The Tale of Hero Alice's Social Death (Pantsu Hero Alice) Chapter 349 - He Is Still Just a Child

What Lilith and Sylvia would do afterward, Alice did not know. Perhaps they would investigate the shota magician's identity, or perhaps they would turn their spearhead toward the nobles who had sent bodyguards to protect Collins. However, regardless of what they chose, it was unlikely that they would trouble Alice.

Originally, the shota magician's main task was to blend into Collins's bodyguards and observe Collins. However, at this point, Alice was basically certain that Collins was cross-dressing otaku through and through and had no interest in becoming the Rhine Kingdom's next king.

There were rumors on the internet talking about how the matter of the Rhine Kingdom's eldest prince taking the initiative to hand over his succession rights to the second prince was merely a conspiracy theory and that, in reality, the second prince had forced the eldest prince to say so. However, after Alice investigated Collins herself, she felt that there was a high possibility that Collins might have actually taken the initiative to give up his succession rights to the second prince.

King Haydn had probably realized that Collins had zero interest in inheriting the throne. Coupled with the fact that Collins was addicted to animation culture and had only the most superficial understanding of state affairs, King Haydn must have decided to fulfill Collins's desire and make Etoria his heir instead.

However, this discovery put Alice in a bind. She realized that she was close to running out of suspects. Even until now, she still hadn't found a clue relating to the identity of the person impersonating Etoria and trying to collude with the demons.

Lilith definitely wasn't the culprit. Or rather, Lilith was also looking for the culprit trying to collude with the demons. Like Alice, Lilith was aware that should the demons intervene in the Rhine Kingdom's political struggles, the backlash of the demons' actions being discovered would be catastrophic. It would no longer be just a battle between the Hero and the Demon King at that time. Instead

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