Departure.
Departure.
“You got a clue?”
“huh.”
Giselle tore the warm bread into small pieces and shoved them into her mouth and nodded as she chewed them. I took a bite of bread after her.
“Please explain.”
“I mean…”
‘MURDER!!!’
Just as Giselle was about to say something, my mother, who was eating bread next to me, jumped up and spotted Dakia just coming downstairs. She ran over and grabbed her hand. Dacia was awake and tilted her head as she looked at her mother with slightly blank eyes.
“Do you have any favors?”
‘killing!!!’
Mother took out the slayer she got last night and held it out towards Dacia. Ah, come to think of it, I said that you can shoot it only after charging it with magic power. Dakia awkwardly accepted the slayer and asked cautiously.
“Are you giving it to me?”
‘Kill!!!’
Intense doridori. The mother quickly shook her head and pretended to wriggle her fingers in Dacia’s hand. She had expressed her intention to recharge her magic power, but Dakia couldn’t read the meaning of magical power charging from her mother’s wriggling fingers.
In the end, my mother gave up trying to make Dakia understand and asked me for help.
‘killing!’
“Please recharge your mana. I heard that the ancient artifact gun can be loaded using magic bullets.”
“aha.”
Only then did Dakia, who understood her mother’s will, murmur briefly, and magic flowed through the black gun barrel. Soon, the tangible magic power became a black bullet and filled the slayer’s poor chamber.
“Would you like this?”
Mother nodded briskly, quickly put the slayer’s safety mechanism on, as the devil had explained to her yesterday, put the slayer in the coin pouch, returned to the seat next to me, and slumped down.
Seeing them eating bread while humming
‘kill kill’, it seemed that they were full of thoughts of going to the vacant lot behind the inn and shooting them as soon as they ate.
Dacia trudged over and sat on the seat next to me, yawning lightly.
“Haaam. That’s something I’ve never seen before, where the hell did you get it from?”
I glanced around. The restaurant at the inn was very noisy from morning, so no one listened to our conversation.
“This is what the devil gave me last night. I will listen to Giselle’s explanation and give you a detailed explanation, so could you wait a moment?”
Dacia smiled and nodded.
“You can do whatever you like.”
With a deft gesture, she summoned a passing innkeeper and ordered the same food as me. Giselle opened her mouth as soon as Dacia’s spell was finished.
“Is it okay if I finish talking about what I was about to say?”
“Ah yes.”
“So, while you were hiding with that priest named Dilgent, we went around quite a bit here and there, right?”
“yes.”
Giselle poked a piece of meat with her fork and turned it round and round.
“That doesn’t mean you just popped in anywhere. After all, holy relics are things that you can’t find if you try to find them, but it’s not something that isn’t precious either.”
She yum, stuffed the meat into her mouth and chewed it. Giselle smiled quietly as she wiggled her bandaged finger, apparently liking the meat in her mouth.
“So we mainly searched the warehouses where the merchants had their branches established. I also received a ledger with the flow of logistics written on it.”
“Did you give it up easily?”
“Of course I won’t give up easily.”
Jamel, who was eating bread mumbled next to me, swallowed the food in his mouth and smiled broadly.
“Giselle is a very expert at spotting people’s weaknesses and getting rid of them! It would have been fun for Priest Marnac to watch Giselle threaten people by citing the name of the lord on the pretext of searching for the lord’s son! I had so much fun!”
You threatened people to read the ledger…? When I glanced at Dakia, Dakia met my eyes and nodded.
“We didn’t take the books by force or take them away. Didn’t Giselle secretly threaten you, so everyone gave up the ledger on their own?”
I was a little curious about what kind of threat he had made, but I focused on getting information about the whereabouts of the holy object before listening to the saga.
“So what did you find out with those ledgers?”
Giselle looked around, rolled her eyes, and then slightly lowered her body towards me.
“I found out something very interesting. A troupe that came just a few days ago collected all of the holy relics possessed by the guilds around here at a very generous price.”
You bought a holy relic? The smell was already wafting through. smell of the case.
“Did you start moving in the libertio?”
“I think so.”
“By the way, does Liberatorio run the guild too?”
“of course. Even if it’s called liberatio, as long as it’s an organization of people, you can’t live on dirt alone. It’s just that the information about the Liberation Alliance is not allowed to low-level people like me and Jamel… Right now, it can be said that we are at the stage of assuming that the Liberation Alliance is related.”
It’s a guild run by worshipers of evil spirits…
“What’s the guild’s name?”
“All of the ledgers had ‘Aviditas Merchant’ written on them, so for now, that name must be correct.”
Top of Abiditas. I etched the name of the top in my head.
“So what are we going to do now?”
Giselle answered my question with a very sinister smile.
“You have to shave. For now, we need to find a boat as quickly as possible and catch up with the boat at the top of Abiditas on the river. There is no choice but to be delayed because we stop by the surrounding cities and trade holy items with the upper ranks, so if we follow diligently, we will surely be able to meet soon. So the real question for us to consider is when to rob the boat.”
Liberatorio robs the holy relics he bought with money to get a gift sealed with his mother’s power? At first glance, it seemed like a pretty good plan.
It is a very natural thing that a group is more efficient at searching or finding something than an individual.
“Then, first of all, we need to arrange a ship as soon as possible.”
“While searching the port, the ship is already wanted. He said he would probably be in touch by today, so you can leave as soon as you are ready.”
“Good job.”
flawless work. As expected, unlike Jamel, Giselle had a sharp side.
“Is there anything else I can help you with?”
“I’ve taken care of everything, so there’s nothing I can do to help. instead.”
“instead?”
“If you don’t mind, I’d like you to explain what the hell happened last night…”
“That’s right! I’m curious too! Priest Marnak!”
“me too.”
Following Giselle, Jamel and Dakia nodded and their eyes twinkled. It wasn’t something to keep secret, so I ate breakfast and talked about Katus and Dilgent and the belated justice.
“… that’s how it happened.”
By the time the soup on the table had cooled down, my story, which would have been long in its own way, came to an end. Giselle, who heard everything, asked a question with her eyes narrowed.
“To say that Amju was behind it, it seems that a place of that level would have intervened. Anyway, the aftermath that the devil does. Are you sure of that? If you’re being chased by dark masters, you’ll be really tired, right?”
“Since you said you’d take care of it well, shouldn’t you believe it?”
“but.”
After a short reply, Giselle cut off her interest in the events of the previous night. Dacia sipped her warm drink and opened her mouth.
“It is a bit of a tragic story. In the end, everyone just lost. Katus, Dilgent, and the lord of this city.”
Dacia was right. Dilgent lost his life, Katus lost his loved ones, and the lord lost his family except for his son.
“Still, I think that things have been resolved in a slightly better direction thanks to Priest Marnak’s visit here.”
“You mean thanks to me? I never thought of it that way…”
“Look over there.”
Loud voices came from the direction pointed by the white fingers.
“The lockdown has finally been lifted!!!”
“Now I can leave this damn Ebedos and go home!!!”
“I have to drink until today only!!!”
“Yes, let’s just drink until today!!! ha ha ha!!!”
The lord, who recovered his son last night, announced that he would lift the blockade of the city as soon as it dawned this morning. Even though they couldn’t catch the culprits, they must have judged that maintaining the blockade of the city any longer would be too much.
Dacia chuckled.
“Thanks to Priest Marnak, those people were able to go back to their homes a few days earlier.”
“Pour it!!!”
“Drink!!!”
“Hahahahaha!!!”
Judging by their hard-drinking behavior, it was clear that they would stay in Ebedos for a few more days hungover, whether or not the city was under lockdown.
“I don’t think they’ll be able to go back that early…”
“It seems a little like that to me.”
Dacia smiled bitterly and pursed her lips.
“But…”
“Yes.”
After hesitating, she asked me very, very carefully.
“Are you free today? I’ve been very busy the past few days… I thought it would be nice to take a leisurely look around Ebedos together. Two two… Oh no! All together!”
I quietly smiled at Dakia, who was talking gibberish.
“great. It’s because you can’t always work and live. Besides, I was just about to buy my mother a holster to carry a gun in.”
Jamel, who had been listening to Dakia’s conversation with me, suddenly intervened in the conversation.
“If you are going to play, you can’t miss this one again!!! I’ll get ready and come down soon! You must never leave first without me!!! Absolutely never!!!”
Jamel didn’t even listen to my answer and almost flew away and disappeared upstairs where he was in his room.
“What about Giselle? If you just want to rest at the accommodation, it doesn’t matter.”
Giselle glanced at me and opened her mouth lightly.
“I’m completely broke right now.”
“My pockets are a little tight these days, so if you need anything, I’ll buy it for you.”
Without hesitation, she got up from her seat.
“I’ll get ready and come out soon.”
“Let Tergio go too.”
– All right.
We each got ready, and a little later we gathered in front of the inn and set off for the downtown of Ebedos not to work, but to play and eat.
It was a bit of a riot, but it was a very enjoyable day nonetheless.
***
A few days later.
We found a ship called ‘The Wet Swallow’ driven by a gray-haired captain named Plantum and five crew members. It was not easy to arrange a boat because the blockade of Ebedos was suddenly lifted, but thanks to Giselle making a reservation a few days before the blockade was lifted, we were able to get a boat on time.
Captain Plantum’s pride, the Water Swallow, was a boat that could accommodate 20 guests, but we paid a premium and stipulated that no other guests be boarded. Plantum accepted our conditions more daringly than anyone else, accepting his thick pockets.
Plantum waved his thick arms and shouted loudly.
“It’s departure!!!”
“yes!”
As the five crew members skilfully maneuvered the boat around, the Wet Swallow started cutting through the huge river as if it lived up to its name.
Feeling a pleasant river breeze, I walked across the deck to a sailor and tapped him on the shoulder.
The young man with a good impression turned his head at my call and smiled brightly.
“Do you have anything to ask of me?”
I smiled at him and took out the butcher.
“Since the ship has also departed, I would like you to reveal your identity soon.”
“What is that…?”
“The acting only goes there.”
“ah.”
The young man’s face turned cold.
“I think the disguise was perfect.”
“The disguise was absolutely perfect, but…”
The reason I was able to figure out that one of the sailors I had been introduced to yesterday had changed was quite simple.
It was because the bracelet on my right arm was shaking. The piece with the number 1 that Ceylon gave me. The bracelet vehemently informed me that the man in front of me had a Ceylon piece with a different number.
A sailor armed with artifacts from an ancient empire overnight? Is that also a work of Ceylon? It was a story that never made sense. So I sneakily took a look at this man, and as if he had waited, he asked for the bait I had given him.
“There doesn’t seem to be any particular reason for me to explain.”
I raised my butcher and opened my mouth slowly.
“Where are you from? And what were you trying to do by hiding among the sailors?”
“hmm. There’s no need to hide it since you’ve already been caught. Besides, the ship has already departed, so you won’t be able to escape.”
When the man tore off his face, his face peeled off like an insect peeling off its skin, revealing a very ferocious face. He growled at me, showing his white teeth.
“My name is Ultor. Old friend… no, I came to get the price of Master’s life.”
