Chapter 118. Mabel’s attitude to cope with betrayal2021.03.20.
“Casey? Casey!”
He held on to the disconnected communication magic tool and tried to communicate continuously, but failed one after another. I neatly gave up any fleeting attempts to communicate and recalled the circumstances under which the last scream was heard.
‘attack. They said it was an attack.’
I couldn’t hear it properly because the voice was cut off, but I’m sure Casey said that. I looked back at Aidan, who had been by my side all along.
“Aidan.”
“yes.”
“I need to meet Franz.”
There was no more time to delay.
“…Right Now.”
***
Now that Casey has disappeared, Franz Alonica has acted as the guild master’s deputy. After reassuring the guild members who lost their focal point and wandered around, he dispatched an additional armed search party. The route to the habitat was fixed, so there was no difficulty in the search.
“Search within the range of the communication magic tool first. It will be a distance that can be reached by carriage in one day.”
Following Mabel’s orders, the search team found traces of a battle with the remains of a broken wagon just a day away from Root. However, there were no guild members anywhere nearby. If it had been a fierce battle, there would have been a corpse, but there was none. Literally, the guild members disappeared. like a charm.
***
A week has passed since Casey and other guild members disappeared. The search situation did not progress. Franz reported the current situation to me.
“As Your Majesty said, I have been to the new colony, but there are only red Provers.”
“It must have been attacked on the way back.”
“yes.”
Would it be fortunate if the red probers were unharmed? I wondered if there might be a clue at the raid site, so I asked him to take a closer look, but nothing came out. Franz complained to me with a haggard face.
“Oops. I don’t know how bad the atmosphere in the guild is, Your Majesty. People say, “What the hell is a Master doing that makes him so incompetent?”
“I thought so.”
Casey, who took care of the guild’s general affairs on my behalf, was gone, so it was understandable that I felt a big absence. In addition, human beings naturally had a habit of trying to find someone who would naturally take responsibility when something happened. It was only that the faceless Master Edan became the victim.
“First of all, I’m admonishing the guild members well, but it’s not easy. It seems that there is someone who is actively instigating division inside.”
Unlike Casey, who had the ability to lead in his own way, Franz seemed to be struggling to act as an acting guild master.
‘Again, Casey’s vacancy feels big.’
Originally, I thought I was competent, but I never thought it would be this much. I let out a deep sigh and Oscar gently stroked my hair.
“Mabel. are you okay?”
“I’m fine. Missing guild members are the problem.”
Where the hell did it disappear to? It bothered me that Devlin was quiet all along.
“Is this the Veron thing again?”
“The possibility cannot be ruled out. He is a person who would eliminate the people around him for revenge.”
But there was no conclusive evidence.
“Ah, come to think of it, the search team delivered this. It won’t give you any clues.”
What Franz handed me was a box containing fragments of broken communications magic tools.
“I’m sure Casey was there too.”
I hoped that he would be okay. No, I had to be safe.
***
The 1st Headquarters of the Evil Guild was a renovated mansion of a former nobleman and boasted a very vast area. Among them, one of the guild’s welfare areas was the restaurant. By the time the evening game went down, the restaurant was buzzing like a tavern. After completing the mission, all the guild members gathered and recounted today’s heroic stories and got drunk.
“So eh?! It’s because I hold you by the collar and shake you mercilessly!”
“Be quiet. How many times do you say the same thing?”
“No, I mean… I’m the guy!”
“Someone knock him out! Or binge-feed them and put them to sleep! My ears hurt and I’m going to die!”
All kinds of injections and shouts were rampant in the restaurant. Dean ate silently, frowning at the loud voices of his colleagues. I was going to get rid of it quickly and go back to the dorm and sleep to my heart’s content. Dean clicked his tongue inwardly.
‘The carefree guys.’
It was just pitiful to see the vice master disappearing, yet to be in a state of intoxication while drunk. The reason the guild atmosphere was more chaotic than usual was because Casey hadn’t been controlling them. Since most of the guild members were commoners or people who were said to be using their strength in the back alleys, Franz’s words teaching the nobles had no power at all. After eating the soup, Dean let out a deep sigh.
‘Where is our submaster…’
Dean, who followed Casey well, couldn’t hide his gloomy mood. It was when Dean’s meal was almost over.
“hey. Is the vicemaster dead?”
“Hey. Is that person going to die? He is a person who will keep his mouth open even if he falls into the water.”
“But the search team did. Only the wreckage of the wagon remained.”
Starting from someone’s words, the guild members’ conversation topic changed to ‘whether the submaster is alive or dead’. Since most of them lived a low life in the first place, no one cared about harsh words.
“Honestly, I think the master is responsible for what happened to the sub-master.”
When someone finished the master’s story, the guild members all nodded in agreement.
“That’s right, Red Prover. You said that Master brought it?”
“What is a volunteer? Why did you bring it?”
“Sometimes you give out strange orders. Master, he seems like an idiot.”
“Of course, it’s good that they gave me a lot of money, but that’s it.”
The conversation now turned to the topic of ‘Master’.
“No one here has seen Master’s face. What the hell are you doing, insisting on mystic settings?”
“If I had nothing to be afraid of, I would have turned my face off a long time ago. You can’t come out because there’s something wrong.”
Master ‘Ethan’. There were many rumors about him, but it was safe to say that only the guild executives had met with him. Until now, the Master’s orders came down through Casey and he followed them without a word, but now that the situation was like this, there was no way he could not be dissatisfied.
“And it was Franz, that teacher. Not very good.”
“What does a bookstore clerk who only knows numbers do know how to order?”
“Because the master is not showing his face, the master’s room is empty every day. If so, give it to me.”
The hallway where the master room was located was so slow that scary rumors were circulating that there was a cat meowing from time to time.
“You have a younger sister, the vicemaster, right? That little boy who wears a hoodie every day. I saw that little boy often go to the master’s room to play.”
“that’s right. that kid was cute I wonder if I want to put it in my mouth and mumble it.”
“Pervert…”
“Hey. listen. Did I say hello before? So he asked if I had eaten. Isn’t it cute that it’s the size of a rat?”
Now the conversation topic has changed to ‘Boomaster’s sister’. After finishing his meal, Dean put a spoon on the tray and took a step towards the exit. And just before I turned around and left the restaurant, I noticed a rat roaming around with open red eyes.
“Ouch!”
As Dean shouted, the guild members rushed at them with ferocious momentum.
“Ugh! Now I’m going to install a mouse. Kill them quickly!”
“I’m going your way!”
“I hate mice!”
There was a commotion to get rid of the mice like that.
***
A beautiful mansion in the twilight. I crouched outside the building waiting for my good spy to return. and after a while
[Save the mouse!]
The mouse came out through a hole in the building.
[Shoot!]
“Good job, take a squeak.”
[I almost died. I almost died again!]
I told her not to be found out, but it seemed unfair that she was caught in the end. As I held the handkerchief in my hands, the Velcro tape staggered up. Red eyes stared up at me.
[Give me a lot of delicious food.]
“I get it, I get it.”
Oscar, who came with me while I was working hard to soothe the camera, urged me impatiently.
“Mabel. You have to get in quick. Maybe the emperor will find you.”
“huh. Let’s go back now.”
I carefully put the velcro inside the crossbody bag and stood up with a sigh. It was not too late to listen to the spy’s report after returning to the room. It was about to head for the carriage that had just been stopped. A familiar face came running towards me.
“huh? Master?”
“what. Lungs… no, what’s wrong with you, lady?”
“I have something to look at. But why are you running so fast?”
“ah. A rat has invaded the restaurant. How much do you care about keeping it clean? How can this be…”
Franz muttered with a sullen face. He seemed to have heard what the helpless guild deputy master said to the guild members. I patted the saggy Franz on the shoulder.
“are you okay. It’s an influx rat.”
***
With the report from Franz and the spy, we have finished collecting information about the Buntang faction within the guild. There were three people who took the lead in advocating the ‘master’s impotence theory’. Peat smos kag. Ethan was a guild member who had been with them since the beginning of the guild, and the other two were mid-level guild members. Since they have their own age difference, when they voiced their voices, an atmosphere in which other guild members sympathized was naturally formed. And on the 10th day of Casey’s disappearance, they eventually had an accident.
“your majesty. Guild members have taken over the master room!”
“Because I knew that would happen…”
Occupying my precious master room. As I sighed and shook my head, Oscar said something.
“I’m trying to bring you down, but that’s the only reaction, Mabel?”
Oscar seemed very concerned about this. But I laughed lightly.
“That’s because I have no intention of being dragged down.”
Are you the one who will be brought down if I bring you down? Looking back, it was very contradictory.
‘I can’t even get rid of the position of emperor that I really want to get rid of, and my life is very miserable.’
However, in order to protect my precious people including my dad and Oscar, I must first know how to protect mine.
“Then shall we go? To get my master room back.”
***
The Evil Guild Master’s office, which was cleaned once a day and kept tidy. It reminded me of a scene in front of a bar, with bottles of alcohol rolling around and drunkards strewn about.
“That bastard master. Look at what doesn’t show up. Hahaha, now the guild is in our hands!”
Intoxicated with a sense of victory, Ethan sat down in the master’s chair and chuckled. To think that one of the best guilds in the empire and the information guild would fall down so easily. As I thought of the golden future that was about to unfold, I drank alcohol.
“Drink in moderation, peat. Then what would you do if the Master released a person? You have to be alert to block the attack, you bastard.”
“Don’t order Keig. If it was to appear, it would have appeared long ago. The name is the head of the information guild, but you must have heard rumors that it was occupied.”
Smos, who nodded in agreement with Ethan’s answer, smiled sinisterly.
“So this guild is ours now? Ughhh.”
“do not forget. Divide the stakes exactly.”
“And you have to report to ‘Him’ as well.”
It was then that they were immersed in happiness and discussing future plans. bang! The door came off with a roar that shook the eardrums. At the same time, all the scattered guild members stood up and immediately grabbed their weapons. It was the moment when the results of the usual training were clearly revealed.
“It’s an assault, don’t let it push in!”
At Ethan’s command, everyone watched outside the door nervously. The scenery outside was truly desolate. The two guild members who were guarding both sides of the door were already in a bad state. Someone passed through them leisurely. And when he tried to go further inside, the guild members attacked the intruder at the same time. rush and static.
“Ouch.”
Within seconds, those who tried to attack were powerlessly knocked out. They didn’t know why they were rolling on the floor. Because it happened so quickly. The intruder walked in between the guild members as if taking a leisurely stroll.
“what’s this. Guild members are too weak. Disappointing.”
The main character with a grumbling voice in the voice of Bolmen is…
“A child…a child?”
It was a girl who looked to be about fourteen years old.
