Chapter 297 – 297. Shoplifting
“Shit… Shit…”
Grinding his teeth, Conrad Orba, who was no longer the owner of the count’s family, strode straight through his restored mansion.
“I… My family fell like this in my generation… Big!”
After the interrogation in Artia, Conrad Orba was finally sentenced by the queen, and the sentence was shocking.
As she had predicted earlier, the confiscation of noble titles was confirmed for herself and some nobles who were greatly involved in the loss of honor of the royal family and the knights, and the humiliation of the downfall of being reduced to commoners was confirmed.
In addition to that, when the corruption she committed in the past was revealed through an anonymous tip, the Orba family additionally forcibly took back all of the family’s property, including her mansion.
“Also… It must be his work.”
Conrad Orba gritted his teeth, recalling the face of the red-eyed man with silvery white hair who had stared at him indifferently in the court meeting hall.
Flexible yet slender, he is strangling himself little by little with his long body and finally trying to end his breath by strangling himself.
As he is initially imprisoned by Arthia for asking for personnel to join Krasir, he takes away his freedom so that he cannot cope.
It was too artificial that a series of flows in which the imprisoned nobles exploded additional corruption and continued to pressurize in a well-organized order, taking advantage of the situation where they could not move inside Artia.
Undoubtedly, it is clear that Eun-hyeon encouraged the situation.
“I am… What the hell were you fighting against?”
At first, he was just an insignificant man living in her witch’s house, enjoying her fame and fortune day by day.
All he could think of was that the man’s confidence in threatening himself and accepting the coming fight without hesitation was just a witch’s lover, showing off the courage of a young man with her power on his back.
Even so, the opponent was a commoner, a foreigner who was not even a citizen of the kingdom.
He had wealth, personal connections, and a royal family that he had accumulated over a long period of time.
He thought that if he climbed up on a single man, he could easily take him down.
“Why the hell…”
Realizing it belatedly, he reached a situation where all his wealth, power, and personal connections, which were no different from his own strength, were useless.
No matter what trick he had, in the end even the royal family turned their backs on him.
“Shit…”
Conrad Orba took his strides and as soon as he reached his office, he opened the door and went inside.
“Ah, Father!”
Villard, who had been waiting for Conrad sitting on the sofa in the office, hurriedly stood up with the sound of the door opening.
As soon as he saw the face of Villard, who was the culprit of the incident, the anger that had been boiling up until now exploded at once.
“This… Damn you!”
Fuck!
“Keugh!?”
Conrad’s fist, which struck the cheek accurately, was heavy and blunt.
It was an ordinary punch, but it was enough to tear the roof of his mouth as Villard’s head swung to the side after being hit by his father.
“Do you know what you have done?”
“That…”
“Why didn’t you tell this father everything you did on the support expedition?”
“That, that…”
He could not have said that he would be beaten by his father for his mistake, just like now.
As usual, Villard, who thought he would be able to live as usual, covering his atrocities and mistakes, felt hopeless at the situation of his family, which fell in an instant.
“What the hell!”
Fuck!
To vent his anger as the day progressed, Conrad kicked Villard in the stomach.
“Heuk!”
Cooong!
Billard, who hit the wall while being hit in the stomach with an authentic blow, let out a breath.
He clutched his stomach with both hands and groaned, then sat down on the floor and continued to kick his son who couldn’t get up.
“You bastard!”
Fuck!
“Because of one!”
Fuck!
“What is this!”
Fuck!
“What a mess!”
Fuck!
“Cough, Cough!”
Unable to resist the one-sided violence of his father, Villar shuddered with intense pain, covering his stomach from being kicked several times, unable to get up.
“To retaliate against that woman, he created this mess and eventually created this division.”
The dark feelings of hatred and anger she harbored towards Erin were so biased that it made it impossible to judge her self-interest.
The consequences of her selfish atrocities were disastrous.
“I have nothing to do with you anymore! Fuck off!”
Conrad’s eyes looking at Villard, who was making a Dorio opening, were no longer the expression of a father looking at his son.
“Nice…”
Billard, who still suffers from severe pain all over his body, is unable to respond properly to his father’s screams.
On the contrary, as if he did not want to hear a single word from him, Conrad did not look at his son once as he turned and left the office.
“How the hell did I have to do that incompetent thing…”
Conrad’s evaluation of Billard began to hit rock bottom as incidents involving Erin and Erin occurred one by one in Aither.
He was seduced by the appearance of a girl who was a lower class than himself and was no different from a commoner, and his own lowliness of trying to embrace it with modest thoughts and means was sinking himself into the abyss.
Did he have to change the succession immediately to the second south instead of his eldest son, Billard?
These concerns are now useless assumptions.
“Tsk… I must hurry.”
There was no future in Pernias Kingdom.
I had to leave the country as soon as possible, disposing of the secret property I had hidden without confiscation.
As further investigations come in, it is only a matter of time before the existence of the hidden property is noticed.
Having made that decision, Villard Orba headed for the underground vault inside the mansion, which no one in the mansion and family knew about.
“If only it wasn’t for that damn bastard…”
At that moment, about a year ago, he recalled the memory of buying a large amount of mana stream cure and selling it to a number of nobles at high prices while trying to make a profit, and gnashed his teeth.
Considering that he sold a large amount of medicines to himself at a high price and at the same time sold a larger amount to Pernin at a bargain price, and suffered huge losses, he kicked the blanket in his sleep more than once or twice.
Even then, it was none other than Eunhyeon who fed him a big taffy.
Had it not been for that incident, he would not have lost half of the fortune he had accumulated so far.
“For now… The first thing to do is to dispose of it as soon as possible and get out of Pernin.”
Even as his clenched fists trembled in anger, Conrad Orba held fast to his priorities.
As the family collapsed, all the employees employed at the mansion were fired.
Now, the only ones in the vast count’s mansion with a long history are his wife, two sons, and himself.
The former countess was weeping as she embraced her second son in her bedroom.
When she arrived at the library where she kept a large amount of books, she locked the door and checked to see if anyone was around.
After confirming that no one was there, I immediately lifted a heavy tile on the floor that I had marked with a whimper.
“Whoa…”
He sighed in relief when he checked the appearance of his metal safe that soon appeared.
The moment I carefully reached out and tried to unlock the lock.
“… Hmm?”
The lock that was supposed to be on the safe didn’t work.
The special lock, designed to be released only in response to the injection of his own magical power, did not work at all in Conrad Orba’s hand.
As if it never existed in the first place.
“No way…”
Cold thoughts passed through my mind.
My heart beats faster and my breathing becomes irregular and steep.
Unable to overcome the urgency, he gripped the heavy metal handle tremblingly and opened the safe.
“Ah…”
As soon as he opened the door, Conrad Orba had a blank look on the inside of the safe.
Gold bars, gold coins and precious jewels.
He had lost all of his secret possessions, which he had devoted his entire life to, and which he had not even known to his family.
There were no things that should have been there, and the only thing in the safe was a small piece of paper.
With a blank expression on his face, he reached out his trembling hand and grabbed the paper.
Conrad Orba’s eyes trembled as he read the contents of the paper.
What was written was very short.
[Thank you for this food. ^.^]
The lettering of an angry, not even funny laugh sign.
Questions such as when, how, and why do not have time to settle down, and what fills Conrad Orba’s head is a sense of contempt for the snake’s tongue that fools him to the end.
Finally, Conrad Orba’s reason was cut off.
“Aaaaa!”
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“Good. It’s over now.”
“Hyunah… Can we really do this?”
The more she realized the weight of the huge sack she was carrying on her shoulders, the more Erin couldn’t control her thumping heartbeat.
Unexpectedly, he followed Eun-hyeon’s suggestion to go earn pocket money for himself without thinking, and the current situation is that a total of 14 people are running around the building in the night sky after robbing a secret safe with hidden wealth inside the noble mansion. .
Eun-hyeon was correct in predicting that there would be secret wealth hidden by the aristocrats who had amassed enormous profits through many corruptions and siphoned them off as slush funds.
“Are you worried?”
“I-I feel like my heart is about to burst…”
If you convert the weight of the precious metals in the sack that Erin is carrying on her shoulders into values, hundreds of platinum coins come easily.
For Erin, who had never touched a currency such as platinum in her adventurer’s year, she had only once or twice nearly missed her bag while running through the night sky because her arms and legs trembled. It wasn’t
“Besides, stealing is a bad thing. Of course, you know that the money was stolen by bad people, but if we do something wrong and report it…”
Imagining such a situation naturally made Erin’s stomach ache.
“You can’t report this on the other side either.”
“Uh? Why? Aren’t we doing something bad?”
“In the first place, these money we are robbing now are property that does not ‘exist in reality’ and is not listed among the recorded properties.”
“… I do not know.”
From the point of view of Erin, who is not very smart, she still did not understand Eunhyeon’s words.
While running and talking on the roof of the building, Eunhyun continued to explain with a bitter smile.
“Hmm, let’s say, for example, that there are sausages for dinner tonight.”
“Huh? Huh.”
“She’s done eating, but Erin assumes that the sausage she ate today was so good that she saved a few of them to save, and she hid them in a secret place.”
“I-I’m not that big of a eater…”
“… Anyway.”
“Huh.”
Erin, who was strangely concerned about her image in her eunuch, she timidly protested.
Eunhyun didn’t care and continued.
“But she found out that Erin was hiding her sausage in a place she thought no one would know, and Alvin saw it.”
“… So?”
“As soon as Erin left, how would you feel if she said Elvin ate all the sausages she had hidden?”
“That would be so mad! I’m going to tell Hyuna, Illyana-sama, and Eleanor-sama to punish her brother!”
“But there are no sausages anymore. They all disappeared into his stomach as Erwin ate them all. Even if you say that you hid sausages there, there is no really important sausage. How do you prove that?”
“Tum, Hyun won’t believe me… ?”
I’m just giving an example, but seeing Erin’s sad face, Eunhyeon smiled bitterly.
“Of course I can trust Erin. But if you compare the story of these sausages with the nobles and the slush funds we robbed now, do you think the royal family will trust the nobles today?”
“Ah…”
Erin made a face of understanding.
Currently, the corrupt aristocrats lost a lot as the corruption of the aristocrats released by Eun-hyeon broke out one after another.
Although she compared the hidden wealth formed by nobles’ slush funds to sausage, Eun-hyeon’s explanation seemed to fit right into Erin’s head.
“Besides, all these money are dirty money accumulated through unfair methods. There’s no way you can report the loss of these money to the royal family.”
“Yes… Huh. I understand.”
In the end, it’s like saying that it’s impossible to complain to someone about the damage they’ve suffered because they’ve done a lot of bad things.
“By the way, Erin.”
“Huh? You’ve also mastered the art of hiding your presence. Besides, he is very good at it.”
It was intended to teach him the technique of hiding his presence and moving secretly, but the girl followed Eun-hyeon easily without any difficulty.
In the past, Eun-hyeon was so good that there was a history of going in and out of the palace alone and hiding in the queen’s bedchamber.
No matter how much she looked after her, Erin’s level of following Eunhyeon without difficulty was definitely commendable.
“Hehe, really? How to hide your presence. I learned from Gerard-sama.”
“… To Gerard?”
“Huh. But I still can’t follow Gerard. Gerard said that he didn’t get caught for 3 days even after chasing a woman he wanted to marry this way. I don’t understand how the hell that’s even possible.”
“… You don’t have to learn anything like that.”
This is one of the pitiful aspects of Gerard that you see occasionally.
Almost at the level of ‘stalker’s breath’, fully demonstrating one’s talents in odd parts.
And what are you proud of, that you are teaching a strange habit to a young girl who is growing up?
Eun-hyeon realized that it was her own mistake for leaving Erin too free for a year.
“… I’ll be training you from now on, so don’t learn strange things from anywhere.”
“Huh?”
The disciple tilted his head at the master’s order given with a firm expression.
