Chapter 110 – Ep.110 Smith, a Black Company in Another World
Merchants’ Association – Heukseon Branch Manager’s Office.
“Ugh, it’s over…”
After handling the last remaining agenda items, Nyaho fell face down on the desk.
The workload, which was three times the usual workload, made even Nyaho, one of the most resourceful and talented people in the Black Sea, exhausted.
This is a truly rare phenomenon for Nyaho, who manages and plans all schedules at the top and handles all agenda items immediately on the same day.
The amount of documents processed by Nyaho today was so large that if anyone who knew her well heard this news, they would misunderstand that something major had happened to her superiors.
Flap flutter.
Nyaho, who was lying face down on the desk, perked up! I stood.
When she raised her head with her weary face, Bénard, holding her silver tray in one hand, was looking at her as he closed the door of her office.
Nya Ho got up from his seat, his tail wagging, and walked over to the sofa and sat down.
Benard shook his head and walked on as his superior looked at him with unsettlingly clear eyes.
“Have you really taken care of everything?”
“What are you looking at me for? “I’m sure it’s all done!!”
Benard pouted his lips in response to his question and bounced the sofa with his furry tail! She chuckled inwardly as she looked at her superior.
Bénard moved the tea set and plate of sweets she had placed on her silver tray to the table in front of the sofa.
As if he had been waiting, Nyaho began biting into the snacks on his plate and stuffing them into his mouth like a squirrel.
Benard noticed that she was really exhausted as she watched her nyaho just shovel her sweets into her mouth without even savoring the taste.
‘It’s not unreasonable.’
Benard shook her head as she looked at the documents piled up on her desk as tall as Nyaho.
It was an amount that made people sick just by looking at it.
Although she was once again surprised by her superior’s ability to handle all of this in just one day, she also wondered why she had taken it upon herself to do this.
Two days ago.
After the guests left the castle. In response to Nyaho’s sudden order to change the person in charge on the day of the territory battle to himself, Benard had no choice but to go to Branch Manager Emma, who was originally in charge that day, and inform him of this fact.
It was a move Emma couldn’t accept, as she had been preparing various things for that day, but Emma had no choice but to accept it in the end.
Just because they belong to the same merchant association does not mean that everyone within it is equal.
First of all, there was a unique difference in weight between the upper ranks, but the biggest reason was that Nyaho had an absurd 60% stake in the Bazelan Merchants’ Association.
The reason she was able to have such a ridiculous stake was simple.
Nyaho’s resourcefulness was so outstanding that other branch leaders could not dare to follow him.
A portion of the profits earned at the top were consistently invested in the merchant association, and thanks to such investments, the merchant association building, which started on the second floor, was able to expand to the fifth floor.
For that reason, Emma handed over all the documents she had planned three days before the Territory War to Nyaho, and since the Territory War was just around the corner, Nyaho put off all the upper-level agendas and tasks that had been scheduled to be processed and processed the ones handed over to Emma first.
Thanks to this, she naturally started to accumulate tasks that needed to be handled, and as you can see, documents piled up on her desk.
“Whoa~”
Benard, who was thinking about the intentions of his superior who committed an incomprehensible act, turned his head to the satisfied voice of his superior.
Leaving a clean plate without a single crumb, Nya Ho poured herself some black tea and quenched her thirst.
Benard opened his mouth only after Nyaho put down the teacup.
“They say he didn’t come out of the castle today either.”
“Yeah~? “What are you doing while stuck in the castle for two full days?”
An unknown second order given by the superior after the guests from the castle had left.
He was to investigate the only male that day and determine his movements once he left the castle.
Since Benard was sure of what was to come, he swallowed what he wanted to say and faithfully carried out Nyaho’s orders.
Benard first received information from Marcolin Vincennes and learned from her that the man’s name was Smith and that he was working as a receptionist for the Adventurer’s Guild. He had someone search for adventurers who had a history of sending requests to Molingta from the Bazelan Adventurer’s Guild. I looked into information about a man named Smith.
To conclude, I actually didn’t get any information of this kind.
It’s just that a man named Smith is the face of Mallingta and a slave from the desert. Also, the owner is the branch leader of Molingta’s Adventurer’s Guild.
That was it.
I had no choice but to spend a rather large amount of money to get information from the branch leader of the Bazelan Adventurer’s Guild, but for some reason, the money-loving branch leader flatly refused and even kicked me out.
If more time and budget were invested, it would be possible to find out where and by what slave hunter he was captured, but Benard questioned whether it was necessary to go that far, and fortunately, Nyaho stopped it midway, saying that there was no need to find out that much.
As a bonus, there wasn’t anything to report as it asked me to figure out the movements.
As I just reported, he has been trapped in the castle for two days and has not come out.
Of course, if you want to find out what the castle is doing, you can find out this too.
The problem was that since tomorrow was a territory battle, I had to take various risks if I got caught, including the possibility of serious misunderstandings, so I just didn’t try it.
“In the end, there is only one chance tomorrow.”
“Could you please tell me what that opportunity is?”
Benard asked a question, thinking that he was entitled to know that much, considering that he had worked hard for two days.
However, the answer that came back made Benard’s face wrinkle.
“It’s just a feeling. I really need to get closer to that guy and…”
“And. “What is it?”
When Benard asked bluntly, Nyaho grinned.
“It’s a secret~”
“… “Oh yes.”
Benard decided to give up cleanly.
I just decided to believe in my damn superior’s past achievements and natural resourcefulness.
Nya Ho said, looking at the orange light seeping in outside her window.
“Then~ Shall I leave work for tomorrow?”
“I still have something left to report.”
“Huh~? “What did you eat?”
In response to his superior’s question, Benard nodded his head and said.
“This is a commonly reported report from other top organizations. “It is said that the number of rats on the streets has increased significantly since lunch yesterday.”
For several years now, Benard has been calling the people living in the alleys of the slums “Rats.”
They say it’s perfect for bitches who squeeze the powerless and stick their heads into the gutter whenever they smell money.
Nya Ho asked, flicking her tail.
“What~ are you snooping around to pick up and eat again? “Where are you?”
“All seven locations.”
“Hmm~?”
Nyaho’s head was tilted crookedly.
Benard added her words.
“We have also verified all reports posted at the top. As if he wasn’t just out on the street, but looking for something. “In particular, he said he visited the merchant association area several times.”
“Hmm~ Those bitches wouldn’t touch us directly if they had their heads on their shoulders.”
“If you want to throw away your trashy life, you will.”
Contrary to what he said, Benard secretly hoped that the rats would interfere with the merchant association.
This is because the difference in level is so extreme that the guards hired and trained by each upper level are enough to slaughter the slum forces without needing to borrow power from anywhere else.
Since he could not provide a private escort, Benard secretly hoped that the slums of the slums would use this opportunity to crash into the merchant association.
Of course, that won’t happen.
Putting all its power aside, if I were to touch the merchant association located close to the center of the city rather than the outskirts, it would be obvious that I would be killed by the guards and adventurers wandering nearby before I could even hide in the slums, let alone the outer walls of the city, so should I go crazy and rush in?
Benard hid his regret and asked his superior who had regained some strength.
“If you are tired, I will hire someone to quietly investigate tonight. What should I do.”
“It’s been a while since I took a look around the city. “Please buy me more snacks with that money.”
“Branch Manager, you’re not saying this because you don’t know that snacks cost more, are you?”
Benard asked Nyaho, but Nyaho, who had already finished eating the snacks and tea, neatly ignored Benard’s question and lifted his butt off the sofa.
Nyaho approached Lili, who was sleeping on a special cushion, and carefully held her in his arms and said.
“I have to do what Benard asked me to do, so I’m going first~”
With those words, he left the office quietly but very quickly.
Benard’s sighs increased.
**
Western slums.
A place so underdeveloped that it’s hard to believe it exists in the same city.
There are no lanterns or torches, let alone magic lights, so it is difficult to find a bright spot anywhere.
A place full of an unknown musty smell.
In one such place, a small cat walks gracefully on the roof of an old building.
A gloomy street where not even the moonlight can reach due to the clouds hanging in the dark sky.
Lili, a cat with black fur who seemed to be one with the darkness, walked eagerly through the slums, stepping on broken roofs and climbing walls, her blue and green eyes sparkling.
‘I said I was doing it for no reason.’
As soon as Nyaho, who had borrowed Lili’s body, smelled the musty smell unique to the slums, he deeply regretted having brought this on himself.
However, since I couldn’t stop working now, I just moved quickly with the intention of achieving my goal as quickly as possible and leaving the slums to head to the castle.
‘Found.’
No matter how insignificant an organization was, as long as it was established in the city, Nyaho studied it in detail and kept it in his head.
Thanks to that habit, the locations and members of all slum organizations were recorded in her mind, so she was able to very easily find the base of one of the organizations.
A two-story wooden building that stands out among the old and shabby buildings.
Nyaho, who was trying to climb on the window sill like always, stopped.
‘Why is it so quiet?’
I don’t know about other places, but it was so strange that this building, the organization’s base, was quiet.
The moment I approached the building to check.
‘Blood?’
Nya Ho’s eyes frowned at the fishy scent of blood flowing from her building.
The moment I landed on the window frame on the second floor after taking a few steps to confirm.
Slurp.
The moon, which had been hidden by clouds, revealed itself and sent a ray of light towards Nyaho.
The dark inside of the window was revealed by the moonlight.
‘…’
Nyaho was speechless at the sight of her devastation revealed through her window.
Parts of what appeared to be someone’s body were rolling all over the place, and the walls and floor were painted red with blood that had splattered or flowed out.
‘District uprising?’
That was the only thing that came to mind right away.
Although these bitches are not strange if they die at any time and at the hands of anyone, the only people who have a grudge against them are the powerless and weak, and everyone else is indifferent to them, so there is no reason to kill them.
One thing is for sure: something is happening now.
Nyaho quickly ran away to find out that ‘something about her’.
Two in the western slums.
Two in the southern slums.
Four of the seven bases were covered in blood.
Nyaho ran across her roof, throwing away her dignity to check out her last remaining stronghold to the south.
‘The light is on!’
Nyaho ran with even more strength, thinking that she might be able to answer her curiosity.
In an instant she stomped over several roofs and then, without slowing down her running speed, jumped onto her window sill, sending her body flying.
“Nyaaaaang?!”
Someone grabbed Nyaho by the back of her neck as she jumped onto her roof.
At the same time, light disappeared from the window where the light was on.
‘What is this…? ?’
Nyaho could not possibly understand her current situation.
Compared to her original body, she definitely feels a lot less energetic.
However, even though someone’s hand was close enough to touch my body, it wasn’t so dull that I couldn’t notice it.
But now, rather than noticing her, she was caught by her partner, who she didn’t even know who she was.
When Nyaho was frozen in an unexpected situation, the door to her base opened and a figure wearing a black cloak walked out.
When she came out, she turned her head and looked at Nyaho.
To be exact, the person who snatched Nyaho.
As the woman who was looking up at Nya Ho disappeared into her alley, Nya Ho’s body floated up.
The person who snatched Nyaho threw himself from the roof.
With light steps that did not seem human, he climbed over the roof and fell down the alley where the woman had disappeared a little while ago.
The landing was light and stable enough that she didn’t need to use her hands.
Even for a beastman, Nyaho, it was a surprisingly clean landing.
But without any surprise, Nyaho frowned.
Because as soon as he got down to her alley, her musty smell and the incredibly thick scent of her blood bothered Nyaho’s nose.
Nyaho instinctively looked straight ahead, where the scent of her thick blood was flowing.
There, a blonde woman who had entered the alley a little while ago was looking in this direction with her indifferent eyes.
She pointed to her nyaho with her hand and said to her opponent who was holding her nyaho.
“Where did you pick that up again? Beneo.”
