episode_0284

If I were to point out one good thing about being a customer, it would be that I was able to avoid the suspicious gaze.

Seriously, what if I was an insider?

Instead of just wandering around the mansion like you do now, no matter where you go, you’ll hear countless comments like NPCs in games say, ‘Hey, this is a no-entry zone.’

But what if that’s not the case and you’re a guest?

Even if you approach a slightly sensitive area, instead of being suspicious, you think, ‘Oh my, I’m lost, I’m lost, just by looking at that.’ I only got a lot of looks like, ‘Hey, youngest, go show me the way and come back.’

Thanks to this, I was able to successfully complete the ideal infiltration route without any problems.

Of course, what I have in mind right now is only part of the plan, and if things go wrong, I plan to switch to the extermination route right away.

These guys are not using pistols at all, but rifles that are only used in the military as their basic weapons. Shouldn’t they cut them down first, even if they are afraid of bullets?

With that thought in my mind, I kicked the floor and jumped up lightly.

Blame! Tadat-!

I wanted to avoid an annoying situation as much as possible, so I switched from the floor to the fence, and from the fence to the roof of the building, suppressing the sound of my footsteps as much as possible.

So, I climbed up to the highest point on the roof and began to closely observe the building where the target Reiko had personally pointed out would be located.

‘first···.’

Is there two people each at the entrance to the north and south?

Let’s take a look at their armament… It looks like they only have rifles and short sticks.

Additionally, two other guards were patrolling around the wall like units in a strategy game with the patrol function activated.

So, there are six in total… and if you take into account the people who might be inside, there are probably at least ten.

I thought for a moment about how I could deal with the things that would surely come rushing in if I was discovered by one of the guards, but then I wondered what the meaning of this was, so I jumped down from the roof.

Then, taking advantage of the moment when the gaze of the security guard who was circling the wall was looking elsewhere, he jumped over the wall and went inside.

And the scary sight that came into view upon entering in that way was…

“Black… Ah… I hate poetry…”

“Kuhuhuhu, that’s good. good! Reiko… Your bitch will soon be like that bitch – and you…?”

It was a sight that was absolutely heartbreaking.

Fuck, what a bastard who catches her daughter while watching a woman being eaten by a dog.

I said it to be sarcastic, but he took it as is and started imitating a dog. Just like Reiko suffered a brain freeze when she saw me, my brain stopped making a beeping noise because I was literally faced with an unimaginable sight. I threw it away.

“Uh… Um…”

In fact, that was the reason why I couldn’t answer the question of the guy who was pointlessly making eye contact.

How should I answer this…?

I barely opened my mouth, racking my brain as if I had just witnessed something from a mythical foreign body, which was broken and wouldn’t move.

“It’s a robber passing by.”

“What nonsense…”

“No, if you’re not going to believe me even if I tell you, then you shouldn’t have asked in the first place.”

“Hmm? Wait, you must have been like that earlier…”

It was dark around me and the distance was quite large, so I couldn’t really identify myself at first, but after looking at it, I guess I got some sense of it.

The man’s face suddenly distorted, as if he had noticed something.

“Ah, it’s okay, it’s late, but let’s finish it quickly and get some sleep. I also have a disease that causes me to stay up all night if I don’t fall asleep before 2 o’clock.”

“Now, wait!”

Damn it for a moment.

Who knows that the guards are trying to buy time to come here.

Not paying attention to the man’s urgently spoken comment, he pulled out a sword from his inventory and started swinging it vigorously in the air until it made a booming sound, even though his own image overlapped with the figure of the man who was cut in half and dead, which he saw during the day, and who seemed to be a stalker or something. Did you do it?

“Happy! Ask!”

The guy who quickly got up from his seat and was hesitantly hitting Baekmoving gave an urgent order to the guy who was frantically fucking that disgusting-looking thing into a woman who was tied to something that looked like a frame and couldn’t even move.

If he turned around and ran away like this, his back would be cut and he would be suffocated, so it seems like he was planning to buy some time like that… but did he react to the voice of the guy who said he was the owner?

The guy’s gaze, which was letting out the dog’s characteristic rough breathing sound, glanced towards me.

Not to be outdone, I glared at him and let out some energy…

Kiiing…! Wow…!

It immediately curled its tail and ran away, as if it had never shown its teeth.

“Happy!!!”

From the looks of it, the two seemed to have a close relationship, but I wonder if he felt betrayed by the behavior of Happy or something, who ran away without even looking back when he was glared at.

A deep sense of betrayal appeared on the face of the man who was still busy playing Baekmubing, but honestly, it was none of my business.

That’s because it really felt like it was going to have a negative effect on my eyesight.

Still, one of my life’s achievements is that my eye health is so excellent that I have never worn glasses in my life, so I can’t allow that to fall apart.

So, I guess I thought this was a bad idea, so I gave up on the back move, turned back, and lunged at the guy who started naked running, swinging my sword sharply.

“Heeek…!”

Ugh… this bastard… is avoiding this?

I clicked my tongue in disapproval for a moment, but then my legs lost their strength and I blew off the head of the guy who was sitting on the floor.

Suddenly!

Boom!

The bloated body that lost its head fell to the floor with a heavy sound.

At the same time, the red liquid began to gush out from the cut surface, staining the surrounding ground the same color as itself.

‘hmm···.’

It seems like something is slightly lacking…

Why did Reiko, who could have asked for the assassination of all the retainers who rebelled against her if she wanted to, single-handedly ask for the assassination of three people?

Perhaps it was to create fear among the vassals.

More precisely, it would be to regain the dignity of the head of the family that was lost through fear.

There is no more efficient way to secure the resource of dignity in a short period of time than using the emotion of fear.

In the long run, it is a method that has as many disadvantages as advantages, but if you’re in a hurry, shouldn’t you at least use that method?

Of course, if it were me, I would have chosen to blow off all their heads to avoid any regrets.

Isn’t there a saying that it’s called Sakchojegeun?

If you clumsily cut out only what you can see without removing the roots, weeds will always grow again.

And the desire for power had many similarities to weeds.

So, if it were me, I would have chosen to just weed them all out while I was at it… but that didn’t mean I couldn’t understand Reiko’s decision.

Reiko may have wanted to kill all the retainers who dared to rebel against her, but if she handled things emotionally like that, there was a very high chance that things would go wrong in one way or another.

That’s right, how many people were there who witnessed the deal with that stalker or something?

There were almost dozens of bodyguards dressed in black suits, and at least twenty of them showed up after Reiko later.

If you count the number of people who were hiding there without showing up, it would mean that at least a hundred people were continuing to survive in this mansion.

And that meant that problems for 100 people arose every day.

Starting with the issue of food distribution, who will be in charge of security, how to repair the facilities in the mansion that have been damaged for one reason or another, etc.

As it is said that a person’s life is a series of problems, all kinds of problems will arise every day in any order. What if Reiko shouldered them alone instead of dividing them appropriately between her retainers and Reiko, as is the case now?

Still, since I have been working as the head of the family for a while, even if I can get by with the vibe I get from my free time for about a month, after that, I wonder if people will become more devastated as the days go by.

Therefore, it is not incomprehensible that Reiko is trying to somehow save the lives of those who took a passive wait-and-see attitude, rather than those who tried to rebel directly, by instilling fear in them.

‘If that’s the case, wouldn’t it be too weak to just cut off the head and be done with it…?’

If you’re going to instill fear in your opponent, you have to do it clearly.

I looked down at the headless corpse lying at my feet.

Then… he quietly lifted the sword and began to carve something on the corpse with the tip of the sword.

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“···I just asked you to handle it, but I don’t think I asked you to go that far.”

“Ah, this is a service. Service.”

“Haa···.”

Well, then, I have successfully completed the mission Reiko gave me…

“Now it’s time to receive the promised payment.”

There was contempt in Reiko’s eyes at the words she said with a grin.