Four days after Rimuru’s escape.
Diablo and Souei were preparing to leave the Kingdom of Ingracia.
They were in the middle of investigating all of the western countries, but as they would not be traveling through ‘teleportation,’ they decided to put it off for now.
Because of this, Souei made several ‘clones’ and sent them to each territory so that they could investigate more efficiently.
On top of that, he had also mobilized their subordinates.
“Normally, it would be better to take our time in the investigation…”
“Yes. However, we have an idea of who is behind all of this, don’t we?”
“Yes, I have an idea. I think that we would be wasting time by going to the west side. Besides, it will be troublesome, Souei.”
“I don’t agree. This is the information departments fault for being negligent and missing accurate information.”
“Hehehe. But we are not so familiar with financial issues, so I don’t think we can be blamed for not seeing how important that information was. However…”
“Well, maybe you’re right. Even if we missed it, he would have noticed it, I think.”
“Exactly. So there is no problem. If anything, there is reason to start moving now. That’s how we should look at it.”
“Yes, exactly.”
For Diablo and Souei, not being able to reach the person who was behind it all was not necessarily a problem.
This was because they were sure that as long as they identified the unnatural flow of money and figured out who or what organization was responsible, then they would eventually see who the mastermind was as well.
Rimuru’s command to them was that they remove the corruption from the academy.
So that meant they had to investigate to see which schools were corrupted and then remove any corruption they found.
Thankfully, they had not seen any sign of corruption in the Tempest Development of Human Resources Academy. And so they had concluded that they were receiving no illegal financial aid.
Of course.
Tempest was closely associated with Rimuru, and if they were known to have done something wrong, it would be a huge incident that could not be swept away as mere scandal.
As for the Ingracia Academy, only a few of the noble teachers were involved in corruption.
As it was very light, it was a level where they could deal with it themselves.
They had already made a list of these aristocrat teachers who were accepting funds, and so Souei’s clones had arrested them in order that they could trace where the money had come from.
They would use every method: power, authority, money, people, and things to push the enemy to the brink.
It was a direction that you might call a money game.
However…
Diablo believed that the money was not coming from the western countries.
The empire to the east-from those loyal to the old emperor. That was where Diablo’s suspicions lay.
And they had received a report to support it.
That morning, Moss had contacted them and told them that the situation had suddenly changed.
