Demon Lord's Domain–Town of Noza Joint Investigation Team Operates in Secret (1)

──A few days earlier. In a forest near the border──

"Why has no one returned yet!?"

Prince Ricardo shouted.

Several days had passed since the operation began.

During that time, the prince had sent the First Unit to Princess Sophia and the Second Unit to the trading post in the border region, respectively. They were looking for information about the 'box.'

But──

"This is strange. It is strange that not a single person has returned. What is going on!?"

"Please calm down, Prince Ricardo."

"You are the Imperial investigation unit serving the imperial family, are you not!? And yet you have committed such a blunder──"

"The Emperors of past generations remained calm even in unforeseen circumstances."...