Chapter 348 – Elixir of the Immortals (9)
─Basasak.
─Pasasasasak!
Insects with jet-black carapaces flapped their wings and crawled across the carpet-covered floor.
Primor hid his goosebumps with a calm expression, silently watching his escort perform the magic of Le Mer-Nile.
“It’s nice, it’s nice~.”
While muttering the words of her hometown that her ears couldn’t understand, Yeo-do linked the bugs she did today and tomorrow in her mansion.
As the sun-like light from the dung beetle’s brooch breathed life into the little creatures, the insects with little intelligence moved like living golems following the directions of the female thief.
Yeo enemy happily blew her breath on the brooch she held in her own hand and rubbed it on her clothes. She liked the luster of pure gold.
Not only was she not postponing it until later, but she was honestly having a hard time watching the bugs. Primor ordered that her inquiry be opened immediately. Her selfishness was also a slightly mixed instruction.
‘I understand the flying flies, but the cockroaches are a bit…’
─Uk.
Even if I almost vomited without realizing it, Primor was able to avoid her rudeness by using her facial expression management ability and mana, which she had practiced all her life. Perhaps because of her reckless travel, she has been in bad shape lately.
‘If Henry had been alive, he would have been examined.’
No, she might have deserved it from Signatio. After a moment of regret, she sat still and waited for the performance of her female thief.
-Wriggling.
It must have been dozens of minutes that she just waited quietly thinking that she shouldn’t disturb her concentration. The female thief’s eyebrows twitched and trembled as she sat upright in her unique posture.
Primor’s escort, the sorceress, asked with an impression of her. This reaction was the first she had ever seen, as she had never doubted her probing abilities.
“No, I’m not sure… Is it a barrier? As soon as you enter the annex, the link with the bugs gradually weakens.〉
The wizard immediately denied it. I wouldn’t know if it was after it was removed, but it didn’t make sense that I couldn’t recognize the barrier that was in effect.
‘Sir, who said what? It just seems like that.〉
Even Yeo enemy only opened one of her eyes and grumbled. The wizard tapped her on the shoulder and recited his thoughts.
〈Isn’t the cold again causing problems with the link?〉
〈… Is it difficult to explore?〉
When she asked anxiously, she thought about it to herself, and she trembled.
Saying that, the thief who was manipulating the bug suddenly hardened her face.
It was because the vision she was able to see through her worm senses revealed something she couldn’t resist without losing her words.
An insect’s vision is not as clear as a human’s. Even through the correction filter of her magic, the sight she grasped was close to sensuous.
And the center of the annex reflected to my senses was a pure white tree that soared to the sky.
‘M-Mama! It’s a big deal!〉
It was then. As if he had forgotten the manners he had learned during his training as a knight, Hans pushed the door open and entered. Rias, who came in after her, made her face reddened in response to his behavior.
And the enemy opened his mouth at the loud intrusion, then distorted her brown-skinned face.
‘Hey, you son of a bitch! The link is broken because of you! It took 3 hours to get into the annex, do you really want to die!”
‘Oh, no, sorry about that. But it’s really a big deal!〉
‘Stop both. What happened?〉
When Primor asked the representative to sort things out, Hans responded in a panic.
─Quaaang!!
As if to add to his words, an explosion shook the windows of the mansion. Primor, who turned his eyes outside the window with awe, was stunned for a moment when he saw the building used as an auction house.
A fiery demon soaring to the sky was burning the auction house.
***
Robin Kimbley is a thief.
The thief here is not a petty thief who pursues money or personal gain, for example, a ‘thief’.
What he steals is worth more than gold coins and more splendid than treasure.
Some would call him cheesy names like ‘Assassin’ or ‘Indiscriminate Killer’, but no matter what anyone said, Robin had an aesthetic that was steadfast in his profession.
A fleeting art that should be more delicate than pickpocketing and more thorough than stealing!
That was the ‘steal of life’ that Robin pursued.
—It wasn’t those thieves. But it might be useful
That’s why Robin suddenly had a tantrum at the situation where he had to shoplift after being arrested for a reason that didn’t sound like that.
Whether it was being captured and being worked like a slave while looking for a workshop, or a stupid half-elf wizard who smirked at revealing money without knowing his situation, he didn’t like anything at all.
At least the half-elf didn’t show his face for several days, as if he had lost his job. Thanks to that, the irritation has subsided a bit.
But still, what kind of heart is it to use yourself, an artist of the moment, for shoplifting!
No, if it was just robbing the auction house, it was okay to endure and let it pass. He will also have a chance to showcase his art view on the way to the warehouse.
‘But then?’
The hunting dog’s job is to go into the pot after hunting.
It was not his own hunting dog, but if it was a wild dog that he had put on his leash and ate for a while, there was absolutely no way he would let it live.
The products of the auction house were things that nobles wanted to buy and sell.
Proof that you stole it? Even if Robin thought about it, it was only natural that evidence that would only leave behind such regrets would be thoroughly expunged.
Robin knows that he will be included in that ‘evidence’.
But he never intended to end his life as the hound of that damn redhead, Ulsy.
‘I’m Diavolo and the vice-count, and I’m telling you to eat your liver.’
You have no choice but to escape by taking advantage of the opportunity.
If they were far away, there would be nothing they could do even if they noticed his escape.
It’s unfortunate that we have to get out of Romania, but isn’t the actor’s ability deteriorating just because the main stage changes?
He had an obligation to engrave the great swordsman’s name as Robin Kimblely in human history.
─Roaring!
Robin hid in the shadow of the building to avoid the flames and squirrels that disturbed the auction house.
The idiots fighting in front were bait. He checked the location of the warehouse with the magic item he slugged on his wrist, avoiding the tall buildings and running in and out.
─Pu-wook!
As they passed, the intrusive guards blocked their mouths and created one more hole in their throat.
I wanted to show off my artistic beauty with their corpses, but as long as they were alive, another opportunity would come. Now was the time to steal to live.
‘… Here you go!’
Finding where the magic item was pointing, Robin ran his feet through the grass. The entrance to the warehouse, which was hidden by dirt, was revealed. It was in the form of an iron plate laid on the floor.
Robin put his fingers on the handle to get out of here in a hurry.
─Pu-bu-bu-bu-bu-bu!!
But at that moment, Robin sensed something sharply pouring into the back of his head and twisted his body. Ice shards rained down like arrows and pierced the spot where he stood.
Robin clicked his tongue and glared at the building of the auction house, which stood tall like a clock tower.
The strange man fluttered his black cloak and landed on the spire.
Whatever magic power it was, Robin’s eyes couldn’t see through the exact impression of the man wearing the eye mask.
But after watching the two women land on the clock tower after him, he burst out laughing.
A mask that hides only the eyes and a cloak that changes like wings! He had the same impression of the phantom thief as he had heard before.
However, despite the fact that Robin personally spoke to him, the man in the lead waved his hand at the other thieves without answering.
Robin gritted his teeth and fired sparks from his eyes.
There was a certain level of arrogance to be chatting casually in front of him.
The sneer on his face quickly turned to anger. He remembered what trouble he had been through with those stupid bitches.
In a dramatic tone, Robin opened his arms. The man in the black cloak was an opponent he hadn’t heard of before, but that fact did not give him reason to be wary.
At any rate, he was third-rate, like hanging out with shoplifters. There is no reason to be afraid.
─Tooung!!
Robin took out a long iron skewer and leaped.
Like a flying squirrel, he stepped on the ledge on the auction house wall and climbed up to approach the thieves.
Then, the man in the black suit aimed at Robin with his finger. The speed was so fast that it was like a white hawk cutting through the darkness and flying through the night sky.
The moment the extreme cold was compressed at the tip of her long index finger, her man roared with a majestic voice.
〈BatBat-Gatling Gun!〉
A cold muzzle flash exploded from his thick fingers, and dozens of ice shards rained down.
─To-do-do-do-do-do!!
〈Ghuhhhhh?!
The ice cubes spilled from her fingers pounded Robin’s chest.
Having already found blood and flesh on Robin’s skewer, he had no mercy in his hands. Receiving a piercing wound around the pit of the stomach, Robin plummeted to the ground.
‘Ah, this familiar feeling. It’s been 4 years.〉
Whoa-.
The man in black fluttered his cape and blew his forefinger in an L shape.
Cold steam, several times colder than the winter air, flowed from his fingertips.
It was a skill that made a barrel with mana and gathered ice cubes in the shape of a bullet to emit, but in fact, it did not have enough performance to use. It was just that I was happy with the feeling of being a top shooter for the first time in a while.
‘If it’s a gas gun with ice bullets, the lethality is low.’
In fact, the power was increased by mana, it was a bit strong and was on the level of a large BB bullet.
When he clicked his tongue and landed on his floor, Robin struggled, clutching his tattered chest.
‘Who is it? Is your boss like that?〉
The man who easily came down from the high tower approached Robin with a touch.
Compared to the slick movements, there is no disturbance at all in the firmly planted steps. It was only then that Robin noticed that the opponent was a nonsense master. At least he wasn’t the enemy to deal with.
Robin, whose lips turned purple, threw away his pride and fell on his face.
‘Wait, wait! Don’t ask me like this! Help me! There are things worth my life if you just let me live!!
‘I don’t think it’s worth much if it’s your life. Well, tell me.〉
Robin took the cylinder out of his bosom with a fumbling motion of his hand. It was an empty barrel like a bamboo barrel.
〈… Space magic?〉
The face of the man hidden by the mask became ferocious.
‘That wouldn’t be something to say so easily. Don’t you think giving it to an idiot like you, and passing it on to someone else as your dick is too much shit?〉
That’s what he said, but Robin himself was dubious. Space magic is a magic that even wizards guilds can barely achieve under the condition that it is a specific item.
Do you think you can steal dozens of jewelry of any kind in this small barrel?
Even Robin himself couldn’t believe it. But if he said that, this time he would be killed by that man.
〈If you don’t believe it, check it yourself, check it, make it right, make it right, make it right… !!〉
Robin, who risked his life to propose, stuttered at the sudden pain that seemed to boil inside his chest.
His tattered chest pulsated and spurted blood. As the veins that ran from his neck to his chin turned black, black blood flowed from the holes in his body.
Nord, who listened suspiciously to his story, was impressed.
─Boom!
Like a leather balloon filled with water bursting, Robin spurted black blood and died. The magic item he was holding also broke down on its own accordingly.
─Stupid. Robin’s corpse, with a rib blossom on his chest, collapsed into a pool of black blood.
〈… Huh true. You’re fucking thorough.〉
Looking at him desperately, Nord let out a laugh.
However, there was not the slightest smile on his face as he muttered lowly.
