After scrounging a meal from Theocracy, Iri thought to herself that it was just so-so, completely incomparable to what Nazarick offered, and then wanted to smoothly roll back to the room arranged for her to rest.
Too much had happened today, mainly the demise of Gazef, although it was a bit inappropriate for Iri to say it now, as Iri had even taken his magical ring.
Iri had considered whether she could keep Gazef before; Father Ainz originally didn't want to kill him and also wanted to recruit him as a subordinate, but Gazef was too much of a man and completely cut off his own retreat, even refusing to be resurrected.
It was truly regrettable that he used his death to secure the future of a nation rotten to its core, but then again! Since he had already put on the anti-corrosion ring that Iri had specifically asked Crown Prince Pandora to make for this purpose, there would always be a chance for him to be resurrected in the future.
Although Gazef had said he was unwilling to be resurrected, the dead have no right of refusal, and Father Ainz also said that low-level resurrection magic couldn't revive him... so what about high-level?
Hmmph! If Iri could learn high-level resurrection in the future, she would revive him if she had the chance!
Iri walked towards her room, pondering Gazef's issue.
Uh... Iri felt like she had forgotten something crucial? Never mind, Iri decided to sleep on it and deal with it after waking up, just as she made up her mind, she was called by Gelos from behind.
"So, Clementine... what did you see on the battlefield of Katz Plains?" Gelos asked with a serious expression.
Iri, who had intended to return to her room to rest, was pulled by Gelos to a private reception room behind the chapel. Upon seeing the other members already waiting there, Iri finally remembered what she had forgotten earlier.
"..." Iri didn't answer him directly but silently bit her lip and gripped her elbow, feigning an unwillingness to talk about what she had seen, of course... it was an act.
Seeing Iri's unwillingness to speak, everyone could understand her, after all, seeing such a terrifying monster at such close range, but wasn't it her own fault? She had been stopped at the time, but she had insisted on going to her death.
"Alright then... did you see Gazef Stroganov?" Gelos changed his question. No wonder Clementine hadn't mentioned a word about the Katz Plains incident along the way; it turned out she was traumatized, Gelos thought.
"I saw him, but only his corpse," Iri replied.
"Corpse? Do you mean Gazef Stroganov is dead?" Gelos's expression brightened instantly. He had thought this mission would fail, but now one part of the mission was complete, and he had even gotten the grand prize, "Clementine."
"Yes, when I approached, I already saw the target, Gazef Stroganov, lying on the ground," Iri nodded in confirmation.
"You didn't confirm?" Gelos continued to press, but Iri didn't even need to answer this question.
"How could little sister Clementine confirm in that situation?" Regal, the axe-wielding uncle, answered for Iri.
Anyone with half a brain would know, there was such a huge little goat on the battlefield, wouldn't getting close get her trampled? Iri thought, how could you even ask such a question.
"But I did confirm, Gazef Stroganov is indeed dead," Iri said quietly, then unfastened another small bundle from her waist. Everyone was curious about Iri's action.
"I confirmed when I took Gazef Stroganov's equipment," Iri untied the bundle, revealing a gauntlet and an amulet inside.
"These are? The Kingdom's Secret Treasures?" Gelos's eyes widened, completely unexpected that Clementine in front of him had even snatched the equipment.
"Probably? I don't know either, I just followed what you told me before, armor, amulet, weapon, and gauntlet, right? In that situation, I only managed to get these two items, the others were truly impossible. The young man in silver armor and the seaweed head were a bit formidable, and the Great Demon hadn't gone far, I was afraid of complications, so I only managed to snatch these two pieces," Iri said.
In fact, Iri didn't really snatch Gazef's equipment; the Kingdom's four secret treasures were still in the Kingdom's possession. As for the two items in Iri's hand, they were actually just similar-effect equipment found in the trash heap of Nazarick's treasury.
Earlier, after receiving information from Tia that the Black Scripture wanted to snatch Gazef's equipment, Iri had kept a trick up her sleeve and immediately went to Crown Prince Pandora. First, she asked Pandora to make a ring that could prevent a corpse from decaying.
Crown Prince Pandora stated that such a thing could be done in just ten minutes and told Iri to wait in the treasury. So Iri went treasure hunting in the treasury and found that Crown Prince Pandora had categorized some equipment that was useless to Nazarick and thrown it all into the trash heap.
However, Iri saw equipment with effects similar to Gazef's equipment in this pile of trash, so she took them along. She hadn't thought much about it initially, just taking them as a precaution. If the Black Scripture truly succeeded, at least she could use these items in her hand as substitutes.
However, these two pieces of equipment were utilized by Iri in this way. With these two pieces of trash equipment offered, Theocracy wouldn't doubt her "loyalty," would they?
She risked her life to snatch two of the Kingdom's Secret Treasures right under the noses of those little goats! And she presented them with both hands! How about it? Is that "loyal" enough?
"Well done, my sister! I didn't expect you to even snatch the Kingdom's Secret Treasures. Getting two pieces is already very good. The seaweed head you mentioned should be Brian Anglaus, he is also a strong individual comparable to Gazef Stroganov. Being able to snatch equipment from his hands is already very good," Queen Aeseth quickly praised.
Although it was a story Iri fabricated, Iri was a bit annoyed that Queen Aeseth brought up Brian, the nail clipper. Snatching things from his hands? If Iri truly had the intention, she could have directly sliced him into pieces, but she forgave him since Queen Aeseth was flattering her!
"Are these all real?" The others' faces more or less showed expressions of joy, only Gelos picked up the gauntlet and amulet to inspect them, but from his appearance, he couldn't make heads or tails of it, it seemed he didn't have the Item Appraisal skill.
Actually, someone in the Black Scripture was supposed to have Item Appraisal for this mission, but... that person had already been buried naked by Unmatched Warrior Mokoredd, and the culprit was still Iri.
"I don't know, I just took what I could, so I listened to you and snatched these two pieces. The weapon was held by the young man in silver armor, and as for the armor, in that situation, I really couldn't pull off someone's armor..." Iri said, scratching her head.
There's no need to emphasize the authenticity of these items, just feign ignorance. Although they aren't the genuine articles directly taken from Gazef, the effects of these two pieces of equipment taken from Nazarick's trash heap are the same as Gazef's originals, so they can almost be considered genuine, right?
"None of us can appraise items..." Queen Aeseth said somewhat awkwardly. The others, hearing Queen Aeseth say this, also wore awkward smiles, as the one who could had already been killed by "Clementine" in front of them.
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