn’t be any reason for her to act like a dog of the Old Demon Faction, right?  

 

At least unless she’s being threatened or if there are other advantages for her in doing so.  

 

That mother that Diere referred to did it because of the later reason.  

 

“Do you know why that mother never looked at her own daughter as anything like a daughter, but rather as something extraneous that never should have appeared?”  Diere spoke self-deprecatingly, “It’s because that mother never married out of her own will.  Instead, she only married in as a pawn that the noble of a bordering nation tried to place into the palace.”  

 

“Neighboring nation?”  

 

Shien was stunned.  

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“That’s right.”  Diere spoke coldly, “She’s a noble daughter of the Ragna Empire to the north.”  

 

The Ragna Empire is a country directly neighboring the Mitra Kingdom.  

 

In the past, the two nations have had wars against each other.  

 

Although, in the end, the two ended up making a non-aggression treaty and stopped warring, there is a particular saying that pertains very well to the situation:  The war didn’t disappear, it was just kept below the surface.  

 

That country’s people were still gazing hungrily at the Kingdom.  That’s why they’d marry their own noble daughter over.  On the surface, they claimed it to be a political marriage for reconciliation and peace, but in reality, it’s to use her as a spy to gather information and secrets of the Kingdom and to act as needed.  

 

In other words, that mother never considered herself an Arbin.  Instead, her heart had always belonged to her home nation – The Ragna Empire.  

 

For such a person, the existence of the girl is only a “thing” born out of her sacrifice in completing her job, not family that she should have any feeling toward.  

 

Never mind the fact that the girl has the blood of the enemy nation’s nobility, so there’s no way said mother would acknowledge her.  

 

Just like that, the mother who was foreign spy received orders from the Empire and, in order to cause chaos in the Capital and weaken her enemy nation, she secretly let the [Assassination Branch] into the Capital.  

 

And in the end, the girl’s father discovered this matter.  

 

In the end, that father chose justice over all else and, right before the girl’s eyes, personally chopped off her mother’s head.  

 

 Thus, the girl was considered the sinner’s descendant and was met with the hatred of other nobles.  

She was also completely rejected by her clan and, in the end, left that family.  

 

This is that girl’s – Diere Arbin’s story.