Chapter 81. I protect my guild! 2020.11.10.
After reconnaissance, Oscar went to Esteban’s office as soon as he returned to the imperial castle.
“Suspicious.”
“…what?”
“It is a guild that is suspicious from one to ten. No data from the time of the guild’s founding remained. As if you were trying to erase it on purpose. I must have left out important data.”
As I hoped, I couldn’t get my hands on the data about the guild master, ‘Edan’, but I was able to buy general information about the guild. Oscar paid a high price and submitted the information about the guild he bought directly from the guild to Esteban. Esteban flipped through the papers and nodded.
“As you said, Oscar, the record at the time of founding is poor.”
Esteban’s eyes stopped in one place while looking at the documents. Among the missing data, there was a mention of members at the time of founding. One was Ethan, the current guild master, and the other was Casey, the submaster. However, there was one more person, but there was no name, gender, or any data.
“hmm.”
“After researching with various hypotheses, we figured out the relationship between the Evil Guild and Duke Xavier. There is a situation where he borrowed a large amount of money from the guild.”
Esteban frowned at the undesirable presence.
“Oscar, did you mean that you might have a close relationship with Duke Javier?”
“I think it’s good to keep something in mind.”
“Yes, then-”
While he was answering, Esteban’s gaze turned to the doorway. And in the next moment, Oscar could feel it too. A small figure was approaching the door. Through the closed door, a clear voice was heard asking the knight a question.
“kyung. Is there an Oscar inside?”
“yes. You are here.”
“What is it… I’ve been looking for it for a long time, but it’s finally here. Do you have a father?”
“yes. You are here.”
“What is a cuckoo?”
Esteban and Oscar burst into laughter at the same time at Mabel’s words, as if they were dissatisfied with the knight’s answer, which only gave the same answer. Suddenly, at the sound of laughter coming from inside the door, Mabel whimpered and opened the door.
“What’s so funny?”
“It’s cute when a pea-sized thing talks cheep.”
“How do beans talk about beep beep?”
Esteban smiled lightly and spread his arms at Mabel’s thoughtful appearance, not knowing that she was speaking. Then Mabel rushed over and sat on Esteban’s lap.
“Cute boy.”
As he stroked her daughter’s hair, Mabel stroked her father’s hair.
“Daddy is cute too.”
“You are cuter.”
“no. Dad is cuter.”
Mabel, who had been fighting ‘you’re cuter’ for a while, regained her senses in vain. There was a reason I came all the way here to find Oscar.
“Oscar. where did you go today I was going to play with you, but it wasn’t there, so I went looking for it.”
“Is it? I’m sorry Mabel. I’ll tell you next time I went out for a while on an assignment.”
“What mission?”
“I’ve been to the organization you mentioned before.”
“Haha…”
An awkward laugh came out.
‘…Really, my guild!’
***
There was a glimmer of hope that it might not be Hoo-O-Ox, but it turned to dust and scattered. Dad and Oscar are trying to take down my guild!
‘why! why! I paid my taxes well and didn’t commit many (?) crimes!’
Since collecting information is my main job, there is an aspect of invading privacy, but I didn’t do anything terribly bad. In other words, it is a good company that uses its strength to maintain public order in the shopping district!! It’s unfair! decomposition! As I puffed out my cheeks and glared at Dad and Oscar, they tilted their heads. Oscar asked anxiously.
“Why are you so upset?”
“no. Anything.”
Dad also touched my cheek and asked a question.
“Are you hungry? Did your nanny stop you from eating snacks again?”
“I didn’t let you eat snacks, but…”
“Hello! Bring me Mabel’s snacks!”
Feeling slightly relieved by the unexpected snack, I listened to the conversation between the two while eating pudding.
“There is no place where you can shake off dust. If you shake it, anything will come out.”
“At least there is no evidence of tax evasion. It would be better to sell other parts than that part.”
It’s a strange feeling to hear the conversations of family members plotting to rob my guild. I thought it would have been the end if I had really evaded taxes, and my thoughts went cold.
“Then, as you think, Oscar, dig into your relationship with Duke Javier.”
‘Ha Javier?’
“yes. It’s definitely award winning. In addition, we will continue to investigate one undisclosed founding member.”
‘Could that be me?’
As I listened to the conversation of fear and chaos, my eyes went blank. I never thought that the contact I had once made to catch Duke Javier’s weakness would come back like this. If left as it is, the existence of the guild was really dangerous. I interrupted their serious conversation and added hints.
“This… Evil? Isn’t that a great guild? I heard that you donate a lot.”
Pretend to hear it for the first time. I don’t know, but pretend I’ve heard of it somewhere. I tried to show that I am a kind and good guild by putting my whole body into acting, but-.
“As expected, Mabel is naive.”
“Aren’t you old enough to not know the filth of the world yet?”
…I was treated like an innocent child. As the true hidden master of the guild, I couldn’t leave it like this. I secretly clenched my fists.
‘I will protect my guild!’
***
Casey burst out in a squeeze. In the name of sparring, I had to deal with Aidan at the guild gym for several hours.
‘I’m not a demon for nothing. It was the real devil.’
If I were to write an autobiography, that would be the first sentence… The cost of recklessly going after my boss and making contact with Devlin was bitter. Casey had been bedridden for over a week and could not leave the house. To be honest, it was fortunate that nothing was broken.
‘Now, I’ll never laugh at the Master again.’
That’s how Casey learned a valuable lesson. Casey, barely able to walk, hurriedly made her way to work. I wanted to rest for another month or so, but there were a lot of guild work that was overdue while I couldn’t do anything for a week.
“It’s a sin to be competent…”
Casey, who didn’t want to be fired, arrived in front of the building used as the guild headquarters. Casey, who was about to step inside without thinking, stopped abruptly.
‘…huh?’
Casey’s gaze, which had been looking around, slowly descended. A very small, white hand was clutching the hem of his dress. And the owner of that dainty hand was not visible because he was wearing a robe that covered his toes. However, I could tell that he was an innocent kid.
‘It couldn’t have been possible for a child like this to sneak into the mansion grounds, is he the client’s child?’
If you are a child of a client, you are a child of a precious source of money. Casey, who flashed a sales smile in an instant, asked the child softly.
“Little boy. Are you lost?”
“…”
The child did not answer. Casey’s voice became more friendly, wondering if she was frightened.
“Where are your parents? Will my brother take me?”
“… I guess.”
“what?”
“You must be the uncle, not the brother!”
“…?!”
Casey was taken aback by the massive mental attack. Of course, strictly speaking, this is correct, but shocking is still shocking. Casey managed to mend his broken heart. When I heard the voice, it was still a very young girl.
“Yes, dear. This ‘uncle’ will take you to your parents.”
“It’s okay, uncle. I can do it myself.”
“Is that so?”
Kids these days are cute, but scary. Casey smiled awkwardly and moved toward the building. I hate leaving my child behind, but I had a lot of work to do once I went to work.
‘I can ask any guild member to find my parents.’
As I walked to the deputy master’s office, I heard footsteps behind me. When I turned my head, the kid was following me. The child came to a halt just as Casey stopped.
‘…Could he be following me?’
Just in case, I took a step again, and the kid also eagerly followed with small strides. When I increased my speed, I even ran up with a whimper. Eventually, Casey arrived in front of the vicemaster’s office and looked down at the kid with a puzzled face.
“Why are you following me?”
“I have business to do.”
“To me?”
“huh!”
It was so lively and bright that Casey was embarrassed again. At this point, I began to think that he might be a kid I really knew.
“Would you like to come inside?”
“good.”
Upon entering the office, Casey first sat the little boy on the parlor sofa and served him a cold drink. Then the child grabbed the cup with both hands and drank eagerly. He was wearing a robe this summer, so it was quite hot. Casey hinted.
“It must be hot. How about taking off your robe?”
“oh! huh. Because no one is watching anymore.”
‘A viewer?’
The moment he was puzzled, the child took off the robe hat. Then, the light pink hair that was hidden under it suddenly appeared. The child who was straightening her hair met Casey’s eyes.
“Hwahwahwahwa… Emperor?!”
It must have been because I had seen the face before. The crazy cute girl in front of me was definitely the most famous girl emperor in Ermano!
“Meet Your Majesty the Emperor!”
No matter how much he was called a child, the emperor was an emperor. Casey greeted urgently and politely.
“Rather than that, why did you visit our guild? If you’re here to meet the Master-”
“I came to see Casey, not Master.”
“You know my name…?”
“Of course you know. I heard that Casey sang like that because he missed me? Aidan told me everything.”
“…yes?”
Casey blinked at the unknown words. Then the emperor crossed his arms and let out a sigh.
“You said you wanted to meet me, so I came out with a hard time, but are you pretending not to know? I’m sorry Casey.”
“What is that…”
I couldn’t understand what the emperor in front of me was saying. Mabel shook her head as she was just blinking her eyes stupidly.
“The full story of the art speculation manipulation case that was popular two years ago.”
“yes?”
“Sir Gorson’s adultery!”
“that!”
“Finally, the purchase of the capital’s mansion, Count Mytheron!”
“How did you do that…?!”
The source of the information the emperor said was all from the ‘real master’. Only Aidan, himself, and Franz knew about it. Franz can’t divulge secrets because of the contract, so only two people actually know.
‘No, no, no. am i crazy I was beaten too badly…!’
While Casey was denying reality, the door opened and Aidan entered.
“I heard you were coming to meet me, but you’ve already met, Your Majesty.”
“huh. I was bored sitting and waiting.”
“But why is that human doing that?”
“I don’t know…”
Aidan, frowning, stared sharply at Casey as the emperor grimaced.
“Casey, I allowed you to meet the Master as you wished, so what are you so dissatisfied with?”
“Ouch!”
At that moment, Casey almost gasped.
‘Nonsense!’
This kid is a real master! That cute little kid with pink hair is the Master?!
***
“Large.”
I coughed and averted my gaze. Casey’s gaze staring at me was very burdensome.
‘As if looking at some kind of animal in a zoo…’
Aidan, who was watching, glared at Casey as his curious gaze grew stronger.
“Turn your eyes.”
“Yes…”
I glanced at Casey and checked the time. Even though I only informed them that I was the Master, time had already passed. I sneaked out of class with Franz, so I didn’t have much time left.
“First of all, I have no intention of exercising direct authority over the guild. I will keep the current system.”
“omg. You know the word system!”
puck! Aidan punched Casey in the back of the head.
“Be polite to His Majesty.”
“No, don’t let me tell you…”
Casey mumbled and shut his mouth tightly. Then there was silence. He seemed to understand Aidan’s desire to fire Casey.
“Let’s finish talking quickly because we don’t have much time. I have no idea how to expose the fact that I am a real master! doesn’t exist.”
“That is my opinion as well. It doesn’t look very good for the emperor of the empire to be the head of an information guild.”
Casey agreed.
“huh. So while active exchanges will continue, I hope that Casey will continue to take care of external affairs. Casey is to blame for what happened.”
I looked at Casey with a wide smile to deliberately stab him.
“Because of what happened…”
“Dad and brother are trying to destroy the guild!”
Casey jumped in surprise at my cry.
“yes? Absolutely not! My job for life!”
“Neither can I! my slush fund! Kill Devlin!”
Our intentions to prevent the removal of the guild were in line with each other. Perhaps feeling a sense of crisis, Casey’s eyes became serious and solemn.
“What should I do? Just give me orders!”
“good. If you do as I say, you will be able to keep your job for life! Follow me!”
“I will believe and follow you!”
Casey shouted unconditional loyalty and waited for my orders. Aidan’s gaze at us was somewhat lukewarm.
“The first thing to do is to improve the reputation of the guild in the future so that Dad doesn’t touch the guild rashly, and then dig out the weaknesses of other nobles.”
When my dad messed with the guild, I needed nobles who would run amok and oppose me.
“If that’s the case, I’m confident. I still have a lot of weaknesses that I caught.”
Casey laughed softly. I liked the villain-like aspect.
“Then I’ll leave that part to Casey. Leave the reputation to me.”
I grinned and pounded my chest.
‘I have everything planned!’
The beginning of a family war has now risen.
