episode_0054

Kkokkiyek!!!!

I woke up to the sound of a rooster crowing. I slowly removed the arm that was supporting Kara’s head and put a pillow in its place. I got up from the bed.

‘It’s a little stuffy.’

I woke up by stretching and came out of the room. Cerise was seen sitting in front of the table wearing a mask.

‘mask?’

Why are you wearing a mask at home?

“Seris?”

I called, but Seris didn’t move a muscle. I just stared blankly at the wall. I ignored the déjà vu I felt for some reason and approached her.

“Seris?”

Only then did she turn towards me.

“Yes?”

“Why are you wearing a mask?”

“A mask..? Ah, this…”

Cerise touched her face. Then he spoke in a puzzled voice.

“Sure. Why did I use this?”

“What?”

Cerise was about to take off her mask, but when she saw me, she stopped and put it back on. I didn’t understand the series of processes.

“Seris?”

“Yes?”

Seris looked at me with a questioning look.

“What’s wrong?”

“Why is that? What are you saying?”

“No, it was there earlier. Why did you put it back on when you were trying to take it off?”

“A mask..? Ah…”

Cerise touched the mask again. I laugh awkwardly with a sigh of realization.

“I have trouble sleeping at night. I can’t even see your face…”

“I had trouble sleeping?”

It seems like he was in a trance-like state, as he had done something crazy earlier. I asked in a worried voice.

“Can you work today? If you can’t do it, it’s okay to take a break. I can go alone…”

“I will!”

Cerise suddenly jumped up from her chair and shouted. I was a little embarrassed by that reckless attitude. Seris also waved her hand as if she realized she had suddenly shouted.

“Ah… I’m sorry. And since it’s okay with me, let’s work together.”

“Is this really okay? You acted a little strange earlier too.”

“…Yes? Ah, that was… a dream. It was because I was in a bad mood because of the dream.”

“Dream? What did you dream about?”

“…That’s a secret. Anyway, I will also work together.”

Seris emphasized again and put on quilted armor. After watching that for a while, I started putting on my armor.

* * *

There were quite a few adventurers gathered in front of the guild. Although it is early in the morning, there is no irritation or annoyance on their faces. Even if you smile at the thought of making money.

While I was standing between them, I glanced at Seris. She stared blankly ahead.

“Seris?”

“Yes? Why are you calling me?”

“No…”

“Yes.”

Still, when called, he answers well. We had a good conversation on the way there.

‘…I guess I’m just a little tired.’

I wanted to send it back, but it was impossible. I’ve already suggested to Seris several times that she should take a break from work today, but the reaction was the same every time. She insisted that she would do it together no matter what.

Still, it doesn’t seem like his situation is that bad, seeing as he always answers well and converses well, except for work in the morning.

‘Still, I’m still a little anxious…’

I sighed and shook my head to clear the anxious feeling. What we have to do today is to deal with the thugs who escaped. It will be much more convenient than encountering it directly on site.

While I was thinking that, a woman came out of the guild. It was a woman who covered her face and body with a purple robe and even her face with a veil.

I knew it right away the moment I saw the woman.

That person belongs to Agnes’ sisters.

The woman said, looking around at us.

“My name is Melkir, and I stand before you as the representative of the Sisters of Agnes.”

All the adventurers’ eyes were focused on her. Then she walked among the adventurers and continued talking.

“As you all know, there are parasites in each city that eat away at the city. We have been ignoring those parasites. Because of the huge bear that protects the parasites.”

Her steps stopped.

“But these days, those parasites think they are the best and have started running rampant. We had no choice but to ignore even that. Because of bears protecting parasites. As a result, the parasites crossed the line.”

There was anger in the woman’s voice. It was raw, unprocessed.

“Not long ago, my teacher and former priestess of ‘Sisters of Agnes’, Helena, left the room without saying a word. Of course we went looking for Helena. I was able to find it after a long time of two weeks.”

Her voice became more angry than before.

“In the form of a cold corpse. And that too, deep in that disgusting sewer, in a decayed state!!”

The woman’s angry words continued. She appealed to adventurers.

They are trash who killed a helpless old man and abandoned his body.

They are scum without even basic humanity.

I let her words slip through one ear and thought about why she would say such things to us. If you think about it normally, there was no reason to say something like that.

The story is that a person who was a former priest was murdered in a slum.

That’s because I ate my flesh, so it’s not a story that will benefit me.

Nevertheless, I can only think of one reason for saying such a thing.

‘Justice.’

They have a reason to attack this slum, so don’t get involved.

That’s what I say to the Dark Society.

‘I wonder if that will work.’

She may be a noble person, but the person she is talking about is the Dark Society.

The dark society rumored to rule the back world of the continent.

I’m not even sure if that kind of pun would work for them.

“We, the sisters of Agnes, will thoroughly avenge that immoral act!”

The woman finished speaking.

The cheers of adventurers echoed along with it.

The woman entered the guild triumphantly.

As soon as she disappeared, a shout came out.

“Wow, you talk a lot. I was so crazy I thought I was going to die.”

“Still, it’s the water owner who gives the money. That’s it…”

“No, what do we know about centipedes? If you’re going to talk about humanity and all that, I’ll give you more money.”

When I saw the adventurers grumbling, I burst into laughter.

Yeah, it’s not time for me to worry about them.

I turned to Cerise. It was still a blank stare.

“Seris?”

“Yes, Yoosung.”

The answer was still good. I held back a sigh.

After the client’s speech was over, the guild’s receptionists came out and gathered the groups that had been distributed in advance. Cerise and I also followed the receptionist’s instructions and faced the group members.

Our team consisted of two men of the same grade, one female of the iron grade, and two men. I briefly greeted them and walked to the designated sewer.

* * *

“Boss, boss!”

A withered man roughly opened the door to Yulbert’s office and came in. Ylbert, who was sitting arrogantly with his legs up on the desk, frowned.

“What’s going on, making such a fuss this morning?”

“K, this is a big deal! Adventurers came in large numbers and started to turn the surrounding streets upside down!”

“What? What kind of bullshit is that? Why are they messing with us?”

“It’s true! The Hatchet Sect and the Bald Scars have already been attacked! We are coming soon too!”

Hearing Dex’s excited voice, Ylbert quietly stood up from his seat. I opened the window.

-Catch that bastard!

Closed.

I felt cold sweat running down my face and quickly started gathering things that would make money.

‘Damn it, Arnold, has that bastard finally done something?’

Arnold is the name of the adventurer’s guild leader and one of only seven sword masters on the continent.

Adventurers and dark circles.

The head of each organization is the Sword Master, so even if there was a small conflict between the two organizations, they did not try to escalate it. Because the fight between the two organizations soon becomes a conflict between the two sword masters.

A fight between sword masters.

It was nothing short of a disaster.

‘It’s clear that those bastards have made up their minds to do something crazy like this. Are there other Sword Masters involved?’

Ylbert did not know that Agnes’ sisters were involved in this. So that thought was his limitation.

“Damn, the damage I suffered when I sent support to the Mask Corps not long ago wasn’t even repaired!!”

Just thinking about that moment makes my teeth grind. No matter how unlucky he was, I let him go because he was my older brother, and he was doomed. Only half of the people sent came back alive.

He frowned and took care of it diligently. ordered Dex.

“Hey! Quickly call and bring only those who fight well!”

“What do you plan to do now?”

“Why should I run away!”

“Do you have a place to run to?”

“Yes! So bring it quickly!”

“Yes!”

Dex hurried out of the office. Ylbert checked his escape route again.

‘After all, there is only a sewer. Of course the entrance would have been blocked…’

He wondered if something like this would happen someday, so he decided to use the road he had secretly dug.

* * *

“Fuck… Fuck…”

“Oh, curse in moderation.”

“What should I do about this shit! Those outside are making money by cutting off the heads of beggars, but what am I doing? I’m smelling terrible things from a shitty sewer and I can’t make any money!”

“Didn’t you hear that? You said that people assigned to the sewers would receive an additional 1 silver.”

“For some reason, the sewage smell was fragrant today. Look, even though this old junk is close by, it’s still fine…guweeeek…”

“Ah, so dirty…”

The grumpy adventurer smelled the sewage up close and became nauseous. The adventurer next to him patted his back in disgust, and the other three giggled at them.

Cerise and I didn’t participate. We stood a little distance away from them.

“Seris, how does it smell? Is it worth holding on?”

“Smell? Ah yes. It’s just okay. Don’t worry.”

“Okay…”

As I was scratching my head due to the strange feeling of discomfort that kept coming on, I heard footsteps in the distance. I turned on ‘Wolf’s Pact’.

-You’re going this way, right?

-Oh, that’s right.

-Damn, why are those adventurers so damn crazy all of a sudden?

-I don’t know, what are we going to do now?

– Anyway, I have to go out of the city first. Let’s take a closer look and come back later.

Listening to the conversation, it seemed like they were gangsters trying to get out of the city. I focused on the sound of their footsteps.

‘I think there are about seven people.’

I approached the giggling adventurers.

“I can hear the thugs approaching.”

“Huh? Really?”

The adventurers stopped talking and listened. He did this for a moment and then frowned.

“What, I can’t hear anything. What can you hear?”

“It’s true. Please follow me.”

“That’s it. How can I believe what you say…”

“Let’s go.”

“What?”

“No matter what you do, it will be better than sitting here killing it. I’m starting to feel so stiff that I’m dying. Where did you hear the sound?”

The same grade asked while stretching. I pointed to where the sound came from.

“I heard it from over there.”

“Okay, let’s go then.”

“Are you serious?”

The female adventurer had an annoying attitude. But since the other adventurers decided to move, she had no choice but to follow.

“Anyway, just try to do nothing.”

The woman grunted like that. And when I encountered the thugs I was talking about, my eyes widened.

“Uh…? Is it really there?”

The gangsters who were walking around talking loudly also noticed us and froze. I quickly came to my senses and started running along the path they had taken.

“What do you do? Don’t you catch it?”

He spoke to the dazed adventurers.

“Huh? Oh, yeah, I’ll catch it. Run!!”

With shouts from the same class, we ran after the thugs. I paid attention to Cerise who was following behind me.

“Seris, the floor is slippery so be careful!”

“Yes.”

The chase continued for a bit longer. This is because it was not easy to run because of the floor. But the distance between us and the gangsters continued to narrow, and when we reached a certain distance, I threw the dagger.

“Ugh?!”

It got stuck in the shoulder of the guy running behind. I caught him, pulled out a dagger, and slit his throat. Even when I stopped for a moment, the thugs and adventurers continued to run, and the distance between them increased.

Seris wasn’t there.

“…Seris?”

I looked back with a feeling of hope. She wasn’t there where she was supposed to be.

“What the fuck.”

I ran back the way I had run so far.