Chapter 340 – Immortal Elixir (1)
After seeing Kaito Kid’s illegitimate son and Shobu, we returned to the caravan.
Drake, who was presented with the “Things that were jewels” That I had retrieved, made an expression that the world had collapsed. Crunchy. Twist it up
Like a chicken boss in his 40s who invested half of his severance pay in a coin and ate it, he lost consciousness for a while and then cast cognitive dissonance.
I was going to win the spirit, but I had no words to say.
The twins’ home is Lenapolis. It’s dangerous to play a game in your home town, so he just joked around at Lucregens.
They’ll be hosting our party for a while, so I hope you enjoy a moment of happiness.
“So senior~? What are those phantom thief sisters doing?”
“The illegitimate son of the phantom thief kid.”
Twin sisters who were born in the common people with dirty spoons but set their intentions on stealing.
They say that they have been stealing in the way I thought, with the least penalty and the least risk of getting caught. Mimicry is also part of it. Like volunteer work or donations.
For the sake of their own personalities and their safety when arrested—when they surrendered, to be exact—they never hurt anyone. I don’t know if there were soldiers who were injured while chasing them.
There were times when fakes who imitated them harmed people, but they were all suckers so they got caught and only the genuine ones remained.
“Are you and your sister uninjured?”
“Don’t you know just by looking at it?”
“Oh… Senior is too much Why do you speak so harshly… ?”
“Is there a lewd pink bitch who pretends to be worried and pounces on other people’s dicks?”
-Snap.
Hitting her groping hand on her chest, Lalilura laughed and ran behind Dana’s back.
Come to think of it, I have to tell my juniors that I am from another world. It’s not good to go back to Jung-gu Heating because it’s too busy, so I’ll put it off until later.
“Elf… Is that bastard also the ‘elf outside the forest’ that President Tustars said? My husband Are you going to voyeur on that bastard’s memory too?”
“I interrogated them and pulled out their memories, but damn you call that Kannon? This mean wife treats her husband’s work as a crime.”
“Gwaneum-tatta Gwaneum-ta. Where is the habit of spying on wives’ bare skin?”
“Nin followed the fuck. When I get home, I’m going to replace some of the alchemy solutions in my room with caustic.”
“What is it, save Sipal? This crazy husband is threatening her wife with her academic career.”
“Surrender?”
“Yes… You won, cheap bastard…”
Our Nunna shuddered and succumbed to the sight of drowsiness disappearing just by imagining it. I answered with a smile.
“It looks like we contacted him indirectly using a person, but we also found out the employer he was expecting. What do you not belong to? He’s just an ordinary half-elf who doesn’t even know his parents’ faces.”
“So you’re saying you’re involved in a crime? It is the sorrow of a race that has lost its homeland.”
Veronica’s lamentable words were oddly impressive.
Like unicorns and elves, the tribes whose hometowns had been burned down seemed to be scattered all over the world and involved in crime.
Anyway, so, we made a plan and followed the caravan to Lenapolis.
***
Until we reached Lenapolis, there was no problem.
It wasn’t that there weren’t any problems at all, but hungry monsters attacked.
But those who weren’t as nimble or thorough as the Heswald sisters were ground like frozen chicken breasts in a blender. Then there’s no problem, right?
After walking for 10 days in winter, I was a little tired.
So we got a good night’s sleep and rested—it was pretty cool to see the wives whose limits were gradually loosening up—who had no one to notice—and then went to Sister Heswald’s office for a five-person pool party.
〈… Ah yes. Welcome.〉
I greeted Catherine Heswald who welcomed us and sat proudly on the sofa.
Katherine was taking off her eye mask and disguising herself as a brown-haired, mild-looking woman.
No, it’s not a disguise, but that’s the original face.
─Suck.
She glanced around, but it seemed she was the only one in her office. As her wives also sat down, Catherine bowed politely to me, then she asked cautiously.
Catherine’s eyes widened at her short, bold reply.
〈… Me, over there Mr Nord? No, Mr. Nord?〉
Katherine straightened her back and answered loudly.
Why are you doing that again? Do I look like a guy who is crazy about sexual desire and kidnaps all the beauties and keeps them as concubines?
‘Yes, yes! Mr. Nord could be… Are you an undercover inspector?〉
Censor?
I thought about what the translated word meant for a while, but the answer was in the general common sense I learned during my graduate student life.
Inspector is the position of the nobility directly under the state of Romania.
In other words, it can be said that it is like a secret word.
He must have thought that because I take great beauties as wives. I waved my hand as if to stop talking nonsense.
“Yes, what… Right now, even the rank of liter is such an honorary position.〉
Slobber, are you really there? I didn’t know
This time it was my turn to be surprised. Looking at me with her eyes wide open, Katherine exhibited her informational dealer traits.
‘Only those in the know know. Having only an honorary title ends up as a viscount without a fiefdom. Right now, Narmer-Nile also has the right to select Romania’s litter class once a year, but most of them have no sanctions even if they only work in Narmer-Nile.〉
I nodded at the explanation.
‘It’s like a badge of honor. It has nothing to do with me.’
Why? Think about it. I’m looking for a noble patron because I want them to be my money bank and shield for my ultimate goal. There is no meaning in winning a position that is only honorable.
Catherine hesitated, but she agreed.
It is human nature that those in power do not want to share power.
It is true that Romania is an advanced country by world standards, but I have tasted a lot of inferno in my hometown to be blinded by such shiny titles.
A foreign permanent resident like me would become an aristocrat?
It was as unrealistic a delusion as a muddy spoon, who was selected as a first-class soldier in active duty, promising to become an entertainer soldier.
‘Most of that sorting must be organized and played.’
I don’t know if I can win it by feeding a lot of bribes with buy-in☆magic, but in the end, that’s a system to add a line to the resumes of rich families.
Even if the common people without a backbone became nobles, they would end up in the 3D industry like Secret Royal Palace, as Catherine asked.
Losing interest, I threw my back on the sofa and trembled.
‘A yellow-skinned fellow should live within his means. There are many things you can do without becoming a noble, right?”
〈… Whoops. I think so.〉
Katherine laughed pleasantly enough to hear her grins.
She finds robbing the houses of aristocrats and wealthy people and making fun of them as a reward for her life. She must have had something to sympathize with.
‘Anyway, they keep saying yellow and yellow, so it’s a little like that because I think I have jaundiced yellow skin.’
I feel like I have a bad feeling about yellow.
I can see why black people are sensitive to the word black.
“So, what about your sister?”
‘Not in the office. He’ll be repairing broken tools in his hideout in Lenapolis. Shall I bring it?〉
Katherine said while serving simple refreshments. I waved my hand.
‘No, there is nothing like that. It also needs repair. How did I ask you to investigate?〉
As you know, these guys’ real identities are phantom thieves.
However, on the other hand, Lady Hennessis was also an excellent information merchant who heard her name in Sargadis and tried to contact her. It must be because he has such skills that he was not caught while working as a phantom thief.
We made a dramatic deal with Sister Heswald because we thought that status and talent would be helpful in finding Tyrsi.
〈In December, we were also active at Lucregens under the pretext of business trips, so we need to do a little more research, but simple information has already been gathered.〉
Catherine said seriously. I listened.
For the Heswald sisters, their lives were at stake. With or without my instructions, he would have investigated with all his might, and it was well worth a listen.
Look at the harsh pronunciation. It’s like a fucking tyrant.
If she marries that guy, will Tirsi become Tirsi Diavolo?
When a woman’s surname changes after marriage, there are many cases where the surname doesn’t match the first name.
〈… Wait a minute? Liter?〉
It’s not information that seems useful right away, but let’s remember it. I carved that verbose long name into my head.
Catherine smiled bitterly.
There was no guarantee that if these guys were captured and tortured, they wouldn’t reveal our identities. You must have noticed that I said it half-worriedly, half-meaning that way.
Still, it’s true that I also want to avoid things with a bitter aftertaste.
‘I’ll tell you about that a little later. For now, I’ll tell you what I found out.〉
Catherine lowered her voice. She’d checked beforehand to see if there were any eavesdroppers, but maybe for the sake of one in ten thousand.
‘A lot of nobles are gathering in Lenapolis right now. Because of the auction held every spring.〉
〈… Auction?〉
Oh right. There was something like that
I had a lot of work to do, so I remembered a memory I had forgotten for a while.
If it had gone according to our family’s original plan—that is, if Tyrsi hadn’t gone missing—I was due to come to Romania this spring for the auction.
‘Where did you hear that? Will it be held here this year?〉
〈… So, you guys were going to close your business at Lucregens and come back?”
〈… Uhm. Well, I thought of it as a candidate. I have more important things to do now, so I don’t want to do it?〉
If it’s not dangerous, I thought I’d try the auction item too.
He said he couldn’t give me my habits. I asked, holding back a laugh.
‘So what was it? Does this auction have anything to do with the lord family?〉
‘You know, too. That ‘someone’ is a young lady from the Armalth family… We now have intelligence that she visited this Lenapolis.〉
Yes. You know
I tried not to show my expression. I was told everything I knew and received it in a serious atmosphere, so my back tickled like when I had to lie and act.
Is that why? My hand went to the teacup by itself. Why is it difficult to keep your hands still when acting?
‘And it seems that even the lord of Lucregens is on his way to Lenapolis. Since the auction is held, dozens of noble families may gather in the future.>
Then it becomes difficult to meet Tyrsi.
Should I contact Primor for this? I frowned and drank my tea.
“Did you think of a countermeasure?”
〈I’ve thought about how many, but considering the purpose of those I’ve mentioned, the best way is one.〉
Catherine whispered, lowering her voice even more than before.
〈──There is a rumor that there will be an ‘elixir’ in this auction.
Oh shit, I heard you!
My words came out of nowhere, so I spurted tea and coughed.
Elixir.
As I went from the underground tower to the other world, the get was also a thing. Of course, I brought it to Romania to dispose of it, and now it’s in the slate, which is our party’s common inventory.
Catherine was hit in the front by the car I sprayed, but as if she expected it all, she blocked it with a windshield.
I received a handkerchief from Dana, who was as embarrassed as I was, but was awkward trying not to show off, and wiped my mouth.
‘You did a damn good job picking up the inventory slate from Ghost City.’
Otherwise, he would have been caught by the guards at the castle gate and already reached Mr. Diavolo’s ears.
‘But it’s bitter. Wouldn’t this be subject to smuggling?’
Apparently, in order to exhibit the elixir he brought, he had to come up with a different method.
I wiped the area around my mouth and asked.
As I calmed down my frightened heart, Catherine raised her index finger bitterly.
〈It’s a super-large business that even has its own guild, and now we’re thinking of ways to contact people from that business. It’s called the Hermaion Guild——〉
〈──Hermaion Guild?〉
When I interrupted again, Catherine asked blankly.
I thought about how to answer her question, but just smiled.
〈… No, I want to see if doing good things will bring me good fortune.〉
Go above Hermaion. That’s another familiar name.
Coincidentally, I am also acquainted with the lady of the house.
