Chapter 1262 – 1262. Dark Moon
The carriage entered District X. I looked out the carriage window.
As befitting its reputation as the most lawless area, the atmosphere was incredibly dark. Broken roads, collapsed walls, and factories that had ceased operation. The wind blowing through the window carried a mix of rust and sea smells.
Long ago, District X was said to be a bustling area. Cargo ships came and went dozens of times a day, and there were many workers in District X.
Then, with the creation of a new port in District D, District X fell into decline.
“Sir, I apologize, but I don’t want to go any further.”
The coachman said. His tense voice was filled with anxiety and fear. District X was one of the most dangerous areas in Neo London. An ordinary person would likely get hurt if they went in recklessly.
Instead of protesting, I handed him my pocket watch-style smartwatch. He quickly processed the payment.
“I understand. I’m grateful you came this far. When I return… I’ll use a different carriage.”
“There won’t be any carriages coming to District X. Call a carriage from District W.”
“Thank you for the advice. It’s helpful.”
“I’ll be going now.”
The carriage left.
I walked through the streets of District X, recalling my knowledge from the original game. The broken roads were a bit inconvenient.
‘Just changing the brand of my suit, as Yuria said, has made the citizens of Neo London respect me more.’
Yuria is amazing. I walked while thinking that.
At some point, I felt someone’s gaze. Someone was watching me. They didn’t seem to have any intention of harming me, so I ignored it and kept walking.
I entered a dark alleyway. Even the only bright sky in this area was hard to see in the alley.
I walked for a while in the alleyway. I was drawing a map of this alley in my head.
“Hey.”
A man appeared. He was the one who had been tailing me.
“What is it?”
“Aren’t you looking for the employment agency? I’ll guide you. Follow me.”
“……”
I followed him. After wandering around, we arrived at a building with a sign that read ‘X Employment Agency.’ The man entered the agency without hesitation. The first floor of the agency was filled with chairs and tables. Looking at the liquor bottles scattered on the tables, it was hard to tell if this was a bar or an employment agency.
Several men sitting at the tables quietly watched me, on guard.
“Rose! I brought one! I don’t know if he’s a customer or a worker! He’s quite the well-dressed gentleman!”
The man who guided me shouted.
“Come up to the second-floor office! Michael! You stay on the first floor.”
A woman’s voice boomed from the second floor. She had an exceptionally loud voice.
“I’m warning you, don’t even think about causing trouble. …Go on up.”
I felt the urge to smack this impudent guy on the head.
However, with a mage’s cool rationality, I suppressed the urge. I was the one who was at a disadvantage. And the man’s attitude wasn’t something I couldn’t tolerate.
“How much is the guide fee?”
“Buy me a bottle of liquor later.”
I nodded and went up to the second floor. There were three doors. I opened the one that said ‘Office.’
Tap, tap tap tap.
A woman was sitting in front of a computer, typing on the keyboard.
She had her black hair tied up. She was wearing a wine-colored blouse and jeans. Her right arm was a mechanical arm, and she had quite a large chest. The top two buttons of her blouse were undone, revealing her cleavage. A bit of her black bra was also visible. There was a black rose tattoo on her right neck.
She stood up from her seat and pointed to a sofa.
“Please, sit comfortably. What brings you to our employment agency?”
“I need work.”
“What, you’re a worker, not a customer?”
She sat back at her desk, openly disappointed. She pointed to the side with her finger. There was a water purifier and instant coffee.
“Workers are self-serve. Help yourself.”
“I don’t drink cheap stuff.”
“Oh, is that so. A big shot has arrived.”
Tap tap tap tap tap!
The sound of her typing on the keyboard was cheerful.
I sat quietly without urging her.
To do business in Neo London, one must be a gentleman. Even if it’s only on the surface.
After ten minutes of silence, Rose sighed first. She took her hands off the keyboard and said to me.
“Look, there’s no work for a gentleman at our agency. In the first place, gentlemen don’t do such low-level labor.”
“I know this isn’t just an agency that dispatches workers.”
“Well, it’s already known, so I won’t deny it. But I don’t broker requests for just anyone. Do you have a letter of recommendation or something?”
“No.”
“Great. Your credibility just plummeted. Trust is the foundation of brokering. Tell me why I should broker a request for you.”
“You need a reliable worker with solid skills, too.”
“I’m seeing you for the first time. The fact that I’m seeing you for the first time means you’re a rookie in London. Who would trust a rookie and work with them?”
“A 5th-class mage.”
“What?”
“I’m a 5th-class mage. I believe trust can be built up over time.”
“……Really? I don’t believe it.”
Rose narrowed her eyes and looked at me.
I opened my astral. My presence became intense in an instant. Rose gripped the desk tightly with her mechanical arm.
“…I don’t know if you’re 5th-class or 4th-class, but I know you’re not ordinary. What’s your name?”
“Eugene Meyer.”
“Age and residence?”
“Do I have to say that?”
“You don’t necessarily have to. Why did you come to our agency? You definitely have to tell me that.”
“You seem to find it hard to believe that a 5th-class mage would come to an employment agency on their own.”
“Are you kidding me? 5th-class mages are talents that even large corporations want. If you go to the Neo Round Table Council right now and ask for work, the officials there would be very happy.”
“I’m not really suited for that kind of thing.”
“Hmm. What kind of request do you want?”
“First, I want a request that can earn me money quickly.”
“Any jobs you’re not willing to do? You’re not going to say you hate killing, are you?”
“I don’t care about murder requests. However, I absolutely refuse requests that involve serving a master. I might end up killing that master.”
“Hmm. What you want is something that other brokers can do too. What’s the real reason you came to me?”
“I heard that you don’t interfere deeply, unlike other brokers. And that you don’t hold onto workers even if they quit, right?”
“That’s right. There’s no place that treats workers as freely as we do. But the commission is higher than other places. 20%.”
The commission was 5% higher than other places.
Of course, I already knew that.
I know Rose’s identity. The X Employment Agency is a much safer place than others. It’s worth it, even considering the high commission.
“You’re an elemental mage, right? Which element do you mainly use?”
“Lightning. I use other elements decently too.”
“Hmm. Did you come from the Magic Tower? Or the Magic Association?”
“Neither.”
“If you don’t want to say, that’s fine. I happen to have a request… Want to do it? It’s a simple request where you just need to go to a power plant and use lightning magic.”
I stared at Rose, dumbfounded. Rose nonchalantly sipped her cold instant coffee.
“You want me to do a job that even 1st-class mages do?”
“There’s a huge fuss about the lack of electricity these days. You’ll get a base of 50,000 credits, and you can get additional pay depending on how much electricity is needed. And 50,000 credits is not a small amount of money.”
“It’s ruining a mage’s pride.”
“That kind of pride is just a hindrance when it comes to making money. Are you not going to do it? If you don’t want to, that’s fine.”
“…I’ll do it. Where do I go?”
I said with a sigh.
Starting with a trivial request was the same as in the original game.
Rose was probably trying to judge if I was a trustworthy person by seeing how I worked.
“The Low Power Plant in District W. It was changed from a nuclear power plant to a mana power plant 70 years ago.”
“Is there a shortage of mana?”
“I don’t know. I don’t know the details. Maybe the Round Table Council is using up all the electricity again for some pointless experiment. I’ll contact the power plant in advance, so go there and say you’re from the X Employment Agency.”
“Okay.”
I stood up from my seat.
The base pay of 50,000 credits. As she said, it was not a small amount of money.
“Good luck, 5th-class mage. The electricity situation in Neo London depends on you!”
“……”
•••
Rose approached a man standing on the roof of a building. The man wearing a coat waved his hand as soon as he saw Rose. He was a detective Rose had hired.
“Did you come to check if I’m doing my job well?”
“You don’t give reports, so I had no choice but to come myself. How’s it going?”
Rose took out a telescope from her pocket and put it to her eye. She looked at the old house the detective was watching.
“Why are you making things hard for yourself? You could just install a camera in a suitable place and monitor it.”
“If you install a camera recklessly, you’ll get sued.”
“…You got sued?”
“A long time ago. I had to pay 1 million credits.”
The current time was 6 AM. The weather was chilly.
“Eugene Meyer. 3rd-class citizen. After checking, his identity was recently created.”
“He said he came to London recently. Where is he from?”
“Unfortunately, I couldn’t find out. However, I confirmed that the Billstein Corporation was involved in the identity forgery.”
“……That Billstein from the Empire? He’s a big shot. Anything else?”
“No. It’s too clean. It’s suspiciously clean, even considering that Billstein was involved.”
“Clean is good. At least it means there’s no problem on the surface. …Hmm?”
The door of the house opened, and a person came out. It was a maid. A light blue-haired maid with a broom was cleaning around the front gate.
“A maid. I thought he was broke, but he’s rich enough to hire a maid.”
“I think the reason he’s broke is probably because of that maid.”
“……Maids are expensive, but is it to the point that a 5th-class mage is struggling?”
“You know that people care a lot about looks when choosing a maid. Someone like that could easily earn hundreds of thousands of credits a month, even without any skills.”
“Hmm. A 5th-class mage and a beautiful maid…. There’s something we don’t know… Huh?!”
Rose was startled. She almost dropped the telescope from her hand.
“Rose? What’s wrong?”
“…I made eye contact with that maid.”
“That’s a boring joke. It’s 3km from here to there. The maid just happened to look up.”
“…Is that so?”
“If she really noticed our presence, she wouldn’t have stayed still. Look. She’s focused on cleaning the yard.”
“You’re right. I think I saw wrong.”
“Rose, how long do I have to continue this boring surveillance?”
“Just suffer for three more days.”
Rose turned her body around.
•••
Ten days had passed since I hired Yuria as a maid.
Yuria was almost perfect in her work, but there were some gaps.
Last time, she washed her maid uniform wrong and ended up working in just a shirt. Even if I offered to lend her clothes or buy her some, she wouldn’t listen, saying she only needed to be like this for half a day. I tried my best to act like a gentleman.
Yuria had some surprisingly clumsy parts. When she was cleaning, her skirt would flip up, revealing her butt, or she would clean in an embarrassing way. When she was cooking, she would get soaked in water, subtly revealing her figure.
And every other day, she would mistake the room and sleep in my bed. She said that when she was returning from the bathroom to her room, she would unintentionally enter my room and sleep. She apologized to me, but I didn’t particularly mind.
Yuria didn’t close doors well. I didn’t know if she had some kind of trauma from her childhood, but she always left the doors slightly open. Fortunately, she thoroughly managed the front door and windows.
The problem was that she didn’t close the bathroom door either, so there were times when I would unintentionally walk in while she was using the bathroom, leading to embarrassing situations.
And three days ago, I was walking past her room when I saw her masturbating. Her masturbation, which I never thought she would do, was very lewd. Lying on the bed, she would raise her lower body and rub her vulva wildly with her hand. I held my breath and watched her masturbation.
Besides that, strangely, lewd things happened often with Yuria. These days, even the slightest stimulation would make my dick hard, which was troublesome. I wondered if I should go to a brothel to release my sexual desire.
And tonight. I was sleeping when I felt a strange chill and opened my eyes.
Yuria, wearing purple underwear, was taking off my clothes.
“Yuria…?!”
“I’m sorry, Master. I couldn’t hold back anymore. I wanted you to pounce on me… I think I overestimated your self-control.”
While I was flustered, she took off my pants.
Slap!
My erect dick popped out like a spring and hit Yuria’s cheek.
“Oh my.”
