Chapter 13 – #5 the Avenger and the Poisoned Goblet, There Is No Turning Back… (2)
Emilia announced her intention to depart for Count Meln’s estate without delay.
She is the one who has never forgotten her hatred and anger of her day, every day of her life, until now.
As long as the identity of the enemy had been determined, almost as far as it could be said, there was no intention of delaying any longer.
“… Anything, can I help you?”
“Doesn’t exist.”
At Terry’s words, Emilia cut it off and said.
At Emilia’s prompt reply, Terry put on an expression similar to her wry smile, but she didn’t say anything different.
She just asked me to wait a minute, she said and left her room.
And after a while, he returned with two transparent glasses in his hands,
And yesterday, ‘that’ liquor he had been trying so hard to get back from Emilia’s hands was there.
“Te――guild leader, that’s…”
“Quiet. … It might be the last.”
I put a glass on the shelf provided in one corner of the room, put ice in it and pour the drink, as I usually prepare for Emilia.
After filling two glasses, Terry took them and returned to the table where Emilia sat in front of her.
“It’s just one drink.”
“… It’s petty.”
“It is very expensive.”
Even in this situation, she laughed nonchalantly at Terri’s remark.
And on the subject of her saying that, she served it up in a glass that was never too small.
Snap-
Emilia and Terry clashed their glasses together and drank down the pretty colored contents.
There are no other words or toasts.
Just with the meaning of farewell, I drink it at once without saying anything.
… Whoa…
The drinks were really good.
Even she, who doesn’t know the taste of her alcohol, ah, it’s something amazing… To the extent that she thought involuntarily.
“… Thanks, Mr. Terry. So far, in many ways.”
Daughter…
Having finished her glass, Emilia set her glass down on the table, leaving only her ice, and immediately stood up and left her room.
As soon as she returns to her inn and finishes lightly preparing, she will head to Count Meln’s estate.
Whether things go well or not, what will come back to this guild… Maybe not.
‘Thank you, thank you very much Mr. Terry.’
‘… And, I can’t forgive you, Earl Meln.’
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――And then, a while after the hero left.
What a profit…
“I’m gone, I’m gone ♪”
Opening the inner door, the succubus Mona, mimicked in human form as usual, entered the room where Terry was alone.
In her hand was a pottery jar, large enough to fit in the palm of her hand,
The bottle she was playing with as if rolling it in her hand was now empty without any contents.
Originally, what was contained in it was 『Poison』, Which had a special shamanistic effect,
All of the contents were mixed with the liquor Emilia drank earlier.
“Whoops… ♪ What will happen… ♪”
Terry has blurry eyes without any reaction to Mona’s appearance.
As Mona stroked Terry’s chin, she licked her lips, remembering the warrior who had just run away.
She’s done her job now.
What was left was to her 『Master』――
She just needs to return to Count Meln and prepare for tonight’s raid.
Oh, what the heck.
Already, I’m really looking forward to it… ♡
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――Midnight, late hour.
It was a dark night when even the moon was covered, as if the sky would help Emilia.
Emilia, wearing a light outfit like a thief and a hood covering her face,
Taking advantage of the darkness of the night, she was breaking into a large mansion.
Shhhhh…
Silently, with a movement as light as the wind, I leaped over a tall stone wall and landed in the courtyard.
She pays attention to the signs around her, but it seems that no one is around.
Controlling her breathing, which was about to be disturbed by her tension, Emilia cautiously made her way across the courtyard.
‘… Arrive… This is Count Meln’s mansion…’
‘It’s going smoothly so far…’
Emilia, who had arrived at this estate before sunset, had some knowledge of the structure of her mansion beforehand.
She was only able to see with the naked eye from the outside, but that was enough for her as she can enhance her eyesight with her magical powers.
‘The lord’s place must be on the top floor anyway.’
‘You can hide in the bedroom. … There, if only the two of us could see it.’
She is a warrior and a powerful adventurer, so her lord’s privates are enough to deal with dozens of people.
However, she did not want to raise a fuss as much as possible.
Aside from the heart of hatred and anger,
She wonders if the incredible information she heard from the guild leader, Terry, is real…
Because she still wasn’t sure.
So, I want to meet you in person. I would like to have a little conversation.
If the opponent was really a villain, there would be no way he would give an honest answer to Emilia’s question.
Still, though…
Emilia may still want to believe that she is a human conscience.
“… ?”
She was Emilia who tried to break into the mansion right away, but
Sensing her strange discomfort, she leaned her back against the wall and stroked her bare belly.
‘… What… From earlier… A feeling of incongruity…’
Needless to say her belly tickled.
Deuk, Deuk,Do you feel a scratching sensation?
Ever since I left the adventurer’s guild during the day, strange things keep happening…
No… This is clear…
Ever since she drank that drink…
“Yes… ?”
Under her breasts, around her own belly, she felt something glimmering in her.
However, the light quickly went out, so Emilia could only think that she was simply mistaken.
If she hadn’t been obscured from her sight by her own raised breasts,
If she could see a mirror or something,
If so, he would have been able to notice that a strange tattoo, like a womb, was engraved faintly on his lower abdomen…
‘Well… Something… I think I’m fine.’
‘It’s probably just because he’s nervous. … OK, no problem.’
‘Start… !’
Emilia, like before, didn’t make a sound,
As swift and light as the wind, they infiltrated into the mansion.
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Fluff, fluff… !
“Whoa, whoa, whoa… Nice…”
It was good to infiltrate Count Meln’s mansion in triumph, but
He is a soldier who constantly wanders around and cannot completely avoid the gaze of his servants.
I tried to avoid it as much as possible, but in the end, I was unlucky enough to run into the two soldiers who were overpowered and knocked down at once, and Emilia let out a sigh.
The knocked down soldiers were thrown into a nearby small room. There won’t be any fuss about this.
… By the way, there are many people walking around even though it is late.
‘And those soldiers from a moment ago… It seemed like something was wrong.’
Because she was knocked down in one shot, she had no time to observe closely,
The servants she secretly stole from a while ago, the soldiers she defeated…
For some reason, it felt inorganic.
Even at such a late hour, the appearance of walking around the inside of the mansion and monitoring it without a hint of sleepiness,
Even when they run into each other, they just pass by without chatting or saying anything…
To say that it is sincere, it feels somewhat strange.
‘… No wonder… Ever since she entered this mansion, her skin was tingling… I keep getting weird feelings…’
‘It’s really wider than that, the mansion.’
… I really don’t know if it’s just my mood.
The actual size of the mansion also felt as if it were several times larger than what was observed from the outside.
If it was originally her plan, she should have already arrived at the Count’s bedroom,
Let alone her arrival, she lost her way in the middle and was stranded in a place like this.
The Count is a wizard and magic tool master.
If that’s the case, he might have set up something special in the mansion as well.
――Was it too hasty?
I have to admit that anger has narrowed my thinking.
There is no sign of any magical trap yet,
It wouldn’t be strange if anything happened the moment they broke in in the first place.
Even until that moment when she infiltrated this mansion, she had no choice but to stop meeting Earl Meln,
After feeling this sense of incongruity and fussing around a few times, I finally had time to broaden my thoughts.
As it was an important event in my life, I had to act a little more cautiously and more deliberately.
Her own behavior is wrong. Stupid.
That fact was unmistakably true, and Emilia clearly acknowledged it.
She just admitted it, but she doesn’t regret it.
Obviously, even if she went back to her past, she would have acted the same as now.
Even if she knows it’s obviously stupid.
Once they had already infiltrated the mansion, there was no retreat anyway.
Still, from now on, she will be a little more careful and prudent, going around her rooms one by one and making up her mind to find the Count’s bedroom――
Thump thump
‘Who… Come?!’
With Emilia holding her breath, she hurriedly hides in the room where she hid her soldiers earlier, and listens through her door.
Someone’s footsteps. However, her confident and confident attitude was different from those of the servants she had encountered so far.
The sound of the soldiers would be a little more heavy because of the armor, but the sound of these shoes… !
Ki yi profit―
In order not to be seen, Emilia slowly opened the door in time with the sound of her shoes receding.
Just a little, just a little.
Just enough to see outside through the crack in the door.
――And then, I came to see it.
In the dark hallway, his figure illuminated by the light of the magic tool lamp that was turned on in the middle.
Stuffy, etc. Significantly taller than Emilia’s father, Edgar Edenbergz.
I couldn’t see anything but the back of her receding into the distance on the other side of the hallway, but that back was enough. Enough, it was recognizable.
For many years since that day, I have never forgotten a single day,
The man who had appeared in my dreams several times and brought back those terrible memories.
The culprit of all those who twisted his own life to his heart’s content, murdered his father, and insulted his mother.
No doubt.
He is that guy
That man――was right over there.
