**
I greeted Harman with a bright expression.
He made a puzzled face while asking me, "Your highness, what are you doing?"
"Oh, this? I'm just getting that Aztal rune or whatever it's called tattooed on me."
Of course, it was just a portion of the runes.
I had gathered bits and pieces of Mikael's torn-apart corpse and copied the rune letters, showed them to Hans, and asked him to research it. And after about a month of intense research, he finally figured out an extremely small portion of the runic symbols.
I asked Hans, "How long do you think you'll need to decipher the rest?"
He pushed up the goggles on his face, placed the tweezers on the bowl containing holy water, and glanced at the document with runes written on it. "Even if it's an imitation, it still boasts a considerably complex structure, your highness."
Hans sounded really excited.