70 Durgans Plan (1/2)
”Greetings Durgan, really what a coincidence. You are right; we are also looking for a legacy here.”
Kermu was happy that the other party was Durgan's group. If it weren't for the Larken Clan's order that forced their five members to group together, Kermu would have invited some of them to his group.
”I see that you have two new members in your group, you should have recruited them among the commoners, right? Are they good enough to move you?”
Kermu couldn't tell Yale's true identity as a Zhan Clan's descendant, and he also didn't want to tell Yale's prowess with the sword; if they knew about it, even revealing his status as a member of the Zhan Clan wouldn't stop the Larken Clan's interest in him.
”The boy is called Yale, he appeared in the same place as our group and wasn't affected by the space-time passage, he showed a good moral character, so we decided to recruit him.”
Kermu didn't dare to lie as the Larken Clan hate liars and they were good at detecting lies, but the reason they recruited Yale was indeed that so he didn't need to worry.
”Oh, not bad. And that girl?”
Kermu thought a bit before replying.
”She is Yale's disciple, we found her by coincidence, and as Yale didn't want to let her alone in the special realm, we let her join the group.”
Kermu tried to don't focus too much on the disciple part; after all the other party knew very well how helps to have a disciple when one wanted to advance to the expert stage.
”Is that Yale that valuable that you even let his disciple join the group?”
Letting join an outstanding commoner was alright, but to also let join the group that commoner's disciple wasn't that normal.
Kermu was starting to have a headache because even if Yale was indeed impressive, they let Aizu join because they knew Yale's true identity and his skill that could manipulate the time was extremely useful for saving lives.
After all, Aizu was only a lucky girl in the special realm who had managed to obtain some legacies. She didn't show enough talent to catch the nobles attention even if she was above the average commoners inside the realm.
”He saved our lives at the start; there were traps hidden by illusions that our artifacts couldn't detect. However, he used his immunity to illusions and managed to save our lives before we had a pathetic death due to the traps covered by illusions.”
Kermu didn't tell the reason of letting Aizu join, he only said something about Yale's usefulness to the group that was true. Furthermore, even if that kind of immunity would be precious to any clan, to the Larken Clan as long as it wasn't about swordsmanship they wouldn't care enough to recruit him.
”No wonder you value him that much, that type of immunity is really strange.”
The reason Kermu said to him was enough to let the disciple of the commoner join the group. After all, in such dangerous environment being able to see through illusions was a great advantage.
Even if the Larken Clan's group hadn't found any trap covered by illusions before, they believed that such trap could exist as Kermu didn't seem to be lying.
Lying to the Larken Clan was a grave offense, and even the other clans would avoid to do it.
Durgan looked well at Yale and noticed that he had a sword at his waist.
”Kid, you are also a swordsman?”
Yale didn't reply immediately; he had noted that Kermu was acting strangely while speaking. Kermu was avoiding mentioning anything about his identity which was obvious as they need to hide it from the outsiders, but he was also trying to hide the fact that Yale was a swordsman.
When Durgan had said, the word ”swordsman” Kermu's face had changed a bit which confirmed to Yale his guess.
However, Kermu also didn't tell any lie when speaking, so Yale was thinking about how would be the best way to reply to Durgan when Aizu opened her mouth.