They went into a forest and ate some poisoned food and died, the end, no need to continue investigation (what about the bodies?), eaten by wild animals. That's it, close the case, no need to cause a war over some idiots.
If those four are legendarily famous adventurers (which I guess they are if they were hunting demons), then our goblin village has already reached OP territory even without the chiefs 300+ skills
Hopefully he can use law of survival to make then not tell anyone
@Justking14 I'm pretty sure Karen's already aware he has that skill, and that's bad enough that she had to or still has to report it. If he specifically uses it that way, it's not a good look. That is perhaps more than enough justification for the Count to decide there's a problem here. The peace in this village is a tightrope act at the moment, it could go in any direction very easily.
He could probably just stop her from saying anything too, using that skill. But I don't think he would. The best move here is for him to probably just keep being open about all of this stuff. He has to keep showing them that even in a situation like this, he's not going to just try to cheat it for his side's gains. Him having the abilities he has shouldn't be considered something like a crime itself, but how he uses them could be looked upon favorably or not favorably.
Feels like the MC is making the right moves but his biggest enemy is the writer. Who is something of an idiot.
If this groups of adventurer wannabes is famous for anything other being an unreliable bunch of mooks, it doesn't matter how smart the MC is, the story is just that dumb.
Bureaucracy is luxury, they all should've died for following procedures before securing the danger.
And if he had the ability to knock them all out then and there, he should've just done so. But-oh no, how will we know to really dislike the humans and cheer on the little guy.