My Death Flag Shows No Sign Of Ending

Episode 4

There were some vigorous movements the next day. Mainly by two soldiers. They knew the actions Kazuki had taken the day before.

To impose a gag order on this time's plan to save Clara, thinking that it would be desirable to limit the number of people who were concerned with it, Kazuki had confirmed whether these two were people who could be trusted with confidential work, from Norman the day before.

Norman's answer was a yes. For Kazuki, it was fortunate but, it was hard to say for the soldiers. When they were called by Harold early in the morning, they headed to his room filled with trepidation thinking about exactly what they were called for, all of a sudden they were given an explanation about the plan to save the servant.

Without their understanding catching up to the situation, the one thing that was carved deeply into the hearts of the two soldiers and the coachman of the horse cart, who was called like them, was that if this plan failed and was discovered by a third party their lives would be in danger.

Therefore, one of the soldiers completed the orders given one after the other with a – hii hii.
The other one was running around the town at the same time.
The only one who was at ease was the coachman, who had no work until night.

「Ha, Harold-sama, I have bought all the goods and come back」

「Toss them into the dungeon while not being seen. After finishing that, ride the horse and confirm the route to the highway with your own eyes」

「But I still haven't brought the horse along........」

「It'll be fine if you borrow a horse from the ones in the mansion and go. However, give it an injury that arouses suspicion. Come back before it gets dark」

No mercy, precisely Spartan.
If explained why, since Kazuki himself was at his wit's end, he didn't have enough room to pay attention to his surroundings.

Confirming that the soldier had headed towards the stable, Kazuki resumed practising his magic.
The magic he was practising was the low grade magic 『Flame Column』, manifesting as a pillar of fire . The magic which was thought to be fired by Harold in the original work to kill Clara.

They actually didn't know what it was, but among the players who had watched the movie scene, 「It's probably Flame Column」 was what they had widely perceived it as, and so he decided to conform to it. Well, it was relatively inconsequential but, it couldn't be helped that it's power was weak.

At first, with embarrassment added to him thinking whether he could really use magic, he performed the chant. Surprisingly, when it succeeded in the first try, as expected, he was excited, but when he looked at it properly, it only rose up to a height of forty centimeters and its thickness was also about as small as an aluminum can.

In the original work, it had a height and thickness which could easily envelop a grown woman, and in the combat scene, it looked as though it was a pillar of fire which had a height of two to three meters .

If this body really was that of Harold Stokes, then it should also be possible for Kazuki to do it.

It wasn't as though he would burn Clara to death so, Kazuki also knew that it wasn't absolutely necessary for it to have so much firepower. Even for the actual performance, he had no intentions to activate the magic as extensively as shown in the movie scene.

That said, since he was letting Clara get away, there was no way he could show a corpse and so, he needed enough firepower to show that he had burnt her so much that not even cinders remained. For that reason, from some time ago, Kazuki was practising magic while simultaneously, leaving burn marks on the ground and tree trunks and also burning leaves. Even though it was an open location, he was still inside a forest with dense, overgrown trees. Carefully paying attention so as to not start a forest fire, he was repeating a truly boring operation.