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“Rather than that, how dare you lay your hand on my husband last time! You want to die!?”
“The pet that doesn’t know her place tries to act the wife, don’t make me laugh! Whatever, I was probably the one who called dibs on him first!”
“… ahaha”
Hearing Casca’s line, s.h.i.+zuru let out a strained smile.
Yes, she didn’t know. Immediately after Richelieu picked him up, she immediately figured out that he had little talent for combat. Instead, she personally drilled him with all sorts of tricks.
This includes how to handle women, his first practice target was — Richelieu herself.
If he could handle the almost frigid Richelieu, she logically judged that he could seduce any woman.
It took him half a year to make Richelieu purr.
During that time he spent almost every night in bed with her.
Then, his next designated “sparring partner” was Casca.
Which means s.h.i.+zuru’s first went to Richelieu.
“And why didn’t you ever say anything to boss! If you’re going to complain about me laying my hands on s.h.i.+zuru, then boss does it too!”
“I’m not going to complain to the boss! She’ll kill me!”
“Well yeah!!”
The person and the beast agreed on a strange point.
It wouldn’t’ve become an argument had he rejected Casca’s invitation, but he was a former j.a.panese who couldn’t say no.
Being at heart a receptive person who liked to please, he could not do something that would shame a woman like refusing an invitation to bed.
“Haah … but seeing how it turned out, I wonder if that was the right thing …”
“It doesn’t matter, just stop those two … My head’s hurting”
The hypotensive Ludmila who was weak to loud noises made it sound easy, but trying to stop those two would invite danger on oneself at times.
s.h.i.+zuru decided to wait and look for a chance when they’ve calmed down a little bit.
“There are two entrances here and here, first, Lady and Casca will each take one …”
“What about me? You’re not going to make the sniper fight indoors are you?”
“I’ve identified several spotting points, so I’m thinking you could handle the lot that got outside”
With the two who were on the verge of a fist fight at a respectable distance, s.h.i.+zuru explained the overall plan to Ludmila.
It was around that time that they heard footsteps.
“I, I’m sorry~! I’m late~!
Not long after, they heard a possibly apologetic voice.
Everyone including Casca and Lady who were fighting turned their heads, they saw a pet.i.te young girl rus.h.i.+ng up to them.
Because of her youth, she looked like she hadn’t grown into her suit.
The two swords each hanging on either hip was a bizzare sight to see.
Her fluffy brown well-kempt hair made her look to be a well raised girl at first glance.
What drew the eye the most was her left and right eyes that differ in color.
Her left was brown like her hair, but her right was a sickening green, one would almost think it was diseased.
Finally the young girl with the eye-catchingly impactful right eye — the final member of Black Maria’s third squad, Elizabeth, arrived before the four of them running out of breath, and bowed her head down before she could catch her breath.
“Also … one more thing … apologise … cough cough!”
“Ah, Eliza. Don’t force yourself to talk, here, water”
Elizabeth emptied the contents of the bottle s.h.i.+zuru presented in one go.
Once she had calmed down a little and her heaving shoulders settled, she wiped the sweat on her brows.
“Thank you very much, s.h.i.+zuru senpai … wait, no! This isn’t the time for that!”
“What is it Eliza? Coming here all panicked like that, you just can’t calm down, can you?”
“But this isn’t the time to relax captain Casca! It’s perverts! No, I mean, yes, I mean perverts, it’s big trouble!” 1
“There’s big trouble with perverts—!” 2
Elizabeth flailed her arms wildly as she cried out, she absolutely didn’t seem like an a.s.sa.s.sin that had been in the business for two years.
But well, that was the biggest thing that made her frightening.
“Eliza, explain in order, please. n.o.body’s rus.h.i.+ng you”
“A, ah, yes, boss! NO, I mean, Lady-chan who looks like boss but isn’t boss! I, actually, I, got the meeting place wrong!”
The real meeting place was here, west of the building that was the syndicate’s headquarters.
But Elizabeth the place wrong and went to the east side.
“And then I thought I got the time wrong and everyone had started working! So I thought you were letting me come in late and follow behind!”
“… I am somehow getting a bad feeling about this”
s.h.i.+zuru then noticed that their surroundings had gotten noisier.
He saw Lady shake her head sighing, and realized that his hunch was correct.
“I’m sorry! I only noticed I got the place wrong after I killed twenty people!”
He looked at the direction Elizabeth came from. From there came the sound of footsteps.
Likely belonging to no less than fifty people, a big crowd.
And once he looked closely, Elizabeth’s black suit was smeared with blood here and there.
She made a deep 90 degree bow again and said another apology.
“I’m really really sorry! I accidentally led a lot of perverts here!!”
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