Chapter 1089 – Ep.1087 Smith, a Black Company in Another World
“Ah.”
Standing in front of the next potential scammer, I slightly turned my head.
“Just in case, you take care of the bleeding and the cut tongue.”
Upright!
Ardel’s ears perked up as he made eye contact with me.
“You?”
“… Yes. “I will.”
It wasn’t until I called again that Ardel adjusted his slightly widened eyes and nodded.
‘Sometimes I need to call you by a nickname other than your name.’
Amela is probably the only woman I’ve ever called by a name other than her name.
Whenever I made a big mistake and Amela got very upset, or whenever there was a position I wanted to try, I whispered in her ear that she was my sister, and I engraved in my mind the image of Amela melting away and listening to any request I had, and the fresh reaction that Ardel showed just a moment ago. He promised to often call his wives by their nicknames.
“Master.”
“Uh.”
Meleona, who had tightly clamped the mouth of our first impostor, carefully opened her mouth.
“If you allow me, I would like to do it in a place where the master’s eyes can’t reach.”
“Do it like that.”
“Yes. “Then.”
Meleona plucked the crook from her bottom and disappeared into the darkness in an instant.
‘There is no need to be so considerate.’
Of course, it’s not a very pleasant thing, but even though it was a while ago, I’ve seen people dying in quite detail.
When Kernax sent out troops as reinforcements for the territory battle under Ardel’s orders, I watched over a hundred women die in Nyaho’s office, stabbing each other with arrows.
Since I wasn’t there, I didn’t experience the sense of reality or the unpleasant smell at the time, but I was in much better condition than I thought after observing the situation, which makes me wonder even now.
‘I didn’t know it at the time, but now that I think about it again, it definitely seems a bit strange.’
This guy, who had never even seen livestock being slaughtered, let alone people, watched people being killed openly without losing his composure, let alone feeling nauseous.
But since it wasn’t strange in a bad way, I decided not to worry too much about it now.
“Then──”
Sararak!!
As I was about to interrogate the potential fraudsters again, Mel Leona, who had disappeared into the darkness a little while ago, returned with the limp fraudster at her side like a piece of luggage.
“I thought it would be noisy, so I knocked him out.”
“Uh. Well done.”
“And here…”
Meleona roughly threw the impostor, with dark red liquid dripping down her mouth, to the floor, came to my side, knelt down on one knee, and held out to me the lump that must have been in the con man’s mouth.
“There’s no need to show it. Ardel?”
“Yes.”
Ardel flicked her fingers, and the lump on Meleona’s hand froze white.
“We’ve frozen the inside of her mouth, so we don’t have to worry about stopping the bleeding.”
“Thank you.”
I smiled softly and stroked Meleona’s head.
“Put that thing down right away and put it all in her arms.”
“Yes. “Master.”
Mel Leona quickly stood up and picked up the cheater she had thrown on the floor.
“So, what about that one?”
“… !!”
As I lifted her chin up on her toes, the second woman, who had been lowering her head as if dead, shook her head and opened her eyes.
“Don’t avoid eye contact. Because I’m going to pull it out.”
“Hehe, hehe…”
The woman, who was trying to close her eyes, quickly opened them at my warning. The corners of her eyes were fluttering from how much strength she had exerted.
It is said that the desire to reproduce increases when faced with a death situation, but looking at it now, it does not seem to be necessarily the case.
The eyes of the woman who was looking straight at my face right now were filled with nothing but fear.
“If you lied, reveal it honestly now.”
“Yes, yes, yes!! Oh, I lied! Sorry! Sorry! Sorry!”
“That’s right.”
I turned my head and looked at Meleona standing next to the unconscious con.
“Hi?! Please save me!! If you let me live, I will give you all I have! My… Ugh?!”
Mel Leona quickly approached and covered the mouth of the second swindler. Just like before, she lifted the woman pinned to the ground like a carrot and disappeared into the darkness.
“There are five left.”
I stood in front of a large crater and glanced at the faces of those who remained.
No one was particularly shaking.
However, perhaps because of the moonlight, some of the women’s complexions looked very pale.
“You. “Take care of it.”
“I will.”
I left the follow-up to her and moved on.
“So, are you planning on confessing, even if it’s belated?”
Just like the previous two times, he used his toes to lift the third woman’s chin. And the third woman who raised her head had very calm eyes, unlike the other two who turned out to be fraudsters.
“I just told you what I saw and heard. What more is there to confess?”
A calm, subdued voice.
No matter how you look at it, he looked like a person who had nothing to lose. But that made it even more suspicious.
No matter how extraordinary or surprising it is, anyone would be scared in a situation like this. But the woman who was now looking at me was extremely calm.
Sarak.
The sound of blades of grass rustling was heard from behind. Meleona must have returned from work.
I continued speaking without taking my eyes off the third woman.
“I’m sorry, but I don’t know what you said. So, I’d like you to tell me the story again.”
“Of course. I was asked if she had ever seen a woman with silver hair and she said yes. When asked where she had seen it, she answered that she had seen it in the slums.”
“Slums?”
“Yes. The business I run appears to be an ordinary business, but its main source of income is drugs.”
“I went to the slums to get it.”
“Yes.”
At least compared to the fraudster who had his tongue cut out the first time, it was a pretty plausible story.
Assuming Ardella visited this city to meet her princess, the slums wouldn’t be such a bad place.
“Is that the end?”
“That’s the end of the story. But I don’t think that alone will be enough to clearly assert my innocence right now.”
“It’s just as he said.”
“But we can’t talk about it here. “Because there are so many listening ears, it would be like giving opportunity to real fraudsters.”
“…”
The center of gravity moved slightly due to the confident attitude that was consistent from the beginning.
“I hope I can take responsibility for those words.”
“You can hit your throat, not your tongue.”
“That won’t work.”
I lifted my chin and lifted my toes.
“If it turns out to be false, I will make it so that people tell me to kill myself.”
“It’s okay. That won’t happen.”
“You’ll find out when you see it.”
Her words did that, but expectations were placed on her as much as her weight moved.
As I said, if the main source of income was drugs, it was completely understandable that he left the city in a hurry.
“Let’s move on quickly.”
In order to determine whether the unexpectedly caught jewel was real or fake, I put a little more pressure on the remaining four.
**
As expected, the remaining four were all fraudsters.
She answered that she saw the jewel in the slums, which may have been real, but it was easy to confirm through Meleona that she had changed her words.
Everyone seemed to have felt something after seeing it, with resigned faces, and one by one, they belatedly confessed that it was a lie and begged for her life.
I wouldn’t have known if I had said this straight away when I was first given the opportunity.
She had no intention of giving any leniency to a confession that belatedly made her realize that there was no way out.
As a result, all four of them cut out their tongues in good agreement.
Of course, Ardel’s ability froze the severed tongue and the severed area, so if you receive healing from a priest in time, you will be able to reattach it. That is, if you receive healing in time.
“Okay. Now that I have a lot of ears to listen to, I want to hear the answer now.”
“Of course.”
Even though the fraudsters around her have had their tongues cut out, she looks up at me without changing the color of her face.
“I know that silver hair is one of the characteristics of a frost fairy. So, it’s not a color you can see just because you want to. “Now I understand that it is a hair color that only Margrave Philoria and her children, known as the Winter Sword, have.”
“I don’t think it’s a very helpful statement.”
“You must have suspected that the approach was intentional.”
It was just as she said.
“But this is information that can be easily found if you are even a little interested in history.”
“It’s true.”
“Continue.”
When I lifted her chin, she opened her mouth again.
“I said it as if there was something special, but it’s not that big of a deal. Silver hair, pure white skin, blue eyes, and human ears.”
“That kind of thing──”
“And.”
She, who has never avoided my gaze from the beginning until now, spoke with strength in her eyes.
“She was wearing a black choker with jewelry around her neck.”
