Chapter 4.4 (2/2)

“What did your last boss say?”

The Sword Saint asked me this in a bored tone.

What shall I say…

“A congratulatory letter for me losing my job?”

When I said this with a slight frown, the Sword Saint grinned in joy for whatever reason, and went down the secret pa.s.sage with the children. Mm… is she gone? She’s gone, right? She’s not gonna suddenly climb up and go chop chop, is she?

After a few seconds, I heard Rein’s scream, and nodded. Yup, I’m safe. I guess I’ll go back to opening the safe. Why am I safe, you ask? Well, you see, that scream probably resulted from one of two things. Either the Sword Saint got mad and began to beat up the kid, or one of the traps that I set up in the pa.s.sage like giant boulders or arrow walls activated.

I wondered why traps were made like that when I saw them in comics a long time ago, but then I found out they were actually easy to make, and were also very reliable. It’s not like you can create a field of magma, or create a pit full of sharks. Honestly, it’s better to stick to traditional methods.

Anyway, I still activated several barricades to fully ensure my safety, and began to pour the contents of the safe into a bag I prepared beforehand.

“…So this is it.”

Let’s not forget putting in that lily heirlo… actually, I’m not that good with flowers, so let’s just use this flower heirloom. It’s probably a lily, right? It’s not a rose or anything?

Well, whatever. It’s not like I have any other flower heirlooms other than this anyway… I guess I’ll take these other heirlooms as well? And then…

-Uwah… so evil…

[I’m a villain, after all.]

What am I doing? Fabricating false evidence, of course!

Howling never stole anything like family heirlooms. Why would they, when they can always fabricate one that looks just like the real thing? And the families that get their heirlooms stolen go absolutely crazy over trying to take it back. It’s just not worth stealing it.

But it’s not like there actually isn’t any value in stealing it. Family heirlooms are made of super expensive materials, meaning they’re super expensive. But the part of the heirlooms that matter are the stamp bits that are created out of magic-refined wood. That’s why I’m making it look like the organization used the heirlooms for some strange purpose. After all, I’d be killed in an instant if people found out I was the one who stole the heirlooms.

[Is there any fake evidence we can come up with?]

-Mm… I only know what you know, so it’ll be hard to come up with something too good… mm… ah! How about money laundering? They already used fake heirlooms to do that, so it should work out just fine.

[Oh, pretty good.]

With this, Howling has one more crime in its crime list! Oh boy, they’re in big trouble now, aren’t they!

“I should run now, too.”

I stuffed the heirlooms in my pockets. The doc.u.ments in this room haven’t gotten their ink dry, so I’ll just leave it here… Since I was the one who took care of them all in the first place, no one should get too suspicious. Mm… maybe it is a bit suspicious?

Whatever. If I try to escape through the path the kids went through… the imperial army would of course be waiting, so I’ll run off in a different path. I opened one of the drawers below the closet, and unlocked the secret mechanism.

Clack!

This is escape route 11, my ultimate escape path! I had thought putting an escape path in a closet was far too obvious, so I thought about putting it in a drawer below the closet. After pus.h.i.+ng my body into the tiny hole forcefully, I lit the candles, closed the drawer, and locked the secret mechanism.

-Super complicated?

[Better than dying.]

After doing that, I walked through the dark cave…

[Whoa, creepy. Feels like a ghost would pop up.]

…Don’t say something like tha…

“Oh good, you did actually come this way.”

…Oh deary me. Can I just get a ghost instead?

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