Chapter 250 – Reunion
Contrary to their worries, after riding Jake’s wagon, they arrived at Westway calmly and safely without any accidents for three days.
As soon as they entered the city, they got off the wagon, loaded Natalya’s mud golem, said goodbye to Jake, and parted ways.
“I’m glad nothing happened.”
“Iknow, right. Where are you going?”
“Hmm…”
I looked up at the sky while thinking about Natalya’s question for a while.
What Jake and his group drive is a normal living horse that needs to take a break in between. Of course, it was bound to be slower than Natalia’s Skeleton Horse, which could move without rest.
If it had gone as planned, we would have arrived at Westway by the late evening of the second day. If it had been, I would have gone straight to Germi’s house without thinking, but it was early afternoon, a little after lunch.
If you go to Germi’s house, there will be only servants. If so, the place to go now is the home of the Black Moon, where Germi and Thermia are located.
You should go to the headquarters of the Black Moon.
When you arrive, Germi and Thermia will greet you with friendly faces.
“Shall we go to the black moon?”
The streets of Westway, which I haven’t been to in a while, feel different from Arpagon, so I look around more than usual.
Although it is true that Arpagon is quite crowded with traders and mercenaries seeking various and enormous resources from the flood seas called the unexplored land, it is nothing compared to Westway, nicknamed the central city of transportation in the western part of the Pytex Kingdom.
Busy wagons and crowded streets like a bustling marketplace filled with people are hectic.
Even if the Black Moon is built in a dark alley in the depths of the commercial district, it is also the largest slave trading house in the West Way, so the front is equally crowded.
Sneaking around, I looked at the women following me, making a lot of noise. Natalya and Elena are wearing the black and brown robes they always wear, and Roin is also wearing the black robe I gave him as a gift.
Normally, if you wear a robe, it will completely cover the curves of your body, so you won’t be noticed, but since Natalya and Roin’s breasts are so large, even if they’re wearing a robe, the front of them floats quite a bit.
If you look just a little bit, you’ll see that he’s in great shape, even from the top of his robe.
In fact, some of the merchants passing by are passing by, glancing at their faces seen through their robes.
No matter how much others envy them, they are my women. They are your own jewels. Feeling a little smug, I walked and made a dumbfounded noise at the behavior of the old man stabbing me from behind.
“Huh? What?”
“Is there something uproar on the side of the black moon?”
“What?”
I turned my attention to her words.
I turned my gaze to a huge building with a nice shape in the distance. That building is definitely the Black Moon’s stronghold, the slave trade. A large crowd gathers in front of it.
“… !!!”
“… !!”
The sound of people talking is noisy.
This is a commercial district, and when there are many talkative and frivolous merchants, it is natural to be noisy.
But you can tell from afar that the noise is strangely aggressive.
The entrance to the Black Moon is guarded by tough-looking guards.
Quite a few guys will quietly pass by, but which ones are the big ones?
The commotion at the main gate of the black moon seems to have caught the merchants coming and going. I hear some commotion, but I can’t see what’s going on because it’s covered by the wall of the people standing in the colosseum.
“Excuse me. I will pass.”
Pushing people aside, the entrance to the black moon finally came into view.
Guards stood in a line as if blocking the entrance to the building, Germi standing confidently with arms folded in front of the guards, and guards standing in a line along the road two or three steps from the entrance of the building confronted each other.
In a voice mixed with irritation, Germi shouted with annoyance at the person in front who seemed to be the representative of the guards.
“Even the guards are in trouble if they come out like this at random!!”
“All you have to do is cooperate. If you’re proud, you’ll be able to show your insides, right? Why do you keep blocking me? It looks like there’s something going on? So I’m going to use my spirit and block it.”
“We also have a lot of face to bring in so many guards and harass them at will! It’s embarrassing to come out like this!”
“If you’re in trouble, what are you guys going to do?”
“This is real… !”
Gerumi’s stiffly erected tail is fierce. An ordinary person would be intimidated and backed down just by receiving that beast-like gaze from the front.
In fact, it caught my eye that the guards standing behind the guards representative who was arguing with Germi were pushed back by the momentum.
However, the attitude of the other person standing in the front and receiving that gaze is not easy.
Above the gray cloth armor, all parts that easily protrude, such as the chest, shoulders, forearms, and thighs, are tightly wrapped in metal armor. Even with gauntlets on his hands and a helmet covering his face, he didn’t even move in Germi’s gaze, so it felt like a solid iron wall was standing.
It was an iron-clad outfit that made it impossible to tell whether it was a man or a woman, but the voice that flowed through the gap of the helmet was a voice I had heard.
I know who she is!
No! I know this impregnable attitude and voice!
Denevalve Trisian, a centurion of the Westway Guards and a relative of the Lord of the Westway.
She is a woman who was hostile to the Black Moon by sticking to her own beliefs without accepting the Black Moon’s bribe.
However, there is something strange about this current situation.
Before I left for Arpagon, I had provided Trisian with information on all sorts of illegal activities of the rotten guard chief and other guard officers who demanded bribes from the Black Moon.
In addition, after blaming Johannes, the traitor of the Black Moon, for all of the Black Moon’s heinous crimes, he succeeded in cutting off the Black Moon’s punishment by handing over his body to Trisian.
There is no reason for Trissian to bring the guards to the Black Moon and mess around like this.
Trying to understand the situation, she tilted her head, then met her eyes with Germi, who was snarling with her arms crossed.
He raised her hand and smiled awkwardly.
“Hi. Did you come to me when I was bad?”
“You, you… !!”
The hostility that filled his eyes disappeared before he knew it, and he was filled with joy. His shoulder-length amber bobbed hair seemed to be puffing up.
Trisian, who hadn’t even moved like an iron wall, as if he had noticed Germi’s change, also turned his head.
“You…”
The gazes of the members of the Black Moon and the guards all turned to me at once.
When I received the stinging gaze, the merchants around me withdrew from me as if they were one step away.
Thanks to that, I took a step forward.
I had only taken one step forward, and the air had completely changed.
This sense of heterogeneity when you change from a spectator to a party…
Germi and Trisian, I glanced at them once.
I have to figure out what the situation is now, but the eyes of the onlookers are very annoying.
Standing halfway between Germi and Trisian, he beckoned them to come closer.
Germi glanced at Trisian at my actions and slowly approached her with a puzzled expression.
Trisian’s expression was not visible at all because it was covered by the helmet, but I think it might have been similar to Germi’s for a moment.
She came because she was still and she walked slowly.
“Germi, what is this?”
“These bastards are going to turn our company upside down by investigating it!”
“Inspection? What… ?”
It was Trisian who answered my question.
“There have been a lot of disappearances lately. I’m suspicious of you, so I’m just here to search.”
“Hmm…”
With Trisian’s clear and simple explanation, I understood roughly what the situation was.
The Black Moon is a vicious group of criminals who kidnapped people, trained them, and then sold them as slaves, so if a disappearance occurs, it is the number one subject of suspicion.
However, even if he said that he would lead a large number of guards and search the inside, it would be impossible for Germi to welcome him with a ‘Come on.’
No matter how much the black moon has declared a break from criminal activities, the members who remain inside are still outlaws who have done rough and ruthless work.
Hergel, her father and former boss, bribed the guards to boil them, so Germi can’t show disrespect to the guards in front of her men unlike her father.
“It is unacceptable to disregard procedures and be rude like this! I will tell the lord about this and make a formal complaint to the guards!”
“Is the criminal group talking about the process? It’s absurd.”
There is a contrast between the spirited Germi and the brusque Trisian.
“Trician, as I said before, the Black Moon is no longer a group of criminals. Handing over Johannes would have ended the story.”
“…”
To my words, Trisian replied with a silent look.
“Ha… First of all, there are a lot of eyes watching this here, so why don’t we go inside and talk over a cup of tea?”
“What? Are you going to let the guards into the building?”
Germi replied with an annoyed expression.
“All of the guards are a bit different, Mr. Trisian, you and two of your attendants are three in total. The rest of the guards can’t admit it right now. How about it, this way we won’t have any problems with each other’s face?”
At my words, the two of them nodded their heads disapprovingly and acknowledged it.
