Vol 12 Chapter 236 (1/2)
Broken Heart
After requesting Fidel to negotiate at the side Aria
She looked like she wanted to say so, but for now, she held it in
Touching ht hand to my ear, I used Skills to search around the area
The Skills… Di around the giant metropolis of Beim
To process the intense load of infor at the inn
Monica, who h a line
It was like I was constantly using Connection with her
As I swiftly walked alongside Aria, I whispered
“Monica, how is it?
After a little while, a response canated individual
『Tiht on ti strange ht They’re movements are in accordance with our information, and I therefore conclude them to be Sweepers』
So eight existences showing different movements
While skillfully blending in with the crowds, it seeet Marianne-san’s life
Aria spoke beside me
“Marianne-san will be alright, right? Not sure I should say it after we used her, but if she’s killed, it’ll be harder to sleep at night That person’s…”
I didn’t need to be told that While a receptionist, she was a person who’d push herself to save the adventurers on the very bottom
In the past, the one she liked was an adventurer, and he lost his life, or so I heard Perhaps that had becoe, she assisted us
“I know I had Monica call out to our other comrades as well Relief will come at once We just need to buy time for that”
I led Aria into a shortcut to Marianne-san’s location… a back alley Unlike the main road, there were few passersby
“Aria”
“What? …!!”
I drove her against the wall, and kissed her Pushi+ng my hands to the wall around her, I ue
For the surprisingly innocent Aria, it took quite some time to explain these circumstances Without such time to spare, I forced a kiss, and parted my mouth
My Skill… Connection… formed a line between us
Aria wiper her mouth as she spoke
“… Say so before you do it”
“There’s no ti the Skill, but don’t peer in too deeply It’s hard for even Novem and Miranda Make sure you just pick out the ”
The Jewel began letting off a faint Light
Activating the Fourth’s Skill… Speed… we raced down the alley I felt it was raising our speed more than it had been before, but I wasn’t sure if that was due toit
But within the time to think over that, I headed for Marianne-san’s location
On the one a change
It seems Aria had noticed it as well
“Why is she heading for an unpopular spot of her own accord? That’s definitely a tad strange”
I spoke to Aria
“They probably looked into it beforehand It’s easy to block off a road, right? Just sticking up a danger poster can easily lead someone on”
I ran and hurried alongside her There, from a shop in the alley, an adventurer with a black sword over his back eed with his comrades
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… Miranda ran across a roof of Beim
Eva was acco at the lead was Monica
It was the tiht, and a period where it would start getting darker all at once
Lyle had informed them of Marianne’s crisis, and to couard Clara and Shannon at the inn, and rushed out
As she ran across the roof, Eva
“We’re definitely getting a complaint about this later!”
The roof was in horrid condition, and as the three ran across it, a portion fell through Miranda leapt across the gap to the next building as she spoke to Eva
“We didn’t see anything And it was going to collapse eventually”
Eva also juap, and chased Monica
Running at the Lead, Monica e of direction
“The target isn’t passing through the expected point I’ll predict her new route Please follow close”
While she earing a frilly maid uniform that looked hard toexperienced a nuht to following her
What’sit her all
To take the girls to the scene, she was likely regulating her speed
“She changed her path? You sure it wasn’t changed for her?”
“That may be the case Beim is practically the backyard of those Sweepers”
Miranda thought a troublesoun to move
(The adventurer killers, eh? It’s quite certain they’ll be Skillholders Good grief, what do they ue?)
Disposing of intolerable adventurers was their role, and Miranda had heard ru normally within the Guild
It could be the case a target adventurer would happen upon a face they had becoly against a receptionist It was thought they made use of that ht it was the perfect opportunity to confirm it
Eva sounded worried
“We’ll make it, won’t we? And even if we do, With Lyle, Aria and us, we have five That isn’t enough to have our foes retreat, is it?”
The three leapt onto a slightly higher building, and from there, onto a lower one
Monica spoke
“The way things are going, the Chicken dickil be the first one on the scene If they did have the mind to run, then that’s the point they’d do it Well, if we fought, I can’t think we’d lose”
Dealing with everything apart from Lyle with relative level-headedness, Monica disinterestedly answered Eva’s questions…
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… Marianne had found a board propped up, notifying her of a closed road on her usual path home, so she took a bit of a detour
The sign politely outlined which roads to take to get around construction, even having an orderlynever used those streets since she was born in Beim, she felt it a bit of a curiousity
Her work at the guild ended, so she changed her clothes in the dressing rooh the Guild’s back door as she always did
There were times when she’d be accoirls had been called out by her superior, so she left before them
She carried a bag, and tilted her head as she passed through the dim streets
“Did I take a wrong turn? But there weren’t any forks on the way here”
She was sure she had walked as the map had detailed, but she was at a dead end A place where the narrow gaps between the lines of buildings were the only way ahead
But for an end of a road, it was strangely wide
Turning to retrace her steps, she found a white- behind her
Marianne took a step back fron differed a bit, but a black-clothed figure group wearing unifors
Marianne was a receptionist of the Guild