“Well then, I’ll have to make a spirit contract with you, but the fact that you did it without telling me is still…”

“Referee.”

“You dare to ignore me… Ha? What about a Referee?”

“Yes refree. I’m talking about the referee, Your Highness Claude. There are three dragons heading this way right now, and currently no one is here. The audience, which you had originally planned to gather to humiliate me, did not come. You must have been thinking desperately with your empty head that you would defeat me, free Bridgette from me, and expose my evil deeds in front of the audience.”

“Empty head, you say!?”

“My apologies. You probably misheard me, so please calm down. Anyway, since there is no one and no judge here, you can’t show your heroic victory to your people…”

As I said that much, His Highness Claude finally calmed down and appealed to me to continue the conversation with his gaze.

I had already said almost 90% of what I wanted to say, so I held back from saying, “Think for yourself, you idiot,” even without urging me to continue.

I stopped the conversation without finishing it because I believed His Highness would realize what I wanted to say, but it seemed like the contents in his head were more disappointing than I had imagined.

I had thought that he was just as stupid and foolish as I was, but I didn’t think he was this stupid.

It was my fault for not realizing how stupid His Highness Claude was.

Forgive me, Claude.

“I’m not sure, but aren’t you making fun of me a lot right now?”

“No, of course not. How could I make fun of His Highness, a member of the royal family and the future emperor?”

“Then it’s fine, but…”

For a moment, he showed the keenness of wild intuition characteristic of idiots, but he was still a determined idiot. It was easy to fool him.

“So, to return to the story, of course, there is no one to judge because there is no one here. Therefore, since I could not bother His Highness, I made a contract in advance using spirit magic.”

“Well, that’s very clever of you, boghei**—!”

Since His Highness Claude seemed to have believed me so easily, I punched him while he was still talking.

In the first place, the battle had begun as soon as we completed the spirit contract.

I hope you’ll be grateful that I waited this long to do that.

“Y-you bassstard!!! How dare you! Violation! That’s a violation! You shall receive the penalty for violating the spirit contract!”

Yeah, that was some dirty squeal.