Episode 282 Things Money Can’t Buy (4)
A few days later. Bikir visited Damien’s mansion once again wearing the mask of a night hound.
“It’s nice to feel like we’ve become a team.”
This time, Dolores was also with them.
Vikir planned to seek Damian’s cooperation and introduce Dolores at once.
Damian’s mansion was still heavily guarded, but as previously advised, there were areas without guards.
Bikir took Dolores along the route.
Eventually, after going through several gates and entering, a high wall came out.
When Dolores is contemplating what to do in front of a high fence.
“Come here.”
“…What!?”
Bikir picked up Dolores and jumped over the fence in an instant.
…chuck!
Bikir, who landed on the yard, dropped Dolores beside him.
“Uh… have you passed it already?”
“?”
“Oh no! There’s bullshit!”
Dolores waved her hands like it was nothing, hiding her reddened ears with her hair.
at that time.
“The garden must be a bit bleak for a date.”
A low voice came from across the garden.
Damian was standing where Vikir and Dolores turned their heads.
“Since you officiated my daughter, I am willing to officiate yours.”
“The bullshit has increased.”
“Hahaha- is that so?”
Dolores was surprised to see Vikir and Damian converse casually.
When she visited Damian to take the second exam for the college league, he was not only very depressed and nervous, but also extremely reticent.
But I never thought that my personality would change like this.
‘By the way… Officiating? The Night Hound? No, wasn’t Director Damien’s daughter killed in a car accident in the first place?’
To officiate for someone is to become their godfather. For nobles, it is indeed an important ceremony.
What the hell happened between the hound of the night and Director Damian?
Why did they become so close?
However, Vikir did not bother to explain the past to Dolores.
“This friend is a helper to help with this task.”
“Nice to meet you, Saint of Quo Vadis. Are we old enough?”
Upon hearing Vikir’s introduction, Damian held out his hand to Dolores.
Dolores also responded politely, holding hands.
“It is an honor to see Damian, Director of the Mining Bureau again.”
“If I knew how to ride a boat like this, I would have looked better at that time. Hahaha-”
Seeing Damian’s brightly smiling face, Dolores was surprised once more.
I had no idea he was a person who could smile so broadly.
at that time. Bikir immediately got to the point.
“I will kill Bartolomeo, the head of the bourgeois family.”
Dolores looked at Damian for a moment, startled.
However, even when he said he would kill the head of his family and his own brother, Damian did not blink an eye.
rather.
“Yeah. I’ve reserved a seat for you.”
He accepted it naturally.
Damian started talking in earnest.
“I mobilized some of my henchmen inside the family and told the head of the family about the Oracle investment club. They showed great interest. The news that young geniuses with talent for investment appeared.”
“So. Got it?”
“I got it.”
Damian nodded in response to Vikir’s question.
And, not knowing what he was talking about, he explained further to Dolores, whose eyes were wide open.
“Appointments for dinner.”
“ah.”
“Remember. Dinner is the perfect moment to assassinate my brother.”
Dolores tilted her head at Damian’s request for trust.
“Then why is it a dinner party? Is there no other opportunity such as going out of the family or sleeping?”
“It’s because of my brother’s peculiar habit.”
Damian continued his explanation.
“Whenever he has a meeting or dinner with an outsider, he invites the other party into his safe. And at all other times he has thoroughly trained soldiers by his side.”
“In the safe?”
“Yes. Safe.”
Dolores tilted her head.
The safe can be big, but how big should it be to invite outsiders inside?
But at Damian’s words that followed, Dolores opened her mouth wide.
“The safe is in the shape of a cube measuring 100m in width, length, and height. The inner wall contains mithril and orhalcon, so it cannot even be scratched with moderate force. Also, there are dozens of movement control magic that blocks teleport. Because it is overlapped with hundreds of layers, even magic cannot escape it. Of course, who designed and how it was built is a mystery.”
Iron Fortress. It’s a safe word, but in fact, it’s different from a fortress that can never be breached.
“In the vault, gold, jewels, money, art, and all kinds of treasures form a mountain range beyond the mountain. Invited guests will have a two-hour dinner in the middle of these gold and silver treasures.”
“Why do you eat at a place like that?”
“It’s because there are too many immature puppies among those who visit my brother. Those who try to show off their wealth out of a sense of pride. I wonder if it’s to kill their spirits in advance.”
“I’m sorry that I keep asking questions… Is there any other reason for the two-hour meal time?”
“It’s because once the vault is closed, it won’t open for two hours no matter what. The reason why it’s set to two hours is because the people who tested this vault when it was first built were the Baskerville Knights.”
Vikir showed interest in Damian’s words.
“Knights of Baskerville?”
“Yes. My brother tried to destroy the safe by borrowing the Knights of the Baskervilles to check its safety.”
Damian scratched his chin, recalling the past.
“Are the people dispatched at that time probably the Pit Bull Knights?”
The Pit Bull Knights know Bikir well. It was because he had worked with them in the past when they wiped out illegal slave auctions.
An order dedicated to dogfighting led by the Earl of Boston Terrier, one of the Seven Earls.
They are incarnations of grit and fighting spirit that must bite and kill the opponent once they emerge.
Damian told their anecdote.
“Then the entire Pit Bull Knights rushed in and attacked the walls of the vault, and the walls were breached within two hours.”
In other words, it meant that the 100 graduates had blocked the attacks that were pouring in without a break for 2 hours.
If the safe is as strong as that, the security will be sure, and you will be able to eat comfortably as it is an absolutely safe place from outside threats.
Dolores said briefly.
“If you think about it differently… once you succeed in meeting the head of the bourgeois family in the vault, you can rampage without outside intervention for at least two hours.”
“Yes. Those outside can’t see or hear what’s going on inside.”
“Aren’t you worried about an assassination before going into the safe? I think that’s quite possible.”
“Strangely, I’ve never seen him worry like that before.”
In response to Damian’s answer, Vikir, who was next to him, answered abruptly.
“That’s right. He’s a demon with absolute power.”
“…What? A demon?”
Damian tilted his head as if he had never heard of it.
Meanwhile, Dolores was frantically taking notes.
“Leave time in the safe is two hours. If you go inside, treasures such as gold, currency, jewelry, art, etc. are piled up like a mountain. The strength of the outer wall is almost indestructible…” And in the meantime, Bikire was immersed in other thoughts
.
‘It became almost certain that the bourgeoisie’s patriarch was Sixth Poem.’
Vikir was convinced after seeing the investigation data that Sindi Wendy sent back recently.
sixth corpse. A demon who wants to devour Quo Vadis and Bourgeois at the same time by joining hands with Dantalian, the ninth corpse.
Bikir recalled the time of the extermination war in the past.
The human union, whose morale had risen due to the dazzling battles of the great heroes, advanced beyond the ruined ecliptic.
And they saw
‘The most beautiful being among those cast out of heaven’.
He faced the great heroes of the human side with courage and spirit that seemed to be born with a strong and strong dignity.
However, in actual combat, the tactics he exhibited were cowardly, crude, cunning, and lethal.
The appearance was also terrible.
Eyes of fire emanating from the eyes, like smoke from the world’s greatest beacon fire, eye-lights emanating from the breath.
Its mouth parted like a crevasse on an arctic ice wall, and its horns and wings stretched out to the sides so large that it covered the entire battlefield.
‘…I had a lot of trouble with his strategy in the Legion vs. Legion battle. As time passes and they gather forces, they become very annoying, so we need to get rid of them as soon as possible.’
At number six, I could see why he chose the bourgeois family.
It would be to buy an army with a huge amount of money.
A huge legion of people who unknowingly became followers of the devil.
at that time. Damian asked.
“But. Is it possible to assassinate my brother within two hours? My brother is not just a man with a lot of money. I wonder if the former family head of the Iron Blooded Swordsman would have said he wanted to adopt him as his adopted son.”
In other words, Hugo’s father coveted the talent of the current bourgeois family.
Bikir rubbed his chin.
‘If that’s the case, that means his body is almost as good as Hugo’s.’
A lot of time has passed since then, and now the devil is controlling that body.
After thinking about this and that, Vikir nodded.
“It’s going to be tight, but it’s possible. If you help me with one thing outside the vault.”
“Me? Outside the vault?”
Damian shrugged.
Although he is a graduate-level swordsman, he won’t be of much help in combat.
In the first place, there was a high possibility that he would not be able to even get into the safe as he was in the position of only making a table for dinner and then leaving.
Moreover, what can be done outside the vault, where outside intervention is impossible?
In front of Damian and Dolores with a bewildered expression.
Suk-
Bikir pushed aside a document with his plan written on it.
“This is the end of the bourgeoisie.”
and.
Realizing what Vikir was up to outside the vault, Damian and Dolores looked stunned and said at the same time.
“This is not a bourgeois problem…”
“…the whole empire will end?”
