Vol 2 Chapter 10 (1/2)
Chapter 10: Number, 10, Revenge – translated by Doza
“Cale, wait for meee!”
Silvie yelled as he chased after him. “Wait for me! Don’t walk so fast!”
When he started to see numerous bystanders glancing curiously at them, Cale stopped, turned around, and sternly reprimanded him. “Are you crazy? Why the heck are you following me?”
Silvie ran several steps to Cale’s side and said between gasps for breath, “Let me go with you!”
“You want to go with me to kill people?” Cale raised an eyebrow, not believing this turn of events at all.
Upon hearing the two words “kill people,” Silvie’s face twitched, but he didn’t refute Cale’s words. Instead, after much consideration, he said, “Carol said it’s better to act at night… So we don’t have to be in such a hurry, right?”
Cale was also fully aware that it was best to take action at night. He didn’t have the kind of strength Carol had, to be able to openly kill people in broad daylight, so right now he was only going over there to hide first.
“If you want to follow me, then from this moment on you are not allowed to talk!”
Silvie had only just begun to say “okay” when he hastily shut his mouth. He even crossed his two forefingers over his lips. Then, he followed quietly behind Cale.
Seeing this, Cale stopped walking as briskly as before and started using a normal pace to walk back to his house.
“Whoa, your house is really huge! There’s even a garden!” Silvie exclaimed.
Cale glared at him fiercely and scolded, “Shut up.”
Silvie was so frightened he quickly made another cross over his mouth.
Compared to Carol and Halfleaf who could take a secret tunnel, the two of them were not as lucky. Only when the opportunity arose and no one was around could they climb over the wall.
This was, after all, his home. As an illegitimate son, Cale often hid in secret places. Nothing was easier than finding a hiding place.
While hiding in their temporary spot, Cale was initially anxious that Silvie would start talking randomly. However, he didn’t utter a single word and, after looking left and right with wide eyes for a while, fell asleep.
He really doesn’t feel the least bit of vigilance nor nervousness. Cale was at a loss for words. He even mocked himself while thinking that compared to Silvie, he was a lot more useless!
He looked down at his right hand, which was tightly clutching a dagger. The dagger’s blade was bright and dazzling. After looking closely, he realized why it wouldn’t stop s.h.i.+ning; the dagger was trembling incessantly.
After much difficulty, he waited until evening. By then, Silvie was already awake. Silvie took out salted meat from breast pocket to eat and pushed some towards Cale, silently asking if he wanted to eat.
Cale really admired this fellow for not being alarmed no matter how much his surroundings changed… Or was it purely that he was too stupid?
He waited until Silvie had finished eating his meat. Cale estimated that is was nearly midnight. There were already no lights on in the house.
“Silvie, you wait here.”
Silvie immediately shook his head firmly, saying, “You leave me here, and I will immediately scream that there is an a.s.sa.s.sin!”
“…” Cale said in a low, helpless voice, “Alright then, you can follow me. But don’t make any noise!”
Once Silvie nodded his head in agreement, the two of them moved away from their hiding place, heading towards their destination: the master bedroom.
Even though Silvie looked so weak that a gust of wind might knock him over (in fact… he was so weak that a gust of wind could knock him over), he had excellent footwork. He was silent, quite light, and graceful.
Cale glanced curiously at Silvie and abruptly thought that his skip-like way of walking felt a bit familiar. Thinking carefully, he realized that it was akin to a dancer’s footsteps.
He is indeed a wandering bard. Cale was again speechless.
The two of them moved stealthily towards the master bedroom. Not a single person appeared in the corridors, allowing them to arrive outside the master bedroom without any trouble.