Chapter 337 – The Phantom Thief? Detective! (3)
After being assured that she had completely shaken off the caravan’s pursuit, Katherine laughed. Audrey Heswald also smirked while applying the potion.
“If you do this, you won’t be in need of money for another few months, right?”
〈Where is the cost of living the only problem? Could I buy a new magic item?〉
Having said that, Audrey lightly bit his tongue in the pain of his wound. Catherine took off her hat and set down her stolen jewelry box.
〈Let’s buy a fall prevention item this time. Sister, what if I get hurt again next time?〉
“Wow, look what he’s talking about!”
The girls, who had been chatting like normal sisters, soon put on serious expressions.
〈You can’t use it if you’re greedy. I can’t trust them anyway, since they’re the bottom line, but at least I have to show them enough loyalty to those who came out of our investigation that they don’t know.〉
Lucregens, in which security was disturbed due to conflicts between the dark circles, was the perfect environment for the Heswald sisters—no, ‘Gwen & Stacey’ to carry out their phantom thief business.
However, the dispute between the families ended after turning into a fierce battle, and the horned lord began to turn the guards around the city.
It was time for the phantom thief sisters, who were living a double life, to change their workplace.
Catherine touched her jewelry box and sighed.
‘If we gave away what we stole, the beggars wouldn’t be satisfied. I don’t want to see you whining and talking behind your back.〉
There is a reason for deliberately robbing rich people with bad rumors.
It is difficult for a person with a crush to ask for help or betray others. It was one of the truths of life that the twins learned.
After the murmuring, which had now become part of the process, Audrey and Catherine began appraising the value of the jewels.
This is the hideout where the two hide their treasure.
Now, after finding the fence and disposing of the goods as a thief, they were going to leave Lucregens and return to their ‘historic status’. For the time being, their double lives are also on hiatus.
It’s just that there was one thing they didn’t expect.
It was the existence of the pursuer who would chase this hideout.
〈──Hick?!〉
Putting on her glasses and appraising her jewelry, Catherine hid behind her sister at the sound of a voice coming from behind her. Audrey glared at the wide open entrance to the lair, breaking out in a cold sweat.
The only similarity between them was a man and a woman with black hair.
Armed with spears and daggers, their heights varied as much as the length of their weapons.
The woman, who appeared to be a half-dwarf, was trying to find a secret passageway to her hiding place with eyes looking around her clothing store, while the man yawned out of context.
Opening her mouth wide, he brushed her bangs and looked around their hideout, then smiled.
***
I was at a loss for what to say at the words of the self-proclaimed phantom thief, who opened his eyes with an axe.
“Isn’t that what it is?”
‘It’s completely different, you idiot. No, more than that, how did you come after us?
〈Chasing the remaining traces.〉
Even though my husband and I answered honestly, we didn’t believe it.
Speul, you’re so soft. Do you think it’s easy to find a mammal roaming around briskly in winter among animals that hibernate?
If it wasn’t for the snow rabbit I met by chance, I wouldn’t have been able to chase you so quickly. Taking debuffs in the fucking winter wasn’t the only cold method like Tyrsi.
─Swipe.
The phantom thief sisters roll their eyes here and there.
Even though they were thoroughly wearing masks even in their hideout, I had already grasped the rough montage of them with Odin’s eyes and stored them in my brain.
Even if I missed it, it wasn’t hard to find. I said, turning the window.
‘There are no others. It’s just us.〉
〈… Yes?〉
Hey, I hear you rolling your eyes.
〈… Stacey! Bounce!〉
─Pat! The two women bounce quickly like flying squirrels who saw the mousetrap working right in front of their noses.
Did he get the dodge angle by beating the abacus inside his head? The twin phantom thieves exchanged signs with their hands before splitting into two.
I was even a little impressed by that nimble flight.
‘Aren’t they threatening or attacking me even in this situation?’
It is a different world where robber and murderer are homonyms. If he was a thief who did no physical harm to people, he would certainly want to be treated differently than ordinary petty thieves.
Whether it was his lack of confidence in fighting or his reluctance to use violence, just looking at it was enough to make him like it.
Of course, on the premise that they turn a blind eye to the fact that they are criminals.
Frank said that and ran away. I also activated the magic while giving strength to my feet.
〈Munggemungge-che!〉
─Right! With the acceleration of the steam explosion, she overtook her older sister, the phantom thief.
I landed on the ceiling and swung the spear. Unable to stop, she was hit by the blunt part of her spear.
With a short scream, she fell behind her and fainted with a mild concussion. .
I snatched the falling cap and put it on my head. It’s a bit small
‘Oh, sister! Profit! Get out of the way, you woman with big breasts!〉
〈I only have big breasts?〉
The thief, who was fleeing on the other side of the escape route, got angry at Fran. In the blink of an eye, she figured out the secret exit of the hiding place and was blocked by Fran, who preoccupied it.
At a cursory glance, the phantom thief seemed to be faster than Fran, but he couldn’t get there until the escape route was blocked.
─Okay!
She tried to get something out of her bag and dodged a knife thrown by her franc. A thief who even smiles like a batter who sees a slow baseball.
However, he would have never dreamed that a fist of earth would come out of the golem core knife stuck in the cave wall.
The thief was beaten by the golem’s one punch and was restrained by a hand the size of his body. My condolences to her who screamed with no sense of femininity.
Fran sniffed and coughed as she tried to pick up the marble she had dropped.
It was the first time in a long time that Fran hated me so much, so I smiled.
Why, isn’t there a time when she wants to play a prank like a hidden camera on the person she loves? It’s a childish idea, but it was nice to see Fran, who usually hates me as much as he accepts all my childishness, because he’s different.
– Tight! I thought so and tied the fainting thief with the rope I took from the slate in my bag.
‘Hey, wait a minute! Let’s negotiate! Negotiation!〉
As I tied her older sister like a gulbi, the younger sister, who was caught in a fist, twisted her body. My face was red, probably because my grip was tight.
While empathizing with the honest answer, I stretched out the thread of mana to the phantom thief.
It is the Great Absorption Method that the black magician Krutus left me as a memento.
My sister wouldn’t be able to see it because it was covered by my back. Even if they couldn’t suck mana barrels like the Jintung Absorption Great Technique, the quick light attack these guys used seemed to be useful.
The Great Law of Absorbing Stars
Skill Capture
─Shush shush shush!
The essence of technology engraved on my body!
I calmly analyzed the light and made an impression.
‘… Certainly, there is a large variation in the characteristics of each martial art.’
As I once heard, martial arts in another world had to be modified to suit the individual’s aptitude and constitution.
Conversely, it also meant that it would be difficult to learn martial arts that were not at all suited to one’s aptitude, such as magic.
‘Is it a light attack that specializes in giving up counterattacks and widening the distance?’
The twins believe in avoiding fights and only stealing things!
It was a skill that melted. I’m probably hard to learn, and even if I learn, I won’t be able to use it.
There is also an aptitude problem. It is a technology that does not ideologically align with masochism, which requires that if someone challenges you, you have to put up with it even if it seems like shit and put it on the ledger in your heart, or solve it on the spot.
‘Should I just learn the tricks and teach Fran?’
If you spread the distance before using the throwing technique, you will be able to use the franc well.
─Tap!
The framework of the technique was not difficult, so I read it roughly and cut off the Great Law of Absorption.
It’s a big deal if I’m too immersed and a strange habit remains in my body. It’s because Eva becomes an idiot warrior who only uses clumsy skills like Crutus.
Whether I was doing it or not, it was my younger sister’s thief who was actively trying to appeal to Fran.
〈──What?!
Fran laughed awkwardly, as if a little troubled by the enthusiasm, and then her complexion suddenly changed.
– Booung!
A phantom thief thrown from the grip of a golem. Fran also withdrew from the spot, and she picked up the woman who was begging me, Gwen or something, who I realized about a second too late, and ran.
─Stupid!
─Stupid! Thud!
A water dragon appeared breaking the ceiling where we were. Someone had attacked from the top of the cave by breaking the ceiling.
Her younger sister, the thief, cried as she watched the hideout and jewel box fall under the bedrock.
“Those liars! It’s just you guys!〉
“It’s only us. Maybe it’s your guest?〉
Fran’s words spoke to me instead.
As soon as I realized that the other person was a wizard, I opened Odin’s eyes, so I couldn’t say anything. Because if the language sucks, only bullshit comes out.
The water dragon ascended into the sky. There, basking in the sunlight of dawn, was an elf riding on the back of a dragon.
An elf standing upright on the dragon’s back and looking down at us.
He seemed to be shorter than a pureblood dwarf. He looked like a half-blood, judging by the fact that he had shorter ears than Yerna or Hotulusil, but he might be still young.
However, there is little change in expression even after riding on a water ball that looks like an oriental dragon and dropping the water dragon on a person’s head.
That meant that the kid was an asshole who was used to getting blood on his hands.
“Yeah, I guess I’m lucky.”
The kid giggled and took turns looking at the twins we had subdued.
〈… What are you doing?〉
Fran asked as he stretched out his knife-holding hand.
Our Fran was kind enough to try to avoid getting into a big fight, but the Little Boy showed off his special traits and maintained a self-righteous attitude.
“You know what? I care about my identity, and if you give me the twins, you guys will pass.”
I noticed that I was a chewer than us, and my sister, who was still conscious, begged us.
I looked at the elf and my sister, the thief, took off the magic item from her ear and smashed it.
─Quick!
Did you say that the couple was eccentric? Fran also saw what I was doing and followed it. The eyes of the elf riding the water dragon were strange.
When the expensive item was smashed, the younger sister, the thief, who was about to protest what she was doing, shut her mouth. You’re good. It’s noisy, so I wish I could stay like that for a while.
The blue-haired little elf thoughtfully stroked her chin, then grinned.
─Puff!
He cut off his words and the flying knife attacked the half-elf kid.
In the blink of an eye, the little elf was startled by the knife that reached her nose, but then she showed a sign of relief at the light of the shield magic she had activated.
Kwachang—!!
But even that relief was short-lived. The extra power carried by the knife was enough to pierce the shoulder of the elf within it, even though the shield had lost its trajectory.
– Whiririk. Chuck.
Without paying attention to her sister, the phantom thief, who was dumbfounded, Fran turned the knife in her hand and said coldly,
〈… Who are you torturing?
