Chapter 235 – Dark Society
By the time the meal was over, Maria and the others returned.
I asked Celis to vacate her seat so that I could speak with Maria. She let it go as if she couldn’t help it, even though she put on her anxious expression.
“Master, do you have any orders?”
As soon as we entered the room together, Maria asked.
“It’s true that I called because I had a favor… But I didn’t expect her to say that as soon as we entered the room together.”
Maria’s eyes began to twinkle at the words of a favor.
“It’s not a request, it’s an order. So what are your orders for me?”
“No, wait. Let’s calm down.”
“I have calmed down.”
Mary’s eyes, which had been twinkling, darkened in an instant.
…Sometimes I think about it, but why are there no normal women around me?
Oh, there is one.
‘Kara…’
You are the most normal
Love you.
I sighed and explained to her Maria why I had called her.
“Are you the instructor of the Thieves Guild?”
Maria tilted her head.
“I’m sorry, master, but I don’t know anything about that thieves’ guild.”
“You know what a slum is, right?”
“I know. Isn’t it a place where failures gather? It was always the place where the kid who tried to pickpocket on me ran away.”
“I heard they tried to pickpocket you?”
“Yes. Since he dared to covet his master’s property, he intended to beat him enough to make him look back on his foolish behavior. However, it failed because Kara-sama stopped it.”
Having said that, Maria looked at me with her strangely expectant eyes.
To ask permission from me.
“…Adjust it and lose only moderately.”
Kara seems to have looked after her as a child, but if rumors spread that she looked after her like that, she becomes a pickpocket restaurant.
In that case, it is better to lose in moderation, as everyone does.
“All right.”
Maria nodded her head with a slightly relieved but regretful expression.
How much did she intend to lose, so she still has a sad look on her face.
No, the story was too leaky.
Back to the point
“The Thieves Guild is a criminal organization that lives in the slums. Criminal organizations aren’t just sucking out the blood of ordinary people, they’re people who sell drugs and things that civilians shouldn’t be selling, such as pepper, behind the scenes.”
“Understand. But what is the connection between the master and the thieves’ guild, so why should I be their instructor?”
“Half of it is mine.”
In this world, there is no concept of a shareholder yet, but as long as they are provided with profit distribution, book disclosure, and information, they can be regarded as a majority shareholder.
“…! Okay. Understand! But still doubts remain. I’m not sure if I’ll be able to serve as an instructor… Oh, it’s absolutely not to doubt the master’s eyes! Just…”
“Are you anxious because you don’t know if you can do well?”
“…Yes, it is.”
Maria nodded her head with her slightly limp face.
I chuckled.
“Are you okay. If it doesn’t work, it won’t work.”
“But if I can’t do it, my master’s name will be disgraced…”
“Don’t worry. How much did I take care of them until now? If you say something wrong once, just overturn everything and create a new organization.”
Maria opened her eyes wide.
It’s like she didn’t know she could say that.
I laughed bitterly.
“I really will. You are worth that much to me.”
“Go, thank you.”
Maria bowed her head and said.
He’s a smart kid, but he stutters to the point.
* * *
“…I understand that you think so. But she can’t stand to say that she’s better than me.”
As expected, Harold protested.
“I can’t stand it, what can I do? It’s true.”
“…If you want to insult me, you’ve succeeded.”
“Because it’s not an insult. What do I need to insult you? It’s okay if you just slap me whenever you don’t like it.”
“…”
Not only Harold, but also Michelle and Roxy’s eyes focused on me.
What. Whatever.
When he calmly accepted his gaze, Harold sighed and continued.
“Did you say Maria? Look at that child’s hand. She has calluses, but she’s not long. That means she’s only recently picked up a weapon. Does it make sense that a child like that is stronger than me, who has been carrying weapons for half her life?”
Harold’s voice grew louder.
She is calloused
Although she is Maria who does not neglect her daily training, her absolute time holding her weapon is less than Harold’s.
She has no choice but to soften her calluses.
But that’s it.
“You lost to me too? I also spend much less time holding a knife than you do?”
“That…”
Harold munched his mouth, unable to find anything to say.
Roxy, who had been quiet the whole time, sighed and said,
“If we go on like this, the conversation won’t end. How about doing this? Harold and the child named Maria are sparring. The one who wins in that sparring will become an instructor for future gang members.”
“Dalian? It’s annoying, but if you want, let’s do it. Instead, if Maria wins, she stops talking nonsense.”
“It will.”
“Good. When will we have sparring?”
“Let’s do it in three days. We will need time to prepare each other.”
“Okay, then see you in three days.”
As soon as the date for the match was decided, I left the thieves’ guild with Maria.
* * *
Roxy’s office where Yooseong left.
A heavy silence filled him. After a while, Roxy broke the silence.
“I expected it roughly because I was going to bring an instructor… But I never thought it would come out so blatantly.”
“Iknow, right…”
Michelle agreed with a drool at Roxy’s muttering.
Currently, members of the Thieves Guild are in a state of destruction.
The members of the organization who will come in the future will be the words that lead the thieves guild. Would you bring the instructor of such an organization to someone you know?
That was to say ‘I will secure influence within the thieves’ guild’.
It was an unwelcome remark for Roxy, the guild’s boss, but he couldn’t refuse.
Because there was no reason at all.
He refused without a justification, but it was a refusal to go out of his sight.
Especially since Roxy had already experienced his cold wrath once.
So, he had no choice but to take countermeasures.
To bribe the person he brought in as an instructor from the guild.
Even if you are his person once you enter, it is clear that you will stay in the thieves guild for a long time as long as you are an instructor.
So in the meantime, I thought of making the instructor a person of the guild with all my heart and sincerity.
But that plan was also blocked.
“I hope you bring your lover. I really couldn’t have imagined it.”
Maria wasn’t Yoosung’s lover, but she seemed to them that way. She’s a full-grown virgin clinging to her man, how can she not be seen?
“I mean. If she is his lover, she cannot carry out the plan.”
Roxy nodded his head.
If you touch it, it turns back.
Must.
Wherever he runs, he will chase and kill you.
I won’t even kill you well.
Perhaps each limb was carefully cut.
“There is only one way for this to happen. Harold you win over her child named Maria.”
“…Yep! We will definitely win and regain the lost status of the Thieves Guild.”
Harold clenched his fists, burning his will.
“Hey, Roxy. This is a slightly different story. Do you really need to fight with him like this?”
“Suddenly, what are you talking about, Michelle?”
“So… Roxy-nim decided to marry Han Yu-seong, right?”
“…I still don’t like it. Roxy-sama like that…”
“You please shut up.”
Michelle’s annoyed voice made Harold shut her mouth. She sighed and spoke to Roxy again.
“You said you were going to get married, right?”
“…It hasn’t been decided yet. I need to get permission from your lover.”
“I don’t worry about that. Since you’re Roxy-sama, you should take care of yourself.”
…To be honest, I’m not confident. I want to marry this man Please allow me. How do you do this to your partner, not your parents?
Roxy muttered to herself.
Michelle, not knowing that, continued.
“Anyway, if you marry him, you will eventually become a couple with him, but it means that it makes sense for a couple to fight for leadership within the organization.”
“…I heard that such things are common among nobles?”
“Nobles and us are different. They’re a finished business, aren’t we an unfinished, unstable business? In times like this, I think the priority is to grow the organization by working together rather than fighting each other.”
Michelle looked at Roxy as if she had finished what she had to say.
Roxy closed her eyes.
‘Michelle… You only know one thing, but you don’t know the other two.’
There is an upper and a lower edge in love. A and Eul, who are also in love, are not married couples?
Roxy remembers.
That his father, who had ruined his business, whimpered at the glance of his mother.
‘If I get married in this state, I must be Eul.’
It’s not just an ordinary Eul, it’s an overwhelming Eul.
Even a mediocre Eul would be difficult, but an overwhelming Eul. She would not whine but whine at his glance.
Is there the end of his eyes?
He has many lovers.
Becoming the overwhelming Eul means Roxy’s rank is the lowest among those women.
Among her wives, she is the lowest in rank.
It can’t be anything terrible.
But Roxy couldn’t tell Michelle about this.
If that happens, her dignity as her boss, which she has built up over the years, will be damaged…
“…If Harold loses, I’ll give up cleanly.”
Anyway, there is no real answer now.
