KonoSuba Chapter 77: The cause and effect behind the scenes, the reason for being sued (Patreon)

Although inspector Sena had plenty of experience, for Sato Hikaru’s case, after he had taken the head start and changed its nature, it had already become very difficult to deal with.

Now that Sato Hikaru had an additional sign of ‘subjugated multi-headed water snake’, he could now be called a ‘dragon-slaying hero’. Sena could only choose to silently let go.

Furthermore, she had to take the initiative to change Sato Hikaru’s identity from ‘suspect’ to ‘helper’, now that his identity was different, obviously the treatment towards him was also completely different.

At least, right now, Sena no longer dared to mention anything about arresting him or bringing him back for investigation and the likes.

After she made an ‘appointment’ to meet with Sato Hikaru at the guild tomorrow noon to discuss some related matter with, she then brought her people out of the guild.

The adventurers in the guild seemed to have won some kind of war and immediately exploded in cheers.

However, Sato Hikaru did not have any good expression towards these people who dropped the ball during critical situations.

Although he could understand their behavior, being able to understand did not mean he could accept it.

So, after he waved his hand at these people, he did not celebrate with them, they also understandably did not get close to him.

Instead, they congregate around Aqua and Megumin to praise them while also listening to them describing and explaining the process of subjugating the multi-headed water snake. From time to time, sounds of surprise would be heard.

“Mr. Sato, is it truly alright?”

The good child, Yunyun, along with Darkness and Chris congregated beside Sato Hikaru, and looked at him worriedly.

“In the end, they were inspectors from the kingdom, furthermore, the crime was subverting the kingdom…”

“Don’t worry, this is a small problem.”

Waving his hand, Sato Hikaru did not care too much about it: “The thing that we need to pay attention to would be the one who raised this and made the kingdom inspector come to check me.”

“Then, Sato, do you know who it is?”

“Well…Darkness have you received any information?”

“Eh? Me?”

Darkness was surprised at being questioned by Sato Hikaru: “Why do team leader Sato feel that I would know something?”

“Ahem…right, you should not have gone home for some time, right?”

“Uh…team leader, could it be, you…”

“Well, it’s not important.”

Seeing the surprised Darkness, Sato Hikaru stalled her with his hand and said: “Since you are a team member, of course I would check a bit on your background, but don’t worry, since you do not want to mention that matter, then I would keep it a secret for you.”

“Understood, thank you, Sato.”

Waving his hand without replying, Sato Hikaru looked and waved at Luna in the distance, who were not looking at him but did not approach: “Ms. Luna, you should have something you want to tell me, right?”

“Yes, actually…”

Moving towards Sato Hikaru, Luna bit her lips and hesitated for a while, before finally speaking: “Perhaps I know who accused Mr. Sato of the crime.”

“Oh? Ms. Luna actually trusts me so much?”

Sato Hikaru raised his eyebrow in surprise, he originally thought that at most Luna came to him to talk about task-related matters.

He never thought the moment she spoke, she immediately pointed at the black hand behind the scene.

Although Sato Hikaru had known who the culprit behind the scene was, he was still feeling touched as he looked at her.

…

“Actually, I have also more or less guessed what the matter was, so, let’s hear my guess first, okay? If there is some mistake in my deduction, Ms. Luna can add some information, what do you think?”

Sato Hikaru’s words obviously showed that he did not want to trouble Luna, after all, she was unrelated to this matter, if she spoke, she might offend some people, and also break some rules.

Similarly, Luna also understood Sato Hikaru’s meaning and good intention, and did not idiotically reject it and wade through the muddy water.

“If I guessed correctly, the root of this matter should not be the reparation for the city wall as well as the reparation to the injured civilian, right?”

Seeing Luna’s silent confession, and did not procrastinate, and immediately said: “The person behind the scene other than wanting to brand me with a crime of subverting the kingdom, he also wanted to used his influence to cut the bounty for subjugating the demon, right?”

“Yes…it seemed that Mr. Sato had indeed deduced everything.”

Luna smiled bitterly after hearing the words, then once again bowed deeply towards Sato Hikaru: “We are truly sorry, Mr. Sato, this because according to the regulation, the release of such a huge bounty required various approval from the person in charge of the area, so…”

“That is why the investigation result was seen by that guy, and knew that I was the one who did it, there was also some bounty that he could use to cover up his losses, right?”

After nodding his head, Sato Hikaru smiled disdainfully: “To actually dare to cut my bounty, that’s why an idiotic pig is truly an idiot. For Host, this high-level demon, to be able to live for so long after being wanted, did he not realize that the adventurer, who was able to defeat Host, is even more dangerous than the high-level demon?”