Vol 12 Chapter 237 (1/2)
Who was Abandoned Again?
After rescuing Marianne-san, and witnessing the moment Erhart’s love came to a close, I headed for the inn
There’s no ould could just return Marianne-san to her house, so we led her to the inn, and would be keeping her close for a while to ensure her safety
Leaving her guards, I returned to azed at it It was a Sweeper mask, and it seems they had different characteristics by branch
Preparing a drink for me in the room, Monica looked at the mask, and offered a line
“They’ve got sense For it to be white as snow”
I chastised it
“They just had to hide their faces and intiht? If you saw this mask in the dark, anyone would feel fear More iht? What with the poison and all?”
The poisoned knife of an attacking sweeper
Having taken it, Monica was composed Her body and the tears on her clothes had already returned to normal, and once more I experienced first-hand she was an existence outside the norm Since I only ever saw that unfortunate side of hers on a daily basis, I soet it, but Monica was an automaton
“… It’s co like you didn’t care at the start, e’re alone, you show your anxiety Ah, what a wonderful tsundere! This Monica is so happy it feels she’s going to send annotated footage to all those other scraps to brag about my triumph”
She was the usual Monica, so I felt relieved
“Oh, I see So what sort of poison did he use?”
Pouring tea into a cup, Monica brought it over to an explaining the poison
“It’s a quick-acting one that doesn’t leave any residue in the body, so it would be difficult to discover On top of that, it would be difficult to identify the cause of death I’ like that”
In regards to the poison, Monica praised the Sweeper
“So would it be dangerous if it were Miranda and Eva alone?”
“I won’t say they’d lose But a et away They would only have been able to take out one… two at irls would have died”
Even having repeated so h probability casualties would coerous existence
That they were ai too race Because we’d used that opportunity to launch a surprise attack, ere able to achieve a complete victory
“If they had been serious and sent Sweepers froerous Why didn’t they send them to start with?”
If they wanted to reliably take her probability If it were assassination and taking care of the body, the Sweepers should be more used to it than adventurers
The one to answer the question was the Seventh
『Lyle, it’s not certain the other party hassweepers It isn’t just ability, there’s also a need to investigate if they can make use of that individual’s personality and such If you’re just strong, you wouldn’t be chosen as one Understand? You’ve just crushed seven of the eneet pieces』
On top of the small table, six white ht attackers, only one had gotten away
I never thought Tanya-san was a sweeper, but co she was the only one whose position in the guild waved back and forth
In hindsight, that would explain a lot
Monica asked me
“Chicken dickhead, in tomorrow’s merchant conference, what did you request from Fidel?”
I looked at her face
“To have thehold as their next area of operations I had hiotiations for that Well, if he says he wants to head to that empty land, I’ that direction Elza-san and Gracia-san are developing their ports on schedule… ah, right While I’m at it I should have the Guild dispatch soement of the Labyrinth there, and such, we’ll need the Guild’s kno from here on”
I decided to take the Guild kno from Beim as well
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The next day
Heading to Guild Headquarters, I spotted Fidel-san walking with Ludmilla-san
Surrounded by knights, Ludood humor
Fidel-san alone made a complicated expression as he looked at me After that, I had pleaded for Vera to explain it was a joke And yet, he didn’t look to happy about that
As I found myself a little unable to understand Fidel-san, the Seventh spoke
『… I’randson Lyle, you have to clean up your own problems Vera told Fidel it was a joke, but Aria doesn’t know that yet You’ve mistaken your choices』
Milleia-san’s tone was more serious than usual
『Lyle, you’ll be paying the couish the flame while it’s small, it will be hell to take care of once it blazes up… but I do want to see the blaze as well』
That last part was the usual Milleia-san
Ludmilla-san approached me
“Lyle, I did as you said So you’ll pay up my compensation for that, won’t you?”
With those eyes that saw ht out her compensation
“Aha, ahahaha… compensation, is it? Hey, I saved you from Larc, didn’t I?”
Seeing e with Ludmilla-san, Fidel-san muttered
“As I thought, you’re an ene hands on women besides Vera…”
As the father of his daughter, I’ards to me But he also had his merchant face in stock, so…
“I’ve proceeded that matter as you requested In the talk of Guild executives that’s to coation will be abolished, and alongside that, the floill go towards establishi+ng another Guild branch of Beim With that, I’ve fulfilled my promise”
For the Labyrinth south of Beieh, and it was evaluated highly as monsters you couldn’t find in Beim’s Labyrinth came out
“But the revocation of your party’s rights as adventurers has been decided You’re considerably hated by a portion of thetheir future relations with Bahnseim, your banishment from Beim is certain”
Hearing that talk, I nodded
The Fifth let his voice from the Jewel
『Meaning they’ll be joining hands with Celes Now then, hoill things go from here… will they become her pawns, or will they attack Bahnsei to be destroyed once』
Ludue
“You’re quite unperturbed As if you kneas co if you stayed with your adventurer status forever How about it? Want to come to Cartaffs and take the throne?”
I gave a bitter smile, as I spoke to her
“I’ll stop by in the near future Because I have business there as well”
And I headed towards the conference room at Guild headquarters I’d been called out to
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In that conference roo around a fervent speech
“I risked ht at Fort Redant! And not that alone, to this point, I’veof this exile!? And in that matter with Cartaffs, while I ay, my comrades were attacked, were they not? Was that also the Guild’s doing!?”
The seated Guild executives looked at my face in resentment It’s true I worked hard for the sake of Beim
But to the situation, and when Marianne-san was attacked, their valuable Sweepers were defeated by me
Their talk with the merchants was already over, so I’uild executives had no right to decide
And I decided to use that fact well, to appeal just how hard I worked
Well, to put it simply…
『You’ll cut off the hero who risked his life for you? What’s more, you attacked and tried to erase hiotten, you know I definitely won’t forget it! … that sort of thing』
… The Third gave a truly delightful explanation It wasn’t just the executives There were guild personnel here to make records, and there were a considerable number of those concerned
The South Branch head’s glare on me seemed as if it could kill The West Branch’s executive’s expression was pale as he hung his head
The North Branch’s executive was looking at the East Branch’s head and Tanya-san
The staff led around by the other executives were likely sweepers But I couldn’t help but feel they fell short when compared to Tanya-san
The East Branch executive spoke to me
“… I’ine it did”