Chapter 12 – 012. The Ghost of the Divine Tree (5)
Like that, Eunhyeon told Eira what to do as a ‘bait’.
While walking down the street, explaining to Eunhyeon what he had to do, the two of them had already arrived at the adventurer’s guild building.
Eira glanced at Eunhyun beside her and let out a big sigh as if nervous.
Perhaps it was a deep breath, I cleared my mind and opened the door to the adventurer’s guild.
Squeak
As soon as I opened the door, the sound of the hinges resonated, and I could see the inside of the raucous adventurer’s guild.
There are people who are struggling in front of the bulletin board where the request form is posted to choose a request for today’s earning, some people arguing about the expedition plan, and various people suggesting a party to other adventurers. Was
Even so, no one cares as if this is everyday life.
A few adventurers glanced at Eira who opened the door and came in.
At that gaze, Eira stiffened her body slightly, but she soon walked towards her reception desk.
Her rather beautiful appearance and Eira’s appearance, wearing luxurious clothes for commoners and not wearing any equipment, made the adventurers think that the aristocratic lady was the one who came to the guild to ask for something, and she was very concerned. Did not write
Ayra strode to her reception desk and she sat down on a chair assigned to her seat.
At the seat opposite her, a uniformed receptionist greeted Eira.
“Hello. Welcome to the Adventurer’s Guild Pernin Branch. My name is Trisha, the receptionist. How can I help you?”
“I came to entrust you with a request.”
“Is this a request?”
“Yes. It’s been 4 days since my friend went missing. I was so worried that I really wanted to find it somehow, but I had no other place to turn to than here.”
“I see. What is the name of the person you are looking for?”
Trisha, the receptionist woman, did not bother to suggest that the search for her missing person should be left to the Templars or the Guardsmen.
It was because it was against the rules of the Adventurer’s Guild to ask the client for details unless the request was related to a crime.
“This is Erin Hersha.”
Trisha’s hand stopped as she brought her request and tried to write the missing person’s name on her request.
“Hersha… Are you?”
“Yes.”
“Um…”
Trisha had been contemplating for a long time about the pen to write her request.
“Excuse me, client? This quest cannot be issued by the guild.”
“… Why?”
“That’s kind of…”
Tricia hesitated to explain as she watched her surroundings.
Seeing that reaction, she opened her mouth as if it was the reaction Eira had been waiting for.
“Can I borrow the meeting room?”
“Yes? Ah yes.”
Trisha suddenly put on a puzzled expression, not knowing why the aristocratic lady in front of her was behaving like this, but her request itself was not a bad thing.
It was because she was thinking of explaining why she couldn’t accept this request in an empty place.
She climbed the stairs into one of the meeting rooms upstairs, and was escorted by Tricia, who was named Eyre, to a seat.
“The client. Her friend Erin Hersha…”
“I know.”
“Yes?”
“I know what you mean.”
The investigation into the Hersha family, including Erin Hersha, is an ongoing matter in Artia, which has been ordered by the royal family and court nobles.
This incident, which was committed by a low-level official of the kingdom and was no different from shame on the country, was intertwined with very complicated circumstances, and it was also the political problem of the country.
The royal family and court nobility did not want adventurers to intervene in this case for any reason.
The reason why the adventurer’s guild couldn’t issue Erin Hersha’s search request was that it was entangled in political issues that showed the intention of ‘we’ll take care of our affairs.’
Did this aristocratic lady say such a thing even though she already knew that?
Trisha was deeply embarrassed.
“Yes? Then why…”
Tricia put on a puzzled expression as she looked at Eira, who was speaking calmly.
“I have a favor to ask of you. No, this is the real request.”
“Are you asking?”
“I want you to spread a rumor.”
“What kind of rumor is that?”
“There is a rumor that a girl who is said to be a friend of Erin Herscha is inquiring about the whereabouts of the missing Erin.”
“That…”
It’s not that difficult.
I just didn’t understand the intention of spreading such rumors intentionally, but compared to the previous request, there didn’t seem to be anything that could be a problem.
“I ask that it spread as quickly and widely as possible.”
“I see. Are you requesting an adventurer’s guild? How are you going to pay?”
“I’ll give you two gold coins as an advance.”
“Yes… ?”
“When the work is done, I will come back tomorrow or the day after tomorrow and give you two more gold coins.”
“No, wait… You give me that much money? No matter how many of them are…”
If it were two gold coins, wouldn’t it be more than a month’s salary for a new receptionist at the Adventurer’s Guild?
“It doesn’t matter. The request has been issued. Enough then.”
Ayra just said what she had to say, got up from her seat, said hello, and left the conference room.
“Omg…”
Tricia gave her gossip, and she sat there blankly, perhaps due to the fact that she received her one month’s salary in one fell swoop during her freshman year.
Ayra left the adventurer’s guild and met Eunhyeon, who was waiting in front of her, and reported that she had carried out the work as he instructed.
“Is this really what it is?”
“Huh. Now all we have to do is wait until night.”
“But no matter how hard it is, just giving out a rumor is worth two gold coins…”
Basically, Eira’s family, author Hu, also enjoyed considerable wealth in terms of her wealth.
Through her mother, Theresia’s strict management and education, the allowance given to Eira personally is very small compared to her other noble children.
Even so, it was unexpected from Eun-hyeon’s point of view that the late artist Young lady regretted this amount.
“It’s too bad. Aren’t you offering too much money for the work requested?”
“I did give you a lot. I think if you give more, you will work harder to spread rumors.”
“If things go well, do you pay me too?”
She was reluctant at first, but in the end, neither was she averse to money, and she was now slightly thrilled and curious about her mission.
“Nothing. What an expensive bait You have to do that.”
Eira looked at Eunhyun with her eyes narrowed, as if the treatment of ‘bait’ was not good.
Eun-hyeon smiled and walked with her down the street to her shop.
Eunhyeon and Eira spent time walking in the shopping district and food stalls and eating snacks.
When the time they had been waiting for came, Eun-hyeon and Eira broke up as Eun-hyeon had planned.
Alone, Eira deliberately walked through her deserted alley under the dark night sky.
Eun-hyeon follows her from a distance, killing her presence as much as possible.
Even so, she did not neglect the vigilance of her surroundings with ‘sense’.
Before long, it wasn’t too difficult for Eunhyeon to catch the dark figures following her Eira like herself.
‘I asked for a bait.’
Looking at the fish that snapped at the bait she had released, she smiled in repentance.
Eun-hyeon, hiding her body, carefully followed the trailers to figure out the number of those following her, so as not to be noticed by the trailers chasing her Eira.
Two people were hiding and chasing Eira.
Two people running over the building, grasping and guarding the surroundings.
The two of them searched their surroundings on the ground and watched to see if anyone had noticed them, and followed them.
Eunhyun clicked her tongue at the thought that they had sent pros, not idiots.
‘Two are in charge of assassination, and four are in charge of guarding so as not to leave witnesses or traces. That way… Hmm.’
Assassins who work as a team, not single assassins. Eun-hyeon knew of a group that used this method, so she clicked her tongue.
Enough to hire people who don’t just care about killing their targets, and who have the meticulousness to leave no witnesses or traces behind so that their activities won’t be discovered.
I thought that the tycoon behind the assassination request was quite sensitive about this case.
Of course, it was Eunhyeon who encouraged this situation by exaggerating rumors and induced Eira to be attacked.
I don’t know if Ayra felt uneasy about the silence and chill around her, or if she felt the gaze of the assassins watching her, but she suddenly quickened her steps and started walking.
Eun-hyeon moved her steps away for a moment so that her thoughts would not be caught in the gaze of the assassins.
Stepped on the wall of the building on the rooftop where the assassin was located and climbed vertically.
The two assassins, who were watching from the rooftop, did not notice at all the sound of Eun-hyeon’s footsteps, which secretly made no noise.
As soon as Eun-hyeon reached the rooftop, he knocked out one of the assassins by hitting the scruff of the neck with the blade of his hand.
“Heuk!”
“… !”
Seeing his colleague collapse with a short moan, the other assassin was startled and immediately jumped back to increase the distance.
He tried to signal the danger to his comrades by blowing a whistle, but Eun-hyeon, who had already knocked out an assassin before his eyes, had already disappeared and was not there.
‘What… !’
As soon as he heard his colleague’s groan, he distanced himself from his colleague and took stock of the situation.
His colleague had already collapsed, sprawled on the floor, and something unknown had hit his back.
Without even time to grasp the situation, the assassin thought that there was something behind him and tried to pull himself forward again.
Eun-hyeon’s left arm was already wrapped around his neck, and he choked the assassin’s neck with his left and right arms, which were tightly clamped.
“Aww!”
Gradually choking, I tried my best to break Eunhyun’s choke with both hands, but Eunhyun’s arms wouldn’t budge.
In the middle of a daze, the assassin takes out the dagger he has equipped from the holder on his left leg and starts stabbing Eun-hyeon in the left waist.
The assassin sensed something strange.
As hard as he could, he stabbed the knife at Eun-hyeon’s left waist, who was strangling herself from behind him.
It was because the assassin’s dagger didn’t work because it was blocked by something like a solid wall, far from feeling the sensation of digging into the flesh.
For some reason, it was the best counterattack made by squeezing the strength that had been sucked into a situation where it was impossible to move and check the cause.
In the end, the assassin was strangled by Eunhyeon’s choke and passed out.
The strength of the assassin’s arms gave way and his body limp.
Let the power of the assassin’s legs, which supported the body, begin to loosen.
Eun-hyeon untied the choke and the freed body of the assassin fell to the floor with a limp.
After knocking out the two assassins in less than 10 seconds, Eunhyeon pondered for a moment about what to do with the two assassins.
Afterwards, it was judged that Eira’s surveillance took precedence over the treatment of these assassins.
On the way, I was concerned that the assassins would come to their senses and escape.
I decided on a course of action to move with the goal of clearing everything up before they wake up.
Eun-hyeon carried the two fainting assassins on his shoulders and chased after Seo E-ra.
Even though she carried the two of them on her shoulders, Eun-hyeon’s movements were as light as his feathers and as fast as the wind.
Eunhyeon, who was jumping over the rooftops of buildings, was able to find Eira right away.
Even though Eira was blocked by the dead end of her alley and there was no place to escape anymore, she didn’t tremble in fear.
She wasn’t holding her sword, and since she had no experience in combat, she was clearly nervous.
The assassins, who had a lot of experience in murder, noticed the subtle difference that the girl to be assassinated was not trembling with fear and fear.
Eunhyeon was watching the situation where two assassins were confronting Eira, who was cornered in an alley.
Soon, he found the location of the assassins of the other two vigilante groups who were on the lookout so as not to leave traces and witnesses, not the assassin group that confronted Eira.
In a dead-end alley with nowhere else to escape, Eira stood confronted by two men who seemed dangerous even to her appearance, who covered her entire body in black masks and clothes.
The blue blade of the dagger one of them held in his hand shimmered even more in the bright moonlight.
An assassin carrying a dagger rushed in to thrust her sword into Eira’s abdomen.
Kaaang!
With the sound of metal clashing, the Assassin’s dagger was blocked by the magic barrier surrounding Ayla.
”… !”
Both the assassin who took action and the assassin who watched from behind reacted rigidly to the unexpected situation.
The assassin holding the weapon swung the dagger again and tried to break the magic barrier, but the dagger was deflected without doing any damage.
In her solid barrier, Eira let out her stopped breath at the thought that she was alive, and clutched at her chest to calm her beating heart.
“Haaa…”
I felt that my lifespan would be shortened in the barrier that was blocking the attack right away.
As it was, Eira sat down against the wall, clutching at her chest, watching the assassin struggling to break through the barrier in front of her.
Her barrier was protecting her, but she didn’t know when it would break and target her again because her Eunhyeon didn’t know about the performance of her semi-her artifact.
And when the two assassins are so preoccupied with breaking the magic barrier.
“Cheak!”
The two assassins who were confronting the barrier stopped and stiffened at the screams coming from behind.
The assassins slowly turned their heads and looked back.
He looked shocked when he saw his four comrades lying on the floor, and a man with white silver hair, who seemed to have knocked them down, was standing and looking at them.
The assassins made a nervous expression.
A quiet silence fell between the silver-haired man, Eun-hyeon, and the assassins.
The fact that a team of six people was put in to handle a young girl who had not yet graduated from school was the result of the trust of the client to ensure that the work was done responsibly and to pay remuneration double the existing amount.
However, the assassins did not have excess power.
However, four of the six team members were in a situation where they were not aware of the mouse or bird.
It was so strange that they couldn’t take into account the ‘variable’ called Eun-hyeon that suddenly popped out, and that they didn’t get this information in advance.
An artifact equipped with a magic barrier possessed by a girl to be assassinated.
A man of escort skill enough to handle his own teammates without a sound rumour.
An action that appears as soon as the girl is attacked and stuns the assassins without killing them.
Above all, the man’s actions and work are too fast.
Assassin realizes.
‘We… Was it induced… ?’
