Imperial Sewage Treatment Facility.
Imperial Sewage Treatment Facility.
Rusona sighed heavily.
“As an envoy of the Dragon Kingdom, I am a guest in the imperial palace. Since my position is a position, there is a high possibility that it will cause a political problem if I do not touch Rekkles, a merchant. Besides, the back-street gangs that had been helping us for money until now have all paid compensation and declared that they will get out of this business, as if they were pressured.”
She tapped the table with her long, slender fingers and continued. A very cheerful echo spread. Rusona looked at me with a graceful smile as if she had never drooped.
“Then I heard that you appeared to Hilden. It’s just luck! I heard from Hilden that you are true righteous people who practice righteousness wherever they go and never turn a blind eye to those who suffer in low places. Isn’t it?”
a true righteous man To those who don’t know what’s going on inside, our actions can seem like that. In addition, the suspicion she raised against Rekkles was so valid that it was necessary to investigate it at least once.
“First of all, yes…”
Just as I was about to say something, Giselle reached out from under the table and squeezed my hand. Giselle nodded slightly as she slightly averted her eyes. It’s as if you’re asking me to leave it to you from here on out.
I closed my mouth and buried myself in the chair again. Giselle met the dragon princess’s eyes and opened her mouth.
“There are a few things I want to ask the Dragon Princess.”
“Feel free to ask. I can give you any answer.”
“Hmmmm.”
Giselle cleared her throat briefly and chose her words.
“There are only two things I want to ask. The first question is, why does the Dragon Princess pursue the worshipers of evil spirits so diligently?”
Rusona glanced at Giselle intriguedly and accepted the comment lightly.
“Isn’t it the natural duty of a high-born to root out the worshipers of evil spirits who inflict pain on innocent people?”
“Even though this isn’t the homeland of the Dragon Princess.”
“Is my motive that important?”
“I think we need to know exactly what the Dragon Princess wants in advance so that there will be no useless conflict later.”
“It’s what I want…”
Rusona pondered for a long time with a rather serious look, then smiled mischievously.
“A reputation enough to make my father see me again? That would be my answer. Rather, I am glad that the backs of these evil god worshipers are people of very high rank. The stronger and higher the enemy, the greater the reputation I will gain when I defeat him.”
The golden dragon’s eyes shimmered with burning desire. It was too late to notice because he had disguised himself as an empty figure. It was clear that the woman was as greedy as anyone else.
While Gisele remained silent, RSona added briefly. Packed full of jokes.
“Besides, I have strong wings, so all I have to do is fly to the Dragon Kingdom and escape. It is a fight with nothing to lose.”
Giselle nodded slowly.
“I understood the meaning of the dragon princess. So let me ask you the second question. If you’ve heard of it, the dragon princess would know, but our party’s skills have been sufficiently proven, and in reality they are much better than that.”
“Hilden says so.”
“So…”
Giselle, her black eyes shining, put her right thumb and forefinger together to form a circle.
“How long have you been thinking?”
***
“Good. I will agree to your terms.”
“Thank you for your willing acceptance.”
The Dragon Princess was a generous client. Giselle offered the dragon princess a request fee of 100 gold coins for each member of the party and bonuses based on additional performance, and the dragon princess accepted the terms with great pleasure.
widely.
When I let go of my hand with the dragon princess, the door opened and my mother quickly walked in with a pocket in her hand. Mother walked over and came right in front of me.
‘killing!’
A brown pouch pushed in front of my face. This is probably the mother’s portion that was handed over to Jamel. Mother tapped her pocket with her finger and smiled broadly.
‘Kill kill!’
A total of 42 gold coins explained. My mother stretched out the pouch and pushed it into my arms.
“This…?”
‘killing!’
He explained that he was satisfied with the coin pocket he received as pocket money. My mother tapped the pocket money that was hanging around her neck, and when I didn’t want to accept it, she gave me her pocket.
My nose tingles at the thought of my mother counting gold coins while glaring at Jamel to give this to me.
“Then, let’s go eat something delicious together later with this money.”
I had a little too much money for that.
‘killing!!!’
very good answer. My mother immediately buried her face in my chest and rubbed it. The Dragon Princess, who was looking at him with happy eyes, spoke up.
“Is he your younger brother? For some reason, the atmosphere of the two seems to be very similar. Anyway, really cute.”
The mother answered by stretching out her hand without saying anything and showing her middle finger to the dragon princess. Rusona laughed and stretched out her finger to tickle the back of her mother’s hand.
‘Hat killed?!’
Surprised, the mother quickly pulled her hand.
“After work is over, you can come and play at the rose palace where I live. I will treat you kindly I have a dinner appointment, so I have to go. Brother Batis, please wake up quickly.”
Lesona gracefully lowered her head, stabbed her brother in the back, then turned and left without regret.
gurgling sound. Standing up after Rusona, Batis glanced at Dakia with eyes full of regret and came closer to me. He looked at me with resentful eyes and then added words weakly.
“…I’m counting on you.”
“What do you mean?”
“You know better than that. You unlucky bastard.”
With a quick shot, he left the Wet Swallow after Lesona.
Finally, only us, Dakia, a man, spoke in a slightly weak voice.
“Then let’s make a detailed plan soon. Mr. Rekkles… We need to investigate.”
***
“Hey.”
“I am not Yaga. Brother. I have a nice name, Rusona Draco.”
Batis, standing shoulder to shoulder with Rusona, frowned.
“How come you never answered with a polite ‘yes’?”
“Don’t you think it’s because my brother never called me nice?”
“Really, even if you put it in water, your proud snout will float. really!”
“Your body will float. I am also very good at swimming. It is truly a nimble dragon.”
Batis admitted he couldn’t beat his sister with three tongues. Although this is a fact that has been acknowledged many times before.
“Are you okay with spending money like that? Don’t you think the conditions were too generous?”
The additional performance bonus of 100 gold coins per head was a manageable amount, but it was by no means a light amount. Rusona looked at her brother and grinned.
“Originally, to catch a big fish, you have to use the right bait. And if what I heard from Hilden is correct, I think they are worth it.”
“…”
For some unknown reason, Batis narrowed his eyes and glared at his sister.
“How come you seem to believe Hilden’s words more than mine?”
“Hilden is a little servile, but he is a very capable man.”
Her younger sister, Rusona, was very greedy for talent. Batis reflexively screamed at the visceral goosebumps.
“hey!!! no!!!”
“What do you mean?”
“Hilden is mine!!! I will never give it to you!!!”
“Don’t worry. I’ve already made an offer, but it was rejected. They say there is a favor to repay my brother.”
Batis let out a sigh of relief.
“Yeah, I was rejected… what?! You already suggested?! Wow, I didn’t see you like that, really!!!”
“It would be better for Hilden to work under me than to suffer under a poor older brother… It’s really a pity.”
“If you weren’t really my sister…”
Rusona cut off Batis’ words with a graceful smile. However, the two vertically split golden eyes were not smiling at all.
“If it weren’t for you, my older brother, you would have thought it would have been a long time ago.”
Batis, who shrunk his neck for a moment in the cool life, quickly recovered his original state as always.
“Hey hey! still! What are you talking about brother? I’m sorry!”
Rusona sighed heavily. It was stupid for anyone to fight an idiot. Because I can’t speak anyway.
“ha. I was too talkative. Are you okay?”
“okay!”
***
Giselle, who thrust her hand into the shadow and stirred it a few times, gave a small nod.
“no one is here. I think you can cross over.”
As it got dark after Lasona left, Giselle gathered us without delay and explained her plan. She carefully said that when we were invited to Rekkles’ room, we left a mark just in case.
That meant that we could always go into Rekkles’ office and search his room.
“Before Cardi Show returns, let’s deal with it on our own. When Cardisho comes, it becomes difficult for Jamel and I to use authority.”
It was after dark, so there were only a few people at the Rekkles Merchant Headquarters. It wasn’t that there were more sharp ways to procrastinate, but Giselle’s method was the best.
“So, this time, can I just take away all the money?”
Giselle frowned at Jamel’s flushed cheeks.
“No, it’s not about making money, it’s about finding evidence related to the libertio!”
“How do you know what the libertio has to do with it?”
“Okay, as soon as you get to the room, use your powers to search for hidden passages. okay? You can roughly figure out things like the structure of a building.”
“okay!”
“Then is everyone ready?”
He put the mother who had turned into a hand into his pocket and nodded. Dacia’s expression was a little dark, as if she was still uncomfortable. I reached out and gently took Dacia’s hand.
“Nothing has been finalized yet. Even the Dragon Princess’ guesses can be wrong.”
Dacia nodded with a slightly calmer face.
“that’s right. As Priest Marnak said, nothing has been finalized yet… I really hope so. Rekkles is a really nice person to me.”
“Goes!”
A black shadow engulfed us.
***
As the shadows disappeared, we stood in Rekkles’ room, whom we had visited during the day. Giselle put her finger to her mouth and whispered softly.
“From now on, everyone will search quietly. There are no people in this room alone. There are still people walking around downstairs.”
We nodded in unspoken agreement, and everyone searched around the room. At the same time, Jamel murmured softly as he touched the floor of the room.
“O entangled rock. Is there a hole in this room where you can sneak through?”
Stone shards clumped together at the tips of her fingers. Soon, Jamel raised ten sharp fingers and poked them all over the room.
“Not here… not here…”
I couldn’t help but ask Jamel.
“What the hell is that ability for?”
“Ah, if you poke this stone part with your finger, you can figure out the rough structure of the building! But this room has a lot of wood instead of stone, so I’m poking around here and there…”
Phew.
Jamel, who had been prodding here and there, suddenly stopped talking and opened his eyes wide.
“What?! Is there really a hidden passage?”
Giselle, who was going through Rekkles’ papers, smiled broadly.
“Looks like it was there too. Anyway, the documents here don’t seem to be all that bad, so let’s investigate that first. So, where is the aisle?”
“for a moment.”
Jamel closed his eyes and concentrated, then extended his other hand and pointed to a place.
“Beyond that wall. But I don’t know how to open it.”
“That’s it, once I get over it, it’s over. Everyone hold my hand.”
As we all gathered together and held Giselle’s hand, the shadow engulfed us once more and spat it out. When I opened my eyes, a stone staircase greeted us. Stairs with no end in sight.
Dacia looked at Gisele and Jamel with a little surprise.
“You are much more capable than I thought. Great.”
To be honest, I also thought those two combinations were the perfect combination to steal somewhere.
At Dakia’s praise, Jamel scratched the back of his head and burst into laughter.
“I am so competent! Truly the all-powerful Jamel…!”
“Let’s stop talking nonsense and go downstairs. Just looking at it, it looks like there’s something underneath. You’d better go down quietly. Marnak, could you lead the way? If an unexpected situation arises, you can handle it best here.”
“I will.”
I took out my bone sword and led the way down the stairs. I went down and down again, but I could not easily see the end of the stairs.
After going down for a while, the stair finally came to an end by the time the musty smell intensified. What greeted us at the end of the stairs was a huge aisle. A huge aisle through which sludge flows.
Giselle covered her nose.
“It smells a bit strong.”
Dakia, who quickly looked around, lit a small spark with her magic. She looked around and quietly opened her mouth.
“Anyway, I think this is the sewer of the Northern Empire. I didn’t expect it to be this huge…”
Kung!!!
Finally, as soon as Jamel was able to get out of the stairs, a huge boulder fell and blocked the way he had come. Jamel shouted at us with startled eyes.
“I didn’t do it! I didn’t do anything!””
“If it wasn’t really you, someone else would have done it.”
“Others?”
Giselle tugged at my collar and whispered lowly,
“If Jamel really didn’t do anything, someone might have noticed we were in here. What do we do? Shall we go back?”
“Once you’re in, wouldn’t it be better to look around a bit more?”
“That’s what I think. Then let’s observe the situation a bit more.”
“Who figured out…?!”
Jamel trembled and said in a small voice,
“Can’t I just count on it then…?”
