Chapter 128 – Episode 128. Be My Colleague
The masked girl gave a ‘heek’ at my words and shrugged her shoulders.
If this scares her, she won’t tell a crap lie.
In fact, she doesn’t mind if she lies.
Because Sua, who is next to me, has a fraudulent skill called ‘Detection’.
I said to the girl
“Name.”
“Hey, Yeonwoo. Park Yeon-woo..”
“Age?”
“I’m 18… No, I’m 19 now.”
Hmm, more than I thought.
I thought she was quite a child.
I continued interrogating a girl named Yeon-woo.
“Didn’t you say you came here because you were curious? Didn’t you think you’d get caught like this?”
“That, that… Among the skills I have, there is a skill called ‘Stealth’, but I raised the level to the point where even the counter skill wouldn’t work, so I never thought that I would be found out…”
Hmm, seeing how confident he is, it looks like he raised his skill level quite high.
However, it was useless in front of Sua’s ‘discovery’.
Well, once again, great hero.
“Well, whatever that is. Where were you going at a time like this?”
“That, that’s…”
Park Yeon-woo hesitates.
I looked at her and said in a low voice.
“… I guess you haven’t properly recognized your situation yet, but you were caught trying to approach us using your hiding skill. Whatever your intentions, what you did was inexcusable even if we just killed it instantly. Know? You say you have siblings? Don’t you want to see me again?”
Park Yeon-wu, whose face turned white at my words, started to hiccup.
Oh, it’s varied.
As I was about to show a bit of annoyance on my face, Sua stepped forward and spoke to me.
“Brother. Let me talk to you. I don’t see him as such a bad kid.”
I shrugged once and took a step back.
Sua took out a small water bottle from the subspace ring and handed it to Park Yeonwoo.
“Drink some water. Yeonwoo.. Mr.? I know you’re not a bad person However, as your brother said, you used your skills to approach us, and you were discovered and put in this situation. Yes? You would know. What is going on in this situation in the world these days. But we never want such a scary thing to happen. So, I would like you to actively cooperate with the questions I ask. Got it?”
At Soo-ah’s soft but firm words, Park Yeon-woo shed tears, but nodded his head.
Hmm,
This is Sua, who thought that her attitude towards humans has become colder than mine these days.
Looking at it this way, it seems that this is not necessarily the case.
‘… Sua taking care of her niece, Jia. Park Yeon-woo, who takes care of her younger siblings. Maybe it’s a sense of identity.’
While I looked at Sua with her pitiful eyes, her words continued.
“Okay then, answer me. Where were you going alone at a time like this?”
“I was… On my way to work.”
“Day?”
At Soo-ah’s question, Park Yeon-woo nodded and spoke.
“Yes, it is a job. Well, I don’t belong to an organization. I’m just quietly living separately from my younger siblings. But I can’t make a living like that… I have to work to earn money. So I accept the request, carry out the job, and live with my younger siblings with the money for the request…”
Hmm,
That’s what I mean by freelancer.
In a world like this, it wouldn’t be easy to live alone without joining a group.
“Why don’t you join a group and live separately? It would be quite dangerous if anything happened.”
In response to my question, Park Yeon-woo lowered his head and said.
“Yes, I was originally affiliated with an organization. But a little… Something bad happened…”
“A bad thing?”
“…”
Hmmm, that’s something you don’t need to hear.
I asked another question.
“Well, whatever that is. OK, did you say work? Where were you going to do something?”
Park Yeon-woo hesitated once again.
I wonder if I still can’t grasp the situation, so I’m about to say something again,
Park Yeon-woo, who was hesitant, opened his mouth.
“H… It’s a spying mission…”
“A spying mission?”
“Yes… I received a request from the guild called ‘Light’. Go to the designated guild and gather information next to the guild leader there…”
“If it’s the light guild…”
Sua looked at me.
Light Guild.
It’s a name I heard a while ago.
The place where the hero impersonator and the fake saint are.
“… Where is the place designated by the light guild?”
“… It’s a guild called Death Knight.”
“Hmm..”
It seemed so.
How did you say it was quiet after I came to poke it once?
“How do you spy? With that skill called stealth you mentioned?”
“Yes, there is nothing very difficult. You just need to activate the stealth skill and stick next to the Death Knight’s guild leader. If you stay nearby, you’ll hear stories like this… If there’s something important out of those stories, you can use the Pebble Communicator given by the Light Guild to let them know..”
“Why are they trying to extort information from the Death Knight Guild?”
“That, I don’t know. I’m just doing what I’ve been asked to do…”
I looked at Park Yeon-woo, and Park Yeon-woo, who received my eyes, cried out with a father.
“I really am. Why would you tell me something like that when I’m not even a member of the Light Guild? But..”
“But?”
“… I have some guesses. Oh, this is just a guess.”
“Say it.”
Park Yeon-woo took the water bottle that Su-ah had given him, drank a sip of it, and continued talking.
“I have received similar requests like this before. Go to another guild and get information about that guild… A few days after my spying mission ended, the Light Guild gathered its forces and attacked the guild I was spying on. Seeing things like that… I wonder if he sent me to do the same thing this time too…”
Hmm.
It seems to be drawing a situation roughly in my head.
The Light Guild, who had been rejected from the Death Knight Guild and left, commissioned a specialist in the ‘stealth’ skill named Park Yeon-woo to spy on the guild’s troop size and composition, and furthermore, the size of our union.
To be honest, if he hadn’t gone out with Su-ah today, and if Park Yeon-woo hadn’t approached us out of vain curiosity, he would have been allowed to do reconnaissance.
Except for Sua, no one would be able to see through Park Yeon-woo’s hiding.
If it’s enough to overcome the counter skills, how much did you raise the skill level?
Anyway, the light guild’s tactics went wrong from the beginning.
How should I do these?
It’s an impersonation of a hero. Well, it could be a bait instead of us, so even if we just let it go.
Do you dare cross our alliance?
It seemed pretty shallow.
This is a problem that cannot be overcome.
I think we should gather the guild leaders and have a meeting right now.
Even so…
I looked at Park Yeon-woo, who was kneeling.
How to deal with him
“Brother..”
Sua grabbed me.
I guess we should talk about it separately.
I said to Park Yeon-woo.
“You’d better not think of running away. If you run away and get caught… You know?”
Park Yeon-woo nodded his head vigorously with his fear-drenched eyes.
I took Sua and moved to a corner of the roof.
Sua said.
“Brother. That boy named Yeonwoo.. What do you plan to do?”
“I know. She seems young, she’s a girl… And she’s also a child who supports her younger siblings, but…”
I glanced at Park Yeon-woo, who was sitting on his knees in front of me.
“… It’s too dangerous. It’s stealth that doesn’t work even with counter skills. Wouldn’t it be difficult for him to become the world’s greatest assassin if he set his mind to it?”
“… I do.”
“Fortunately, we have you who have the skill called ‘Detection,’ so it’s a relief, but on the other hand, it also means that there is no way we can prevent Park Yeon-woo from hiding without you.”
“…”
“It’s embarrassing, but I’ll just kill it here cleanly-“
“I will take you.”
“… Huh?”
Lee Soo-ah looked straight at me and said.
“I will take you to our guild. I will take care of that child.”
“…”
“Not only that child, but also my younger siblings. I’ll take everyone to our guild. It just went well. Jia also seemed very bored because she had no friends her age..”
Hmm.
Also, it seems that Sua is projecting her past in her appearance of Park Yeon-woo.
It must have reminded you of the days when you took Jia alone and struggled to survive in this crazy world.
I think the image of Park Yeon-woo, who travels around and works in a dangerous world to feed his younger siblings, overlaps with his own image at that time.
“… Are you okay? He doesn’t look like a bad kid like you said…But he was trying to scout our alliance on behalf of the enemy.”
“Are you okay. I could. I don’t know if that kid is alone… But as long as my younger siblings are in our guild, I won’t be able to think harshly.”
Big hum.
Also a warrior
He says it with a smile, but for some reason I feel a coolness.
Okay. A girl who is just nice can’t be my girl.
What I really hate is a character who gets shot in the back of the head and dies after doing only good things.
I nodded, and Soo-ah smiled brightly and ran to Park Yeon-woo.
Park Yeon-woo looks at Soo-ah running towards him with nervous eyes.
When Soo-ah explained how to dispose of him, Park Yeon-woo was relieved, but he reacted bitterly about the position of having to belong to the guild.
I said to her
“I don’t know what happened to the group you belonged to before, but there will be nothing you’re concerned about in Sua’s guild. Besides, there’s a little girl there, so you can hang out with your younger siblings.”
Park Yeon-woo seemed surprised by my words and asked back.
“You have a child in the guild? Really?”
“Okay. He said he was bored because he had no peers, so he must be able to get along well with his younger siblings. How old are your siblings?”
“Nine years old, and six years old.”
“Everyone is just talking. Anyway, since it’s such an environment, it’ll be better for your younger siblings. Most of the guild members are also good people.”
“Ah…”
Park Yeon-woo lowered his head and said.
“… In that guild, how can my younger siblings not be treated as insectivores who only eat food?”
Hmm, I think I have a rough idea of what kind of organization he was a member of in the past.
Sua nodded her head and said to Park Yeonwoo.
“Of course. Children just have to play well like children.”
“Even if unnie thinks so… The guild leader there may not have the same opinion… All the adults I’ve seen so far are-“
“You don’t have to worry about that.”
“…?”
“Because the guild leader of that guild is me.”
Park Yeon-woo’s eyes widened.
Sua and I were guided by Park Yeon-woo and went to her hiding place.
A hideout for her and her siblings, located inside a building whose entrance has collapsed and is difficult to enter.
Rather, I think it would have been difficult to think that there would be someone inside because it was such an entrance.
Well positioned.
I asked Park Yeon-woo.
“Your younger siblings are young, so how are they doing when you leave them alone on such a mission?”
Park Yeon-woo answers my words with a gloomy face.
“I know that, but… I can’t help it. If I don’t work, we can’t make a living. But Yeonjin is… Oh, that’s my sister’s name. Yeonjin is still smart for her age, so she takes good care of her younger sister, Yuna, and waits for me. Eating the food I left behind…”
“Then, what if I get discovered by a monster?”
“Ah, I told you to use stealth right away in case something happens. As I said, my stealth level is a bit high, so I don’t usually get discovered by anyone.”
“What are you talking about? It sounds like the kids are using their stealth skills.”
“Yes that’s right. My younger siblings can also use stealth skills.
.. What are you talking about?
My younger siblings also use stealth.
Sua and I looked at Park Yeonwoo with confused eyes.
