Chapter 46 (2/2)

It felt like thearound over the cloudy sky

Harron looked blankly into the air with a slightly bitter look Then, they let out an even hable, this situation

Harron wanted so desperately to survive, but as soon as they could finally breathe again, here they were, thinking about how regrettable it was to have let ers

Just as they thought about every coin wasted, now even the price of their life was a waste

Even so, it was inevitable that Harron was feeling this way

The reward for this coht now, they urgently needed that money

‘…What should I do about Ria’s treatuild master?’

What broke the silence around Harron was a heavy sigh

Harron had a younger sister named ‘Ria’ She’s a poor kid as born with a rare disease

To those of the lowest social class, sickness was nothing but a shackle

If any ordinary person would get sick, the possibility of death would loole day was an ongoing battle between life and death

Since their parents left the world early, Ria was solely Harron’s charge, and they were just et by to purchase the needed uild they were part of

It’s the only place that supplied the medicine that actually improved Ria’s condition And at the sauild

It certainly sounded like the guild was their benefactor, but that wasn’t necessarily the case

Harron had borrowed money from them before When they first found out about the place, they were just trying to buy reeable expression, those people lent Harron money—yet passed down a ridiculous interest

Thanks to this, Harron worked hard, yet earned very little

Half of their paycheck went to their younger sister’soff the debt, then the last quarter went towards the incurred interest

In the end, the only h their hands was chus fro day by day

However, even with a bottom-of-the-barrel life like this, they could still reach the worst depths

“Seeo up soiven to Harron only a fewto be even more expensive

It wasn’t due to a lack of effort Harron became a more valuable worker over time, and the commission fees they earned for their requests rose, too But at the sa Harron no room to breathe

“You can’t do that!”

Even as Harron tried to stand in defiance, it was of no use

The only thing that came back after that was a harsh retaliation

Gradually, the quality of the requests that ca, the kind of jobs they got were along the lines of secretly delivering parcels or escorting someone until a certain destination

Most of the time, they were covert iven etting into a brawl a others

Every tiuilt always lingered in the down on Harronas they had to pay for Ria’sas there was a debt to be settled, then Harron’s body was not their own

A choice That was a privilege for those ere not poor

That’s right Privilege

If only one day passed when Harron’s younger sibling was not given her o back and forth between life and death When Harron was the older sibling of a child like that, they couldn’t dare enjoy that privilege

That’s why, as Harron tediously repeated the saht was unbearably heavy beca

In the middle of it all, that’s when this request came in

“This woman here, ambush her”

The client was a tall man

He held out a piece of paper with details of the wos about her

Silver hair Has aa veil on her face, and she would be at a certain location at a certain time

‘Now that I think about it, it really was suspicious…’

As Harron recalled this memory, their heavy eyelids blinked

No, actually, they found it to be sketchy even back then

However, they just tried to suppress this nagging feeling because they had been offered a ridiculous amount of ured that their life wouldn’t be in danger for this mission

One man and one woman

Due to the experience they’d accuets wouldn’t be a probleeration to say that Harron’s overconfidence was entirely laughable

“Twenty-four, twenty-three…”

It was a te, saccharine voice, and yet it was a voice that was so frightening that Harron had been utterly overcoe to cover their ears

As the nu it difficult for theh it was just a voice that they had already left behind, it arrested theue of an enor away from her, Harron could al down, chasing after the about that nowtheir eyes very tightly, Harron breathed in, breathed out, and repeated the process Then, they slowly rose frouild and confess that the et hit a few tih that it’ll interfere ork to a feerless steps forward, Harron suddenly stopped in place They felt the weight in their pocket

They recalled only now that the wo into their pocket earlier

Harron forgot about it because they’d been preoccupied with running away

Soon, they reached into their pocket and pulled out what’s inside

But their hand paused all of a sudden the moether

This person who ot to breathe slowly re-opened their eyes

In that hushed stillness, there was but one movement

“…Ha”

In the end, because they needed to breathe, Harron opened their mouth and practically vomited an exhale

They had stopped in place just until now, but they soon turned around

They started heading towards not the guild, but towards the alleys once an to

Ta-dak, ta-dak, tak, tak, tak

Those first fe steps gradually accelerated, and eventually, they soon broke into a run

Their body was as heavy as lead, but this ti

Rather, it was so hard not to cry out at the top of their lungs