Chapter 111 – Ep.111 Smith, a Black Company in Another World
“Where did you pick that up again? Beneo.”
Colleague. In response to Juris’ question, Beneo looked at the cat in his hand for a moment.
The detection magic that had been installed around the building that was attacked was activated, and when I went to check, I was able to find the cat I had just captured.
He thought that at first he had been raised by some nobleman or rich merchant, but somehow he had escaped from their hands.
Until the second detection spell is activated.
‘I don’t feel any magical power. I can feel my temperature and pulse properly. However, it is not a familiar.’
Beneo was unable to determine the identity of the person he had captured.
“Beneo.”
“Never mind.”
Even though Juris asked again, Beneo only shook his head without revealing the previous fact.
It was obvious that if he informed his colleagues of this fact, they would go on a rampage to kill him without any hesitation.
Fortunately, due to Beneo’s reaction, Juris was no longer interested in the cat.
“But why did you come? “Are you going to kill the remaining two places as well?”
Beneo shook his head as he saw life returning to his indifferent eyes.
“The plan remains the same. “You go back like this and rest until tomorrow morning.”
“… Is there really nothing more to kill? “If anything, I can even do what the other guys do.”
“It’s unnecessary.”
“… Okay.”
Juris’s eyes, which had regained vitality at Beneo’s affirmative answer, dimmed again.
After looking at the cat lying dead for a moment with her indifferent eyes, Juris passed by Beneo and disappeared deep into her alley without a sound, as if melting into the darkness.
Alone. No, Beneo, who was left with the cat in his hand, was worried as he glared at the cat’s back, which was still breathing but still as if dead.
‘Should I kill him?’
At that moment, the cat’s tail stood up and then slowly lowered back down.
‘It’s definitely not an ordinary cat.’
Wee.
The moment I decided to kill him, I could see that his body became rigid.
It is clear that animals are more sensitive than humans, but the reaction just moments ago was quite awkward for an ordinary animal to show.
It’s not like he’s going wild, but he stiffens for a moment and then acts like he’s trying to calm himself down, as if he’s noticing something.
‘If there is an owner, it is not difficult to find out.’
It is not another beast, but a rare beast that belongs to luxury goods.
If you draw the person’s appearance and ask for help, you will probably be able to find the owner in less than half a day.
Even if you kill them, they kill you afterwards.
This is not an ordinary beast, and once you see the faces of yourself and Juris, your death is already certain.
It was just a temporary reprieve.
Ugh. Ugh.
A short vibration in your arms.
The vibration sounding now is the 19th vibration.
A total of twenty, including Juris, who just left and didn’t send her signal.
Twenty subjects.
There were groups and individuals within it, but as of this moment, they were connected as one link.
In an unraveling chain called death.
Now that the rest of the staff has finished their work, it is time to move on.
However, since the thing in my hand was a hindrance to that, I needed to deal with that first.
Bazelan – Castle.
A dark shadow created beneath the high castle walls.
Right.
Beneo’s feet trampled the blades of grass growing under the shade with a sound so small that you couldn’t hear it unless you concentrated.
The criminal climbed over the castle wall, which was so high that no one even dared to challenge it, in just two steps.
Originally, you could normally enter through the castle gate by presenting your ID card, but since you stopped by to capture something unscheduled and store it for a while, you had to climb over the castle wall unintentionally.
The moment I grabbed the cat’s neck with my left hand, intending to twist it if it showed even the slightest suspicious movement.
Tweet~
“…”
The chirping of a bird can be heard from a tree slightly out of the shade.
Beneo, who was aware of even the presence of a single soldier around him, could not help but be embarrassed.
Of course, I didn’t show it outwardly.
It was at that moment that Beneo was contemplating whether or not to pull out the sword on his belt.
“Was that stolen?”
The woman I remembered from the tree came down.
An adventurer with orange hair.
A person dispatched directly by the guild as an escort for the person being protected.
‘Is it called Giena?’
No matter how easily he forgets the faces of others, he is not so alert that he easily forgets even those who are stronger than him.
He approached her with a small bird with blue feathers on his shoulder and asked again.
She “Asked me if I stole it.”
“… No.”
“Then?”
“…”
Beneo’s personality is not good enough to answer questions obediently.
However, he had the flexibility to act according to the situation.
Because of that, he was able to serve as the head of an organization.
After gathering his thoughts for a moment, Beneo opened his mouth.
“This guy intervened and caught us while we were dealing with those who were targeting our protected targets.”
“…”
As I looked at her cat emotionlessly, my eyes became sharp as soon as Beneo finished speaking.
Beneo asked this time, observing Giena’s reaction.
“Do you know who this guy’s owner is?”
So, she nodded without any hesitation.
“I saw it at the merchants’ association two days ago. Heukseon branch leader. “They said it was raised by a guy named Nyaho.”
“Right.”
As soon as she heard Gina’s answer, Beneo tightened her grip on her cat’s neck and tried to slit her throat.
“Give that to me.”
“…”
Beneo, who had half-strengthened his hand, slowly relaxed his grip.
An opponent you can’t beat anyway.
In addition, the other person also plays the role of protecting the person being protected and at the same time harbors romantic feelings.
Beneo held out the cat in his hand only after he was sure that the other person would not do anything to harm the person he was protecting.
I took over the cat, who was holding her neck, motionless, as if she were dead.
“It looks like there’s still work left to do, so you can leave.”
“… “Sure.”
Beneo took a few steps back, jumped up, stepped on the castle wall a few times, and instantly disappeared beyond the castle wall.
After Beneo leaves.
So I grabbed the cat by the scruff of her neck and turned her to face her.
The blue and green odd-eye was gradually losing its color.
I looked at her color-less eyes and spoke in a voice so cold that I felt a chill.
“If you want to live, you will have to give a proper explanation to the person who comes to visit you.”
“… !!”
The cat’s eyes widened for a moment, but soon the cat’s pupils changed to a normal blue color.
“Nyaaaaang.”
The cat meowed softly, as if everything it had been saying silently up until now was a lie.
“I hope Master Smith is happy.”
So I held her cat in her arms and stroked the head of the bird sitting on her shoulder.
“You should stop going too.”
Tweet.
The little bird nodded slightly and spread its wings and flew away.
Then she held the cat as if nothing had happened and climbed up the tree she had first come down from.
A quiet silence came to replace the place where the two people were standing.
**
Widely. Widely. Widely.
Nya Ho sat in the mansion’s study, tapping her fingers on the desk while keeping an eye on the tightly closed door.
“…”
An hour had passed since she disconnected from Lili.
Meanwhile, for her own safety, Nyaho sent all of her escorts from her clan out of her mansion.
She even made all the employees who served her leave work.
Due to such circumstances, Nyaho was the only person currently remaining in the spacious mansion.
‘The words of the old men were not empty words.’
I remembered how the older members of the clan had told me ad nauseam that the greatest poison of a clan was its inner curiosity.
At that time, I just heard it in one ear and let it out in the other, but in today’s situation, I realized that those words were not just a warning, but advice based on experience.
‘…’
Nyaho was maintaining calm on the outside, but inside he was now in chaos.
The situation witnessed through Lili’s eyes was that serious.
A movement whose depth cannot be determined.
Words and actions that seem familiar with killing something.
Above all, the identity of the other party was at stake the most.
Judging by their actions of jumping over the castle walls without hesitation and their calm movements of walking inside, it means that their status within the castle is already guaranteed.
The people currently in the castle are soldiers and knights led by the Viscount’s second daughter. And there were only people from the count family.
I can say without a doubt that if the Viscount was a person of that caliber, the Viscount would never have lent a hand to the Count.
Not even one person, but at least two or more groups.
‘Ardel Filoria.’
The great lord who is the best sword in the kingdom and is called the ‘Winter Sword’.
Nyaho thought that if there was anyone who could command such skilled people, he was definitely the only one.
So it was a problem.
What if, really what if.
If the people we encountered today were from the Count Filoria family, in the worst case scenario, they would not be able to avoid death right here today.
The superficial dignity of being one of the top five leaders on the continent or the status of being a direct blood relative of the head of the Black Cat Clan were not candidates for him.
Count Filoria’s territory mainly earns profit by selling by-products of monsters, including warhorses, and iron ore and rare minerals.
These are not common items, so anyone would make an effort to buy more if they get the chance.
There is no way a merchant who values money more than anything could ignore such a territory.
‘There would be no trace left in the first place and there would be no way to prove it.’
He was certain that if he had moved with his own body instead of borrowing Lily’s body, he would have probably been decapitated and died on the spot.
‘Isn’t it difficult…? .’
What will the other person ask?
Maybe he’ll just quietly cut his throat and go home instead of asking questions.
To avoid unnecessary sacrifices, they let all the staff go, but as time went by, Nyaho was under tremendous psychological pressure to the point where he started to feel like he had done something for nothing and that he should have somehow made it bigger.
“It was a good decision to bite around.”
“… ?!”
Nyaho suddenly raised his head when he heard an emotionless voice in his ear.
There, standing calmly with the study door open, was a blonde woman. She Beneo was standing.
Beneo closed the study door and leaned back behind it, looking at Nyaho and asking.
“Did you see it?”
“…”
Instead of answering, Nyaho swallowed her saliva and nodded her head.
“Right.”
Beneo answered briefly and glared at Nyaho, who could see that she was nervous.
“What do you have to say?”
At that question, Nya Ho swallowed her saliva once and carefully opened her mouth.
“First of all. “The reason she came there today was to find out why the number of rats had increased significantly around the merchant association.”
As Beneo glared at her with her eyes saying, ‘Keep talking,’ Nyaho spoke up for her.
“I swear I won’t reveal what I saw today to anyone.”
“The oath is not absolute. “Anyone who wishes for her death will open her mouth.”
At Beneo’s last words, Nyaho’s hair stood on end.
‘Wishing for death.’ Because she realized that the expression meant that her partner was in a situation where he would wish for her death.
While Nyaho was lost in thought for that moment, her Beneo’s hand went to the sword at her waist.
“Help me!!”
Nyaho could not think of a way out of this situation even with her extraordinary mind, so she had no choice but to lower her head.
For the first time in his life, as his life was in danger, Nyaho learned for the first time what it felt like to have his hair turn white.
“If I ever find myself in a situation where I have to reveal something, I’d rather bite my tongue and die!! “Please save me!!”
“…”
Looking at Nyaho, who had his head down on his desk, Beneo lowered his hand on his sword.
In fact, he had no intention of killing from the beginning.
If it had been any other person, he would have killed him mercilessly, but if the person in front of him dies, his plans for tomorrow will be disrupted.
Moreover, since he was a person with a clear identity, it was not that difficult to find him even if he was hiding somewhere.
Above all, he will close his eyes from today, so if he escapes, I will kill him on the spot.
Above all, it is not too late to handle the disposition according to the decision of the head of the house after finishing the plan for tomorrow and reporting to the head of the house…
“Tomorrow.”
“… Yes?”
As her Beneo’s mouth opened, Nyaho, who had been banging her head on her desk, quickly lifted her head and looked at her.
“Reduce the number of escorts around the merchant association as much as possible.”
“All right!”
Nyaho’s head spun rapidly as she instinctively knew that she was now out of the danger of her immediate death.
I didn’t make the foolish mistake of asking questions to find out the other person’s intentions.
She just lowers her posture and nods her head unconditionally.
“Even if you find suspicious people, let them in and if a disturbance occurs, respond as late as possible.”
“I will. Yes. “I will definitely do that.”
If that happened, the prestige of the merchant association would be tarnished, but that was not more important than her life.
For a merchant, the biggest stake is his or her life.
If you were to weigh the entire merchant association and your own life, it was only natural that the scale would tip toward life.
Beneo, who was watching Nyaho’s obedience, removed her back from the door.
Nyaho was nervous for a moment, but fortunately, the worst that she thought did not happen.
This is because Beneo, with his back turned, quietly opened the door to the study and left.
He left as quietly as he came in, without even leaving a word of warning.
That action made Nyaho’s fur stand on end once again.
“Huh…”
Long after Beneo had left, Nyaho sighed deeply and seemed to melt into her chair, collapsing onto the floor.
As she relaxed, her face scrunched up, feeling extremely uncomfortable due to the sweat that covered her back, buttocks, and cleavage.
It was a small consolation to be able to avoid suffering because I experienced many deaths indirectly.
Only after sitting on the floor for a while and calming down her stiffened body and mind did Nya Ho stand up again.
The first action that Nyaho took was.
“I heard you store the snacks somewhere…”
It was to replenish sugar in his head.
